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Whychus Canyon Preserve Creek Restoration
Learn more about the multi-year project to restore Whychus Creek at Whychus Canyon Preserve.
Whychus Creek now flows through the meadows of Whychus Canyon Preserve. Photo: Jay Mather.
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The newly restored Whychus Creek at Whychus Canyon Preserve. Photo: Jay Mather.
2016 Update: The construction phase of restoration is now complete! Read more about the year's efforts.
In 2016, the Land Trust and restoration partners began the first phase of a six-mile restoration of Central Oregon's Whychus Creek. Efforts were focused on the northernmost mile of creek at Whychus Canyon Preserve with the goal of improving habitat in and around the creek for fish and wildlife habitat.
Why restore Whychus Creek?
The 930-acre Whychus Canyon Preserve protects four miles of Whychus Creek. Like other long stretches of this creek, the portion that passes through the Preserve has been straightened, pushed to the far edge of its valley floor, and bermed to keep it in place. This in turn diminished fish and wildlife habitat in and along the creek.
Historically, Whychus Creek was mixture of narrow canyon stretches, and stretches with broad, level meadows where the creek could spill over its banks. The biological importance of these large meadows was huge, especially considering all the arid land surrounding them. They provided diverse stream and side channel habitats for fish to spawn, rear, and hide. Streamside vegetation provided cover for wildlife and helped cool stream waters. Nearby wetlands and oxbows were home to amphibians and songbirds.
Only a small portion of the total length of the creek can provide this critical meadow habitat. Camp Polk Meadow Preserve is one of these special sections and Whychus Canyon Preserve and Rimrock Ranch are another. Our goal in restoring the creek through these valuable stretches is to return the creek to its historic, biologically diverse condition.
How will the restoration happen?
Given the size and scale of the restoration, work will occur in phases over multiple years. This first phase will focus on approximately 1.5 miles of Whychus Creek in the northernmost part of Whychus Canyon Preserve.
Much of the work will be similar to the recent Camp Polk Meadow Preserve restoration. Crews will remove berms that are holding the stream in its current straight alignment, they will carve out soil in some areas and fill it in in others to promote the free movement of water across its historic floodplain. Large woody debris (like whole trees) will be added to create complex habitat for fish and wildlife. Then, more than 60,000 native trees, shrubs, wildflowers and grasses will be planted and seeded to provide stream shade, bank and floodplain stability, and habitat for wildlife.
A couple elements that will be different from the Camp Polk Meadow Preserve restoration are the planned braided stream channel design and the timing of the plantings. At Camp Polk Meadow, one main restoration channel was carved and several miles of side channels were connected to it as a supporting network. At Whychus Canyon, we’ll carve multiple channels, many of them following old pathways where water once flowed and where mature vegetation still stands. When water levels are high, the creek will utilize all of these pathways and will likely carve additional, natural pathways as time goes on. When water levels are low, the creek will flow through a subset of the braided system. This multiple channel approach provides a great deal of habitat diversity across the meadow.
The timing of creekside plantings will also be different. At Camp Polk Meadow Preserve, we carved the restored channels, planted vegetation, and then waited for several years before releasing the full flow of Whychus creek into the restored channels. Because we’re restoring this next six-mile stretch of Whychus Creek in phases and shorter sections, we’ll create the new channels, release water into them, and plant the banks and floodplain all at the same time.
Phase I, this initial work on 1.5 miles of Whychus Creek at Whychus Canyon Preserve, will start in this summer and run through the fall. Then the project area will be left alone to rest, recover, and naturally evolve and growth. Or, as we like to say, sleep, creep, then leap! Phase II, which includes the portion of Whychus Creek upstream of Phase I, is planned for 2017 or 2018.
Who is doing the restoration?
The Land Trust has partnered with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and the Deschutes National Forest on this restoration project. Additionally, a project advisory committee has provided design review and specific scientific expertise where needed. Members of this group include representatives from Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation, Portland General Electric, Bureau of Land Management, NOAA Fisheries, and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
Learn more about the restoration:
Read more about the creek restoration work that was completed in 2016.
Read the executive summary about the project from the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council.
Contact the Land Trust or Upper Deschutes Watershed Council with more questions.
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Director - Lukhas Dhont - 2018
"Filthy genius movie"
Forget transphobia and the world outside; the biggest struggle for many trans people is inside their own body - outstanding teen drama is a delightful surprise out in cinemas Friday, March 15th, and also at BFI Flare; on VoD Sunday, March 31st
This is a remarkable movie for many reasons. First of all, Flemish Director Lucas Dhont was only 26 years old when he finished a film that he first conceived at the age of just 18. The fascination with transgender people is conspicuous nowadays in cinema. Filmmakers want to investigate the saga of transitioning, and how to reconcile it with with the mixed perspective of outsiders. The fluid sexual/gender identity and the intense transformations in both the mind and the body allow for the construction of very interesting characters. There has been no shortage of such films in then past couple of years. But there are still topic areas waiting to be addressed in more detail, and this is exactly what Girl does.
Lara is 16 years old teenager and dreams of becoming a successful ballerina. Her father is a doting taxi driver, and she also has a young brother called Milo and aged just six. The entire family moves town in Belgium so that Lara can get the best education available for a ballerina. Parallel to her studies and ballet classes, Lara is going through the biggest change of her life: a sex reassignment surgery. Lara, who was born a male, is supported by the love and comprehension of her father and brother, the acceptance of her new ballet school and the extremely professional approach and care of her doctors and counsellor. This transphobia-free environment may come across a little alien to a lot of trans people everywhere in the world, who face an uphill struggle against stigma and prejudice. For Lara, the biggest battle is inside her own body. She’s the one who’s not entirely prepared to accept her new skin.
The director opted to work with Victor Polster in the main role, as the result of a genderless casting process. He deserves an award for his immaculate performance. Lara is the most adorable girl you’ll ever meet. You will be captivated by both her inherent sweetness and her visible pain. The fine acting, supported by an effective script, camerawork and direction make it easy to relate to Lara’s problems.
At times, the film become a little didactic as it delves into the fascinating details of a sex change journey. Lara’s body is the temple of all catharses, as the gender dysphoria prevents her from reaching her objectives. For example, her male toes make it very difficult for her to perform some ballet movements, such as standing on the tip of her toes. Lara’s body is her worst enemy – so how can she defeat her biggest nemesis? Stay tuned for a shocking but rewarding end.
Girl showed in the Competition of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, when this piece was originally written. It is out in cinemas across the UK on Friday, March 15th. Also showing at BFI Flare. On VoD Sunday, March 31st.
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Rustin beats Henderson 35-20, Neshaminy Up Next
Written by: Paul Dale Plattenburg on Saturday, November 20th, 2010. Follow Paul Dale Plattenburg on Twitter.
When West Chester Henderson defeated Downingtown East in week 10, it shook up the District One AAAA football seedings.
So much so that when the 16th seeded Warriors upset top seeded and previously undefeated Ridley in the first round of the playoffs, it set up a rematch with sister school Bayard Rustin.
“I told Joe (Henderson Coach Walsh) last week I wish we were playing anybody else but them this week,” said Rustin Coach Mike St. Clair after his Golden Knights used a 21 point fourth quarter in a 35-20 come from behind victory over Henderson in the District One AAAA Football Quarterfinals Saturday afternoon at Rustin Stadium.
Trailing 20-14 entering the fourth quarter Anthony Nash (five receptions 59 yards) caught a 12 yard touchdown pass from Andrew Fithian (7-13 passing 106 yards 1 interception) with 9:40 left in the game that capped a 80 yard 10 play drive. Will Mau’s first extra point gave the Golden Knights a 21-20 lead. Nash had four of his receptions for 49 yards in the drive.
Following a fumble recovery by Chris Amicone on the Warrrior eight yard line, Rustin (11-1 overall) drove the remaining yards as Conor Burke scored from three yards out with 2:15 remaining as the lead was increased to 28-20.
Rustin then added the final nail as Mau intercepted a Strafford Foster pass and returned it 20 yards on the first play following the kickoff for the final margin.
“It’s tough,” said Walsh. “This was the second time in five weeks against them we had a lead in the fourth quarter and we couldn’t hold it,” he added.
Henderson, which finished their season 8-4 took a 20-14 lead with 1:14 left in the third quarter as Joe Dingfelder caught a 27 yard pass from Foster that capped a 58 yard nine play drive. Anthony D’Ambrosio blocked Kyle Morton’s extra point attempt.
“With Henderson, it’s always a war,” said St. Clair. “But our kids responded. Having been in playoff games before helped us,” he added.
Henderson took a 7-0 lead as T.J. White picked off a Fithian pass and returned it 76 yards just 3:33 into the game. It was the first interception Fithian has thrown this year.
Rustin then countered as Nick Simmler caught a 35 yard touchdown pass from Fithian as Rustin cut the lead to 7-6.
Henderson increased their lead to 14-6 as Phillip Mitten caught a 12 yard pass from Foster with 5:48 left before halftime. Rustin then answered when Frankie O’Donnell (18 carries 96 yards) scored from 30 yards out. Burke added the two point run that knotted the game at 14-14.
“O’Donnell’s having a great year,” said St. Clair. “He didn’t play defense today because he’s still having trouble with his shoulder. He’s one of the toughest kid’s I’ve ever coached and I’ve been coaching over 20 years,” he added.
With the win Rustin now plays Neshaminy next Friday night at Neshaminy in the semi-finals. North Penn plays at Council Rock South in the other semifinal.
“They’re big and they’re powerful,” St.Clair said of Neshaminy. “We’re just happy to be playing another week.”
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VOTE: What will be the defining sustainability issue of 2020?
7 January 2020, source edie newsroom
With many of us heading back to the office for our first day at work in 2020 this week, edie has explored the environmental issues which could dominate sustainability conversations this year - and is giving you the chance to have your say.
Have your say on what the 'hot topics' in the UK's sustainability sphere could be in 2020
New years are always a time for reflection, introspection and planning - for sustainability professionals and the general public alike. As we return to the office after the festive break, our social media feeds are being swamped by contacts pledging to fly less, phase-out plastics, quit fast fashion or go vegan in the name of climate action – and by stories of how climate conversations dominated this year’s Golden Globes ceremony.
If 2017 and 2018 were years for the Blue Planet effect and for plastics action, 2019 was the year of climate activism. From a one-woman protest outside of the Swedish parliament in August 2018, the school climate strikes movement ended 2019 with a 500,000-strong demonstration in Madrid, with adults and businesses now joining students and schoolchildren on the streets on a monthly basis.
While these actions and conversations will doubtless continue into the new year, several other sustainability issues are beginning to come to the forefront of the UK public’s attention – be that through exposés on primetime TV, callouts on social media or new scientific studies laying bare their negative consequences.
With this in mind, edie has scanned the horizon for five sustainability issues which could begin to have their “Attenborough moment” within the next 12 months.
1) E-waste
The finger may have been pointed at plastics since Blue Planet 2 first aired, but e-waste is actually the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream. Research from the United Nations University (UNU) found that more than 44 million metric tonnes of electronic waste was generated globally in 2016 – up 8% on 2014 levels - with just 20% documented as recycled. Experts believe that figure reached 50 million metric tonnes in 2018, with recycling rates stagnating and a further 21% tonnage increase by 2021.
Consumer awareness around the issue has been mounting for several years, with Repair Cafés having grown from a one-location movement in 2009 to more than 1,500 locations globally. But awareness exploded last October, when news that the EU was introducing its highly anticipated “right to repair” legislation hit the mainstream media headlines. The success of this story was doubtless helped along by scientific research documenting, for the first time, the long-term effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in e-waste, including their impact on human food supply chains.
With the UK Government currently consulting on its first major update to resources and waste policy in more than a decade – and with unpopular decisions having already been made around e-waste – the stage is set for conversation and action in this space to take off in 2020, among businesses and the general public alike.
2) Carbon offsetting
Amid a backdrop of climate activism, conversations around plastics seemed to peter out slightly in 2019, as more noise was made around the aviation sector.
Though responsible for just 2% of global emissions at present (compared to, for example, 31% for electricity and 11% for agriculture), aviation is one of the world’s fastest-growing and hardest-to-abate sectors – facts brought to popular attention by Greta Thunberg’s refusal to fly and by the IPCC’s landmark report recommending that the world reaches net-zero emissions by 2050.
With passenger sentiment changing far faster than policies and technologies around electric aircraft and low-carbon fuels, airlines and airports keen to maintain consumer trust and investor confidence turned heavily to carbon offsetting. Large investments in this space were made by the likes of Qantas, easyJet, JetBlue and British Airways’ parent firm International Airlines Group. Some organisations offering carbon credits reported a four-fold year-on-year increase in uptake in 2019.
But the growth of the carbon offsetting and net-zero conversation has largely been spurred by concerns around greenwash. Consumers and investors alike continue to raise questions around whether companies investing in credits are doing so to avoid working to decarbonise their own business (see Shell’s willingness to offer offsetting but failure to shift away from fossil fuels), and whether they are properly managing risks such as double-counting.
Sustainability professionals have repeatedly told edie that all businesses should be approaching offsetting as part of a broader decarbonisation agenda. But a new decade doesn’t automatically mean a new era in which public trust in business climate action is restored, meaning the offsetting debate is likely to rumble on for months to come.
3) Energy efficiency
The growth of the war on plastics has repeatedly been attributed to visibility – we all use plastic products and packaging on a daily basis, and those of us that don’t will still see them in every supermarket and food-to-go outlet they visit, or littering local streets, waterways and beaches.
In contrast, energy managers have repeatedly told team edie (anecdotally) that they struggle to communicate the importance of efficiency to colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, because energy isn’t as “tangible”. Indeed, less than 3% of climate-related media coverage between 2017 and 2019 mentioned energy efficiency.
This could all be set to change in 2020, however. Research published today (7 January) by Igloo Energy after a survey of more than 2,000 adults reveals that almost half (49%) of Brits are already taking actions to become more energy-efficient at home and that a further 29% want to do more in this space in 2020. After much chiding from the CCC, the Government has also vowed to implement better policy mechanisms in this space, too.
In tandem, the business case for energy efficiency is mounting as electricity and gas prices rise, and as the cost of energy-saving technologies such as LED lighting falls amid improving legislation and technologies. Recent research by EDF Energy concluded that the average commercial property could make annual savings of £10,800 per site by installing efficient lighting alone, and that UK businesses could collectively save more than £45m just by addressing “low-hanging fruit”.
4) Food systems change
Veganuary is the new January. This month, more than 300,000 people have committed to going vegan for 31 days – and trying to change their dietary habits in the long-term. The campaign has been running since 2014 but recorded record registrations for 2020, attributing this growth in popularity to the growing prevalence of climate conversations in everyday life.
Back at the start of 2019, it was already common knowledge that emissions from the livestock sector account for 15% of the global annual total. But the IPCC’s land use report, the beef sector’s links to the Amazon forest fires and the Lancet’s research on diets for planetary and human health took the conversation to a new level over the past 12 months.
Businesses across the grocery and food-to-go spaces took notice, selling less beef and pork and pushing new plant-based offerings. Huge employers like PwC bolstered their staff engagement initiatives. And, this week, the Golden Globes went vegan for the first time.
In other words, the drive to transform the global food industry to feed almost 10 billion people by 2050 became sexy in 2019, setting the stage for more action – hopefully beyond the creation of a new ‘vegan’ burger that isn’t actually suitable for vegans - in 2020.
5) Nature conservation and restoration
2019 saw the conversations on climate and ecological emergencies – rightly – linked at an unprecedented scale. The year began with the IPPR’s landmark report on the intersection of climate, biodiversity and social crises, and continued with headlines repeatedly warning of a sixth mass extinction.
As a result, activities such as tree planting, eco-tourism and beach cleans became popular antidotes to mounting eco-anxiety among the UK public. ‘Climate emergency’ declarations were built upon with ‘nature emergency’ declarations.
Ministers responded by implementing biodiversity net-gain requirements for developers and launching a review into the economics of nature, while businesses began making more sizeable investments in initiatives such as coral reef restoration, peatland restoration, reforestation and regenerative agriculture. Net-positive became even more of a green business buzzword, as the uptake of resources like the Natural Capital Protocol and Business Ecosystems training course soared.
The environmental motif that kick-started the ‘Blue Planet effect’ is the well-known image of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nose, or tangled in plastic fishing nets. As we enter 2020, photos of koalas begging for water and kangaroos burned to death are dominating social media as the Australian bushfires continue to ravage the landscape. They are doubtless front-of-mind for any politician or professional involved in the environment.
Ecologists at the University of Sydney and WWF Australia estimate that a billion animals has died in Australia’s bushfires.
“Over a billion would be a very conservative figure,” says Chris Dickman from the University of Sydney. #AustraliaFires https://t.co/b1DHgrGUSd
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 7, 2020
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Man robbed in Edinburgh's Meadows and forced to hand over two-figure sum of cash
A passerby intervened to help the victim and chased the two suspects
Claire GallowayTrainee Digital Journalist
The incident took place late on Saturday evening
A man was left "shaken" after being robbed in the Meadows over the weekend.
The incident took place shortly before 11pm on Saturday (24 August), close to the tennis courts on Boroughloch Walk.
A 47-year-old man walking south when he was approached by two men who asked him for money.
The man initially declined but was threatened and forced to hand over a two-figure sum of cash.
A man passing by helped the victim and chased the two suspects, who fled on foot in the direction of Melville Drive.
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The suspects are both described as being of mixed race, aged in their late teens or early twenties, and of medium build.
The first suspect is described as being around 5ft 9ins tall with dark hair and was clean shaven, while the second suspect had shorter dark hair and was wearing a dark coloured hooded top.
The passerby who helped the man left the scene before officers arrived and is described as black, of heavy build, around 6ft 2ins tall and spoke with an English, possibly London, accent.
He was wearing a white t-shirt with a gold chain around his neck at the time of the incident.
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Inquiries are ongoing and appealing for witnesses and are also looking to trace the man who helped the victim.
Detective Constable Ewan Bates from Gayfield CID said: “The Meadows area would have been busy with people enjoying the last weekend of the festival and we are eager to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident on Saturday night.
“The victim was fortunately uninjured, however, was left shaken by the ordeal. We’re especially eager to trace the man who intervened and assisted the victim during the incident. If you are him, or know who this might be, please get in touch with officers to help our investigation.
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“Equally anyone who may recognise the description of the suspects, or has any information that can assist our inquiries, should get in touch as soon as possible.”
Those with information should contact Police Scotland on 101 and quote incident number 5508 of 24th August. An anonymous report can be made to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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His Marks and Memory Have Improved, He Is a Happy Child Again
Jethro-Storm had been battling academically ever since Grade R. He started his school career being very shy and with very little confidence; he had a lisp and a stutter.
Half-way through the year, at parents evening, it was suggested that we make use of their speech therapist as the lisp and stutter were hampering his reading and he was becoming more of an introvert because of it.
Going into Grade 1, Jethro-Storm was seeing the speech therapist twice a week and his class teacher was doing extra work with him, when she had the time, to try and help him keep up with the rest of the class.
Half-way through Grade 1 the teacher suggested that we make use of their remedial teacher as he was still struggling to keep up with the rest of the class and chances were that he would have to repeat the grade.
He was now seeing the speech therapist and the remedial teacher four afternoons a week. This carried through to Grade 2 and every day was a battle for him; tears were shed on a daily basis and report time was a stress on everyone.
We were then told to go to a neurologist as they were concerned about his development and concentration.
They did a battery of neurological tests and he was put onto Ritalin which I was not happy about. He never wanted to eat, he lost weight, and I couldn’t see any difference in his concentration at all. The results I saw were just negative.
So, in a nut-shell, Jethro-Storm scraped through Grade R, Grade 1 and Grade 2.
I started working at Edublox Kempton Park in the November of his Grade 2 year. I was amazed at the memory that some of the kids had. I spoke to dad and we decided to bring Jethro-Storm for an assessment; we had nothing to lose after all.
The results were a big shock to us. We knew he hated reading because it was an uphill battle for him, but he scored relatively weak on all the other tests too.
He started his Edublox classes with us in January 2019.
I’ll never forget his first Edublox class. He could not remember more than 3 blocks for the Pattern exercise, he cheated every round on Sequence and he could not remember 3 blocks for Auditory Pattern. My heart was broken, I could see he was so embarrassed as the other kids were flying through the exercises.
We worked on the exercises every day at home. His reading and spelling improved dramatically; we were so proud of him. By June I weened him off the Ritalin.
We decided to swop the one day a week for a Mathblox class to work on his mathematical foundations. His maths marks were low and as a result, he lost interest in even trying. He said he could never understand what to do.
Since signing up with Edublox, Jethro-Storm’s confidence has grown, his marks have improved, his memory has improved, and he is a happy child again. He has made friends with all of the kids that attend on the same days as him. When they arrive here, they all run to my class to look for him. He can now remember a pattern of 7+ blocks, a sequence of 17+ blocks and on a good day, his auditory can be a 6. He regularly gets stickers for his improvement with the Online Tutor. We are so proud of him at home and at Edublox Kempton Park.
As a mother, the most important thing to me is that his confidence has been boosted, and I firmly believe that if a child is confident, they can conquer anything.
Lucie-Ann Tait
Lucie-Ann Tait Jethro-Storm's mother
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September 21:World Alzheimer's Day- Here's Why You Must Pay Attention!
DR KEVWE Friday, September 21, 2018 No comments
👀: Wikipedia- Healthy VS Severe Alzheimer's Disease
It was a trying September 21st and in the mist of all the confusion and ignorance, a relative who lived abroad had phoned in to inform the family that Grandpa may have been suffering from a brain condition called ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; he was not just choosing to forget what should be familiar faces or deciding to suddenly act foolish and very needy in a bid to seek selfish attention, as some had already began to conclude. For reasons not very clear to Medical Scientists yet, he may have developed brain changes that have now affected his memory and other aspects of his brain function. Today is another September 21st and if you are still ignorant about this condition, on this special "World Alzheimer's Day", we are joining other concerned Organisations all around the world to raise awareness about Alzheimer's Disease- the most common cause of DEMENTIA( progressive deterioration of cognitive brain function beyond what may be expected for normal ageing).
Many people especially in Africa, believe that Alzheimer's is a disease condition exclusive to white people in the Western world. Yet, just like my late maternal Grandfather who died in Nigeria over 10 years ago, more and more middle age to elderly people are developing brain changes as shown in the image above and manifesting with the typical symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease but family members who are supposed to be the first point of call for support are totally ignorant; thus the lack of adequate care for the aged victims. If you are one of those still in doubt as to whether a member of your family can possibly be affected, take a look at the Infographic below and understand why you must pay attention!
👀: World Alzheimer's Report 2015- The Global Impact Of Dementia
Now that we all have an idea, how then do we recognise the symptoms of this devastating condition? Here's what to typically look out for, to suspect Alzheimer's Disease or other forms of Dementia.
👀: fpmaragall.org
Do well to take your loved one early enough to your primary healthcare practitioner for a Neurology referral if they are within the implicated age range and yourself or other family members begin to notice a recurrence in unusual forgetfulness or any of the other symptoms mentioned above. The condition might be irreversible currently but a lot of research is ongoing as to how disease progression can be slowed down and who knows, eventually a cure might become the reality that a lot of us are praying for. Very importantly, those who begin to manifest symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or other forms of Dementia as the case maybe, require a lot of support and care, so baseline knowledge about this condition will never be a waste of time. You might be in a position to in one way or the other, help your neighbour, your family member or better still, your future self and never forget....
For more information about the disease, current campaign efforts, research work, prevention where possible and available forms of management, click into the references below.
* NHS| Alzheimer's Disease
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FDA Approves Bt Rice from China for U.S. Consumption
Crop Tech Corner
2/5/2018 | 6:31 AM CST
By Emily Unglesbee , DTN Staff Reporter
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A new Bt rice variety from China has been approved for import and consumption in the U.S., to the chagrin of some American industry groups. (DTN photo illustration by Nick Scalise)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This bi-monthly column condenses the latest news in the field of crop technology, research and products.
FDA GIVES NOD TO BT RICE FROM CHINA
The Food and Drug Administration declared a Bt rice variety, developed by Chinese researchers, safe for consumption in the U.S. on Jan. 9. The move has raised the hackles of the industry group USA Rice. "The marketplace does not want GM rice, so neither do we," USA Rice president and CEO Betsy Ward said in a press release.
Developed by researchers from Huazhong University, Huahui No. 1 rice is engineered to express the Bt protein Cry1Ab/Cry1Ac, which targets lepidopteran pests and is familiar to U.S. Bt corn and cotton growers. The GM rice product is now in a curious position. Since it also received EPA approval regarding its pesticide residues, it has legal clearance for import and consumption in the U.S. However, the rice is not yet commercialized in its own home country of China, which currently doesn't permit any GM grain production. Lacking deregulation from the USDA, it cannot be grown in the U.S. either.
Ward urged rice importers to avoid the Huahui No. 1 rice from China, which is not a major source of imported rice in the U.S. In 2017, the U.S. only imported around 6,000 metric tons of Chinese rice -- compared to 455,000 metric tons from Thailand, the leading source of imported rice here. USA Rice noted that American consumers can purchase U.S.-grown rice if they wanted to be sure of a non-GM product. "While GMOs are perfectly safe, the fact that there is no GMO rice in commercial production in the U.S. resonates very strongly with customers, dietitians and importers around the world," said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice manager of domestic promotion.
You can see the FDA's approval letter here: http://bit.ly/…
You can see USA Rice's statement here: http://bit.ly/…
THE WHEAT THAT NEVER SLEEPS
How do you get wheat plants to hurry up and reproduce already? Never let them rest. Australian researchers are using a technique first devised by NASA scientists to induce "speed breeding" in wheat plants, effectively doubling the number of wheat generations breeders can grow in a year. The University of Queensland scientists exposed the wheat plants to continuous light in specially designed greenhouses. In a single year, these wakeful conditions allowed researchers to produce six generations of wheat, chickpea and barley and four generations of canola. Already, the technique has helped the Queensland researchers develop a wheat variety that better tolerates wet weather at harvest, in partnership with Dow AgroSciences.
Read the University of Queensland press release here: http://bit.ly/…
See the study here: http://go.nature.com/…
HUNTING A FUNGUS
Researchers are always poring through plant genomes, hunting for genes that resist diseases. Now a team of scientists led by the University of Illinois has turned that equation on its head, by looking for the genes in a fungus that allow it to outsmart a plant's genetic resistance.
The fungus in question causes Northern Corn Leaf Blight, a common and damaging disease for Midwestern corn growers. To date, researchers have found four corn genes that help plants resist damage from the fungus, Ht1, Ht2, Ht3 and HtN, according to a University of Illinois press release. The researchers picked two strains of NCLB fungus, one that was susceptible to Ht1 plants and one that was resistant to them. They mated the two and mapped the genes of the resulting fungal strain. They found two gene locations likely responsible for evading Ht1's effect in corn plants.
The researchers hope these findings will help farmers more precisely defend their corn crop from NCLB. "Now that we have molecular markers, we could sample the environment and find out which strains of the pathogen are out there," University of Illinois plant pathologist Santiago Mideros said in the release. "Eventually, farmers might be able to plant corn varieties that are resistant to specific pathogens present in their area."
See the Illinois press release here: http://bit.ly/…
Emily Unglesbee can be reached at emily.unglesbee@dtn.com
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The Surprising Ways Your Office Design Shows You Trust Your Employees
When team members feel trusted, they are more engaged in their work.
Image credit: Thomas Barwick | Getty Images
Marie Puybaraud
Global Head of Research for JLL Corporate Solutions
Game rooms, contemplation suites and rooftop running tracks. These may sound like modern innovations -- emblematic of the workplace of 2018 -- but businesses have been experimenting with their workplaces for some time.
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Take the U.S. Justice Department under Robert Kennedy as an example. A gym on the roof, picnic tables in the courtyard and the staff's dogs in the office were all some of the measures that Kennedy implemented. What was the result? A huge boost in morale, according to his biographer, Larry Tye.
In fact, almost 50 years on, Tye reports that "nearly all of his surviving band of brothers say working for Bobby was the high point of their professional lives." Kennedy not only boosted morale, but, crucially, he captured the trust and enthusiasm of his employees and was rewarded for it with their loyalty.
Here lies the crux of the matter: It is not only the employees who regularly don their running shoes that benefit from the running track. It is not just what the running track allows employees to do, but what it represents: a trust in staff that they will spend their time at work responsibly and that they are not chained to their desks.
This really is crucial; building trust is the most effective way for employers to drive up engagement levels, according to our research, "Workplace -- powered by Human Experience," which is based on a survey over 7,300 employees across 12 countries shows. Boosting feelings of trust, according to nearly 40 percent of respondents, would have a very positive effect on their engagement level. Kindness by management (32 percent) and letting staff take initiatives without fear of being judged (31 percent) come next.
Related: Where Are You Gonna Work Today? The Death of the 8-Hour Desk.
How does design demonstrate trust?
In all three areas, most employers have significant ground to be gained. So, what can they do to turn these abstract ideas into changes that are appreciated by staff? Trust comes in different ways -- open-plan offices, for instance, in which all seniority levels mix together; community spaces (from attractive in-house cafés to lounges); and trusting staff enough to let them choose their working pattern, how to reconfigure their workspace and how to work flexibly. It is no coincidence that our research also shows that while employees are ready to embrace change and contemplate an agile way of working, with 76 percent of workers globally ready for some type of change to their workplace, maintaining their personal comfort remains a priority.
Caring about the well-being of your employees is one way to demonstrate kindness -- using high-quality materials in desks, chairs and overall design, for instance; helping employees stay healthy with a nutrition plan through high-quality supplies for food in the canteen and providing access to anti-stress facilities such as quiet zones and meditation rooms. Having an effective support team on the ground, such as a facility manager, a concierge and floor ambassadors, could reinforce your execution plan.
But, it is also about fostering trust in employees to use their time effectively, providing a range of working locations and empowering people with greater flexibility over how, where and when they work.
Related: 4 Common Office Design Mistakes to Avoid
But what can businesses actually do?
The transformational effect of trust building in the workplace does not require huge budgets. It requires human leadership teams who are ready to make employees' working days better days to be an efficient and happy person at work.
For instance, smaller businesses could create major collaborative spaces or community spaces dedicated to team activities -- music rooms, meditation spaces, scrum rooms and design thinking spaces where workers can go to brainstorm and share ideas during the working day or for longer periods of time. This not only cultivates creativity and helps employees to recharge their batteries, but also demonstrates that they are trusted to be away from their desks -- ditching dated time keeping policies.
Research from the U.K. bank HSBC highlights that flexible and remote working is not only on the rise, but nine out of 10 employees claim that remote working is their No. 1 motivator to boost their productivity at work. Whether you identify a dedicated space -- or simply clear corners of the office and add a sofa to provide more informal spaces -- community or collaboration areas ensure that employees are able to step away from their desks to recharge and connect with their colleagues. Flexible spaces are stimulating, creative, inspirational and, perhaps most importantly, as the research demonstrates, capable of boosting productivity.
As for letting people use their initiative freely, encourage them to make suggestions (and also to make and learn from errors) on a wide range of issues, from improving productivity to new workplace systems to the design and layout of the premises. Including your staff in the process from the outset will also give them the confidence to suggest any changes to the workplace they feel the business needs. Not only does this encourage a sentiment of trust between employer and employee, but also means your people cultivate a strong sense of belonging toward their place of work. After all, more than a third of the 7,300 employees we surveyed believe that personalization of the workplace is critical, and over 40 percent believe they would do their daily work better if they could work from different types of spaces that have been customized for a variety of needs.
If you manage to deliver on these three areas, our research suggests that you will see a rise in engagement. Staff will be keener to share their insights with others, to learn from colleagues, to grow within the company and to be as enthusiastic as if the organization belonged to them.
The message is clear: The first step is to trust in your staff and the transformation of your business is sure to follow.
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Can Dr. Dubrow Remove Brittany's ''Double Stacked'' Breast Implants Without Leaving Too Many Scars?
by Emily Mae Czachor | Mon., Dec. 9, 2019 8:00 PM
Double-Stacked Implants & Breasts on Head?!: "Botched" Recap (S6, Ep6)
For the better part of a year, Brittany's breast implants proved to be significantly more trouble than they were worth.
"It's been 10 months since my surgery, and in more ways than one, I am still paying the price for these boobs," the Botched patient explained near the start of Monday's new episode.
During her and husband Justin's initial meeting with Drs. Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif, Brittany went on to list the lasting consequences of her "double" breast augmentation procedure, the likes of which included headaches and neck pain in addition to noticeable misshapenness and general discomfort.
"I want the opportunity to redo this mistake," she continued earnestly, having recounted a relatively involved surgical history that began with a single pair of breast implants and ultimately left her with final products almost twice that size. After suffering complications several months after the original procedure, Brittany knew a follow-up surgery would be necessary to repair the damage. So, while preparing to go under the knife again, she started to dream bigger.
"I wanted to go 1,300 cc's," she remembered. But manufacturing companies don't actually produce breast implants sized larger than 800 cc's, so just about every medical professional Brittany solicited for the job turned her away.
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Unfortunately, five or six unsuccessful consults later, she did find one plastic surgeon willing to take on her dangerous request. The problem? In order to give Brittany the volume she'd requested, he suggested they surgically "stack" her breast implants—two on each side—to work around the individual sizing limitations.
Wide-eyed upon hearing this information for the first time, Dr. Dubrow informed Brittany that performing such a procedure required her previous surgeon to act in direct opposition to medical mandates.
"You go to the implant company inserts…it specifically says, 'Do not stack implants,'" he said before going on to pinpoint a handful of major consequences typically associated with doing so, like thinning of the skin and capsular contracture. Bottom line: layering implants is not only risky, but technically "forbidden" by official plastic surgery standards.
In any case, Dubrow was happy to help Brittany return to a smaller breast size (wrapping up their first meeting, she asked the doctors to remove all four implants and replace them with one 800 cc pair), but devising a plan for how to do that came with its own set of complications.
"Botched" Patient Has 2 Implants in Each Breast
"We can take them all out, put a new pair in and do some kind of lifting procedure, which means scars," Dubrow told Brittany after a preliminary examination. And eager as she was to put this quadruple implant situation behind her, the patient still hesitated to provide her consent.
"I know it may be necessary to have scars in order to come out better than I came in," Brittany acknowledged in a confessional interview. "But that scares me a lot. Because I just feel like I wont see my breasts as beautiful anymore."
As Dubrow pointed out during a separate sit-down with the Botched cameras, breast lifts are not one-size-fits-all procedures. Less skin "tightening" means less scarring, and vice versa. So, even though Brittany did eventually green-light the operation, she left the question of additional incisions (and thus additional scars) up to her doctor's discretion.
And luckily, Dr. Dubrow was able to avoid them during surgery.
Botched Patients Before and After: Shocking Transformations!
"Although I could probably give Brittany a little more of a lift by doing a vertical incision, knowing that she really doesn't want a scar there, it's not worth it," he reasoned, standing in the OR just before finishing up the procedure. Continuing, the veteran plastic surgeon concluded that, at least in this instance, "it's probably a better idea to leave good enough alone."
At ten weeks post-op, Brittany's revamped look and restored self-confidence were more than enough evidence to suggest Dubrow's surgical expertise amounted to much more than that.
"I feel amazing," she beamed. "I look a million times better and I can definitely tell that [the implants are] actually where they're supposed to sit. They look wonderful now."
Hear more about Brittany's story in the full recap video above! Also, you can watch the full episode HERE!
Watch a brand new episode of Botched Monday at 9 p.m., only on E!
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After Math: All the shows (and games) fit to stream this season
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How B-movies influenced 'Mortal Kombat 11' fatalities
What's gore without a little laughter?
Jessica Conditt, @JessConditt
04.25.19 in AV
Mortal Kombat fatalities are legendary for their gruesomeness. The finishing moves are physics-defying ballets of blood and shattered bone, and in Mortal Kombat 11, they're just as ridiculous as ever. D'vorah vomits acid-covered larvae down an enemy's throat before they're ripped apart from the inside by a giant corpse bug; Geras traps an opponent in a wall of sand and rips them in half lengthwise with a single hard tug; Cassie Cage kicks people so hard in the crotch that their skeletons fly right out of their bodies; Baraka rips off an enemy's face in two layers, stabs their brain and then eats it like a shish kebab.
Every move is unique, but they all share the same over-the-top, ultra-ridiculous DNA that's sustained Mortal Kombat for the past 27 years. Each game in the series takes advantage of relatively modern graphical power, rendering characters in the most realistic way possible -- only to show their muscles exploding yet still bearing weight, their organs dangling from perfectly circular torso holes, or their bones shattering to dust in a 3D X-ray mode.
At some point, each fatality becomes so gory that it's funny.
"I have it up on my screen while I'm doing testing at work, and people come by and it's equal parts disgust and laughter," said Shannah O'Meara, senior cinematic artist at NetherRealm Studios. She's one of the architects behind Mortal Kombat 11's fatalities, often spending weekdays in a meeting room with a handful of other developers, discussing all of the worst ways to murder people. Fictionally, of course.
O'Meara has been at NetherRealm for more than five years, and before that she worked at Midway Games, the studio where developers Ed Boon and John Tobias first created Mortal Kombat. Midway went bankrupt in 2009, but Warner Bros. bought its assets and kept its Chicago studio running with Boon at the helm, eventually renaming the division NetherRealm. The latest game in the franchise, Mortal Kombat 11, came out for PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch on Tuesday.
O'Meara has nearly a decade of experience building NetherRealm and Midway franchises, and the carnival of carnage in Mortal Kombat 11 proves she knows her way around a gruesome death. However, her fascination with gore started much earlier than that.
"I've always been really into gory B-movies," she said. "You know, since I was a kid -- probably too young where I probably shouldn't have been watching them -- but I always was a big fan of practical effects, and I saw it for the art form. I was never scared of them, I just saw them for what they were. It's really great for me to be able to work on that as I'm older."
Mortal Kombat toes the same line between hilarity and horror as B-movies like Dead Alive, Army of Darkness and Zombeavers. This isn't an accident.
"It's even how I fix up my shots -- I'll go watch gory movies or something like that and pay attention to the cinematography and the editing and how they do it, and I just kind of try and implement that into what I do," O'Meara said.
Some of her favorite horror films are Nightmare on Elm Street ("I think I used to want to be Freddy Krueger," she said), The Thing, and a 2006 masterpiece called Black Sheep, which O'Meara describes as follows: "It's mutated sheep that kill people, so, can't go wrong with that."
There's no clear science on why some people laugh at horror movies and others cringe, though at least one study has linked the responses to a gene that deals with anxiety. Some people may be inherently more disturbed by gruesome images, while some may use laughter as a way to relieve tension, express submission or deny their fear, and still others may find scary movies and games amusing simply because the on-screen terror isn't real.
O'Meara has a theory, too.
"From what I can take from it, it's just so outrageous," she said. "It's impossible, you know? Nobody physically works like that, kind of like Looney Tunes when they start squashing and stretching. We find that hilarious, but just because it's absurd."
Images: NetherRealm Studios
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My Candid Conversations with Extremely Online Folks Who Suffer From Internet Broken Brain
Ashley Feinberg, Krang T. Nelson, and more weigh in on content addiction.
By Luke O'Neil
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Twitter broke my brain. I’m not alone. New research from Pew found that 77 percent of Americans go online daily, but 26 percent claimed to be online “almost constantly.” Reading this brought me back to one day a few months ago, when I went outside for a cigarette, bringing my phone and cocktail with me. After a couple minutes of scrolling, whatever timer in my brain that governs my subconscious behavior went off, and I got up to go back inside, still holding an unlit cigarette in my hand. My addiction to Twitter had overridden my addiction to nicotine. That’s probably not good! I thought. Naturally, I tweeted about it.
Much like psychologists are supposed to avoid armchair diagnoses, it’s unethical to project Internet Broken Brain onto someone you don’t know personally, but ... it is similar to the scumbag’s sixth sense. A real scumbag can parachute into any town or any situation and easily sniff out the guy holding drugs. I spent last week wandering around the internet in search of, well, people like me. They weren’t hard to find. They’re right in our face every minute of the day.
Last Wednesday, we learned that Donald Trump, Jr. and his wife, Vanessa Trump, were heading for divorce. At least one reason, Page Six reported, was Junior’s increasingly problematic tweets. My first instinct to talk through this phenomenon was to call Ashley Feinberg.
Feinberg, a HuffPost reporter, is a first ballot inductee for Extremely Online Hall of Fame. She’s a dogged reporter, she’s hilarious, and she’s leveraged her Twitter addiction for good a number of times, including ferreting out James Comey’s secret Twitter account last year.
“[Trump Jr.] is so aggressive in his stupidity and his inability to grasp anything outside himself,” Feinberg said. “No matter what happens, he is so confident that he’s right and that he’s an intelligent person. And he’s acquired all these hordes of fans, so he starts performing for them even harder when they cheer him on.” In other words, Don Jr. is also the epitome of being Extremely Online. Feinberg has broken a number of stories online, but does she feel that online has broken her brain in the process?
“Absolutely,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s Twitter, so much as the constant news cycle, but what’s the difference?”
Sometimes, Feinberg tells me, she’ll step off the subway and start writing a tweet before realizing a minute later that she’s standing there in the way of other passengers, only to soon forget what it was she even tweeted. Feinberg has a notification for whenever Mike Flynn, Jr. tweets and she can’t bring herself to turn it off for reasons she doesn’t understand. She says she doesn’t remember her dreams anymore.
“Ever since the primary, my memory has gotten progressively worse, to the point I'm incapable of retaining new information in any normal way,” Feinberg said.
I'm incapable of retaining new information in any normal way." —Ashley Feinberg
Krang T. Nelson, an exceptionally prolific tweeter, says he has to keep a firewall between his online life and his real life, if only because most of his friends don’t suffer from the same internet brain worms that he does. And no, that's not his real name, he asked me not to reveal it so that he could maintain some semblance of normalcy offline.
“I think the best way to describe it is … it’s like trying to explain something in a different language to someone, when they don't even know the country the language comes from exists.”
Krang and I had no such trouble speaking in the Poster’s Patois. Our conversation was peppered with offhand references to things that were immediately significant to both of us: Kurt Eichenwald’s hentai episode, Al Giordano, “my wife’s boyfriend,” Brandon Wardell’s sage advice about muting trolls.
a mute is stronger than a block bc a block gives them the satisfaction of a screenshot. a screenshot is content. never give ur enemy content
— Brandon Wardell (@BRANDONWARDELL) May 20, 2017
“It probably skews the way I see the world,” Krang said. “Sometimes I’m jealous of my girlfriend or my friends. I have to go through my day knowing about this shit. I have to know about Kurt Eichenwald. It feels very self-punishing, self-flagellating in a certain way.”
haven’t memorized any of my family members’ birthday because I need to keep space for a false memory of John Kerry calling Wendy’s “Wendell’s Hamburgers”
— wearing FaZe hoodie to estate settlement 🍞📈 (@ByYourLogic) March 19, 2018
The worst part is, we do this to ourselves. Try as we might, many of us simply can’t look away. Another recent poll found that 46 percent of people wished Twitter would go away. “Kill it and hope it dies,” as they put it. Thirty-two percent said the same of Facebook. That seems rather low, although it's likely to rise in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations about exploited user data.
Recently, at a show, the bartender told me he couldn’t sell me two beers at once, even though the second was for my friend. You’re a fucking cop, I said, the worst insult imaginable to someone in my online social circle. You’re a narc. I wasn’t so much interacting with a human being, but popping off in his mentions. Soon after, I apologized to the bartender, utterly ashamed. If the interaction had been on Twitter with an audience, dozens of people might’ve applauded me for my irascibility. We think nothing of calling someone a piece of shit online 10 times a day. In real life, it doesn’t feel quite as heroic. It feels ugly.
Andy Levy, the writer and television personality, told me he’s made steps to reduce his online levels in recent years. “I think it was breaking my brain and I had to step back,” Levy said. “I thought, Why am I doing this? It’s an unoriginal thought, but it’s like a drug, where you get the dopamine hit with likes, and you crave it more and more. But then, even with something fun, if you do it too much, it’s the law of diminishing returns.”
In real life, it doesn’t feel quite as heroic. It feels ugly.
Levy lamented that online has become a large-scale exercise in piling on and ideological trench-digging that is bleeding over into the way we act in real life. If you spend all day online being an asshole, is it any wonder that you might start acting like one everywhere else? (You're a fucking cop.)
The past month has brought us several “unplugging” stunts. Vice’s Eve Peyser retreated from the web for a week in the woods. You probably read New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo’s piece about going “offline” for two months. Two days after Manjoo’s piece was published, the Columbia Journalism Review raised questions about his process, showing that Manjoo was actually almost constantly on Twitter during his self-professed period of digital news abstinence. Manjoo, as much as he wanted, could not log off, which seems like a lost opportunity for a much more interesting and honest piece he could have written. He tried to quit, but he just couldn’t. I reached out to Manjoo to talk about it, but, as of this writing, he hasn’t responded.
Sometimes I look at my phone and it disgusts me. It’s like cleaning up empties the next morning after a night of partying, or the revulsion you might feel about pornography still playing on your computer seconds after finishing the deed. Who was I being? A decade ago, I had to go out drinking to wake up the next day with anxiety about what I might have said the night before. Now I can just scroll back through my timeline for receipts of exactly what kind of shithead I was when the maggots crept in.
"Even with something fun, if you do it too much, it’s the law of diminishing returns.” —Andy Levy
“Twitter works like a giant, depressed brain,” web designer Mike Monteiro wrote recently. “It can’t tell right from wrong, and it can’t tell big from small.” Every issue, be it presidential corruption, celebrity gossip, or a normal person no one has ever heard of saying the wrong thing, is presented as the same size. They descend down our screen like spaceships in the old Space Invaders video game and our only weapon is a laser cannon. Boom! Fuck you! Boom! You suck! Boom! Nice take, moron. Explode those motherfuckers.
A friend called me with an intervention of sorts last week. I was being an asshole online, he told me, hurting people’s feelings. I had lost the ability to distinguish between issues that truly deserve criticism on Twitter and things I should probably keep to myself. I was subtweeting the website that pays my bills, because I didn’t like the content they were posting. Even still, when I put it that way, it does sound kind of funny, but that’s the self-righteousness of Extremely Online Individuals steering the ship. What’s more important to me, being right online, or making a living?
Sometimes the laser cannon points both ways. The phone in your pocket isn’t so much a means of connection to the world, but a self-destruction device. Type in the right code and you can ruin your life. But if you’re lucky, and you have good friends, they might tell you what’s what back in the real world. Until then, we’re all blocking the train to type out a tweet, or walking back inside with an unlit cigarette. Our brains are broken because we’re the ones who broke them. So, what happens next?
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Essential Retail Magazine Home » View From The Top » Retail technology view from the top: JDA Software's Lee Gill
6 Nov 2015 View From The Top
Retail technology view from the top: JDA Software's Lee Gill
As new systems and digital capability continue to evolve the way retailers run their businesses, Essential Retail is gauging the views of the sector's main figureheads, via a series of exclusive interviews. This week, it's the turn of JDA Software's group vice president for global retail strategy, Lee Gill.
Asda's Andy Clarke addressed grocery industry delegates at an IGD conference last month by saying that the supermarket world's biggest challenge from a business perspective is centred on making digital-enabled retailing profitable.
He's not the only retail executive to think so. It's been a common theme on the conference circuit and in trading statements from the industry's largest corporations over the last 12 months, while in the spring PwC underlined the issue via a survey of 400 retail and consumer goods company CEOs, which showed that just 16% of them felt they could fulfil multichannel retailing profitably.
The research also indicated that 67% of businesses are seeing their costs go up as a result of serving customers across multiple channels, with handling returns from online and store orders a key pain point (cited by 71% of respondents). Shipping direct to the customer and shipping to store for customer pick-up were also acknowledged as particularly costly processes of modern retailing.
Lee Gill, group vice president for global retail strategy at JDA Software, the company which commissioned the research, says that retailers cannot bury their heads in the sand and hope the issue goes away. They need to get to grips with new technology that can improve efficiencies and encourage customers to shop across channels by utilising their stores in a relevant manner.
"This fulfilment challenge is not going to go away – customers do not want to pay for delivery," he told Essential Retail.
"If it's not going to go away what can you do? You can wean customers off home delivery to click & collect which reduces the cost, or you start to invest in technology to basically help mitigate that."
The retail industry is slowly reacting to the reality of lower margins bought on by serving the modern customer, with some chains taking what they view to be the relevant action to look after their balance sheets. In the summer John Lewis announced it would charge £2 for click & collect orders up to £30, while Tesco quickly followed suit by raising the threshold for £4 in-store collection charges to £40.
Although these decisions have clearly been made for the right business reasons, the danger is that customers won't see it that way. The cold, harsh reality for retailers is that customers do not expect to pay extra, which underlines the risk the two aforementioned retailers have taken in establishing click & collect levies.
It's like the industry has got itself into a bit of a tangle. The race to offer customers the ultimate convenience and seamless multichannel service has been made without the bottom line in mind, and Sainsbury's head of online Robbie Feather was critical in his assessment of the sector, saying the UK had built the world's best online grocery industry while single-handedly destroying "most of the value in the channel" by failing to charge shoppers accordingly.
JDA's Gill sees it as a pertinent issue, saying: "The net is that everyone is waiting with interest to see what happens with John Lewis.
"As a customer, I struggle with the concept of being charged for click & collect – I just expect it to be in the store anyway, but the fact you don't have it in the store is your problem. Why are you charging me for that problem?"
Moves by the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury's in selling off property to help balance their finances, in keeping with a grocery world defined by the lowering of product prices and a shift towards customers shopping in smaller, more urban-based shops, perhaps highlight the real profitability issue related to modern retail. Expensive large stores that are no longer the preferred mode of shopping for customers can be a real drain on finances.
Gill agrees, suggesting that the retail industry has spent the last few decades creating big out-of-town supermarkets and the wider sector has decanted stock rooms out of their stores to release sales floor footage. Now, it could be argued that the companies that have the models best suited to serving today's consumer are those that operate stock-heavy stores, such as Argos and Screwfix, effectively offering inventory from mini warehouses across the UK, but driven by the web.
"The profitability question is much bigger than just home delivery and click & collect," he explained.
"The question I asked Andy Clarke [as part of a World Retail Congress panel debate earlier this year] is 'what is happening to the store estate?'. People are changing the way they shop to little and often which is impacting sales in out-of-town stores – these sales are being replaced by online."
Gill added: "We will continue to see further declines in out-of-town stores – it's why you are seeing franchise models, downsizing of stores and renting out to third parties. It's all an effort to try and deal with profitability."
The need for various fulfilment options, including the introduction of pick-up points in-store, in carparks and at other third-party locations, means things will get more challenging, said Gill, who predicts operations for the supermarket sector will continue to be "tough going forward".
"It wouldn't surprise me if we saw someone fall out of the game in grocery. I don't know who that can be, but there's too much capacity."
So while retailers continue to fight battles in relation to finding the right price points, opting for the most suitable services and placing a balanced focus across each sales channel, they are moving towards finding a new route to the consumer.
New platforms of engagement, including social media, customer feedback forums and personalised loyalty programmes – not to mention the continued growth in online sales that leave a data trail of customer behaviour – mean there is an opportunity for retailers to boost sales by becoming more relevant and targeted.
How they mine personal data in a responsible way and drive cross-channel experiences will lead them to "the prize", argued Gill, who said: "The solution is compensating margin erosion by driving top-line sales – it's a no brainer.
"If I know your likes and dislikes, a helpful recommendation can drive sales up. If I can also get you in store as well as shopping online, all statistics show that you'll spend more time and money. There is a prize in that margin erosion but the erosion has come before the prize. That's why we're going to see a period of difficulty for retailers."
But is there light at the end of the tunnel? "Retailers will do what they have always done; they will slash costs and make efficiencies. I don't think the long-term future is bleak, the industry will just metamorphose into a different model."
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The Case For Co-Mentoring
Two entrepreneurs share what they’ve learned from creating a non-traditional mentoring relationship.
[Photo: Flickr user star5112]
By Dawn Wells Nadeau 6 minute Read
We’ve all heard how important a mentor is to career development, but many of us don’t have the benefit of structured corporate mentorship programs.
But entrepreneurs and freelancers don’t have to manage their career development alone. We’ve developed a practice we call co-mentoring. It’s changed the way we think about our work and careers.
We started with a shared work experience right out of college as associates in a large consulting firm. Eventually, each of our careers moved in a different direction. We maintained occasional but–not regular–contact.
Flash forward 15 years. While we were both in New York, we decided to meet up for a walk in Central Park. It was our first true co-mentoring session.
When you take something informal and infuse it with a modest amount of structure and discipline, you create an incredibly powerful tool for professional growth and success.
After three years, we’ve learned that when you take something informal and infuse it with a modest amount of structure and discipline, you create an incredibly powerful tool for professional growth and success. We’ve assembled seven of our most valuable lessons to help you get started and get the most out of the co-mentoring relationship.
1. Ask For Help
During that first walk in the park, Dawn explained that, after time off to have kids, she wanted help from Sara (who had continued to work outside the home): “I’m ready to go back to work but I don’t know where to begin.”
But be clear about what you want from them–an introduction, a project, or an answer to a specific question. You don’t want to make it their job to figure out how to best help you.
Even though Dawn hadn’t been in regular touch with former colleagues, Sara encouraged her to call them first: “They know you and know your work. But be clear about what you want from them–an introduction, a project, or an answer to a specific question. You don’t want to make it their job to figure out how to best help you.”
2. Establish Accountability
When you know that someone is going to check in with you, the goals, commitments, or tasks you set for yourself feel more real. On each call, we give each other an update on both near and long-term goals. Though every conversation doesn’t have to focus on long-term goals, when you initiate your relationship, take the time to establish an initial baseline for each person’s work life. If you don’t, it’s hard to have quid pro quo.
These exchanges solidify your commitment to your goals and lay the framework for a continuous dialogue. The next time you talk, you’re prepared when your co-mentor asks you how the pitch went or what you’ve done with your Kickstarter idea. Don’t discount the power of external eyes on your work. It’s a huge motivator and keeps you focused towards long-term goals.
3. Keep To A Schedule
Set a schedule and stick to it. This sounds like a simple lesson but it will make or break your co-mentoring relationship. We meet by phone approximately every three weeks at 12 p.m. for 30 minutes. We put an appointment in our calendars and honor that time as a regular work commitment.
If you connect only occasionally or let a check-in drift too long, you’ll require a lengthy catch-up at the start of a meeting and little time for targeted conversation.
4. Find A Secret Keeper
Establish up front that you’ll keep confidential all aspects of each other’s feelings and businesses. The relationship won’t work well if you hold back the good stuff. Someone who is not a relative, friend, or coworker but has a deep understanding of what you do and where you want to go, can help you negotiate a tough deal or financial situation.
You can be honest with them and, even more, they force you to be honest with yourself.
A co-mentor knows how much business you have locked into one particular client and can steer you towards your perfect gig. You can be honest with them and, even more, they force you to be honest with yourself.
5. A Sounding Board Is Not A Cheerleader
Your co-mentor is not a cheerleader; critical support and advice are not just dashed reassurances of success. Instead, a co-mentor offers perspective, specific suggestions, and a total kick-in-the-ass when appropriate. If you work outside a company, in whatever capacity, you’ll periodically wonder what it is you do and where you are going. Regular care and attention to “The Brand Called You,” to borrow from Tom Peters, should be a vital part of your professional development.
Co-mentors push each other to try new things. Dawn encouraged Sara to tap her network at Stanford Business School and teach a seminar or workshop. On our next call, Dawn followed up on that idea and gauged Sara’s progress. Similarly, Sara encouraged Dawn to write about her Kickstarter experiences and develop a long-term perspective on her industry.
6. Don’t Choose A Colleague Or Competitor
One reason our relationship works well is we are not competitors. We don’t discount the power of networking; it’s just hard to be honest and not feel competitive with someone in your industry. Further, you can benefit from “the strength of weak ties,” or loose connections to people outside your industry and typical networks. You’ll find new opportunities when you continuously refine your narrative and expand your audience.
Choose a co-mentor who is a peer. Unlike a traditional mentor/mentee relationship, this is a co-mentor experiment. A wide disparity in experience or knowledge between co-mentors won’t feel balanced and will, ultimately, be only mildly successful.
7. Seek Out Complementary Skills And Experiences
When Dawn’s company, IAmElemental, went live on Kickstarter, Sara asked Dawn for the Twitter handle. At that moment, Dawn realized she’d overlooked critical social-media promotion. Sara walked Dawn through a quick Twitter tutorial and within an hour, IAmElemental had amassed followers. In fact, Twitter was a major feeder for the Kickstarter campaign and an important tool in the brand’s growth.
A co-mentor can be the ultimate inside-outsider. Sometimes, as in our Twitter case, a co-mentor makes a last-minute endzone catch. Other times, you reap the benefit of another smart pair of eyes, looking at the same thing as you but in a new way.
When you work outside a traditional organizational structure, you may lose sight of your surroundings and destination. In fact, as digital footprints abound, every individual must own and thoughtfully craft her story. A long-term co-mentor keeps track of your narrative as you do–and helps unravel it when you get tied into knots.
Co-mentors are helpful for people who work independently but, ultimately, they’re valuable to individuals who work in any size corporations. Who can’t benefit from someone who reminds you of your accomplishments and encourages you to face–not turn away from–challenges? You owe it to your career and dedication to invest in a relationship that is defined by you for you.
Sara Gaviser Leslie is a strategic translator and the founder of In Other Words, a Silicon Valley consultancy that provides content strategy for executive communications, fundraising, lead generation, content marketing, and sales enablement. She’s the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Transform: How Leading Companies Are Winning With Disruptive Social Technology.
Dawn Wells Nadeau co-launched IAmElemental, the first line of female action figures that Time magazine voted one of the 25 best inventions of 2014. She’s currently focused on a line of games that straddle the intersection of on and offline play.
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General Engineer - Federal Salaries of 2009
Pay Rates for "General Engineer"
How much does a General Engineer in the federal government get paid? $118,501.60* *Based on the 2009 average.
$1.16B TOTAL SALARY
General Engineer was the 32nd most popular job in the U.S. Government in 2009, with 9,769 employed. The most common payscale was the general schedule payscale.
In 2009, the Department of Energy hired the most employees titled General Engineering, with an average salary of $119,733.
Government General Engineering jobs are classified under the General Schedule (GS) payscale. The minimum paygrade for a General Engineering job is GS-6, and the highest paygrade that can be attained within this job series is GS-15. Remember that the starting and maximum yearly pay listed above reflect base pay only - your actual salary will be higher based on the Locality Pay Adjustment for the area in which you work.
Agencies that have hired a General Engineer
Department of Energy 1,690 $119,733.27
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1,149 $124,837.69
Veterans Health Administration 892 $90,741.66
Federal Aviation Administration 791 $131,867.00
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 750 $120,970.94
John F. Kennedy Space Center 673 $113,542.93
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 371 $119,466.86
Langley Research Center 246 $130,612.11
Internal Revenue Service 241 $106,968.29
Ames Research Center 200 $140,795.64
Headquarters, Nasa 173 $149,187.69
John Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field 172 $124,623.38
Public Buildings Service 150 $102,304.42
U.S. Coast Guard 127 $110,045.56
Bureau of Transportation Statistics 113 $110,495.30
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 98 $113,036.57
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 95 $115,819.88
John C. Stennis Space Center 92 $115,470.73
Forest Service 92 $102,334.43
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 69 $138,790.23
Dryden Flight Research Center 59 $140,090.10
Bureau of Reclamation 58 $101,001.10
Federal Transit Administration 56 $106,348.25
Environmental Protection Agency 55 $117,715.04
National Institute of Standards and Technology 50 $94,688.08
Office of the Secretary, Research and Technology 40 $123,637.28
Food and Drug Administration 39 $108,307.33
Indian Health Service 39 $89,155.69
Agricultural Research Service 36 $102,336.28
Mine Safety and Health Administration 35 $106,563.86
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection 32 $104,357.53
Transportation Security Administration 31 $120,734.26
Federal Railroad Administration 21 $116,737.67
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 19 $120,027.26
U.S. Mint 18 $118,901.94
Indian Affairs 18 $85,973.83
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 15 $108,937.87
National Transportation Safety Board 13 $131,969.00
Geological Survey 13 $95,199.54
Bureau of Industry and Security 12 $132,697.92
Broadcasting Board of Governors 12 $142,673.92
Department of Homeland Security Headquarters 11 $118,444.09
National Cemetery Administration 9 $122,570.78
Office of Senior Coordinator for Midwest 9 $105,790.89
Maritime Administration 8 $113,721.00
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 8 $101,142.50
Office of Senior Coordinator for Mid-Atlantic 8 $106,285.75
U.S. Secret Service 7 $125,631.86
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology 7 $94,100.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for Southeast/Caribbean 6 $100,430.17
National Archives and Records Administration 6 $117,395.17
Natural Resources Conservation Service 6 $103,868.83
International Boundary & Water Commission: U.S. & Mexico 6 $116,366.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for New York/New Jersey 6 $108,364.83
Office of the Secretary (Department of Commerce) 5 $119,621.60
Federal Bureau of Investigation 5 $136,158.20
Federal Highway Administration 5 $144,145.40
Surface Transportation Board 5 $131,488.00
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 5 $92,969.20
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation., & Enforcement 4 $128,518.50
Federal Acquisition Service 4 $106,938.00
Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner 3 $105,100.00
Office of the Secretary of the Interior 3 $123,912.33
Export-Import Bank of the United States 3 $157,669.67
Presidio Trust 3 $98,667.67
Rural Utilities Service 3 $127,364.33
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 3 $96,408.33
Small Business Administration 3 $100,706.00
Office of Inspector General (Department of Transportation) 3 $115,815.00
Office Secretary Health and Human Services 3 $113,367.00
Coop State Research, Educ, & Exten Service 2 $111,760.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for Pacific/Hawaii 2 $109,268.50
Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement 2 $98,946.00
Millennium Challenge Corporation 2 $86,050.00
Social Security Administration 2 $110,510.00
Office Federal Coordinator Alaska Gas Transport Project 2 $123,470.50
Office of Justice Programs 2 $133,543.00
American Battle Monuments Commission 2 $112,854.00
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 1 $142,564.00
Health Resources and Services Administration 1 $113,007.00
Rural Housing Service 1 $98,619.00
Administration for Children and Families 1 $126,693.00
Office of the Chief Financial Officer (Department of Agriculture) 1 $106,525.00
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Resolution 1 $140,969.00
Architectural & Transportation Barrier Compliance Board 1 $133,577.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for Southwest 1 $115,188.00
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board 1 $140,000.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for Great Plains 1 $105,525.00
Patent and Trademark Office 1 $134,293.00
Office of Senior Coordinator for Rocky Mountains 1 $103,707.00
Office of Thrift Supervision 1 $114,663.00
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration 1 $113,007.00
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 $89,825.00
General Engineer Pay Distribution
The average pay for a General Engineer is $118,501.60. The highest paid General Engineer made $237,270 in 2009.
Common General Engineer Payscales
Number of General Engineering Employees
GG - Grades Similar To General Schedule 1,025
FV - Faa Core Compensation Plan 740
NN - Nnsa Engineering And Scientific 217
EN - Nat Nuclear Security Admin Exc Srvc Only 190
EK - Nat Defense Auth Act 1995 Energy Exc Svc 89
DN - Defense Nuclear Facil. Safety Board Exce 62
FG - Similar To The General Schedule 45
NF - Nnsa Future Leaders 35
IR - Irs Broadband Class And Pay System Pos 31
SV - Trans Security Admin Emp Other Than Exec 30
SN - Senior Level System 30
EG - Consultant (other) 27
EE - Expert (other) 11
EH - Advisory Committee Member (5 U.s.c. 3109 10
EI - Advisory Committee Member (other) 8
CE - Contract Education--year Long 7
FP - Foreign Service Personnel 7
MC - Emp Of Millennium Challenge Corporation 2
ED - Expert (5 U.s.c. 3109) 2
EX - Executive Pay 2
SW - Transportation Security Admin Executives 1
TG - Ofc Of Thrift Supervision Salary Schedul 1
GE - Gpo Emp Formerly Under Pay Plan Sl 1
Occupation Family: 0800 ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP
GS-6 is the starting paygrade for General Engineering and Architecture jobs. Here are some other Federal Government jobs that can be held by employees at the GS-6 paygrade.
Multiseries Position Classification Standard for Therapist Professional and Scientific GS-6 GS-15
Housing Management Administrative and Management GS-4 GS-15
Animal Science Professional and Scientific GS-6 GS-15
Internal Revenue Officer Administrative and Management GS-4 GS-15
Equal Employment Opportunity Administrative and Management GS-4 GS-15
Search for General Engineering Jobs
Average General Engineering Pay Trend from 2004 to 2018
In 2004, the average pay for a General Engineer was $101,008. Since then, the average pay has increased to $127,312 in 2018.
Source: www.federalpay.org/employees/occupations/general-engineering/2009
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What were the top Indian Startups of 2019?
As 2020 is almost knocking at the door, the Indian startup ecosystem has been putting up brave performances. Here’s elucidating some of them…
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By Gairika Mitra Last updated Jan 3, 2020
As per a recent NASSCOM report, the Indian startups have seen a 108 percent growth in total funding from $2 billion USD to $4.2 billion USD this year. In one of the NASSCOM events, President Debjani Ghosh said that India is becoming a startup hub. The opportunity for growth here is enormous, that hasn’t really been seen in a lifetime. She even mentioned that the challenge here is how fast does a company want to transform.
A NASSCOM report further said that there was a 50 percent increase in the number of advanced tech startups since 2017. The report also said that the total number of startup funding deals, especially those in the late stages have witnessed massive growth. This was around 250 percent from USD 847 million in 2017 to USD 3 billion in 2018.
The data provided above proves that the startups based and operating out of India have been performing quite well. Before the year ends, let’s have a download of the startups that have been performing exceedingly well in their field of operation and have created some major disruptions.
Ola Electric
Cab aggregator Ola, that’s one of the world’s largest ride-hailing firms, announced its ‘Mission: Electric’. This had a commitment to place around 10,000 e-rickshaws in service. Ola Electric has worked with driver-partners, cities, vehicle manufacturers, and battery companies, in order to make sustainable technologies cost-effective and viable in daily commuting.
Ola Electric has raised $250 million from SoftBank. This valued the startup at $1 billion. Other investors in Ola Electric include Tiger Global, Ratan Tata, and several others. Ola Electric became one of the fastest unicorn after Udaan.
Paytm Money
A wholly-owned subsidiary of One97 Communications, the parent and operational company of Paytm. Paytm Money has partnered with all 40 AMCs (Asset Management Companies). This makes Paytm Money the only investment platform that offers investments in direct plans of mutual funds from all AMCs in India.
Recently, Paytm Money has raised INR. 40 crore funding from its parent One97 Communications. This was in addition to its previous round where it raised INR.28.87 crore, and it had also received an investment commitment of $10 million from One97 Communications.
NinjaCart has been disrupting the traditional ways of picking up fruits and vegetables from farmers. Once they pick up, they deliver it to the nearby small retail outlets. Most of its revenue is dependent on the commission that it earns from the entire transaction.
The founders have said that farmers now are able to earn better remuneration, as there are no middlemen and no guarantee of steady demand. Ninjacart has added $10 million in Series C round of funding from Tiger Global, Trifecta Capital, Tanglin Venture Fund, Steadview Capital, and ABG Capital.
Meesho is a home reseller focused startup aimed at creating micro-entrepreneurs. In a very small span, Meesho has made a name for itself. Meesho aims to create an environment where it allows anyone to start their business with zero investment. This 2020, Meesho strives to create around 20 million micro-entrepreneurs.
On the business side, Meesho has seen a 50X growth in two consecutive years (HY18 to HY19) counts to around 1451 percent. The startup works on approximately 10-15 percent commission, where the sellers can earn with Meesho, by adding a profit margin on every sale.
A SaaS-based customer lifecycle management and mobile marketing company, CleverTap has quite earned a repute for itself. They claim to have generated more than $2 billion in incremental revenue to its customers, and at present has a reach of more than one billion devices and over 8,000 consumer apps in more than 100 countries.
The startup’s revenue has been growing at 250 percent year-over-year since 2015. Some of the most important clients of CleverTap include Vodafone, Star, Sony, Domino’s Pizza, Gojek, Cleartrip and BookMyShow.
OkCredit
OkCredit aims to disrupt the way small businesses do accounting. Through digitisation, the startup aims to reduce the merchant’s burden of maintaining and accounting paper account books. People can send collective notifications to customers when there are delayed or missed payments.
Whenever a merchant registers a transaction on the platform against a customer, they get informed through a text or WhatsApp. OkCredit became a part of YCombinator’s 2018 summer batch and had raised funds from the US-based seed accelerator during its $1.7 million pre-Series A round. LightSpeed Partners, Venture Highway, and Y Combinator participated in the round.
Startup Yulu aims to provide an affordable and green mobility solution for urban India. They have a strong vision to decongest urban traffic by providing scalable, affordable, efficient and clean modes of transport as solutions for last mile connectivity and short distance commute.
Yulu has centers in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, and Bhubaneswar. In Bengaluru, Yulu has over 850 Yulu or parking zones. They require users to pay Rs.10 mandatorily for a Yulu Miracle ride, and additionally Rs. 10 per 10 minutes of riding time.
What Does 2020 Hold for Startups in India?
As per the data suggested above, statistics state that the startup market in India is really bullish. With the rise in the number of startups, and them turning profitable with each passing quarter, the days ahead involve more creation and disruption.
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Gairika Mitra is a Senior Correspondent with Express Computer. She loves accumulating knowledge on the IT-sphere and also distributing the same. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Welcome to Fitzwilliam Townhouse
The Townhouse is a heritage property and is designated by Dublin City Council as a protected structure. Most of the Townhouse is original and as it was in 1836.
THE RAILINGS OUTSIDE / THE FRONT DOOR / THE STAIRS / MOST OF THE CEILINGS / THE ARCHITRAVE / THE FLOORS / THE WINDOWS ARE OF THE PERIOD.
During the 19th century it was common for wealthy landowners to have a Dublin residence.
This property was acquired by the Braddell Family on 27th February 1836* for £600. The family had a country residence at Coolmelagh House in north County Wexford with nearly a thousand acres of land.
Limited modern alterations have taken place in keeping with the building and modern living. Structural changes such as the installation of evaluator is not allowed due to the impact on the building.
The building in its original form contained a kitchen in the basement with a kitchen staff to serve the family with the Governess and children on the top floor.
The management and staff are proud of having the opportunity to work in such a unique historical period building in such a great location. We hope you enjoy your stay with us and appreciate this Building which has stood for 181 years. We have laid out historical information throughout the building to help give background to the owners and the home.
*IN 1836
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO IN TEXAS TOOK PLACE.
FIRST RAILWAY OPENED IN ENGLAND LINKING LONDON TO GREENWICH.
THE CITY OF ADELAIDE WAS FOUNDED IN AUSTRALIA.
History from 1856
The history we have relating to this house dates back to 18th July 1856 when Mr Ambrose Cox, D.L.J.P, purchased number 41 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2.
His country seat was Clara House, Kings County (today, Co. Offaly) and typical of the time, this house would have been the Cox Family town residence, which fitted their position as Landlords.
Mr & Mrs Cox and family would have stayed in Dublin when entertaining friends and family, attending social functions and for business purposes.
Their main house and Estate was Clara House in Clara, Co. Offaly.
The houses were built as elegant family residences. The ground floor was for family living.
The second floor rooms were the family sleeping quarters, while the first floor, with its two grand rooms and large windows, was reserved for entertaining.
Children and nannies occupied the top floor and servants lived and worked in the basement with its large kitchen.
The use of the returns is not totally clear, but it is thought that they were used as sewing rooms or the maids’ room.
A Brief History of Fitzwilliam Street
Fitzwilliam Square, Merrion Square and Baggot Street were built on Baggotrath on lands owned by Vicount Fitzwilliam and through which the ancient routes leading south of the city passed.
The 6th Vicount Fitzwilliam of Merrion began development of Merrion Square on the great fields of this estate in the 1750’s and Fitzwilliam Square was subsequently laid out in the late 18th century Fitzwilliam Street forms the eastern side of both Merrion Square and the later Fitzwilliam Square and is a long expanse of Georgian architecture terminated by Holles Street Maternity Hospital. Holles Street was designed to run off the square from the corner but was dislocated to allow for the building of Antrim House, now the site of the Hospital.
Both squares and the surrounding neighbourhood instantly acquired a reputation as the prestigious place to live and work in Dublin. The prestige of the location has pertained through the centuries and 50 years ago the majority of these magnificent buildings were used as private residences. Many of the houses have plaques with historical information on former notable residents. Ambrose Cox JP bought 41 Upper Fitzwilliam Street (now Fitzwilliam Townhouse) on 18th July 1856.
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Barnett Lodge celebrates groundbreaking ceremonies
Artist's rendering of the front of the rennovated Barnett Lodge.
“Construction and fund raising are moving forward together during this year,” said the Rev. Bill Barnes, clergy chair of the Bishop’s Capital Campaign Commission (BCCC). ‘The BCCC and the Board of Camps and Retreat Ministries will unveil the newly refurbished and expanded Barnett Lodge for use during the 2012 camping season.” Ground was broken during ceremonies at the camp September 27. Construction is scheduled to conclude in mid-May, and the 2012 camping season will begin the first week of June.
The project will add 7,000-square-feet of new space and update 2,500-square-feet of existing space at the lodge. Specific project elements include:
The addition of a centrally-located entry and welcome center
Two new meeting rooms with exterior glass walls overlooking Lake Griffin
Relocation of all administrative offices to Barnett Lodge enabling staff to have easy access to incoming groups, campers and programs, plus a conference room for meeting and planning sessions
Expansion of existing dining rooms, adding a snack bar and total kitchen and serving area renovations to accommodate larger groups
Construction of a lakeside terrace and a repositioning of the famed “rocking chair porch” to a spot overlooking both the terrace and Lake Griffin
“We can confidently move forward with this ambitious and long-needed project because of a $2 million gift from an anonymous donor and subsequent gifts from donor families who want to be certain current and future Conference children, youth and adults will be able to experience the same type of spiritual growth and formation that is the heart of our long-standing camping tradition,” said Barnes.
L to R: Carol Barnett, Barney Barnett, Bishop Timothy Whitaker, Eileen Wills, Diane Stahl, Riley Standifer, Bellamy Standifer, Avery Standifer, Gene Zimmerman, Shawn Fordham, Rebecca Fordham.
The goal for completion of the “Together! For Kids and Camps” Campaign is approximately $1 million. “We are taking this appeal to all of the districts and all of the churches of the Conference so that everyone has the opportunity to help us assure our camping program continues,” said Barnes, who also noted that in addition to the approximately 3,600 campers who are served each summer, the camp serves as the gathering point for nearly 7,000 additional guests throughout the year. Warren W. Willis Camp is a popular retreat destination for churches, schools, colleges, scouting programs and other types of groups, who will all benefit from the enhancement project that is underway.
The campaign has been enhanced through a matching gift program established through a partnership of Trish and Dan Bell of First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables with the Conference Board of Trustees. Under this program, every campaign gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $1 million. “That is a wonderful opportunity for our donors, and a most gracious offer from the Bell’s and our Trustees,” said Barnes.
Barnes noted the Conference Camps and Retreats Board has agreed to tithe 10 per cent of every new gift to the campaign to an endowed camping scholarship fund to ensure that the camping program is available to every Florida United Methodist, regardless of ability to pay. “Moving forward, 90 cents of every dollar raised will be allocated to the Barnett Lodge renovation and 10 cents will be allocated to endowed scholarships,” he said.
“We have been most gratified by the response from families of campers and other camping enthusiasts who have made donations to the campaign,” said Barnes. He encouraged those interested in supporting the campaign to visit: www.fumf.org/together to make an online pledge or donation. Pledge cards are also available by contacting The Florida United Methodist Foundation toll free at (866)-363-9673.
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Editor's Note: Carol and Barney Barnett are members of First UMC Lakeland. Barney is the grandson of the Rev. Dr. Ira Barnett, for whom the lodge is named. Dr. Barnett was instrumental in building the camp back in the 1940s. He was the top official of the Florida Conference. Our bishop was located in Atlanta at the time. Dr. Barnett found the site, raised the funds and hired Warren W. Willis to be the first director. Eileen Willis Wills (wife of Bishop Dick Wills) and Diane Stahl are daughters of Evelyn and Warren W. Willis, as is Dr. Waite Willis, who also attended and participated in the ceremony. Mrs. Willis is in her 90s, and she was not able to attend.
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Lance Bass on NSYNC, space training and married life
Heard on Olympic & Bundy - Lance Bass wanted go to school for space engineering and become an astronaut before he rose to fame as a pop star.
A quick Google search will show you that the former member of NSYNC has done many, many things beyond music -- including acting, TV hosting, cooking, documentaries and more.
In fact, Lance moved to Russia in 2002 after NSYNC disbanded and went through several months of rigorous training to win a seat on a Russian Soyuz space capsule. He was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program.
Funding ultimately fell through and he didn't get to go to the International Space Station, but his dreams of traveling to space remain.
Lance joined me on Olympic & Bundy to chat about marriage, his pop star days, and of course, space travel!
Our conversation also covered topics such as:
-How he and his husband Michael Turchin met, the marriage proposal(s) and married life in general.
-Having their wedding televised on E!
-Leaving high school to join NSYNC and recording in Germany.
-Touring and being on the road.
-The NSYNC songs he'd be fine to never hear again.
-His move to Russia and the intense astronaut training he underwent.
-Russia's anti-LGBT culture and hiding his sexual orientation during training.
-His mother's touching letter that she wrote to her church about him coming out of the closet.
-Starting a family of his own.
Click here to listen to the full conversation with Lance Bass.
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Ervin scores 27, Elon defeats UNC Wilmington 80-63
AP Jan 11, 2020 at 7:12p ET
ELON, N.C. (AP) — Zac Ervin scored a season-high 27 points, draining seven 3-pointers, and Elon ran away from UNC Wilmington 80-63 on Saturday.
Hunter McIntosh added 15 points with seven rebounds and four assists for Elon (5-13, 1-4 Colonial Athletic Conference), which ended its six-game losing streak. Marcus Sheffield II added 11 points and Hunter Woods pulled down 13 rebounds, 10 off the defensive glass, to go with eight points.
Mike Okauru had 15 points and six rebounds for the Seahawks (5-14, 0-6), who have now lost 11 games in a row. Jaylen Sims added 12 points.
UNCW went on a 7-0 run late in the first half to lead 33-27 and held on for a five-point halftime lead. Elon opened the second half on an 11-5 surge and took a 44-43 lead on a Woods 3-pointer and never looked back.
The Seahawks shot 18% after halftime (5-for-28).
Elon matches up against Drexel on the road on Thursday. UNC Wilmington plays Hofstra at home on Thursday.
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Football news - Lucas Moura returns for Spurs, but Poch rules out Vincent Janssen role
23/01/2019 at 14:14Updated 23/01/2019 at 14:51
Tottenham Hotspur finally had some good news on the injury front on the eve of their League Cup semi-final second leg at Chelsea with Lucas Moura, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama all returning to training after injuries.
It is a timely boost for manager Mauricio Pochettino who has lost his three main goalscorers - Harry Kane and Dele Alli to injury and South Korean Son Heung-min to the Asian Cup - as the season reaches a critical stage.
Leading scorer Kane's penalty gave Tottenham a 1-0 victory over Chelsea in the first leg but he suffered an ankle injury a few days later against Manchester United in the Premier League and is likely to be out until March.
Alli injured his hamstring in the 2-1 league win at Fulham and is also out until March. Kane, Alli and Son have scored 27 of Tottenham's 48 Premier League goals this season.
The return of Brazilian forward Moura from a knee injury will at least give Pochettino some attacking options at Stamford Bridge.
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"Sissoko and Lucas are back in contention for tomorrow and Wanyama hopefully back for the weekend," Pochettino told a news conference on Wednesday.
Spanish striker Fernando Llorente, who scored an own goal at Fulham, is likely to get another chance at Chelsea, but Dutch forward Vincent Janssen remains out of the picture.
"18 months ago we tried to find a different place for him because it didn't work," Pochettino said. "Sometimes it happens. The relationship between the player and club doesn't work.
"Our relationship is very good. It's not personal, it's professional."
Despite still fighting on four fronts and suffering a succession of injury blows, Pochettino sounded pessimistic about the chances of strengthening his squad before the January transfer window closes.
"It's so clear. I am so open to looking to improve," the Argentine, who is seeking a first trophy as Spurs manager, said.
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"I was open in the summer and I am open now, but the reality is the difficulty in bringing in someone who can help or improve us. We'll see what happens." (Reporting by Martyn Herman Editing by Christian Radnedge)
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→→Behavioral Ecology→Staff→Julia Cissewski→CV
1991 - 1994 University of Leipzig
Romance and English studies, Economics, Russian
Certificate "Akademisch geprüfter Fachübersetzer für Wirtschaftsrussisch"
1995 - 1996 Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Linguistics, Economics, Medicine
Diploma in Romance and English studies and Economics
Certificate "Akademisch geprüfter Fachübersetzer für medizinisches Englisch"
2015 - present Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Department administrator and assistant to Prof. Richard McElreath (director)
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Department administrator and assistant to Prof. Bernard Comrie (director)
Language course "Medical Spanish"
Proseminar "Selected questions in hispanic linguistics"
Lecture "Introduction to linguistics"
Animal cognition and social behaviour, language evolution.
Juli-August 2004 Tanjung Puting National Park (Kalimantan Tengah Province, Indonesia)
Professional memberships and related activities
Gesellschaft für Primatologie
International Society for Gesture Studies
Primate Society of Great Britain
Orang-Utans in Not e.V. (president)
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation – Germany e.V.
Cissewski, Julia: What's the point? Pointing from a comparative perspective. Talk presented at the Anlang meeting, Leipzig, January 28, 2003.
Cissewski, Julia and Biruté M. Galdikas: Gestural communication in wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) of Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia – an ongoing study. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig, March 31 - April 3, 2004.
Herrmann, Esther, Brian Hare, Julia Cissewski and Michael Tomasello: The origin of human temperament: Differences in the response to novelty among great apes and human children. Poster presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2-4, 2009.
Herrmann, Esther, Brian Hare, Julia Cissewski and Michael Tomasello (2011): A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. Developmental Science 14(6), 1393–1405, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01082.x
Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: How great apes can do without language. Poster presented at the Fourteenth Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP), Leipzig, February 11 - 13, 2015.
Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: The role of 'natural meaning' in great ape communication. Poster presented at the Spring Meetingof the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB), Roehampton, London, April 9 - 10, 2015.
Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: Population-specific semantic shifts: A case of social learning in wild chimpanzee populations? Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior (ASAB), London, December 3 - 4, 2015.
Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch (2016): Communication without language: How great apes may cover crucial advantages of language without creating a system of symbolic communication. Gesture 15(2), 224-249, DOI: 10.1075/gest.15.2.04cis
Cissewski, Julia (2017): 3 1/2 Fragen an ... Die Zeit, CHANCEN Brief, 7 September 2017. PDF
Cissewski, Julia, Lydia Luncz and Christophe Boesch: Ground-nest building in wild chimpanzees in Taї National Park: non-social behavior and group-specific gesture. Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB), London, November 28 - 29, 2017.
Cissewski, Julia (2017): Die Orang-Utans retten – und uns selbst. fairquer. Sächsische entwicklungspolitische Zeitschrift (39), 29 - 30.
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People from Norfolk to join protests over UK visit of Donald Trump
Dan Grimmer
dan.grimmer@archant.co.uk
@dangrimmer24
PUBLISHED: 07:07 13 July 2018 | UPDATED: 08:18 13 July 2018
US President Donald Trump. Pic: Stefan Rousseau/PA Images.
Protesters from Norfolk are ready to travel to London to protest against the visit of United States president Donald Trump, while a demonstration will also be staged on the steps of Norwich City Hall.
Norfolk members of Together Against Trump are joining protests in London and have organised a coach to get people to the capital.
National newspapers have reported that as many as 10,000 police officers will be part of plans - named Operation Manifold - to protect the president and deal with predicted protests.
President Trump flew into the UK yesterday for a three day visit. Today, he is due to hold talks with prime minister Theresa May at Chequers, before meeting the Queen at Windsor Castle.
On the final day of his visit, he is likely to head for the golf course - Turnberry - which he owns in Scotland, before he jets back to the United States.
As well as protests in London, a rally will be held on the steps of City Hall today. Speakers at the rally include Norwich South Labour MP Clive Lewis, former Norwich North MP Dr Ian Gibson, Green party member Adrian Holmes, activist Katy Jon Went.
Julie Bremner, from Norwich Stand Up To Racism, who is another of the speakers, said: “We are expecting big demonstrations across the UK as people unite against Trump’s politics of racism, homophobia, sexism and hate.
“It is very worrying that we see far right extremists in the UK gain confidence from his visit. This demonstration isn’t just about Trump. The treatment of the Windrush generation has highlighted the British elite’s disgraceful record of racism and bigotry. This is a fight against our own “hostile environment” as well as the American government.”
• The Norwich rally will be held on City Hall’s steps at 5.30pm.
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Rock Climbing trips – Shenandoah National Park
Discover the incredible natural beauty of Shenandoah National Park from on top of one of its rugged peaks!
Situated in western Virginia, Shenandoah National Park is full of incredible views and excellent rock climbing opportunities. Rock climbers of every skill level will surely find something to enjoy here.
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While there are numerous rock climbing locales across the U.S., few match the natural splendor of Shenandoah National Park. Climbing with the backdrop of rolling mountains and thick green forests as far as the eye can see is incredible. Once you reach the top of a rugged peak, enjoy these splendid views. The approaches aren’t too shabby either, with various waterfalls scattered throughout the park.
Skyline Drive
When you are not out on the rocks take the time to make the iconic 170 kilometer trip down Skyline Drive. Running through the heart of the park, along the ridge of the mountains, the road boasts some of the best views in the park and is a great way to see this stunningly scenic part of the country. The road also serves as a good starting point for hikes and rock climbing adventures. Meander your way down slowly or do the whole thing in less than a day.
Among the best times of year to head to Shenandoah National Park for a rock climbing adventure is in the autumn. Come October the leaves on the trees begin to change and create a sea of crimson, burnt orange and yellow-green. Climbing up above the treeline is the best way to see this incredible natural phenomena and take in some of the best fall foliage outside of New England. Don’t forget to pack your camera, and some extra batteries too!
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Encompassing the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia, Shenandoah National Park offers some of the best rock climbing available in the region.
Starting from the Shenandoah Valley floor, Stony Man (1,223 meters) and Old Rag (1,000 meters) are two excellent rock climbing destinations. Both are great climbing options for intermediate level rock climbers and provide incredible views from their summits.
Stony Man offers some great trad climbing options up to its superb summit. Meanwhile, Old Rag also boats the Crackin route, which is another, more challenging way to climb the peak and is best suited for those comfortable on 5.11d rated routes.
Away from mountain peaks, there are also plenty of boulders, glacial erratics to be specific, that litter the floor of the national park. For those looking for some fun and challenging problems to solve, Shenandoah is the place to be.
What’s the weather like?
During the summer, the average daily temperatures range from 17 ºC to 20 ºC. Summer is also the wettest time of year, with an average of 100 to 150 millimeters of rain falling in the park each month.
Most trips to Shenandoah National Park will begin with a flight into Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD). From here, the national park is a bit over an hour away by car.
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Erre Inox Srl, the Italian subsidiary of the Group Raajratna Metal Industries LTD, is responsible for distribution throughout the European territory of the file drawn stainless steel that is produced by Raajaratna Metal Industries in a raw state / annealed and in diameters from 0.10 mm to 26.00 mm, is used for multiple applications.
We are producers of carbon steel wire according to UNI-DIN-AFNOR-ASTMBSS-GHOST ect. standards with the following finish: phosphated, bright or zinc-plated for the production of all kind of spring parts, wire ropes, zigzag nets, rolling bearings, lock washers, tube and cable armors, articles for interior decoration. Moreover, we produce the following steel wire: drawn and anneaied, rendrawn with one draft from...
Olginate (Lecco)
The products of Minonzio S.r.l. have applications in various industrial and commercial sectors, such as automotive, transport, furnishings, clothing, etc. and are addressed to a very diversified clientele both in relation to the type of product as well as their specific needs.
Pașcani (Pașcani)
Proinvest Group is a multiproduct company with multiple manufacturing facilities specialized in steel processing, from simple components for construction up to tooling and precision mechanical components.
Ville D'Anaunia, fraz. Tuenno (Trento)
Since 1963 Trafileria Punteria Ghezzi offers its customers the best available fastening systems. The company has achieved, over the years, the leadership in the Italian market for nails, staples and solutions for the wood packaging industry.
DRAWN AND ROLLED PRODUCTS Bright round drawn wire – Cold rolled strip – Regular and irregular cold rolled half-rounded wire – Oval wire – Square wire – Sections and shaped details (with drawing). OTHER PROCESSES Shearing and flanging of iron straps and strips – cold rolling and annealing on behalf of third parties. MATERIAL Iron S235JR and Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminium,...
Suello (Provincia di Lecco)
For over 50 years Isella has been dealing with the production of cold rolled flat wire and wire drawn products.
Hagen (Arnsberg)
The company has been founded in 1910 in Germany by Friedrich Gustav Theis, and is now a big international group with units in Germany, China, Italy, India and France. Much has been done at Theis to ensure that our steel is available to you faster than usual. Through consistent development and a customer oriented way of thinking, significant improvement of the processing times have been achieved. Customers’...
Ballabio (Provincia di Lecco)
Bright drawn wire - Soap lubricated wire - Semi bright drawn wire Diameter: from 1.80 to 8.00 mm. Packaged in coils (200-1000 kg). Packaged on reels (500-1200 kg). On request: wrapped up with extensible protection film.
Heshan (Guangdong )
Heshan Hang Kei Steel Wire Manufacturing Co. Ltd, owned by Hong Kong Golik Holding Limited, is based in Guang Dong Province Pearl River Delta Reign.
GARLATE (Lecco)
The firm is structured with a rolling and a drawing department, that have a productive capacity within a range from 2 mm. to 38 mm. The strong points are: wide range of production capacities, high-quality standards, care and attention in the service offered to customers. All materials are checked and selected to ensure maximum reliability in processing. The productions have a wide range of applications:...
Morimondo - fraz. Caselle (Milan)
Established in 1968, the company is currently active on local and foreign markets with a complete range of longitudinally stainless steel welded tube.In full compliance with main European standards the products are suited for the food, chemical and petrochemical industry, for the pharmaceutical sector and paper industry, forhigh-technology plants and in the field of architecture and building decoration.
Grant Road, Mumbai ()
Bhansali specializes in Stainless Steel Bright Bars, Hexagons and Squares. Besides, Bhansali has a strong foothold in Stainless Steel Wires, Wire Rods, Threaded Rods and Flanges business. These products are manufactured at our state-of-the-art modern plant in Navi Mumbai, India. Bhansali is enjoying "preferred supplier" status from buyers all around the globe for these products.
Osoppo (Udine)
Pittini Group, headquartered in Osoppo (Italy) is a leading manufacturer of long steel products for the building and mechanical engineering industry. Pittini Group is a solid industrial brand oriented towards constant growth, driven by high-tech investments, product innovation, and careful environmental sustainability policy.
Pittini Group
The company specializes in drawing galvanized steel wire, phosphated steel wire with low, medium, high carbon content and galvanized iron wire covering the whole range of diameters from Ø0,14mm to Ø1,20mm.
Metallurgica Locatelli operates in the sector of the drawing of low carbon steel wires. Founded in 1920 by Fortunato Locatelli, the small craft business of Lecco has been transformed into a public limited company with a staff of about 40 people and covers an area of 20,000 square meters. Today the Metallurgica Locatelli, which is based in Calolziocorte (LC), is run by the grandson's founder.
Beverate di Brivio (Lecco)
The company produces drawn wire, galvanised wire, black and white annealed wire, bright drawn wire in packages of 5 kg up to skeins of 1000 kg, bright, electrolytically and hot galvanized nails in any size, plastified wire in different packages from 10 meters for the bricolage to skeins of 500 kg for industrial use, and galvanised or plastified wide-mesh. All the products are realised by using state-of-the-art...
Cusago (Città Metropolitana di Milano)
SAPA ACCIAI Srl has been on the wire market since 1984. The company specializes in the commercialization and distribution of extruded stainless steel wires, carbon, galvanized, pre-tempered wires and zinc-aluminum wires for the production of springs.
Valmadrera (Lecco)
The structural quality of TIS tubes is further improved by satin finishing and prestigious polishing, to different degrees of roughness. Advanced roughness control systems make it possible to obtain homogeneous and constant finishes. First-rate exterior finish is what makes a TIS tube unique and indispensable in all fields requiring a flawless appearance.All polished and mirror polished tubes are packaged in...
When the company “ LAMINATOIO DI MALAVEDO” (“ROLLING MILL OF MALAVEDO”) moved its plants and attached wire-drawing factory, to Sesto San Giovanni an employee, Mr Gianola Alberto, with his son Daniele, took over the ownership.In 1930 the TRAFILERIE DI MALAVEDO was founded.
The O.R.I company (Officine Riunite Italiane) began its activity in the mechanical field in 1902. In 1933 the Martin company began its activity in the steel and iron industry. After the 2nd World War (1940 -1945) in 1946, the two companies merged to become O.R.I MARTIN Acciaieria e Ferriera di Brescia (Steel and Iron Works of Brescia) operating exclusively in the steel-making sector producing concrete reinforcing...
Sacca (Colorno)
Effegidi S.P.A. (in 2002 it became EFFEGIDI International Spa due to industrial strategies) was born, over 30 years ago, from the experience of operators and technicians devoted to this field. Noticing the lack of a flexible and dynamic structure on the market of converters, they established this new company oriented to slit, lamination and coating of plastic films (such as Polyester, Polypropylene etc.) and non...
T.M.I. is an Italian company specialized in dry and wet drawing of metallic wire. High carbon steel wire and low carbon steel wire for ropes, springs, casing wire, industrial brushes, staples, packages, steel fibres and for general purposes. High carbon steel wire and low carbon steel wire can be supplied phosphated, hot dip galvanised, electro-galvanised, brass coated. Located in Lecco, historical and...
Civate (Lecco)
"Eredi Mario e Antonio Airoldi s.a.s" is a company specialized in cold rolling of metal wire.Starting from drawn wire and wire rod, by plastic deformation, we can get different section profiles (flat, half-round, oval, triangular, etc...).We work several kinds of steel, with low and high carbon ratio.Our products are used mainly to produce springs, nets, hooks, automotive articles, home appliances, leather and...
Cerro Maggiore (Città Metropolitana di Milano)
Piattine e Profili Inox Srl was founded in 1979, in a small town near Milano called Bollate, and began by producing round edged, stainless strips and profiles, primarily supplied to the domestic appliance industry. The particular precision and reliability demonstrated in the company production processes, lead to a growing demand in this highly technical and sensitive market.
Pian Camuno (Brescia)
Shaped wire (Z) for loked ropes; wire rod patented phosphated; wire rod patented galvanized; wire rod patented Zn/Al coating; semifinished steel wire patented phosphated; semifinished steel wire patented galvanized; semifinished steel wire patented Zn/Al coating; finished steel wire patented phosphated; finished steel wire patented galvanized; finished steel wire patented Zn/Al coating; final galvanized steel wire;...
Hilden (Düsseldorf)
Böllinghaus Steel GmbH produces and sells hot rolled and cold drawn stainless steel, titanium and nickel alloys profiles...
Erba (Como)
Trafilerie San Paolo produces rolled, drawn and peeled products in coils, rolls and bars, in raw or annealed material, with or without phosphating, in diameters from 2.00 to 40.00 mm of steels which are mainly intended for production of cold deformed parts. Our clients are cold stamping workshops of bolts and special parts, which with our steels make low-strength, self-tying, bolts and nuts fasteners or low, medium...
Pascarola (Città Metropolitana di Napoli)
WBO Italcables is a cooperative company formed in April 2015 by 51 former employees of Italcables S.p.a. thanks to a Workers Buyout project. The company is a leader in the production of wires, braids and strands for pre-pressed reinforced concrete.
Cinisello Balsamo (Milano)
Since 1960 MA.DE.RA. has been dealing with wholesale trade of steel wire and strips. Specifically carbon steel, stainless steel, alloys, iron and all the materials mainly used for springs, trinkets and springy components. Our company in 1998 gained the acknowledgment according to UNI EN 9001:2000. The continuous monitoring process of activities and services are always an incentive for our improvement in compliance...
Conegliano (Provincia di Treviso)
Pasquali Trading is from 1992 reference point in Italy and in Europa in selling and after- sale service of machines for wire processing.
Milano (Città Metropolitana di Milano)
Bekaert is a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. To be the preferred supplier of steel wire products and solutions, they consistently deliver superior value to our customers worldwide. Bekaert (Euronext Brussels: BEKB) was established in 1880 and is a global company with approximately 30 000 employees worldwide.
Gottolengo (Province of Brescia)
Since 1994 Tecnofil has been dealing in the production of low-medium carbon content wire. The product range includes: galvanized wire, bright wire, annealed wire, skin-passed wire and wire bands; each product can be customized to better suit the customer’s requirements.
Bareggio (Città Metropolitana di Milano)
Trafilerie Assi S.p.A. is a family run company and since 1973 has been constantly present in the field of cold drawing of steels for high speed machining.
Casier (Treviso)
The success of Sika products comes from a policy of constant technical improvements dictating quality care to the whole production process: starting from the designing which is developed in close cooperation with the Customer up to the production, package and stock. We focus on developing long term relationships with our customers. As a matter of fact, since manufacturing special profiles for the first time in the...
Valgreghentino (Lecco)
The company produces steel wires for industrial use by using the latest technologies in both dry or wet drawing and in thermal and surface treatments: lead patenting, hot-dip galvanization or semi-finished products phosphatation.
Specialized in the wiredrawing of redrawn galvanized wire in a diameter range from 1,80 to 8,0 mm, we have been present on the market for more than 20 years. Our products are still manufactured in an handmade way allowing us to obtain a specially bright and constant wire that satisfy fully the needs of clients. Doubtless it’s of big relevance the care that we give to the selection of the materials and to the...
Torre De' Picenardi (Cremona)
Trafilerie Galli has been working in the wire drawing field of low and medium carbon steel since 1969. Through its constant investment in production systems and in processing techniques, Trafilerie Galli is always in a position to meet its customer’s requirements as demanded, providing a high quality standard at the most competitive price.
Vicenza (Province of Vicenza)
The Beltrame Group has been active in the steel industry since 1896 and is European leader in the production of merchant bars. It has approximately 2,6000 employees, four steelworks and thirteen rolling mills distributed across nine production sites in Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Romania. The Group is commercially present in all world markets.
Annone Brianza (Lecco)
Founded in Annone di Brianza in 1974, it is currently able to meet a demand equal to 30,000 tons per year.The TRAFILERIA SCERELLI is equipped with its own laboratory thanks to which it is able to supply to each order a chemical and mechanical test certificate to guarantee the product sold.The delivery of goods takes place in the utmost punctuality in any Italian or European region.Our systems are all of recent...
Moglia (Mantova)
ATM s.r.l. is a wire-drawing factory founded in 1987. It has a production area of 3,000 square meters and an annual production of 10,000 tons of drawn steel, with medium and low carbon content.
Lecco (Provincia di Lecco)
BRIO is a young company with more than 20-years of experience in the field of steel and alloys, and their derivatives.In detail the company deals with cold heading wire, low, medium and high carbon steel wire, stainless steel wire, PVC and polymer coated wire, bookbinding wire, aluminium wire, steel strips, special profiles and steel wire strands.
Pozzuolo del Friuli (Provincia di Udine)
The tradition of innovation since 1813. ABS was founded in 1988 by the merger of two steel mills, "the Officine Bertoli" founded in 1813 and "Safau", whose origins date back to 1934.
Monsampolo del Tronto (Provincia di Ascoli Piceno)
Trafilcentro srl is a synthesis of the commitment, passion for work and entrepreneurial skills of the Liberati family which began its first industrial activity in the early post-war years in the wooden packaging sector, before moving on to the production of steel wires, more in demand in a lively market at the height of the economic boom.
We produce a wide range of high quality nails and points for every use. The best equipment on the market allows us to use material from 0.7 to 5 mm in diameter, and to produce points and other details with a design ranging from 5 to 170 mm. We are able to supply nails in iron, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass and copper.
Annecy ()
SADEV Group is a reliable one-stop shop for sourcing, manufacturing and logistics. As such we can work with customers on three levels as either:Custom products: custom sized stainless steel wires and sheets, precision turned parts, sub-assemblies
Wilson Road, Ballard Estate, Mumbai (400038)
Viraj is a global player in the stainless steel industry. High quality stainless steel products, timely delivery and a broad customer base with exports to around 80 countries across the world, has gained Viraj a wide acclaim. Today, Viraj is the one of the largest producer of stainless steel long products in the world.
SIRONE (Lecco)
E. PONZIANI S.P.A. High, medium and low carbon steel wire. Our product is used for the following application: static and dynamic mechanical springs; mattresses and bed springs; springs for agricultural machinery, wire ropes, clamps, tubes, remote controls, screens and metal nettings.
Altena (Arnsberg)
Drahtwerk Wagener is a leading drawn steel wire manufacturer based in Germany. The firm produces patented and unalloyed round, square, and flat steel wire for screens, ropes, technical springs, and upholstery.
Lurate Caccivio (Como)
The production range, that initially regarded mainly the welded redrawn tubes, has extended also to seamless redrawn tubes and the process of annealing on behalf of third parties.
Giuseppe & F.lli Bonaiti currently has about one hundred employees and operates at two production plants in Calolziocorte (Lc) and Palazzago (Bg), offering a wide range of rolled steel and drawn wire products.
Meda (Provincia di Monza e della Brianza)
Frigerio & Duroni is a company that has been manufacturing low and medium carbon steel fine wires since 1950.
Terno d'Isola (Bergamo)
Acciaitubi SpA production is based on two rolling lines. Raw material (coils made of carbon steel) is worked over the Slittering machine, feeding the two welding lines. After production tubes can be hot-dipped galvanised at 450°C, screwed if required or cut in fix lengths with restricted tolerances. Acciaitubi SpA is also specialized in Sendzimir tubes, from pre-galvanised strip, for which we are able to restore...
Esine (Provincia di Brescia)
Since 1973, Lucefin Group has been global player in the production and distribution of cold-finished steel bars. With an annual turnover of over 200 million euros and a production of 200,000 tons / year, Lucefin Group exports its products all over the world.
The TRAFILERIA LECCHESE srl with many years of experience in the steel wire industry has reached a level of quality of the product and of the service to be qualified as a preferred supplier by many users.
“Steelgroup represents the union of four Italian companies MAB – CB – FAR - ITA, specialized in the production of WIRES - STRANDS - STEEL BARS and its derivatives, companies that share a common vision of quality for the best customer satisfaction.”
Mamer ()
CERATIZIT - pioneer in the hard metal industryFor over 90 years, CERATIZIT has been a forerunner developing exceptional hard material products for cutting tools and wear protection. Headquartered in Mamer, Luxembourg, the company develops and manufactures highly specialized tungsten carbide cutting tools, inserts and rods.
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The Motley Fool Canada » Investing » How Risky Is an Investment in This Junior Gold Miner?
How Risky Is an Investment in This Junior Gold Miner?
Matt Smith | January 30, 2019 | More on: CNL
Junior gold miner Continental Gold Inc. (TSX:CNL) continues languish after its stock collapsed in late September 2018 after an attack by FARC dissidents on its employee compound in Northwestern Colombia left three geologists dead. The miner has lost 40% over the last year compared to gold only falling by just over 2%. This has sparked considerable speculation that the miner is facing significant headwinds, which could derail its flagship Buritica project located northwest of Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. While several issues have emerged, Continental Gold’s outlook is not as poor as some pundits believe.
What triggered the price collapse?
The September 2018 attack on Continental Gold’s employees in the Colombian municipality of Yaramul triggered the concerted sell-off, and the stock has yet to recover despite gold firming in recent weeks. Much of this is related to overbaked fears that the degree of security risk associated with Continental Gold’s operations has ratcheted up to a dangerous level. While the volume of dissidents after the historic FARC peace deal was implemented and the leftist guerilla group’s demobilization completed has surprised government officials and observers, there hasn’t been a widespread breakdown in security. The attack upon the compound, which was within the boundary of Continental Gold’s Berlin property, was an unforeseeable and opportunistic event.
Many armed groups in rural parts of Colombia fund their activities through a mixture of taxing cocaine trafficking, extortion and illegal artisanal gold mining. The overall degree of security risk within Colombia is at around its lowest level in decades despite the ELN, which is the last remaining leftist guerilla group, ramping up attacks on energy infrastructure and the security forces.
It is important to note that through a series of tax and regulatory reforms as well as security guarantees, the Colombian government is seeking to reinvigorate Colombia’s nascent precious metals mining industry, as the prolonged oil slump has wreaked havoc Colombia’s oil dependent economy and Bogota is desperately seeking other sources of fiscal revenue and economic growth drivers.
While the attack forced Continental Gold to suspend operations at Berlin indefinitely, it didn’t impact its flagship Buritica project, which has been identified as containing one of the largest high-quality ore bodies underdevelopment globally.
According to the latest announcement from Continental, 55% of underground development at Buritica is complete, while 94% of surface engineering and procurement is finished. This sees overall project development having reached 47%, placing it ahead of schedule. That means the first gold pour at Buritica could occur ahead of schedule.
The attractiveness of Continental Gold’s Buritica project is very clear. It has mineable proven and probable reserves of 3.9 million gold equivalent ounces with an average grade of 8.75 grams of precious metal per ton of ore (g/t). Those exceptional ore grades mean that Buritica will have industry leading all-in sustaining costs (AISCs) of an impressively low US$492 per gold equivalent ounce produced. This emphasizes the mine’s considerable profitability in an operating environment where gold is trading at over US$1,300 per ounce.
Buritica’s considerable appeal was illustrated by senior gold miner Newmont Mining Corp. in May 2017 buying an almost 20% interest in Continental Gold for US$109 million at a premium, one of the highest paid in recent years. The involvement of Newmont forms an important backstop for Continental Gold.
Aside from security issues, another concern weighing heavily on Continental Gold is that in August 2018 it increased the pre-production capital costs for Buritica by up to US$126 million when compared to the February 2016 feasibility study. There are fears that Continental Gold won’t be able to fund the shortfall because of growing security concerns, making Colombia an unattractive location for foreign investors.
Cost blowouts and scope changes, while usually inevitable for such projects, particularly in emerging market jurisdictions because of their fluid regulatory environments, are also a red flag for investors. The trepidation that these events have sparked is magnified by Newmont’s merger with Goldcorp, which some pundits believe will reduce its interest in backstopping Continental Gold. While that’s indeed a risk, it is highly unlikely given the attractiveness of the Buritica project.
Even if Newmont didn’t provide the required capital, there are other options available to Continental Gold. These include selling or commencing a joint venture at one of its non-core properties, obtaining further debt funding or entering into a streaming agreement. The quality of the Buritica project means that financing will be available in one form or another.
Is it time to buy Continental Gold?
There is no doubt that Continental Gold is a risky investment. Mine development is a lengthy, costly and hazardous process riddled with uncertainties.
Nonetheless, the rewards associated with the Buritica development far outweigh the risks. This in conjunction with Continental Gold trading at a deep discount compared to its peers, along with the construction progress made to date makes Continental Gold an extremely attractive investment for risk-tolerant investors.
Trudeau Investing $230m in Canada’s "Top Priority"
Justin Trudeau just shocked Canadian investors to the core by revealing one of the government’s most exciting new investments.
This brand-new supercluster initiative is the first of 5 massive tech collaborations expected to bring up to $50 BILLION to Canada’s economy over the next 10 years.
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How Investing In Regenerative Agriculture Can Help Stem Climate Change Profitably
Devin Thorpe Contributor
Champion of Social Good | Bestselling Author | Educator | Speaker
This impact investing strategy could be the biggest lever for creating positive change available to investors today.
Our survival depends on the survival of the smallest organisms on the planet.
You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play.
Investing in regenerative agriculture has the potential to address not only the food supply but also climate change, peace and conflict resolution and the water supply to boot. This impact investing strategy could be the biggest lever for creating positive change available to investors today. It also appears to generate healthy financial returns.
Craig Wichner, 49, founder and managing partner for Farmland LP, a fund manager that invests in converting conventional farmland to regenerative, organic farming. “It has so many benefits to the environment, to human society,” he says. “But we're also demonstrating that you can grow a great, healthy, wonderful food and be more profitable than conventional agriculture systems.”
Farmland LP acquires traditionally managed farmland, typically used to produce commodity crops and converts it to organic using regenerative practices. Wichner reports generating gross margins of 40 to 50% on wine grapes. Margins hover around single digits for conventionally-grown commodity crops, which is why the firm works to convert its farms to other crops. He notes that returns during the three-year organic conversion period are lower.
Craig Wichner
Credit: Farmland LP
David LeZaks, 37, leads regenerative food systems projects for Delta Institute, a nonprofit that has worked to identify market-based solutions to environmental, social and economic problems for the past 20 years.
Watch the full interview with Wichner and LeZaks in the video player at the top of the article.
LeZaks, who holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Resources and collaborates with Farmland LP, describes his work this way: “I design disruptive infrastructure that positions us to unlock substantial capital flows into the regenerative agriculture sector.”
David LeZaks
Credit: Delta Institute
“With the current system that focuses on growing more cheap food, we face a dire situation that intensifies the degradation of critical farmland,” he says. “Recent evidence demonstrates that by re-orienting capital and the institutions and people that move capital, we can reverse farmland degradation and build regenerative food systems that undo much of the damage that has been done over the past century.”
Kari Cohen, projects branch chief for the Financial Assistance Programs Division at USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), notes that Delta Institute was awarded a Conservation Innovation Grant in 2017 to help drive market-based solutions in resource conservation.
“The Delta Institute project, a part of this conservation finance cohort, is developing a regenerative agriculture investment toolkit,” he says. “Regenerative agriculture is a farming system that goes beyond ‘sustainable’ and aims to improve natural resource conditions in conjunction with agricultural production.”
Carbon and Climate Change
Wichner explains how farming contributes to climate change. “The current agriculture system, the chemical-based agriculture system, is really geared around growing these commodity crops planting annual crops year after year after year that essentially degrades and burn down the carbon in the soil and the nutrients in the soil.”
In contrast, regenerative agriculture increases carbon sequestration in the soil. “When you switch to a slightly more complex form of agriculture you… actually find that you can increase the carbon in the soil, increase the overall health of the soil, increase its biological activity. It's not just dead soil anymore; it becomes nice and vital and you actually get increased crop production,” he explains.
While Farmland LP focuses on converting farms from commodity crops to higher value products, the principles of regenerative agriculture can be applied to commodity crops, too. LeZaks notes, "As an example, in a study published last year (attached) that looked at “conventional” compared to “regenerative” corn production, the farms in the study yielded less, but were more profitable."
Peace and Conflict Resolution
Scarce resources contribute to the risk of conflict. Traditional agricultural practices contribute to desertification, according to Johanna Walderdorff, vice president of Growth for Peace Organization. “The loss of habitable land will force people to relocate in search for more fruitful land. As they move towards vegetated areas, there are usually people who already own that particular land,” she says. The movement of people can lead to conflicts.
Regenerative agriculture helps to fight desertification and can help to keep people on their traditional land. “Working on the soil is the first step, and therefore the baseline for us to work with nature, anything else comes after. This is what regenerative agriculture does,” she adds.
Unhealthy soil requires more water to produce the same amount of food. Healthy soil, in contrast, resulting from regenerative agricultural practices holds more water and requires less be added.
Furthermore, all organic agriculture omits the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, eliminating any risk—however small—of excess fertilizers contaminating rivers or of pesticides or herbicides fouling drinking water.
As a side note, the report LeZaks cited above also showed that regenerative, insecticide-free farms that "proactively design pest-resilient food systems" have one-tenth the observed number of pests as the insecticide-treated crops on conventional farms.
Financial Returns
Ricardo J. Salvador, director and senior scientist, food & environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says he grew up using regenerative agricultural practices. It was the way his family in southern Mexico traditionally farmed. He didn’t learn another approach until he got to college at New Mexico State University in 1976.
He explains how Farmland LP generates financial returns from his perspective as a soil scientist.
Their business model is predicated on improving the value of the asset they manage for their investors. It was unique at the time they started to interpret this as improving the quality of soil (organic matter content, fertility, water holding capacity, biodiversity.) A recent study demonstrates that inside of a decade of taking over management of their properties all of these characteristics (and several others measuring total system productivity, resilience and profitability) improved markedly. From study of this report, observation of their evolving business, and direct conversations with their technical staff, it is clear to me that they are superb agronomic managers.
The USDA’s Cohen explains how LeZaks’ work at Delta Institute contributes to financial returns. “The Delta Institute’s project is designed to increase investment in regenerative agriculture. Regenerative agriculture systems have the potential to increase financial returns to landowners and investors through higher yields, more resilient operations, certification marketing, and the sale of ecosystem services credits such as carbon credits.”
Mark Gogolewski, the CEO of Realization Films, is an investor in Farmland LP, which has a total of $160 million under management, including 15,000 acres of farmland. He says, “They have significantly raised the value of all of the acquisitions.”
He notes, however, that he gets satisfaction from seeing the land converted to a regenerative approach. “Farmland has found a recipe for success that also delivers real good. How often do you get to say that?”
“I was looking at farmland because I believe in owning real assets. I had and have a strong belief that farming remains as one of the most important assets in our country and our world,” Gogolewski notes. “Plus, these assets can and should be managed far, far better for both optimizing economic activity, while being a strong steward to the long-term value of this key environmental asset.”
Growth for Peace Organization’s Walderdorff argues for changing our perspective. “We speak of trees because they are high, we talk about rising ocean levels because it’s visual, but desertification has been gradual, and the microorganisms are underneath the soil, and thus have been ignored. Our survival depends on the survival of the smallest organisms on the planet. ”
Devin Thorpe
Deeply optimistic, I’m an author, educator and speaker; I call myself a champion of social good. Through my work, I hope to help solve some of the world's biggest proble...
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Kids And Money Smarts? There's An App For That
Diana Hembree Contributor
I am a journalist covering consumer protection and fraud.
This is part two of a series on kids and money. You can read the first installment here.
Small boy doing dishes
Remember how your toddlers begged to push the vacuum, sweep, cook and even wash dishes for you? If you’re wishing your older kids were half as interested in chores, Gregg Murset may be your man.
A certified financial planner and consultant in Phoenix who has spent years hearing parents talk about how hard it is to get children to do chores or save money, Murset is the co-founder and CEO of BusyKid.com, an app that helps parents teach their kids the basics of earning, saving, investing and sharing.
“I have six kids myself ranging from 10 to 20 years old, so I’ve got the battle wounds,” Murset said with a laugh. “You might say I created this tool in self-defense.”
To Murset, using online technology to teach these skills was crucial: Recent studies show tweens spend a mind-boggling 6 hours a day on tablets, iPhones and other screens. “That’s the way kids are learning these days, so teaching them with coins and paper dollars just isn’t that smart anymore,” said Murset. “Why not use some of that screen time for good and for practicing the life skills they need to fly on their own?”
As it turns out, those life skills are sorely needed in modern America. According to research by George Washington University, only 25 percent of young Americans have even the most basic financial skills. In a recent study of 15-year-olds and financial literacy, one in six teens didn’t meet the baseline for financial literacy, such as understanding the figures on an invoice. Despite these worrisome figures, only about a third of U.S. high schools require a course in personal finance. “Frankly, kids don’t get taught how to make smart money decisions at school,” Murset has said. “It all falls on the parents; kids aren’t being taught anywhere else.”
Murset wants to help change that with an app that kids can use to track their chores and get experience in saving, investing, budgeting and donating to charity as well as spending. The father of six said parents can choose which chores to pay for, perhaps hashing things out in a family meeting. Significantly, he opposes giving an allowance to children “for doing nothing.”
“I think that’s sending the wrong message,” he said. “Think of this as your child’s first job. We’re saying, ‘Here are some chores, go do them, and make some money.’”
Parents can try out the tool, and — if it suits them — enroll in the platform for $12 a year. Instead of them pestering their child to do the chores, the app sends messages and texts confirming the completed tasks, along with their earnings, which are divided into accounts labeled “save, share, and spend.” Like Murset, financial expert Beth Kobliner, in her book How to Make Your Kid a Money Genius, suggests putting aside a set portion of earnings for savings and charity. Murset’s platform helps make that second nature.
With the tool, you select or create a list of chores and have your kids check them off online when they’re done. Each week you get a prompt from the site asking if you want to pay for the completed chores, and if so, the money is deposited into an online account for your kids. Voila – their first direct deposit paycheck!
Boy warming up for chores with a little air guitar
To create BusyKid, Murset drew on his experience as the inventor of My Job Chart -- the country’s first electronic chore and allowance platform, which grew to nearly 1 million members in four years. The difference in the two apps is that My Job Chart used a point system for chores that converted into dollars. “I really wanted to get the platform to where it wasn’t about points; it was real money,” Murset said.
One of the most intriguing parts of BusyKid is that kids can invest in the stock market in a hands-on way. Murset has partnered with the Palo-Alto-based company Stockpile to allow kids to use money in the “save” bucket to purchase whole or partial shares of stock from companies.
“In our program, kids can literally buy fractional shares of, say, Netflix or any other stock,” he said. “Now they’re suddenly interested in the company and its earnings because they have a piece of it, albeit a very small one. It’s a great real-world learning opportunity. If your kid gets discouraged because his stock takes a nose dive, that’s a perfect time to talk about the stock market and the meaning of ‘buy low, sell high.’”
A novel experiment
Murset’s work on behalf of kids’ financial literacy has attracted notice. He was named chair of the 2014 “Smart Money Week” for the state of Arizona, as well as the National Financial Educators Council Financial Education Instructor of the Year.
Helping kids develop a work ethic, responsibility and financial smarts continue to be Murset’s goals, and judging by his own children, BusyKid has a lot to offer. “My older kids have graduated from the platform, but they learned what they needed,” he said. “At age 18 my son left for college with $11,000 saved up, which is more than the average American has in savings. Then for a birthday present he wanted an IRA….I think I’ve created a nerd!”
As part of the research for this article, I decided to try out the mobile platform with our kids, pausing only to pass out at the suggested prices for chores ($1 for making your bed?!) Murset explained that these were average amounts Americans are paying kids for chores – although, he said, “some parents pay a bit more and some are cheapskates” (Ouch!) The tool lets you edit the chores and the compensation amounts, so (as the bonafide misers we are) my husband and I quickly lowered the suggested payments.
Small girl feeding chickens
Our children still at home were pleased at the idea of using an app instead of a chore chart. We left some daily tasks unpaid (setting and clearing the table, making beds, and so on), created a paid list and added other suggestions from the kids, such as taking care of the chickens and gathering eggs. They’re looking forward to “payday” (my kids are eager to decide which charity to donate to). My son also hopes to buy a fractional share of the animated film company Dreamworks with his savings.
It’s exactly this kind of real-life transaction that Murset says is needed in these times. “Kids are having too many virtual experiences these days; they’re using money to buy imaginary coins in video games,” he says. “Why not let a kid who’s 13 or 14 see what a rising or sinking stock looks like? Nothing takes the place of first-hand experience.”
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• The Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) of Libya is fighting the Libyan National Army (LNA) to regain control over the country’s export terminals, which LNA took over in September. The PFG, which is affiliated with the UN-backed Government of National Accord, had suspended shipments of crude from the ports for two years, using the facilities as a bargaining chip in its financial disputes with government agencies. The LNA, on the other hand, which reports to the rival government, the House of Representatives, handed control of the ports to the National Oil Corporation and exports were restarted.
The move is widely seen as a quest for power by the LNA’s leader, Khalifa Haftar. The latest from the Oil Crescent is that NOC had evacuated some personnel from the El Sider port because of the LNA-PFG clashes in the area. General Haftar is largely responsible for the relaunch of Libyan oil exports, while the PFG had been holding them hostage. Alliances here are tricky with respect to the PFG, which is largely militia for hire. While Haftar definitely had the upper hand in this equation, the PFG has managed to regroup to some extent—enough so to try to take on the LNA forces once again. We believe Haftar retains the upper hand, but nonetheless it’s getting bloody once again and Libyan oil revenues may suffer.
• Russia and Turkey are working on mending their relations after the freeze following the Turkish army’s downing of a Russian plane last year. Turkish PM Binali Yildirim this week visited Moscow to discuss bilateral relations, with special attention paid to gas pipelines and nuclear power. One pipeline project, Turkish Stream, has already been ratified by Turkey and is expected to soon get the green light from the Russian Duma, too. The warm-up between Russia and Turkey is a clear indication of both countries’ move away from Europe, which should reinforce the EU’s efforts to diversify its energy sources. But it’s more complicated that this, and the Russian-Turkey détente is fragile at best, not the least because Turkey is still meddling in Syria in a way that is at odds with Russia’s agenda here.
• The political situation in South Sudan continues to deteriorate, according to the latest from the UN Commission for Human Rights. The oil-rich country is the arena of a brutal fight between President Salva Kiir and his former first Vice President Riek Machar and there are external forces meddling here. Ethnic cleansing is being carried out, the UN Commission warned and as many as 3.6 million people are faced with serious food insecurity. South Sudan won its independence in 2011 and a civil war promptly ensued, largely for control over its oil reserves, which constitute 3/4 of the greater Sudan’s reserves. Plans were to resume production in July this year but given the continuing instability, this is unlikely to happen on any meaningful scale anytime soon.
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• Glencore has teamed up with Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund to buy a stake worth $11 billion in Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft. Glencore will contribute $324 million to the total value of the deal, which some see as its CEO Ivan Glasenberg’s return to what he does best: making potentially game-changing deals. The Swiss-based company is the world’s second-largest oil trader after Trafigura and the stake purchase will, for starters, give it access to 220,000 bpd of crude plus various other “strategic opportunities”.
• Chesapeake Energy has agreed to sell part of its land in the Haynesville shale for $540 million. The buyer is a private company. With the divestment, Chesapeake said it has accumulated a total $2 billion in proceeds from asset sales made in 2016. The asset sales are part of efforts to slim down a $9-billion debt load.
• Repsol has sold a 3% stake in an LNG project in Indonesia to BP for over $300 million. The acquisition will boost BP’s holding in the project, Tangguh, to over 40%. The UK company is operator of the project, which comprises two liquefaction trains with annual capacity of 3.8 million tons. Earlier this year, BP approved an investment of $8 billion to build a third train.
• Nigeria and Morocco have set up a joint venture for the construction of a gas pipeline to Europe. The pipeline will connect Nigeria to Morocco and several other African countries before reaching Europe. One of the purposes of the project is to develop the regional electricity market, making it more competitive.
• Greek Energean has been cleared by the Israeli Petroleum Council to acquire in full two offshore gas fields, Karish and Tanin, for a total consideration of $148 million. The sellers are Israeli Delek Drilling and Avner Oil, two units of Delek Group, which has been targeted by regulators for its close-to-monopolistic position on the Israeli energy market.
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• Shell has signed a preliminary, non-binding agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company for the development of three fields: South Azadegan and Yadavaran along the border with Iraq, as well as gas field Kish. This makes Shell the second Western energy company to enter Iran after the lifting of economic sanctions in January.
• Mexico has awarded development licenses for nine offshore blocks that together could add 900,000 bpd to its current 2-million-bpd production. This will make the country a bigger producer than Venezuela and Brazil, based on current production rates in the three countries. The blocks will be developed by Exxon, Chevron, BP, Statoil, CNOOC, Ophir Energy, Murphy Oil, Total, BHP Billiton, Petronas, and local Sierra. Former energy monopoly Pemex will partner with some of the winners.
• India plans to splash $100 billion on its natural gas industry, including the expansion of current gas supply infrastructure, to include 228 cities hitherto unconnected to the nationwide grid. The investments are planned for the period until 2022, making up the bulk of a $136-billion gas investment program that will run until 2025.
• PDVSA is seeking fuel imports as its refineries struggle with insufficient inputs. Company documents leaked to the media revealed that Venezuela’s largest refinery, Paraguana, which can process 955,000 bpd, was operating at less than 50% of capacity last week, and the 645,000-bpd Amuay refinery was working at around 50% of capacity. Over the last month, PDVSA has sought to buy about 3.3 million barrels of gasoline and diesel on the open market.
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• BP has started drilling in a new field in the North Sea, which could turn into a commercial-scale source of natural gas. The drilling operation should confirm or reject the economic viability of the field, which is part of a block that is already being developed by Perenco, the Ravenspurn field.
• Australian energy company Melbana, which exclusively focuses on Cuba, said that it is moving closer to beginning drilling around the island. At the moment, a Melbana team is discussing next steps with Cuban regulators and international oilfield service providers, as well as local contractors. Melbana is partnering with Cuba’s energy company CUPET, on an offshore block estimated to contain some 8.2 billion barrels in place.
• An oil sands development project in Utah has been suspended until its operator gets further financing from its parent company. US Oil Sands, the operator, said it had laid off its Canadian and U.S. workers as the start of operations at its PR Spring oil sands mine has been delayed until the company gets $7.5 million from its parent, ACMO.
• The Energy Ministers of the EU member-states agreed that every long-term contract that supplies natural gas enough to satisfy 40% or more of the needs of any single member needs to be reported to the relevant authorities in that member. The European Commission also has the right to request information about these contracts, except details about price. The EC can request additional information on gas supply contracts even if they don’t reach the 40% threshold.
• Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline, has taken matters to a federal court, after the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers refused to grant it a permit to construct the controversial section that should have passed through Standing Rock Sioux lands and the tribe’s main water reservoir. The Corp said it will carry out an environmental impact study and look into rerouting possibilities, although Energy Transfer Partners said earlier it was not going to reroute the pipeline.
• Lakes Oil, an Australian energy company, is suing the state of Victoria for a fracking ban that the local government approved recently. According to the company, which is demanding $2 billion in compensation, the ban had deprived it of utilizing its exploration licenses issued previously.
• Mozambique’s government has amended a contract for natural gas production and marketing with Anadarko and Eni to allow them to sell the government’s share of the gas the companies extract in the country’s Rovuma Basin.
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T-Shirt Tuesday: The Best Adventure Time Shirts
By K. Thor Jensen 07.10.2018 :: 9:00AM EST 07.10.2018
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Back in the days of geek prehistory, a T-shirt was a signal to the world around you that you cared about your nerdy pursuits enough to fly them like a flag. Companies like Graphitti Designs contracted with movie studios and comics publishers to create shirts with our favorite characters and sold them up on the walls of comic book stores and through mail-order.
The computer revolution has enabled the T-shirt world to become something totally new – affordable production and distribution means that shirts can be printed in small quantities and sold anywhere in the world. Starting with Threadless, dozens of companies popped up letting artists and designers show their stuff. It’s a better time than ever to be a geek fashionista, and if you’re looking to expand your wardrobe we’re going to help you out every week… on T-Shirt Tuesday.
This week: Venture into the Land of Ooo dressed to impress with these Adventure Time shirts.
Adventure Through Time And Face
One of the reasons Adventure Time has struck such a chord and become a template for similar shows in the last decade or so is its ability to balance the serious and the silly. Yes, Jake and Finn go on absurd journeys in a world full of candy people and ridiculous monsters, but there’s a dark and morbid undercurrent beneath it all that comes out when you least expect it. Artist Olechka nails that dichotomy beautifully with our leads riding Lady Rainicorn through a beautifully rendered human skull.
$20, buy it here.
BMO Pizza
The mysterious little non-binary robot BMO is one of Adventure Time‘s most memorable characters, modeled after an original Game Boy. The origins of BMO are shrouded in mystery, but it’s hard to imagine what Finn and Jake’s life would be like without them around. One of the many pleasures of the human world that BMO enjoys is pizza, and this shirt by brendacv depicts them chowing down on a big greasy pepperoni slice with gusto. Video games and pizza – what could be better?
Marcelline, the Vampire Queen, is one of the most badass characters in the Kingdom of Oo, a bass-playing immortal who started out by evicting Finn and Jake from their treehouse before coming to terms with the duo and becoming their ally and confidante. Her love of music is one of the coolest things about the character, and this shirt by Graja uses her raven tresses as the basis for a vinyl record silhouette. It’s a clever and elegant design that looks great.
You Can’t Handle These Lumps
There are many princesses in the Kingdom of Oo and surrounding areas. Some are nice, some are nasty, and one in particular – is lumpy. Lumpy Space Princess is one of the oddest supporting characters in the series, an interdimensional mall rat with a serious attitude and lumps to match. This shirt by gseignemartin perfectly encapsulates her over-the-top personality. If you’re proud of your lumps, rock this puppy and show them off.
Bacon Pancakes, Bro
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and artist Talonardietalon has the ideal meal to start off. First you take some pancakes, then you take some bacon, and then you slap the whole mess onto the head of a shape-changing dog and dig in. Okay, that last part doesn’t sound very sanitary, but when you’re on an adventure you have to make sacrifices.
He-Finn
It’s crazy to think about the differences between the animated fantasy cartoons of the 80s and the present day. We were all into the beefy barbarians and monsters of He-Man, but in retrospect, it’s pretty stale. Artist beopots reaches across the decades to create a mash-up that pictures Prince Adam as Finn and Battle Kat as Jake. Just don’t try to fuse Skeletor and the Ice King into one entity, as neither of them would be particularly into it.
She’s Got Science
When we first saw this Princess Bubblegum illustration by MeganLara it took our breath away. That’s the thing about the art style of Adventure Time – it’s simple and evocative enough that it can be interpreted in dozens of different ways. We’ve never seen anybody pull the characters in a realistic style quite like this though, and it’s almost totemic in its intensity. Plus she’s the awesomest princess. Show your allegiance with this absolutely brilliant shirt.
Final Adventure
I know it’s hard to think about, but eventually the end of all things will come for the Land of Ooo. Just as the Mushroom War wiped the last civilization from the planet, so too will another cataclysm befall the land and pave the way for even newer and stranger adventures. Artist FuManChu takes the legendary sword Frostmourne from World of Warcraft and wraps it in Adventure Time characters for this delicate and striking shirt.
Billy The Hero
Young Finn certainly isn’t the first hero to protect the Land of Ooo. A generation ago they had the mighty blue-skinned Billy, as seen in the classic episode “Billy’s Bucket List.” Most notable for trapping the villainous Lich in amber and stopping his world-destroying plans, as he aged Billy renounced the use of physical force to solve problems. Artist RobS depicts him in his prime here, wielding a powerful blade and gauntlet combination perfect for bashing undead suckers.
Here’s a wild-ass Adventure Time theory for you to chew on: what if Finn and Jake are… the same person? OK, it’s not all that likely, but giving the Fight Club twist might make for a pretty compelling episode. Artist Fanisetas delivers a curiously compelling mash-up of the two franchises that somehow manages to work.
Yeah, we did two Marceline shirts in this round-up, you got a problem with that? Artist mathiole just did such a badass job with this illustration, depicting the vampiress shredding hard on the demonic bass made from a family heirloom axe. What do you think she’s playing that’s making the heavens crack and the earth rumble? Probably some Sabbath.
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World Cup Is Over
The New York Times Took Us All Up River/Photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times --Check Out the Entire Slide Show on Line
When I got my wages
I hung my head and cried.
I could not stop these visions
that swept in like the tide.
--Amazon (River of Dreams)
The journey is over, just like the voyage up river in the classic song by The Band.
It was a wonderful World Cup in many ways -- the first World Cup I ever watched at home, in its entirety, once even four matches in a day, in the early giddy days of group play, when so many things were possible.
Now it is over. Lineker’s Law has actually come true for the first time since the English striker articulated it in 1990.
The marvel is that Argentina did so well in the final, holding off what has been building since the fun summer of 2006. Argentina was tough and smart and perhaps deserved better than the 1-0 defeat, but at least somebody scored, and Germany was the best squad, by far, in this World Cup.
One more thing about Argentina. Please, don’t anybody ever again waste time fretting about whether Lionel Messi is the new Diego Maradona. That is so unfair, and mostly to him. Maradona was a genius; Messi is a lovely player, at his best taking crisp passes from Iniesta and Xavi at Barça.
Messi is a small man, anyway – his modesty comes off in all the commercials; he is Everyman with a superb change of pace. He seemed almost slumped over from the weight of seven matches, plus the weight of expectations. Be like Maradona? No más.
I’ve said enough good things about Germany. Let’s talk about the World Cup itself, one more time. Friends have been asking what it’s like to be home after eight World Cups. (Did I mention I have a book out, called Eight World Cups? I'll be promoting it at the Dolphin Book Store in Port Washington, L.I., Thursday at 7 PM.)
I love Brazil from afar – love the music, love the people, even love the way the fans despaired at the two losses. My feeling was, having chosen a buyout at the end of 2011, this was a good World Cup to watch on television. My pals worked in distant cities, under logistics harder than anything I ever faced. The NYT did great, ESPN did great, Soccer America did great, Telemundo did great.
One thing that struck me was how much better I saw the matches (particularly when I watched at home.) In a stadium, you take in the big picture but you don’t necessarily see and hear the fine points of the replays the way I do at home.
I was happy having Twellman and Moreno and Keller and McManaman explaining stuff. ESPN has been working at presenting the matches and the background for years, and I'm sad it won’t be doing the World Cup in 2018.
I want to put in a plug for my friends at Soccer America, which has been on the story all year, giving us the daily vibrations of the U.S. team (no Soccer America reader was surprised at Klinsmann’s snub of Donovan) and giving us great detail and color, hour by hour from Brazil.
Finally, please check out Paul Kennedy’s top-ten wrapup from Sunday. He praises the Times for its large and talented staff – particularly Jeré Longman’s journeys up river. I told Jeré that when he gets home he needs to listen to the Band’s version of Artie Traum’s Amazon (River of Dreams.)
So many people took us all over that fantastic country. Now it is time for the visions to come sweeping in, like the tide.
The Sign Lady Says: La Guerre Est Finie
Altenir Silva
Dear George,
You were right. The Germany won the World Cup in Brazil. I think that Germany showed a great lesson: the early planning is key to winning a Cup.
Best - Altenir (from Brazil)
Dear Altenir: Your country was a wonderful host from all I can see and hear. Personally, my World Cup was already a success when I was with you and Celia and Neo and Fr. Mario and your friends on Carmine Street -- my goodness, was it two months ago? My best wishes to your family and your country. George
Thank you very much. You're so nice. It was a great honor to have your presence in the Christening of Neo. The World Cup was over. Now talking about baseball: is Tanaka our Neymar?
We wish the best for you and your family.
Best - Altenir
Ed Martin
I don't know Altenir, other than by reading this column, but I have been thinking of him as I read and watched. He clearly is a wonderful gentleman and friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Ed Martin.
Thanks to you, George - and to my Middle Eastern born sons - I paid peripheral attention to my first World Cup. Although my team did not win, I discovered some of soccer’s athleticism and drama during a summer when my Mets have been providing neither. Do I hear All Star Game?
enjoyed reading your world cup stuff.
I picked Germany tho brazil is always lurking in your mind. reminds me of Canada and hockey. the expectations are always there.
I thought Germany was tough enough mentally and they're ALWAYS competitive.
I was disappointed by the Netherlands, my fave team since the early 1970s, were knocked out by PK. should do it like hockey. play until somebody scores.
my belief was that an European final would mean the third place game would have some meaning since it would be argentina and brazil. Holland surprised me with their performance in the semis. I thought they might just mail (email?) it in.
count me in with the british announcers. that's what we had on CBC up there. also, only having one guy in the booth.
finally, i'm beginning to wonder if brazil is almost in the category of being a normal soccer country now. in recent years they seem to have lost that flair and sense of inevitability they used to have about winning.
correction--I meant third place game, not the semis re Holland...
George - It was great riding on your blog through the World Cup. Thanks!!! Michael P.S. Now I can read your book.
One word description of German World Cup Champs.
"Inexorable."
Walter Bowne link
Dear Mr. Vescey,
I loved reading Eight World Cups. I gave it a shout out in a new piece of mine, as I've announced my intentions of joining the 2018 U.S. Men's National Team.
Read it here:
http://www.short-humour.org.uk/7writersshowcase/newjersey.htm
Cheers, Walter Bowne
Dear Walter: What a noble goal, to re-capture the clumsy goonish qualities of childhood. Maybe I will follow you, but in a septuagenarian league, clutching and grabbing like I did my last few years of full-court basketball. Diving is a noble art. Teach the children well. GV
Mike from Whitestone
GV,
I enjoyed the World Cup, and it's the first one I followed to be honest. Between this blog, our chats, the NYT coverage and of course our young friends from West Africa and Ghana teaching me about Messi, Renaldo and more, its been a lot of fun. I had dinner in Bayside with some business colleagues including Stephan of Germany. He was walking on air, his German Flag mounted on the car parked on Bell Blvd. It was fun to hear his recount of the game, he was home there yesterday, here today.
Nick D' and I are looking to get to a game this year.....
Thanks to so many of the real soccer fans who write in here, I enjoyed all of that banter too.
Talk to you
Mike, I heard some pedestrians congratulating German tourists near the main library in NYC yesterday. Very cute.
Where are you and Nick planning to go? Red Bulls? Cosmos? I think people need to get out to a post-WC match. Both teams have great local guys coaching -- Mike Petke in NJ, Gio Savarese on LI. Not that you go to watch coaches, but they both had admirable careers. See you next Wed....GV
Alan Rubin link
Following World Cup 2014 on George’s site is like putting on an old pair of comfortable slippers, sitting in front of a roaring fireplace or enjoying a good wine with friends. It just feels good.
While drifting back into other sports or picking up again with the MLS, NASL, NWSL and the Euro leagues at the end of the summer; keep in mind that the 2015 Women’s World cup in Canada will be upon us next June.
There will not be the hype of the men’s World Cup, but in many ways the women’s game is more interesting-less fouls and more open play.
Young girls are very passionate about their National Women’s Soccer League teams. More players are recognizable and many of them play for their national teams. Their enthusiasm is much greater than their male counterparts.
The next great milestone would be if Blatter was not reelected head of FIFA.
And I agree about the WWC. The women play a somewhat more positive game and have managed to go through a couple of eras of rivalries already. Who will forget Linda Medalen anchoring the Norway back four -- and her disdain for the US? Brazil needed her in its last two matches - -a leader. Now Canada and the US have a rivalry going. Looking forward to 2015.
jogos de vestir link
jogos de moto link
jogos de cozinhar link
this is really pretty cool
Simon Joseph
It was good to meet you at the book signing last week in Port Washington, I was the Loud English guy.
I would very much like you to read my blog as I promised to send it to you but did not have your email, so it is linked below.
http://footievssoccer.blogspot.com/
Let me know your thoughts.
I am enjoying the book so pleased I went.
Simon, thanks so much for being there. You knew more about the sport than anybody in the room, and really enlivened the evening. I look forward to reading you blog.
Carol Shetler
I enjoyed the FIFA 2014 World Cup more than any other I have watched because I was well-prepared. I have followed all the European teams' top leagues, and read up about CONCACAF and CONMEBOL as much as I could find before the event. ESPN also put out a great magazine in March to highlight the competitor countries. I plan to be just as well-informed or better about the beautiful game for the 2018 World Cup. Thank you to the host country, Brazil for a great tournament.
I have just finished reading Eight World Cups. You and I began watching World Cup soccer in the same year, 1982, and each has been memorable for me. I was in the hospital in 1990 recovering from abdominal surgery on the day the Italy-Ireland quarter final game was played. The lady in the next bed was from Italy and a few of her family members were in to visit. I did my best to root for Ireland while she and her "team" yelled for every good play by the Azzuri. The floor nurses came by and spoke to us a few times about the noise level, and we all said in chorus, "Come on, it's the World Cup!" So they shut our hall door and let us yell... Italy did a great job I have to admit.
I was puzzled to see that you did not tell the whole story behind the 2006 confrontation between Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi. My tape of the entire game shows clearly that Materazzi had Zidane in, basically, a headlock and was pulling him backward down the pitch as Materazzi whispered his poisoned phrases. Zidane finally got hold of Materazzi's forearm and elbow and jerked it up hard to break the headlock. Only then did Zizou step away, turn and head-butt Materazzi. If Materazzi had been called by the ref 15 seconds earlier for a foul on Zidane, the head butt would never have happened.
Otherwise, a truly memorable and enjoyable book, and I will add it to my World Cup bookshelf.
With Dalai Lama, 1979
Loyal Reader
Hansen Alexander
has filed an interview with, of all people, me.
It's on his blog. (Just past photo of rat!) My thanks for his interest. GV
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GeoReach - Volume 2, Number 1 January 2003
This can also be viewed as a PDF file [105 Kb]
From the CO's Desk
Dear Geoscience Antarcticans,
The last part of 2002 has seen great activity, both the usual field work and a number of major meetings involving Antarctic geosciences. I went to the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco and attended a planning meeting for the Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) project plus sessions of posters and papers on Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate. The ACE sessions in particular showed the potential power of linking modelling with field observations in providing new insights into Antarctic climate.
Since the last newsletter, the CEP has met and considered the Environmental Impacts of the marine acoustic technology report. It was generally welcomed although there were some criticisms of it. Since then, there has been an incident involving the beaching of beaked whales in a region where seismic data were being collected for research purposes. Although I have no details on the circumstances of the beaching, this highlights the need for careful planning of surveys. To help with this, we have decided to post the draft version of the report (Version 1.2) on the Geoscience web site to help those involved in planning marine surveys to understand the issues and maybe avoid potential problems in the Antarctic. This version will be updated when comments come in from expert reviewers so it is not final but I believe an interim report is better than the current vacuum.
On a worrying note, the Geoscience SSG secret weapon, Glenn Johnstone will be leaving Geoscience Australia to move to the UK. Glenn has done a wonderful job keeping the former Geodesy and Geographic Information Working Group functioning smoothly and has already made a major contribution to the Geoscience SSG. I�m sure we would all like to thank him for his efforts and wish him all the best in his change of direction and hope he will still be involved in SCAR.
I would like to conclude by thanking everyone who has participated in SCAR in 2002 and wishing everyone a safe and happy 2003.
Phil O�Brien, Chief Officer, GSSG
Acoustics Report
The SCAR Ad Hoc Group on Marine Acoustic Technology and the Environment has released its report on "Impacts of Marine Acoustic Technology on the Antarctic Environment".
The following is an extract from the Executive Summary of the report:
"The working group felt that the evidence available did not justify a ban on seismic surveys or scientific echo sounders in Antarctic waters, however, surveys should be examined on a case by case basis and mitigation strategies should be used to reduce the risk to Antarctic wildlife from high power, low frequency sources. Acoustic releases and similar low power, occasional source were not considered a threat to wildlife.
Mitigation strategies should be investigated to evaluate their effectiveness and there should be a regular review of mitigation strategies and the progress of research in the field to ensure that new research findings will be available to the Antarctic community.
Research into the hearing and reaction to noise of Antarctic animals should be encouraged as should research into sound propagation conditions around Antarctica.
Records of the locations, timing, duration, frequency, and nature of hydroacoustic and other activities should be maintained to permit retrospective assessment of the likely causes of any future observed changes in the distributions, abundance, or productivity of the potentially affected species and populations"
The full report is available (as a 3.2Mb PDF document) from the GSSG web site at: www.geoscience.scar.org/geophysics/
ATCM / CEP meetings
Both the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and the Committee on Environmental Protection (CEP) held their annual meeting, this time in Warsaw, Poland from 10-20 September 2002.
The following report has been prepared by Mr Tom Maggs, of the Australian Antarctic Division, who attended both meetings. My thanks to him for providing this report to us.
"At CEP V we endorsed a number of intersessional tasks and foreshadowed discussions on several significant issues for CEP VI, as summarised below from the CEP V Final Report.
The Committee looks forward to news from the Czech Republic and Romania on their progress with ratifying the Madrid Protocol and becoming members of the CEP.
ATCM XXV flagged the issue of tourism as a major focus of ATCM XXVI. It has yet to be decided how the ATCM will be advised of the operational, environmental, and policy aspects of tourism.
The Committee expects to consider three draft Comprehensive Environmental Evaluations at CEP VI.
For CEP VI, the 120-day deadline for prior circulation of draft CEE falls on 9 February 2003. This allows a little fewer than ten weeks in which to convene contact groups, agree on terms of reference, complete the discussions and prepare a working paper report to CEP VI.
The Intersessional Contact Group (ICG) on the Lake Vostok drilling program (Russian Federation) has already been convened by Jean-Jacques Reyser of France, and it is hoped that the revised draft CEE will be available for the group�s consideration in February 2003.
Draft CEEs are expected from New Zealand on the ANDRILL program, and from the Czech Republic on the proposed new station for James Ross Island.
Discussion commenced on these issues, and substantive input is expected at the next meeting:
EIA general matters
Marine acoustic techniques - SCAR
Additional details of the AEON analysis of IEE - COMNAP
Results of the cumulative environmental impacts survey - USA
Elements of the final report on the Cape Roberts program - NZ
Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora
Advice on the status of Antarctic species with respect to the IUCN Red List criteria - SCAR
At CEP V the Committee requested the ATCM to take steps to seek the agreement of CCAMLR, CCAS (convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals) etc on a common approach for species in Antarctic marine environments. We await the outcomes of CCAMLR XXI and other intersessional discussions.
The ICG to consider the review of Annex II of the Madrid Protocol has begun its work, led by Vice-Chair Tito Acero (Argentina). The deadline for first-round comments was 5 December. This group will provide a progress report to CEP VI.
Prepare for discussion of environmental issues related to biological prospecting - All members.
Area protection and management
Review Annex 3 to the CEP III Final Report (management plan guide) - NZ
Convene ICG to consider draft protected area management plans - UK, USA, Chile, NZ, Italy, India, Australia (The UK (Neil Gilbert) and Australia (Bruce Hull) have begun their respective intersessional processes.)
Updated report on the status of Antarctic Historic Sites and Monuments - UK
Draft management plan on tourist sites - Germany
Deception Island draft ASMA management plan discussions - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, UK, USA
Draft management plan for a Dry Valleys ASMA - USA
Practical Guidelines for Environmental Monitoring Programs in the Antarctic - COMNAP
State Of the Environment reporting
Report of ICG on Antarctic State of the Environment report - NZ/Australia
(Announcement of a March 2003 workshop expected in December)
Information on national scientific databases to CEP VI - All Parties
The CCAMLR process for considering draft Annex V management plans - CCAMLR
The first two-year term of the current Vice-Chairs concludes with CEP VI. Both Joyce Jatko (USA) and Tito Acero (Argentina) have expressed their willingness to serve a second term.
Preparations for CEP VI
Deadline for submission of supplementary agenda items is 09 December 2002.
Australia is in the process of taking over administration of the CEP website from Norway, and I expect to be able to advise you of the new URL in the coming weeks. Until that time the site will continue to function as usual from the cep.npolar.no server, with thanks to Norway."
SCAR has been given a number of tasks to undertake and report back on at the next ATCM.
A full copy of the ATCM report [5.01Mb MS Word document of 286 pages] can be found at:
www.25atcm.gov.pl/docs/conference?idk=19
A full copy of the CEP report [364Kb MS Word document] can be found at:
Cyberatlas funded
According to Prof Fraser Taylor, the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica - a project of the Geospatial Information Group - "just received word that our application for major funding to the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada for our project has come through. Therefore we will be able to move ahead on work on the �Atlas."
Congratulations to Prof Taylor and his team. We'll keep you informed of progress in this project.
You can find more information on the project at: www.carleton.ca/geography/geography/Taylor_research/index.htmll
PCMEGA Activities for 2002/03
In the Austral summer of 2002 - 2003, a group of 35 expeditioners from Australia and Germany (the Prince Charles Mountains Expedition of Germany - Australia [PCMEGA]) are undertaking a scientific research program in a remote and spectacular mountain range 500 km south of Australia's Mawson station.
"The PCMEGA science program plans to investigate geological and glaciological histories and past climates in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. This will be of national significance as it will identify continental geological / glaciological processes occurring in Australia and Antarctica, prior to and during their separation about 120 million years ago, and relate them to present day observations.
The team of geologists, geophysicists and support staff will spend two and a half months in the southern Prince Charles Mountains (PCMs) living in tents and travelling by helicopters, quads and skidoos to outlying mountain peaks rising from the polar ice cap."
Regular newsletters on PCMEGA activities are available from the Australian Antarctic Division's web site at: www-new.aad.gov.au/default.asp?content=dynamic&title=Weekly+newsletter&casid=3940&docid=2951&type=1&children=
Komsomolskiy seismic installation
Dr Anya Reading from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences (and member of the ANTEC Scientific Programme Planning Group) has been undertaking research activities in the southern Prince Charles Mountains (SPCM) region - the following is an extract from a report posted on the RSES web site.
"Komsomolskiy Peak was discovered by a Soviet air crew in 1958 on a flight from the Pole of Inaccessibility to Mirny station. It was photographed by ANARE in 1960 and the first known ground visit was in 1973 when surveyor John Manning and geologist Dick England flew to the summit in Hughes 500 helicopters.
In November 2002, seismologist Dr Anya Reading visited the mountain in order to set up a seismic recording station, take rock samples and make a preliminary selection of a site for a permanent Global Positioning System (GPS) site."
More information and photographs can be found at: rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/gps/antarctic/koms.html
GPS installations in the SPCM's
The SPCM's have also been a hive of activity for scientists from RSES and Geoscience Australia installing remote GPS stations.
Gary Johnston and Paul Digney from the Geodesy Group of Geoscience Australia's National Mapping Division file the following report.
"We now have GPS and Gravity data on Wilson Bluff, Burke Ridge, Mt Borland, Mt Twigg, Mt Maguire and Mt Newton. It ranges from 4 to six days. We have installed the gear at Cumpston Massif, Mt Stinear, Mt Johns, Barkell Platform, Harbour Bluff and Rooster Point trig (McCue Bluff). We have also done Gravity at these sites.
In mid-January we collect them and move them to Mt Bird, Mt Rubin, Mt Ruker, Mt Rymill, Mt Seddon and Seavers Nunataks. A week later we will collect them from these sites and pack for return to Australia. I will also remove the Mt Creswell base station. After that we fly to Wilson Bluff to pack up the base station.
We then fly in the twin otter back to Davis via the Grove Mountains. We are likely to spend 10 days in the Davis area."
The locations mentioned in this report can be found on a map provided by the Australian Antarctic Division at: aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=12892
Paul Tregoning from RSES at the Australian National University has set up remote GPS stations in 4 locations; Beaver Lake, Landing Bluff, Dalton Corner and Komsomolskiy Peak.
Through the use of Iridium satellite modems data will be transmitted from these last two remote sites on a daily basis back to RSES.
More information about these stations (including diagnostic data) can be found at: rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/gps/antarctic/index.html
ICESat launched
"The ICESat (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite) mission will provide multi-year elevation data needed to determine ice sheet mass balance as well as cloud property information, especially for stratospheric clouds common over polar areas. It will also provide topography and vegetation data around the globe, in addition to the polar-specific coverage over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets."
ICESat was launched on time today, January 13, 2003 (at 6:45 pm Austin time). At the time of writing ICESat has successfully separated and deployed solar panels. There are several milestones ahead, but the mission is off to a great start.
The GPS receivers will be turned on about 3 days after launch. The spacecraft contractor will be spending the first several weeks in spacecraft "shakedown" tests.
More information on ICESat can be found at: icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov
Stop Press: Gary Johnston reports that the ground survey for ICESAT has been started. It covers a 600m by 4.5km area about 11km NW of Mt Creswell. A GPS was fixed to the baggage rack of a skidoo to mark out the area and the base station at Mt Creswell was increased to a 5 second capture rate.
ANTEC news
Several workshops and symposia relevant to Antarctic Neotectonics have been held since the SCAR meeting in Shanghai.
In the USA, a workshop convened by Carol Finn and others was held in Denver, 5-8 August, entitled "REVEAL: Remote Views of the Antarctic Lithosphere" focused on scientific objectives and needs for airborne geophysical data acquisition in Antarctica. Terry Wilson presented related ANTEC objectives at the workshop. A preliminary version of the workshop report can be found at: crustal.usgs.gov/antarctica/.
In October, Slawek Tulazcyk and others convened a workshop in Santa Cruz entitled FASTDRILL 2002: Interdisciplinary Polar Research Based on Fast Ice-Sheet Drilling Interdisciplinary science objectives for drilling and sampling of the ice sheets, the ice-bed interface and the bedrock beneath were discussed, and technical requirements outlined. Information can be found at: www.es.ucsc.edu/~tulaczyk/fastdrill.htm. Terry Wilson presented ANTEC objectives within a poster entitled "Drilling in the Antarctic Interior: Neotectonic Objectives".
There was an information meeting for Antarctic scientists held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver in October. Posters and presentations were made on SCAR (by Ross Powell, poster from Chuck Kennicutt), and on ACE (by Rob DeConto), ANTEC (by Terry Wilson), and SALE (by Ross Powell).
An Antarctic Town Meeting was held at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December, in which the new organization of SCAR was explained by Chuck Kennicutt. Overviews of the diverse science initiatives of each of the Scientific Standing Groups and specific outlines of ACE, ANTEC, Permafrost, and SALE were presented. The goal is to encourage more involvement by U.S. scientists in SCAR activities.
Several upcoming events are also of interest to ANTEC scientists:
There are many theme sessions as the joint AGU-EGS-EUG assembly to be held in Nice, France, 7-11 April, 2003. A session that is co-sponsored by ANTEC is "GD11: Glacio-Isostasy and Neotectonics" - the aim of this session is to bring together researchers working in both currently and formerly glaciated regions in order to examine the current level of understanding of glacio-isostasy and its impact on crustal tectonism. There are many other sessions of interest, full details can be found at: www.copernicus.org/egsagueug/index.html.
The IX International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences will be held 8 - 12 September 2003, Potsdam, Germany. Several of the major themes are relevant to Antarctic Neotectonics, and a major symposium theme is specifically on "Antarctic Neotectonics - the ANTEC Programme of SCAR". Abstracts are due 1 April, 2003. Full information can be found at: http://isaes.awi-potsdam.de/.
ACE news
Following a successful international workshop held in June 2002 at the University of Massachusetts, USA, the Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) project continued to 'outreach' its plan through a day-long session at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union 2002.
A total of 12 talks and 8 posters were presented at the session. Highlights included back-to-back presentations of integrated ice-ocean-atmosphere modelling by Rob DeConto and Dave Pollard, detailing their study of the roles of atmospheric carbon dioxide and subglacial sediment on Antarctic ice-sheet initiation. Their work was published in the international science journal Nature following the meeting in January. This article received 'News and Views' coverage, by Peter Barrett (who also spoke at AGU), and world-wide media attention.
An ACE website has been developed, and can be accessed at www.ace.scar.org or www.geo.umass.edu/ace/
This web site will make up the forum from which the full ACE proposal will be debated and revised by ACE members (and other interested parties) prior to its submission to SCAR at Easter 2003.
AGU Fall 2002 meeting summary
A number of Antarcticans attended the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco in early December 2002.
It was interesting to note that of the 8,240 abstracts almost 250 of them contained the word Antarctic.
All 551 sessions and 8,240 abstracts for 2002 Fall Meeting have been posted on the AGU web site and abstracts may be accessed by a search tool:
agu.org/meetings/fm02/waisfm02adv.html
AGS'02 meeting summary
Another successful Antarctic Geodesy Symposium, this time being held in Wellington, New Zealand in late November 2002, saw two days of presentations finishing with a short business meeting of the Geodesy Program element of the Expert Group on Geospatial Information (GIG).
Attendees included twelve representatives from six nations: NZ, Australia, Indonesia, China, United States and Japan - a number of New Zealanders also attended the whole or part of the symposium. Notable late withdrawals were from Germany, Poland and Italy who all sent presentations and papers as they were unable to attend.
A major focus of the symposium was the status of regional geodetic networks in Antarctica and their future integration. Tide gauge operation and calibration were discussed at length, as were the new advances in remote GPS operational technology for Antarctic sites.
GIG will be producing a CD-ROM containing the proceedings of AGS'02 (ie. all the papers and PowerPoint presentations). This will be distributed to all GSSG members during February 2003.
You can also visit the AGS'02 web page at: www.geoscience.scar.org/geodesy/ags02/
Call for papers - AGS'03
Following the successes of the previous 4 symposia the GIANT program within GIG plans on holding a 5th Antarctic Geodesy Symposium (AGS'03) in Lviv, Ukraine, from September 15th-17th, 2003
The event will be hosted by the National University "Lviv Polytechnik", in the Ukraine.
One focus of the workshop will be the ongoing and planned Geodesy projects within GIG. Other elements will include:
Reporting on geodesy activities conducted during austral summer 2002/03;
Reports on recent Antarctic Geodesy meetings / sessions (EUG, ISAES, etc);
If you are interested in presenting a paper at the symposium or would like to add an agenda item please contact the organiser directly.
Dr Fedir Zablotskyj
Chair of Geodesy and Astronomy
National University "Lviv Polytechnik"
S.Bandera Str., 12,
Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
Email: fzablots@polynet.lviv.ua
Call for papers - GIS Workshop
Following the first International Antarctic GIS workshop in Wuhan, China in 2000 the Geospatial Information Group plans on holding a second GI Technical Experts Meeting of SCAR.
The proposed theme of the workshop is
"GIS projects in Antarctica: Standards & Applications"
The event will be hosted by IPG, University Freiburg in Germany from 7-11 April 2003. IPG has several years of experience in remote sensing and glaciology on the Antarctic Peninsula. Since the year 2000 it has co-ordinated the SCAR King George Island GIS project.
One focus of the workshop will be the ongoing and planned GIS projects on King George Island. Other elements will include:
Developing the SCAR Spatial Data Model;
GIS projects in other regions of Antarctica;
Internet and Antarctic GIS; and
Place names and GIS.
Potential attendees are invited to send abstracts of papers (approx. 200 words) for inclusion in the program by 15th March 2003. Selected papers of the workshop will be published in "Polarforschung", the journal of the German Society of Polar Research.
Please send abstracts to either
<glennjohnstone@auslig.gov.au> or <steffen.vogt@geographie.uni-freiburg.de>
There will also be a session devoted to the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) to which all attendees are invited.
Up-to-date information can be obtained from the 2nd International Antarctic GIS Workshop website at:
www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/ipg/forschung/ap3/antarctica/antgis_2003/
Further inquiries should be directed to:
Steffen Vogt
Institut für Physische Geographie
Werderring 4, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany
Call for papers - TAPMOG
Terrane Processes At The Pacific Margin Of Gondwana (TAPMOG)
A meeting of the British Antarctic Survey, the Tectonic Studies Group of the Geological Society and the Geochemistry Group of the Geological Society and Mineralogical Society to be held at: New Hall College, Cambridge, UK, 5-6 September 2003.
New isotope and geochemical techniques, combined with regional scale multidisciplinary studies, have produced major new insights into the evolution of the Gondwana margin in the Phanerozoic. Terrane processes were active prior to and during break-up of the supercontinent with implications for palaeoenvironmental and tectonic interpretations. This meeting seeks to bring together terrane specialists in a range of disciplines, with a focus on the following topics:
Phanerozoic terrane accretion along the Pacific margin of Gondwana
Terrane transport mechanisms
Detrital processes and sedimentary provenance
Where is the Permian arc?
Isotope tracing of terrane sources using Hf and SHRIMP
Palaeoenvironmental implications of terrane movements
Terrane palaeobiogeography
Geochemical tracers of terrane deep structure
Pressure-temperature-time evolution of terrane accretion events
Interactions between marginal and interior processes during break-up
Remote sensing of terranes and terrane boundaries
Studies from comparable margins
It is intended that refereed papers from this meeting will be published as a Geological Society Special Publication. If you are interested in contributing to the meeting please send an abstract of your paper to either of the convenors:
Convenors:
Alan Vaughan Tel: +44 (0)1223 221419 a.vaughan@bas.ac.uk
Phil Leat Tel: +44 (0)1223 221432 p.leat@bas.ac.uk
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Abstract deadline: 1 February 2003
Early registration deadline: 1 March 2003
Invited Speakers: Dr Dick Glen, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Prof John Bradshaw, Canterbury, New Zealand
A workshop on "Structure and Evolution of the Antarctic Plate" will be held 3-5 March in Boulder, Colorado, USA, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Members of the ANTEC group (Morelli, Reading, Wilson), as well as an international group of scientists who have participated in ANTEC workshops and symposia, will participate in this upcoming workshop, to coordinate international planning by ANTEC/SCAR with this U.S. effort. The purpose of this workshop is to develop a long-term science plan designed to improve the understanding of the structure and evolution of the Antarctic Plate. In particular, the scientific justification and feasibility of an ambitious program to improve seismic instrumentation on and around the Antarctic continent will be a centerpiece of the workshop and of the science plan. Information can be found at: anquetil.colorado.edu/seap2003/.
Antarctic Geodesy sessions at EGS/EUG/AGU � Nice, France � April 2003
8th International Permafrost Conference (IPA), Bern Switzerland July 2003
ISAG 7 - 7th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology - Milano, Italy, 25-27 August 2003
International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) � Potsdam, Germany � September 2003
International Hydrographic Bureau - Antarctic Hydrographic Committee meeting, Monaco, 08-10 September 2003. Contact Captain Hugo Gorziglia, for further information.
We plan to produce 4 editions of GeoReach per year and would ask for your contributions on:
Field work/workshop reports
Reports from leaders of Action Groups, the Expert Group, Scientific Research Programmes and Scientific Programme Planning Groups
Diary events
Details should be sent to Glenn Johnstone <glennjohnstone@auslig.gov.au>.
The deadline for contributions to the upcoming editions are as follows:
Vol. 2 No. 2 - Monday 21 April 2003
Vol. 2 No. 3 - Monday 21 July 2003
Vol. 2 No. 4 - Monday 20 October 2003
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Taormina Tour: discover the city and book our guided tour
Taormina is one of the most beautiful cities in Sicily, located on the east coast. Our Taormina Tour will allow you to discover this beautiful city, and do a trekking tour to admire Etna, one of the most visited volcanoes in the world.
Buy our Taormina tour and discover the beautiful natural landscapes, marine beauties and all the most important historical monuments in Sicily. In the XX century, the city was the destination of famous writers and artists who chose it as a refuge to develop their artistic creativity. Even Halldorr Laxness, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1955, chose Taormina as a place to work in his novels. If you choose our full day tour you will have a whole day to visit the city and the dramatic surrounding landscapes where Etna rises.
Our trekking tour will accompany you to the peaks of Etna, where you can admire craters and landscape thanks to alpine guides that will always be present. Not a simple Taormina tour, but also an opportunity to taste the local specialities and visit Zafferana. Here you will know the organic farm of the place and taste typical products such as oil, honey or wine. Our City tour also includes the visit to Isola Bella, also called “the pearl of the Mediterranean”, for its natural beauty. You can also bath in these wonderful crystal waters.
Taormina Tour: 5 things to see in Taormina
With our Taormina tour you can discover one of Sicily’s most beautiful tourist destinations. A place that has inspired poets and writers over the years, Taormina attracts thousands of tourists every year who come to admire its beauties. If you want to organize a Taormina tour, here are 5 things you must not miss:
Isola Bella: a small islet rich in vegetation, natural reserve since 1998
Teatro greco: built by the Greeks, it is the most famous monument in Taormina
Piazza XI Aprile: this is where the mundane life of Taormina takes place, on this beautiful panoramic terrace on the sea
Palazzo Corvaja: villa in the centre of Taormina, once was a Roman forum
Palazzo di Santo Stefano: it represents the Sicilian Gothic Art for excellence, today is a beautiful museum
Our Taormina City tour will allow you to see all this and much more. Book the tour on our website and enjoy your destination.
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General News of Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Source: myjoyonline
NDC is in total disarray - Kofi Adams
Embattled Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams says the ruling party will lose the December polls if it goes into the election divided.
According to him, if immediate steps are not taken to settle the internal wrangling in the party, a second term bid to the presidency will be very difficult.
Kofi Adams was reacting to suggestions by some political pundits that the NDC could win the December elections without the Rawlingses.
They argued that even when in Mr. Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu campaigned vigorously in 2000 and 2004, the party lost those elections thus their [Rawlingses] absence from the NDC’s campaign trail might not have any impact on the ruling party chances of winning the elections.
Also, some government appointees are convinced that the 'unprecedented achievements' chalked by the Mills-led administration in its first term in office are enough for a landslide victory for the NDC in December.
However, speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Monday, Kofi Adams warned the NDC national executives not to delude themselves that they can win the December polls without their party founder.
He said even when the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2000 convinced Ghanaians that a vote for candidate Mills meant Mr. Rawlings would be the de-facto president, the NDC performed well due to the former President’s influence in galvanizing grassroot support.
He maintained that the attacks by some leading members of the party on Mr. Rawlings over his recent criticisms of the government have rather deepened the division in the party which he said will affect its electoral fortunes.
The spokesperson for the Rawlingses bemoaned the level of confusion in the ruling party and wondered whether there is a leader in charge.
He urged the national Chairman of the NDC, Dr. Kwabena Adjei not to allow himself to be coerced by self-centered people in the party who are benefiting from the rift between former President Rawlings and President Mills.
Kofi Adams said a way forward for unity in the NDC is for Dr. Kwabena Adjei to renew the reconciliation process between former President Rawlings and President Mills for a united front in December.
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Watch Uzo Aduba, Abigail Breslin, and Julia Garner Take On Famous Male Roles in Our New Role Reversal Series
There are great scenes, and then there are great scenes—those movie monologues you've learned every word of without even trying. How many of them are things women said on-screen? As female-driven films continue to gain momentum in Hollywood—three out of five of the comedies that scored best picture Golden Globes nominations are top-lined by women—we hope that that number keeps going up. In the spirit of that goal, we recast three iconic male roles—Brad Pitt in Fight Club, Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, and Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs—with some of the most captivating actresses working today. Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens) takes on Pitt's angry idealist ringleader, Julia Garner (Grandma) drinks your milk shake, and Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) is varsity terrifying as Hannibal Lecter. We didn't know this until today, but you haven't lived until you've heard Aduba do the fava beans and chianti bit. It's kind of like being at a party you can't believe you're at. Enjoy: Abigail Breslin, Fight Club Julia Garner, There Will Be Blood Uzo Aduba, The Silence of the Lambs What role would you snatch from the guys if you could? Tell us @glamourmag using
By Megan Angelo
There are great scenes, and then there are great scenes—those movie monologues you've learned every word of without even trying. How many of them are things women said on-screen? As female-driven films continue to gain momentum in Hollywood—three out of five of the comedies that scored best picture Golden Globes nominations are top-lined by women—we hope that that number keeps going up.
In the spirit of that goal, we recast three iconic male roles—Brad Pitt in Fight Club, Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, and Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs—with some of the most captivating actresses working today. Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens) takes on Pitt's angry idealist ringleader, Julia Garner (Grandma) drinks your milk shake, and Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) is varsity terrifying as Hannibal Lecter. We didn't know this until today, but you haven't lived until you've heard Aduba do the fava beans and chianti bit. It's kind of like being at a party you can't believe you're at. Enjoy:
Abigail Breslin, * Fight Club*
Julia Garner, There Will Be Blood
Uzo Aduba, The Silence of the Lambs
What role would you snatch from the guys if you could? Tell us @glamourmag using the hashtag #RoleReversal.
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JB & fans pay tribute to MJ at 2009 MTV EMA
This is one of the most touching Michael Jackson tributes I’ve seen. It almost brought tears to my eyes.
This tribute was made specially for 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards held in Berlin, Germany last night.
The tribute was presented by MJ’s fans, Jonas Brothers who said he was the one to inspire them and influence them as artists.
The first time we heard Michael’s voice was when our dad played the Jackson Five’s ‘I’ll Be There’,” Joe Jonas said. “We were amazed by the one-of-a-kind talent. The way that he and his brothers came together to entertain the world has been an obvious influence on us.”
Michael Jackson influenced every listener and every future performer with a talent the world had never seen before. As a writer, as a singer, as a dancer and as a performer he was simply the best,” Kevin Jonas added.
Check out the great video below.
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Hello Toronto
Record result for European soccer clubs with 1st-time profit
Record res...
GENEVA (AP) - In a record result for European soccer, top-tier clubs combined to make a first-time profit of 600 million euros ($694 million) last year.
UEFA says its research of 711 clubs' financial accounts ending in 2017 showed they turned around a 300-million euro loss ($347 million) the previous year.
Their total revenue of 20.1 billion euros ($23.2 billion) extended a trend of annual rises at around 10 percent.
UEFA says 27 of 54 top-tier divisions were profitable, up from eight in 2011 when it began monitoring accounts of all clubs entering the Champions League and Europa League.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says: "Thanks to Financial Fair Play, European football is healthier than ever before.
Ceferin says monitoring "provided the platform for clubs to control their costs and pay their debts."
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Conference to help keep young people safer in Fareham
Police and Crime Commissioner Michael Lane, Fareham Borough Council Leader Cllr Woodward, and the young people’s charity Y Services recently joined together to hold the first youth conference in Fareham since 2009.
The conference on Wednesday 11 October 2017 brought together over 40 young people and teachers from surrounding schools to focus on the issues young people in the area face in daily life. Presentations and topics covered included Cyber Safety and Safer Relationships which were run by members of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Youth Commission and Hampshire Constabulary’s Wildfire initiative.
The day also included an opportunity to input to the Welborne consultation and take part in a radio show. It finished with a ‘Grill a Grown up’ question and answer session with a panel made up of Cllr Connie Hockley, Y Services trustee, a police officer and a Youth Commissioner member.
Councillor Seán Woodward, Executive Leader of Fareham Borough Council, after opening the conference, said:
“I am so pleased to be able to welcome so many of the Borough’s young people to Fareham to discuss the issues that really matter to them to help us make the right decisions.
“As they grow up they want to be able to afford to live in Fareham and we will do everything we can to make that possible. They also want to feel safe as they go about their business and I welcome the commitment of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Michael Lane, to do his best to keep us all safe.”
Michael Lane, Police and Crime Commissioner outlined why the conference was important for young people:
“My Youth Commission provide a voice on issues that matter to young people and today has been about sharing their learning and experiences in the areas of cyber safety and unhealthy relationships with local young people to help to keep them safer.
“I believe cyber security for all ages really matters. Our lives are increasingly played out online, with younger people in particular making the most of the benefits that technology can bring. However those who wish us harm are also increasingly using technology, they are clever and we all need to understand the risks these people and their activity creates.
Trustee Andy Kennedy from Y Services said: “Y Services recognises the importance of young people’s voices being heard in the community and forums where they can speak to decision makers. Working alongside partners to deliver this first conference in Fareham for a number of years has been an excellent opportunity to capture the views, wishes and feelings of young people and discuss matters that are important to them. Information gained from the conference will help shape the priorities of the charity in Fareham for the forthcoming year.”
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Tour Confidential: Dissecting Rickie’s shaky Sunday, and should Sergio be suspended?
By GOLF Editors
Check in every Sunday night for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors as they discuss the hottest topics in the sport, and join the conversation by tweeting us @golf_com. This week we discuss Rickie Fowler’s fifth career PGA Tour victory, more rules controversies (and reversals!), Johnny Miller’s final broadcast, changes at Augusta National and more.
1. Rickie Fowler was 1 for 6 in converting 54-hole leads on the PGA Tour, and on Sunday he made it 2 for 7. He shot 74 — he still hasn’t broken par in any of these aforementioned final rounds — and overcame a rare rules snafu to win by two and claim PGA Tour victory No. 5. Was this Sunday a vote of confidence for Fowler, or a blow to his confidence?
Josh Sens, contributor (@JoshSens): This is a bit off topic, but what struck me today, watching from home, was that Fowler appeared in about half of the commercials — a reminder that he has long been a more successful brand than a player. That’s an indirect way of saying that Rickie has been a victim of our own high expectations of himself. But anyway, it’s hard to win on Tour. On top of that, trying to close is clearly in Fowler’s head. But I think he’s smart enough to take the positives out of today. A win’s a win, and the fact that he was able to limp through Sunday for a win has got to be more of a plus than anything.
Jeff Ritter, digital development editor (@Jeff_Ritter): It was ugly, but it was a tough scoring day for the entire field. The fact that Fowler righted himself after the breakdown on 11 to not only play well, but surpass Grace and win the event has to be a positive. (Who loses confidence while raising a trophy?) It could be a springboard to Fowler’s best season yet.
Sean Zak, assistant editor (@sean_zak): When the only person to push him was Mother Nature, it’s really just kinda meh for me. Kudos to him for winning, and that’s probably worth a big confidence boost in itself, but it doesn’t further define you as a closer.
Dylan Dethier, associate editor (@Dylan_Dethier): Starting out the day he would have wanted a door-slamming round to shut up the critics. That went out the window midway through the round, at which point expectations fully reset — a win ended up feeling like a long shot. He got plenty of help from his competitors, but in the end he got it done, which is what we’ll remember — for now.
John Wood, caddie for Matt Kuchar (@johnwould): Well, being out in his group, I would say definitely more of a vote of confidence. Conditions were brutal, much tougher than the fairly benign conditions we had the first three days, and for a while our whole group was just kind of struggling along trying to figure out if it really was this tough or if we were just languishing. I still felt like it was anyone’s tournament until Rickie birdied 10, at which point it felt like something crazy would have to happen… and then something crazy happened as everyone knows. For him to go through 11 and still get it up and down for 7, then bogey the next and STILL find the reserves to finish like he did and close the deal was incredibly impressive, and in the long run I think winning like that, finding reserves when things are going wrong, will be better than winning in a rout. He found something in himself on 14 through 18 that will be hugely important moving forward.
Alan Shipnuck, senior writer (@Alan_Shipnuck): That long putt to save (lol) triple bogey on 11 has to be one of the most important of his career. That right there showed me a ton, as did the driver and conversion on 17. To turn calamity into a victory is huge for Fowler.
Michael Bamberger, senior writer: You’d be crazy not to see the truth in what John says. Marketing has made Fowler more famous than he of course would otherwise be, as a player with five Tour wins. (Same as Nick Watney and Ben Crane.) So we expect more from him than he might actually have. But he’s a nice young man and a nice player.
Rickie Fowler watches a tee shot during the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open on Sunday.
2. After the victory, NBC analyst Paul Azinger, who was making his debut in the booth, said this performance will put an end to Rickie’s reputation that he can’t close. Would you agree?
Ritter: I mean, if he couldn’t close at all he wouldn’t have five wins. I realize that number is lower than expectations, but right now he’s still probably just a floor or two below golf’s penthouse. But to remove all doubt, he needs to kick down the door at a major.
Sens: No. That was not the final round of a stone-cold killer.
Zak: See earlier answer about Mother Nature being his biggest opponent.
Dethier: Gawd no. Granted his playing partners didn’t fare any better, but that inspired less confidence, not more. Still, credit for steadying the ship late.
Wood: Yes, absolutely. It was brutal out there, things were going very wrong, and he overcame conditions and a crazy bad break to pull it out. It was a win of perseverance, and majors take exactly that.
Shipnuck: The jury is still out.
Bamberger: Don’t agree with Dr. Paul. He’ll win some and lose more. He gutted this one out, in tough weather, but this is not exactly the U.S. Open at Oakmont.
3. Sergio Garcia was disqualified from the Saudi International on Saturday after he damaged several greens in frustration — one report said it was as many as five greens — and was slapped with a “serious misconduct.” James Corrigan of The Telegraph reported that the last “high-profile pro” to receive a misconduct charge was Simon Dyson in 2013. Dyson, who tapped down a spike mark on the green (which is now legal), was fined £30,000 and suspended two months. But Garcia will not be suspended, according to a report by Martin Dempster of The Scotsman. What should happen to Sergio for such a flagrant violation?
Ritter: It’s hard to pass judgement without seeing a tape of the incidents. (And why are there no tapes? We need a separate Confidential for this.) Without knowing more, some kind of fine along with the DQ feels about right.
Sens: A fine seems in order. How much of a fine? We might need a separate Confidential on that as well.
Zak: Apparently there is no footage of it because Garcia’s tee time was too early, which is an all-too convenient excuse. What should happen? The Euro tour should release those tapes and let public opinion decide.
Dethier: There are photos taken by the rules officials, which should be released. But that misses the point. Sergio was being paid a ton of money to go to a brand-new tournament at a brand-new golf course in a country that has never hosted a golf tournament — in the MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING DESERT — and he’s shocked that the greens aren’t perfect?! This is mind-blowing to me, and it’s childish, and the damage to his reputation is more important than any fine or suspension anyway.
Wood: It was sad, and will do more to his reputation than any fine or suspension would serve, though I think both are probably in order.
Shipnuck: The tapes would be good fun but no one is disputing what happened. He should be suspended for at least three months.
Bamberger: Agree with Alan. This is truly conduct unbecoming. I thought he had grown up.
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4. Rule 10.2b(4) — advice and other help — has received a ton of attention lately, as Haotong Li was penalized two strokes for having his caddie in a direct line behind him as he addressed a putt last week and, this week, when Denny McCarthy and Justin Thomas were tied up with the rule in Phoenix. McCarthy was penalized two strokes under the same rule for an approach shot on Friday, yet on Saturday morning the PGA Tour released a statement saying it was overturning McCarthy’s penalty. This unprecedented ruling also came after Thomas was involved in a similar incident on Saturday morning. The statement cited confusion regarding the application and language of the new rule and said the Tour will work with the USGA and R&A to analyze and improve the situation with the rule. After all of the time the governing bodies spent revising the Rules of Golf for a 2019 rollout, how does an oversight like this happen?
Sens: It’s easy to jump all over the governing bodies for this (it’s very fashionable to do that these days). But no written rules, no matter how carefully considered, can account for every possibility that life throws at you. It happens in other sports. (Look at the NFL, grappling with questions about video review.) It happens in our legal system. If it now takes a prolonged time for the powers that be to get this particular rule straightened out, then we can all pile on them. But I don’t think it’s fair to do so now.
Ritter: The spirit of the rule is obvious: they wanted to put an end to caddies lining up pro golfers as they stood over shots. It was, and is, a good idea. The failure was in the way the rule was written — the language around when a player begins to address the ball was vague, which created chaos and confusion. The lesson: always pay for good editors.
Zak: The thing that the USGA and R&A didn’t really SEEM to take into account was how widely different interpretations could be made. I think that’s obviously a very tricky thing to do, so this is probably more of a shortcoming on their discussions with the various tours. Bottom line is we shouldn’t be getting surprised by these things. At least I don’t think we should be.
Dethier: The fellas above me have it covered — poor communication seems to be the culprit here, and it was obviously a bad look. But I’m glad they seem to be on the road to correcting this one, and I like the rule.
Wood: I could write six pages right now, but I won’t. The alignment rule is written poorly. It is an easy fix, however. “A caddie cannot stand directly behind his player with the intent of aiding him line up his upcoming shot.” Add intent. That’s all. There are many times a caddie will stand behind his player and most of them have nothing whatsoever to do with alignment. If we are in the trees, many times we will get behind them to look for a way out. “I see a seven-iron fitting through the small window right there.” Or if his ball comes to rest close to a tree and he wants us to check his backswing to see how much room he has to fit his swing and avoid hitting a branch, we stand behind him and let him know he needs to swing a little flatter or tell him he’s got plenty of room. We won’t stay back there during the shot but we will check him for sure. Add intent, and we are all done here. Let’s be honest, it’s an LPGA rule. In 23 years of caddying I’ve seen guys have their caddies line them up at this level maybe a handful of times, while it’s fairly prominent on the LPGA. The next rule that needs to be changed BACK is the one that says a player cannot replace a club that has been damaged in the normal course of play. I understand the guys at my local muni don’t have the luxury of having a backup driver in their locker, but every player on tour does. Quick. Name another major sport when a piece of broken equipment cannot be replaced. Flat tire at Daytona? Carry on, Mr. Logano. We are sorry, Mike Trout, that you cracked your bat here in the bottom of the 9th of the World Series, best of luck with the splinter. It makes no sense to me that if Dustin Johnson is leading the Masters by a shot and his driver face, through no fault of his own, cracks while he hits a drive on the 2nd hole, that he can’t replace it. With this change of rule, the USGA is setting itself up to be “The Story” again at a major championship. “Boy what would have happened had Dustin’s driver not cracked on him today and he was forced to play with just a 3-wood. We will never know.”
Shipnuck: I like what Dr. Wood is saying about intent. But given the current climate, why is any caddie even remotely behind his player once the conversation is over. Stand by the bag!
Bamberger: I don’t think they needed a rule change here. The LPGA could have adapted a local rule for its play, because that’s where you really see it. But on the PGA Tour it isn’t much of an issue, and in the rest of the world of golf it’s not even on the radar, a caddie or a playing partner lining you up.
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5. Johnny Miller called his final golf broadcast for NBC during the third round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, capping a nearly 30-year career in the booth. What will you miss most about Miller in the tower?
Sens: His forthrightness. That’s what set him apart from the beginning. His refusal to trip all over himself in an effort to say the polite thing.
Ritter: Agreed. There were no sacred cows. No fear of a player phoning him later or confronting him on the range. He just called it like he saw it. I already miss him.
Zak: I liked him for all the same reasons other people did, but it seems like Paul Azinger will be able to do the same thing just as well. I guess I’ll just miss the many references to his major victory.
Dethier: I really liked his delivery of said forthright statements, more than anything. Anybody can be inflammatory on TV, but it’s hard to really mean it. Johnny did. That gave every comment of his a little extra juice.
Shipnuck: Johnny was as big of a star as any of the players. His very presence in the booth elevated the tournament, to say nothing of the viewing experience. Zinger is really good but I’ll miss Johnny’s starpower.
Bamberger: His voice, the California in it.
6. The par-4 5th at Augusta National has been lengthened by 40 yards and will now play at 495 yards, per the Masters’ recently released media guide. The green jackets are coming to you for their next course tweak. What are you doing?
Sens: Introduce a limited-flight ball, and trim the 7th back to its original length.
Ritter: Rebuild the press tower left of the 18th green. I miss that view!
Zak: Place a plaque where Rory McIlroy’s first tee shot of the final round landed in 2018.
Dethier: Get rid of the rough!
Zak: Lengthen the rough!
Bamberger: Get the course back to 7,200 yards, tops. Shorten it. Let ‘em shoot what they will shoot. If you get tired of 61s, bring in a tournament ball.
Shipnuck: Eliminate the rough. Deforest the right side of 11. Move up the tees on 7. Move back the tees on 15. Reconfigure the back nine so the most boring holes on the course (17, 18) aren’t the finish; you could do this quite easily by playing the back nine in this order: 10, 18, (high-speed underground train to) 17, 15, 16, 14, 11, 12, 13. How epic would that be?!
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Jordan Spieth Takes Cart Path Drop, Entertains Gallery with Comedy Hour
By Josh Berhow
Jordan Spieth was battling for the lead until a double bogey on the par-3 13th. He finished with a 71.
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Jordan Spieth got into some trouble when his drive on the par-4 7th hole missed the fairway and went into a puddle on the cart path during the second round of the PGA Championship.
From there he had to figure out how to make a correct drop from casual water on a cart path, and he and a rules official had a lengthy conversation that was broadcast on TNT. The dialogue between Spieth and the official was fascinating—it’s amazing how much goes into a simple drop—and frustrating, because it might be things like this that casual golf fan don’t have time for, or care for.
Still, the gallery enjoyed the lengthy conversation, which included some very funny back-and-forth from Spieth and the official. Spieth bogeyed the hole and dropped to three under.
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PGA Championship Round Three: Five Things We Learned
By GOLF WIRE
Storms have disrupted practice rounds every day this week at Kiawah.
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Saturday at the PGA Championship was a dreary one. Only 37 players finished their third round, leaving more than half the field to finish round 3 Sunday.
Despite much of the day being a washout, plenty happened at Baltusrol during the morning and early afternoon. Here are five things we learned at the PGA Championship Saturday.
Baltusrol Was Very Gettable
The course played easy for many early Saturday, as birdies were out there to be had all over the course. Francesco Molinari rattled off six consecutive birdies to finish his round at 68, while Padraig Harrington and Kevin Kisner each shot 65 for the low rounds of the day.
SCORES: PGA Championship Leaderboard
Record Breaking Weekend?
The course being gettable, then trounced with rainfall makes for a fun chase at a major record round of 62. Robert Streb shot to the top of the leaderboard Friday with a 63, and that came with a bogey on his card. Phil Mickelson thinks we might see a 62, even a 61, sometime this weekend, for better or for worse.
Bummer weather is changing Baltusrol so much.. Such a great major championship venue. Hate when Mother Nature gets in the way! Go away rain!
— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) July 30, 2016
Keep Monday Open
The constant rain Saturday and impending Sunday forecast will likely call for a Monday finish at Baltusrol. Unfortunately, the forecast for Monday doesn’t look good, either. The third round will continue Sunday at 7 a.m. ET, and the final round will kick off not much later at 8:40 a.m. Follow the GOLF.com leaderboard to track every player’s progress.
18 Was Easy…Until It Wasn’t
The 18th hole at Baltusrol, the second of two par-5s, had a very interesting day. Thirteen of the first 22 players to play the hole made birdie and another one made eagle, while just one bogey was made.
However, of the next 15 players to finish 18, only one made birdie and two bogeys were made. Did something change out there mid-day?
Don’t Cross Ted Scott
The silence of Bubba Watson’s swing was interrupted on the 12th hole and his caddie sure didn’t like it. Scott and Watson scoffed at the group of fans nearby, and Scott even went so far as to tell the perpetrators to “Go back and watch in your grandma’s basement.” Check out the video below.
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Expect the unexpected, especially in a room filled with books…
Honoria Duchamp is well aware that men often consider widows easy prey for the role of mistress. What else could explain the attentions of handsome Lord Devin, and his visits to her bookshop? Nearly half Nora’s age, the Viscount has even shown interest in the printing press with which she creates pamphlets on Expect the unexpected, especially in a room filled with books…
Honoria Duchamp is well aware that men often consider widows easy prey for the role of mistress. What else could explain the attentions of handsome Lord Devin, and his visits to her bookshop? Nearly half Nora’s age, the Viscount has even shown interest in the printing press with which she creates pamphlets on London’s basest injustices. Yet his chief interest appears to be in her…
Coerced to investigate Nora’s controversial pamphlets, Devin expected to find a bookish matron. Instead, he is taken with Nora’s womanly beauty, sharp intellect, and quick wit. Soon, what begins as an unwelcome task becomes a pleasure, and Devin’s job becomes more dangerous—for them both. For Nora has no idea of the vicious element she’s crossed. Now Devin will risk his reputation to protect her—and much more to win her love… ...more
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Mar 18, 2013 Caz rated it it was ok
Recommends it for: Nobody. Unless you're a masochist and like badly written books
Shelves: aar, arc, disappointing, why-so-many-4-5-star-reviews, kindle, romance-other
Never Too Late was one of those books where what could have been a decent premise was ruined by poor execution.
I was initially intrigued by the fact that the more usual gender/age roles were reversed, with the heroine being forty and the hero twenty-six. Even now, a couple in which the woman is considerably older than the man still raises eyebrows. I thought there was potential in the idea of setting an older woman/younger man romance in 1851, to explore the obstacles and prejudices such a Never Too Late was one of those books where what could have been a decent premise was ruined by poor execution.
I was initially intrigued by the fact that the more usual gender/age roles were reversed, with the heroine being forty and the hero twenty-six. Even now, a couple in which the woman is considerably older than the man still raises eyebrows. I thought there was potential in the idea of setting an older woman/younger man romance in 1851, to explore the obstacles and prejudices such a couple would have had to overcome.
Running alongside the romance is the secondary plot about the heroine, widowed bookseller Mrs. Honoria Duchamp, stumbling across a child prostitution and pornography racket, and her efforts to expose it and stop more children being abducted and abused.But there are powerful people involved in these horrible activities, people who want to protect their identities and who will go to extreme lengths to do so. When the men in charge realize that Honoria has discovered the house in which the children are kept, one Mr. Withersby instructs Alex, Lord Devin, to spy on her and do whatever is needed to disrupt her business. Devin is told that Honoria is printing seditious pamphlets as a sideline to her business as a bookseller, and as Withersby is blackmailing him (he has incriminating photographs of Devin’s brother with another man) Alex has little choice but to make Honoria’s acquaintance and start snooping around.
Alex is immediately intrigued by Honoria, as is she by him, but he’s too young and too handsome for her and she is suspicious when he begins to pay her compliments and even mores o when he kisses her mere hours after meeting her.
So far, so good – in terms of the plot, at least. The author has seized upon two less common issues encountered in historical romantic fiction, so as I’ve said, the premise was promising.
But the book falls down badly in terms of the writing and tone. The author frequently uses anachronistic language (”Get over yourself”), incorrect terminology (Bach didn’t write any Cello concerti) and poor word choices.
For example, Honoria tells Alex:
”Of course, then we may maintain our acquaintance. You may visit me at the shop as you choose. But I have provisions.”
And then later she says:
“My grandfather held a baronet.”
There is a conversation between Honoria and her three friends who comprise the Needlework for the Needy society, in which one of them says that her “gut” feels unsettled about something. I really can’t imagine a proper Victorian lady using such a term.
There are also situations which stretch plausibility so much that, if it were a piece of elastic, it would never regain its original shape. Alex’s mother, the Dowager Viscountess, is presented as rather a free-thinker, although she is still accepted in society and invitations to her dinners and parties are highly sought after. I imagine the author is trying to account for the fact that Lady Devin invites a woman about whom she knows absolutely nothing to a dinner party which will be attended by (among others) Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning ,and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and seems to have no concern whatsoever about Alex’s relationship with a woman fourteen years his senior. Not only does she invite this unknown tradeswoman to a prestigious event at her home, but within minutes of making her acquaintance, she offers to lend Honoria a dress suitable for dinner. She doesn’t make an outright offer, instead coming up with a ridiculous story of how she and her now deceased sister used to like playing “dress-up,” so she would deem it a kindness if Honoria were to borrow one of her sister’s dresses. True, she doesn’t say, “That dress you have on is horrible, for God’s sake go and find something else,” but Honoria falls for it anyway.
Then, while Honoria is dressing, her ladyship tells her all about her late husband, how much she loved him, how he met his death etc. All this to a woman she had never met until a few minutes before.
There are so many other implausibilities or things that stretched my credulity past breaking point that it would take too long to list them. Withersby’s incriminating photographs of Alex’s brother are worthless because Andrew is not gay and can provide the names of various courtesans who have obliged him in order to prove it. Alex is desperate to get into Honoria’s knickers – but when she eventually asks him to, he turns her down because he doesn’t want to take advantage. When he finally does get that far, he’s astonished to discover that she’s a virgin (turns out she was never actually married) – and then doesn’t finish what they’ve started.
The sex scenes are fairly tame, but I admit I had to suppress laughter on several occasions. There’s a difficult line to walk between “hot” and “funny” when it comes to writing sex, and sadly too often in this book we’re on the “funny” side of it.
There were also a lot of issues introduced that were never fully explored. Alex is bitter about the fact that his late father seemed to prefer his life as an explorer to being at home with his family; he’s afraid of horses; he’s an accomplished cellist but hasn’t played in years (and despite that is still able to perform some of Bach’s Cello Suites perfectly). I felt I was being bombarded with Alex’s issues as a way of making him a more interesting character, but I’m afraid it didn’t work.
And that brings me to the biggest of my many problems with the book. I had absolutely no idea what Alex and Honoria saw in each other, or, indeed, who they were as people. Alex insists that he loves Honoria for who she is – but neither of them ever felt real to me, and because of that, I was never drawn into the story or brought to care about what actually happened to them.
For me, that’s the greatest deficit I could find in any story. I read romance for the emotional connection between the protagonists and between the characters and the reader, and if that doesn’t happen, then I am unlikely to enjoy the book. But in addition to that, there were numerous failings in terms of the structure and writing – typographical and grammatical errors, as well as many instances of what I can only describe as poor writing. By that I mean that the sentence construction is either tortuous or too simplistic (most often the latter), word choice is awkward, and it just generally feels unpolished.
While it’s the author’s name on the cover, I’m not putting the entirety of the blame for that at her feet, however, because errors in spelling and grammar should be picked up by a good proofreader, and errors in terminology, word-choice, and sentence structure should, surely, be highlighted by the editor and options discussed with the writer. However, none of this was addressed in the editing process, and the result is that a promising plot turned into a dismal read.
As an aside, I remain stunned about the fact that the author teaches English and has a PhD in 19th century English Literature because if a teacher of English is unable to make correct word-choices then I don't hold out much hope for the rest of us.
I also included a couple more quotes in the review I submitted - but because I tend to go on a bit, sometimes, they need editing down! - which I included in order to illustrate how difficult it is to write successful love scenes. Here are two "crossed-the-line-from-hawt-to-hilarious" moments:
”Damn it, man. I said kiss me.”
”I need you now,” he exclaimed against her lips. “Take me, damn it. Take me into you now!”
*snigger*
ETA - Before anyone reads this and accuses me of being a bitter, failed author, I am going to state categorically that I am no such thing. I proof-read and edit, and have no authorial ambitions. ...more
Jun 15, 2013 Erika Williams rated it it was ok
This is one of those books where I'm not quite sure to begin with addressing my feelings towards it. The book starts out with an interesting enough premise, with the heroine being the older one in the relationship as opposed to the usual age gap with the older man pursuing the younger woman. But so much of this book was a disappointment to me that I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. There were times when I would read whole pages and my mind would blank so badly that I had no idea what I This is one of those books where I'm not quite sure to begin with addressing my feelings towards it. The book starts out with an interesting enough premise, with the heroine being the older one in the relationship as opposed to the usual age gap with the older man pursuing the younger woman. But so much of this book was a disappointment to me that I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. There were times when I would read whole pages and my mind would blank so badly that I had no idea what I had just read. I rarely missed important plot points during this bit, but it was frustrating to have to go back and read it again.
This book is yet another that includes attempted rape as an excuse to save the heroine. I'm sick of seeing this in almost every novel I read anymore. It automatically makes the heroine indebted to the hero in a sexual manner and it just ruins the entire relationship for me because we no longer have a relationship of equals. If we must continue with this trend, why can't a good friend rescue the heroine, or someone who has absolutely no sexual interest in the heroine and never will?
Beyond that complaint, the sex scenes were as forgettable as the rest of the book, and the big secret that Honoria is carrying around is ridiculous. Because of societal standards, she fakes a marriage and subsequently fakes being a widow, all so she can survive under the terms of her benefactor's will. For some reason, this makes her believe that she is a terrible excuse for a human being who does not deserve something as simple as love. Say it with me ladies; doing what is necessary to survive does not make you a terrible person and is not cause for massive angst that ensued from a forty year old woman whose age I forgot most of the time because her maturity level fluctuated as plot dictated.
The book had the potential to get deep with the child prostitution ring Honoria was investigating and the fact that Lord Devin's brother may have participated in homosexual practices. His brother's strong assurances that he was perfectly straight almost made the book seem to scream "No homo!" while ignoring the fact that even the rumor of homosexuality at the time, whether or not it was practiced, would have amounted to a good deal of trouble for all involved. Not to mention the only other time homosexuality is mentioned in the book, it's in conjunction with pedophiles and child prostitution. As for the child prostitution scandal, well, it's quite nicely tied up at the end within five pages and without much conflict. It's almost as if something as damaging and serious as child prostitution was simply a plot device for the hero and heroine to meet.
The book does have it's merits. It does seriously explore the notion of a marriage between a lord and a woman who is older and likely can't bear him any heirs. But then she's pregnant by the end anyway, so any objections to the relationship on account of her age are moot by the end of the book. I can really only recommend it for someone looking for a quick romp in 1851 romances. ...more
Apr 19, 2013 Farrah rated it really liked it
A nice historical romance. Not my favorite, but definitely enjoyable.
I haven't read many historical romances where the heroine is significantly older than the hero, so this was a different experience. It actually got me wondering why most people, even today, don't even blink at an older man and younger woman, but get fussy over an older woman and a younger man. A strange double standard. It was realistic in its portrayal of how people might react.
Nora was a good heroine. My one My Rating: 3.5/5
Nora was a good heroine. My one issue with her is that she was much to self-deprecating. She was 40, which I would consider middle aged, but certainly no senior citizen. She acted as if she was an old crone. But, to everyone else, she was an older woman who had aged very well. And I didn't like how, when she found out that Devin had me asked to ruin her, she had a freak out. She knew that he only did it to save his brother, which seems to be a perfectly reasonable and justifiable explanation to me, but she threw a hissy fit about it. However, one I got past those two things, I did like her. She was a very strong woman who does whatever she needs to do to survive. And she was clever when times called on her to be. She turned out to be a lovely character.
Devin was much better for me. He knew early on that Nora was the one for him and he wasn't about to let something as trivial as age or gossip get in the way of them. It was so sweet how he was so determined to win Nora's heart. I have no complaints about him. He was spectacular.
Nora and Devin had a complicated relationship, since there were so many obstacles between them. But, they were sweet together and the sparks flying between them were very hot.
The plot was okay, though it dragged in a few places. But, for the most part, I was kept interested and the thrills in store had me hooked. The ending was utterly perfect, so sweet and happy.
Never Too Late was a lovely historical romance. I didn't love it, but I really enjoyed it. Romance lovers, you'll want to give this book a try.
*Thanks to Netgalley and Kensington for a copy! ...more
Mar 29, 2013 Carrie rated it really liked it
Shelves: historical-romance, arc, widow-widower, netgalley, asked-or-received-for-review, tower-team
**I would like to thank Kensington Books for providing me with an arc of Never Too Late, via NetGalley**
Lord Devin has been given the job of investigating Honoria Duchamp and the controversial pamphlets she's been printing. Honoria is a widow and the owner of Evans Books, she has also has gotten the attention of those who would like to see these printings come to and end.
Upon being given the assignment, Honoria Duchamp was not at all what Lord Devin expected. She is not at all the bookish **I would like to thank Kensington Books for providing me with an arc of Never Too Late, via NetGalley**
Upon being given the assignment, Honoria Duchamp was not at all what Lord Devin expected. She is not at all the bookish matron he envisioned, but a smart and beautiful woman. Now there is more then just her pamphlets he would like to investigate.
I found myself rather taken with both Honoria and Lord Devin. Honoria is a smart older heroine, independent and a lover of books. Lord Devin, slightly cocky used to getting what he wants.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this Never Too Late although I do however have some issues. Things get mentioned but nothing comes of it, there is one scene that comes to mind, (view spoiler)[ when Lord Devin goes to write a letter to Marissa to get her to help him. Nothing comes of it, jumps to the next scene without any word (hide spoiler)]
But over all a great book, and I am looking forward to reading more things from Amara Royce.
**Never Too Late is expected to be published May 2, 2013**
Mar 22, 2013 Beth rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: romance, own, netgalley, historical, fiction, arc
Mrs. Honoria Duchamp is a widowed owner of a book shop in London. So why would Lord Devin have any interest in her.
Lord Devin has been assigned the task of ruining the widow Duchamp, he is being blackmailed with a scandal that will threaten his family. He has to stop Mrs. Duchamp from printing pamphlets about social disgraces she has uncovered. Apparently, one of Mrs. Duchamp’s pamphlets has hit close to home for some very powerful people making her a target with some very dangerous enemies.
As Mrs. Honoria Duchamp is a widowed owner of a book shop in London. So why would Lord Devin have any interest in her.
As soon as Lord Devin meets Mrs. Duchamp, he is immediately drawn to her, like no other woman before her. He quickly realizes that he must find a way to clear Mrs. Duchamp of this scandal and still save his family’s reputation.
This book grew on me quickly. I found myself emotionally vested in Honoria’s quest as well as her heartache. Surprising revelations, unseen betrayals and character growth made this a fascinating and intriguing read. Amara Royce did a brilliant job, pulling us into this wonderful historical romance.
This ARC copy of Never Too Late was given to me by Kensington Books in exchange for a honest review. This book is set for publications on May 2, 2013.
Feb 02, 2018 AG Reads rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Boring and poorly written. While the plot could have been interesting, the writing did not flow well and the dialogue was stilted and often inane. The h's characterization was all over the place such that I could never get a grasp on her and didn't like her.
It was a struggle to get through this book and not worth the time.
Apr 22, 2013 Kathie (katmom) rated it really liked it
Shelves: netgalley-request
Honoria Duchamp is well aware that men often consider widows easy prey for the role of mistress. What else could explain the attentions of handsome Lord Devin, and his visits to her bookshop? The much younger Viscount has even shown interest in the printing press with which she creates pamphlets on London’s basest injustices. Yet his chief interest appears to be in her… Coerced to investigate Nora’s controversial pamphlets, Devin Expect the unexpected, especially in a room filled with books…
Honoria Duchamp is well aware that men often consider widows easy prey for the role of mistress. What else could explain the attentions of handsome Lord Devin, and his visits to her bookshop? The much younger Viscount has even shown interest in the printing press with which she creates pamphlets on London’s basest injustices. Yet his chief interest appears to be in her… Coerced to investigate Nora’s controversial pamphlets, Devin expected to find a bookish matron. Instead, he is taken with Nora’s womanly beauty, sharp intellect, and quick wit. Soon, what begins as an unwelcome task becomes a pleasure, and Devin’s job becomes more dangerous—for them both. For Nora has no idea of the vicious element she’s crossed. Now Devin will risk his reputation to protect her—and much more to win her love…
This lovely book had a twist that I don't think I've seen in an historical romance before. Honoria, Nora, is about 40 and Devin, the Viscount, is 25.
Even though she is attracted to him, she can see the pitfalls of such an association. She's a shopkeeper and he's a Viscount! When she calls him "dear boy" it made me laugh...and him cringe.
While this was a romance, there is a thread of darkness throughout. The injustices that Nora and her interesting group of knitting friends, are trying to bring light to through the various pamphlets that they create is pornography and abuse of women and children. There were some scary moments that may be a trigger for some. Definitely a layer of nitty gritty in this romance.
There were a couple of things that seemed off to me. The fact that "everyone" was out to get her. And the epiphany that maybe she did have friends seemed a bit like trying too hard to tie things up in a tidy bow. Also, we don't ever hear what happened to some of the characters (Minnie? Erich?). That pulled this down from a five to a four for me.
Even so, it was enjoyable. Nora was OLDER! Interesting for sure! And she owned a book store, ah, heaven!
I'm giving this a FOUR BOOKMARK.
A Romance with substance and an older heroine.
Yes, I'd read this one again!
*Thank you, NetGalley and Kensington, for the opportunity to read this book.
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Jul 19, 2013 Aerin rated it it was amazing
Shelves: romance, historical-fiction, not-suited-for-under-13, not-suited-for-under-11
Amara Royce has written a book that does exactly what I love books to do: turned everything about a genre upside down, with political commentary, steamy romance, bluestockings galore, strong female characters, strong female friendships, and, of course, a dashing and handsome young man who is every bit as noble as he is amazing in bed. If you know your Scheherazade from your Shakespeare, or have dreamed about making love in the rain, you should read this book.
May 07, 2013 Shona rated it really liked it
A mature heroine who must work in trade (shock! horror!) to survive, gives this romance some interesting twists that many regencies lack. There is a serious and worthwhile sub-plot, but, of course, there is also romance and, better yet, a series of fascinating characters, some fictional and some real life. Loved the way that Royce wove famous literary and cultural figures of the time into her work.
Apr 15, 2013 Diane K. Peterson rated it really liked it
Shelves: historical-romance, ebooks
Never Too Late is an appropriate title for this May-December romance of an older working woman and a younger lord. It is the debut novel for Amara Royce and shows great promise. Her writing style is clever and brings depth to the characters.
Widowed Honoria (Nora) Duchamp is suspicious, but intrigued by the attentions of Lord Devin. He is an attractive young viscount and she is an older bookstore owner and crusader for the mistreated. It makes no sense when he keeps appearing just at the time she Never Too Late is an appropriate title for this May-December romance of an older working woman and a younger lord. It is the debut novel for Amara Royce and shows great promise. Her writing style is clever and brings depth to the characters.
Widowed Honoria (Nora) Duchamp is suspicious, but intrigued by the attentions of Lord Devin. He is an attractive young viscount and she is an older bookstore owner and crusader for the mistreated. It makes no sense when he keeps appearing just at the time she most needs help, but his attraction for her seems sincere. What she doesn't know is that Devin has been bribed to investigate her political and social activities. He is faced with a dilemma when he is seriously draw to the subject of his investigation because he finds her to be an intelligent, compassionate and sensual woman. Nora has secrets of her own that prevent her from responding to Devin.
I found this book quite compelling. The large age difference between Nora and Devin, especially with her being fourteen years older, was bothersome through a great deal of the book. But I have to give much credit to Royce's writing – I was completely convinced of the viability of the relationship long before the end of the story. There were some small stumbles in the writing; this is Royce's first published book, after all, but she really drew me into the story and made me care about Nora and Devin. I genuinely enjoyed the book.
May 02, 2013 Lisa - (Aussie Girl) rated it really liked it
Shelves: romance-historical, nbrc-mango-tango, read-in-2013
An unusual Victorian historical romance in as much as the hero Lord Alexander Devin is twenty six and the heroine, Honoria Duchamp is forty. Despite the fact that this was probably not likely to happen in 1851 it is a very readable romance with a mature beyond his years hero and fiesty heroine who investigate some unsavoury aspects of London's underworld together. But both are hiding secrets from each other despite their attraction and it is this as much as their unconventional relationship An unusual Victorian historical romance in as much as the hero Lord Alexander Devin is twenty six and the heroine, Honoria Duchamp is forty. Despite the fact that this was probably not likely to happen in 1851 it is a very readable romance with a mature beyond his years hero and fiesty heroine who investigate some unsavoury aspects of London's underworld together. But both are hiding secrets from each other despite their attraction and it is this as much as their unconventional relationship which may keep them apart.
3.5 - 4 stars. ...more
May 25, 2013 Las added it
Shelves: historical, romance, dnf
DNF. I thought the relationship and emotions started too quickly. The hero was supposed to be spying on her from the beginning, but because of the instant attraction it hadn't gone anywhere by page 100, which is where I gave up. There was nothing at all bad about this story, but it just didn't work for me. The author has a lovely voice and I'll be checking out her future books.
May 04, 2013 Zan Marie Steadham rated it it was amazing
Shelves: books-i-ve-read
This is a great read! NEVER TOO LATE is a rousing romance with a big heart for the social ills of Victorian England. Add a wonderful flip of the usual older hero/younger heroine and it moves into welcome new territory. You need to read this one!
Mar 15, 2013 Mandi Schreiner rated it liked it
Shelves: historical
This one was too slow for me. Characters were a little too dry. Their romance unfolded nicely but it was hard to get into. Review coming.
Apr 29, 2013 Beyond the Squee rated it really liked it
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Honoria Duchamp is well aware that men often consider widows easy prey for the role of mistress. What else could explain the attentions of handsome Lord Devin, and his visits to her bookshop? The much younger Viscount has even shown interest in the printing press with which she creates pamphlets on London’s basest injustices. Yet his chief interest This review may also be found at:
There were a couple of things that seemed off to me. The fact that "everyone" was out to get her. And the epiphany that maybe she did have friends seemed a bit like trying too hard to tie things up in a tidy bow. Also, we don't ever hear what happened to some of the characters. That pulled this down from a five to a four for me.
Even so, it was enjoyable. Nora was OLDER! Interesting for sure!
Apr 08, 2013 A Voracious Reader (a.k.a. Carol) rated it really liked it
Shelves: kensington, e-book, historical-romance, netgalley
Book source ~ Many thanks to NetGalley and Kensington for providing a review copy.
Honoria ‘Nora’ Duchamp runs her family’s bookstore and even though she has a Duke in her family tree she’ll never be seen as more than a widow of the merchant class and below the station of her patrons. When Lord Devin stops in to her store one day and then begins to flirt with her, she is taken aback. What could the young and handsome Devin want with her? And why is she suddenly daydreaming of things that could Book source ~ Many thanks to NetGalley and Kensington for providing a review copy.
Honoria ‘Nora’ Duchamp runs her family’s bookstore and even though she has a Duke in her family tree she’ll never be seen as more than a widow of the merchant class and below the station of her patrons. When Lord Devin stops in to her store one day and then begins to flirt with her, she is taken aback. What could the young and handsome Devin want with her? And why is she suddenly daydreaming of things that could never happen?
Lord Alexander Devin is a Viscount and 14 years younger than Nora. When he is sent to investigate a widowed bookstore owner he expects a dried up old hag. Instead, he gets the intelligent and beautiful Nora and he’s intrigued. Unfortunately, he’s stuck in an impossible situation and must continue to lie to her as to his true intentions. Is there hope for this unusual pairing? What about the lies each are withholding from the other? They seem doomed from the beginning and yet there is hope.
This historical romance was a little different from the usual fair since the heroine is older than the hero by a considerable number of years. Well, what was thought to be considerable then and even to some people today. The age and station difference creates a lot of conflict, but it’s the reason behind Alex’s original visit that is the true problem. Alex, for the most part, is wise beyond his years, but in this one thing he doesn’t really use his head. But then again we’re talking the 1800s, where the man was the head of the household and he was supposed to take care of his family and not worry the females he was responsible for with unpleasant business.
Nora is too stuck on the fact she is older than Alex, but here again, we’re talking the 1800s where it was virtually unheard of for a wife to be older than her husband. A mistress, yes, but not a wife. A wife is expected to provide her husband with an heir and she’s too old for that even if she could buck tradition and marry Alex.
All-in-all a solid historical romance with great characters and an intriguing storyline.
May 15, 2013 Stacy Sties rated it it was amazing
I really enjoyed this story; it is a historical romance with an interesting twist on the typical and an excellent plot outside of just the romance as well. The author does an excellent job of giving you a back story of the main characters but not giving so much away in the beginning that you learn more about each character as they learn about each other. I was really impressed about how everything came together, nothing was forced and the story flowed beautifully. I will be looking for more of I really enjoyed this story; it is a historical romance with an interesting twist on the typical and an excellent plot outside of just the romance as well. The author does an excellent job of giving you a back story of the main characters but not giving so much away in the beginning that you learn more about each character as they learn about each other. I was really impressed about how everything came together, nothing was forced and the story flowed beautifully. I will be looking for more of her books in the very near future. ...more
Mar 12, 2013 Kelly_Instalove rated it really liked it
Shelves: genre-romance, era-historical, theme-espionage-intrigue, source-netgalley, hist-eng-regency, theme-widow-orphan
Grade: B-
“I will never be done with you,” he said, low and fierce.
While I had issues with the rather melodramatic plot and the heroine’s Deep Dark Secret, I loved Royce’s voice and storytelling. The hero and heroine were equally compelling, the relationship-building was spot-on, and the sexy times were hot. I'm looking forward to more from this debut author.
Jan 10, 2015 Milena Benini rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: romance, historicals
This is one of those books I should have loved -- a bookstore keeping heroine who's been fending for herself her whole life, positive secondary female characters, Victorian era -- but it just never delivered. The chemistry between the main characters was unconvincing, the plot jumped all over the place, and the whole just seemed like it was duct-taped together. Still, I might give Royce another try, because I really did like the setup.
Jun 11, 2013 Lara Lacombe rated it it was amazing
Shelves: read-in-2013
Loved it! A fantastic debut from a talented author. Honoria is a lovely heroine, and she has great chemistry with Alex. I particularly enjoyed the way the story put a slight twist on traditional romance tropes. A very enjoyable book!
May 25, 2013 Stella rated it it was amazing
Shelves: historical, chick-lit, for-review, romance, 2013
A great story I devoured in no time. Enjoyed how different it was in certain aspects (older/spinster widow heroine - younger dashing rake hero).
Loved it, detailed review to be posted soon.
May 03, 2014 Kelsey rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: free, own
as far as cheesy romances go, this is one of the worst.
Apr 15, 2014 Angela marked it as tbr-lost-interest
Shelves: kindle, romance, free, historical
15 April 2014: $0.00 FREE on Kindle
Apr 17, 2013 Moonlight Reads rated it really liked it
Please read our full review at www.moonlightreads.com.
Jul 02, 2013 Maria rated it it was amazing
I loved this story about an older woman/younger man. I want to see more of this kind of historical romance. For my full review: http://bit.ly/12Lg0mY
May 12, 2013 Tracie rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed this book. It is not something I would normally choose to read, however, thanks to Mike Fierro I. gave it a try. loved the characters!
Aug 15, 2013 Traci rated it really liked it · review of another edition
What a great book, I read it in a day. I hope there are more!
Apr 27, 2014 Sue rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Didn't finish this one. Somehow, I just couldn't get into it, even at over 30% in. Sorry.
Nov 17, 2016 Melanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Once in a blue moon an author will take a chance and write a romance involving an older, mature heroine and a younger, dashing hero. I am so happy when that happens!
It makes for an interesting and very entertaining romance filled with drama and suspense as well as some fascinating characters that will stay with you for some time.
Please don't let the difference in their ages deter you from reading this story. The age difference between Nora and Devin is what makes this story so compelling.
I Once in a blue moon an author will take a chance and write a romance involving an older, mature heroine and a younger, dashing hero. I am so happy when that happens!
Melanie for b2b
Jul 04, 2017 Kyla Lockwood rated it really liked it
Pretty good book
I gave it a four out of five because it took me alot longer to read than i useally do in a historical romance. Some of the book dragged on for me. I guess i was bored and easily was able to put it down.
Though the story line was good and the the characters strong. I rather love how the ending was cast and the wit of other famous authors entertwinex.
Madison Mega-Mara...: "Never Too Late" by Amara Royce 1 1 Aug 27, 2014 09:08AM
Romance > Historical Romance
Historical > Historical Fiction
Historical > Regency
European Literature > British Literature
Business > Amazon
Womens Fiction > Chick Lit
About Amara Royce
Amara Royce
Happy endings. Historical research. Put me in massive library with my laptop, and I'm in heaven.
I write historical romance set mainly in Victorian Britain. Currently, I'm focusing on the mid-nineteenth century (the 1850s), a period of social, political, industrial, technological and personal transformation.
In my other life, I'm a community college professor of English literature and composition.
And I have a wonderfully supportive family that occasionally reminds me there's more to life than words. ...more
Books by Amara Royce
Trivia About Never Too Late
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Press Release: Salvation Army and GoShare Partner for On-Demand Delivery
GoShare and Salvation Army Partner to Support Delivery from Family Stores
The Salvation Army has selected GoShare as their moving and delivery partner for donation pickup and last mile delivery services in the western region. This partnership will allow The Salvation Army’s western region to consolidate their previously fragmented delivery services coverage under one preferred partner.
GoShare represents a new way of providing logistics and last mile delivery support. GoShare’s proprietary technology connects businesses and individuals requiring moving and delivery assistance with an extensive network of local delivery professionals who are insured and background checked. This creates a virtual fleet for local, brick and mortar businesses to access on-demand.
“We are thrilled to be entering into a partnership with The Salvation Army, an organization that does so much good in communities across the nation,” said Shaun Savage, CEO of GoShare. “GoShare’s virtual fleet of on-demand delivery professionals will provide The Salvation Army with a cost-effective, convenient solution to facilitate donations to the Salvation Army. Additionally, GoShare makes it easier for shoppers to purchase second-hand furniture and other large items at their popular Family Thrift Stores.”
“Partnering with GoShare at 65 of our Family Thrift Store locations has given our customers the value-added service of reliable and reputable delivery for larger purchases, such as appliances and furniture”, says Major Henry Graciani, General Secretary of the Western Territory Adult Rehabilitation Centers. “Proceeds from The Salvation Army Family Thrift Stores directly benefit Adult Rehabilitation Centers in those communities helping to combat homelessness and substance abuse, at the local level that save lives.”
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About GoShare:
GoShare’s proprietary technology connects businesses and consumers with delivery professionals on-demand. GoShare supports local businesses and economies by providing a high hourly wages and flexible hours to delivery professionals, while also providing local businesses with same day last mile delivery support, allowing them to be more competitive with national online retailers. Our Delivery Professionals own their own pickup trucks, cargo vans, box trucks and cars. For more information, visit www.goshare.co. Anyone interested in joining GoShare’s network as a delivery professional may apply at www.GoShare.co/Drivers. Follow us on Twitter @GoShareDotCo or Instagram @GoShare.co, and #GoShare.
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The Salvation Army annually helps more than 23 million Americans overcome poverty, addiction, and economic hardships through a range of social services. By providing food for the hungry, emergency relief for disaster survivors, rehabilitation for those suffering from drug and alcohol abuse, and clothing and shelter for people in need, The Salvation Army is doing the most good at 7,600 centers of operation around the country. In the first-ever listing of “America’s Favorite Charities” by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Salvation Army ranked as the country’s largest privately funded, direct-service nonprofit. For more information, visit SalvationArmyUSA.org. Follow us on Twitter @SalvationArmyUS and #DoingTheMostGood
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Audio Music 805S Monoblocks / RT-2 Preamplifier Review
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Audio Music 805S monoblocks
I used to think that the law of returns was cast-iron; up to a point you get what you pay for, beyond it, progressively less for considerably more outlay. Yet recently I’ve heard two absolutely rocking systems built around some really quite humble components. A lot, for a lot less, is entirely do-able.
Go to a live acoustic music event and it’s the headroom that is most noticeable. Even an instrument as delicate as a solo violin is felt close up as visceral, physical. And so what I listen for in any audio system is first and foremost dynamics. I’d go as far as to say that for me, 85% of musical satisfaction is not in the timbre, or the soundstage, or in a finger-on-chin appreciation of a ruler-flat frequency response. Without dynamics two-channel is mere musical wallpaper – an uninvolving event pasted to the front wall of the room.
Don’t kid yourself Wayne. It’s not about Watts. You’re unlikely to achieve my kind of satisfaction from speakers that are inefficient, no matter how much solid state grunt you throw at them. And particularly with tube amplification, interconnects too make a profound difference, with low capacitance, low inductance designs more often than not enabling well-founded components to produce notably more openness and dynamics than does any old connectivity string.
What prompted this mini-essay on the world according to KevinF was the loan for review purposes of a rather interesting combination of a pair of monoblocks and a tube pre-amplifier designed and manufactured in China by Am Fang, a Chinese gentleman who now heads his own Audio Music brand having previously been for some years the design brains behind Silver Knight. The AM805S monoblocks and RT-2 preamplifier are imported and retailed by Iain Borthwick of LW Audio in Bury St. Edmunds. We are, aren’t we, long past the point where mention of Chi-fi prompts a snigger from the back of the class? Really, if you think that nothing worthy of being called hi-end comes out of China, then perhaps you need to get out more.
Still, the Audio Music combination is a bit of a paradox: on the one hand at circa £16k it is emphatically in the realm of unobtanium for many people, yet it is not so stratospherically costly that it’s only affordable by investment bankers and members of the Islington or Edinburgh elites. If its price point is neither one nor the other, then the technology similarly faces in two directions at the same time, being part tube and part solid state.
The AM 805S monoblocks (£8,500) use 805 broadcast triodes as their output device, yet employ integral solid state, not tube rectified power supplies. The RT-2 preamplifier (£7500) is also hybrid in the same way – solid state power supply followed by tubes – in this instance 6H30 as drivers and a pair of 6922s to provide voltage gain. Mr Fang does not approve of tube rectified power supplies. When I enquired why via email he replied that they are invariably noisy, introduce distortion and don’t enable a firm grip over bass frequencies to be achieved.
That assertion will come as a surprise to the many manufacturers who do use tube power supplies in their products with great success, including Modwright, whose truly excellent LS 36.5 preamplifier was the subject of my last review for the ‘wam. The LS 36.5 preamp has a tubed power supply and yet not only has a vanishingly low latent noise level, but exerts astonishing grip, most evidently at the bottom end of the audio spectrum.
Superficially the 805 tube looks on paper to be the answer to many a maiden’s prayer. It is the most powerful of the 211 family, in the AM 805S able to achieve an output of 45 Watts even in single-ended mode.
But the 805 has a high impedance and was designed for class C applications where it would drive a constant load, no-one worried about distortion and where a low impedance driver stage was easily to hand. A designer I discussed it with told me that it could be used with great success for high power sound reinforcement – 500 Watts and up – but in class A single ended mode its design characteristics pose real challenges that can only be overcome by applying loop feedback in order to achieve a respectable damping factor (and this is either desirable or not, depending upon your personal view), and by making a driver stage able to provide zero power at points in the audio band when the tube’s grid is negative, yet at other points when the grid is positive, deliver low impedance grunt, otherwise output is not linear across the audio band.
Remarkably, Mr Fang has pulled it off, creating in the AM 805S (the ‘S’ signifies silver, by the way) a monoblock whose sonic traits will appeal strongly to a wide section of the buying public. A pair of them sound quite powerful and controlled, yet have a good touch of the mid-range magic that many people love triodes for. I fancy a large part of that achievement is less to do with the 805 tube and a lot more to do with the truly excellent quality of the transformers that Audio Music designs and makes. Opinion differs but for every audio designer that claims OTL is the way to go, there are many more that say only transformers can deliver. As a consumer, not a designer, I am in the latter camp. Why would anyone go OTL? Because it’s cheaper and demands way less of your designers and manufacturing process, that’s why. Does it sound as good as a well executed tranny amp ? Hell no, in my view. Am Fang understands this and has done the hard yards to develop some seriously good transformer iron and windings.
The build quality of the AM 805Ss and the RT-2 is right up there among the best. Does Mr Fang have a relative who owns an aluminum plant? Looking at the amplifiers you have to wonder; the monoblocks and the preamp use aluminum so thick, so massively internally braced in the corners and so beautifully machined that they give the impression cast monolithic integrity rather than of something that’s been screwed together. With the lids of the RT-2 and its companion power supply removed, and the base plates of the monoblocks set aside it’s evident that the quality is more than simply skin deep. In addition to the own-build transformers Audio Music has copper foil capacitors of its own design manufactured in its own factory in Mexico. Am Fang and his colleagues liked what Jensen, Audio Note and a few others were producing, but didn’t like the prices, so decided to set up in competition. Audio Music U-Caps are the result.
Audio Music RT-2 preamplier
Internally, the RT-2 especially is a work of art. It is properly dual mono from power chord onwards. The feed splits as it enters the power supply chassis to feed two separate circuits, then travels to the preamp via separate ubilicals. To the front of the preamp box, massive machined alloy yokes hug the two 33-step-transformers for volume control, and at the rear another yoke holds the two larger output transformers. Across the middle is a vertically mounted tube socket board bolted onto its own, again massive, aluminum plate. Signal path capacitors are AM’s own U-Caps. The point to point wiring, all silver, is neatly executed. In all, it’s a joy to behold, especially when lit by the four tubes, which is why Iain Borthwick provides owners with an optional Perspex top plate so that the beauty can be more easily admired. You don’t want to be moving the AMs very often though. Each 805S weighs 31 Kg and the RT-2 and its companion power supply together a back-popping 38 Kg. Their combined weight did not push my 40mm oak audio table beyond its design envelope, but I fancy some of Iain’s customers for the 805S monoblocks and RT-2 are going to have to factor in the cost of more robust racking.
The RT-2 accepts just three single-ended or XLR balanced inputs. The front panel is simplicity itself with left and right channel volume controls either side of a rotary three position input selector switch. Tiny green LEDs indicate the position of the volume control settings.
The AM805Ss are similarly massively engineered in machined aluminum. The double C-core output transformers, mains transformers and driver transformers are hidden beneath aluminum shrouds. On the top surface sockets accept the 6V6 drivers, ECC88 amplifier and 805 output tubes. At the rear, behind the transformer shroud, are vertically mounted speaker binding posts, biasing test meter points, mains socket, plus balanced and RCA inputs.
Mr Fang describes himself as a self-confessed extreme audiophile for whom the best possible reproduction of symphonic music in all its complexity is the audio goal. In our exchange of emails via L W Audio, he identified three critical areas that AM pays great attention to in all its designs.
“The soul of a tube amplifier is its transformers, so I have spent more than ten years on
research and development, not only designing transformers for our products, but also
developing a high-accuracy machine which can wind two transformers at the same time. This helps us achieve consistency and symmetry between left and right channels.
“As you know, capacitors too are very important and influential to the sound. We use a large number of capacitors so we did the research and now make our own capacitors in our own factory. As well as wiring, we pay great attention to how acoustic vibration affects the sound of an amplifier. This tells you why we build the way we do, using such thick materials, very accurately assembled. Apart from good basic circuit design, all of these factors play a part in how a product will sound.”
For the review I teamed the AM amplifiers with Audio Note AN-E Spe Signature speakers and my own Origin Live vinyl rig and Audio Note CD transport and DAC. Interconnects and mains cables were a mixture of Audio Note litz and Cut Loose silver ribbon .
Lid off – the Audio Music RT-2 preamplifier
I initially introduced the 805 monoblocks on their own to the system, using my Audio Note M8 phono preamp to drive them. My immediate reaction, once I’d got over the heat produced by the 805 tubes, and the strong white light they emit, was one of surprise. Ultra quiet with no tube rush or hum to intrude into the music, the 805Ss have a dry muscularity. In the midband they lent voices some of the luminosity that SETs are famed for, and they gave a good sense of air, but at the bottom end they tended to sound arid, with less of the textural bloom that people tend to associate with tubes, and which many audiophiles criticise.
The substitution of the RT-2 for my own Audio Note M8 in the system showed what a class act the Audio Music preamplifier is. It is astonishingly quiet, pleasingly to my ears on the warm side of neutral and, as one might reasonably expect given their common design and manufacture pedigree, proved a good match with the 805Ss. I was lucky enough to have a Leema Elements Ultra phono stage here on loan at the same time, so was able to press this into service with the RT-2 to play vinyl as well as CD material. As was noted by the ‘wam’s James Palmer, the Elements might be characterised as belonging to the more ‘assertive’ end of the phono stage spectrum, and careful system matching can pay dividends. However, it worked well with the Audio Music combo, delivering detail without sounding granular and hi-fi. I suspect the Audio Music amplifiers relative laid-backness had quite a bit to do with this.
Did I mention that before? Aaah yes. The AMs are indeed laid-back. I don’t intend that to sound in any way pejorative or critical. I get what Mr Fang has set out to achieve with his voicing of the amplifiers and I think to a very large extent he’s succeeded. Feed them with his beloved symphonic music and they respond with a presentation that many people will find impressive and very satisfying. They present complex layers with an unforced clarity, throwing among the most remarkably detailed sound stages I’ve ever heard in my listening room. They also have a top-to-bottom evenness about them that doesn’t highlight any particular frequencies at the expense of others. This may well be in large part due to the lack of capacitors in the signal path. However, I found that with simpler combo jazz and other forms of acoustic music the 805Ss were less convincing for my tastes. While they do as previously noted have a large helping of that triode-sound in the midrange and, therefore render voices very well, and also deliver the leading edge of notes in a way that that illuminates nuances of timing, still there was something about the presentation that I couldn’t immediately put my finger on.
Switching back and forth between other kit including my Yamaha CR1000 receiver configured for power-amp-only mode, I eventually cottoned on; the sonic character of the AM805Ss is a halfway house between tube and solid state. While they don’t have quite the easy loose-limbed muscularity that some similarly priced tube amplification can deliver, they do sound powerful and driving in a solid-state kind of way. Mr Fang has created in the AM 805Ss a duo of amps that are at home in a niche of the market that is not over-served at the moment – people who perhaps like the look of tubes and for whom that tubey midrange is appealing, but who can’t live with the distortion of tubes, and can’t live without what they think of as a more truthful solid-state-style bass. As such the 805Ss are an astutely pitched product aimed at the majority buyer rather than the tube purist like me.
From that very personal perspective though, I think the RT-2 is a veritable blinder, able to mix it with some very illustrious and expensive company indeed. I tell you, it pushed my own Audio Note M8 hard into a corner. Nose to nose it asked: “You really worth that much, big boy?” Of course, and ultimately given the law of diminishing returns, the question is not so much one of £££s worth, but of sonic satisfaction. In others words eight point five tenths versus ten tenths – but for a lot, lot less money, if you want to characterise it that way.
The RT-2 is genuinely that good sonically, in my view. Its minimalist approach to input flexibility and user convenience probably doesn’t make it a particularly easy sell. Without a remote control it forces users to get up from the listening chair to change volume, and it only switches three sources. But does that honestly matter much when sonic quality of this order is available? Better yet, if £7,500 is too much to spring, there’s always the RT-1, copper wired version instead of silver, but otherwise identical in design and component quality for £2000 less. I haven’t heard one myself, but I bet it runs the RT-2 very close indeed.
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Stellar Students: Maria Unke, Manitowoc Lutheran
Maria Unke of Manitowoc Lutheran High School has been selected as a Stellar Student.
Stellar Students: Maria Unke, Manitowoc Lutheran Maria Unke of Manitowoc Lutheran High School has been selected as a Stellar Student. Check out this story on htrnews.com: http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/education/2017/05/30/stellar-students-maria-unke-manitowoc-lutheran/352451001/
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 11:37 a.m. CT May 30, 2017 | Updated 12:01 p.m. CT May 30, 2017
Maria Unke(Photo: Shellie Kappelman Photography)
Name: Maria Unke
Parent: Pastor Tom and Jackie Unke
School: Manitowoc Lutheran High School
Year in school: 12
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What extracurricular activities have you been involved with during high school? Softball (9), Volleyball (9,10), Basketball (9,10), Drama Club (9,10,11,12), Lancer Singers (10,11,12) Peer Tutors (10,11) National Honors Society (12)
What is one academic accomplishment about which you feel particularly good? I am proud of the fact that I have been on honor roll every year, even when taking AP and honors classes.
What class has influenced your decision regarding the career you plan to pursue? Many different classes have influenced my choice in becoming a teacher, but the biggest ones would be choir and biology.
What advice do you give to those just starting high school? Always try your hardest, even if you don't enjoy the class. You will enjoy the class more when you put effort into it.
What are your plans after high school? I plan to attend Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota, to become a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod teacher.
What would you like to be doing 10 years from now? 10 years from now, I would like to be teaching in a WELS high school or grade school.
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New Android users in the EU will be able to set DuckDuckGo as a default search engine
Android users in the European Union will no longer be forced to make use of Google as their default search engine.
This is not of Google’s own good will but rather a product of the antitrust ruling made by the EU in July 2018.
Within that lengthy ruling, the EU found that Google had been tying its search engine to its operating system. Under EU anti-trust laws, this is illegal.
Which brings us neatly to today, where Google has announced that Android users in the EU would be able to choose a preferred search engine when setting up their handset effective 1st March 2020.
Upon making a choice, the default search engine will be set and the provider’s app will also be downloaded where possible.
This will be called the “choice screen” and the search engine options displayed will differ from country to country. With that having been said, DuckDuckGo will be offered as a choice in all EU countries. A full list of all the options can be found here.
Strangely, it’s not users selecting which search engines appear in the choice screen.
Instead, search providers would need to bid in an auction to appear on the choice screen.
“In each country auction, search providers will state the price that they are willing to pay each time a user selects them from the choice screen in the given country. The three highest bidders will appear in the choice screen for that country. The provider that is selected by the user will pay the amount of the fourth-highest bid,” reads a statement on the Android website.
It should be noted that the bid made by a firm would only be payable once a user selects the service. Android state that there are no fees associated with appearing on the choice screen.
There are also stipulations to participating in the auction including being a general search provider, offering localisation and having an app in the Google Play Store.
It’s an awful lot of work to comply with the EU’s ruling which is why we don’t suspect the choice screen would make it onto devices outside of the US.
We’re also mindful of the fact that Google is taking a fee from the competition to appear on its choice screen.
With that having been said, there’s nothing stopping folks from selecting Google as their default on the choice screen and then switching at a later stage.
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James Marshall Crotty, Contributor
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Republicans Are Right To Be Furious At Ted Cruz
07/21/2016 10:40 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
Today on social media, the greatest dispenser of seeming truth since Lucifer tempted Eve, arose a meme that, in paraphrase, reasons thus: Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, in his artful speech on freedom before the Quicken Loans Arena faithful Wednesday night in Cleveland, delivered a "courageous," principled and much-needed rebuke of the GOP nominee for President, Donald J. Trump.
The argument behind the shibboleth goes like this. First, Mr. Trump deserved this payback when he insulted the looks of Mr. Cruz's wife Heidi during the GOP primary and subsequently accused Cruz's Cuban father, Rafael Cruz, of a tangential association to the JFK assassination. In both cases, Trump largely re-tweeted tweets that made these egregious points. Is the injury any less injurious because it was not directly delivered? I leave that to Mr. Cruz's conclave of dwindling backers to ascertain.
But statements by a former political consultant to Mr. Cruz, Amanda Carpenter, last night on CNN suggested that Cruz' major beef was not with Trump's numerous ad hominems, but, rather, that Cruz felt in his heart of preachy hearts that Trump was not a "true conservative." Read this way, Cruz's persuasive elucidation of conservative principles of freedom on taxes, regulations, and myriad other areas he thought best left to states or individual conscience was a protest against the ideological premise of Mr. Trump's candidacy and the convention convened to nominate the New York real estate tycoon as the party's standard-bearer.
Except for one small problem: compared to the binary anti-conservative choice of Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donald J. Trump - who has adopted almost every conservative principle and policy position that Cruz spoke of so eloquently Wednesday night - is almost to the right of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, said to wild applause on the Quicken Loans stage after Cruz's surreal act of political suicide, "So to paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to protect the Constitution this fall, there's only one possible way and that's to vote the Trump-Pence ticket."
This is not a new blind spot for Mr. Cruz. Long detested in Congress for his sanctimonious rhetoric and indomitable unwillingness to compromise on his "principles," he has often failed to embrace an ally when he has one. The holier-than-thou Cruz thus personifies that time-honored DC mantra: "Don't Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good."
Mind you, Mr. Trump is hardly the Platonic form of Republican goodness. His boorish rhetoric, incurious mindset, and gross ignorance of policy specifics, let alone the Constitution, is a genuine cause for concern for which I have castigated Mr. Trump in the past.
However, these indecorous aspects of Mr. Trump were not breaking news to Mr. Cruz, who frequently lobbed ad hominems at the GOP nominee during the primary campaign that trumped those of Trump himself. Cruz directly called Trump a "pathological liar," a "narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen," "a serial philanderer," a "sniveling coward," and "utterly amoral." Those are mostly diagnosticl portrayals that Mr. Cruz, a lawyer by training, should have left to professional counselors to ascertain. Yet, on balance, they are no less egregious than the ad hominems that Trump directly or indirectly hurled at the man he deemed "Lyin' Ted."
Moreover, as lowbrow and unfitting as these statements were, they were by no means the worst epithets ever uttered in a U.S. primary campaign. A quick step back in history shows that the rhetoric deployed in countless previous elections was far more base than anything hurled by Cruz or Trump.
Yet, in almost all cases of intense primary strife, the losing candidate found a way to rise above the personal fray, and, like far-seeing adults have done for millennia, speak to a more elevated purpose. Sausage-making, as the expression goes, is ugly business. And political sausage-making is uglier still. It is indeed the great irony of republican governance that out of ugly, messy, and vicious campaigns arises noble leadership. Mr. Cruz, not only a student of political history but a champion debater (albeit in a less rigorous form than the gold standard of policy debate) should know this better than most.
The proper, moral, and adult thing to do, whenever a campaign's second place finisher is asked to speak at the winner's convention, is to bring the party together in unity. This is what happened in almost every single American campaign in history. It is best exemplified by Cruz icon, Ronald Reagan, in his 1976 speech endorsing GOP primary winner Gerald Ford.
Had he followed Reagan's script, Mr. Cruz would still be seen as an "outsider," and true to his "conscience," but with the side benefit of being the leading GOP contender come 2020 or 2024. It's now unclear whether Cruz, after being publicly dressed down by his own Texas state delegation on Thursday morning, will even be reelected.
Yet knowing these risks, Mr. Cruz - showing a vindictive, infantile pettiness unbecoming of his age and political stature - decided to rhetorically rain on the victor's parade. I chalk this stunt up to a fundamental flaw in the fundamentalist firmament of Ted Cruz, who shortly after delivering his pompous non-endorsement, showed his true character by running for succor and approval to billionaire campaign contributor, Sheldon Adelson. In a surprising act of Kantian virtue likely to endear the Las Vegas casino tycoon to Trumpian hearts, Adelson summarily denied the disgraced Cruz entrance to his convention suite.
Suddenly friendless in a hall filled with former friends (many of whom joined with the New York Republican delegation in vociferously booing this wannabe Marc Antony off the Quicken Loans Arena stage), Mr. Cruz no doubt sought out his chief defender, the aggrieved and formerly sympathetic Mrs. Cruz. However, Heidi Cruz - now seen as an accomplice in this act of hideous treason - was being escorted out of Quicken Loans to a chorus of "Goldman Sachs! Goldman Sachs!" Heidi Cruz is an employee of the investment banking concern.
It was a Bernie-Sanders-like admonition that reveals the cross-party populist appeal of Mr. Trump. An appeal, seen now in jealous retrospect, that must have grated on the self-enamored Mr. Cruz, a child of a first-generation Cuban-American preacher man, who obviously instilled in his son a love of country, but failed miserably in imparting a sense of place, decorum, and good sportsmanship.
There are some who unwisely think that Cruz's small-minded performance will endear him to Republican hearts come 2020, should Mr. Trump fail at the ballot box come November. Such calculation was no doubt an unspoken undercurrent to Mr. Cruz's unbridled hubris.
If so, then Ted Cruz, who is by upbringing as much Canadian and Cuban as he is American, fails, like Mr. Obama (who spent large swaths of his childhood off the U.S. mainland) before him, in grasping time-honored values that longstanding Americans of all stripes hold dear. First, be a man of your word. Last night, before millions of Americans, Cruz broke his campaign pledge to support the GOP nominee. Secondly, if graciously asked to speak at a convention, then publicly back the nominee, however briefly, despite one's differences. Third, loyalty is a virtue greater than all others, especially among rivals seeking the greater good.
Ted Cruz violated these tenets. His behavior, in running right to the money, right after his speech, shows that he, not the largely self-financed Mr. Trump, is the true imposter to conservatism. In fact, Mr. Cruz just validated Mr. Trump's conservative outsider bona fides.
Many pundits - most of them Democrats and thus fans of Hillary-style hyper-controlling message management - admonished Trump for the Cruz debacle. Having known what the Junior Senator was to say two hours before, Mr. Trump, argue the micro-meddlers, should not have let Mr. Cruz speak at all or should have demanded a quid pro quo endorsement in exchange for Cruz's prime-time speaking slot. While a good argument can be made that Trump is at times slipshod in his governance, in this case he did the right and conservative thing.
As Mr. Cruz intoned on the Quicken Loans stage, conservatism is about freedom from excessive intrusions into one's rights, including the right to free speech. Moreover, as Mr. Cruz artfully noted, conservatism is about ascertaining the good on one's own, in accord with eternal principles, free of government edicts and nanny-state regulations. We should aim, if Mr. Cruz is to be believed, to become proud, strong, self-created individuals, living in diverse states that govern in accordance with the needs and values of their respective localities, but always pointing, despite these differences, to the greater good.
By giving Mr. Cruz the opportunity to discover, through his own free will, the right and proper thing to do in this place, on this occasion, Mr. Trump delivered the most conservative act of this election.
-- James Marshall Crotty
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The Horror Returns: Inside The Shared Legacies Of ‘Halloween' And 'Suspiria'
The camaraderie between the directors of both movies, new and old, have led to a fascinating linked history that continues to grow.
Matthew Jacobs
The New 'Halloween' Is A Satisfying Showdown That Belongs To Jamie Lee Curtis
The direct sequel remixes its slasher roots to become a thrilling feminist frolic. Michael Myers is who we’re here to see, but the story is Laurie's.
How 'Halloween' Rose From The Dead
A detailed conversation with director David Gordon Green on rebirthing John Carpenter's beloved movie with the help of Jamie Lee Curtis.
Live from Toronto Film Festival: Wrapping up
I counted no fewer than a half-dozen films being touted by different bloggers as "the best film of the year" before I even arrived in Canada. A couple of those turned out to be far less impressive than the hype would have you believe.
Marshall Fine
Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Tuesday, Sept. 9
Which is what I value most about the film festival experience in general: the chance it offers to discover a film, a filmmaker, an actor -- the operative word being discover. That's less and less of a factor at this particular festival these days. Instead, it seems stacked with pre-sold titles.
Nic Cage's Redemption?
It hurts watching James Gandolfini play a romantic lead because I just now realized that James Gandolfini is very, very good at playing a romantic lead and we will never get to see him do that again.
Mike Ryan
Wrapping up the Toronto Film Festival
If you were able to watch a new movie every two hours all day from 8 a.m. through midnight for the entire 10-day run of the festival, you would still only be able to see a little more than half of the movies the festival has to offer.
'Unlike Anything He's Ever Done'
Cage will star in "Joe," an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Larry Brown. The film is directed by David Gordon
Indie Director Loved Working With...Nicolas Cage?
David Gordon Green joins Ricky to talk about why he admires Nicolas Cage and how he had a great experience working with him.
HuffPost Video
The First Word On Nic Cage's 'Brutal' New Movie
Mike Ryan is senior writer for Huffington Post Entertainment. You can contact him directly on Twitter. During a recent press
David Gordon Green Defends 'The Sitter'
Has that ever happened to you before in any other movie? Not to this degree, because -- you know what? I take that back. "All
Paul Rudd Explains His 'Secret Movie'
Before we get to that, however, there's this: Rudd stars in this week's new comedy, "Admission." When I met Rudd at his Midtown
Josh Lucas: No Hide Away From Tides of Career
Lucas is under no illusion that Hide Away is a mainstream film. But he enjoyed taking the risks inherent in making an independent film with a very personal point of view.
Movie Review: The Sitter
Even with reliable comic performers like Jonah Hill, the crafty and unpredictable Sam Rockwell and JB Smoove, Green can't generate any big chuckles in a movie loaded with such sure-fire laughs as groin-kicks and tots shouting obscenities.
ReThink Review: Your Highness -- Ye Olde Stoner Flick
Your Highness is certainly an original film for its genre, but is it any good, with or without the use of dangerous Schedule I controlled substances?
Jonathan Kim
HuffPost Review: Your Highness
Your Highness is fatally-stymied by a script that still thinks that smoking weed is inherently funny, the "f-word" is by-itself comic gold, and homosexuality is automatically repulsive.
Scott Mendelson
Sweet, Sweet Pineapple
Though Pineapple Express is clearly sending up '80s action movies within the stoner genre, I find it interesting that no one has mentioned any kind of deeper message regarding drugs laws.
Kim Morgan
Snow Angels Premiere: Amy Sedaris, Politics Talk And The Return Of Gossip Girl
Last night, writer/director David Gordon Green was on-hand for the New York premiere of his dark drama Snow Angels at the Museum of Modern Art.
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By TheophileEscargot (Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 05:18:00 AM EST) Reading, MLP, Consumerism (all tags)
Reading: "Rollback". Consumerism. Web.
SF novel Rollback by Robert Sawyer. As the response to a SETI message comes back from the stars, an astronomer and spouse undergo rejuvenation treatment to give them a chance to keep the conversation going.
Nice idea, but a pretty poor novel. It's written very like this. As is becoming obligatory for some SF, Sawyer makes a valiant attempt to do Relationships and Feelings, but the characters don't really come to life: they seem like diagrams on a blackboard.
I was hoping that there would be a big skiffy resolution to make all that worth enduring, but it doesn't really amount to much. The message content is unsurprising.
Recommendation: avoid.
Consumerism followups
Thought I'd do an update on the various things I've bought.
Was a bit dubious about the gphone at first, but I've come to like it. The short battery life is its biggest problem, but it's never actually conked out on me yet, always seems to last me out the day. Apart from that it's a decent smartphone: UI is great, there are a few apps for it. I've actually found myself checking web stuff on it from my armchair rather than cross the room.
If it broke tomorrow, I'd probably get another one. Worth a look if you're interested in a smartphone.
Dell XPS 420 computer
Had a couple of problems with the Dell at first: sound output didn't work, had to get a fan replaced after much hassle.
Since then it's worked OK. Did get a resonance-rattle from the new fan, but wedging it with blue-tac seems to have fixed that.
Even so, wouldn't recommend it. If it was an unbranded cheapo box these problems would be forgivable, but I think a high-end model with a brand name should be more reliable than this.
Bought a Solar Casio Wave Ceptor watch a couple of weeks ago. Managed to clumsily break my old battery Wave Ceptor while trying to change the battery (which was extraordinarily fiddly, had to dismantle the whole thing).
Liked that, but not too sure about the replacement. It's bigger and chunkier than the old one, and the solar panel face seems a bit reflective.
Articles. Literary review of GTA 4. Sociology of ignorance. Amphetamine trade temporarily disrupted (MR).
Pics. Lobsters.
Misc, serious. Missing chapter from Bad Science finally published. Social worker blog. Stumbling and Mumbling on poverty of imagination.
Misc. God-Jesus robot. Disney's reuse MeFi, (MeFi). Barbie is not skinny. Doorstepping fail. Real-time shoe sales. Kosher telephone.
Tomlinson killing. Magistrate. Police media management. Coppersblog Stumbling & Mumbling crunches numbers.
Economics. Taleb's Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (MeFi). Kaletsky on Eurozone. UK trade figures improve. North/South divide not narrowed. Stephanomics on Tory policy, Irish tax rises.
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My dell story by bobdole (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 05:47:00 AM EST
I had a dell story play out last week, when my (personal, i.e. not work) XPS1330 conked out from heat (apparently a joint software/hardware problem, google knows about it). I sent them an email (with pictures of said screen artifacts) and got an email back within a few hours asking me to run some diagnostics and reply. I did the next day and they mailed me back and asked me when a technician could drop in on me and replace my motherboard and harddrive (harddrive problem I hadn't noticed, but the diagnostics uncovered bad blocks).
The following day was a Friday and I was busy, so I told them anytime Mon-Wed this week and gave them my phone number, Monday afternoon a technician called me up and ask if he could drop by in a few hours, I said yes and he did. Replaced both motherboard and harddrive (even installed a larger harddrive than the original) and reinstalled Vista and all drivers for me before he left.
The kicker is that the laptop was just 1 month past it's first birthday, so my "complimentary" 1-year next day service had just expired - still I ended up paying nothing as the parts were still under warranty...
I had your vision of Dell, but I guess this whole experience has improved my impression somewhat.
-- The revolution will not be televised.
I quite like that review of the Ungar article by lm (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 06:32:49 AM EST
Both the article and the review have quite a few intriguing points.
``Information is no longer a scarce resource; attention and interest are.''
How it is not ignorance but knowledge that must be explained.
The similarities between amateur astronomers and AIDS activists.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
I thought it was kind of scary myself by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #22 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 08:20:56 PM EST
It all rings true, but what do we do about it, resign ourselves to idiocracy?
"The ideal of the well-informed citizen is scarcely a viable aspiration anymore"
I've commented there, saying... by Alan Crowe (2.00 / 0) #24 Sat Apr 11, 2009 at 06:45:46 PM EST
I foresee this study being complicated by the problem of "ignorance-doubling." I'll offer two examples of what I mean by ignorance-doubling.
First, take the troubling phenomenon of people on the right of politics advocating free-trade. Why do they do that? One can talk about conspiracies and false consciousness, there is much to be said and one finds oneself ignorant of much of it.
There is a problem. The previous paragraph assumes an ignorance of Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage. More accurately it assumes that our hero has come across it, perhaps in some garbled account in a newspaper, and has not understood it. He fails to understand this basic law of economics but does not realise that it is important and does not realise that it is important, both for what it tells us about trade, and because it explains why people on the right of politics advocate.
One piece of ignorance, about Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, leads on to more ignorance. Without the true explanation of advocacy there is forests of sociological explanations. Our hero cannot keep up with them as they are patched and mended to try to make them work, he suffers from lots of secondary ignorance.
If he could only go back and study Ricardo's Law, not only would that solve the primary ignorance, but all the secondary ignorance would evaporate.
My second example is Simpson's paradox. It is not as well known as Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and I've written a short essay to bring out why it matters.
Think about the way that the newspapers are full of health stories. Tomatoes cause cancer. Tomatoes protect against cancer. Whatever. The stream of stories is endless and we all find ourselves ignorant of the latest health story.
Notice though that this is all secondary ignorance, caused by not grasping Simpson's paradox. All this non-experimental work is worthless. If we could but rid ourselves of the primary ignorance of not grasping Simpson's paradox all our secondary ignorance would go away.
Well, that was my comment. It might reassure you because it suggests that there are key simplifying ideas that make being a well-informed citizen more viable than it at first appears. Much ignorance is ignorance of bogus knowledge and goes away when the quest for bogus knowledge is abandoned. On the other hand the key simplifying ideas seem to be intellectually hard, the kind of ideas that only a mathematician would love, so perhaps we really are doomed. :-(
Tomlinson by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 06:38:21 AM EST
One thing that's got me about this is the uproar about the policeman being filmed pushing him over, yet there are loads of instances of this sort of behaviour captured on film and no-one has batted an eyelid about the rest of it. One I saw from the G20 protest is film of a policeman throwing a cyclist's bike at him. Surely that should be investigated too?
It's really sad what's happened but I hope it leads to some changes. The new law about photographing policemen should be up for debate at least.
It's political correctness gone mad!
A few things by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 07:35:05 AM EST
He was the only one that died, and he was a bystander not a protestor, so I think the media were bound to concentrate on him.
They don't seem to be making much fuss over the way the cop was wearing a balaclava though. That suggests to me that he was planning on causing trouble from the start, he didn't just lose his temper.
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
On mention by Herring (4.00 / 1) #9 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 09:36:45 AM EST
somewhere of how, apaprently, he had his number covered up (taped over?). Since I don't know where the number would be on riot gear, I couldn't confirm that.
nebbish has a good point though. It's not just an isolated incident of one copper losing it.
You can't inspire people with facts
- Small Gods
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short battery life by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 07:10:30 AM EST
The problem is that squeezing lots of power into a small space is how you make high explosive.
They could put a bigger battery in though by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #5 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 07:29:47 AM EST
The existing battery is pretty small in comparison to the phone. You could double the battery volume without making the phone much bulkier.
The problem by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #13 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:16:42 AM EST
It has more to do with trying to balance "light" with a "fast CPU that does all sorts of awesome things".
The trouble with these smartphones in particular is that they've got all these damn transmitters in there. GSM, 3G, Bluetooth, Wifi. Playing with these, and turning them off when not needed can have a huge effect on battery life. I personally leave wifi off at all times even though it'd mean much faster Internet at home and office.
[ucblockhead is] useless and subhuman
Lobsters by ana (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 07:32:20 AM EST
Cute. Who knew?
"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin
I don't by garlic (4.00 / 2) #18 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 12:13:18 PM EST
because apparently websense is against lobsters.
Marx and Marxists by lm (4.00 / 1) #8 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 09:18:39 AM EST
I think it fair to say that most Marxists misunderstand Marx. He argued that capitalism would essentially implode under its own weight once it has reached its final end. Before `the revolution' comes a few things have to happen to set the stage such as capitalism becoming completely globalized and all of society being reduced to two classes, proletariat and bourgeoise. But the world is still half filled with pre-capitalist nations and those nations which have had a bourgeois revolution still have many classes. So it looks like we'll be waiting a while. A book I'm reading (Desai's Marx's Revenge)noted that the classical mode of production lasted for thousands of years and fuedalism lasted for at least a thousand. So it would be a bit exceptional if capitalism didn't last at least as long.
This mistake is partly because `orthodox' Marxist doctrine was mostly define by Stalinist era soviet scholarship. But even within Marx's lifetime he was telling the `Marxist' wing of the SPD that they had it all wrong. For that matter, the advocacy of The Communist Manifesto and Chapter 32 of Capital have large amounts of unresolved tension with the rest of the body of Marx's work, especially his economic and philosophical writings. Implementing various types of socialist reforms in a capitalist economy will actually retard the progress of capitalism if one takes dialectical materialism seriously. I first noticed this back in 2005 when I took a course on Late Modern Philosophy and covered a bit of Marx. Desai is the first author I've seen try to play the idea out.
Also, Desai points out that Marx wasn't a statist. He believed in workers owning the means of production not the state. Much of what gets labeled `state socialism' would better be labeled `state capitalism' where the state owns much of the means of production and reaps the profit from various nationalized industries. The trend towards state capitalism, Desai argues, is actually Nazism stripped of its racial doctrines rather than Marxism.
Not sure that was Marx's own view by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #12 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:16:09 AM EST
He seemed to be calling for a revolution in his own time. It's not like there was a footnote to the Communist Manifesto saying "Oh, by the way lads, ignore this for 160 years till globalization's finished".
Inequality was high in Marx's own day, and he expected it to increase. We now know that progressive taxation, reform and the welfare state caused inequality to decrease instead. But not having our hindsight, Marx quite reasonably expected a crisis of capitalism in the fairly short term.
Also, Marx's Marxism wasn't just based on theory, but also on empirical evidence of that exploitation, accumulation by the rich, and suffering of the poor were increasing. Now some modern Marxists like to say "oh, Marx was basically right, it's just taking longer than he thought". But it's not just a question of delay: for long stretches of time the indicators have gone the wrong way: factory conditions improved, minimum wages rose. That gives a hard knock to the empirical leg of Marx's Marxism: maybe it's not an inevitable process, but a cyclical process where every so often the workers get fed up and successfully get some of the bourgeois wealth spread their way.
Like I said, there is tension in Marx by lm (4.00 / 1) #17 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05:39 PM EST
The Communist Manifesto, in some ways, contradicts the most of the economic theory in Capital.
As for capitalism going the wrong way to empirically validate Marx's theories, I think your conflating the goals, aims, and theories of early non-Marxist socialists with Marx. Marx's economic theory had nothing to do with exploitive factory conditions. He uses exploitation in a somewhat equivocal sense. It is the destruction of the Lockean view that property follows labor that that Marx finds exploitative in capitalism. The exploitation of the workers lies in the fact that they are alienated from the product of their labor in the same way that natural resources are exploited by removing them from where they are found in a state of nature. (Nationalized productive facilities do this no less than privatized ones.) That during Marx's day there was also a good deal of other types of exploitation is incidental to his chief complaint about capitalism.
Now, it may be true that Marx also complained about these other senses of exploitation: child labor, oppressive working conditions, etc. But those issues were really the pet issues of the non-Marxist socialist groups that were contemporary with Marx. His analysis of capitalism had little to do with those factors and more to do with whether capitalism would ever reach a point where it was no longer viable. Things like minimum wages and working conditions are more or less incidental to that.
Well by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #20 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 12:31:02 PM EST
Marx's economic theory had nothing to do with exploitive factory conditions.
I've never read Capital in depth, but I've glanced at it before, and I've got a copy open now, and there seems to be quite a lot about exploitation in general and factory conditions in particular. For instance there's a whole chapter (10) devoted to just the length of the working day.
Where in his actual texts does he talk about "capitalism becoming completely globalized" before the revolution can happen?
There's `nothing to do' and `nothing to do' by lm (2.00 / 0) #21 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 01:08:30 PM EST
I don't have a copy of Capital. But if memory serves me correctly there is a discussion of the necessity of globalization in volume 3 where Marx discusses the falling rate of profit.
Also keep in mind the discussion (I think in volume I) of the cyclical nature of capitalism. As labor increases its advantage and wages rise, capitalists invest in more machinery so that they can achieve more profit with less labor. This puts more laborers out of work and wages sink but as production rises, workers are hired back, they have new found power to negotiate, wages rise. Lather. Rinse Repeat in 10 year cycles or so.
That Marx devotes a whole chapter to the length of the labor day doesn't tell us much. What is more important is the reason that he included that chapter. What does it illustrate and what economic conclusions are drawn from it? Does he present it as an example of the sort of exploitation that he is speaking of or does he present it as the consequence of the exploitative nature of capitalism.
Another interesting bit is that Marx presents in volume II, a scheme of managing profits through reinvestment by which capitalism can continue indefinitely.
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Rollback by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #11 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:13:43 AM EST
Glad I am not the only one. I really loathed that book. The morality of I loved my wife for 60 years but it only takes a couple days to fall into bed with the young hottie but that's ok because wifey croaks in the end anyway bugged the crap out of me.
I also like my googlephone, but it really is a 1.0 product. In the next year, you can expect a whole bunch of better Android phones coming from a number of difference places.
The morality didn't bug me by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #14 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:20:03 AM EST
But the way the first young female he talks to just happens to be a fellow Scrabble fanatic, Beatles fan and soulmate did. As did the rom-com ending.
Oh yes by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #15 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:27:21 AM EST
Agree completely. There were lots of things that bugged me. But then, I only read it because of the Hugo nomination. I read his first book many years ago, hated it, and avoided him. I thought "maybe he got better". He hadn't.
I've read some really terrible by garlic (4.00 / 1) #19 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 12:14:44 PM EST
hugo winning books. It's disapointing.
GTA 4 review by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #16 Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:50:31 AM EST
That's worth saving for the next time someone trots out the "video games are just kids stuff" or "video games are not art". GTA 4 is hardly unusual in terms of depth of story.
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Rudi Cole
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Co-Artistic Director & Founder
Born and raised in Handsworth, Birmingham, Rudi has been dancing from his childhood with ACE Dance & Music and graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He has worked as professional dancer with various renowned international choreographers including Akram Khan as well as performing a solo role for the ’12 London Olympic Games. In 2015, he founded Humanhood company together with Julia Robert. Rudi has an acute sense of rhythm and works on harnessing the raw essence of it in both the choreography and the company’s movement language. Rudi is the co-Artistic Director and choreographer of Humanhood, being the Yang component of the company.
Rudi and Julia have worked together since 2014, developing the choreographic aesthetic and movement signature of the company. They created their first short duet The Mask Behind Doors in 2014 which was finalist at Madrid’s Choreographic Competition. One year after, they created their first outdoor duet entitled Nomadis, which toured in EU and UK, including DancingCity in London, and was, two years later, selected to be part of the Spanish touring network for outdoor work: Red A Cielo Abierto. In 2015, they travelled to India where they spent four months developing and sharing their practice with different local communities including Nachom Arts Foundation in Manipur as well as exploring Moving Breath with Sheela Raj in New Deli. ZERO, their first full length duet was premiered the following year at mac birmingham and its 15min extract won 1st Prize and the Young Jury prize at Madrid 30’ Choreographic Competition. The same extract won the Tanja Liedtke Prize at the Ballet Gesellschaft International Choreographic Competition in Hanover, for which they spend 3 weeks with Australian Dance Theatre receiving advice and insight from Artistic Director Garry Stewart alongside sharing HumanhoodPractice with the dancers.
2017 is the year that Julia and Rudi started solely committing to Humanhood. They became Associate Artists at Déda Derby and were commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival, Norfolk&Norwich and Déda Derby to create Orbis, an outdoor duet inspired by Earth's permanent satellite: the Moon, which toured across the UK including Greenwich&Docklands International Festival and Internationally including the renowned festival Fira Tàrrega. Rudi and Julia received a very special commission by The Movement, a partnership between The Lowry, Sadler’s Wells and Birmingham Hippodrome, to re-work the award winning extract of ZERO which was performed at Sadler’s Wells and The Lowry’s main stages as part of Dance:Sampled 2018, for which the London Evening Standard reviewed ‘Humanhood rise at the challenge at Sadler’s Wells’. The same year, they were invited by Sadler’s Wells to present Humanhood:Universe, an immersive installation/performance bringing together the work of their former collaborators as well as performing the full piece, ZERO.
They have both been awarded the Artist International Development Fund from Arts Council England and the British Council which brought them to Taiwan to collaborate with the renowned traditional taiwanese percussion band Ten Drum during a one month residency at their base in Tainan city. Their first group piece Torus, commissioned by Birmingham Dance Hub, DanceXchange and Sadler's Wells will premiere in Spring 2019. Rudi and Julia have an ongoing collaboration with physicists at Birmingham University Physics & Astrophysics Department.
Rudi and Julia have choreographed works for other companies and undergraduates including Loose Strings commissioned by Cobosmika for their postgraduate company SEED, an extract of which was re-staged for Déda BA and Birmingham CAT students; Dark Flares commissioned by NSCD for their second year students and Earth the first of Humanhood’s series on the elements commissioned and performed by Singapore’s professional company T.H.E Dance Company.
Julia and Rudi are Associate Artists at DanceXchange in Birmingham
Júlia Robert Parés
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Originally from Sitges (Barcelona), Julia started a physics degree before shifting her full attention into dance, graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School. She has worked with acclaimed choreographers including Jasmin Vardimon and in 2015 she founded Humanhood company together with Rudi Cole. Influenced by her seven years of experience in piano, Julia has an natural intuition for melody and harmony both in choreography and music, and brings her physics background to the choreographic ideas and compositions of the work. Julia is the co-Artistic Director and Choreographer of Humanhood, being the Yin component of the company.
Julia and Rudi have worked together since 2014, developing the choreographic aesthetic and movement signature of the company. They created their first short duet The Mask Behind Doors in 2014 which was finalist at Madrid’s Choreographic Competition. One year after, they created their first outdoor duet entitled Nomadis, which toured in EU and UK, including DancingCity in London, and was, two years later, selected to be part of the Spanish touring network for outdoor work: Red A Cielo Abierto. In 2015, they travelled to India where they spent four months developing and sharing their practice with different local communities including Nachom Arts Foundation in Manipur as well as exploring Moving Breath with Sheela Raj in New Deli. ZERO, their first full length duet was premiered the following year at mac birmingham and its 15min extract won 1st Prize and the Young Jury prize at Madrid 30’ Choreographic Competition. The same extract won the Tanja Liedtke Prize at the Ballet Gesellschaft International Choreographic Competition in Hanover, for which they spend 3 weeks with Australian Dance Theatre receiving advice and insight from Artistic Director Garry Stewart alongside sharing HumanhoodPractice with the dancers.
Julia and Rudi have choreographed works for other companies and undergraduates including Loose Strings commissioned by Cobosmika for their postgraduate company SEED, an extract of which was re-staged for Déda BA and Birmingham CAT students; Dark Flares commissioned by NSCD for their second year students and Earth the first of Humanhood’s series on the elements commissioned and performed by Singapore’s professional company T.H.E Dance Company.
Laur Beech
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management@humanhood.net
Audience Development & Project Assistant
Laur joined the company in Summer 2018 after successfully working closely with Rudi and Julia on various projects. She has previously worked several years in the music industry and cultural sector.
Based in Birmingham, Laur has extensive experience in management & marketing roles which includes director of Beats Reality, sales and marketing manager at Park Regis and business development manager at Downtown in Business.
Marius Arnold-Clarke
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Production Manager & Stage Manager
Marius trained in dance at the Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park before sustaining an injury in 2000. He went on to study at Durham University, returning to The Royal Ballet School as it’s Theatre Manager between 2005 and 2008. He has held the role of DSM at both the Royal Opera House and Linbury Studio. Attempting to move away from the dance world, he became Production Manager at the global events company Imagination where he was in charge of global installations and events for Jaguar Land Rover, Extreme Sailing Series and Rolls Royce.
Turning freelance in 2014, he has worked consistently with Sadler’s Wells Production and Touring Department, acting as Touring Production Manager for productions such as Havana Rakatan and Sidi Larbi’s Cherkaoui’s Milonga, Company Stage Manager for Vamos Cuba, Hussein Chalayan’s Gravity Fatigue, Sutra and Deputy Stage Manager for Breakin’ Convention International Tours. He continues to work on other productions around the world including German Cornejo’s Immortal Tango and Break The Tango.
Marius joined Humanhood as a Production Manager and Stage Manager in March 2019.
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Chef Emerson Rodriguez is back in the kitchen and is rebuilding his first restaurant, one amazing dish at a time
I’ve given the customers the control back. If they just want to have a plate of croquettes and a glass or two of wine, they can do that now.
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Oh yes, Emerson Rodriguez is back in the kitchen of his eponymous restaurant and I’ll be the first to admit that I’m pretty excited. This time round though, the unassuming Chef has moved away from a fine dining menu to focus on classic, flavoursome a-la carte dishes in a relaxed and welcoming setting.
Following a busy lunch sitting, we were lucky enough to get some time with Emerson to talk about the new menu, leaving Yellow Billy and making pottery with Curtis Stone.
Located at the picturesque Adina Vineyard in Lovedale, Emerson’s Restaurant is the kind of place you’re likely to visit often and recommend to everyone. Chatting with Emerson about food and his restaurant, I can certainly see why. He understands very intuitively what people want when they visit and he knows how to deliver it, fresh, flavoursome and beautifully plated.
“The [fine dining] degustation menu we had was great but I found that not everyone wants a deconstructed dessert” notes Emerson. “I’ve gone back to making the types of dishes we offered when we first opened.”
So far, according to the Chef, the feedback has been great. And after tasting some of the new dishes, I heartily concur. Honestly, what this man can do with a humble cruciferous vegetable is amazing! His spiced and roasted cauliflower side topped with Binnorie fetta and toasted seeds is out of this world good.
Emerson continues. “I’ve given the customers the control back. If they just want to have a plate of croquettes and a glass or two of wine, they can do that now.” Really, there’s no better place to do exactly that, than outside on the renovated deck area which Emerson had extended to take advantage of the lovely vineyard views and provide a more casual dining experience.
If you’ve been in and around the Hunter restaurant scene of late, you’ll have no doubt heard of Yellow Billy at Piggs Peake Winery, Emerson’s second successful restaurant venture. According to Emerson, Yellow Billy was four years in the making and while he enjoyed doing something different to Emerson’s [restaurant], he couldn’t continue to split his time between the two.
“About 18 months ago I knew I had to get business partners in to Yellow Billy because I couldn’t keep doing it on my own. I was there for 12 months full time and I could see Emerson’s was suffering so it was either stay or come back to Emerson’s. With Chef Sam Alexander and Sommelier Pat Hester on board [at Yellow Billy] and doing such an amazing job, it was really a no-brainer.”
If you see him in action, you’ll know why working and managing two restaurants was nigh on impossible. Emerson is very involved in every aspect of the restaurant. It’s not uncommon for you to find him taking phone bookings and on a Tuesday night, making pottery plates, cups and other décor for use at the restaurant. Something Emerson clearly gets a kick out of.
“Pottery is my downtime. I just thought, why not do something that I can actually use at the restaurant. Seeing a dish that I created, that I put on my own plate. You just get so much satisfaction out of that.”
Naturally, a good deal of Emerson’s work time is spent meeting with suppliers to source the freshest produce around. “My pork comes from Lovedale and I’ve been working with the supplier there for the last three years. To get pigs raised organically just 500 meters down the road is pretty great.”
The same can be said for Shane’s Seafood, who Emerson’s been working with now for 19 years. “I’m continually talking with Basil and Tony when they go to markets. I’m always on the phone asking what’s coming in off the boats.”
Funnily enough as we’re talking, a special delivery arrives, and Emerson’s eyes light up as he pulls a handsome Spanish Mackerel from the cooler box, fresh from Shane’s of course.
Perhaps it’s his Filipino heritage or the eight months he worked at Shane’s before opening Emerson’s – learning the trade and how to utilise all parts of the fish and other delectable seafood fare – but Emerson is a firm believer in not wasting produce, be it seafood, beef, poultry or any of the meats he uses for his flavoursome dishes.
“I get everything whole. These days a lot of people just buy prime cuts because they don’t how to use the whole animal. I use the heads, bellies and cheeks of the pigs I buy for a traditional Filipino meal we serve here at the restaurant.”
Don’t be dissuaded though if cultural dishes aren't your cup of tea. Emerson's has a whole range of delicious breakfast items, mains and snacks that are sure to tickle your fancy.
The prawn main that Emerson brings out next looks mouth-watering and doesn’t disappoint. “You know presentation is important but it’s really all about the flavour. Flavour indeed, the char-grilled Banana prawns with pico de gallo (a chunky salsa) are of course fresh from the morning markets and when paired with the salsa are just so good.
“The prawn dish and also our salmon breakfast poke bowl are selling really well. It’s so easy to put together and it’s really tasty and healthy.”
As I’m not very elegantly tucking into the prawns, Emerson, unwittingly drops into conversation that he was recently contacted by the team of famed Australian Chef Curtis Stone. Say what?
“I got a phone call the week before Emerson’s opened back up and they said ‘Curtis wants to come to your restaurant’. I told them the restaurant was closed because we were renovating and they said that Curtis was really interested in my pottery as well. So, the next day they flew me by private helicopter from Sydney to Tyrrell’s and I was there for three hours on the pottery wheel, just teaching Curtis how to do it. He’s a really nice guy.”
It seems everyone wants a piece of what Emerson is cooking up and quite frankly I don’t blame them. But don’t just take my word for it or Emerson’s 25 years of culinary experience. Every local I speak to has an equally lovely dining story from Emerson’s (past and present), recalling fondly their favourite dishes and memories made.
Next time you’re planning a breakfast, lunch or evening out, give Emerson’s new menu a go. It’s an absolute must in our book!
To make a booking or to check out the new menu, click here.
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Established in 1848, Trinity College is the only Church College within the University of Wales. The College is situated on a single campus on the outskirts of Carmarthen, Wales. Originally concerned with training teachers, the College expanded in the 1980s and now offers a wide range of courses from traditional subjects like Theology, History and English to newer subjects such as Advertising and Tourism. During the 1990s the College was given permission to offer postgraduate MA and PhD courses. Teacher training, however, is still a main part of the colleges tradition.
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Centre issues rules for 20 ‘World Class Institutes’
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Armed Hippies Lead ‘We Will Not Comply’ Resistance Against Gun Ban
Dems leading resistance against Boulder’s gun control
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Image Credits: Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images, Rally For Our Rights.
Liberal hippies who happen to be gun owners are leading the resistance against a new gun ban in Boulder, Colorado.
The city banned the possession and sale of numerous semi-automatic firearms back in June and is now demanding residents who owned such weapons prior to the ordinance to “certify” their guns with the police department.
However, many of Boulder’s gun owners are Democrats who are refusing to comply.
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Prior to the ordinance, activists hosted well-attended gun rallies in Boulder, such as this one:
“I would say the majority of people I’ve talked to just aren’t complying because most people see this as a registry,” Lesley Hollywood, a Colorado gun rights activist, told the Washington Times. “Boulder actually has a very strong firearms community.”
And Boulder is one of the most liberal cities in Colorado.
Residents had until Dec. 31 to comply, but since there’s been a spate of cars driving around Boulder with “We Will Not Comply” stickers produced by Hollywood’s group, Rally For Our Rights.
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“The firearms community in Boulder — they may be Democrats but they love their firearms,” Hollywood added.
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Pick which train you’re going on, and stick with it.
I’ve listened to preachers
I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned, to rule and control
The media sells it, and you live the role.
Those insightful words come to us from that renegade British moral-philosopher of the latter 20 th Century, John Michael Osbourne. Although written in 1980, the passage captures a timeless theme in our politics: Watch out, people, because everybody is trying to play you.
Not familiar with his work? You might know him simply as Ozzy.
At the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the highlight was dueling anthems of “Peace Train” by Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) and “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.
But comedy aside, the timeless messages of both “Peace Train” and “Crazy Train” don’t conflict at all.
Yusuf: “Now I’ve been crying lately / Thinking about the world as it is / Why must we go on hating? / Why can’t we live in bliss?” Ozzy: “Crazy… but that’s how it goes / Millions of people… living as foes / Maybe… it’s not too late / To learn how to love / And forget how to hate.”
My takeaway from the Sanity Rally was the sheer number of people willing to come out and let their reasonable flags fly. Most independent observers agree it dwarfed the Glenn Beck rally, so is it fair to say that there’s a vast silent majority out there, too busy living life to worry about gay marriage or whether Medicare is socialism? People who wonder why our leaders must go on hating each other.
There was a vast silent majority in the ’60s and ’70s, and they just lived their lives, too — until Election Day, when they overwhelmed the hippies and elected Nixon. Twice.
Maybe today’s silent majority traces its roots to the insurgents of the ’60s. It’s odd, then, that now they’re the ones who seem content to live their lives, watch a little Jon Stewart and sometimes sort of get involved by wearing an earnest T-shirt. Will they ever assert their power like Nixon’s masses did?
We keep having this split personality thing here in America, lurching from one side to the other, keeping progress at bay and preserving injustice in the name of the almighty buck.
Maybe that’s how we find our national balance, but it definitely feels like it’s tipping the scales away from Yusuf’s dream — “Oh, peace train, take this country” — and well into Ozzyland, where “Mental wounds, not healing / Life’s a bitter shame / I’m going off the rails on a crazy train.”
Ted S. McGregor Jr. is the Editor and Publisher of The Inlander.
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City of Skopje Innovation Centre – SkopjeLab is the first public sector innovation lab on the Balkans established in July 2017 with a mission to work on finding innovative approaches to address challenges and problems facing the city.
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Skopje Lab works at multiple levels, internally with the city administration – between departments, and as a mediator between the City and all other stakeholders (citizens, academia, companies, municipalities and CSOs) to jointly co-create, prototype, test and validate innovative solutions
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Joe Biden and Meghan McCain's TV moment shows the way to nonpartisan empathy and cancer science
by Robert H. Vonderheide, For the Inquirer, Posted: December 15, 2017
Joe Biden comforts Meghan McCain this week during their appearance on The View.
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When a grieving father got up from his chair this week to console a crying woman whose father is fighting the same disease that took his own son just a few years ago, America got a lesson – in empathy and in science. The father is former Vice President Joe Biden, and he was consoling Meghan McCain, whose own father, Sen. John McCain, now has the devastating brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
The moment happened on live television, on The View Wednesday morning. The interview, part of Biden's tour discussing his new memoir inspired by the life and death of his son, Beau, quickly became emotional for McCain. She choked up while talking about her father, and Biden immediately moved to a chair next to her, took her hand, and tried to comfort her. And then he spoke of courage and hope — not just for the McCains, but for people all over the world impacted by cancer.
That hope, he went on to explain, is bolstered by revolutionary scientific breakthroughs. One of these, which Biden mentioned, is CAR T-cell therapy. The treatment, developed here at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, involves an approach that would have seemed like science fiction just a decade ago: taking some of a patient's immune cells, reprogramming them to hunt for cancer cells, and then putting them back into the body to fight off the disease. This summer, this approach became the first gene therapy ever approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and is now being used to treat pediatric and young patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL.
Robert H. Vonderheide is the director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Another therapy like it was soon approved to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. At Penn and across the world, clinical trials continue to evaluate whether this approach will also help treat other types of cancer, including solid tumors like glioblastoma that have proven so tough to tackle. This new treatment represents only a fraction of the cutting edge science that is saving lives every day.
The video of Biden's heartfelt conversation with McCain stopped me in my tracks, and I immediately reached out to the former vice president to let him know how much it touched and galvanized all of us at the Abramson Cancer Center. I have listened, replayed, and replayed again, keying in on every word. He captured the very essence of what we are all about here: Hope, real hope. I watched with a group of medical students, who immediately realized the power of the compassion, empathy, and expertise Biden showed – the same ingredients needed for every interaction with our patients.
The video of this deeply human moment quickly went viral, and the fact that it happened between two members of iconic political families who happen to be on opposite sides of the aisle captures a shared spirit we are all about here at Penn.
As Philadelphians, we are proud that our city is the birthplace of our Constitution and our great nation. As an institution, Penn is proud to put Philadelphia at the forefront of another revolution: what we call the ImmunoRevolution. We are doing everything possible to conquer cancer both here at Penn and with our partners across the country and around the world. In our labs, we're developing tomorrow's therapies today, providing a path to clinical trials that give our patients and their families fresh hope when standard treatments don't measure up. Our researchers are unlocking clues from each element of cancer ecology, from secrets about how the disease grows, travels, and survives in the body to new tricks that unleash the power of the immune system to fight it. We're putting all the pieces together to gain the upper hand in the fight against this disease.
However, the progress toward scientific discovery and breakthrough therapies will stall without sustained government and philanthropic funding and support. As Biden and McCain's TV moment showed, cancer doesn't side with any one political party. It has no bias, no ability to discriminate. At the midway point in the fiscal year, Congress has failed to enact a budget. Funding for the National Cancer Institute remains uncertain. This dysfunction leaves our scientists, our doctors, our patients, and their families in limbo. Will we have the money we need to make the next breakthrough?
We look to unity and strength, resolve and commitment – and even openness to vulnerability as we face challenges – to ensure that the progress we're making continues.
The Biden and McCain families are showing us the way.
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, is the director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Domestic equity markets entered 2016 on a decidedly sour note, extending December’s weak performance. Investors continued to grapple with several issues, including the fallout from the plunge in China’s stock prices; the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) initiation of “lift-off” of interest rates; severe losses in commodities prices; and a generally soft global economy. Economic growth decelerated in the fourth quarter and into January, causing investors to question whether the anticipated FOMC plan of raising interest rates by 100 basis points in 2016 actually will materialize. The FOMC, while monitoring financial market reaction, has indicated that inflation will be the primary determinant of the extent of rate increases. With job growth remaining fairly strong, the FOMC anticipates that wage growth will follow suit, and wage growth typically is accompanied by inflation. Domestic economic data showed slowing growth during the month, with fourth quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) coming in at +0.7%, slightly below expectations, but materially lower than the +2.0% growth of the third quarter.
Within this landscape, stocks suffered steep losses during January. The S&P 500 declined by -3.0%, on top of December’s decline of -1.6%. The performance during the first two weeks of the year was the worst since at least 1927. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) also dropped, giving back -3.6%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index declined -2.1%. The Russell 2000 Index of small cap stocks once again underperformed the Russell 1000 Index of large cap stocks, with returns of -3.2% and -2.8%, respectively. Growth stocks outperformed value stocks, and in terms of sector performance, the top performers in the month were utilities, health care, and consumer staples, with returns of +2.4%, +1.2% and -1.1%, respectively. Financials and energy were the poorest performers, with returns of -6.9% and -4.8%, respectively. Commodities continued their downward trend, declining -3.3%. REITs generated strong gains, advancing by +6.7%.
International equity markets generally lost ground, although losses were certainly not as steep as in U.S. markets. The MSCI World ex-U.S. Index edged lower by -0.2%. Emerging markets finally found their footing in January, in spite of the ongoing decline in commodities markets. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index inched higher by +0.6%, and the MSCI EAFE Index, which measures developed markets performance, was up +0.5%. Regionally, Asia and Japan generated the best relative performance, climbing +2.4% and +2.3%, respectively. The Latin America and Eastern Europe regions were the poorest relative performers, declining by -6.2% and -2.1%, respectively.
Fixed income markets were mostly higher, and especially so in the U.S., as investors moved to assets perceived to be safer as the equity market swooned. Yields had risen in the last quarter of 2015 in anticipation of the FOMC’s December decision to raise rates, but tumbled lower in January as investors sought a safe haven from volatility in riskier asset classes. Within this environment, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield ended the month at 1.93%, down 34 basis points from the 2.27% level of December 31. Performance of broad-based fixed income indices was generally higher, with the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index advancing +2.1%. Global fixed income markets delivered modest losses, with the Barclays Global Aggregate ex-U.S. Index shedding -1.8%. Intermediate-term corporate bonds were higher, as the Barclays U.S. Corporate 5-10 Year Index gained +3.0%. The Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index added +0.7%. Municipals continued to post solid performance, gaining +1.8%.
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MainAll NewsInside Israel'If Europe Doesn't Want Our Wine It's Their Loss'
'If Europe Doesn't Want Our Wine It's Their Loss'
Prestigious Samaria winery is successful worldwide, shrugs off European boycott as inconsequential.
Tura's prestigious wine
Hillel Meir
The Tura Winery, located in the Samaria village of Rehelim near Ariel, is not concerned by the European boycotts targeting Israel and its region in specific. In response to the European discrimination, the winery has decided to ignore Europe in return.
The winery has won many prestigious awards, including the “Oscar Award of Wine” in Israel's annual Golden Grapes competition in 2012, and gold medals in the Terravino Mediterranean International Wine and Spirits Challenge in Jerusalem the same year. It markets thousands of wines to America, Russia and China.
Next Sunday, Vered Ben-Saadon, who founded the winery in 2003 with her husband Erez, will fly for another sales trip in the US. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Ben-Saadon noted that "for Purim and Passover our sales are at peak, 40% of our sales are in the United States and Canada."
"We go around the stores and restaurants and 'connect' them to our product," remarked Ben-Saadon. "Our visitors' center in Rehelim is very active, with people and tourists arriving all the time...over the years I've kept addresses and made contact. We have many families that invited us to meetings with communities and explanations on wine."
Ever since the "boycott trend" has started making waves, Ben-Saadon notes her winery made a strategic decision. Their coping method: to ignore Europe.
"I don't deal with it, I invest with those who want us. I produce annually 26,000 bottles and I don't have enough for the whole world," Ben-Saadon noted. "If Europe isn't interested there are enough Americans, Chinese and Russians crying out for good wines from Israel."
Israeli public - buying more from Judea and Samaria or initiators of the boycott?
Speaking about the local Israeli market, the wine maker noted an increase in taste for quality, leading to an increase in sales for her label.
"You'll be shocked to hear that the Israeli public is learning to appreciate and understand what is quality wine, they buy less 'four for a hundred (shekel wines),' for the quality and for health, we're seeing a growth in sales," said Ben-Saadon.
In light of the international boycotts, Ben-Saadon noted the importance of Israeli unity, saying it's important that "we all come together and buy specifically products from Judea and Samaria."
Unfortunately, that unity has been lacking. Yaakov Berg, CEO of Samaria-based Psagot Winery, revealed that the international boycott began in Tel Aviv.
"70% of our wines are sold in countries worldwide, and are in prestigious restaurants in Manhattan, but not here in Tel Aviv," noted Berg, warning the Tel Aviv boycotters that their discrimination against their brothers will turn on them as the world increasingly follows the trend against all of Israel.
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Uterine MHC Class I Molecules and β2-Microglobulin Are Regulated by Progesterone and Conceptus Interferons during Pig Pregnancy
Margaret M. Joyce, James R. Burghardt, Robert C. Burghardt, R. Neil Hooper, Fuller W. Bazer and Greg A. Johnson
J Immunol August 15, 2008, 181 (4) 2494-2505; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2494
Margaret M. Joyce
Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics, Department of Veterinary Integrative Bioscience,
James R. Burghardt
Robert C. Burghardt
R. Neil Hooper
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and
Fuller W. Bazer
Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics, Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4458
Greg A. Johnson
MHC class I molecules and β2-microglobulin (β2m) are membrane glycoproteins that present peptide Ags to TCRs, and bind to inhibitory and activating receptors on NK cells and other leukocytes. They are involved in the discrimination of self from non-self. Modification of these molecules in the placenta benefits pregnancy, but little is known about their genes in the uterus. We examined the classical class I swine leukocyte Ags (SLA) genes SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3, the nonclassical SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 genes, and the β2m gene in pig uterus during pregnancy. Uterine SLA and β2m increased in luminal epithelium between days 5 and 9, then decreased between days 15 and 20. By day 15 of pregnancy, SLA and β2m increased in stroma and remained detectable through day 40. To determine effects of estrogens, which are secreted by conceptuses to prevent corpus luteum regression, nonpregnant pigs were treated with estradiol benzoate, which did not affect the SLA or β2m genes. In contrast, progesterone, which is secreted by corpora lutea, increased SLA and β2m in luminal epithelium, whereas a progesterone receptor antagonist (ZK137,316) ablated this up-regulation. To determine effects of conceptus secretory proteins (CSP) containing IFN-δ and IFN-γ, nonpregnant pigs were implanted with mini-osmotic pumps that delivered CSP to uterine horns. CSP increased SLA and β2m in stroma. Cell-type specific regulation of SLA and β2m genes by progesterone and IFNs suggests that placental secretions control expression of immune regulatory molecules on uterine cells to provide an immunologically favorable environment for survival of the fetal-placental semiallograft.
Implantation is the process by which the blastocyst attaches to the uterus for juxtaposition of embryonic membranes with maternal uterine endometrium to establish histotrophic and hematotrophic exchange of nutrients and gases leading to the establishment of a functional placenta. During placentation, intimate physical contact between uterine and placental cells facilitates bidirectional interactions involving spatiotemporally regulated endocrine, paracrine, and autocrine modulators that mediate cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions essential for successful establishment and maintenance of pregnancy (1, 2, 3). These interactions may also, at least in part, prevent rejection of the conceptus (embryo/fetus and associated extraembryonic membranes), which is a semiallograft within the uterine environment.
Medewar recognized that the laws of transplantation biology dictate rejection of the conceptus as a semiallogeneic tissue with paternal as well as maternal histocompatibility Ags (4, 5), however many details of how the conceptus is protected from a potentially hostile immune environment remain unclear. Nevertheless, the conceptus in utero secures its own position, establishes an immunological truce with its mother, and obstructs or directs her immune system to contribute to the immunologic privileged state of the trophoblast (6).
The bulk of immune response to tissue grafts is directed to the MHC Ags. MHC molecules are polymorphic cell surface glycoproteins that present peptide Ags to TCRs, and bind to inhibitory and activating receptors on NK cells and other leukocytes. MHC class I molecules are categorized as either classical or nonclassical and contain a transmembrane α-chain associated noncovalently with an extracellular β-chain called β2-microglobulin (β2m).3 The classical MHC class I molecules are expressed on most somatic cells and present peptides derived from self-proteins or from proteins of intracellular pathogens to CTL; therefore, they are involved in immune recognition of foreign pathogens and transplanted tissues. Additional class I MHC molecules termed nonclassical are less polymorphic and are restricted in cell type-specific expression (7). Protection of the conceptus from the maternal immune system involves down-regulation of MHC class I by the trophoblast (7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Additionally, in some species such as humans, nonclassical monomorphic MHC class I molecules are expressed by the trophoblast, which may protect the trophoblast cells from NK cell attack and T lymphocytes (7, 8). However, when placentation is noninvasive, trophectoderm cells do not express any MHC class I during the first trimester of pregnancy. Notable examples of noninvasive placentation include the entire placenta of pigs, all regions of placentation excluding the invasive chorionic girdle that develops into the endometrial cups of horses, and the interplacentomal uterine-placental interface of ruminants (7, 10, 12).
Cytokines and hormones regulate expression of MHC molecules during conceptus development, as well as the tissue differentiation and remodeling that occurs at the uterine-placental interface (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21). Mattsson et al. (22) reported in mice increased uterine, but not placental, expression of MHC class I and class II molecules in response to IFN. Choi and coworkers (23) reported complex regulation of MHC class I and β2m in uterine and placental tissue of sheep. In these studies, MHC class I and β2m were inhibited in endometrial luminal epithelium (LE), but paradoxically stimulated by IFN-τ, the pregnancy recognition signal in sheep (3), in both endometrial stromal cells, and in glandular epithelium (GE) (23).
In pigs, conceptuses secrete estrogens on days 11 and 12 of pregnancy as the signal for pregnancy recognition (24). In addition, conceptus estrogens modulate uterine gene expression responsible for uterine remodeling for implantation and placentation from days 13 to 25 of gestation (25). The importance of estrogen is underscored by the fact that premature exposure of the pregnant uterus to estrogen on days 9 and 10 results in degeneration of all pig conceptuses by day 15 (26).
Peri-implantation pig conceptuses also secrete IFNs. The major species is type II IFN-γ and the other is type I IFN-δ (27, 28). In contrast to sheep conceptuses, in which a type I IFN-τ is the signal for maternal recognition of pregnancy (3), the IFNs produced by pig conceptuses do not appear to be antiluteolytic (29). However, both sheep and pig conceptus IFNs increase expression of a number of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) in uterine stroma (3, 30, 31, 32). Although physiological roles for these IFNs in the pig uterus have not been determined, emerging evidence suggests that induction or increases in uterine ISGs by conceptus IFNs is a phenomenon of early pregnancy in many, if not most, mammals (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35).
Our working hypothesis is that pig conceptus IFNs increase uterine endometrial expression of the classical and nonclassical MHC class I molecules. In pigs these molecules are known as classical swine leukocyte Ag (SLA) class I genes (SLA-1, SLA-2, SLA-3) and nonclassical SLA class I (SLA-6, SLA-7, SLA-8) genes (36), and β2m gene during pregnancy. The temporal cell type-specific expression of these genes plays a role in preventing immune disruption of pregnancy. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to determine 1) the temporal and spatial expression of SLA class I and β2m genes in pig endometrium during pregnancy, and 2) whether their expression is regulated by estrogen, progesterone, or conceptus secretory proteins (CSPs) that contain IFN-γ and IFN-δ. Results provide compelling evidence that pig conceptus trophectoderm cells induce uterine stromal expression of SLA class I and β2m genes through secretion of IFN-δ or IFN-γ, but expression is silenced in LE as a possible means of preventing immune rejection at the uterine-placental interface.
Animals and tissue collection
Experimental and surgical procedures complied with the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Texas A&M University Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee. Pigs were observed daily for estrus (day = 0) and exhibited at least two estrous cycles of normal duration before use in these studies.
Study one.
To evaluate the effect of pregnancy on endometrial gene expression, pigs were assigned randomly to either cyclic or pregnant status. Those in the pregnant group were bred when detected in estrus and 12 and 24 h thereafter. Pigs were hysterectomized either on day 5, 9, 12, or 15 of the estrous cycle or day 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 60, or 85 of pregnancy (n = 3 pigs/day/status).
Study two.
To evaluate the effect of estrogen on endometrial gene expression, pigs were assigned randomly to receive daily injections (i.m.) of either 5 ml of corn oil vehicle or 5 mg of 17β-estradiol benzoate (5 mg in 5 ml of corn oil; Sigma-Aldrich) on days 11–14 postestrus (n = 5 pigs/treatment). This dose of 17β-estradiol is used to induce pseudopregnancy in pigs (25). All pigs were hysterectomized on day 15 postestrus.
Study three.
To evaluate the effect of pig CSPs on endometrial gene expression, pigs (n = 3) were injected (i.m.) with 5 mg of 17β-estradiol benzoate (5 mg in 5 ml of corn oil; Sigma-Aldrich) on days 11–15 postestrus. On day 12 postestrus (coincident with secretion of IFNs by pig conceptuses (27, 37)), each pig was surgically implanted with two indwelling ALZET osmotic pumps (Durect Corporation) with a constant delivery rate of 10 μl/h. Each uterine horn was isolated via midline celiotomy, clamped, and severed from the uterine body at ∼5 inches from the utero-tubal junction while preserving the mesometrium and vascular supply to the uterine horn. The transected ends of each uterine horn and uterine body were sutured closed, and the serosa of the antimesometrial borders of the horn and body were sutured together to prevent twisting of the uterine horn. For each pump, a catheter was attached and inserted ∼2 cm into the lumen of one uterine horn. Before surgery, pumps were filled and equilibrated per the manufacturer’s instructions. For each pig, one uterine horn was infused from a pump filled with porcine serum albumin (35 mg; Sigma-Aldrich), whereas the other uterine horn was infused from a pump filled with porcine CSP (35 mg). All pigs were hysterectomized on day 16 postestrus (coincident with maximal antiviral activity in pig uterine flushings (37)).
Preparation of porcine CSP.
As previously described (38), conceptuses from day-15 to day-17 pregnant pigs (coincident with maximal production of IFNs by conceptuses (27, 37)) were recovered by flushing uterine horns and cultured for 30 h. After recovery, medium was dialyzed (m.w. cutoff, 3500; Spectrum Laboratories), concentrated (m.w. cutoff, 5000; Millipore), filter sterilized, assayed for protein concentration (Bio-Rad), and stored at 4°C because IFN-γ is unstable to freezing and thawing.
Study four.
To evaluate the effects of progesterone on endometrial gene expression, pigs were ovariectomized on day 4 postestrus and assigned randomly to receive daily injections (i.m.) of either progesterone (200 mg; Sigma-Aldrich) or progesterone plus ZK137,316 (75 mg), a progesterone receptor antagonist generously provided by Dr. K. Chwalisz (Shering AG, Berlin, Germany), on days 4–12 postestrus. All pigs were hysterectomized on day 12 postestrus (n = 5 pigs/treatment).
At hysterectomy, several sections (∼0.5 cm) from the middle of each uterine horn were fixed in fresh 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS (pH 7.2) and embedded in Paraplast-Plus (Oxford Laboratory). Several sections from each uterine horn were also embedded in Tissue-Tek OCT Compound (Miles), snap frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at −80°C. The remaining endometrium was physically dissected from the myometrium, frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at −80°C for RNA extraction.
RNA isolation and analyses
RNA isolation.
Total cellular RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen), according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.
RT-PCR analyses.
A partial cDNA that cross-hybridizes with the classical SLA class I genes (SLA-1, SLA-2, SLA-3), as well as partial cDNAs for SLA-6, SLA-7, SLA-8, β2m gene, and ubiquitin-specific protease (USP) gene were amplified by RT-PCR as previously described (39). For all genes, porcine uterine endometrial RNA from day 15 of pregnancy was reverse transcribed, then the following gene-specific primers were used to amplify the PCR products: classical SLA class I (forward) 5′-ATACCTGGAGATGGGGAAGG-3′, (reverse) 5′-CCTTGGTAAGGGACACATCG-3′, 500-bp product; SLA-6 (forward) 5′-TTGGTATCCCGGCCCGGCCACGGTAGTG-3′, (reverse) 5′-TGCCCGATACTGTTCAGCTACTCCC-3′, 443-bp product (40); SLA-7 (forward) 5′-TATTGCGATCGGAACACACGCATC-3′, (reverse) 5′-GCATGCCACTTCCAGGTAGGCTCTGC-3′, 309-bp product (40); SLA-8 (forward) 5′-GCCACGGGGAGCCCCGGTACCTTGAG-3′, (reverse) 5′-GAAGCGCTCATGAGCACGGGACTTG-3′, 422-bp product (40); β2m (forward) 5′-ATGATATCCCACTTTTCACACCGCTCCAGTAGC-3′, (reverse) 5′-ATAGATCTGGATTCATCCAACCCAGATGCAGC-3′, 439-bp product (40); and USP (forward) 5′-AGAGGATGACAGTGCCAAGG-3′, (reverse) 5′-CTGCTTCCAACAGGTCTTCC-3′, 473-bp product (GenBank accession no. AF134195). All PCR products were cloned into a pCRII cloning vector using the TA Cloning kit (Invitrogen) and confirmed by sequence analysis. A BLAST search for each was conducted to ensure that only target genes were evaluated.
Slot blot analyses.
As previously described (41), duplicate membranes with 20 μg of total RNA per slot were hybridized with radio-labeled antisense porcine classical SLA class I genes SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 and β2m gene RNA probes generated by in vitro transcription with [α-32P]UTP (PerkinElmer Life Sciences) and a MAXIscript kit (Ambion). To correct for variation in loading, a duplicate membrane was hybridized with a radio-labeled antisense 18 S rRNA (pT718S; Ambion) RNA probe. Hybridization signals were detected by exposure to a PhosphoImager screen and visualized using a Typhoon 8600 variable mode imager (Molecular Dynamics).
In situ hybridization analyses.
As previously described (42), deparaffinized, rehydrated, and deproteinated uterine cross-sections (5 μm; 1 cross-section each from three separate blocks from each animal) were hybridized with radio-labeled antisense or sense classical SLA class I genes SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 and β2m or USP gene RNA probes synthesized by in vitro transcription with [α-35S]UTP (PerkinElmer). After hybridization, washes, and RNase A digestion, autoradiography was performed using NTB liquid photographic emulsion (Eastman Kodak). Slides were exposed at 4°C, developed in Kodak D-19 developer, counterstained with Harris’ modified hematoxylin (Fisher Scientific), dehydrated, and protected with coverslips.
Immunofluorescence analyses
As previously described (43), frozen uterine cross-sections (∼8–10 μm; 1 cross-section each from three separate blocks from each animal) were fixed in −20°C methanol, washed in PBS containing 0.3% v/v Tween 20 (rinse solution), blocked in 10% normal goat serum, incubated overnight at 4°C with 10 μg/ml mouse anti-porcine MHC class I (PT85A; VMRD), or 10 μg/ml mouse IgG (negative control; Sigma-Aldrich) and detected with 2 μg/ml fluorescein-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (Chemicon International). Slides were overlaid with Prolong anti-fade mounting reagent (Molecular Probes) and a coverslip.
SLA class I protein was colocalized with either β2m protein or von Willebrand factor in frozen uterine cross-sections by immunofluorescence staining as previously described (44). Briefly, sections were cut, fixed, washed, and blocked as we described. After dipping in rinse solution at room temperature, sections were incubated overnight at 4°C with the initial primary Ab (10 μg/ml mouse anti-porcine MHC class I or mouse IgG). Following washes, sections were incubated with 2 μg/ml initial secondary Ab (fluorescein-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG), washed, and incubated overnight at 4°C with the second primary Ab (20 μg/ml rabbit anti-human β2m, RDI-CBL307; Research Diagnostics, 10 μg/ml rabbit anti-human von Willebrand factor, AB7356; Chemicon International, or 10 μg/ml rabbit IgG, negative control; Sigma-Aldrich). Following washes, sections were incubated with 2 μg/ml secondary Ab (Texas Red-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG; Molecular Probes), washed, dipped in distilled-deionized water, and overlaid with anti-fade mounting reagent as described.
Digital photomicrographs of in situ hybridization (brightfield and darkfield images) and immunofluorescence staining were evaluated using an Axioplan 2 microscope (Carl Zeiss) interfaced with an Axioplan HR digital camera and Axiovision 4.3 software. For immunofluorescent colocalization of proteins, digital camera settings were evaluated to confirm that no “spectral bleed through” FITC signal was detectable in the Texas Red filter set and vice versa. In these studies, once the distribution of individual Ags was established, the codistribution of two Ags was investigated simultaneously in individual sections using compatible primary and FITC or Texas Red secondary Ab combinations with appropriate filter sets. Individual fluorophore images were recorded sequentially with AxioVision 4.3 software and evaluated in multiple fluorophore overlay images recorded in Zeiss Vision Image (.zvi) file format, which were subsequently converted to Tagged Image File (.tif) format. Photographic plates were assembled using Adobe Photoshop (version 6.0; Adobe Systems). All sections from each day per treatment were assessed as a group, and sections exhibiting the most representative hybridization or immunostaining pattern for each day per treatment were selected for inclusion in photographic plates.
All slot blot hybridization data were subjected to least-squares ANOVA using the general linear models procedures of the Statistical Analysis System. Data were analyzed using the 18 S rRNA as a covariate to correct for differences in RNA loading and for effects of day and status and their interaction where appropriate. All tests of significance were performed using the appropriate error terms according to the expectation of the mean square for error. Slot blot hybridization data are presented as least squares mean with SE.
Effects of pregnancy from study one
Partial cDNAs for classical SLA class I genes SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3, the nonclassical class I genes SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8, as well as β2m gene were detected in day-15 pregnant pig endometria by RT-PCR analyses. Steady-state mRNAs in endometrium from the estrous cycle and pregnancy were then examined using antisense RNA probes and slot blot hybridization. (Fig. 1⇓). There was no significant change in total steady-state mRNA during the estrous cycle for any of these mRNAs (p > 0.1). During the ∼115 days of pig pregnancy, steady-state mRNAs increased between day 9 and 14, decreased between day 14 and 60, and remained low through day 85 (classical and nonclassical SLA class I mRNAs, p < 0.005, quartic effect of day; β2m mRNA, p = 0.06, quartic effect of day) (Fig. 1⇓).
Steady-state levels of mRNA for the classical SLA-1, SLA-2, SLA-3 genes (A), the nonclassical SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 genes (B–D), and β2m gene (E) in pig endometria during the estrous cycle and pregnancy were determined by slot blot hybridization. The mRNA levels, expressed as least square mean of relative units of cpm with overall SEM, are normalized for differences in sample loading using 18 S rRNA. The mRNA levels represent 20 μg of total endometrial mRNA per sample. Each of these mRNAs was increased during pregnancy over the estrous cycle.
In situ hybridization was used to localize classical and nonclassical SLA class I mRNAs as well as β2m mRNAs to specific cell types within the endometria of cyclic and pregnant pigs. Messenger RNA for SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 increased in the LE, GE, and blood vessels between days 5 and 9 of the estrous cycle and remained in these cell types through day 15 (Fig. 2⇓). During pregnancy, the pattern of expression for SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 mRNAs was the same as observed for the estrous cycle through day 12. However by day 15, expression increased in the stratum compactum stroma (note the difference in the spatial distribution of mRNA in endometrium from day 15 of the estrous cycle vs day 15 of pregnancy, Fig. 2⇓), where it remained detectable through day 40 of pregnancy. Significantly, SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 mRNAs were no longer detectable in the LE by day 20 of pregnancy (expanded view of day 25 shown in Fig. 2⇓).
In situ hybridization analysis of SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 mRNA in pig endometria. Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images from different days of the estrous cycle (C) and pregnancy (P) are shown. A representative section from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probe (Sense) serves as a negative control. An expanded view of the photomicrographs of the uterine-conceptus interface on day 25 of pregnancy indicating the lack of hybridization for SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 mRNAs in epithelia at this interface is shown. LE, stratum compactum stroma (ST), placenta (PL), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each field is 870 μm.
The three nonclassical SLA class I mRNAs exhibited similar patterns of expression in pig endometria by in situ hybridization. SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 mRNAs increased in LE after day 9 of the estrous cycle and early pregnancy (Fig. 3⇓). These mRNAs then decreased in LE after Day 15 of pregnancy and were not detectable in LE on day 25 (Fig. 3⇓). However, similar to the classical SLA mRNAs, SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 mRNAs increased in the stratum compactum stroma by day 15 of pregnancy, where they remained through day 25, and then decreased to undetectable levels by day 40 (Fig. 3⇓). Expression was also detected in endothelial cells in endometrial stroma on all days of the estrous cycle and pregnancy (Fig. 3⇓).
In situ hybridization analyses of SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 mRNAs in pig endometria. Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images from different days of the estrous cycle (C) and pregnancy (P) are shown for SLA-6, whereas only darkfield images are shown for SLA-7 and SLA-8. Representative sections from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probes (Sense) served as negative controls. LE, stratum compactum stroma (ST), placenta (PL), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each field is 870 μm.
In situ hybridization for β2m mRNA was generally more intense than was observed for SLA mRNAs; however, the general patterns of expression for these mRNAs were similar. The β2m mRNA increased in the LE and GE between days 5 and 9 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy, and remained in these cell types through day 15 (Fig. 4⇓). During pregnancy, the pattern of expression for β2m mRNA was the same as observed for the estrous cycle through day 12. However by day 15, expression increased in the stratum compactum stroma (note the difference in the spatial distribution of mRNA in endometrium from day 15 of the estrous cycle vs day 15 of pregnancy) (Fig. 4⇓). The β2m remained detectable in the stratum compactum stroma through day 30 and became undetectable in LE by day 20 of pregnancy. Expression of β2m mRNA by GE was more robust than the SLA mRNAs on all days examined, and diverged from the general pattern of SLA mRNA expression by further increasing in GE between days 60 and 85 of pregnancy (Fig. 4⇓). Additionally, β2m mRNA was detectable in endothelial cells in the endometrial stroma on all days of the estrous cycle and pregnancy (Fig. 4⇓).
In situ hybridization analysis of β2m mRNA in pig endometria. Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images from different days of the estrous cycle (C) and pregnancy (P) are shown. A representative section from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probe (Sense) served as a negative control. LE, GE, stratum compactum stroma (ST), placenta (PL), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each field is 870 μm.
Because mRNAs for SLA-1, SLA-2, SLA-3, SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 and β2m gene decreased in uterine LE between days 15 and 20 of pregnancy, endometrial expression of the USP gene, a negative regulator of type I IFN signaling (45), was examined. In situ hybridization revealed that USP mRNA increased between days 15 and 20 of pregnancy in the LE, where it continued to be expressed through day 40 (Fig. 5⇓).
In situ hybridization analysis of USP mRNA in pig endometria. Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images in LE from different days of pregnancy (P) are shown. A representative section from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probe (Sense) served as a negative control. The width of each field is 870 μm.
Immunofluorescence analysis of pig endometria indicated that immunoreactive classical SLA class I molecules increased in LE between days 9 and 12 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy (Fig. 6⇓). Consistent with in situ hybridization results, SLA class I molecules were maintained in the LE of cyclic endometrium. In pregnant endometrium, SLA class I molecules were not detectable in LE by day 15 and remained absent from LE through day 85 (Fig. 6⇓). Similar to the temporal and spatial expression of SLA mRNAs, immunoreactive SLA class I molecules increased in the stratum compactum stroma by day 15 of pregnancy, remained abundant through day 25, and then progressively decreased through day 85 (Fig. 6⇓). An increase of SLA class I molecules in endometrial stroma was not observed during the estrous cycle (Fig. 6⇓). In addition, SLA class I protein was present in endothelial cells of the endometrium throughout the estrous cycle and pregnancy (Fig. 6⇓).
Immunofluorescence localization of classical SLA class I molecules in frozen cross-sections of pig endometria during the estrous cycle (C) and pregnancy (P). A nonrelevant mouse Ig (mIgG) served as a negative control as illustrated in Fig. 9⇓. LE, stratum compactum stroma (ST), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each field is 540 μm.
Collectively, results from study one indicate that classical and nonclassical SLA, as well as β2m, 1) increases in uterine LE before implantation; 2) increases in uterine stratum compactum stroma during the peri-implantation period (days 10–25); and 3) decreases in uterine LE immediately after initial attachment of trophectoderm to uterine LE during early placentation. Therefore, although expression prominently increases within the uterine-placental environment, classical SLA class I mRNA and molecules and nonclassical SLA class I and β2m mRNAs are conspicuously absent at the immediate interface between uterine and placental epithelia of pigs after day 15, perhaps due to expression of USP in uterine LE.
Effects of exogenous estrogen and CSPs for study two and study three
The i.m. injections of estradiol benzoate did not alter expression of classical SLA class I mRNA in endometrial LE of day-15 cyclic-treated pigs compared with corn oil vehicle treatment (Fig. 7⇓A). In contrast, intrauterine infusion of CSPs into the uterine horns of day-16 cyclic pigs treated with exogenous estrogen increased expression of classical SLA class I mRNAs in the stratum compactum stroma compared with intrauterine infusion of control serum proteins (Fig. 7⇓A). In agreement with mRNA results, immunofluorescence analysis indicated that intrauterine infusion of CSP increased SLA class I molecules in the stratum compactum stroma (Fig. 7⇓B).
Treatment with CSP increased expression of classical SLA class I mRNAs. A, In situ hybridization analysis of SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3 mRNA. B, Immunofluorescence localization of classical SLA molecules. Cross-sections of pig endometria from day-15 cyclic pigs injected i.m. with either corn oil control (CO) or estradiol benzoate (E2), or from estrogen-treated day-16 cyclic pigs in which either control serum proteins (E2 + SP) or CSPs (E2 + CSP) were infused into the uterine lumen are shown. Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images of in situ hybridization from different treatments are shown. A representative section from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probe (15P Sense) served as a negative control for in situ hybridization as illustrated in Fig. 2⇑. A nonrelevant mouse Ig (mIgG) served as a negative control as illustrated in Fig. 9⇓. LE, luminal epithelium, stratum compactum stroma (ST), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each in situ hybridization field is 870 μm and the width of each immunofluorescence localization field is 540 μm.
Similar to SLA class I mRNA, in situ hybridization for SLA-6 (Fig. 8⇓A), SLA-7 (Fig. 8⇓B), SLA-8 (Fig. 8⇓C), and β2m gene (Fig. 8⇓D) indicated no effect of exogenous estrogen on expression of these mRNAs in day 15 cyclic pig endometria. However, intrauterine infusion of CSP into estradiol benzoate-treated day-16 cyclic pigs increased mRNA levels for SLA-6, SLA-7, SLA-8, and β2m gene in the stratum compactum stroma compared with infusion of serum proteins (Fig. 8⇓, A–D).
In situ hybridization analyses on expression of mRNAs. SLA-6 (A), SLA-7 (B), SLA-8 (C) and β2m (D) mRNAs in cross-sections of pig endometria from day-15 cyclic pigs injected i.m. with either corn oil control (CO) or estradiol benzoate (E2), or from estrogen-treated day-16 cyclic pigs, which received intrauterine infusions of either control serum proteins (E2 + SP) or CSPs (E2 + CSP). Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images from different treatments are shown. Representative sections from day 15 of pregnancy hybridized with radio-labeled sense RNA probes (15P Sense) served as negative controls as illustrated for SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8 in Fig. 3⇑ and for β2m in Fig. 4⇑. LE and stratum compactum stroma (ST) are indicated. The width of each field is 870 μm.
Collectively, results from study two and study three strongly suggest that classical and nonclassical SLA, as well as β2m increase in endometrial stroma in response to IFN-γ or IFN-δ present in CSP of the peri-implantation period, but expression of these mRNAs and molecules in the endometrial LE is not induced by conceptus estrogens alone, although these estrogens are accepted to be the pregnancy recognition signal.
Effects of exogenous progesterone for study four
Because SLA-1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 and β2m mRNAs increased in endometrial LE between days 5 and 15 of pregnancy, which is a period of increased progesterone secretion from the corpora lutea, the effects of exogenous progesterone on endometrial expression of SLA class I and β2m mRNAs and proteins was examined. Classical SLA class I and β2m mRNAs were detectable in endometrial LE and blood vessels of the stratum compactum stroma of ovariectomized pigs treated with exogenous progesterone. These effects of progesterone were completely ablated by treatment with the progesterone receptor antagonist, ZK137,316, in both uterine LE and vasculature (Fig. 9⇓A).
The effects of exogenous progesterone on endometrial expression of SLA class I and β2m mRNAs and proteins. A, In situ hybridization analyses for SLA-1, SLA-2, SLA-3, and β2m mRNAs in cross- sections of endometria from day-12 ovariectomized pigs treated with progesterone (P4) or progesterone and the progesterone receptor antagonist ZK137,316 (P4 + ZK). Corresponding brightfield and darkfield images from different treatments are shown. LE, stratum compactum stroma (ST), and blood vessels (BV) are indicated. The width of each field is 870 μm. B, Immunofluorescence colocalization of classical SLA with β2m and classical SLA with von Willebrand factor (VW) in endometrial cross-sections from day 12 ovariectomized pigs treated with progesterone. SLA immunoreactivity was detected using fluorescein-conjugated anti-mouse IgG (left, green fluorescence), whereas the β2m and von Willebrand factor immunoreactivity were detected using Texas Red-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG (middle, red fluorescence). SLA and β2m proteins were colocalized (right, yellow fluorescence) to LE and blood vessels (BV) within the stratum compactum stroma (ST). Nonrelevant mouse Ig (mIgG) was detected using fluorescein-conjugated anti-mouse IgG, nonrelevant rabbit Ig (rIgG) was detected using Texas Red-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG and their colocalization served as negative controls as illustrated (lower). The width of each field is 540 μm.
Results shown in Fig. 9⇑B confirm that SLA class I and β2m proteins colocalize in the endometrial LE and endothelial cells of ovariectomized pigs treated with exogenous progesterone. Immunoreactive SLA class I molecules also colocalized with von Willebrand factor, an endothelial cell marker, in endometrial endothelial cells of the stratum compactum stroma on day 12 in ovariectomized pigs treated with exogenous progesterone (Fig. 9⇑B).
Collectively, results from study four strongly suggest that expression of intact SLA class I molecules including classical SLA class I and β2m heterodimers is increased by progesterone produced by corpora lutea in endometrial LE and endothelial cells during the peri-implantation period in pigs.
The MHC class I molecules and accompanying β2m function in immune responses and are involved in discrimination of self from non-self. It is generally accepted that modification or down-regulation of these molecules in placental tissues is beneficial to pregnancy across mammalian species (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). The present studies focus on the uterine tissues that represent the maternal component of the fetal-maternal interface of pregnancy. Results illustrate dynamic temporal and cell type-specific regulation of MHC class I molecules and β2m by progesterone and CSPs in the peri-implantation pig uterine endometrium. Similar to previous results in sheep, MHC class I and β2m up-regulate in endometrial stratum compactum stroma, but are conspicuously undetectable in LE, suggesting that lack of expression in LE is beneficial to pregnancy in species in which the LE maintains direct contact with the placenta (epitheliochorial placentation). However, clear differences between sheep and pigs in regulation and pattern of expression of these genes were observed. Although pigs and sheep share stromal MHC class I and β2m expression, pigs lack the IFN-τ responsible for this expression in sheep (23). Therefore it is likely that in pigs, conceptus-derived IFN-δ and IFN-γ increase MHC class I and β2m in endometrial stroma (27, 28, 29). Unlike sheep, which never express MHC class I and β2m in LE, ovarian progesterone increased expression of SLA class I and β2m in the uterine LE during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy of pigs. Finally, the present data suggest a mechanism for down-regulation of SLA class I and β2m in LE that has not been proposed for sheep. Although estrogens secreted by the conceptus or administered exogenously did not directly effect expression of SLA class I and β2m genes, estradiol does increase expression of IFN regulatory factor (IRF)-2 in LE (30), which together with USP may down-regulate SLA class I and β2m gene expression in uterine LE between days 15 and 25 of pregnancy. Collectively, for the majority of the first half of gestation, there is abundant uterine expression of SLA and β2m in the stromal compartment of pig endometrium, but not in LE that is directly apposed to trophectoderm or chorion.
Progesterone, the hormone of pregnancy, plays a critical role in control of temporal and spatial (cell-specific) changes in gene expression within the uterus (3). Indeed, treatment with progesterone significantly alters the expression of a number of genes in the uteri of rodents, primates, and sheep as determined using microarray analyses (46, 47, 48). In the present pig study, progesterone increased expression of SLA class I and β2m genes in endometrial LE and stromal endothelial cells during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy. This expression was blocked by ZK137,316, a progesterone receptor antagonist, indicating that induction by progesterone is mediated via progesterone receptors. Because progesterone receptors in pigs are down-regulated in endometrial LE and GE by day 10 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy, but maintained in stromal cells and myometrium (49), the endocrine effects of ovarian progesterone on endometrial LE expression of SLA class I and β2m genes may be mediated indirectly by either progesterone-induced paracrine-acting factors (progestamedins) produced by the progesterone receptor-positive stromal cells, or by induction of factors in LE that down-regulate progesterone receptors to either allow or stimulate expression of endometrial genes (50, 51).
Given that SLA class I molecules and β2m are important for host defense, their expression in the LE during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy may be important for preventing uterine infections. At estrus, mucin 1 (MUC1), which forms an apical LE glycocalyx barrier to provide innate immune protection for the uterus from bacterial infections (52), is localized to the endometrial LE, but decreases by day 10 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy (53). This down-regulation of MUC1 is hypothesized to be necessary for conceptus attachment to the LE, but leaves the uterus susceptible to bacterial invasion (52, 53, 54). Increased expression of SLA class I and β2m genes before day 9 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy by ovarian progesterone may compensate for the progesterone-induced loss of MUC1 and provide continued immune protection of the uterus from pathogens.
Results of the present study strongly suggest that classical SLA genes SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3, nonclassical SLA-6, SLA-7, and SLA-8, as well as β2m mRNAs are induced in the stratum compactum stroma of pigs in response to IFNs secreted by the conceptus. Pig conceptuses secrete both IFN-δ and IFN-γ; ∼75% of antiviral activity in pig CSPs is attributed to IFN-γ and the other 25% to IFN-δ (27, 28). Pig conceptus trophectoderm cells express high amounts of IFN-γ mRNA from day 13 through day 20 of pregnancy, and immunoreactive IFN-γ localizes to perinuclear membranes typically occupied by endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus as well as cytoplasmic vesicles within trophectoderm cells, suggesting trafficking and secretion of IFN-γ into the uterine lumen (28, 31). Interestingly, SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3, but not SLA-6 or SLA-7, were reported to respond to both IFN-γ and IFN-α in a pig kidney cell line (55). Although results of the present study are consistent with those of Tennant et al. (55) for SLA-1, SLA-2, and SLA-3, there are differences between in vivo and in vitro results for SLA-6 and SLA-7. It is perhaps not surprising that stromal cells in vivo, which have distinct spatial relationships to other cell types and the extracellular matrix, respond differently to IFNs than do isolated and cultured kidney cells. Certainly macrophages are highly individualized in tissues, where their functions are a reflection of the systemic and local environment (56). Indeed, it is well established that uterine gene regulation is altered by differences in cell type or epithelial-stromal interactions (57).
Pig conceptuses are unique among mammalian species in that they secrete two IFNs during the peri-implantation period, providing the opportunity for IFN-γ and IFN-δ to work together to regulate endometrial gene expression. In general, both type I and type II IFNs can induce expression of SLA class I through the classical JAK-STAT cell signaling pathway leading to gamma-activation factor binding of gamma activation sequence elements and induction of gene transcription (58). In addition, IFN-δ signals through a similar, yet distinct, pathway leading to ISG factor 3 complex binding of IFN-stimulated response elements in the promoters of several ISGs to initiate transcription (59). Interactions between type I and type II IFNs have been demonstrated (60). Although the type I IFN-α and type II IFN-γ each induce expression of largely nonoverlapping sets of genes, they can also act in concert to produce synergistic interactions leading to mutual reinforcement of physiological responses (61). With cells that are normally relatively unresponsive to IFN-γ, sequential treatment with IFN-γ followed by IFN-α results in greater induction of ISGs (61). In addition, cotreatment with IFN-γ and IFN-α extends the period of ISG expression over IFN-α alone (62). For typical ISGs, type I IFNs induce rapid expression followed by a protein synthesis-dependent suppression of transcription within 6 h. IFN-γ overrides this suppression, allowing continuous expression of ISGs for over 24 h (62). Clearly, IFN-δ and IFN-γ may profoundly influence endometrial physiology through cooperative induction of cytokine-specific transcription factors that allow reinforcement of effects of distinct cell surface ligands, including SLA class I and β2m genes while maintaining the specificities of the individual inducing IFNs to influence cell function.
Although it is well established that conceptus IFN-τ induces expression of numerous ISGs in the stroma and GE of ruminants (3), and that ISGs increase in the decidualizing stroma of humans and rodents (34, 35), the pregnancy-specific roles of uterine ISGs remain conjectural. Because IFN-γ secreted by pig conceptuses can initiate uterine vascular development (63), it is reasonable to hypothesize that conceptus-derived IFNs up-regulate ISGs such as SLA class I and β2m genes to facilitate vascular changes necessary to support the developing conceptus. Recently, placental human HLA-G was implicated in regulation of angiogenesis during placental invasion and replacement of endothelial cells at the ends of uterine spiral arteries (64). Indeed, there is evidence that vascular development at the maternal-fetal interface is regulated by a balance of proangiogenic and antiangiogenic factors, and MHC and β2m molecules may be significant players in this balance (64). Whether IFN-induced SLA class I and β2m gene products in endometrial stratum compactum stroma of pigs are involved in angiogenesis during pregnancy remains to be determined; however, it is clear that expression of ISGs within the uterine stroma of mammals is a universal response to pregnancy.
Intriguingly, SLA class I and β2m gene products decrease in endometrial LE as pregnancy progresses so that they are no longer detectable by day 20 of pregnancy. Although the mechanism involved in this down-regulation is unknown, IRF-2, a potent repressor and attenuator of ISG expression (65, 66), is induced in endometrial LE of pigs by estrogens (30). IRF-2 can also bind to the promoter of Ubp43, Usp18, a USP in mice used to mediate basal levels of expression. Ubp43 (Usp18), a ubiquitin deconjugating enzyme specific for the ubiquitin-like protein ISG15 (67), is up-regulated by type I IFNs (68) and inhibits type I IFN signaling by decreasing JAK1 phosphorylation (67). Although Usp18 is present in both endometrial LE and the deep GE of cows (69), results of the present study localized USP gene only to LE between days 15 and 20 of pregnancy in pigs, which is coincident with temporal loss of SLA class I and β2m mRNAs from LE. Given that IRF-2 and USP genes are expressed in the LE during pregnancy, both may play a role in down-regulating SLA class I and β2m genes. It is generally accepted that SLA class I and β2m molecules are decreased in the placenta to ensure that the conceptus semiallograft avoids host-vs-graft immune rejection (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).
In conclusion, results of the present study suggest that down-regulation of SLA class I and β2m genes in uterine LE, in coordination with a lack of expression of these genes in placenta (12), may be important for preventing fetal allograft rejection in species exhibiting epitheliochorial placentation. The temporal cell type-specific regulation of pig endomtrial SLA class I and β2m by progesterone, IFN-γ, or IFN-δ and perhaps through permissive effects of conceptus estrogens, provides insight into how immune tolerance of the conceptus allograft is achieved. The traditional view, first proposed by Medawar (4, 5), was that the immune system must be circumvented to permit pregnancy. The results presented in this study provide additional evidence that supports reports from multiple investigators implicating the immune system as a dynamic and active player in the complex bidirectional endocrine, paracrine, autocrine, and juxtacrine interactions between uterus and placenta that uniquely define establishment and maintenance of a successful pregnancy.
The authors have no financial conflict of interest.
↵1 This work was supported by National Research Initiative Grant 2006-35203-17199 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service and by Grant P30ES0910607 from the National Institutes of Health.
↵2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Greg A. Johnson, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4458. E-mail address: gjohnson{at}cvm.tamu.edu
↵3 Abbreviations used in this paper: β2m, β2-microglobulin; SLA, swine leukocyte Ag; ISG, IFN-stimulated gene; CSP, conceptus secretory protein; LE, luminal epithelium; GE, glandular epithelium; USP, ubiquitin-specific protease; IRF, IFN regulatory factor.
Received June 28, 2007.
Accepted June 4, 2008.
Copyright © 2008 by The American Association of Immunologists
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7:17pm Fontaines DC - "Hurricane Laughter" - Dogrel (Partisan)
7:12pm David Bowie - "Heroes" - Stage (RCA)
7:04pm Dead South - "Broken Cowboy" - Sugar and Joy (Six Shooter)
7:02pm Kacey Musgraves - "Good Ol' Boys Club" - Pagent Material (Mercury)
6:59pm Tatiana Bookbinder - "The Autumn Song" - Siren's Song (s/r)
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Books by Richard West Sellars
Released: Oct. 1, 1997
PRESERVING NATURE IN THE NATIONAL PARKS: A HISTORY
by Richard West Sellars
A dry but useful academic study of misguided federal resource management and ecological experimentation. ``Nature preservation—especially that requiring a thorough scientific understanding of the resources intended for preservation—is an aspect of park operations in which the [National Park] Service has advanced in a reluctant, vacillating way,'' writes Sellars, a historian with the Park Service. More directly put, his study shows how the Park Service has throughout its existence allowed the preservation of endangered species and habitats to be governed by changes in administrations and political styles. Charged with the divided mission of maximizing ``recreational tourism and public enjoyment of majestic landscapes'' on the one hand, and keeping undisturbed large sections of wild land on the other, the service has generally favored the first, putting science in the backseat. Among Sellars's cases in point is a scientific survey in Yellowstone National Park that involved marking grizzly bears' ears with colored tags, a survey halted in part because tourists complained about the bears' odd appearance. He goes on to charge that as the Park Service grows in size, its ranks are increasingly filled with part-timers and ``technicians,'' not with dedicated scientists who can train the government's resources on analyzing the ecosystems under its charge. Regrettably, many of his most interesting observations are buried in his endnotes, in which he tells, among other tidbits, the story of the Park Service's transferring a mountain in Colorado to the Forest Service after a rock slide altered its face and, presumably, obliterated its scenic grandeur. Sellars does not make the reader's task an easy or pleasant one—a shame, because he has much to say to those interested in the way national resources are managed. Read full book review >
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Allen Fieldhouse To Show Final Four Game
Admission To Watch Game In Historic Arena To Be Free
Kansas basketball fans will be able to watch the Jayhawks' NCAA tournament semifinal game with Ohio State on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.The athletics department said Wednesday the game will be shown live from New Orleans on the arena's giant video board. Tipoff is expected around 7:49 p.m. Central time.Admission to the fieldhouse is free, and doors will open at 6 p.m. The fieldhouse will close immediately after the game.The athletics department says parking lots will be available at no charge. There's an hourly charge to park in the garage next to the fieldhouse.
LAWRENCE, Kan. —
Kansas basketball fans will be able to watch the Jayhawks' NCAA tournament semifinal game with Ohio State on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.
The athletics department said Wednesday the game will be shown live from New Orleans on the arena's giant video board. Tipoff is expected around 7:49 p.m. Central time.
Admission to the fieldhouse is free, and doors will open at 6 p.m. The fieldhouse will close immediately after the game.
The athletics department says parking lots will be available at no charge. There's an hourly charge to park in the garage next to the fieldhouse.
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Eger: a Heady Blend of Bikavér & Baroque Beauty
January 1, 2018 •
By winepleasures
The Eger wine region, located in the relatively cool climes of north eastern Hungary, has it all for the curious wine traveller. Winemaking wise, Eger is very well endowed and can swing both ways with equally exciting results in terms of producing both white and red wine. Furthermore, not only is the city of Eger a genuine baroque beauty, it also has an imposing castle that is the stuff of wine legend – it is from here that brave Hungarians are said to have held the fort and repelled invading Ottoman forces. The marauding Turks apparently declared that the mighty Magyars were fuelled for the big fight by drinking the blood of bull’s – hence the name of the region’s signature wine! Incidentally, the southern Hungarian region of Szekszárd also claims to have been the first to make Bikavér (Bull’s Blood).
Nevertheless, Eger is famous, or perhaps even infamous, for its Bikavér but it is slowly taking the bull by the horns and succeeding in distancing itself from the bottom-shelf Bikavérs associated mainly, but unfortunately not exclusively, with the mass production philosophy of the past. The region’s vintners are putting increasingly sophisticated and complex Bikavérs on the table from lower yields that reflect the attributes of its relatively cool northern climate – based on vibrant acidity, as well as restrained alcohol and tannins.
The backbone for Bikavér comes from the local Kékfrankos grape, which is the most planted red wine variety in Hungary and is the same grape as Austria’s Blaufränkish. The Bikavér blend is fleshed out with and beefed up by other grape varieties, including the Bordeaux varietals, with a minimum of three grapes required for the entry-level Classic category and a minimum of five for the more yield-restricted Superior category – with no one grape supposed to dominate. Grand Superior is a single vineyard Bikavér from low yields. A recent development is that the spicy but hard to cultivate Kadarka grape, which was grubbed up during the former system, is making a comeback in Eger and many winemakers have started to use a few per cent of the grape to liven up the Bikavér blend.
In 2010, Egri Csillag (Star of Eger) became the white equivalent of Bikavér. Local flavour is guaranteed by the requirement that Egri Csillag must be composed of at least 50% of the Carpathian basin grape varieties, such as Olaszrizling, Hárslevelű, Leányka, Királyleányka, Zengő and Zenit. The aromatic varieties like Cserszegi Fűszeres, Zefír, Irsai Olivér, Tramini and Muscat Ottonel are limited to a maximum of 30% in the Egri Csillag blend. The same categories apply to Egri Csillag as to Bikavér.
While in Eger, look out for the impressive Nagy Eged Hill, which has the highest vineyards in Hungary and is a pure limestone outcrop in an otherwise sea of volcanic rhyolitic tuff topped off by brown forest soils.
Eger will be one of excursions that will be part of the 10th International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC), which will be held April 10-11 in Budapest.
Robert Smyth
Robert Smyth is a Budapest-based wine journalist, writer and communicator. He is the author of Hungarian Wine: A Tasting Trip to the New Old World (Blue Guides, 2015). He has been been covering wine for more than 15 years and writes on Hungarian and international wine for the Budapest Business Journal (BBJ), Winesofa.eu, VinCE Magazin and Wine Connoisseur, among others. He’s also served as deputy editor of the Circle of Wine Writer’s Update and edited David Copp’s Wines of Hungary and contributed to the same author’s Tokaj: a companion for the bibulous traveller. He holds the WSET Diploma and Advanced certificates from London’s Wine and Spirit Education Trust, run tastings for Tasting Table and also guide tours for Taste Hungary. He regularly judges at Hungarian and international competitions and also translates wine text from Hungarian to English.
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* [http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines Universal Design for Learning guidelines]
* See a review of principles and the role of technology in refining them in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWTEWx9L_A this talk by Art Graesser].
* [https://kaitlinmctigue.github.io/interactive-principles/#/ An interactive website] describes the principles from our [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6161/935 instructional complexity] paper which includes [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2013/11/20/342.6161.935.DC1?_ga=2.150241526.1122111306.1567539400-1203323450.1562771465 30 principles] merged from lists above.
* [https://kaitlinmctigue.github.io/interactive-principles/#/ An interactive website] describes the principles from our [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6161/935 instructional complexity] paper which includes 30 principles merged from lists above: [[File:Instructional_Principles_Table.xlsx]].
Robust Learning Theoretical Framework
A key goal of LearnLab is to support learning scientists in providing explanations of results using, as much as possible, the same core terminology and addressing an accumulating body of precise theoretical principles of instruction. While a single theory of learning may emerge in the long term, the immediate goal is to encourage researchers to maximize the overlap between each others' theories. We want to help the field get beyond the "Toothbrush Problem" in theorizing.
In 2012, we published a theoretical framework, called the Knowledge-Learning-Instruction (KLI) framework. This framework builds on our 2006 theoretical framework document and, importantly, on the contributions to this wiki. In 2013, we published a paper in Science reviewing instructional principles, the complexity of their combinations, and recommendations for LearnLab style research to address this complexity.
In order to display the integration across research projects, this wiki maintains multiple theoretical hierarchies, one of Instructional Principles and another of empirical studies, which are found on the cluster pages: Coordinative Learning, Interactive Communication, and Refinement and Fluency.
Many other on-line lists of instructional and learning principles exist [please add more!]:
Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, one of the Practice Guides of the Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences. See also:
A web-based update of this guide
Principles of Learning from Lifelong Learning at Work and at Home, a subgroup of the Association for Psychological Science.
Design Principles Database maintained by the NSF-funded TELS (Technology Enhanced Learning in Science) project
Principles of Teaching and Learning from CMU's Eberly Center for Teaching and Learning
Wikipedia entry for principles of learning
Universal Design for Learning guidelines
See a review of principles and the role of technology in refining them in this talk by Art Graesser.
An interactive website describes the principles from our instructional complexity paper which includes 30 principles merged from lists above: File:Instructional Principles Table.xlsx.
Ken Koedinger HCII Seminar Talk: Why Designing Effective Learning Interactions Is Not Easy and How We Can Do Better: Part I
Toward a Hierarchical Structure of Robust Learning Hypotheses and Findings
The structure of the research cluster and study pages is as follows (a template can be found at Project Page Template and Creation Instructions). When a set of explanations share many terms and hypotheses, we make a node for each explanation, make a node for their common features, and link the nodes so that the common-feature node is the parent of each explanation node. In most cases a "node" is a single wiki page, but sometimes a node involves several wiki pages.
In order to more clearly display the integration, each node contains:
An abstract that briefly describes the research encompassed by the node;
A glossary that defines terms used elsewhere in this node but not defined in the nodes that are parents, grandparents, etc. of this node;
The research question stated as concisely as possible, usually in a single sentence;
A background and significance section that briefly summarizes prior work on the research question and why it is important to answer it;
The dependent variables, which are observable and typically measure competence, motivation, interaction, meta-learning, or some other pedagogically desirable outcome;
The independent variables, which typically include instructional environment, activity or method (the instructional "treatment" vs. "control"), and perhaps some student individual difference variables, such as gender or first language;
The hypothesis, which is a concise statement of the relationship among the variables that answers the research question;
The findings, which are the results of the study if it has been performed or the expected findings from the study if it has not -- explicitly indicate if the findings are preliminary;
An explanation that describes the theoretical rationale for the hypothesis using the PSLC theoretical framework. It should be a paragraph or two and provide a causal chain that mentions mediating variables -- unobservable, hypothetical attributes of the students (e.g., knowledge components or path choices), how the treatment affects these, and how they, in turn, affect the dependent variables;
The descendants, which lists links to descendant nodes of this one, if there are any;
A further information section that points to documents using hyper links and/or references in APA format. Each indicates briefly the document's relationship to the node (e.g., whether the document is a paper reporting the node in full detail, a proposal describing the motivation and design of the study in more detail, the node for a similar PSLC research study, etc.).
Experience suggests that the glossaries carry much of the load in explaining the research, and that carefully defining and exemplifying terms often pays off later in reducing confusion and facilitating collaboration. Consequently, the glossaries are sometimes so long that they are spit off as separate wiki pages.
The root node of the hierarchy represents the overarching research question of how to achieve robust learning particularly in academic settings, like K12 schools and colleges. The question is necessarily abstract and is not the sort of question that can actually be tested by a single decisive experiment.
The immediate descendants of the root node are three nodes representing somewhat more specific research questions. There are nodes for each of Coordinative Learning, Interactive Communication and Refinement and Fluency. These present somewhat more concrete research questions. They are specializations to the overarching questions, and form a bridge to testable hypotheses posed by individual research projects.
The leaves of the hierarchy (i.e., nodes with no descendants) represent individual research studies. A leaf node can also represent a group of studies or a whole project if the activities are sufficiently similar that it makes sense to summarize them with a single node. Each leaf node is maintained by its project’s leader and may or may not be publicly accessible depending on the state of the research.
Between the cluster nodes and the leaves, there may be some intervening nodes. For instance, if a group of Coordinative Learning studies all address a similar research question (e.g., how to use verbal and visual instruction together effectively), then a node may be created to summarize their shared aspects. Its parent is the Coordinative Learning cluster node, and its descendants are the relevant project nodes.
For a draft of an alternative framework based on independent dimensions of instruction click here.
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Motown legend Smokey Robinson to grace Wind Creek Stage
The former Sands Casino is now officially Wind Creek Bethlehem.
By Connor Lagore | For lehighvalleylive.com
Smokey Robinson’s got a long resume. Co-founder of Motown, Kennedy Center honoree, Hollywood Walk of Fame star owner, Grammy Award winner, Doctor of Music at not one but two colleges, the list goes on.
Now he can add Wind Creek performer to that list.
The legendary performer will come to the Wind Creek Event Center on Dec. 6 along with his big bag of hits. The performance will include songs from his five decades in the business, and maybe even a tune or two from his 2017 Christmas album.
With songs like “Tracks of My Tears," “Shop Around" and “Just To See Her,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has 50 years worth of success to pull from for his Bethlehem appearance, so it’s not something you’ll want to miss.
Tickets range from $59 to $129.50 and go on sale Friday.
Connor Lagore may be reached at clagore@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @clagore34. Find lehighvalleylive.com on Facebook.
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With Exceptional Attention To Detail, La Prairie Offers An Exquisite Design To Deliver Complexion Perfection.
“The aura given out by a person is as much a part of them as their skin,” proclaimed renowned 20th-century portraitist Lucien Freud when discussing his artistic aspiration to capture the complexion of his subjects. A perfect, glowing complexion is, after all, the incarnation of timeless beauty, the picture of health, the very essence of youth. But the portrait of beauty is only as perfect as its canvas — there can be no perfect complexion without perfect skin.
Driven by the very same aspiration as Freud to highlight the vivacity of a splendid complexion, La Prairie has brought together caviar science and colour artistry in an unparalleled formulation that perfects and enhances the natural beauty of the skin — Skin Caviar Essence-in-Foundation, the first compact foundation infused with Caviar Water for complexion perfection. Encased in a cutting-edge application system, it is the art of foundation as only La Prairie can conceive it.
More than a pioneering fusion of skincare and complexion artistry, this foundation is also a sublime example of La Prairie’s attention to detail and design savoir-faire.
This sleek, portable compact is so innovative, La Prairie felt its refined construction, both inside and out, merited being seen.
In order to capture Skin Caviar Essence-in-Foundation’s astonishing inner workings, La Prairie commissioned artist Nick Veasey to photograph its advanced technical structure using his preferred medium.
Veasey’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x-ray to another level. Everyday objects are transformed from the banal to the beguiling and the layers and make-up of natural items are shown in fantastic detail. These works are a classic example of the fusion between art and science. The results transcend classification as photographs, having the gravitas to motivate science institutions and art galleries to acquire the artworks. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London have recently added his work to the British National Collection of Photography. Mr Veasey regularly exhibits at fine art galleries the world over. His fascinating works have collected a host of International awards.
“We live in a world obsessed with image,” said Mr Veasey. “I like to counter this obsession with the superficial by using X-rays to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface. Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to physical appearance by highlighting the often surprising inner beauty of an object,” he added.
The collaboration between La Prairie and Mr Veasey produced images that are at once technical and ethereal, conveying a great lyricism and grace.
Nick Veasey, Design, Lucien Freud, Xray
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Danley Weatherproof OS Speakers and Subs the Obvious Choice at John Carroll Catholic High School
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – JULY 2017: John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, Alabama was in a position that many high schools find themselves in. Friday night football was a big deal, and many school departments – including the music and award-winning dance departments – gave it their all to make each game a memorable experience. But the sound reinforcement system that supported the game announcements and all the music was flat, unintelligible, and prone to failure. Engineered Audio Video - a division of Clear Solutions, Danley Sound Lab’s new Birmingham-based dealer, arranged a demo of Danley’s weatherproof OS-80 loudspeaker that convinced school officials that Danley was the right choice to take JCCHS’s game-day experience to the next level.
“There were several issues the school wanted fixed with a new sound system,” said Gary Boackle of ENGAV. “First, it seemed that their wireless systems were breaking up, but that turned out to be a different problem, and we were able to reuse their existing wireless mics. Second, the sound quality was poor everywhere and they only had a bullhorn-type loudspeaker for the visitors side. It was definitely not worthy of the talented students who put on the school’s halftime shows, including the school’s national championship dance team. Third, they wanted a system that could grow with the program; in particular, they were thinking of mic’ing up the band for greater musical impact. Finally, they wanted to restrict access to the system’s internals so that staff would be unable to make ‘improvements.’”
The Danley product that ENGAV proposed – the weatherproof OS-80 – is used in the upper bowl of Bryant Denny Stadium, the 100,000-plus-seat home to Alabama’s beloved Crimson Tide college football team. “Calling attention to a product’s prominence in collegiate and pro stadiums is a double-edged sword when we’re working with a high school-level client,” said Boackle. “On the one hand, of course, it speaks to the product’s performance. But at the same time, high school-level clients immediately get suspicious about the price tag. That’s where having an actual demo made all the difference at John Carroll.”
Danley’s Director of Sales, Jonathan “JP” Parker, traveled to the school with a Danley OS-80 and a Danley subwoofer to provide the demonstration. “When you’re talking to clients who don’t have a deep understanding of audio or acoustics, there comes a point where you can’t really convey the performance of a system in words alone,” said Boackle. “They simply have to hear it to get it. Even with a demo that was a third of the system we would eventually give them, they immediately knew Danley was the right choice. They were blown away! Even when they went over to the visitors’ side, everything remained clear and musical. The demo convinced them to bite the bullet, because they had received lower bids in the form of non-Danley proposals.”
The system ENGAV installed centers on three weatherproof Danley OS-80s and one weatherized Danley TH-118 subwoofer. Two OS-80s are affixed to poles behind the central press box for coverage of either end of the stands and field. The third OS-80 and subwoofer reside in the center of the press box for coverage of the middle stands, the middle field, and the visitors’ side. Inputs to the system include a CD player, microphones, an aux RCA, and an aux iPod jack. A Biamp Tesira DSP provides system processing and customized input selection and volume control, such that staff cannot change anything else in the system. QSC amplifiers provide the power.
“The compliments continue to roll in,” said Boackle. “There’s a competing high school about a mile away, and for years you could hear their announcements all the way over at John Carroll. With the new Danley system installed however, the flow has reversed. The Assistant Athletic Director was over at the neighboring school while both schools were hosting away teams, and he could keep up with the John Carroll game because the announcements were still intelligible after traveling all that distance! Every report we get comes with a big smile!”
ABOUT DANLEY SOUND LABS
Danley Sound Labs is the exclusive home of Tom Danley, one of the most innovative loudspeaker designers in the industry today and recognized worldwide as a pioneer for "outside the box" thinking in professional audio technology.
www.danleysoundlabs.com
ABOUT ENGAV
Founded in 2005, Engineered Audio Video, a division of Clear Solutions, is an audio and video integration company aligned with your values. ENGAV’s passion and purpose come together to engineer experiences well beyond the client’s expectations.
www.engav.com
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What would your banner say?
Rosa Say
Rosa is an author and blogger who dedicates to helping people thrive in the work and live with purpose. Read full profile
As I walked down Kapahulu Avenue in a very sunny Honolulu this morning, I passed by a gas station with an attached convenience store and snack shop. Open for business, but not a single car in the lot or at the pump. You could see a clerk through the window, elbows propped on the counter in front of her, wistfully looking outside and probably wondering if anyone would ever stop by.
The station had been stripped down to the basics in a recent ownership change; no posters taped to the windows for coffee, donuts or some hotdog special, no newspaper racks or ATM signs outside— nothing. The only adornment on the entire building was a large yellow banner with red lettering that said, “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.” The place was clean and newly painted, but in this case, clean came off as barren. If I were the owner, I wouldn’t be so anxious to advertise the change yet.
The longer I stared at that banner, the more it began to bother me, and the more I felt for that lonely clerk inside. The whole picture was so stark and unpromising. “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT” was beginning to sound like serfdom in the making. I stood there for a while doing the mental gymnastics of a silent brainstorm; surely the new owner could’ve picked something more exciting and hopeful to say on that banner. The words he’d chosen could have been a much better self-fulfilling prophecy.
My hope with the Managing with Aloha mission, is that a business owner would instead choose to hang a banner which would say something like, “WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GREAT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP —AND THRIVING!” Yeah, it’s long, but so what? What customer wouldn’t want to walk in the door and be served in a place trumpeting that announcement? What job seeker wouldn’t excitedly race in and ask, “Do you have any job openings?”
Instead, people choose stock sayings and banners and go for the boring and uninspired. And it’s just a rotten choice all the way ‘round; no one wants to think of themselves “under” any management whether old or new. Working with is way better than working for.
There are a lot of choices between “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT” and the banner I’d hang, motivating myself to make the words come true. When hung over the door where you work, what would your banner say? What are you doing each and every day, whatever job you hold, to earn the Managing with Aloha banner I want to hang from the rafters for you?
I also like, “WORTHWHILE AND MEANINGFUL WORK FOUND HERE!” Sounds good for all of us I would think, wouldn’t you?
Ho‘omau and your Language of Intention
The Most Underutilized Tool for Effective Communication
Rosa Say is the author of Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawaii’s Universal Values to the Art of Business and the Talking Story blog. She is also the founder and head coach of Say Leadership Coaching, a company dedicated to bringing nobility to the working arts of management and leadership. For more of her ideas, click to her Thursday columns in the archives, or download her manifesto: Managing with Aloha on ChangeThis.com.
Rosa’s Previous Thursday Column was: Reinvention: It’s something you can do.
Rosa is an author and blogger who dedicates to helping people thrive in the work and live with purpose.
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Lil Wayne Reveals When He Will Release His “Funeral” Album & Announces New Partnership With Video Game Company Ubisoft
August 27, 2019 in Interviews, Latest News, Young Money Ent
Similar to every year before “Lil Weezyana Fest“, Lil Wayne phoned into Wild Wayne from New Orleans radio station Q93 a few days ago to promote his upcoming 5th annual music festival that will be taking place on September 7th.
During their conversation, Wayne chatted about the growth of his “Lil Weezyana Fest” as it has changed to a bigger location for this year and it will include a jazz tribute, carnival food, rides and 2 stages at the upcoming concert, as well as how he wants his festival to be up there with the rest of the big festivals, such as Lollapalooza.
Tunechi then went on to list who is on his Young Money record label (doesn’t name Drake) and reveal he will release his Funeral album at the end of this year. He even mentioned that Funeral is done and it is now up to Mack Maine to pick a bunch of songs for the project and title them.
Also in the 17-minute conversation, Weezy discussed what he does to create new experiences, his Young Money Sports agency, Los Angeles Lakers, Green Bay Packers, and announced he has just partnered with video game company Ubisoft were he will be releasing funny commercials and ads for the Ghost Recon Breakpoint marketing campaign!
Cortez Bryant Speaks On Handling Business Deals For Lil Wayne & A Possible Return For TRUKFIT
July 31, 2019 in Interviews, Young Money Ent
Cortez Bryant recently chopped it up with VIBE for an interview, which you can read in full below.
During their conversation, Tez discusses handling numerous amount of Lil Wayne‘s partnerships, the new Young Money collection with American Eagle, why they chose the brand for their new clothing line, and more.
Tunechi‘s best friend also revealed what the easiest and most difficult things are about getting deals done for him, what the difference between this new fashion line and their previous one TRUKFIT is, and mentioned TRUKFIT will eventually make a come back!
Lil Wayne Talks “Funeral”, Tyga, Favorite Song, Dropping More Mixtapes & Compilations From Young Money In The Future
Emmanuel Maduakolam from HYPEBEAST Radio‘s “MIC/LINE” series chopped it up with Lil Wayne while promoting his new Young Money collection with fashion brand American Eagle on the rooftop of New Design High School in Manhattan on July 15th.
During their conversation, Weezy spoke on his new clothing line, what drew him to collaborate with American Eagle, being “embarrassed” but also “very grateful” for Tyga’s “Lightskin Lil Wayne” music video, motivation, not having a favorite album of his own, the latest song he records will always be his new favorite song, being excited for his Funeral album, sports, and shared advice for new music artists.
Tune also revealed that the night he won 4 GRAMMY Awards is the most fun he has had so far in his career (but he cannot remember it), he will not stop recording and releasing mixtapes even though he believes tapes are not that important in hip-hop anymore, why he remixes other artist’s beats on his mixtapes, and Young Mula will always drop compilations in the future.
You can listen to the full interview, which even included Tunechi mentioning Tyga is still on YM and that the Funeral title of his new album does not mean what you think it does, after the jump below!
Lil Wayne Discusses Swizz Beatz, Tyga, Drake, Kobe Bryant, “Tha Carter” 15-Year Anniversary & More
July 21, 2019 in Interviews
Lil Wayne sat down with Carl Lamarre from Billboard for an interview while promoting his new line with fashion brand American Eagle on the rooftop of New Design High School in New York City on July 15th.
In their conversation, which you can read below, Weezy spoke on his proudest accomplishment as the CEO of Young Money, working with Swizz Beatz, if they will ever record a joint project together, and his Tha Carter album turning 15-years-old last month.
Tunechi also discussed fashion, “everyday people” wearing his merchandise, Tyga’s “Lightskin Lil Wayne” tribute music video, why Tyga reminds him of Flo Rida, NBA, NFL, what similarities he see’s between himself and Kobe Bryant, the difference in touring with a rock band and touring with rappers, Travis Barker, Drake, and more!
More Details, Release Date & Commercial For Lil Wayne’s 25-Piece Collaboration With American Eagle
July 16, 2019 in Latest News
We first got word of this collaboration last month and saw a preview of the collection earlier this month, and now more details about Lil Wayne‘s upcoming “Young Money” fashion line with clothing brand American Eagle have been announced.
For the back-to-school season, AE and Weezy will be releasing an exclusive 25-piece tie-dye and color-blocked collection of t-shirts, hoodies, shorts, jeans, socks, boxers, hats, chains, skate decks, and more. The price of these products will range from $8.00 to $100.00.
The collection will debut and drop next month on August 10th with American Eagle revealing the full line on July 30th. You will be able to find the items in all AE stores, as well as on their official online website. In a statement to WWD, Tune had the following to say about his latest clothing line:
“I know my fans wear and love the brand, so we came together to co-create a collection that blends my personality with American Eagle’s iconic style. We designed the AE x Young Money collection with purpose and pride. Whether it’s my music or my style, I have always used both as an outlet for creativity and to live my truth – without apologies. American Eagle gets it. The brand celebrates individuality and to me that’s something I want to be a part of.”
You can check out a commercial for Tunechi and American Eagle‘s new fashion collaboration after the jump below!
Lil Wayne Talks “Funeral” Album, New Generation Rappers, Working With American Eagle & More [Video]
Pierce Simpson from Complex sat down with Lil Wayne for a one on one interview to promote his new Young Money clothing line with American Eagle, which Cortez Bryant first told us about last month before we then saw a preview of the collection earlier this month.
During their conversation, which you can watch below, Wayne also spoke on what his favorite piece from his new fashion line is, being shocked that American Eagle wanted to work with him, new generation rappers, TRUKFIT, how the last 18 months of his life have been, his upcoming Funeral album, and more.
While discussing Funeral, Tunechi says Tez Poe has a release date for the project, but he doesn’t want to announce it as of right now and so it’s “coming soon”. Tune even explained that he never records music for a specific album; he just records a bunch of songs and lets Tez pick which ones will appear on the certain project. It is very “rare” Weezy is in the “I’m about to go record this album” mode as it has only ever happened once, which was when he was locked up in jail!
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Since 1980, Ecart occupies a booth at Art Basel, the international fair. Its small size, its distinctive furnishings (a legacy of the Hôtel Richemond), and its atmosphere of permanent discussion are familiar to every Art Basel visitor. It is a fixed point in an otherwise inflationary event and one of the fair’s few not-for-profit spaces (revenues from sales go solely to the exhibited artists). MAMCO exhibition brings together some 100 artworks and documents relating to this activity and pays tribute to the “Ecart spirit.”
Ecart’s first presentations at Art Basel were closely connected to activity at the Geneva gallery (which closed in 1982), featuring work by artists such as Ben, Manon, Olivier Mosset, and Tamas Szentjoby. Books were a constant feature, too—indeed, John M Armleder made his début as an exhibitor at Art Basel with a selection of books published by Ecart. Armleder quickly saw the fair’s potential for the display of artworks, going so far as to produce several different shows over the course of the week.
In the 1980s, the program gained curatorial autonomy, reflecting projects organized by John M Armleder, such as the Teu-Gum Show in 1981, or Peinture abstraite in 1984. The presence of artists such as Pierre-André Ferrand, Philippe Deléglise, Christian Floquet, Jean-Luc Manz, and Patrick Weidmann, as well as Helmut Federle, Allan McCollum, Steven Parrino, and Peter Schuyff, demonstrates his sustained interest in contemporary forms of abstraction, in French-speaking Switzerland and the United States alike. His display of an ensemble of paintings bought from a thrift store one of the years of this decade also reflects his ongoing exploration of questions of taste, style, and categorization in art.
In the 1990s, John M Armleder—in collaboration with Sylvie Fleury and the occasional assistance of young curators—chose to show work by artists who would otherwise have had no presence at the fair: Cady Noland, General Idea, Karen Kilimnik, Thom Merrick, John Tremblay, Fabrice Gygi, Amy O’Neill, Blair Thurman, and Pipilotti Rist, for instance.
Since the early 2000s, projects have alternated between historical rediscoveries (Genesis P-Orridge, Ralph Rumney, Domenico Battista, Poul Gernes, Vern Blosum, Helene Lustig Cohen, or Gustav Metzger) and young artists (Andreas Hochuli, Laurent Pache, Carissa Rodriguez, Piero Golia, Virginia Overton, Grégory Bourrilly).
With the support of Mai-Thu Perret and a constellation of art lovers, the Ecart booth continues to surprise, year after year, as a space for discussion and, at the heart of an increasingly commercial event, as a disruption of professional norms.
The exhibition is organized by John M Armleder and Lionel Bovier, with Paul Bernard, Sophie Costes, Julien Fronsacq, Elisabeth Jobin, and Mai-Thu Perret, and the support of Françoise Ninghetto, Fabrice Stroun, the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, and the participating artists
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In early 2019 President Trump warned this company's biggest customers to "step up their 5G efforts." A few months later, he banned their biggest competitor from doing business in the U.S. Now, this $5 stock could turn a $10,000 stake into $234,770 this year. But timing is critical. A single mention on the evening news and this opportunity could get away from you.
NYSE:PRU - Prudential Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News
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Volume2.50 million shs
Average Volume1.68 million shs
Market Capitalization$39.03 billion
Prudential Financial, Inc, through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services. It operates through PGIM, U.S. Workplace Solutions, U.S. Individual Solutions, and International Insurance divisions. The PGIM division offers an array of asset management and advisory services related to public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private, and sub-advisory clients, as well as to insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities, and the general account. Read More…
Industry Life insurance
Sub-IndustryLife & Health Insurance
Current SymbolNYSE:PRU
CUSIP74432010
Webhttp://www.prudential.com/
Forward P/E Ratio8.44
P/E Growth0.85
Annual Sales$58.13 billion
Cash Flow$12.76 per share
Book Value$118.72 per share
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$11.69
Net Income$4.07 billion
Employees50,492
Market Cap$39.03 billion
Next Earnings Date2/4/2020 (Confirmed)
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What is Prudential Financial's stock symbol?
Prudential Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PRU."
How often does Prudential Financial pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Prudential Financial?
Prudential Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 11th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 26th will be paid a dividend of $1.00 per share on Thursday, December 12th. This represents a $4.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.12%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, November 25th. View Prudential Financial's Dividend History.
How were Prudential Financial's earnings last quarter?
Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) posted its earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The financial services provider reported $3.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $3.07 by $0.15. The financial services provider earned $12.93 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $14.27 billion. Prudential Financial had a net margin of 6.67% and a return on equity of 8.45%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $3.15 earnings per share. View Prudential Financial's Earnings History.
When is Prudential Financial's next earnings date?
Prudential Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Prudential Financial.
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Prudential Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 4th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What price target have analysts set for PRU?
13 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Prudential Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $85.00 to $110.00. On average, they anticipate Prudential Financial's share price to reach $98.55 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Prudential Financial.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Prudential Financial?
13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Prudential Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Prudential Financial.
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Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Prudential Financial stock:
1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Prudential shares have outperformed the industry year to date. The company continues to gain from asset-based businesses, improved margins in Group Insurance business and solid international operations. High performing asset management business, deeper reach in the pension risk transfer market, strong balance sheet and an efficient capital management are catalysts. Prudential expects return on equity between 12% and 14%, adjusted earnings per share growth in high single digit, and mid-to- high single digit earnings growth across PGIM, International and U.S. Financial Wellness in the intermediate term. However, exposure to low interest rates as well as to products like annuities and universal life, which yield low returns, remains a concern. Escalating expenses continue to weigh on margin expansion." (9/10/2019)
2. Wells Fargo & Co analysts commented, "We are maintaining our $115 price target. We expect shares to be largely unchanged following the investor day." (6/6/2019)
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News stories about PRU stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Prudential Financial earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Prudential Financial.
Are investors shorting Prudential Financial?
Prudential Financial saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,240,000 shares, a drop of 15.9% from the December 15th total of 5,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,010,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Prudential Financial's Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Prudential Financial's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Prudential Financial include Metlife (MET), AFLAC (AFL), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Lincoln National (LNC), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), CNO Financial Group (CNO), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Citizens (CIA), Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI) and Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ).
What other stocks do shareholders of Prudential Financial own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Prudential Financial investors own include AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Intel (INTC), Verizon Communications (VZ), Bank of America (BAC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), Visa (V) and AbbVie (ABBV).
Who are Prudential Financial's key executives?
Prudential Financial's management team includes the folowing people:
Mr. Charles Frederick Lowrey Jr., Chairman, CEO & Pres (Age 61)
Mr. Mark Brown Grier, Vice Chairman (Age 66)
Mr. Kenneth Yutaka Tanji, Exec. VP & CFO (Age 53)
Mr. Stephen P. Pelletier, Exec. VP & COO of U.S. Bus.es (Age 65)
Mr. Robert Michael Falzon CFA, Vice Chairman (Age 59)
Who are Prudential Financial's major shareholders?
Prudential Financial's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.08%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.04%), Reilly Financial Advisors LLC (0.03%), Huntington National Bank (0.03%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own Prudential Financial stock include Charles F Lowrey, Kenneth Tanji, Nicholas C Silitch, Prudential Financial Inc, Robert Falzon, Sandra Pianalto, Scott Sleyster, Stephen Pelletier and Thomas J Baltimore, Jr. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Prudential Financial.
Which major investors are selling Prudential Financial stock?
PRU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, DNB Asset Management AS, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Delta Capital Management LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Equitec Specialists LLC. Company insiders that have sold Prudential Financial company stock in the last year include Nicholas C Silitch, Scott Sleyster and Stephen Pelletier. View Insider Buying and Selling for Prudential Financial.
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PRU stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Red Spruce Capital LLC, Polianta Ltd, Reilly Financial Advisors LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., AE Wealth Management LLC, 180 Wealth Advisors LLC, Diversified Trust Co and Ackerman Capital Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought Prudential Financial stock in the last two years include Charles F Lowrey, Kenneth Tanji, Prudential Financial Inc, Robert Falzon, Sandra Pianalto and Thomas J Baltimore, Jr. View Insider Buying and Selling for Prudential Financial.
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Shares of PRU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Prudential Financial's stock price today?
One share of PRU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $97.10.
How big of a company is Prudential Financial?
Prudential Financial has a market capitalization of $39.03 billion and generates $58.13 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $4.07 billion in net income (profit) each year or $11.69 on an earnings per share basis. Prudential Financial employs 50,492 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Prudential Financial.
What is Prudential Financial's official website?
The official website for Prudential Financial is http://www.prudential.com/.
How can I contact Prudential Financial?
Prudential Financial's mailing address is 751 BROAD ST, NEWARK NJ, 07102. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 973-802-6000 or via email at [email protected]
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Marshall and Nurses
March 10, 2017 June 11, 2018 by csonnier
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
When the nurses in the South Pacific awoke on December 8, 1941, their commanders began issuing them steel helmets and gas masks. The once-coveted assignment to the Philippines became one of waiting and preparing for what they believed to be Japan’s next attack. They were right.
The Japanese continued their advancements, and the nurses were ordered to leave their patients and head for Corregidor. The hospital there was in a hot and airless tunnel and was jammed with wounded. In May of 1942 the Japanese assault ended with General Wainwright’s surrender. In the middle of an operation, 2LT Eunice Young heard the scuffling noise and glanced up to see a Japanese soldier with his bayonet fixed. She expected to die, but the Japanese soldier was confused by the presence of a woman in uniform and he had no idea what to do with her.
After their capture, the Army nurses worked in the prison hospital for about four hours each day. At first the conditions in the camps were tolerable, but as the Japanese began to lose ground, the prisoners received less and less food and fewer privileges. By 1944 malnutrition and starvation became a problem not only for the nurses but for their patients. As many as five patients a day starved to death by early 1945. While cynical jokes about death were common, none of the nurses ever expressed fear about their own deaths.
Of all the prisoners of the war, General Marshall was most deeply moved by the plight of those from Corregidor and Bataan. In the dreary months that followed the surrender he made a special effort to send on to families of the imprisoned soldiers hopeful bits of information that might filter through Japanese prison camps.
In February of 1943 Marshall wrote to General White requesting, “I wish you would quietly look into this and present the picture to me as you see it. It might be quite appropriate to make some initial awards of the Legion of Merit to nurses who did a fine job on Bataan or Corregidor, particularly in the case of several who I understand refused to leave though given the opportunity for evacuation.”
In February of 1945 the prison camps were liberated, but the journey home was a long one full of island hopping, hospital physicals, press interviews, parades and award ceremonies. The nurses were all promoted and awarded the Bronze Star. A few received Purple Hearts.
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Rania Khallaf Published in Al-Ahram Weekly on 15 - 11 - 2018
Roses are associated with love and romance, but they take on a different meaning in “Cup of Roses”. In this collection of paintings by Emad Abdel-Wahab — currently on show at the Dai Gallery — roses are a metaphor that combines sensuality with loneliness, reflecting on the wilting beauty of women in an Arab society. The women are the roses, society the cup.
Combining acrylics and oils (often on the same canvas), these huge pieces feature free-flowing nude figures. In one, two women — one sleeping, one sitting on the ground — are partly covered by the same blanket. The one on the ground looks to the one who is asleep. Her face is not visible but a balloon-like shape full of red roses rises from her head, balancing out a cup at the bottom of the canvas and suggesting communication between them.
Here as elsewhere the cup and the blanket — or carpet — are the key players, with a background full of stains implying blemishes or passivity and an odd, bold, surprisingly harmonious palette: green, purple, yellow, brown and blue. The cup manoeuvres its way around each canvas, it is inverted at the top or it is transparent in the middle, always positioned in relation to the roses which variously adorn the women's bodies or fly in various directions around them. The cover connects the women and protects them from both the cup and the roses.
As a young artist, Abdel-Wahab — who, after graduating from Alexandria University's Faculty of Fine Arts in 1998, earned a diploma from Rome's International Institute for Restoration in 2004 — was drawn to the grassroots: popular celebrations, children's games and other manifestations of life in Egypt. He earned his PhD in the philosophy of art in 2006, and received the State Incentive Award in portraiture in 2007 (for a series of tormented faces). He has often worked on male-female relationships and conflict.
“I was the first Egyptian artist to participate in restoration works at the Vatican,” he says proudly, which taught him how to control colours and mediums. It was also an opportunity to learn and practise drawing live nudes, which is not possible in Egypt. It helped to liberate me from the conservative mindset and enabled me to have a different perspective on life. Among the things I've come to see is how our repressive, male-dominated society has in many cases forced women to let go of their femininity in order to deal with the schizophrenic double standards.”
Emad Abdel-Wahab
This has been a constant focus of Abdel-Wahab's since his provocative 2009 exhibition Al-Kasiyat (or The Clothed) at the Opera House, showing women in ultraconservative clothing with the details of their bodies showing through). His next exhibition, “Saffron”, focused on traditional — exorcists', faith healers' and quacks' — treatments of women's psychiatric and social problems: saffron-water showers, lice removal and many such senseless rituals.
“Roses are also a symbol of the duplicity of values now prevailing in Egyptian society,” Abdel-Wahab says. “I wanted to reveal these contradictions, so that in the end the viewer will see there really is no cup of roses.”
The flatness of the figures suggests the possibility that they are all aides of the same single woman whose monologue the exhibition exposes us to. The faces are always obscured, and where there are clothes they evoke the strange juxtapositions of Wahhabi societies, with ultraconservative dress codes undercut by very casual touches.
“Arab societies have fallen into a trap: they can neither switch to modern dress nor stick with traditional dress. But I also want to show how women are seen as sex objects and the role of religion in what women are allowed to wear — how niqab can be used to criminal ends, for example. The idea first came to my mind when I travelled to Kuwait four years ago. I found out that male-female relations and concepts of sex are much worse there,” he said. “The longer I stayed, the more the idea developed. I finally started this project last year. I wanted to restructure the connotations of words and concepts so as to find a way to turn these phenomena to meaningful dialogues. In the end, roses are just a symbol, it could be anything opposing the confusion.”
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We love big lottery wins and sharing the stories with you, but have you ever wondered who won the biggest lottery jackpots, where they were from and which lottery’s they played? Below we have just such a list to share with you.
10. $414 Million Mega Millions jackpot was won by two tickets in the 18th March draw 2014. The one an anonymous winner from Maryland and the other by Raymond Moyer and Robyn Collier of Florida.
9. A $425.3 Million Powerball jackpot was won by a single lottery ticket holder on February 19th 2014. A retiree from California named Mr B. Raymond Buxton.
8. On 7 May 2016 a $429.6 Million Powerball jackpot was won by a single ticket, the winner has yet to come forward. This is one of the biggest single lottery winning tickets ever. Read more about this story here.
7. $448.4 Million Powerball jackpot was won by three tickets on 7 August 2013. The first ticket held by a project engineer from Minnesota, the second a 70 year old man from New Jersey and the third winning ticket was held by a syndicate of 16 colleagues who were victims of Superstorm Sandy.
6. The $564 Million Powerball jackpot drawn on 11 February 2015 saw three winning tickets. One an anonymous player from Puerto Rico, one by Andrew Webber of Texas and the other was held by 26 year old, Marie Holmes of North Carolina. A single mother of four, who had been holding down no less than four jobs to support her family.
5. On the 28th of November 2012 a $587.5 Million Powerball jackpot was won by two tickets. Matthew Good from Arizona held the one winning ticket and Cindy and Mark Hill of Missouri held the other.
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3. December 17th 2013 saw a $648 Million Mega Millions lottery draw was won by two tickets. Ira Curry from Georgia and Steve Tran of San Jose, California.
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Lauderhill police shot Earl D. Brown, a night watchman at International Global Metals recycling center, early this morning around 2:00 a.m. Police were called to the recycling center to investigate reports of an intruder on the premises. Brown, who has worked at the recycling center for more than twenty-five years, was on routine patrol when he was shot. Police have reported that Brown was armed and was not wearing any type of clothing that indicated he was a security officer or employed by the plant. According to police, Brown was immediately labeled a threat because he was armed.
A neighbor witnessed a suspicious vehicle pull into the backside of the recycling center and immediately called Brown, who went to look into this situation. Within seconds, police officers received on scene “with guns drawn.” Police did find a .44 caliber revolver at the recycling plant that did not belong to Brown. Brown’s weapon was never fired during his altercation with police. According to the neighbor, Brown told police he was the security guard, “but by the time he put his hands up they started shooting.”
Brown was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center and underwent surgery. He is expected to recover from his injuries. The three officers who discharged their weapons have been placed on administrative leave, as is standard in these types of situations.
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Homepod-Inspired Amazon Echo Is Smaller, Sounds Better
The Amazon Echo family has expanded significantly since its original debut a couple of years ago. Most recently, we’ve been introduced to the Echo Show with a touchscreen and the Echo Look with a camera, but the core Echo itself has remained unchanged. It’s probably due for an update and it looks like the next Amazon Echo will borrow some significant inspiration from its Cupertino-designed counterpart.
Many people, myself included, scoffed at the $349 price for the Apple Homepod, but that’s almost to be expected when you pay the so-called “Apple tax” on the company’s products. It’s no surprise that many companies derive some design inspiration from Apple, and Amazon is certainly no exception. So, what can we expect from the next Echo?
First, it sounds like the next Amazon Echo will be smaller. Engadget says that it’ll be about the size of “three or four Echo Dots stacked on top of each other.” That’s not very Homepod-like, but it also sounds like the hard plastic shell of the existing model will be replaced with a softer, cloth-like covering. That’s much more like the Homepod.
And you know how Apple was really playing up the audio quality that you can expect from its smart speaker? Amazon is reportedly upping the ante in that department too by improving its sound quality as well. Instead of just one large tweeter and woofer, the rumor goes that the next Echo will have several tweeters. The Homepod has seven.
Other upgrades include better microphone technology, better software, and better acoustic modeling. No word on price, of course, but it’ll probably be comparable to the $180 range for the current Echo.
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Sustainability needs ‘good governance and good disclosure’
December 15, 2019 - Saudi Arabia
The GCC Board Directors Institute (GCC BDI), a non-profit organisation for board members, concluded the 7th annual GCC BDI Chairman Summit with a strong message to corporate boards in the region: “Corporate governance matters enormously to the nature of our economies and the kind of growth we want to see.”
For his part, Conor Kehoe, guest speaker and Senior Partner Emeritus and Special Adviser at McKinsey & Company, said: “How can directors add more value – for shareholders – and also well beyond?”
Saudi Gazette: Sustainability needs ‘good governance and good disclosure’
UAE online seeks out category winners
December 1, 2019 - UAE
A McKinsey report estimates that fashion-related sales in the Gulf amount to $50 billion. Sure, much of that still happens at brick-and-mortar stores, but by now online has been able to draw in a growing share of that dollar spend. And these spends are quite substantial — the average per capita spend on fashion in the UAE is estimated at $500 by McKinsey, and that swells to $1,600 a person in Saudi Arabia.
Gulf News: UAE online seeks out category winners
The GCC’s $50bn fashion sales market sees growth despite global slowdown
November 22, 2019 - UAE
With annual fashion sales of $50 billion (Dh184bn) and some of the world’s highest per capita spending, the GCC market presents “significant opportunities” amid a pessimistic global outlook for the industry, according to a new McKinsey study. Annual spending per person reached approximately $500 in Saudi Arabia and $1,600 in the UAE, found the fourth annual The State of Fashion report from the consultancy, published on Thursday.
The National: The GCC’s $50bn fashion sales market sees growth despite global slowdown
We need to equip young people for the jobs of the future from a pre-school age
October 22, 2019 - UAE
The new reality is one in which 45 per cent of jobs will be automatable by 2030. The automation potential will vary across sectors: jobs requiring repetitive routine work such as manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will see more than 50 per cent of its work done by smart devices. Jobs that require emotional intelligence and creativity such as the arts, health care and entertainment will only see a 29 to 37 per cent automation rate.
The National: We need to equip young people for the jobs of the future from a pre-school age
Gulf needs to become a digital talent builder rather than an importer
October 8, 2019 - UAE
Even though many businesses in the Gulf region are interested in digitization, only a few of them have moved aggressively while many companies are testing the waters and wondering how to move from strategy to action. Digital transformation is all about deploying technology to solve business problems.
“Talent is the number one challenge in digital transformations, globally and locally. Culture is an essential factor in attracting, developing and retaining digital talent,” Abdulkader Lamaa, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, told TechRadar Middle East.
Techradar: Gulf needs to become a digital talent builder rather than an importer
How global companies are bringing women-friendly work benefits to the UAE
September 11, 2019 - UAE
In the UAE, the government has taken important steps indicating that gender balance is a national priority. Last year the UAE cabinet endorsed a bill ensuring equal pay for men and women. Currently in 46th place in the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index, the UAE aims to be one of the world’s top 25 countries for gender equality through its Vision 2021.
The National: How global companies are bringing women-friendly work benefits to the UAE
Five challenges Gulf businesses must tackle to go digital, according to McKinsey
May 28, 2019 - UAE
Despite many companies in the Arabian Gulf being interested in digitalisation, the transformation and evolution to web-based systems remain limited, according to McKinsey. The consultancy listed five key challenges faced by regional companies trying to become digital.
The National: Five challenges Gulf businesses must tackle to go digital, according to McKinsey
GCC consumers becoming more price-conscious
May 6, 2019 - UAE
Consumers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are becoming increasingly price sensitive and demanding, while expecting more convenience, according to a new survey published this month by McKinsey & Company. “I think trend number one from a consumer perspective is that consumers are more and more cautious. What we saw here in the UAE and in Saudi — and that’s true for nationals and expats — that consumers are … spending less and saving more.” Abdellah Iftahy, partner at McKinsey, told The National.
The National: GCC consumers becoming more price-conscious
5 Main Shifts in Consumer Behavior in the Middle East
According to a report published by McKinsey & Company, entitled “Navigating a perfect storm in the Middle East’s consumer sector” surveyed 2,000 consumers in two of the region’s largest economies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Consumers in the Middle East are changing their buying behavior, spending less while expecting more convenience.
Albawaba: 5 Main Shifts in Consumer Behavior in the Middle East
Brand loyalty slips in Middle east due to job insecurity: report
Eight out of every 10 people in the UAE are apparently worried about losing their jobs. That's according to a new report by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which also found that residents are becoming more cost-conscious. Around 40 percent of respondents in the UAE and Saudi Arabia said they are cutting down on spending and paying closer attention to prices. The report also revealed that consumers are becoming less brand loyal.
Start-up spirit
May 2, 2019 - Pakistan
Pakistan has 130 million people under the age of 30, it is an emerging economy projected to continue growing quickly in the coming years. Start-ups have taken off across the nation in an enhanced business environment, while incubation and incentives from the government have attracted new venture capitalists to Pakistan. But the country still has some distance to go in order to reach its full potential.
DAWN: Start-up spirit
McKinsey tells how to weather the ‘perfect storm’ in Gulf retail
The consumer retail market is always dynamic, always changing. But maybe now, especially in the Middle East, it is changing faster and more unpredictably than ever, and companies in this sector are going to have to stay on their toes to avoid getting left behind. The most adaptable will survive and thrive, the rest “will get left behind,” said McKinsey.
Arab News: McKinsey tells how to weather the ‘perfect storm’ in Gulf retail
MENA’s start-up scene is taking off. Here’s how investors can join in
April 2, 2019 - UAE
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is one of the most digitally connected in the world. Around 88% of its population is online daily, and 94% of people in the region own a smartphone. Digital consumption is similarly high in some countries; Saudi Arabia, for example, ranks seventh globally in social-media engagement, with an average of seven accounts per individual.
Weforum: MENA’s start-up scene is taking off. Here’s how investors can join in
This is how Middle Eastern retailers can keep up with e-commerce
Retailers have struggled to compete with the growing popularity of large-scale competitors such as Amazon and Alibaba. The industry is also in the grip of a revolution powered by digital technology, as people shop online rather than in stores. Shopping is becoming more of an experiential activity, during which stores compete for consumers' "share of wallet".
Weforum: This is how Middle Eastern retailers can keep up with e-commerce
Digital disruption is changing the Middle East consumer
March 26, 2019 - UAE
Middle East consumers are ahead of global percentages in terms of shopping on Amazon, buying groceries online, shopping by smartphone and using digital payments. “Between 2015 and today, 40 percent more consumers [in the UAE and KSA] are more price conscious,” said Abdellah Iftahy, McKinsey partner, told The National.
The National: Digital disruption is changing the Middle East consumer
How to win the data insights battle
Digital disruption, or digital transformation, is upon us. Industry after industry is witnessing a sea change in every aspect of their business, whether it is understanding – in fact predicting – what the consumer wants, the way in which the products and services that they desire are being designed, how they are being delivered, or creating loyalty for products and services.
Arabian Business: How to win the data insights battle
Tapping Saudi Arabia's abundant pool of talent
March 2, 2019 - Saudi Arabia
“As Saudi Arabia continues its economic transformation and ambitious programs under Vision 2030, the group of young, dynamic leaders who will ultimately be responsible for driving that vision must prepared to make it a reality,” said Tom Isherwood, partner at McKinsey & Company.
Arab News: Tapping Saudi Arabia’s abundant pool of talent
Globally accepted rules needed to optimise AI potential
Feb 11, 2019 - UAE
Director of McKinsey Global Institute and senior partner at the company Jonathan Woetzel stated, "Presence of developed infrastructure, easy access to technology and committed leadership to develop the technology further are some of the prerequisites for the development of AI and UAE has these factors in abundance. I expect that the UAE will be a leader in the deployment of AI and in its development as well."
The National: Globally accepted rules needed to optimise AI potential
Amid banks' Consolidation, retaining dominance of financial intermediation is key
In this thought piece in The Banker Middle East, Hans-Martin Stockmeier, senior partner at McKinsey Middle East, talks about how banks have 4 strategic choices in markets where the banking industry is consolidating.
Issue: Amid banks' Consolidation, retaining dominance of financial intermediation is key
Technology creating the bank of the future
The bank branch as we know it is in need of reinvention. Most customers now carry a bank in their pockets in the form of a smartphone and visit an actual branch only to get cash or occasionally advice. Changing customer behavior and the emergence of new technologies do not spell the end of branches, but rather the dawn of smart branches, which use technology to boost sales and significantly improve customer experience.
Forbes Middle East: Technology Creating The Bank Of The Future
GITEX Technology Week news highlights
October 21, 2018 – Riyadh
During a panel discussion at GITEX, Desiree El Chebeir, vice president, McKinsey Digital’s Dubai office, discussed the importance of gender balance in tomorrow’s classrooms and the strategies for ensuring that the consumers and producers of tomorrow’s innovations are more widely representative of society as a whole. According to Desiree, current female founders of start-ups have provided up to a 36 percent higher financial return compared with a number of male-led start-ups. Yet only 2 percent of venture-capital money has gone to female-led start-ups. There’s a lot of opportunity for economic gain if we integrate women better.
Eye of Riyadh: GITEX Technology Week news highlights
HR Club holds its Forum in Abu Dhabi to discuss “Future Jobs”
October 14, 2018 – UAE
The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources held the 5th Human Resources Club Forum 2018 in Abu Dhabi to discuss trends in “Future Jobs”, The Forum hosted Dr. Dirk Schmautzer, Partner, and Stephen Hall, Associate Partner at McKinsey. And they highlighted the impact of modern technology on UAE’s future jobs, workforce, and their skills, as well as the implications of that on governments, and the steps taken to seize opportunities and meet the challenges facing the future workforce.
The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources: Future Jobs
When It comes to millennials, GCC banks must be paranoid
According to associate partners Christian Kunz and Kishan Shirish, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banks must modernize their technology landscape, along with the business and operating model, to enable speed and flexibility. In addition to building internal capabilities, banks will also need to create an ecosystem of players to deliver those products and services, while owning the customer experience.
Banker middle east: When It Comes to Millennials, GCC Banks must be paranoid
The urgent treasure hunt for digital talent in the Middle East
July 15, 2018 – UAE
As consumers walk around with eyes glued to their smartphones, businesses know that digital is no longer a buzzword; it is core to their growth and survival. With that realization comes the urgent treasure hunt for digital talent – an opinion piece by Jigar Patel, partner, and Christian Kunz, associate partner in McKinsey’s Middle East office.
Forbes Middle East: Why Middle East Businesses Must Build Homegrown Digital Talent
Inaugural class of 50 Qimam Fellows graduates in Riyadh
June 30, 2018 – Saudi Arabia
The 50 Qimam Fellows originate from a variety of backgrounds and fields of study from more than 25 universities in KSA and abroad. Tom Isherwood, partner at McKinsey & Company, stated: “We believe that Saudi Arabia is rich with extraordinary talent and were delighted to take the concept of Qimam under our wing when it was still just an idea. We are a member of this community and incubating and launching the Qimam Fellowship Program is a demonstration of our commitment to the Kingdom through identifying and developing future leaders. I congratulate the first batch of the very talented Qimam Fellows on their graduation.”
Saudi Gazette: Inaugural class of 50 Qimam Fellows graduates in Riyadh
Family-owned businesses: planning for survival
June 10, 2018 - UAE
Family-owned businesses (FOBs) are critical to the economy. And yet, they are complex and fragile systems, particularly during times of succession. Globally, family-owned businesses tend to falter at the first transition, from the founder to the second generation; only around 15 percent survive to the third generation. In the Middle East, many family-owned businesses are at this critical transition juncture. McKinsey Senior Partner Ahmed Youssef describes the actions FOBs can take to ensure their longevity. The National: “Succession planning: a medicine for family-owned businesses’ longevity”
The National: Succession planning: a medicine for family-owned businesses’ longevity
The changing face of the asset and wealth management industry
June 4, 2018 - UAE
McKinsey associate partner Kishan Shirish was recently interviewed about the changes affecting the asset and wealth management industry. He explains, “The industry is being reshaped by digital trends, shifting customer expectations, regulatory changes and the decreasing profitability of the model. Rather than a one-off event, the industry’s transformation reflects the continuous pressure to innovate through digital, which will shape customer behaviours, business models, and the industry’s very structure in the long-term.”
Bloomberg Business week: Banking on Change
Dubai Chamber to announce winners of 3rd Dubai Smartpreneur Competition
April 24, 2018 - UAE
The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is set to announce the top three winners of the 3rd edition the Dubai Smartpreneur Competition during the closing ceremony of the ArabNet Digital Summit 2018 on May 1st. This year’s judging panel is joined by Andriy Radchenko, Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey.
Al-Press: Dubai Chamber to announce winners of 3rd Dubai Smartpreneur Competition at Arabnet closing ceremony on May 1st
How are consumer buying preferences shifting across the Middle East region?
April 22, 2018 - Saudi Arabia
The 2018 Middle East Sentiment Survey by McKinsey & Company reveals that consumers in the region are becoming more cost-conscious, less brand-loyal and rapidly shifting purchasing behaviours. 'Approximately 55 per cent of consumers are now actively looking for savings across markets, with those in Saudi Arabia leading the way,’ says Abdellah Iftahy, associate partner at McKinsey Middle East, during an interview with CNBC Arabia.
CNBC Arabia: Middle East consumers rapidly shifting purchase behaviors
Arab Women’s Forum
"I'm often struck when I do team workshops in the region...at the imbalance that I see," said Nicolai Nielsen, expert associate partner at McKinsey, in his discussion of the power of parity at the inaugural Arab Women Forum in King Abdullah Economic City. 'There’s a push for equality in the work place, but more still needs to be done', added Nielsen.
Arab News: There’s a push for equality in the work place, but more still needs to be done' says leading expert
Retail Leaders Circle
Our latest survey of Middle East consumers reveals that they are becoming more cost conscious, less brand loyal and rapidly shifting their purchasing behaviors. They are finding creative ways to spend less and actively considering alternate brands. The survey was launched at the Retail Leaders Circle in Dubai by McKinsey's Peter Breuer and Gemma D'Auria.
Saudi Gazette: ME consumers: Cost-conscious, less brand-loyal and shifting purchase behaviors Arabian Business: UAE, Saudi shoppers eyeing more savings, becoming less brand loyal
Digital potential to drive growth in the region
According to a recent McKinsey study, MENA has realised only 8% of its digital potential. Western Europe has achieved 15% and the U.S. has captured 18%. For financial institutions, the potential in the region is significant.
Gulf News: Mena’s digital potential to drive financial sector growth in the region
McKinsey is Knowledge Partner at IoT Middle East
‘In 2018, we will see more lighthouse sites for industrial internet of things (IIoT) solutions’, says Enno de Boer, a partner at McKinsey Digital. ‘Currently, there are 40 innovation cases and the region has good scope to have lighthouse sites in every sector, especially the UAE and Saudi Arabia,’ he added. Christos Sermpetis, partner at McKinsey, said that three major technology innovations are happening right now and they are data and connectivity; artificial intelligence and flexible automation.
Gulf News: 2018 will see more test beds for IIoT solutions
Winning with Talent
“The most important ally for a CEO who is trying to drive more focus on talent is a board that is equally committed to talent as a driver of the long-term success of the company," said Dominic Barton, Global Managing Partner of McKinsey, in an interview about his new book, Talent Wins.
Gulf News: Businesses better be on the right side in talent wars
Dubai Chamber launches third Smartpreneur Competition
March 4, 2018 - UAE
A special event to introduce this year's competition featured a panel of experts, including McKinsey partner Vinay Chandran, who leads McKinsey Analytics in the Middle East. The competition is seeking innovations in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Transformation.
Zawya: Dubai Chamber launches third edition of Dubai Smartpreneur Competition
INJAZ Al-Arab enabling Arab youth to drive the economy forward
February 20, 2018 - UAE
Akef Aqrabawi, President and CEO of INJAZ Al-Arab, wants education opportunities to reach one million students in the Arab world by 2022. INJAZ's programs are backed by a number of companies, including McKinsey.
Entrepreneur ME, UAE: INJAZ Al-Arab's Akef Aqrabawi Is on a mission to enable Arab youth to drive the region's economy forward
Qimam Fellowship Program launches
February 18, 2018 - Saudi Arabia
The Qimam Fellowship Program launched in Saudi Arabia aims to identify, develop, and empower the most promising university students to achieve their full potential. The program is supported by a number of companies, including McKinsey. “Our business model in the region relies on identifying and developing talent,” said Tom Isherwood, partner at McKinsey & Company. “We look forward to playing a role in creating new opportunities for Saudi's next generation of business leaders, especially as we stand at such a transformative moment in the social and economic evolution of the Kingdom.”
Arab News: Qimam Fellowship for high-potential leaders launches in Saudi Arabia
McKinsey is Knowledge Partner at World Government Summit
Feb 11-13, 2018 - UAE
Ahead of the World Government Summit, McKinsey analysed six countries — Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — to determine the impact automation could have on the region. Nearly 45% of existing jobs in the Middle East could be automated in the near future, the McKinsey study shows.
Gulf News: Adjusting the region’s workforce to an AI landscape Forbes Middle East: Nearly 20 Million Jobs In The Middle East Could Be Automated
Digital tools can reduce construction costs and boost productivity
Construction-related global spending is increasing year-on-year by an average of 3.6%. Ghassan Ziadat, VP of Major Projects at McKinsey, explains how the adoption of digital technology could improve costs and productivity by up to 15% in this opinion piece.
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The Culture Issue
Six brand lessons from the Kardashian Clan
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Hannah Mirza, Global Head of Partnerships, MediaCom
You may not like celebrity culture, but a star’s ability to influence consumers is unrivalled in many markets. Hannah Mirza reveals what marketers can learn from the most famous celebs of the lot: The Kardashians.
If you are looking for a conversation starter, just mention the Kardashians. You’ll probably get a deeply impassioned response to this famous family and its widely publicised shenanigans. Love them or hate them, you know who they are.
Why? Because Kim, Kylie, and the extended Jenner clan – as well as their clingy partners and friends – are the epitome of reality TV in the 21st century. Their show ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is broadcast all over the world, and has launched a global brand empire.
They’ve achieved every global marketer’s goal: a genuinely global presence. And they are increasingly shrewd with how they grow it. In many ways ‘Brand K’ should be the modern marketer’s muse. Here are six things brands learn can learn them…
Have a varied portfolio
The Kardashians’ mass appeal is driven by the huge number of varieties in the portfolio. Different ages, sizes, genders, ethnicities, body shapes, interests, public agendas; there’s a Kardashian for everyone to love (or hate) the most.
But despite their differences, the ‘K’ clan stick together. The sisterhood amongst the women is astonishing given how publicly they are pitted against each other. No matter how much they argue, fight and bitterly complain about each other, they are united behind their brand name and never fail to promote it.
Manage your social channels carefully
There’s rarely a day when the Kardashians are not featured in the press. But when they’re not posing for paparazzi in exotic locations, they’re driving the conversation themselves on social media.
Kim Kardashian alone has nearly 90 million followers on Instagram, and her fans try to keep up with her every move. Historically, they could. Kim’s social strategy was to be always on, sharing (supposedly) unfiltered images and behind-the-scenes updates of her glamourous lifestyle in a carefully controlled way.
Most importantly though, many of the photos being used in the mainstream press are those they have been personally taken and posted to social media by the family. This is because these are by virtue the most access-all-areas photos outside of the media frenzy when in public places. They are controlling their own brand image and know how to market it to feed the machine.
Use digital and mobile to keep fans engaged
In December 2015, Kim launched KIMOJI, an app that lets users send Kim-related emojis to their friends. It reportedly reached a record of 9,000 downloads per millisecond and crashed the Apple store.
The rest of the family are in on the act too. Kim, Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney and Khloe have all launched branded apps containing fantasy lifestyle adventure games, fashion advice, recipes, live updates and long-form public content.
With over a billion downloads between them and more than $100 million in earnings for one of Kim’s apps alone, the Kardashians have cracked the mobile market by giving fans what they want.
Release new content regularly to sustain interest
Kim also knows a few tricks about keeping fans coming back for more, too. In 2016, a year after its release, she released 160 new KIMOJI designs to keep the app fresh and relevant. Ever want to send a twerking derriere to your friends? Well, now you can.
Smart brands adopt similar long-term thinking in their own content strategies, releasing content at the right times to sustain interest and keep consumers engaged.
Get the most out of your partnerships
The Kardashians have redefined how an influencer can and should act when it comes to product endorsements on personally-controlled social enterprise platforms.
Their marketplace is driven by the virtues of daily bite-size content consumption consumers are so hungry for. This formula has created a co-dependent relationship between the Kardashian business model and the media machine feeding from it.
But as well as cracking the digital code, the Kardashians are expert negotiators when it comes to setting up deals as paid product endorsers, lending their celebrity to promote product lines in fashion, beauty, food and diet, exercise, perfume and more.
Be wary of oversharing
Of course, the Kardashians have been guilty of missteps, too. Mostly, due to oversharing. Their spectacular success has also repelled many consumers who will do anything to stay out of the K Clan bubble.
For the truly allergic there is K Blocker. As the app professes, ‘Enjoy Kardashian-free web browsing’. Working much like an ad blocker, it goes one step further and cleanses browsers of any K brand content.
The lesson here? Make sure your brand is everywhere your consumer is, but only share content that’s helpful, sincere and genuine. Consumers will soon start tuning you out if you become too wrapped up in yourself.
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The Changing Consumer Habits in The Food Industry
15th May 2017 in Digital Marketing Innovation
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As consumers, the way we learn about and eat food has changed drastically over the last couple of decades, with globalisation and new technology making the world a smaller place and bringing a plethora of flavours and menus to our attention. The days of having a choice between burgers, pizza, pasta or fish and chips are long gone, with high streets full of restaurants from all corners of the globe. Consumer behaviour in the food industry has been changed forever and the pace of this change is only speeding up.
Anyone with a smartphone (ie, basically everyone – with research indicating that by 2020, 80% of the adult population will have one) now has access to a world of food information at their fingertips. We can find nearby restaurants, see the menus and read the reviews without even getting off our sofas, or we can order from takeaways using apps and get food delivered from premium restaurants by services like Deliveroo. This has opened up a whole new takeaway experience that would have seemed unimaginable not long ago.
Even when we’re not directly involved in buying food, our lives are still dominated by it and certainly, TV and the internet are playing their part in that. Nowadays the likes of Delia, Nigella and Jamie aren’t the only people on our screens teaching us how to cook. Dedicated food channels have brought shows like Diners Drive-ins and Dives and Man Vs Food into our homes, showing us a whole other side of food TV.
Meanwhile, the democratising effect of the internet has given everyone the chance to become a food influencer with just a blog or an Instagram or YouTube account. The success of people like Deliciously Ella demonstrates this, with Ella Woodward going from having a healthy eating blog to having the fastest-selling cookbook in the UK. The effect this has on eating trends is to diversify the voices that are being heard and this has a knock-on impact on the way food is marketed to us and who by.
This has given marketers and brands a whole new range of potential spokespeople, as well as new channels to do it through. TV shows like The Great British Bake-Off have added to this, with winners (and occasionally even non-winners) earning book deals and even their own shows off the back of their appearances on it. The popularity of cookery competition shows has had its own impact on changing consumer trends when it comes to food, inspiring more and more people to try out their own home cookery experiments, thus affecting what they buy and where they buy from.
One changing food trend in recent years has seen an increase in the popularity of buying whole foods from smaller retailers as a reaction to the homogenisation of what’s on offer at the big supermarkets. A lot of this can be attributed to the idea of food and cooking as as lifestyle choice and a way of representing who you are by what you eat and cook. This has turned all of us into food influencers simply through the power of our Instagram accounts and the stylised, filtered photography we use to show off our good food choices and/or cookery skills.
You could debate how much of an impact all of this has on us as consumers, but the evidence is clear when you examine search patterns that when a product like, for example, biscotti is used on the Bake-Off, searches for it spike around both the initial broadcast and the repeated showing. The connection is obvious and it demonstrates the levels of interest that can arise when food products are highlighted, and savvy marketers can utilise these opportunities through paid search ads to showcase their own products at these times.
Finding ways to not only attract us but also keep us is a major challenge with so many competing brands and products and flavours and food selfies all distracting and tempting us. The internet age has turned all of us into ‘promiscuous shoppers’, and we’re used to shopping around for everything from car insurance to mobile phone contracts. We have the freedom, the ability and the imagination to do the same with food, so it’s harder to keep us loyal to any one brand for long, so simply offering discounts and convenience isn’t enough anymore.
The example given above of the introduction of Deliveroo to the marketplace is evidence enough of that scenario, with takeaways now realising that their former USP of being able to deliver the food is not necessarily unique anymore, as any restaurant can potentially do the same, with a higher quality of food available. How traditional takeaways react to this is still something we’re yet to see for certain, but it’s a trend to keep an eye on.
As technology and tastes continue to change, we can expect to see further opportunities and challenges for marketers looking to attract consumers. The dawn of the smart home age has given us the ability to have an Amazon Echo or Google Home device in our kitchen, not only to play us themed playlists for whatever we are cooking, but also to use apps or skills to have someone like Jamie Oliver talk us through the recipe as we do it, and how long til we can tell our smart speaker that we are missing an ingredient and have a drone dispatched immediately to fly it over to us?
It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not long since all of the above would have sounded exactly as far-fetched. The future will bring many more changes to how and what we eat, so the only thing we can do as consumers and marketers is to have an open mind and willingness to try everything.
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Top 5 Unusual MMO Game Closures
Troy Blackburn
With the imminent demise of Marvel Heroes Omega looming on December 31, 2017, we decided it was time to take a look back at some of the other MMORPG losses we’ve suffered throughout the years.
We’re not strictly sticking to F2P MMOs here (though most of the ones that weren’t did make the switch to F2P before dying). Also, games that still exist, even if it’s just in maintenance mode, are being left off. And yes, we’re also sticking to games that actually existed, so EverQuest Next is out. (Landmark might make this list for some folks as well, but for a lot of peeps it was just a gateway to EQN, and Magicman cries into a pillow anytime we bring up Landmark, so it’s not in our Top 5 either.)
There are plenty of other games to choose from, but we could only choose 5, so pull out your tissues. This one’s gonna be rough, boys and girls.
5. Glitch – Closed December 9, 2012
During its development, Glitch quickly became the darling of games media and fans. This adorable little browser MMO steered away from genre tropes and combat gameplay in order to encourage cooperative play and the sense of exploring a world where you could simply relax and unwind. Glitch was so totally adorable that even a cold-hearted, sarcastic, S.O.B. (such as myself) had his heart melted every time my little avatar began the day’s adventures.
While the Eleven fan project is trying to bring Glitch back to life, it was truly a sad day to see such a happy little game disappear.
4. Tabula Rasa – Closed February 28, 2009
If I were to pitch you a game that is being developed by Richard Garriott and other dev alums from Ultima Online and it would be published by NCsoft, you’d probably be clicking a link to check it out right now. If I told you said game would stray away from the overabundance of fantasy in our favorite genre for a sci-fi setting with shooter-style elements, you’d probably be overjoyed that something unique may be headed our way. Tabula Rasa was all of those things but, unfortunately, may have been a bit ahead of its time.
Asheron’s Call nearly took this spot on the list because there is indeed a player base who still loves the game, but at the end of the day it’s the unique direction of Tabula Rasa that makes the loss of this game sadder. In 2017, we NEED games to step outside of the box, even if just a little bit. In 2009, Tabula Rasa just couldn’t find the audience it needed, costing us an opportunity to play something besides elves with bows.
3. Firefall – Closed July 7, 2017
There are few MMORPG failures in history that can boast having more hype in the beginning than Firefall. It’s easy to forget just how big of a deal Firefall was in the early phases of development. The interest was through the roof. The hype train was rolling full speed ahead. And all for good reason. The game was poised to be a milestone in the history of MMORPGs, but instead, it wound up as a footnote.
Despite the insane levels of hype this game had, it’s tough to put Firefall any higher on this list because it changed course so drastically, so many times. Which version do we miss the most? The giant open-world PvP lobby? The PvE sandbox shooter? The on-rails themepark MMO it eventually became? Most players have their own favorite version (well, except for the last one, nobody wanted that crap), and given the game’s slow, painful death before quietly disappearing, many players still feel the pain of losing a promising game anytime someone utters the name Firefall.
2. City of Heroes – Closed November 30, 2012
With the impending loss of Marvel Heroes, the closure of City of Heroes hurts like a fresh wound once again. Widely considered to be the best superhero MMO we’ve ever had and an active player base at closing, it came as a shock to many when NCsoft decided it was time to insert a dose of kryptonite and shut the doors to everyone’s super powered fantasies.
Several fan projects are in the works as spiritual successors to City of Heroes, and the sheer number of the passion projects speak volumes for the love the community had for this game. There’s no doubt that City of Heroes would have made an excellent home for many feeling the sting of Gazillion’s woes, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
I guess there’s always Champions Online. That game seems to be unkillable.
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1. Star Wars Galaxies – Closed December 5, 2011
It shouldn’t really come as a shock to longtime MMORPG fans that Star Wars Galaxies tops our list. While by today’s standards the game would be showing its age visually, the sandbox gameplay and immersion of living in a world where anything could happen was hands down the saddest loss we’ve suffered.
What makes the loss of Star Wars Galaxies even sadder is the feeling by many that the game was only closed down to make room for a newer, shinier MMO – Star Wars: The Old Republic. You can imagine how happy Star Wars and MMO fans were to lose a unique sandbox experience only to have it replaced by the typical tab-target, on-rails theme park we got with SWTOR. And in case you aren’t good at detecting sarcasm: they weren’t happy. At all.
So that’s our Top 5 Saddest MMORPG Closings of all time. We know you guys will have games not on this list that meant a lot to you when they were ripped from you, so sound off in the comments and let us know which MMO closing hurts your heart the most.
HerbalCrab November 29, 2017 at 11:58 am
I didnt knew Firefall made it to this year, i honestly loved the first versions of the beta, it felt way better towatds the last ones, so generic. Anyways they doomed the game the moment they fired Mark Kent, obviously the others devs didint liked the idea of having a different game other than more-of-the-same rpg, well, there you go, lots of ppl including me left the game as soon as the Theme Park rpg Started rolling into the shut down.
ID November 20, 2017 at 3:18 am
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rasamalai November 17, 2017 at 11:07 pm
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Honmoon November 17, 2017 at 4:36 pm
Just wait people there going to be more games shutting down soon.
Edge Damodred November 17, 2017 at 11:45 am
I actually like Firefall’s themepark version. I just hated that they kept their damn pattern of constantly changing basic things like how character progression worked instead of actually creating content. I finally gave up on the game when mission boards lagged so hard even when no one was around, taking several minutes for a mission to activate. The game apparently did not want me to play it.
*DELETE THIS* Firefox apparently told me my original post didn’t get through.
Honestly I rather liked the themepark version of Firefall. I just hated that they continued with their damn pattern of changing how basic stuff like character progression worked every several months instead of actually creating content. I gave up on the game when things like mission boards basically stopped almost working as it took several minutes for a mission to load up. The game apparently did not want me to play it.
PUTLERisTERRORISTandTHIEF! November 17, 2017 at 10:44 am
Star wars old republic online is walking dead game, firefall was good in beta, then everything was ucked up wito pay to win and very bad crafting and skill system.
Sad global agenda was closed because of very bad management and then they made few brainless poops like smite and the other crap.
object2003 November 17, 2017 at 10:09 am
Firefall…even now i feel some sadness. Im going to miss this game 100%. A great game which just havent found its way through the darkness.
Coldfire1080 November 17, 2017 at 2:22 am
I miss firefall … that game at first was looking like a game I was going to be playing for a long time … the last it was not meant to be
Kevin Flemming November 17, 2017 at 11:55 am
I miss that game too. It was great fun, nice designs and mechanics, game play and world were interesting. Shame the devs were sodding useless, though.
Adrian November 17, 2017 at 5:39 pm
I miss it to.
Jambock November 18, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Played it since,… I can’t even remember… i survived all the changes of it, when it launched on Steam i tried to make it looks good to all my friends… My rarest achievements are from it; and i still show them in my profile.
City of heroes is another that i miss, but i started to play close to the time that they decided to close it.
Kevin Flemming November 19, 2017 at 7:46 am
Yeah, I came into CoH/V late and didn’t get to experience it for long before they shut it down. I’m surprised that nobody bothered to pick it up again. It’s been years now.
NoMoreCooldowns November 17, 2017 at 1:23 am
I bought a founders pack for Firefall ……
The first founders pack I bought.
The last founders pack I bought.
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Senvion plan to combat weak financial results
Senvion says it will implement a new transformation plan to stabilize its financial position and eliminate the inefficiencies that caused the recently-reported loss of revenues and profits.
The Germany-based wind turbine manufacturer has completed a comprehensive review of its business and says that although it has a strong order book, it cannot afford to make mistakes because of the challenging market conditions in the wind energy sector.
“We have a strong order book, a great market position and products which our customers like. But we made operational mistakes in a challenging market environment and now need to focus on execution and on strengthening our customer focus,” said CEO Yves Rannou.
“We have taken swift action to fix execution weaknesses both in terms of our project management as well as strengthening of regional teams in order to recover the lost revenues and profits as quickly as possible,” said Rannou who took over as CEO at the beginning of January. “We have a strong firm order book of almost €5 billion, a great market position and excellent products which our customers like.
“But we made operational mistakes in a challenging market environment and now need to focus on execution and on strengthening our customer focus.”
Senvion adjusted its guidance for the financial year 2018 to reflect lower than expected revenues and profits, mainly as a result of delayed installations. Its transformation plan gives it a clear roadmap to get the business back on track in the medium term, it said.
The transformation plan will focus on four major areas of improvement: a refocus on attractive markets, streamlining its product portfolio, efficiency savings in the supply chain, and cooperating with lenders to strengthen Senvion’s financial base.
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Viewers Ask Variety of Injury Questions During Debut of 'Moore Law'
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On the debut episode of Moore Law, host and local TV journalist Deb Haas was joined by attorney co-host Don Moore and his son, Cincinnati personal injury lawyer Dan Moore to discuss the topic “All About Injuries.” The attorneys handled a variety of calls from viewers regarding such issues as medical malpractice, workers compensation and premises liability among other topics.
The show’s first caller, Jason in Hamilton, asked about legal recourse for his girlfriend who nearly died from a port that became infected following a hospital visit and spent 45 days in an Intensive-Care Unit (ICU). Dan encouraged him to speak to a lawyer about a possible medical malpractice suit while Don explained how such lawsuits can become expensive to file because of the investigation and expert testimony that is needed. Later in the show, Don advised a Cincinnati caller who was suffering from deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and cellulitis as a result of a punctured vein to first get a medical opinion to see if the clinic he had gone to did something wrong, or fell below medical standards, before speaking to an attorney about a possible medical malpractice lawsuit.
Additionally, Robert in Milford was a passenger in a vehicle that was involved in an automobile accident but did not experience pain until the days that followed said he had been told to seek a settlement equivocal to his medical bills without hiring a lawyer. Don explained that the caller had received some bad advice, as he would be a “distinct disadvantage” in handling the case himself with no experience while the other side “does this for a living.”
Moore Law also had two questions revolving around possible premises liability cases, with Deb in Fort Mitchell suffering an injury at a gym and another gentleman having been involved in a slip and fall accident at his apartment complex. Natasha in Cincinnati also asked about a possible negligence claim after the automotive store she had purchased tires at installed the wrong tires on her vehicle and one came off while driving. In discussing her options, Dan stressed the importance of preserving evidence in such cases. “I can’t say that enough,” Dan said.
Shirley in Cincinnati called in to ask if she still had a claim for a wrist injury she suffered five years ago on a job she retired from two years ago. Dan advised her to call her local bar association to be directed to a lawyer who focuses on workers compensation cases. The question also allowed Don and Dan to touch on the statute of limitations, and later in the program, Deb asked Don to explain how contingency fees work. “It’s important that people understand that they can talk to a lawyer absolutely free,” Don said, explaining that both the phone call and initial consultation do not cost anything. Fear of an up-front fee can prevent many people from calling an attorney, but Don noted that most of these cases work on a “No recovery, no fee” agreement.
“This was a blast,” Don said at the end of the show. The next episode of Moore Law is Monday, March 19, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. on WXIX-TV, FOX19.
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Morgan Lewis Advises FMC Corporation in Sale of Consagro Agroquimica Ltda.
PHILADELPHIA, September 14, 2015: Morgan Lewis represented FMC Corporation in its agreement to sell Consagro Agroquimica Ltda., its Brazilian generic crop protection distribution and sales subsidiary, to Atanor do Brasil Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of Albaugh, LLC.
The deal was announced on Friday, September 11, 2015. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed and the closing is expected following review by regulatory authorities.
The Morgan Lewis team advising FMC Corporation was led by partner Benjamin Wills, who was supported by associate Felipe Alice.
A release issued by the company can be read here.
Benjamin R. Wills
Felipe Alice
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M&A Rankings Showcase Practice’s Activity
NEW YORK, November 16, 2012: Morgan Lewis's mergers and acquisitions practice continues its trend of being placed in the top 10 of multiple categories as demonstrated by industry league table rankings. Some of the firm's accomplishments for the third quarter include:
Ranked eighth, U.S. mid-market rankings for deals with values up to $500M by deal count with 55 transactions, Thomson Reuters, 3Q 2012
Ranked ninth, legal advisers to U.S. M&A based on deal volume with 67 deals, Mergermarket, 3Q 2012
Ranked seventh, legal advisers to U.S. Northeast M&A based on deal volume with 41 deals, Mergermarket, 3Q 2012
Ranked ninth, U.S. announced deals, any involvement for deals with values up to $500M based on deal volume with 63 deals, Bloomberg, 3Q 2012
Ranked eighth, U.S. announced deals, any involvement for deals with values up to $250M based on deal volume with 57 deals, Bloomberg, 3Q 2012
Ranked 10, U.S. announced deals, counsel to principals by number of transactions with 66 deals, Bloomberg, 3Q 2012
Ranked ninth, U.S. announced adviser rankings based deal volume with values up to and including $100M with 43 deals, Buyouts, 3Q 2012
Ranked ninth, U.S. announced adviser rankings based on number of transactions with values up to and including $500M with 35 deals, Buyouts, 3Q 2012
Ranked ninth, U.S. small-cap rankings for deals with values up to $50M based on number of transactions with 30 deals, Thomson Reuters, 3Q 2012
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Archive For September 2008
Food GLorious Food by Patrick Holford – review
No, it’s not a mistake. Food GLorious Food is the correct title for this book. Note the GL. That’s the clue. This is full of low-GL recipes and I am sure that is music to your ears if you only knew what GL was, either high, low or average. I confess that I wasn’t sure!….
500 Cocktails by Wendy Sweetser – review
Apple Press has a series of books and all are called 500 something or other. They are great value, chunky books and this one, 500 Cocktails, is no exception. The photographs of these classy drinks are gorgeous. Ian Garlick has done a great job. Wendy Sweetser is the author, and she is an expert on…
Ballymaloe Cookery Course by Darina Allen – review
If you only want to own and use one cookbook then you should consider the Ballymaloe Cookery Course. It’s a hefty tome but it’s big for a reason. It’s got probably more information than most of us will ever need. A real one-stop cooking manual. Darina Allen has endeared herself to millions all over the…
Quick and Easy 20-minute Meals by Catherine Atkinson – review
This book presents the acceptable face of fast food. The Quick and Easy series of cookbooks are always good value and Quick and Easy 20-minute Meals is another gem. These books spend more time in the kitchen than they do on your smart bookshelf. We would all love the luxury of unlimited time to devote…
Quick and Easy – Eating for One by Catherine Atkinson – review
This well-illustrated book is a must for anyone who is just about to leave home (and mum’s cooking) and start a life alone, or anyone who now finds themselves cooking for themselves. Eating for One is a cookbook full of, as it says, quick and easy recipes but on closer inspection it’s rather more than…
Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks by Ruth Binney – review
Our language is full of sayings that cover almost every aspect of life. A stitch in time saves nine, All’s well that ends well, Money talks, Like father – like son, It’s a long way to Tipperary…er,…or something like that. Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks, however, focuses on kitchen-based wisdom and gives some…
Simple Pleasures – Edible Gifts for Friends and Family – review
I find myself on the horns of a dilemma! I’ll explain, dear reader. This is a marvellous book, Simple Pleasures – Edible Gifts for Friends and Family to give its full title, but there is a problem. Should I give this book as Christmas gifts to all my friends, or should I use the recipes…
Irish Traditional Cooking by Darina Allen – review
Darina Allen is surely one of the most celebrated Irish cooks of our time. If she isn’t then it’s probable that whoever you might consider worthy of that accolade also has the name of Allen: it’s quite a dynasty. There is no doubt though that Darina must win the contest of quickest smile and she…
Pizza – A Global History by Carol Helstosky – review
The Edible Series of food history books is turning into one of my favourite multi-volume collections. Pizza – A Global History is another title recently published and it has the same characteristic high-end presentation and content as the others I have encountered. These are small books but classy so if you are into shelf-appeal you’ll…
Ricelands by Michael Freeman – review
The World of South-East Asian Food. Michael Freeman must be one of the most celebrated and prolific photographers around. Ricelands is his latest book (there are over 100 others) but this one isn’t about photography. Have a look at michaelfreemanphoto.com for more of his work. Michael says of this book: “In it, I write about…
Hamburger – A Global History by Andrew F. Smith – review
Reaktion Books is a publisher that has presented some of the most worthwhile food-related books around. They have just added a new collection of books to their list and you’ll want these if you have ever boasted of having a love of food. The Edible Series has three titles at the moment (Hamburger, Pizza and…
In Praise of Poteen by John McGuffin – review
What exactly is Poteen or Poitín? If you are Irish then you’ll already know. If you are American then you will recognise the same beverage under the name of Moonshine. Yes, dear reader, it’s the intoxicating illegal liquor of the Emerald Isle and has a history steeped in folkloric charm and myth. In Praise of…
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Obama’s Record
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There’s a land office business these days explaining why Barack Obama sucks. Aaron David Miller takes to the pages of the LA Times today and, after a long bit of throat clearing about the greatness of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR, he proposes this explanation for Obama’s lack thereof:
First, he was convinced that the country was so badly served by his Republican predecessor that most Americans understood the need for sweeping change and were prepared to support it. Second, he misread his crisis: the recession….Finally, unlike some of his predecessors who grounded change in values that many Americans found familiar and functional, Obama hasn’t found a unifying message situated in an American experience that is universally shared.
….Obama may have had no choice but to introduce a large stimulus bill to stop the economic bleeding, but healthcare reform (and the way it was done) represented an overreach and stressed a political system that was already dysfunctional. It also convinced many, however unfairly, that he was a man of the left and a big-spending liberal to boot.
….Americans aren’t so much looking for great presidents, big ideas or historic transformations. They want satisfaction on mundane matters such as prosperity, keeping Americans safe from terrorist attacks and an end to the roller-coaster ride of partisanship, name-calling and celebrity politics that is Washington today.
Is this such a sophisticated argument that I don’t get it? Or just plain dumb? In order to attain greatness, Obama needed to understand that the country wasn’t in the mood for greatness and just wanted him to focus on mundane matters? WTF?
Look: Obama passed a huge stimulus package, a historic healthcare bill, a pretty serviceable financial reform bill, has withdrawn 100,000 troops from Iraq, negotiated the New START treaty with Russia, made some decent progress on education reform and Pentagon procurement, and appears to be on track to repeal DADT. A terrible economy has hurt his fortunes, but let’s face facts: Republicans and centrist Democrats wouldn’t have allowed him to do anything more about this even if he’d wanted to. And in any case, as plenty of people have pointed out, Obama’s popularity is actually nearly identical to that of most other modern presidents at this point in their presidencies:
I don’t really understand where this general strain of writing comes from. Obviously Obama came into office with high expectations, but were there really a lot of people who expected him to be the second coming of FDR? If there were, I sure wasn’t reading them. The plain, boring fact is that Obama, like all presidents, is constrained by circumstances and by Congress, and he just hasn’t had the Congress to do much more than he’s done. FDR and LBJ won landslide victories and enjoyed enormous congressional majorities. By contrast, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton won solid victories and had sizeable congressional majorities (though only in the Senate for Reagan). That’s who Obama should be compared to, and on that score he shapes up pretty well: clearly better than Carter and Clinton and quite possibly the equal of Reagan. (We’ll know for sure in another six years.)
There are plenty of things I wish Obama had done differently. I wish he’d pushed harder for transformative financial reform. I wish he hadn’t escalated the war in Afghanistan. I wish he hadn’t reappointed Ben Bernanke. I wish his record on civil liberties were better. I wish he’d use his undeniable rhetorical gifts to really sell a liberal vision to the American public, the way Reagan sold a conservative one.1 But this is real life, and no president does everything his supporters want him to do. By any measure aside from having your face sculpted on Mount Rushmore, Obama’s had a pretty good run so far. It’s crazy to pretend otherwise.
1I wish he’d pushed harder for a climate change bill too, but honestly, I don’t blame him much for this. Congressional support just flatly wasn’t there for anything even remotely ambitious, and there’s not much point in banging your head against a brick wall. For now, I’ll judge him by what the EPA ends up doing.
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