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ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Comparison of Subterranean Termite (Rhinotermitidae: Reticulitermes) Gut Bacterial Diversity Within and Between Colonies and to Other Termite Species Using Molecular Techniques (ARDRA and 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing)
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Fisher, Marc Lewis
Termites are known to harbor within their gut a diverse assemblage of symbiotic microorganisms. Little work has been done, however, to describe the diversity and function of the bacteria in the economically important eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes. The first object of this study was to characterize the bacterial diversity in the gut of R. flavipes using amplified rDNA restriction analysis (ARDRA) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. It was determined that ARDRA was an effective technique for characterizing the diversity of the termite gut microbiota. Of the 512 clones analyzed in the ARDRA study, 261 different ARDRA profiles were found. Forty-two 16S rRNA gene sequences were also analyzed, resulting in 33 different ribotypes. Representatives from six major bacterial phyla, Proteobacteria, Spirochaetes, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and the newly proposed â Endomicrobia,â were discovered. Further analysis indicated that the gut of R. flavipes may harbor as many as 1,318 ribotypes per termite. The second objective was to determine if the gut bacterial diversity could be manipulated by changing the termiteâ s food source. Using ARDRA analysis, I found no evidence that changing the food source affected the termite gut bacterial diversity. In addition, changing the food source did not induce aggression in nestmates fed on different food sources. The third objective was to search for patterns of coevolution between termites and their gut symbiotic bacteria. Using rRNA gene sequences from this study and sequences from public databases (1,450 sequences total), a neighbor-joining tree demonstrated strong evidence for coevolution of termites and their symbiotic bacteria, especially in the phyla Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, Spirochaetes, and â Endomicrobia.â Many monophyletic clusters were entirely composed of phylotypes specific to Isoptera.
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“On the Prowl” is a song by Vietnam, the heavy metal band Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton were in prior to Ash when they were just 12 years old. It appears on their Vietnam cassette demo, a collection of songs recorded in their bedrooms. Mark Hamilton said the song is “about a werewolf”.
Lyrics & Music: Tim Wheeler & Mark Hamilton
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Subsidiarity and Global Poverty: Development from Below Upwards
Scott Kelley, DePaul UniversityFollow
In early November of 2007 DePaul University hosted the 14th annual International Vincentian Business Ethics conference which addressed the topic of globalization and poverty. As a Catholic, Vincentian University it is quite fitting that DePaul would host such a conference. But, poverty studies are nothing new to many universities; in fact Chicago is home to the Joint Center for Poverty Research, a collaborative endeavor between Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, which has been examining pover- ty-related issues since 1996. if some, or even many, universities engage in poverty studies, is there anything unique about such endeavors at a Catholic, Vincentian University in light of its mission and/or heritage? Beneath the surface of engaging in poverty studies in any capacity, however, some approaches may be more attuned to a Catholic, Vincentian mission than others. Thus, there remains an important question: what does the Catholic, Vincentian heritage have to offer poverty studies at a university that values its mission? To address this challenge, I will examine three perspectives on poverty alleviation: the first from a contemporary debate between two popular development economists; the second from the principle of subsidiarity from Catholic social teaching; and the third from the legacy of Frederick Ozanam. I Will conclude by identifying several exciting contemporary approaches that are particularly suited to the study of poverty alleviation at a Catholic, Vincentian University.
Vincentian Heritage (Special Issue on Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction)
Scott Kelley. "Subsidiarity and Global Poverty: Development from Below Upwards" Vincentian Heritage (Special Issue on Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction) Vol. 28 Iss. 2 (2008) Available at http://via.library.depaul.edu/omvpubs/21/
Ethics in Religion Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
DePaul University, Mission and Ministry
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The failure of a gas power plant and an offshore wind farm had led to a power outage, as the UK electricity network failed to handle the sudden imbalance in power being pumped into the system.
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Solar System Jokes
Why haven't aliens come to our solar system yet?
They read the reviews,
Did you know that all the planets in the solar system are named after a god,
Except earth, which is named after all that stuff on the ground.
I think Saturn's name is the best in our solar system
It has a nice ring to it
How does the solar system organize a party?
**They planet!**
Why has our solar system never been visited by aliens?
Bad reviews; only one star.
Credit's to Sebastion Elytron; where ever you may be.
Why are most solar systems bad business partners?
Most are rated one star and even the best only have three.
What would be the first thing communists do if they ruled the solar system?
Rename Uranus to Ouranus
If you shrunk the solar system down so that the sun was at the top of your head and the orbit of Pluto was at your feet,
Uranus would be right about where you'd expect it to be.
How does our solar system hold its pants up?
With an asteroid belt.
Interesting fact: the sun makes up 99.86% of the solar system's mass!
The rest is your mama
Saturn and Neptune are the butt cheeks of the solar system
Uranus is between them
I saw God write a review about our solar system a while ago
he didn’t explain why he gave it a one star tho
Why haven't aliens visited our solar system yet? (Please read post)
Because this god damn joke is reposted every fucking hour.
Aliens haven’t visited our solar system yet because we only have 1 star.
They’ll want to visit solar systems with 4 or 5 stars
Why don't we have any alien visitors in our solar system?
I googled it and found the reason...
It's rated only '1 star' out there.
My boyfriend asked me how many planets are in our solar system.
And I said. "Eight"
And he said, "Nope, only 7, after I destroy Uranus tonight."
Ganymede left Jupiter and flew out of the solar system last week
I saw it today in the orbituaries.
I think our solar system is highly underrated ...
... Seriously, just one star? Duh.
TIL that our sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass in our solar system.
I guess that means yo momma only accounts for about 00.12%.
Earth went around the solar system asking the other planets for a stick of gum.
They all refused, but Earth still got one; Pluto shares its Orbit.
When our solar system was formed, the Sun was in charge...
So the planets started a revolution.
Scientist released new findings proving that there are now only seven planets in our solar system
after I destroyed Uranus.
A scientist walks into a doctor's office to inquire about his fever.
The doctor asks the scientist to lay down and drop his pants, which the scientist does without question.
The doctor asks about the scientists field of work to which he replies "astronomy my dear boy". The doctor was overjoyed at this response as space had always interested him.
Why is Venus named after the Roman goddess of beauty?
Because it's the hottest planet in our solar system
If trump was notified of an alien invasion.
“There’s an alien spacecraft but it’s not on course to earth.”
“Our specialists, they’re very special people, have concluded that this is just an alien spaceship making a simple flyby our solar system”
“The alien ship is getting close to our american soil but there is nothing to worry ...
Four Aliens
The are four aliens passing by our solar system. The don’t know a word of English. Their spaceship malfunctions and they manage to eject the escape pods before they crash land on Earth. Each alien lands in a different spot on the planet. They each decide they might as well try to learn some English ...
The terrible 2nd place prize
A girl enters a game show that allows her to win a trip to space and visit the cosmos at the furthest regions of our solar system. The girl must compete in games related to space and physics to determine if she’s got what it takes to go.
After hours of grueling physical and emotional trauma t...
The tale of Louise.
Once upon a time there was a 7-year-old girl named Louise. Now from a young age Louise had always had an interest in science. Someday she wanted to be an astronaut, to pilot a spaceship, and to explore alien worlds, but she didn't have time for any of those things. You see, Louise's family owned thi...
An old man is on his deathbed...
... and calls his grandson over.
"Johnny, my boy. I want you to know that long ago I buried a fortune."
"Where, grandpa, where?"
"In the earth, 4 feet deep..."
"Grandpa, please be more precise!"
"The Earth. The third planet i...
A man walks into a bar...
A man walks into a bar on the top floor of a tall building and has a seat on an empty stool next to a guy with glasses. Our guy orders a beer, looks to his barstool neighbor and makes eye contact, lifts his pint in a silent toast, and enjoys a healthy swig.
"You know," interrupts the guy with...
After about 1.8 trillion times a planet circled their star, the life-forms that evolved there launched a small craft with an artificial likeness of themselves into orbit. It was done to show that they could and because it amused them. Years later, after they made their planet uninhabitable, they lef...
So, the God decides he needs a vacation...
He goes to meet his travel agent:
"We have a special on Andromeda, Cthulu resort." - Nah it's way too hot...
"How'bout skiing in Pillars Of Creation?" - Maybe something cheaper, this time?
"Well, You may try the Earth, Solar System new Spa, great price".
- ... Been there like 2000 yea...
Smart son
An illiterate father and his educated son who has a degree in Astrology went on a camping trip. They set up their tent and fell asleep. A few hours later the father wakes his son and asks:
"look to the sky and tell me what do you see son?"
s: "I see millions of stars."
f: "What does...
If Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus was written today...
The solar system would need more planets for the title.
The real joke
A man was abducted one night by aliens. After the new broke out, US authorities began to contact the aliens using a breakthrough technology. The whole world had eyes on the US government to save the man. After much discussion between the two races, the US government actually pissed off the aliens th...
An Idiot and a Genius are talking in a bar...
The genius says to idiot:
"I have a game. We take turns giving each other questions. If I give you a question and you cannot answer it, you give me $5. But if you give me a question and I cannot answer it, I give you $5000".
The idiot replies:
"Uhh, Ok."
The genius says t...
So we landed a car-sized object on Mars...
...but we have no plans to bring it back. As a matter of fact there's at least 3 of 'em up there. Does this make us the rednecks of the Galaxy; leaving our broken down rovers all over our Solar System?
Undefeated Solar system Hula Hoop champ!
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Weekday Press
Hong Kong students rally peacefully before brief night skirmishes
September 2, 2019 by admin 0 Comments
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy on Monday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into crisis.
The boycott followed a weekend marred by some of the worst violence since unrest escalated more than three months ago, with protesters burning barricades and throwing petrol bombs, and police retaliating with water cannon, tear gas and batons.
Tension remained high, with several brief skirmishes around the territory after night fell. Police fired tear gas to clear protesters in the densely populated Mongkok region of the Kowloon peninsula.
Thousands of students gathered earlier on the hilltop campus of Chinese University under leaden skies, taking turns to make speeches from a stage with a black backdrop embossed with “Students in Unity Boycott for our City”.
They are seeking greater democracy for the former British colony which returned to China in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula that guarantees wide-ranging autonomy, including the right to protest and an independent judiciary.
They fear those freedoms are being slowly eroded by Communist Party rulers in Beijing, a charge China denies.
“I come here just to tell others that even after summer holidays end we are not back to our normal life, we should continue to fight for Hong Kong,” said one 19-year-old student who asked to be identified as just Chan.
On the first day of the new school year, secondary students were seen singing, chanting and forming human chains, some wearing hard hats and masks.
China accuses Western countries of egging on the protests. It says Hong Kong is its own internal affair.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated Beijing’s support for Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam.
“China’s central government supports chief executive Carrie Lam’s leadership … to administer in accordance with the law and supports Hong Kong’s police tackling the violence and chaos in accordance with the law to restore order,” he told a press briefing.
As for Lam, she said last week she had caused “unforgivable havoc” by igniting the crisis and would quit if she had a choice.
‘Free HK’ is seen placed on traffic lights by anti-extradition bill protesters, outside the Chief Executive’s Office in Hong Kong, China September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Students have turned out in significant numbers at recent rallies and were also prominent during the 2014 pro-democracy “Umbrella” movement that foreshadowed the current unrest.
“It’s very different from what happened back then. People are more mad now,” said Summer, a 20-year-old student who gave only his first name.
The vice-chairman of the Demosisto pro-democracy movement, Isaac Cheng, was assaulted by three unidentified men on Monday and taken to hospital, the group said in a statement. The group’s leader, Joshua Wong, was one of the prominent leaders of the 2014 struggle.
Thousands of protesters blocked roads and public transport links to Hong Kong airport on Sunday. Some then targeted the MTR subway station in nearby Tung Chung, ripping out turnstiles and smashing CCTV cameras, glass panels and lamps with metal poles. Police made several arrests.
Lam, a lightning rod for protesters’ anger, said on her Facebook page on Monday that 10 subway stations had been damaged by “violent offenders” over the weekend.
John Lee, government secretary for security, told media that nearly 100 petrol bombs were thrown in various locations on Saturday with two found on a 13-year-old boy who was arrested inside an MTR station.
The unrest began over a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed people in the city to be sent to China for trial in courts controlled by the party.
The turmoil has evolved into calls for democracy. China is eager to quell the unrest before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1.
With Hong Kong facing its first recession in a decade, China has also warned of the damage the protests are causing to the economy.
Reporting by Aleksander Solum, Kai Pfaffenbach, Jessie Pang, Joyce Zhou, Farah Master, Donny Kwok, Clare Jim and Twinnie Siu in Hong Kong and Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Writing by Joe Brock and Nick Macfie, Editing by William Maclean
This article was originally published by Reuters.com. Read the original article here.
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Indonesian Independence Day: Seventy-oneth Anniversary
Posted on August 19, 2016 by mskellyfitz
This picture includes a graphic of the official logo for this year’s anniversary. Look carefully: 71 is followed by “th” instead of “st.” They should have stuck to bahasa Indonesia and added “ke-71” to it instead. Oops!
The seventeenth of August is a big deal in Indonesia. For weeks prior to this date, people are busy decorating their homes with red and white, repainting gates and street signs, and practicing dances to perform on this special day. August seventeenth is Hari Kemerdekaan Indonesia, or Indonesian Independence Day. It celebrates the anniversary of the first reading of the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, although Indonesia did not gain official independence from the Netherlands until December 27, 1949.
In 2015 I was still in the U.S. for the holiday. I didn’t get to see the celebrations; only the festive aftermath of banners and flags fluttering everywhere. But this year, the seventy-oneth anniversary of Indonesian independence, I was able to enjoy the holiday with fellow Senior ETAs (SETAs) Sam and Mackenzie, our leader Grace and her new roommate Sam M., and thousands of Jakartans.
From left to right: Mackenzie, Sam M., Grace, Sam, and Me. Monumen Nasional (Monas) is the spire in the background.
Pagi! [Morning]
Sam, Mackenzie, and I left our hotel around 8 a.m. and the streets were remarkably empty. A taxi took us to Monumen Nasional [National Monument], affectionately known as Monas. We expected huge crowds but found it relatively empty. We walked around the monument, taking a few photos and doing our best to avoiding becoming photo-ops for other people. We quickly realized that we couldn’t stop in any one place for too long, otherwise people wielding cameras and smart phones would swarm. Sometimes they ask first, but usually they just stand next to us, perhaps while we are drinking water or looking for something in our bag, then click away as if they had just found a rare Pokemon and are eager to snap photos for bragging rights.
The photo-crazed swarms aside, the three of us were soon joined by Grace and Sam M. and we had a lovely morning taking in the sights and sounds at Monas. We got caught up in a group of men wearing baju adat [traditional clothes] from Sulawesi and we had a riot taking group photos with them. At some point a fleet of fighter jets passed overhead, already specks in the distance by the time we heard them and leaving only wisps of white behind. We turned an empty army truck into a photo-op, to the amusement of the soldiers sitting in the shade nearby. And of course, a highlight for us ladies was to watch the military men do a rallying song with accompanying dance moves in a circle. After watching them it was OUR turn to ask for some photos! The young men in the naval contingent that we watched informed us that they were from across Indonesia. It must have been an honor to be selected to perform at the National Monument on Independence Day.
Plenty of things were happening in Jakarta besides activities at Monas, but after the crowds faded away we were unsure of where to go. The National Museum, which is located across the street from Monas, was closed so we’ll have to make other plans to go there. Grace and Sam M. had a party to plan for, so we parted ways with Mackenzie, Sam, and I in search of lunch.
We were told we look like sisters… Maybe we do?!
Grace and Sam M., boldly going wherever they want. … With permission from the soliders, of course.
Kickin’ it loose in the empty streets on our way to Monas early in the day.
These men were from Sulawesi, the island that Mackenzie (second from left) will be calling home for the next nine months!
Sam M. had a lot more patience for the Indonesian people who approached her than the rest of us did. She even let herself be interviewed by these college kids out on an assignment.
Lots of military equipment was on display for the public’s foto-foto pleasure.
Jus mangga was a much-needed refresher after an hour of walking around the shade-less perimeter of Monas.
These guys had a great routine. The view wasn’t too bad either. 😉
Finally, it was our turn to ask some Indonesians for a photo. Lots of other people snapped shots of us here too.
I couldn’t get my camera up fast enough to catch these planes.
Of all the days for the National Museum to be closed…
Still not sure what this piece does.
Siang! [Early afternoon]
After getting in a taxi and giving the driver several false starts, the three of us ended up at a mall-size food court for lunch. Mackenzie, who has lived in Jakarta before, knew the place was close enough to walk home. So we had our lunch and turned to Google Maps to get us back to our hotel.
The route took us through some tiny streets that a car would be hard-pressed to pass through. There weren’t many people out, which is common in the early afternoon when people are hiding from the toughest of the sun’s rays. But after we rounded the corner on a quiet street, we found that it wasn’t as deserted as we thought it was. A tarp was strung over part of the road and a crowd of people gathered around it laughing and yelling and clapping. We checked in with Google, which showed that this was the way home. So we walked up to the crowd and it was hours before we walked away again. They were having a day of neighborhood lomba [competitions] and we were invited to join in the celebrations.
The first was a kerupuk-eating competition, where young kids ate crackers from a dangling string without using their hands. It was hilarious and pretty cute to watch. They had several rounds so all the kids could participate, with a Final Round for the top eaters. Participants and winners were announced over a microphone by the R.T., the neighborhood leader.
We arrived just in time for the transition from the children’s games to the lomba ibu-ibu [women’s competition]. Competition was fierce and the games were… not as benign as eating kerupuk off a string. I’ll give you an idea: look at the photo below. What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Does the scene look crowded? Does it look like a hot day? Does that eggplant look phallic to you? The ladies here certainly seem to think so. All of the lomba ibu-ibu involved either eggplants or bananas, both of which enjoy frequent innuendos even when they are not being suggestively handled.
The first competition involved tying a string around your waist with the eggplant dangling by your behind. You then squat, shimmy, and otherwise contort yourself to get the eggplant into en empty water jug. I’m pleased to say that Jimmy Fallon and my Aunt Anna helped me prepare for this game over the summer, although we used a pen and an empty champagne bottle to practice. Never would I have guessed that a night of goofing off would help me prepare for an important cultural exchange! It looked a little something like this:
Needless to say, hilarity ensued. Mackenzie and I both gave it a go, though neither of us were nearly as fast as the other ladies. The competition consisted of starting at the other end of the track, running over the to jug, getting the eggplant in the jug without your hands, and running back to the start with the eggplant inside the jug. It. Was. Hilarious. All the more so because of the commentary I heard during the festivities, which was even more scandalizing than the race itself: “Ingat semalam ya!” [Remember last night!] “Seperti ku mengajarkan!” [Just like I taught you!]
Next up was a blindfolded banana race: four ladies lined up and were blindfolded, after which they were given a banana. On the count of three, they hustled over to the other side of the track and fed the banana to their partner. The first lady to swallow her banana wins for her team. Mackenzie and Sam played together, then I played with a woman named Umi. She won us first place in the first round, and we got second place in the Final Round. Haha!
And just when we thought the games couldn’t get any more outrageous, it went to a whole new level: passing the eggplant to your partner using only your thighs. Everyone was howling with laughter at this point, where some of the ladies stuck an eggplant between their legs and grabbed a laughing partner to pass the eggplant off to. Us foreigners excused ourselves before our names were called, but we did stay to watch one round.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen something as funny as teams of grown women shoving eggplants between their legs and passing them on. Mind you, this is not normal behavior in Indonesia and will only be seen in more liberal neighborhoods on special occasions. A HUGE thanks to the neighborhood in Setiabudi for letting us join in the fun!
Spray paint art we passed on our walk through the neighborhoods.
These ladies are passing an eggplant between their thighs. I’ve never seen something so hilarious.
Sam is ready to rock-n-roll in the banana race.
These kids are participating in a kerupuk-eating contest. The kerupuk are crackers that are on a string, and no hands are allowed. The first to get all the kerupuk off the string wins.
This nenek [grandma] was probably a hundred years old but she put up a good fight in the banana race.
Who would have thought that such adventures awaited just by walking down a seemingly-empty side street?
At lunch I celebrated Independence Day, American style: with a beer. Cheers!
Everyone is cracking up when grandma (who was blindfolded) gets to the end gets the banana in her partner’s mouth.
This racetrack and tent have been put in place just for the holiday. People also dragged couches and chairs into the street to comfortably watch the festivities.
Anxiously awaiting the start of the race… all while uncontrollably giggling.
Trying to get an eggplant into a jug isn’t as easy as it looks!
I participated in the banana race and my partner and I came in first place in the first round! Umi was my gal for this game. 🙂
Sore & Malam! [Late afternoon & evening/night]
After a full day of walking and sweating and laughing, it was time to istirahat [rest]. We showered and were enjoying A/C in our own rooms in the hotel when a message came through from Grace: the party wasn’t happening for them. A bummer, especially since they had already made white chocolate-dipped strawberries to fit the party’s theme of red and white. Mackenzie, Sam, and I rallied and made it over to Grace and Sam M.’s new apartment for a long evening of strawberries, wine, conversation, and a big pile of Padang food. Thanks, ladies! I couldn’t have picked better company for celebrating the holiday for the first time.
Left to right: Sam, Mackenzie, me, and Sam M. in Grace and Sam M.’s new apartment.
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Stacey Fonseca says:
Looks like so much fun and definitely your kind of town. Men in uniforms, eggplant and banana games. What more could a girl ask for?
That was my thought exactly! I’ll be bringing these games to the next family reunion, that’s for sure. 😉
Tom Dilling says:
I’m shocked!!! LOL
hobareba says:
What an enjoyable funny post. You go ladies! Silly, silly. Looks like fun was had by all. I love the pictures. I’m sure you make your Aunt Anna proud. Love, Mom
Hi Mumzie,
It was definitely a fun time. Don’t worry, we’ll all have the chance to play these games and more once I get home. 😉
Too funny. I’m laughing out loud on this one. Just another adventure in ‘where in the world is Kelly?’
davidpfitzgerald says:
Great story Kelly. Sounds like so much fun. The bananas and egg plants will be a welcome addition to any party around here I can see. A joyous article. Keep up the good work!
Love you, Uncles Dave.
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John M. Duncan, A Virginia barbecue
tags: Food writing, John M Duncan, Library of America, Scottish writers, Travel writing
Now for something different from the Library of America – a little 3-page excerpt, titled “A Virginia Barbecue”, from Scotsman John M. Duncan’s Travels through part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819, which was published in 1823. In it, Duncan describes a barbecue to which he was invited by Bushrod (what a name, eh?) Washington, who was apparently a favourite nephew of (the) George.
The original barbecue: Ground oven cooking in Kakadu National Park (Photographer: Me)
I wanted to read this for a number of reasons: I like to read about food; I like travel writing; I lived in Virgnia for two years; and I wanted to see what he meant by “barbecue”. The thing about “barbecue” is that in my experience Americans mean something different by it than we downunder do. In the brief introductory notes to Duncan’s piece, Library of America informs us that by the middle of the 19th century regional differences were appearing and that “debates about the best meat (pork for the South, beef for Texans), the proper smoke (cool or hot), the best sauce (thick and tomatoey in the Mexican manner or vinegar-steeped with hot peppers in the manner of the Atlantic seaboard), and the appropriate accompaniments were already beginning to rage”. Duncan, however, was a bit early for this debate so he simply describes what he sees:
The meat to be barbecued is split open and pierced with two long slender rods, upon which it is suspended across the mouth of the pits, and turned from side to side till it is thoroughly broiled. The hickory tree gives, it is said, a much stronger heat than coals, and when it is kindled is almost without smoke.
And, anyhow, he is not specifically interested in describing the cooking itself but in conveying the whole experience. From our 21st century point of view, he seems completely unconscious of the disparity between the black workers slaving over the barbecues and the guests (presumably all white) dancing, eating and drinking. This is not totally surprising, given the period, although William Wilberforce, back in England, would have been full throttle on his abolitionist campaign. Here are some of the ways Duncan describes the black workers:
…a whole colony of black servants …
Servants? Or, slaves?
… black men, women and children, were busied with various processes of sylvan cookery…
“Sylvan” is, to me anyhow, a rather poetic word for forest connoting a sense of romantic idyll that is somewhat belied by the reality of the situation.
Leaving the busy negroes at their tasks – a scene by the way which suggested a tolerable idea of an encampment of Indians preparing for a feast after the spoils of the chase.
A more socially or politically aware writer would probably, even at that time, have seen the irony in this comparison, but I don’t think Duncan did. I’m not trying to play politically correct revisionist games here, but rather reflect on how writing like this can convey meaning that was not necessarily intended at the time. Such writing – in the way it documents practices and attitudes – can be a real mine for researchers!
Duncan then describes the dancing – mainly cotillion – and the dining arrangements. I found it a little confusing when he wrote that “few except those who wish to dance choose the first course; watchfulness to anticipate the wants of the ladies, prevent those who sit down with them from accomplishing much themselves”. That is, they don’t get to eat much. Being “too little acquainted with the tactics of a barbecue, and somewhat too well inclined to eat”, he joins this first course. I had to read this a couple of times before I realised (at least I think I’m right) that “first course” actually means “first sitting”. It appears that when the ladies arise, all are expected to “vacate their seats”. The “new levy succeeds” (that is, as I read it, the next sitting) and many of these diners contrive to sit through the next “signal” to rise, thereby managing to get a good feed!
He also describes the drinking but makes it clear that while there was “jollity”, he saw no “intemperance”. He specifically states that this is so for the members of the judiciary, such as Judge Washington, who were present. Duncan makes such a point of this that I wondered whether he “protesteth too much”. I’m guessing though that it’s more a case of having his eye on his market: there was a strong temperance movement in early 19th century Virginia.
This piece is included in an anthology titled American food writing: An anthology with classic recipes. It would be fascinating to read more…
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Tom C permalink
The level of organisation is what militiate against the idea of “barbecue” – surely a rather disorganised and spontaneous thing where anything goes. Its an interesting piece but also rather depressing to read of unacceptable social attitudes which we “just normal stuff”.
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Thanks Tom…and I never know quite how to react to attitudes that are of their time … after all it is usually because people have attitudes out of their time that causes us to move forward isn’t it? LOL re the barbecue and organisation – not quite the basic throw a few sausages (or prawns) on the barbie that Aussies like to do. And it seems to me that when American say “barbecue” they often specifically mean meat (ribs or somesuch) with some thick sticky sauce (as I refer to in the post).
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An interesting cultural piece. It is difficult to read stuff like this and not be upset by the flagrant racism.
Here is something to add to your U.S. barbeque information, in Minnesota they call it “grilling.” And of course it generally involves meet. This weekend is Independence Day so there will be lots of grilling of hamburgers, steaks, hot dogs and bratwurst. There may be some vegetables grilled as well but it will be mostly meat. The thick sticky sauce is a southern specialty I believe and while you can definitely get it “up north” we tend to be a bit more minimal on what is done to the meat. Since I am vegan, however, I only observe and do not partake 🙂
And the thing about the racism is it’s so unconscious/unthinking – he appears to have no idea even that he’s doing it.
Thanks for that explanation Stefanie. I rather wondered about the grill vs barbecue thing. It’s fascinating how differently we use words. Over here grilling is used for the cooking you do on the griller that’s part of the stove, and restaurants often use the term chargrill for cooking on those indoor barbecue grills. But, barbecue is universally used for the regular cooking of meat, fish, vegies outside.
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On the old-time unconscious racism thing, I came across some striking examples in Ernestine Hill’s The Great Australian Loneliness a few weeks ago — the most breathtaking (because her eugenic assumptions were being contradicted by evidence that was standing right in front of her and yet she persisted) went like this — well, long story short — she speaks to a young man, half-Anglo, half-Aboriginal, and discovers that his well-off farmer father sent him to be educated at a private boarding school in Perth, where he won prizes for academic excellence and sport, led the cricket team, etc, but when he returned to the Northern Territory (Hill is speaking to him in the NT during the 1930s) it was brought home to him that he was not legally permitted to marry a white woman, he couldn’t inherit his father’s property — in short, he was being barred from the world he had been trained and educated to enter. Feeling unwanted, he turned his back on it all and went to live with his mother’s people in a creek bed. Hill records this fairly reasonable psychological reaction and her conclusion is: that mixed-race children will always revert to “the primitive” because it is in their genes. And the modern reader is left sitting there, spluttering, “But woman, he just told you why he did it. You quoted him. Isn’t it obvious it has nothing to do with genes?”
So: a good lesson in the way belief can blind us. Because she’s not actually hostile to him — she’s quite sympathetic. But her sympathy goes like this: it’s not right to inflict this suffering on people, therefore no one should have mixed-race children.
Thanks for sharing that DKS. It’s amazing how blind we can be isn’t it? Somewhat different, but related, is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was an abolitionist as I’m sure you know and writes with such humanity and yet – and yet – she doesn’t see “them” as equal. She just sees that they are human beings and should be treated as such.
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I have that anthology, and it is a fascinating compendium.
As for barbecue, while the definition is becoming blurred, it has traditionally referred to meat that was cooked by smoking. Some today use the term for anything involving a grill, but enthusiasts will violently disagree. For a little historic background on barbecue, here’s a snippet of history I wrote on the topic. (The title is an obscure reference to a children’s movie titled “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.”)
http://worldsfare.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/the-pirates-who-will-grill-anything/
As for attitudes of the time, they are always far more complicated and individual than people generally assume when discussing them. As a historian, it frustrates me no end to have everyone from a given period described as if culture and thought were monolithic. From the first moment of settlement, there had been a strong abolitionist movement in the US (in fact, England ruling that no colony could outlaw slavery, as it would hurt England’s trade, was one of the causes of the American Revolution).
From the first time they began appearing in the colonies that would become the US, there were wealth blacks who were college educated, even at this period. (Not so true of the West Indies, but that is a dramatically different story, with far more countries involved and a whole different mindset.) So not everyone had the attitude that blacks were a lower order. It was often simply slavery that was accepted, not just slavery of one race by another. In the South, before the Civil War, there were many free blacks who owned black slaves. And even in the antebellum South, less than 1/3 of the white population owned slaves. Also, many whites who came to the Americas had been enslaved prior to escaping to the Americas, and many came as indentured servants, which could be worse than slavery (because generally, slaves were seen as a long-term investment, to be cared for, while indentured servants were often worked to death). In fact, the very famous American historic figure, John Smith, had been a slave in Turkey as a young man, before escaping, returning to England, and beginning his American adventures. (Remarkably, Smith was the first to envision the possibility of the land he explored as being the site of a new middling order where people could work for themselves and prosper, leaving behind the idle rich and lifting people out of poverty. Pretty astonishing for the early 1600s.)
The astonishing thing was that there were people who even came up with the original idea that “all were created equal” — and enough of them to make a difference. It took a few generations to work that “everyone’s equal” idea through the population — but face it, even today and among almost all ranks of society, there is still that tendency to identify someone who is “other” and less valuable. Just think of school days, with athletes dismissing Latin majors as losers, science majors dismissing “jocks” as brainless, hipsters dismissing everyone — there is always an in-crowd vs. outsiders, whatever form that takes. What is remarkable is not that they had these feelings then, but that we have, in some places at least, overcome that natural “them and us” tendency. (Just think of the Balkans, where 500-year-old slights are still a valid reason for slaughter. These concepts are still far from universal.)
I just rejoice that there were a few who had the vision and made the effort to spread the ideas. Like William Wilberforce, mentioned in the original post, who fought slavery his entire life, it takes a lot of effort and time, because human nature is not such that change is looked for. And I rejoice, too, that I was born in one of the handful of countries where I benefit from those ideas.
Thanks WA for all that – you have particularly helped clarify the confusion about “barbecue” that I sensed when I lived in the USA. And, you make a lot of sense in your discussion about slavery, race and other. That whole issue about how and when ideas arise and take hold – such the created equal one which was accepted theoretically but not universally applied to all resulting, later, in such things as Civil Rights and Feminist movements. The gap between theory/philosophy and practice.
Thought of you and this discussion this morning, as I was attending a meeting of the Culinary Historians of Chicago, and the topic was barbecue, aka BBQ or just Q. The discussion touched on the history, starting in the Caribbean, but mostly dealt with the wide range of types of barbecue across the US. (Everyone, however, was assuming that barbecue means smoked meat, and a comment was made to that effect.)
In Texas, BBQ means smoked beef brisket. You can include spicy, smoked, Texas sausage, too, but we’re still talking beef. In most of the rest of the South, BBQ means pork, though the parts vary, from ribs to shoulder butt, and in South Carolina, it’s whole hog. Sauces vary dramatically, from tomato based to vinegar based to mustard based, sweet to savory, mild to fiery. So lots of disagreement on what to smoke and what to put on it once it’s smoked, but real barbecue is smoked meat.
Wow, thanks Waltzing, that’s great and helps wonderfully to explain my confusion and the differences within the US as well as between the US and Australian. For us, real barbecue is anything grilled on an outdoor grill. Traditionally probably beef but smoking and sauces are not what it’s about (though they can be done/added of course).
To be perfectly honest, there’s a bit of confusion here, as well. Loads of people refer to anything with a grill as a barbecue. So as is the case with so many traditions, the lines are blurring. But people in areas where barbecue is a serious part of the culture, the lines are still fairly strictly drawn. People in California may call grilling barbecue, but no one in Kansas City does, for example.
LOL Waltzing – and so the plot thickens eh! All this reassures me that I wasn’t stupid when I found it hard to get my head around when we were living there!
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For linux, you will need to have a recent version of [http://java.com/ Java] installed on your computer. == Quick Start == * Press the "Load Image" button to load your image file, usually JPG or PNG format. * Adjust the "Stipples" slider for the dot density that you want-- more stipples takes longer to run. * Allow it to run until the stipple distribution stops changing much, and adjust the display options (dot size and so forth) to your taste. * Press the Pause button to calculate the TSP path between the stipples. * Press one of the "Save" buttons to save the stipple locations or the path between them to an SVG file. == Detailed Usage == http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-newframe.png When you first open up StippleGen, you will be presented with this window, which shows the drawing in progress (in the top part) and a set of controls below that. Rather than present you with a blank screen, StippleGen automatically loads a demo image ([http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kelly,_Grace_(Rear_Window).jpg source]) upon launch, and begins calculating. This way, you can try out the program, even if you don't have a good image of your own to start with. And, you can stop it at any time by loading a new image. All of StippleGen's controls are accessed through the graphical user interface located in the lower part of the screen, in the gray bar. In what follows, we will go over the usage of the individual controls within the interface. === Loading an image file === http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-loadsave.png To load a new image file, click the "Load Image File" button that is located above the "save" buttons. You can open any image file in .png, .jpg, .tga, or (non-animated) .gif formats. The file name must end in one of the following: .png, .jpg, .tga, .gif, .PNG, .JPG, .TGA, or .GIF. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-StartVor.png As soon as a new image is loaded, StippleGen will "sprinkle" an initial weighted distribution of points over the image and then begin to calculate an initial Voronoi diagram from those points. During this process, you will see something like the image shown above, which is the set of Voronoi cells for the initial point distribution. Depending on the number of stipples being calculated, this may be a matter of moments or minutes. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-Start.png After the initial Voronoi diagram is calculated, StippleGen will display the stipple locations that it has calculated. This "first guess" is usually quite crude— as you can see above — and will improve dramatically as you allow StippleGen to run for a while. ''Aside:'' The calculation of the stipple point locations through Secord's algorithm is an ''iterative'' process. For any given "generation," the process begins with an initial set of points— whether that's the initial set of "sprinkled' points, or the output from the previous generation. The Voronoi diagram of those points is then calculated, and each point is moved to the weighted centroid of its Voronoi cell. That distribution of points then serves as the starting point for the subsequent generation. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-newframe.png Once you have allowed StippleGen to run for some generations, the set of stipples will relax into their optimal locations, and the drawing will cease to exhibit substantial changes from generation to generation. The actual duration of elapsed time before it "settles in" depends primarily on the number of stipples that you are using, but (generally speaking) the stipple drawings start to look reasonably good after around 40 generations. === Primary Controls === http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-primary.png The two primary controls— which control the number and color of the stipples —are located in the upper-left portion of StippleGen's interface. Changing either setting will restart the calculation from the beginning, as though you had just loaded a new file. ==== Stipple Count ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace10k-dotrange1.png You can adjust the number of stipples used in the calculation by dragging the position of the stipple count slider, labeled "STIPPLES." The default stipple count is 2,000, and it can be adjusted as high as 10,000. When you adjust the stipple count, you may wish to also wish to [[Stipplegen#Display_Options|adjust your display options]] to make the resulting image more clear. Two important notes about changing the number of stipples: Using larger numbers of stipples will increase the time required per generation. And, again, please note that changing the number of stipples will restart the calculation from the beginning, as though you had just loaded a new file. ''Super-Secret Bonus Trick:'' Press the 'x' key on your keyboard while StippleGen is running to increase the high end of the stipple count slider all the way up to 50,000. (We make no guarantee of how well StippleGen actually runs with more than 10k stipples. Our best guess: it takes its sweet time.) ==== Stipple Color ==== StippleGen can create stipple drawings either with black dots on a white background or white dots on a black background. By default, StippleGen will begin drawing with black stipples on a white background. This is usually the best choice for working with images that are predominantly light in color. However, the most important reason to pick one color scheme or the other may be the intended application of the resulting drawing. If, for example, you will be drawing with black ink on an egg, you will probably want to pick black stipples and a white background. On the other hand, if you will be [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/cnc-halftones-with-ascii-art/ carving into a black panel], you may prefer white features on a black background. To toggle between the two color schemes, press the wide button underneath the stipple-count slider, labeled with the current color scheme (typically "BLACK STIPPLES, WHITE BACKGROUND"). Pressing this button will switch the color scheme and restart the calculation from the beginning, as though you had just loaded a new file. Also, if you wish to restart the calculation for any reason, pressing this button twice is a good way to do that. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant2kw.png http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant2k.png Shown above are two stipple drawings made from the same image of a corn plant, a sample image that you can download [http://mrl.nyu.edu/~ajsecord/stipples.html here]. One drawing is made with black dots on a white background, and the other has white dots on a black background. However, each drawing has 2000 dots and the parameters are otherwise identical. In this case, as the source image was predominantly white, the image with the white background is of considerably higher quality, as the dots are concentrated in the area of interest, rather than in the background. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/twain5kw.png Here now we have a better use of the black background: Mark Twain in 5000 stipples. ([http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley.jpg Image source].) === Display Options === The display options change how (and even, whether) the stipples are displayed, but do not actually affect their positions. These can be changed at any time without harming the stipple calculation, however, the results may not be visible (or fully applied) until the next generation is displayed. ==== Dot Size and Range ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-dotsizerange.png There are two controls for the stipples size: Minimum dot size and dot size range. By default, the stipples displayed on the screen are of varying diameter, where the diameter of any given stipple depends upon the density of the "underlying" original image. When drawing black dots on a white background, the black dots are larger when over darker portions of the original image. When drawing white dots on a black background, the white dots are larger when over brighter portions of the original image. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-dotrange2.png The stipple size is controlled directly by two variables, the "Min. Dot Size" and the "Dot Size Range." The minimum dot size is the size of the smallest dots on the screen are, in pixels. If the size range is nonzero, then the dot size will scale with the image density, and the range is a multiplicative factor. If the size range is set to zero (as shown above), the stipples will all be the same size. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-dotrange1.png You can also adjust the size range to be much larger, for a different final effect. However, it is interesting to note that human-drawn stipple drawings tend to have a size range not much above 3-4. Also, be aware that if you are using StippleGen to create artwork for CNC tools, there ''may'' be a minimum feature size (e.g., pen width) that is not accurately represented by the tiny dots shown here. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace10k-dotrange2.png When working with larger numbers of stipples, it is particularly important to scale down the minimum dot size, so that the stipples do not tend to overlap so much. Doing so allows you to use StippleGen to generate artwork of larger scale, too. ==== White Cutoff ==== You can use the "White Cutoff" slider can be to hide stipples in regions of very low density, for example if you find occasional black dots (correctly representing average density) to be distracting on a light-colored background. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace10k-dotrange4.png In our demo image above, we have now adjusted the "White Cutoff" slider to 0.07, which hides much of the background. ''Note 1:'' The "White Cutoff" slider will relabel itself "Black Cutoff" when working with white dots on a black background. ''Note 2:'' While changing the white cutoff value will not affect the calculation of stipple locations, it does affect which stipples will be included in the output files. Because of this, changing the white cutoff will restart the calculation of the TSP path, if you change it while in "paused" mode. You can read more about the [[StippleGen#TSP_Path|paused mode]] below. ==== Image and Voroni Cell Backgrounds ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-bgs.png In addition to the display options that change the dot sizes and white cutoff, there are also two options to show a little more detail about ongoing calculations. These do not actually affect the calculations nor output of the program in any way— they are provided just because it's neat to be able to peek at these things. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-BGImg.jpg Pressing the "Image BG" button will show the scaled original image in the background behind the stipples. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-BGVor.png Pressing the "Cells" button will show the Voronoi cells in the background behind the stipples. It will also show the stipple locations (from the previous generation) in a lighter color, so that you can monitor the progress. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/grace2k-BGImgVor.jpg Finally, you can turn on both options, to view the original image and the Voronoi cells at the same time. ==== Pause / TSP Path ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-pausemode.png When you press the "Pause" button, StippleGen ceases calculation of the stipple locations, and begins calculating the "TSP" path between the points. The lower button, "Plotting Path," can hide or show the path during this part of the calculation. (Neither of these buttons actually affects the stipple location of the stipples, except to pause it.) Additional details about the TSP path calculation process are in the next section. === Saving an SVG File === StippleGen is capable of saving the drawing that it has created in two different styles. Most obviously, it can save a true "stipple drawing" -- like what is shown on the screen above, where the image is represented by a series of dots. The other style of drawing is a "TSP path," where the thing that is saved is not the set of points, but a single continuous path that connects the points. There are '''two steps''' to the process of saving a file: http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/pausebutton.png '''First''', click the "Pause" button. (This ends the process of calculating stipple locations, and begins the process of calculating the TSP path between those locations.) http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-loadsave.png '''''Then''''', and usually after waiting for a moment, press one of the two buttons to either save the stipple drawing or the TSP path. You will be prompted for the location to save the file. If you press one of the two save buttons before you have paused, StippleGen will not present you with a dialog box to save the file, but will instead go into the paused mode. If this happens, you can press the save button again, now that it's paused. If you want to save both types of file, you can do so, one after the other. ==== Calculating the TSP Path ==== When you press the "Pause" button, StippleGen ceases calculation of the stipple locations, and begins calculating the "TSP" path between the points. You can press the lower button, "Plotting Path" to hide or show the path. The TSP ("travelling salesman problem") path is an efficient route plotted between the stipple locations. And, depending on how you plan to use StippleGen's output, this part of the process may or may not be important to you: * If you are creating a set of stipple points for use on the Eggbot, the order in which the points are plotted is given by their order in the file. If you allow the TSP path to be calculated— at least until the end of the "rats nest" stage —will dramatically reduce plotting time. * If you are creating a set of stipple points for other CNC machines, the plot order ''may or may not'' affect downstream applications, depending on whether or not there is a separate optimization stage later, when creating your toolpath. * If you are creating a set of stipple points for a different application, the point order is usually not important at all. * If you are creating a true "TSP path" as your primary output, this stage of the calculation is just as important as the stipple calculation. You should allow it to run until it is optimal or you run out of patience. Notes on calculating the plotting path: ''Note 1:'' If you press the Pause again (to unpause/resume calculation), the TSP path will be lost, and a new one will be calculated (from scratch) when you press the pause button again. If you wish to restart the path for any reason, pressing this button twice is a good way to do that. ''Note 2:'' The TSP path will also be restarted if you adjust the white cutoff parameter. ''Note 3:'' Hiding or showing the TSP path is strictly a display option; it has no effect on the calculation or output. To choose whether your output file consists of points or lines, select one of the two save buttons: A stipple file consists of points, while the TSP path file consists of a single set of joined lines. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant10kpath_0.png Let's begin with a nicely optimized corn plant stipple drawing, with 10,000 stipple points. (At this stage we do not have any white cutoff.) http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant10kpath_1.jpg When you first press the "Pause" button, the path between the stipple locations looks like a rats nest, as the program goes through the coarsest stage of finding a path between the points. This stage may last for only a brief moment, particularly when working with relatively low numbers of stipples. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant10kpath_2.png After a few moments the path between the points begins to look a little more rational— the rats nest has gone away. If your output will be a set of stipple points (as opposed to a TSP path), this is already sufficiently optimized, and you can save your file now. If, on the other hand, your primary output is actually a TSP path, you'll want to let it run for a while longer. (One hint: an optimal TSP path will not have any line segments that cross.) (If you're wondering what happened to the points, we've just reduced the min. dot size and the size range here, so that you can see the path better.) http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/plant10kpath_3.png For this path, we've (1) used the white cutoff to hide the background and (2) allowed it to run for a few more minutes. This path probably won't get much better, so it's a good time to save the TSP path file. There are some little defects, but we're probably better off opening up the file in Inkscape at this point to edit away the bad path segments by hand. ==== Saving a Stipple Drawing ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-loadsave.png Once in paused mode, press the button labeled "Save Stipple File" to save your stipple drawing as an SVG file. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/fileoutplant_small.png Here's what the corn plant drawing looks like, opened up in Inkscape. (See below for more about the file format.) http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/fileout_circles.png The drawing is made up of a very large number of small circles, whose size is determined by the dot sizes in StippleGen. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/graceegg-640.jpg The stipple drawing can be used for almost anything at this point. This image that we've drawn on the egg was rendered with only 2000 stipples. Properly tuned for making dots rapidly, the Eggbot can plot about four stipples per second, so this kind of a plot can take as little as ten minutes, and can actually produce a remarkable likeness of a photo. ==== Saving a TSP Path Drawing ==== http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/newgui-loadsave.png Once in paused mode, press the button labeled 'Save "TSP Path"' to save the TSP path drawing as an SVG file. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/fileout_tsp_small.png Here's what the corn plant TSP path drawing looks like, opened up in Inkscape. (See below for more about the file format.) http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/fileout_tsp_large_edited.jpg And now, we've edited the path to remove a couple of the distracting segments, using Inkscape's path editing tools. We're now ready to plot this path. http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/cornplant.jpg Because this is essentially one continuous path, with almost no pen-up/pen-down motion, the whole drawing can be plotted in a minute or two. ==== File Format ==== The file is saved as an Inkscape SVG file that can be opened with [http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape], the superb (and free) vector graphics editor, or other applications that can open and edit Inkscape SVG files. While the SVG file can be modified to your heart's content and subsequently saved in a wide variety of formats, the SVG file is initially formatted to be "Eggbot ready." That is to say, the drawing is centered in a document that is 3200 × 800 pixels, so that it can be used (without modification) as input for an [[Eggbot]]. === Exit === http://evilmadscience.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/eggbot/stipplegen/v2docs/quitbutton.png To quit StippleGen, press the Quit button. StippleGen will quit immediately when you press the button, ''without prompting you'' to save your drawing. (So, be sure to save first if you wish to do so.) == Source Code == The StippleGen source code is available at [https://github.com/evil-mad/stipplegen GitHub]. To run the code from source, you'll need to download [http://processing.org/ Processing], and install the [https://bitbucket.org/postspectacular/toxiclibs/wiki/Home toxiclibs library] and the [http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/ ControlP5 library]. You don't need to download these libraries separately; install and start Processing, then go to Sketch | Import Library... | Add Library... , search for them and click Install, and it will install them in the right place automatically. (Update the "sketchbook path" in the Preferences if you don't want them installed in a "processing" subdir of your home folder.)
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Charleston Road Registry is an American company, wholly owned by Google, which was established to provide registry operator services to the Internet public. Google is an American multinational public corporation and global technology leader focused on improving the ways its hundreds of millions of users connect with information. Since its formation, Google has been developing technology that can improve upon existing ways of doing business on the Internet. Google provides a variety of services and tools for Internet users and advertisers of all sizes, from simple search features and local ads to enterprise-scale business applications and global advertising solutions. These tools make it easier for people to make use of the world's information and enable entrepreneurs and publishers around the world to grow their businesses.
In line with Google's general mission, Charleston Road Registry's mission is to help make information universally accessible and useful by extending the utility of the DNS while enhancing the performance, security and stability of the Internet for users worldwide. Charleston Road Registry aspires to create unique web spaces where users can learn about Google products, services and information in a targeted manner and in ways never before seen on the Internet. Its business objective is to manage Google's gTLD portfolio and Google's registry operator business. As discussed further in the responses to questions 23 and 31, Charleston Road Registry intends to outsource all critical registry functions to Google Registry Services.
The proposed gTLD will provide the marketplace with direct association to the term, ʺcal,ʺ which is intended to be short for ʺcalendar.ʺ The mission of this gTLD, .cal, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which to enact second-level domains that relate to the management of an individual, group, or enterpriseʹs calendar via Google Calendar. This mission will enhance consumer choice by providing new availability in the second-level domain space for users of Google calendar, creating new layers of organization on the Internet, and signaling the kind of content available in the domain.
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18.b.i.1. Specialty
Charleston Road Registry intends to apply for an exemption to ICANN's Registry Operator Code of Conduct and operate the proposed gTLD with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. The proposed gTLD will specifically align with Google Calendar, an existing Google product, and will provide users with improved capabilities that meet their diverse needs.
The specialization goal of the proposed gTLD is to provide a dedicated second-level domain space for a user's or enterprise's management of their Google Calendar. This specialization introduces a new domain name hierarchy that will generate new Google Calendar namespace, and provide for streamlined, internal Google management of the introduction and phase out of new or retiring products and/or services in the second-level domain.
This specialization offers Internet users Google services that will enhance their current and future experience with Google Calendar. Google will manage a process whereby users will be able to make use of unique vanity names in the gTLD; such second-level domains will only point to the Google offering. This provides users with a distinctive namespace as they develop and implement a unique, customized vision for their use of Google Calendar. Google strives to offer its customers leading edge tools that will not only enable them to better personalize their respective second-level domain content, but also spur further creativity and generate new options on the Internet.
As the Internet is ever changing, these services will evolve to meet users' needs to the benefit of the Internet public. Google seeks to continuously provide tools that solve problems faced by Internet users, and, in partnership with Charleston Road Registry, the proposed gTLD will open the opportunity for Google to provide these customer-centric solutions.
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Through its association with Google, Charleston Road Registry is uniquely positioned to enable and support the proposed gTLD by providing its service reliability and speed of delivery as a part of its services. Google brings unique expertise and a proven record of excellence in infrastructure operations: Google now runs the largest DNS system in the world, has industry-leading uptime on its services, such as web search, and offers enterprise services on which governments and businesses depend.
Charleston Road Registry's service level goal for the proposed gTLD is to ensure that Google, as the proposed sole registrant, is supported in delivering the high level of quality, speed, and service to users for which it is known. Indeed, two of Google's core principles in providing Internet search and related goods and services are "focus on the user and all else will follow" and "fast is better than slow."
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Google keeps speed in mind with each new product it releases, from faster mobile applications to improved Web browsers designed for rapid search and navigation. Google continues to devote its resources to improving speed and efficiency. In managing the proposed gTLD, Google expects to keep its service reliability and speed to this standard through direct management of all technical infrastructure related to DNS resolution other than the operation of the root servers.
Charleston Road Registry is committed to using the most technologically advanced, secure, and reliable registry services for all of the domain names within the gTLD so as to not compromise the service levels, security, and stability of the gTLD to users across the globe.
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Google has a proven record of providing high-quality, secure online services. Charleston Road Registry seeks to enhance Google's reputation for excellence, superior quality, high level of security, and become known as an exemplary domain name services provider.
When Internet users visit a domain name in the proposed gTLD environment, they will be able to reliably expect and experience the high level of security and quality on which Google's reputation has been built.
The registry will be structured so that Google registers and manages domain names in the .cal gTLD, that those domain names are used for only Google Calendar-related purposes, and that the registry is responsive to legal rights owners (if applicable).
As noted, Charleston Road Registry intends to apply for an exemption to ICANN's Registry Operator Code of Conduct and operate the proposed gTLD with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. This facilitates Google's ability to further enhance the Google Calendar brand and the reputation of Google Calendar offerings.
In addition, Charleston Road Registry's operation of the new gTLD will provide the opportunity for users to build and/or bolster their unique brands or tailor unique user identities in association with the proposed gTLD.
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Charleston Road Registry supports the advancement of registry operators as a whole and the diffusion of gTLDs amongst diverse stakeholders to generate increased competition for the benefit of the Internet public. Increased competition will result in more competitive prices for consumers, generate efficiencies, increase productivity in enterprises, and spur innovation in the gTLD space.
Google will have the opportunity to differentiate and innovate upon its Google Calendar products and services through its use of the gTLD.
The proposed gTLD, .cal, will provide a new mechanism for users to make use of a unique, vanity second-level domain name that points to the userʹs Calendar account. Charleston Road Registry anticipates the .cal gTLD will help grow the volume of calendar offerings on the Internet, thereby increasing competition among web-based calendar service providers.
The proposed gTLD will promote competition in the gTLD space by inciting competitors to respond with improved gTLD operations, greater range and higher quality products and services integrated with domain name offerings, and/or the creation of their own respective gTLDs, to the benefit of all Internet users. Launching the proposed gTLD will also generate increased competition in the online marketplace by adding incremental availability to the second-level domain pool.
As noted above, Charleston Road Registry intends to apply for an exemption to the ICANN Registry Operator Code of Conduct. Given that the proposed gTLD is exclusively intended for use in connection with Googleʹs service, Charleston Road Registry believes that there is a reasonable case for such an exemption. Should ICANN not approve this proposed exemption, Charleston Road Registry will facilitate a fair and equitable registrar process, providing open access to any registrar who meets ICANN accreditation guidelines.
18.b.ii.2. Differentiation
The proposed gTLD will clearly be differentiated from other gTLDs due to its purposefully limited scope. This differentiation includes: (1) uniqueness in terms of the users the proposed gTLD seeks to benefit; (2) a clear indicator that second-level domains within the gTLD offer a particular, targeted content; (3) and because the TLD will be associated with a Google offering, Internet users will immediately be able to rely on the quality of the product.
The gTLD will provide an authoritative environment for the provision of Google Calendar offerings. New, higher quality products offered in the gTLD will also attract new users to the Google offering.
The .cal gTLD will provide Google with the opportunity to differentiate its Calendar offerings from other calendar and meeting scheduling service providers by virtue of its branded gTLD. This gTLD is not currently available in the gTLD space, and its provision will eliminate the need for Google to use more generic gTLDs, such as .com, to deliver its Calendar offerings.
The proposed gTLD will also encourage differentiation among users. Google's services, including tools to improve and customize users' unique Google Calendar experiences, will provide users with new ways of distinguishing themselves from others.
18.b.ii.3. Innovation
The proposed gTLD will promote further innovation by creating a new space for the categorization and classification of online content. The proposed gTLD is in itself innovative, as it seamlessly combines DNS services with other Google products and services.
The proposed gTLD will spur further innovation at Google by providing an accelerated platform for the introduction of new Calendar offerings to the public. The proposed gTLD will provide a mechanism for enhanced branding and management of Google's Calendar offerings.
The proposed gTLD, .cal, will promote innovation by encouraging Google to create new offerings for distribution in the .cal gTLD. In addition, the proposed gTLD will encourage other online services to create new offerings and/or provide an umbrella gTLD in which to link their respective offerings, providing Internet users the same benefits as .cal will provide. In addition, Google may choose to innovate within its portfolio of web spaces and introduce distinguishing features that further crystallize the relationship between offerings provided in the gTLD and the Google brand and reputation. This will likely invite user comparison among domain sites, encouraging competitors to innovate and develop new features and services.
Charleston Road Registry considers the proposed gTLD to be a platform for innovation with existing and future Google products and services. Charleston Road Registry, therefore, may incorporate these new offerings into future registry service options (subject to the ICANN approval process), infusing new ideas into the gTLD for the betterment of the public.
Google consistently aims to improve upon technologies that connect people with information, as demonstrated by a proven record of innovation and iteration. Charleston Road Registry strives to offer its users this same level of continuous development in advancing its management and operation of the gTLD, engendering an improved user experience.
18.b.iii. User Experience
Charleston Road Registry will strive to provide the highest level of user experience through operational stability, security, and performance to serve the interest of users in the proposed gTLD. Charleston Road Registry is uniquely positioned to provide this level of experience given its relationship with Google; per its SEC filings, Google invested over $3 billion in its IT infrastructure in 2011 and maintains a record of excellence in infrastructure operations.
Google keeps user experience in mind with each new service it releases, from allowing users to personalize their Gmail accounts to providing small to medium businesses with tools customized for their specific needs. The proposed gTLD provides Google with a formal mechanism whereby it can continue to improve its services to address the ever-changing needs of all Internet users.
The proposed gTLD, furthermore, facilitates an improved online user experience by provisioning the DNS on users' behalf and streamlining the process by which users are able to link to and make use of the Google offering.
The proposed gTLD, .cal, will provide users with an improved Google Calendar experience by allowing for users' direct management of their respective content within the .cal gTLD
In focusing on the user, Google strives to provide the best user experience possible. Google will continue to operate under this principle when designing and providing new service offerings in the proposed gTLD. The proposed gTLD will provide users with improved customization services and facilitate additional opportunities to enhance their current and future experience with Google Calendar.
The proposed gTLD will provide a more trusted and user-friendly environment where domain names and content related to the .cal gTLD can flourish. Charleston Road Registry seeks to have users deem the gTLD trustworthy and reliable and recognize it as an aggregated source of targeted goods, services, and information.
Lastly, the proposed gTLD improves the Internet user experience by creating greater structure and categorization on the Internet.
18.b.iv. Registration Policies
Because the sole purpose of the proposed gTLD is to associate domain names with the Google Calendar offering, Charleston Road Registry intends to apply for an exemption to the ICANN Registry Operator Code of Conduct and operate the gTLD with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. As the sole registrant, Google will have the opportunity to differentiate and innovate upon its Google Calendar products and services through its use of the gTLD.
Given the proposed limited scope and use of the gTLD, Charleston Road Registry believes that there is a reasonable case for such an exemption. Should ICANN not condone this proposed exemption, Charleston Road Registry will make access to Registry Services, including the shared registration system, available to all ICANN-accredited registrars.
Charleston Road Registry believes that given its specific use, the .cal gTLD will best add value to the gTLD space by limiting all second-level domains to the sole use of pointing at Google Calendar offerings. Google will manage a process whereby users will be able to make use of unique vanity names in the gTLD; such second-level domains will only point to the user's Google Calendar account. In addition, only entities and individuals with a Google Calendar account or who create a new account may be eligible to enact a second-level domain within the gTLD.
Charleston Road Registry is committed to implementing strong and integrated intellectual property rights protection mechanisms. Doing so is critical to Google's goals of model Internet citizenship and fostering Internet development, especially in emerging regions. Accordingly, Charleston Road Registry intends to offer a suite of rights protection measures which builds upon ICANNʹs required policies while fulfilling its commitment to encouraging innovation, competition and choice on the Internet.
18.b.v. Protection of Privacy and Confidential Information
Charleston Road Registry will strive to ensure the appropriate level of privacy and security will be met for its users. Although Google will be the only registrant (and is intended to serve as the only registrar for the gTLD as well), Charleston Road Registry and its provider of registry services, Google, have imposed measures to achieve this protection for their users; additional specifics regarding the practices for the registry include but are not limited to the following:
- Since Google will be the only registrant, personally identifying information regarding individual users will not be sent to or stored by the registry. Such data will remain on Google's infrastructure used to provide the individual service, and is subject to Google's existing privacy policy.
- Charleston Road Registry will attempt to prevent the misuse of WHOIS data for improper purposes such as spam, intellectual property theft or phishing. Charleston Road Registry will attempt to identify patterns of abusive usage of the WHOIS service and will appropriately use CAPTCHA, query throttling or other techniques to prevent information scraping.
- Google will restrict access to data and information systems maintained by the registry to a specific list of individuals involved with supporting the Google Registry system in production. Google will review this list on a periodic basis to ensure that the level of access granted to individuals is appropriate. Google uses two-factor authentication and other mechanisms to ensure that staff with access to user information are properly identified prior to using registry systems.
- In the event that other registrars are involved, registrar billing and payment information will not be stored alongside domain name registration information. All registrar billing and payment information will be stored in a PCI-compliant billing system similar to that used by Google Ads.
Beyond these specific mechanisms, both Charleston Road Registry and Google will govern its approach to privacy by the Google Privacy Policy. This policy applies to registrars, registrants and end users of registry services such as DNS zone publication and WHOIS data publication. The Privacy Policy is located at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
18.b.vi. Outreach and Communications Efforts
Once Google begins developing public-facing resources in its gTLD, it intends to inform the public about the gTLD and the opportunity for users to obtain domain space there through marketing and public relation investments.
Charleston Road Registry, in conjunction with Google, intends to promote gTLDs under its purview collectively, such that the public gains an awareness and understanding of new gTLDs and the availability of new second-level domain space on the Internet. Charleston Road Registry and Google believe that this approach will make the strongest impact in modifying consumer behavior and is the best path to achieving success for all new gTLDs collectively.
Charleston Road Registry and Google will reach out to the Internet community via a number of different outreach and communications methods and venues to deliver its mission and message to the public, including but not limited to: press briefings, videos posted on various Internet sites, blogs and other social media, and paid advertising. In addition, when developing resources for localized Internet registrars in different global regions, Google will use local marketing and communications platforms as needed.×
Operational Rules and Cost Benefits
18.c.i Should ICANN grant Charleston Road Registry's exemption to the Code of Conduct, and the proposed gTLD operate with Google as the sole registrar and registrant, members of the public will not be able to directly register domain names in this new gTLD. Users will, however, be given the... Read more
18.c.i
Should ICANN grant Charleston Road Registry's exemption to the Code of Conduct, and the proposed gTLD operate with Google as the sole registrar and registrant, members of the public will not be able to directly register domain names in this new gTLD. Users will, however, be given the opportunity to make use of a vanity second-level domain as a memorable identifier linked to content in Google Calendar. Users will be assigned a vanity domain name pursuant to Google's forthcoming user registration guidelines. In addition, Google will follow ICANN rules for attributions of trademarked second-level domains and will offer other protections for trademark owners, including but not limited to an extended Trademark Claims Service of indefinite length.
18.c.ii
Should ICANN grant Charleston Road Registry's exemption to the Code of Conduct, the proposed gTLD will operate with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. As registrations will be granted based on Google business needs and user demand, Charleston Road Registry will charge prices commensurate with overall business costs. Charleston Road Registry does not intend but reserves the right to offer introductory discounts and bulk registration discounts to this sole registrant.
18.c.iii
Should ICANN grant Charleston Road Registry's exemption to the Code of Conduct, the proposed gTLD operate with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. As registrations will be granted based on Google business needs and user demand, Charleston Road Registry will charge prices commensurate with overall business costs. Contractual commitments to registrants regarding price escalation are not relevant to Google's mission or goals for the new gTLD at this time, as Google is the sole registrant.×
Is this a Community-based TLD?
Is this a Geographic-based TLD?
Protection of Geographic Names
As is specified throughout this application, Charleston Road Registry (CRR) plans to operate the top-level domain as a closed registry and shall not permit any party to register or operate any second-level domain names within the TLD. In accordance with ICANN's recommendations in the January 11,... Read more
As is specified throughout this application, Charleston Road Registry (CRR) plans to operate the top-level domain as a closed registry and shall not permit any party to register or operate any second-level domain names within the TLD. In accordance with ICANN's recommendations in the January 11, 2012, version of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook, Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement, and in the spirit of sections 2.2 and 2.7 of the GAC Principles Regarding New gTLDs, CRR shall reserve to ourselves the following:
(1) all of the English country and territory names found in ISO 3166-1 and their specified short form abbreviations;
(2) all the of names found in the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, as found in the Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Part III (Names and Countries of the World); and
(3) all of the names of the United Nations member states as prepared by the Working Group on Country Names of the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in the six official languages of the United Nations.
As noted above, the top-level domain shall not permit the public to register domains at the second-level. The registry shall not use or license the use of any full country name in English, or any other reserved language, as a second-level domain except in accordance with Specification 5 of the New gTLD Agreement. With regard to the abbreviated country and territory names found in ISO 3166-1, CRR plans to reserve current and future country abbreviations for use at the second-level. This follows the spirit and function of the procedures that the .info TLD utilized.
As with the .info TLD, CRR shall ensure that all geographic abbreviation identifiers contained within the ISO 3166-1 list will be reserved to us as the registry operator. Unlike the .info TLD, however, the registry shall not make any of these identifiers publicly available for registration. CRR plans to make these these two letter geographic abbreviation identifiers available to Google to provide localized content via second-level domains. Googleʹs Web Search and other services are customized for a number of countries and regions across the world, and these two letter second level domain names would be used to provide a namespace to which that customization could be applied. For example, bw.Google could provide search results that would be most relevant for users in Botswana. It could allow Google to direct users to the site that can give them the most relevant results.
CRR notes that confusion regarding whether the second-level domain is an official conduit of the affected country should be of minimal concern for governments in the context of a closed registry whose TLD is the trademark of a private entity and where all usage of the domain is directly tied to Google's brand and offerings. Unlike .info, there should be a minimal possibility of creating geopolitical conflicts in the top-level domain resulting from confusion associated with national government websites. Further, it is not CRR desire to serve TLDs that compete with national ccTLDs, rather to serve Google's users more localized content in a given region.
Google's core business functions include facilitating searches for Internet content and communications among Internet users. In connection with these functions, CRR intends to fully utilize the abbreviated country code names to harness the TLD to provide localized content, especially to the developing world. Throughout 2011, several chapters of the Internet Society in developing nations have found that despite growing connectivity in their nations, Internet usage and electronic commerce were not thriving due to a lack of localized content. Google's localized sites shall help provide a means of rectifying this situation, ensuring that Internet users in developed and developing nations have access to substantive content that is relevant to their lives.
While the development and deployment of specific localized sites will depend upon global and local demand and the technological integration of new gTLDs into the larger Internet fabric, Google's goal is to continually expand its usage of localized sites in the top-level domain.×
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A Diehard Fanbase of Customers Help Create Sales Champions
Cara Rosner
One of the many lessons 2020 has taught us is that game time just isn’t the same without fans. Sure, the game can still be played, as long as there are skilled teams following solid game plans – but dedicated fans can really put a team over the top, giving it that winning edge.
This is true as true in sales as is it in sports – probably more so. But what’s the best way to develop diehard fans?
Timothy Blank, a vice president at TTEC, recently spoke with Customer Strategist Journal Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Glagowski about the crucial role practice plays in a sales team’s success. Here are some highlights from their discussion.
Value your customers
“Customer loyalty is absolutely critical,” said Blank, referring to both relationship-building and bottom-line benefits. “The proof is in the pudding for why you want to retain loyal customers.”
It typically costs five times as much to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing one, he said, and developing diehard fans can help brands score well into the future. Loyal customers are five times more likely than new ones to repurchase, five times more likely to forgive a bad experience, four times more likely to refer people, and seven times more likely to try a new offering.
True-blue fans can also be a slam dunk when it comes to sales.
“Converting is the ultimate goal,” Blank said, and brands typically have a 60 to 70 percent success rate when selling to existing customers, compared with a 5 to 20 percent success rate when selling to new ones.
It’s much easier, and more efficient, for brands to get to know an existing customer better than it is to learn about a brand-new customer. It makes sound financial sense too: increasing customer retention by 5 percent can increase profits anywhere from 25 to 95 percent, Blank said.
It’s also important to recognize a customer’s lifetime value, or the amount that customer will spend with a company over the duration of the relationship. Brands can boost that value by increasing the amount of the customer’s spend, lengthening the duration of the customer’s relationship with the brand, or both.
Cultivate relationships strategically
No one becomes a diehard fan overnight – or, in the sales world, after just one touchpoint. The key to turning casual buyers into loyal customers is delivering a great customer experience, and a key element on that front is having an omni-channel strategy.
“Customers want to be met where they want to be met, when they want to be met, and in the manner in which they want to be met,” said Blank. That may mean offering them the option of communicating through chat or voice offerings, for instance.
Customers’ expectations are changing; these days, they want the fastest, least expensive, and easiest way to interact with brands complete transactions. But even as the sales cycle gets quicker, it’s important to ensure each interaction with a customer is well thought out and intentional.
“Every interaction with a customer is a selling interaction,” said Blank. “Whether that is a typical sales interaction or even a service interaction, it should be viewed as a selling opportunity as you engage with your customers in varying levels.”
Every effort to attract and retain loyal fans should center around customer experience, he added. Once high-value customers are identified, developing rewards programs that are tailored to their needs – in a way that makes sense for your company – will help clinch the game.
“It’s very much about taking a customer-centered approach,” Blank said.
Watch the full discussion and learn more sales strategies and tactics in the TTEC web series, “The Ultimate Sales Conversion Highlight Reel.”
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Chapter 45: Invocation of the Thundercloud (1)
Translator: Dragon Rider
The Supernaturalism Management Bureau (SMB) and the Counter-demon Committee (CDC) were the two mainstays of exorcism work in this country. Nationwide, with the joint efforts and authority of SMB and CDC, seven level-one office agencies, three level-two office agencies and two special action groups had been set up. The headquarter, known as the Rosefinch Office, was located on the Rosefinch Lane, a branch of the Rosefinch Avenue in the Coastal City.
The Rosefinch Lane was adjacent to the Universal Edifice, a landmark of the Coastal City. People always found it amazing that a bustling metropolitan area and a lane of ancient style coexisted successfully side by side.
He Zheng hung out at the Universal Edifice. The entrance of the Rosefinch Lane was right at the major intersection, which he would occasionally drive by, but it had never crossed his mind that the headquarter of SMB was on the Rosefince Avenue.
As usual, Li Zong parked his car in the parking lot. It was rush hour. Many people were hastily driving here to park their vehicles before going to the workplace. There were already a lot of cars parked in the parking lot. When Li Zong got out of his Hummer, a white Mercedes S-Class drove to the parking space beside him and stopped steadily.
A man around thirty-five or so, wearing a neat suit and shiny leather shoes, got out of the car.
"Good morning, Li Zong." The man nodded at Li Zong and greeted him.
This was the first time that He Zheng had heard people other than Li Tiangang call Li Zong by his full name. Li Zong also waved a friendly greeting.
"Would you care to go inside together with me?"
Li Zong declined the invitation of Zhang Jingqiu and knocked at the window. He Zheng opened the car door and got out.
Zhang Jingqiu flicked a somewhat surprised glance at He Zheng who had just got out of Li Zong's vehicle. The look in his eyes deepened briefly, but soon he came to understand. It was said that Li Zong had married the eldest son of He family, and now Li Zong brought a man to SMB, so it must be him.
With that, some information about He Zheng occurred to Zhang Jingqiu. A man who had always had an inclination to ignore those with little strength, he nodded at Li Zong without giving He Zheng any gestures of acknowledgement, saying, "Then I'll go inside first. By the way, remember to go through the necessary formalities if you're taking any family members into the workplace."
After saying this, Zhang Jingqiu walked away.
He Zheng, who had been disregarded, knitted his eyebrows in displeasure.
"He's Zhang Jingqiu, group leader of the second action group. He learned his skills in the Tigers and Dragons Mountain, a master of both Fu-craft and swordcraft."
He Zheng, who was very familiar with the name "the Tigers and Dragons Mountain", briefly grinded his teeth. "Oh, it turns out that he's from the Tigers and Dragons Mountain."
He Yu was an inner disciple of the Tigers and Dragons Mountain, and He Qin an outer one. The Tigers and Dragons Mountain had always been in contact with He family. Given that He Yu had spent so many years training in the Tigers and Dragons Mountain, He Zheng found it unsurprising that her sect-brother had treated him this way.
Li Zong, before taking He Zheng inside, informed him, "Follow me."
Li Zong led him to the entrance of the Rosefinch Lane, where there was a vendor selling baked sweet potatoes. Since they had left home very early in the morning, Li Zong hadn't had the time to buy breakfast. He bought two baked sweet potatoes from the vendor's stand and gave them both to He Zheng.
He Zheng, as if still sleepy, took them. The sweet potatoes were giving off an appetizing smell and he was hungry. Childe He was never a man who would do himself a disservice. Before Li Zong could say anything, he lowered his head, opened a fully-baked sweet potato with one hand, holding the sleeve of Li Zong with the other, and ate only the innermost part of it, which was also the sweetest.
Li Zong took him into the alley, which looked very much the same as common alleys. He Zheng flicked a curious glance at the alley when entering it, but soon all his attention was concentrated upon the sweet potatoes.
When he raised his head again, he found himself in a totally different place. How far they had walked was unknown, but they had arrived at the end of the lane, where there was an ancient-looking residence with a courtyard. The pitch-black front gate, which had two lion-shaped solid brass lock catches, was tightly closed.
Li Zong pulled up the little knocker ring in the mouth of the lion-shaped lock catch on the right, gave a couple of knocks and with that the pitch-black front gate slowly opened in front of them.
There was another gate inside, which was wide open. On the right side of it hung a plaque engraved with the name "the Rosefinch Lane Office".
There was a crouching child eating fish at the gateway.
On seeing Li Zong walk inside, the good-looking child, who had a pair of yin-yang pupils (In Chinese philosophy and medicine, yin and yang are the two opposing principles in nature, the former feminine and negative, the latter masculine and positive.), quickly raised his head and called, "Chief!"
Li Zong uttered "Um" as a response of acknowledgement.
Then the child quickly looked at He Zheng standing beside Li Zong. For some reason, he seemed to be very hostile towards He Zheng. As if faced with a dangerous enemy, he instantly covered his fish, opening his mouth and showing his teeth.
He Zheng wondered whether he had offended this child sometime in the past. When his gaze rested on the eyes of the child, the white cat with yin-yang pupils brought home by Li Zong sprang to mind.
'Was that cat by any chance this kid?'
He Zheng was secretly astonished. This was SMB, and it wasn't really surprising that one or two staff members of this organization were Yōkai in human form.
Li Zong said to the child, "Tun Shanhai, go and get Zu Zhichong."
"He's still playing video games in the dorm!" Tun Shanhai, who never got along with Zu Zhichong, immediately grasped this opportunity to tell on him.
Li Zong gave a bod of his head and led He Zheng inside. The layout of the headquarter of SMB bore little resemblance to that of the area near the entrance. All buildings inside were of the baroque style. The combination of curves and arcs imbued the whole headquarter with sentiments of romance. Large areas of exuberant trees could be seen everywhere. On their way inside, they had walked past two fountains opposite each other. In each fountain there was a statue of Cupid. Of different poses, the two Cupid statues were giving off golden light. Golden bees were flying around the pools, making a beautiful scene.
What instantly drew He Zheng's attention was a huge office building ahead of him with over ten stories, which was enwrapped in a gigantic, transparent protective shield. It looked very much the same as a common office building, only that it was considerably prettier.
The reason why it had attracted He Zheng's attention was that it was the only building in this area.
"That is the United Front Work Department of SMB. Offices of all operation teams are also there," Li Zong informed He Zheng in a bland tone of voice, "but we're going to the dormitory first."
"There are dormitories here? It sounds pretty considerate." After taking a few bites of each of the baked sweet potatoes eating only the innermost parts of them, He Zheng, who couldn't find anywhere to put the remaining potatoes, stuffed them back into Li Zong's hands.
Then he asked, "Do you have a room here as well?"
Li Zong nodded. "I live here most of the time."
Without thinking, He Zheng observed, "I don't know why you bother shuttling between two places."
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During her press conference Friday afternoon, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced state health officials are recommending school districts return to in-person learning by March 1 or sooner.
Vaccinations for teachers and other school staff will begin by January 11, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.
“MDHHS will continue to do what it takes to save lives and limit the spread of COVID-19,” said Director Robert Gordon. “At the same time, in-person instruction is critical for the current and the future well-being of children, especially young learners and students who are disadvantaged. We encourage schools to reopen as soon as they can do so with proven protections for staff and students.”
“The value of in-person learning for our kids is immeasurable, and we must do everything we can to help them get a great education safely,” said Gov. Whitmer. “
Guidance is for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 and includes early childhood education, such as Head Start and Great Start Readiness Program.
The guidance outlines infection control measures that have worked in schools during the pandemic.
Wearing masks is especially important for controlling COVID-19 transmission and masks should be worn inside schools by all staff and students, except during meals and in other limited circumstances.
Other infection control measures in the new MDHHS guidance include:
When feasible, assigning children to cohort groups and limiting their interactions to their cohorts to reduce the number of contacts.
Keeping children 6 feet apart from one another to the extent feasible, making creative use of school spaces to facilitate distancing.
Providing adequate hand sanitizing supplies and reinforcing proper handwashing techniques.
Improving air ventilation.
Having staff and students conduct self-screenings for symptoms at home every day before going to school.
Ensuring school plans are in place in coordination with their local health department if there are any positive COVID-19 tests.
Having staff and students who either test positive or are close contacts of those who test positive follow the guidance issued by MDHHS as well as local health departments. Anyone who is considered a close contact of someone who tests positive but does not have symptoms should quarantine for 10 days under CDC guidance.
More information on the Michigan Guidelines for Operating Schools Safety
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Banjo!--one's mental and aural images might include straw-hatted gents picking away at an attraction at Disney World, Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole strolling in Cat Ballou, (Columbia Pictures, 1965) “The Beverly Hillbillies Theme," or perhaps the iconic “duel" from Deliverance (Warner Bros., 1972) There's probably no other musical instrument on the planet that's more associated with novelty, Americana and all-around Good Times.Joyride from celebrated jazz banjoist and vocalist, Cynthia Sayer, lives up to its title. And, while ...
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While many people who are into jazz are always looking for the next newest thing (perhaps you), there are also people (perhaps you) who listen to jazz of the past and get transported to that place and time, or at least what is thought of as how things were then. In other words, the music, which was a part of the culture of ...
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Time was when every self-respecting jazz band had a banjoist. The legendary Johnny St. Cyr did duty in both Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and he was just the preeminent member of a hearty and considerable band. Listen to the banjo breaks on those great early sides, and you get a glimpse into the folk roots of this music--its common roots with modern folk and rock. But on the jazz side of the street, ...
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Taking up the instrument at the age of 13, Cynthia Sayer is now a top jazz banjo player in jazz rivalling Bela Fleck. Combining her banjo with a straight forward and sometimes rough and ready singing style, Sayer has parlayed this favorable marriage of skills into a very successful career, having performed with many top flight jazz artists, appearing live at many venues - - including the White House - - and working on the sound tracks of films like ...
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Welcome to our class of stars. We will not take the time to talk about real-life stars - objects from a physical perspective in this classroom. When matter corresponds to reality, we will not discuss reality. The stars in the tarot are completely symbolic and appear only in the night sky of imagination. In fact, only in the imagination of the people who create the mysterious symbols do these stars exist.
Everything you pay attention to in the physical world has a reflection of yourself somewhere in the landscape within us. And that is the way the physical universe becomes a guide.
Notice what they look like and find out what they mean to us personally.
Let’s contemplate!
Take a moment to turn off all artificial lighting in your surroundings, and eliminate as much unnecessary noise as possible. Find a comfortable position, which you can maintain without restlessness for five minutes. Close your eyes. Breathe and relax.
Immerse yourself in the dark and let your thoughts melt into it.
Let your emotions drift into darkness. Forget the importance of physical sensations, and let every desire out of your head. Wrap yourself in the tranquil, quiet darkness, and drift in it. The darkness becomes your night sky, clear as cloudless as the moon. A star appeared. Pay attention to it. You notice there are more stars now in the sky. Pay attention to them.
Ask yourself three questions:
What are these stars?
How do I feel about them?
Do they make sense to me?
Time to return. The stars fade from view, and only the darkness of the darkness inside you is left. Rest in peace for a while. Pay attention to your surroundings. Swing your fingers and feet a little. Take a deep breath, and when you feel ready, open your eyes. Welcome back. It takes a bit of time for the light to return to your surroundings.
In a few minutes write down the answers to the questions you have asked yourself. When writing an meditation, the best method is to write continuously without stopping to edit until you feel you've already finished. Try that now.
General explanation about the star symbol.
As we said earlier, there are physical stars, real stars, real stars. As you've just discovered, there are stars in personal consciousness. Now we will talk about the stars as icons. The nature of the star symbol can be described in three words - out of reach, innumerable, and full of mysteries.
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When we look at stars from a natural distance, stars are of natural symbolic importance; we tend to associate them with light, both divine and ordinary light. They are the light of heaven. In some cultures, every star is an angel, and every human being has one of those angels as a guide and protector.
Because human ambitions seem to be infinite, and stars are completely out of our reach, they become the targets of the farthest ambition of theoretical and practical science. 'Reaching for the stars' describes the greatest human aspirations. Intense aspiration always comes up when a star appears as a symbol. It is the nature of all wishes that cannot seem to be reached.
The importance of a star symbol depends on its shape. In the esoteric universe, which consists of tarot, the star bears a geometric shape, a regular arrangement of points or rays around a center.
Meaning pentagram symbol in the witchcraft world
The pentacle, or pentagram, is the most widely known star shape. You will see it most clearly in Ace of Pentacles and find it in all the cards in the Pentacles.
It appears on the flags of countries around the world. But more importantly for our purposes, it is a common symbol of magic. In the spiritual tradition, it can represent everything from angels to demons, and it plays an important role in the internal symbols of secret societies such as Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Golden Dawn.
In these societies, as well as in alchemy and Qabalah, the pentagram is the symbol of the microscopic world, the world below in the mysterious saying. It is a symbol of the Renaissance concept "man is the measure of all things", and that may well be the absolute basis of Western mysticism.
As with so many symbols in the wizarding world, the star deserves more research and contemplation than we can talk about here. Such research will create a worthy journey, and over time, it can also be your own inner journey. If you pay special attention to icons in particular and the wizarding world in general, follow WitchCraft 101 now so you don't miss any interesting information!
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Given that a lottery has 10 million potential combinations, what are the odds that someone will win with 90% confidence given that 10 million tickets are sold. Clearly it would not be 100% since some tickets would be duplicates. I am less interested in the answer than in the methodology used to solve it.
Scott from New York, New York
Lets try to rephrase the question. Assuming the lottery has 10 million combinations, and all players choose their numbers randomly (allowing for duplicates), how many tickets would the lottery need to sell so that the probability of at least one person winning is 90%? Lets let p be the probability of winning and n be the number of tickets sold. The probability of 1 person losing is 1-p. The probability of all n people losing is (1-p)n. The probability of at least one winner is 1 - (1-p)n. So we need to set this equal to .9 and solve for n.
.9 = 1 - (1-p)n
.1 = (1-p)n
ln(.1) = ln((1-p)n)
ln(.1) = n*ln(1-p)
n = ln(.1)/ln(1-p)
n = ln(.1)/ln(.9999999)
n = 23,025,850.
So, the lottery would need to sell 23,025,850 tickets for the probability of at least one winner to be 90%. In case you were wondering, if the lottery sold exactly ten million tickets the probability of at least one winner would be 63.2%, which is very closely approximated as 1-(1/e).
This is my second question to you, this time the subject is state lotteries. I'm sure you've heard of a group of "investors" which used to wait for a jackpot to reach a certain level, at which point they would purchase tickets with every combination of numbers possible. This would assure them a share of the prize. Assuming the cost of a ticket is $1, how high must the jackpot get for this to be a profitable venture?
A factor in the answer is the total number of tickets sold to other players. In the event more than one player hits the jackpot it will have to be shared. Let's call the number of possible combinations n, the total number of other tickets sold t, the rate of return on the small prizes r (in the case of the Big Game r=0.179612), and j be the jackpot size. For this to be a break-even venture j*n/(n+t) + r*n - n=0. This works out to j=(1-r)*(n+t).
I have been playing lotteries and sweepstakes now for two months straight. Will I ever hit a jackpot? And when?
Mavis from Mattapan, U.S.
The short answer is no, you will never win. The odds of winning the usual 6/49 lottery are 1 in 13,983,816. You would have to play the game ln(.5)/ln(1-1/combin(49,6)) = 9,692,842 times to have a 50/50 chance of winning at least once. Assuming you bought 100 lottery tickets a day, it would take 265.6 years to have a 50% chance of winning. To have a 90% chance of winning, it would take 882.2 years.
I have noticed something over the years watching our Quinto lottery drawing here in Washington State. It is a 52 ’card’ game that draws 5. I have noticed that the vast majority of the time, three suits are drawn. From poker numbers you find that the chance of getting just one suit (a flush) is 5148 out of about 2.6 million. What are the odds of 2,3, or all 4 suits coming up?
Kevin from Tacoma, Washington
Let’s define f(x,y) as the probability of getting x of one suit and y of another. This function is not limited to two terms.
With two arguments f(x,y)= combin(13,x)*combin(13,y)*12/combin(52,5).
With three arguments f(x,y,z)= combin(13,x)*combin(13,y)*combin(13,z)*12/combin(52,5).
With four arguments f(w,x,y,z)=combin(13,w)*combin(13,x)*combin(13,y)*combin(13,z)*4/combin(52,5).
The probability of all four suits is COMBIN(13,1)3*COMBIN(13,2)*4/combin(52,5) = 26.37%.
The probability of three suits is COMBIN(13,3)*COMBIN(13,1)2*12 + COMBIN(13,1)*COMBIN(13,2)^2*12/combin(52,5) = 58.84%
The probability of two suits is COMBIN(13,3)*COMBIN(13,2)*12 + COMBIN(13,4)*COMBIN(13,1)*12/combin(52,5) = 14.59%
The probability of one suit (including straight and royal flushes ) is 4*combin(13,5)/combin(52,5) = 0.20%.
So three suits are the most frequent outcome.
In your lottery probability chart for the MD lotto game you make no allowance for the probability of a split jackpot. What effect does this possibility have on expected value?
Bob from Falls Church, Virginia
No, I didn’t account for splitting the jackpot. That definitely does depress the value, the more people that play the more it reduces the expected return. I didn’t have enough information about number of players when I wrote that article to properly factor that in.
I am a student from a very poor home please I will like you to help me with the week draws thanks...
Frank from Benin City, Nigeria
I take it you mean you want lottery numbers. Sorry but I can’t do any better than you can. However I would recommend you not play at all, especially if you are very poor. There seem to be a lot of former generals and dictators over there trying to wire me 17 million dollars, maybe one of them will give you a scholarship.
Dear wiz: The horserace track that I attend is introducing video lottery machines. Can you tell me anything about them? Are they the same as slots? Any info you can give would be helpful and appreciated.
Mike S.
Another Mike S., what are the odds? Lots of racetracks permit what is called "class 2" gaming, which must be lottery or bingo based. The way to offer slots under this rule is to have a lottery or bingo game going on behind the scenes and the outcome is displayed in the form of a slot machine win. For example if the lottery game determines that you win 20 times your bet it will display whatever slot machine symbols pay 20. So it is a clever illusion.
If I buy two quick-pick lottery tickets what is the probability I get the same number on both cards. Assume a 6/49 lottery.
"Anonymous" .
The probability of winning correctly picking 6 numbers out of 49 is 1 in combin(49,6) = 1 in 13,983,816. This is also the probability of your two tickets matching.
I'm assuming you're aware, but if not, in the Italian lottery, there is a twice-weekly drawing of 50 out of number 1 through 90 (five numbers from each of 10 cities). For roughly 2 years, the number 53 has not shown up, leading up to a "number 53 frenzy", to the point where people have committed suicide after betting everything they have on what they were sure would be a corrective! So I got to thinking - what are the probabilities that the 53 would not come up for two years? (link for more information)
Andrew from Hollywood
I did some research and six numbers are chosen each drawing. In any given drawing the probability of the number 53 not making an appearance is combin(89,6)/combin(90,6) = 93.333%. In two years there would be 208 drawings. So the probability of 53 not occurring in a specific two year period would be 0.93333208 = 0.000000585665, or 1 in 1,707,460.
Concerning your answer about the Italian lottery (see Sep 11, 2005 column), you showed that the probability of 53 not being picked in two years is 1 in 1,707,460. You should have followed up with the probability that any one (or more) of the 90 numbers would be missed during the same two-year period; I think that’s what the person asking really wanted to know. Also, you could have explained (once again) why 53 is no more likely to be picked in the next lottery than any other number, despite the unlikely past situation.
The probability that any number would not be hit in a two-year period could be closely approximated as 90*(1/ 1,707,460) = 1 in 18,972. The actual probability would be slightly less than that because I double counted two numbers being missed, which is very negligible. Of course the past down not matter in the lottery and every drawing has the same probability of picking the 53.
They say the probability of winning the Powerball lottery is 1 in 146,107,962. In the recent drawing for a $340 million jackpot the local media said the number of tickets sold was 105,000,000. My questions are if you win what is the probability you will have to share the jackpot, and how much does this reduce the expected value?
Mitch F. from Hopkins, MN
First let’s confirm that probability. The player must match 5 regular numbers from a pool of 55, and one Power Ball from a pool of 42. The probability of winning would be 1 in combin(55,5)*42 = 1 in 146,107,962. So I agree with your probability. I like to use the Poisson distribution for questions such as yours. The mean number of winnings would be 105,000,000/146,107,962 = 0.71865. The general formula for the probability of n winners, with a mean of m, is e-m*mn/n!. In this case the mean is 0.71865 so the probability of zero is e-0.71865*0.718650/0! = 0.48741. So the probability of at least one winner is 1-0.48741 = 0.51259. So 0.71865 winners will have to 0.51259 of a jackpot to split up. That is 0.51259/0.71865 = 0.71327 jackpots per winner. So jackpot sharing reduces your expected win to 71.327% of the jackpot amount, or a reduction of 28.673%.
Powerplay multiplies non-grand prizes from 2x - 5x. The Powerball site has listed testimonials from it’s winner’s that say "powerplay is the only way to go". I’m thinking it’s a sucker’s bet.
John from Morrisville, NC
The lottery is always a sucker bet! Briefly, the return of the Powerplay option is 49.28%. The return from a Powerball ticket alone is so much worse that it would be better to buy x/2 tickets with the Powerplay option than x without it. I added details about this option to my lottery section if you want more information.
Wizard, could you please describe the equivalent odds of the California SuperLotto Plus (1 in 41.4 Million), in terms of number of consecutive times of rolling 7 or 11? I heard it somewhere before. Most people cannot comprehend the lottery odds. But, the rolling of dice -- they can relate.
Tim from Belmont, CA
Let n be your answer. The probability of rolling a 7 or 11 is 8/36. To solve for n:
(8/36)n = 1/41,400,000
log((8/36)n) = log(1/41,400,000)
n × log(8/36) = log(1/41,400,000)
n = log(1/41,400,000)/log(8/36)
n = -7.617 / -0.65321
n = 11.6608
So there you go, the probability of hitting the SuperLotto is the same as rolling a seven or eleven 11.66 times in a row. For those who can’t comprehend a partial throw I would rephrase as the probability falls between 11 and 12 consecutive rolls.
My wife and I bought a $20 raffle ticket for the Indiana lottery. My understanding of this game is that the drawing for the winning prizes (which number 777) will be held on August 16, 2007, regardless of the number of actual tickets sold and with the absolute maximum available number of tickets being 325,000. As of today, only 60,000 tickets have been sold. Would it be a good gamble to buy a few additional tickets? What would our odds of winning a prize be?
David B. from Evansville, IN
According to the Indiana Lottery web site, there is a total of $3,270,000 in prize money given to 325,000 ticket holders. That would make each ticket worth $10.615 each on average, assuming the series sold out. At a cost of $20 each, the return is 50.31%. If only 60,000 tickets were sold then each would be worth $54.50, for a return of 272.50%. The breakeven point is 163,500 tickets sold. If you believe that fewer than that will be sold, then buying tickets becomes a good bet, putting aside tax and the utility of money implications.
Is it true that state lottery jackpot annuities cease to pay if you die before the annuity runs its term? I heard this was true of New York. This seems outrageous to me.
Alex from Montreal
I checked the New York and California lottery web sites. Both indicated that if the winner dies before all the payments are made, the rest will be paid to the winner's designated heir or estate.
I heard that the same numbers were chosen in the German 6/49 lottery on different days. Something seems fishy with that. What are the odds?
Lotte from Hamburg
That is true, but it is not as fishy as you think. According to Understanding Probability: Chance Rules in Everyday Life by H. C. Tijms, the same set of numbers were drawn on June 21, 1995, and December 20, 1986, in bi-weekly drawings. The drawing of December 20, 1986 was the 3,016th drawing. The number of combinations in a 6/49 lottery is combin(49,6) = 13,983,816. The probability the numbers in the second drawing will not match those of the first is (c-1)/c, where c is the number of combinations, or 13,983,816. The probability the third drawing will produce a unique set of numbers is (c-2)/c. So, the probability that every drawing from the 2nd to the 3,016th will produce unique numbers is (c-1)/c × (c-2)/c × ... (c-3015)/c = 0.722413. So, the probability of at least one set of common numbers is 1- 0.722413 = 0.277587, or 27.8%. The following table shows the probability of at least one pair of matching numbers drawn by the number of years, assuming two draws per week.
Probability of MatchingNumbers in 6/49 Lottery
Years Probability
5 0.009640
10 0.038115
100 0.971954
In case you were wondering, the number of draws for the probability of a matching draw to first exceed 50% is 4,404.
What are the odds of the Proline parlay bets offered by the Nova Scotia lottery?
For the benefit of other readers, the Nova Scotia sports lottery is like off the board parlays at a Nevada casino, with worse odds. For the random picker to get the expected return for a given pick, take the sum of the inverse of what each outcome pays. Then, take the inverse of that sum.
For example, on the Monday Night football game of November 9, 2009 they have the following choices:
Steelers win by 3.5 or more: pays 1.9 for 1
Broncos win by 3.5 or more: pays 3.25 for 1
Margin of victory 3 or less: 3.65 for 1
The sum of the inverses is (1/1.9)+(1/3.25)+(1/3.65) = 1.107981. The inverse of that number is 1/1.107981=0.902543. So, the expected return is 90.25. For a parlay, take the product of the return of all picks made.
I looked at several events, and the return per event ranged from 75.4% to 90.3% (from the above example). The average was 82.6%. Based on that average, here is the expected return according to the number of picks:
2: 68.2%
Do you think the probability of a split jackpot should be factored into the calculation of the expected value of lottery tickets? If so, what is that probability?
rdw4potus
I do indeed think that is a factor that should be considered, albeit a somewhat minor one, in the decision to purchase a lottery ticket. To answer your question, I used the jackpot amount and sales figures found at lottoreport.com. I looked at the Powerball going back to Jan. 2008, because that is as far back as that website has data. I also looked at Mega Millions going back to June 2005, a point at which there was a change in the rules. The following table summarizes my results.
Split Jackpots in Powerball and Mega Millions
Item Powerball Mega Millions
Probability of winning jackpot 1 in 195,249,054 1 in 175,711,536
Average jackpot offered $73,569,853 $65,792,976
Average sales per draw $23,051,548 $25,933,833
Average expected winners per draw 0.118 0.148
Average probability of a split jackpot per draw 0.74% 1.29%
Loss in return due to shared jackpots (unadjusted) 4.01% 6.59%
Loss in return due to shared jackpots (adjusted) 1.41% 2.31%
So the average probability that a jackpot will be split is 0.74% in Powerball and 1.29% in Mega Millions. As the jackpot gets higher, and sales go up, so does the probability of splitting the jackpot. The reason the split jackpot probability is higher in Mega Millions is because the probability of winning is greater and there is more competition from other players.
All things considered, I show 4.01% is lost in return due to jackpot sharing in Powerball and 6.59% is lost in Mega Millions. However, those figures don’t account for taxes, or that jackpots are paid in the form of an annuity. To adjust for that, I assumed the player gets only half of it, either by taking the lump sum option or the loss in value from choosing the annuity. I also assumed that 30% of the rest is lost in taxes, so the winner can expect to receive 35% after both factors. After that adjustment, I show a 1.20% loss in return due to jackpot sharing in the Powerball and 1.98% in Mega Millions.
This question was raised and discussed in the forum of my companion site Wizard of Vegas.
I heard there is a lottery game in Massachusetts that is vulnerable to advantage play. Do you know anything about it?
You must be referring to the Ca$h WinFall game. I first learned about this from the article A game with a windfall for a knowing few at the boston.com web site.
It is not unusual for the jackpot in progressive lottery games to get so big that the return exceeds over 100%, before considering taxes, annuitized payments, the small odds of winning, and the decreasing utility of money for enormous jackpots. After factoring in these things, the lottery is almost never a good bet.
What makes the Ca$h WinFall game different is that when the jackpot exceeds two million dollars, and nobody hits it, they roll all but $500,000 of the prize money down to the lower prizes. That makes a hefty profit almost ensured for groups with six-figure bankrolls.
Let's take a look at the recent July 18, 2011 drawing as an example. It is a simple 6-46 game in which the player chooses six numbers from 1 to 46 and the lottery does the same. The more your numbers match the lottery's, the more you win. The following table shows the probability and return for each event. The win for catching two numbers is a free ticket, which I show separately as having a value of 26¢. Each ticket costs $2, so the return column is product of the probability and win, divided by ticket price. The lower right cell shows an expected return of 117%, or a player advantage of 17%.
Ca$h WinFall Drawing — July 18, 2011
6 2392699.1 1 0.00000011 0.12772207
5 19507 240 0.00002562 0.24990768
4 802 11700 0.00124909 0.50088509
3 26 197600 0.02109574 0.27424465
2 0.24 1370850 0.14635171 0.01756221
1 0 3948048 0.42149293 0.00000000
Total 9366819 1.00000000 1.17032170
Since I initially wrote my answer, the Massachusetts Lottery has restricted the number of tickets any one store can sell in a day to 2,500, or $5,000 worth, according to the article, Lottery restricts high-level players at boston.com. This would obviously make it more difficult to get down huge amounts of money, but it may be good for smaller-bankrolled players, as it should minimize competition from other players. There is only so much money in the "roll down," so the less competition for it the better. I would certainly at least try to play it if I lived anywhere close to Massachusetts.
What is your opinion of the lawsuit against the Quebec Lottery over allegedly non-random tickets?
For those not familiar with the story, the Quebec Lottery offers a game titled Extra. The machine randomly picks a 7-digit number, and the player has to match as many digits as possible, in order, from a random draw. The matching digits can be aligned in either direction. The smallest prize is $2 for matching the right-most digit only. The largest prize is $1,000,000 for matching all seven digits.
What the plaintiffs in the lawsuit noticed was that if you purchased ten Extras then for the first and last digits the game picked one of each numeral. In other words, if you looked at the first, or last, position only then you would see all ten numbers from 0 to 9. The plaintiffs claim this gives them only two chances to win and is non-random.
I see their point. Almost all the variance in that game comes from the $1,000,000 jackpot. The standard deviation of ten completely independent random tickets would be 1002.845. The way the Quebec Lottery does it the standard deviation of ten tickets purchased at the same time is almost the same at 1002.833.
In my opinion if the player buys multiple quick pick lottery tickets each ticket should be independent of the others. However, I find the lawsuit of $20 million almost totally frivolous. If I were the judge, I would award the plaintiffs $1.
What are the most common sets of numbers players pick for lottery tickets?
The following table shows the three most frequent set of numbers chosen according to the Quebec Lottery. The number of tickets is out of a total of 366,518 sold for the Jan. 30, 2010 lottery. For those who don't recognize the pattern of the third set, those were the "Lost" numbers, which played a significant role on that show.
Quebec Lottery Most Frequent Picks
Number of Sales in Quebec
7-14-21-28-35-42 824 1 in 444.8
1-2-3-4-5-6 424 1 in 864.4
4-8-15-16-23-43 377 1 in 972.2
By extrapolating, if the numbers 7-14-21-28-35-42 were drawn by the Lotto 6/49 game then the jackpot would be split among thousands of players, each receiving only 0.03% of the jackpot.
My advice, if you must play the lottery, is to go with a Quick Pick.
Do you agree with the article titled Math Says You Should Buy A Mega Millions Ticket Right Now at Business Insider?
Asswhoopermcdaddy
No, I don't agree with it. That is a terrible piece of journalism and Business Insider should be embarrassed by it.
To begin, the article was published on Dec. 17, 2013, before the $636 million drawing that evening. Let's look at the math to evaluate the value of a $1 ticket. The following table shows the probability and expected return of all possible outcomes for the $636 million jackpot, before considering such things as the lump sum penalty, taxes, and jackpot sharing. The top three probabilities are in scientific notation because the numbers are so small.
Mega Millions -- $636 Million Jackpot
5 Yes $636,000,000 1 3.86E-09 2.456634
5 No $1,000,000 14 5.41E-08 0.054077
4 Yes $5,000 350 1.35E-06 0.006760
4 No $500 4,900 0.000019 0.009463
3 Yes $50 24,150 0.000093 0.004664
3 No $5 338,100 0.001306 0.006530
2 Yes $5 547,400 0.002114 0.010572
1 Yes $2 4,584,475 0.017708 0.035416
0 Yes $1 12,103,014 0.046749 0.046749
Loser $0 241,288,446 0.932008 0.000000
Total 258,890,850 1.000000 2.630865
That shows a $1 ticket will get back $2.630864. After deducting the dollar the ticket cost, the expected profit is $1.630864. Business Insider gets $1.632029. A difference of 0.001164, but no big deal.
However, there are three things that depress the value significantly:
The lump sum penalty.
Taxes.
Jackpot sharing.
Let's look at them one at a time.
Large lottery progressive jackpots are usually paid out in the form of an annuity of about 30 years, including Mega Millions. If the winner wants the money all at once, which most do, he must take a significant reduction. This is only fair because a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future. In the case of the December 17, 2013 drawing, the total prize money was reduced to $347.6 million, or 54.65% of the advertised jackpot.
Next, let's look at taxes. The highest federal marginal income tax rate is 39.6%. State taxes range from 0% to 12.3%, so let's just say 6% on average. After taking out 45.6% in taxes, we're left with $189.1 million.
Now comes the trickiest part -- jackpot sharing. It should be noted that starting with the October 22, 2013 drawing Mega Millions changed the rules to a 75-15 format, where they draw five numbers from 1 to 75, and then one from a separate pool of 1 to 15. This reduced the odds of winning to 1 in 258,890,850, evidently in an effort to have bigger jackpots. Looking at just the 17 drawings since then, using jackpot and sales data from LottoReport.com, I find there is an exponential relationship between jackpot size and demand. I found the same thing for the Powerball lottery, by the way. Using exponential regression, my formula for total tickets sold (in millions) is 12.422 × exp(0.0052 × j), where j is the jackpot size (in millions). For example, for a $636 million jackpot, the expected sales would be 12.422 * exp(0.0052*636) = 339.2 (million). Actual sales were $337 million, so pretty close.
Based on the actual ticket sales of 336,545,306, we can expect 336,545,306/258,890,850 = 1.300 winners. The pertinent question is if you win how many other people can you expect to share the money with? This is easily answered looking at the Poisson distribution. Given a mean of 1.3 winners, the probability of exactly x winners is exp(1.3)×1.3x/fact(x). The following table shows the probability of 0 to 10 other winners, your share of the jackpot in each case, and expected share, assuming that you win.
Expected Jackpot Share Given 1.3 Other Winners on Average
Other winners
Jackpot share
Expected share
10 0.000001 0.090909 0.000000
9 0.000008 0.100000 0.000001
Total 1.000000 0.559602
The bottom right cell shows that you can expect to keep 55.96% of the money, and the other 44.04% will go to those darned other winners you'll have to share with.
Now our $636 million jackpot is down to $189.1 × 55.96% = $105.8 million. Let's see what the return table looks like with that figure as the jackpot.
Mega Millions -- $105.8 Million Jackpot
The bottom right cell shows that an expected return of 58.29%. In other words your $1 investment can expect to get back about 58 cents, for an expected loss, or house edge, of about 42%. Does that sound like the math saying you should buy a ticket?
According to the article, "So, as long as there are fewer than 730 million tickets sold, a fairly likely situation right now, the expected value of a ticket should be positive, and so you should consider buying a Mega Millions ticket today."
There were a lot fewer than 730 million in sales and it still was a terrible value. However, in all fairness, the article went on to say the following:
"Bear in mind that there are many caveats to this analysis. Taxes will likely hurt your expected winnings pretty severely — the Feds will take about 40%, and your home state will claim anywhere from 0% to around 13%.
A lot of people have been buying tickets, and as discussed above, this will greatly increase the odds of a tie, and the reduced payout that goes with it." — Business Insider
Those are some pretty big caveats! They shouldn't just be mentioned in passing at the bottom but factored into the analysis to begin with.
Not that you asked, but I find the math says you should never play Mega Millions. Given the exponential demand for tickets, based on jackpot size, I find the optimal time to play is a jackpot of $545 million. With jackpots larger than that you'll have to share it with too many other winners. At that jackpot size, the player can expect a return of 60.2%, or a loss of 39.8%. That is as good as it gets.
In closing, no, I do not agree with Business Insider for tricking readers with a sensational title and not doing a proper analysis of taxes and jackpot sharing.
This question is asked and discussed in my forum at Wizard of Vegas.
Is the "Jackpot Only" option in the Mega Millions lottery a good value?
If we ignore the effects of taxes, the annuity on the jackpot, and jackpot sharing, then if the jackpot is greater than $224,191,728 you should invoke the "Jackpot Only" option. If we do consider those factors, then you should never invoke but the Megaplier instead.
For more information, please see my page on the Mega Millions lottery.
Wiz, I know you're a wet blanket when it comes to the lottery, but can you suggest an easier way to turn $2 into a $1,000,000?
Yes. The house advantage in most lotto-based lottery games is close to 50%. So, a hypothetical $2 game with a $1,000,000 jackpot, with no smaller prizes, would need to have a probability of winning of 0.5*(2/1000000) = 1 in one million to retain a 50% house edge.
Here is my strategy to turn $2 into $1,000,000 with better odds than that.
First bet $2 on any number in double-zero roulette. You can find $2 minimums at some Vegas casinos, like the El Cortez and South Point. If you win, you'll be up to $72.
Next, parlay your $72 onto another single-number bet. If you win, you'll be at $2,592.
Next, carry that $2,592 into one of the high-end casinos on the Strip, like the Wynn, Venetian, or Bellagio. Bet your $2,592 from roulette on the Banker bet in baccarat. Do this a total of nine times, letting everything ride each time. After your ninth win, you'll be up to $1,056,687. Your ninth bet would be for $541,891, which I'm sure any of these casinos would take if they saw you win it in front of their noses.
The probability of winning a single-number bet in double-zero roulette is 1/38. The probability of winning the Banker bet in baccarat is 50.6825%, not counting ties. So, the probability of two roulette wins and nine Banker wins is (1/38)^2 × 0.506825^9 = 1 in 654,404. Those are better odds than the 1 in a million you would get with a lottery and you'll have a little more than a million dollars too.
In the California Lottery there is a game called Hot Spot. It involves a randomly selected "Bulls Eye" ball drawn randomly from 1 to 80. There are 300 games per day. What are the chances that in five days the same Hot Spot number is drawn at the same daily game number in 3 out of the 5 days? For example, the number 23 being drawn in game number 134 (what is Biblical about that number?) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Centerflder
First, let's solve for the probability that any given game number has exactly 3 out of 5 days with the same number. That answer is COMBIN(5,3)*(1/80)^2*(79/80)^2 = 0.001523682. This is the number of ways to choose the 3 matching days out of 5 times the probability the second and third day match the first times the probability the other two days don't.
So, the probability there is not a 3 out of 5 day match for any given game number is 1 - 0.001523682 = 0.9984763.
The probability this does not happen for 300 days is 0.9984763300 = 63.29%.
Thus, the probability of the alternative, that there is at least one drawing number with 3 out of 5 days matching the same Bulls Eye number is 36.71%.
Regarding the Lottery, os there a jackpot size "tipping point" in multi-state lotteries (Powerball, Mega Millions) where it is more likely that the big prize will be split than there will be a single winner? If so, what is that amount?
Ayecarumba from California
I won't go into all the math, but here are the jackpot points where multiple winners are equally likely as exactly one:
PowerBall: $975 million
Mega Millions: $1.65 billion
Not that you asked, but here are the jackpots where the probability of at least one winner is equal to the probability of none (50%).
Mega Millions: $867 million
This question is raised in discussed in my forum at Wizard of Vegas.
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Though Christmas is a trying time for many in the Tampa area, authorities say the holiday ended in murder for one family after an 82-year-old Plant City man allegedly shot and killed his 50-year-old son.
At around half past nine o’clock that evening the son initiated an argument with his father and a third party. According to the third-party witness, the argument escalated when the father disappeared upstairs and returned with a firearm while the son beat a hasty retreat. A single report from the gun rang out, he said, and the sight of the son lying prone and wounded greeted the witness upon his investigation in the adjacent room.
A call to 9-1-1 summoned Hillsborough County deputies to the home in which both men lived, declaring that the father shot the son in the upper body at the culmination of an argument. EMS responded to the call as well, transporting the son to South Florida Baptist Hospital. Despite the staff’s best efforts on his behalf, the wound proved mortal, snuffing out the son’s life.
Meanwhile, deputies tracked down the father, whom they say admitted to shooting his son in anger. He was arrested by deputies just before dawn the next day and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail on a single count of manslaughter with a weapon. He remains incarcerated pending a bond of $350,000.
According to local media, the latest incident was not the first time the duo tangled dangerously. In early 2000 the father allegedly shot his son, this time in the shoulder, and this time not with fatal results. The son was charged with battery, domestic violence, and burglary of a vehicle, but authorities subsequently dropped said charges. The father was not charged, as officials deemed he had acted in self defense.
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Florence Flies to Victory, Conlogue Goes Back-To-Back at the Telstra Drug Aware Pro Margaret River
- Posted: March 26, 2012
John John Florence (HAW) has taken out the ASP Prime rated Telstra Drug Aware Pro, with Courtney Conlogue (USA) winning the ASP 6-Star Women’s event. WA turned it on for the final day of the event with clean 3 – 4 foot (1.5 meter) surf, and perfect clear sunny skies for the surfers and thousands of spectators.
Florence’s performance at this event will go down as one of the most dominant in the event’s history. Florence has collected five of the top ten single wave scores and the top thee two-wave heat totals thanks to his full repertoire. Florence defeated fellow Hawaiian Olamana Eleogram (HAW) in the Final by scoring two 9-point-rides, for mixing huge power gouges with technical aerials.
“I’ve been having a lot of fun this week,” Florence said. “The waves are are a lot like at home, even the wind when it’s good for airs is a lot like Hawaii. The waves have been fun in all of my heats. I’m so stoked to win. This gives me a lot of confidence going into Bells because I hear the waves are similar. I was so stoked to make the Final with Ola (Eleogram), I’ve grown up surfing with him and to have him in the Final with me at Margaret River was great.”
Courtney Conlogue (USA), reigning Telstra Drug Aware Pro event champion, today won the event for the second year in a row. Conlogue’s powerful backhand attack is perfectly suited to these powerful South West WA waves. The young Californian dominated the Final against Hawaiian Malia Manuel (HAW), posting two scores in the 8-point-range (out of a possible 10), to etch her name on the winners list once again.
“I was trying not to think about going back-to-back too much because I didn’t want to put pressure on myself,” Conlogue said. “I’m stoked to have gotten two in a row. This place taught me a lot last year and the years before. The first time I came here I lost in the second round and it was quite an embarrassing heat. Going from that to what I’ve done now feels great, and each year I come back I feel like I get to know the waves better and better. Now I’m looking forward to going to Bells because this place is great training for down there.”
Mark Occhilupo (AUS), 1999 ASP World Champion, although retired from full-time competition decided to come to Margaret River and attempt to win the event for his third time. Occhilupo’s affinity for Margaret River was clear from day one, with surf fans being treated to watching his iconic style and flair as he progressed through the contest. His dream run ended in the last minute of his Semifinal today, when Olamana Eleogram (HAW) posted a 6.50 and took the lead, sending Occhilupo home with an equal 3rd place finish.
“I have had the best time this week,” Occhilupo said. “In that Semifinal I had a pretty bad heat. A wave came at the end that I could have gotten the score on, but I fell. I’m going to go away and keep thinking about that. I’m still beating myself up about it. By the time I get home it will have sunken in and I will be stoked with third. That competitive nature doesn’t ever leave you.”
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Home» A Giant Dog » We Got a Better Fix, That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll
We Got a Better Fix, That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll
Posted by Lance Davis - December 4, 2012 - A Giant Dog, Bobby Jealousy, OBN III'S, PJ Harvey, Sabrina Ellis
L-R: Andrew Cashen – guitar, vocals; Sabrina Ellis – vocals; Graham Low – bass; Andy Bauer – guitar (obscured: Orville Neeley – drums)
Influences: Beer, dolphins, dirty feet, The Velvet Underground, Bo Diddley, The Seeds, The Kinks, David Bowie, The New York Dolls, Black Flag, The Coasters, The Four Tops, Sam Cooke, Daddy Backhand and the Loud Mouthed Bitches
—A Giant Dog to Austin Sound
Early December usually means two things: 1) You’re about to get hit with a shit ton of Christmas advertising and 2) You’re about to get hit with a shit ton of music lists (Top 10s, Top 20s, Top 50s, etc.). If my previous 43 years on the planet are any guide, these lists will mostly focus on music ranging from pleasant to unremarkable and skew politically correct because that’s what the hivemind demands. It means well, but the hive subsists on bland, easily digestible brain food and anything challenging this predilection will be roundly ignored.
For example, I’ll be shocked if any Top 10s include Fight by A Giant Dog, irascible, volatile Austin punks who released my third favorite album of 2012. The list, in case you’re wondering, is as follows:
1. Redd Kross – Researching The Blues
2. Bobby Jealousy – A Little Death
3. A Giant Dog – Fight
If scuzzy, melodic punk rock reminiscent of X and The Neckbones is your thing, stick around. If you like a powerhouse frontwoman who’ll make you her bitch, today is your lucky day. If you don’t like either of those things, you need to talk to the karma police.
A Giant Dog – Karma Police
29th St Ballroom, Austin, TX
How’s that for a lead singer?!?! You may remember Sabrina Ellis from such Adios Lounge features as Bobby Jealousy: Dirtpop, Bliss and Desperation. That’s correct. My second favorite album of the year is from Ellis’ other band, so consider her my 2012 MVP.* Now, if only she’d come out of her shell and stop being such a wallflower.
* Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald was a close 2nd in the MVP voting, with his bass playing integral to both Redd Kross and Off!
As I said in the Bobby J post, Sabrina reminds me of a young PJ Harvey. However, in retrospect, it’s less the PJ of Dry (1992) and Rid Of Me (1993), and more the PJ who toured behind To Bring You My Love (1995). That’s when Polly Jean finally stopped hiding behind her admittedly formidable guitar tone and embraced her inner Jagger, adopting an alpha female persona that served her quite well. To wit:
PJ Harvey – Meet Ze Monsta
Glastonbury Festival, England
Now compare that with Ellis getting us hooked on megaphonics:
A Giant Dog – Pins And Needles
Emo’s, Austin, TX
Video: Shoot Good Media
While Sabrina is the stage-stalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm, the band ain’t exactly Chuck E Cheese robots. In fact, 3/5ths of A Giant Dog are in the OBN IIIs, an Austin punk band who shares labels with the Dog (Tic Tac Totally, more on them later). Andrew Cashen is on guitar/vocals, Graham Low is on bass, and band namesake, Orville Bateman Neeley III is on lead vocals instead of drums. Their sound is of a piece with AGD, maybe more Stooges/Dead Boys than X/Neckbones. Check it.
OBN III’s – Runnin On Fumes (2011)
Whether we classify this music as punk, garage, or garage punk, it’s really just rock ‘n’ roll. Your basic ingredients are a few chords, some rhythmic chaos, and a vocalist who probably screams or shouts as much as sings. 95 times out of 100 it’s unlistenable noise, but that’s OK. Not every fucking RnR band has to be The Who. That said, there’s something about A Giant Dog — and to a lesser extent, the OBN III’s — that takes those punk rock basics and makes the music go bang.
A Giant Dog – Strange
Fight, 2012
https://www.box.com/shared/static/c3tuig3ki3l3hoc42z9m.mp3
“Oh, I see it
I know you won’t believe it
Not a goddamn thing could make you change.”
“Strange” sounds like something John Doe wrote for X in the early ’80s and it’s simplicity personified. 3-4 chords, careening vocal harmonies, a cool organ part, and a rhythm section that sounds like it’s about to fly off the rails, but doesn’t. All that in a mere 1:31.
Therein lies the beauty of A Giant Dog, which is also the beauty of rock ‘n’ roll. These songs aren’t difficult to play, in the prog-rock/jazz sense of difficult. No 32nd notes, no 7/8 time, and no Berklee College hot shittery. If anything, I get the sense that the songwriters — usually Ellis and Cashen — had the basic song structure in place, worked on it with the band a few times to get the chemistry locked in, and then knocked the song out in 1-2 takes. And it’s perfect.
A Giant Dog – Chatterteeth
https://www.box.com/shared/static/ccf703eqxylcnl7hjgva.mp3
Another song that comes screaming out the gate and doesn’t let up, “Chatterteeth” could’ve easily been included on LAMF: A Study in Rock ‘n’ Roll DNA, right between The Humpers’ “Apocalypse Girl” and the Neckbones’ “Cardiac Suture.” More dirty girl punk rock and don’t act like you don’t like it. We got a better fix, that’s rock ‘n’ ro-ooh-oll!
To Put It Bluntly
At this point, I need to discuss one issue concerning the band, and it pains me to have to address it. As I mentioned above, A Giant Dog is signed to Tic Tac Totally, a Chicago-based independent record label. It was from said label that I ordered a vinyl copy of Fight way back in the spring. It never arrived, so I sent a polite follow-up email, which was never answered. With no recourse — and still wanting to hear the album — I finally downloaded it from Amazon. For the record, I wasn’t the only person to bring up this issue.
To add insult to injury, a couple months ago T3 released AGD’s follow-up to Fight, the “Dammit Pomegranate” single. Again I ordered the vinyl, again it didn’t show, and again I ended up downloading from Amazon. Here’s the deal: I’m all about supporting independent record labels, but being an indie doesn’t relieve you of the responsibility of promoting good business practices. This is in no way a personal attack, but rather professional. You gots to TCB. End of story.
So, with that backstory in place, here are two businesses who claim to have A Giant Dog’s brilliant album available for purchase. Caveat emptor.
A Giant Dog – Fight (Bandcamp, MP3 only)
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Let’s replace that bitter taste of disappointment with the salty taste of beer, fistpumps, and bad intentions. I believe it’s time to get drunk and fuck another eyesore.
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The history of Algodonales dates back to neolithic times with remains in the caves of Castillego, Santa and Chamusquina. The Romans left clear signs of civilisation as well. Not only is the old city wall still intact, but archeologists have even discovered the cisterns that the Romans used to gather rain water. Being that the Arabs were the last ones on the scene, their influence is most noticeable and, in fact, the village is considered to be of Arabic origins.
Algodonales is a village that attracts nature lovers as it is perched in the foothills of the Sierra de Líjar mountain range, and right on edge of the Grazalema Natural Park. The river Guadalete crosses the town and the surrounding scenery makes it a uniquely beautiful place to visit – or live! To meet the needs of those wishing to enjoy the surrounding area, Algodonales offers accommodation in the form of hotels, bed and breakfasts and rural getaways. Local companies also offer support to those wishing to practice a wide array of sports, and of course there are endless opportunities for trekkers.
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Aniplus Asia announced on Thursday that it will simulcast upcoming anime series “The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc” this Fall.
The series will premiere on October 4, releasing new episode every Sunday at 1AM.
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<The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc> premieres on ANIPLUS this Fall!✨
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“Based on the best-selling light novels The Irregular at Magic High School, in a world where magic has been established as a form of technology and focus on a pair of siblings and their turbulent school life at Magic High School.
October 31st, 2095. The southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula was annihilated due to an unidentified Strategic-Class magic. Known as “Scorched Halloween,” this day marked the arrival of a new Strategic-Class magician who would shake up the world.
Sensing an impending crisis, the USNA secretly deploys Stars – the most powerful magician unit in the world – in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth about the unidentified Strategic-Class magic and the magician who used it.
Approximately two months later, on December 24th, as people bustle through the city decorated with Christmas lights, Tatsuya and his friends gather at Cafe Einebrise for a farewell party for Rei before she goes off to America as an exchange student for three months. According to her, a girl who is the same age as her will be entering Magic High School as her visiting counterpart.
Meanwhile, at the USNA Stars’ base, a girl prepares to go undercover to investigate First High School. Her name is Angelina Kudou Shields. She is the youngest person in the history of Stars to become commander, and as USNA’s most powerful magician she wields the Strategic-Class magic known as Heavy Metal Burst.”
The company earlier announced that it will air “HYPNOSISMIC-Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima”, “D4DJ First Mix” and “Danmachi” Season 3 starting this October.
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The Joule Thief: A Look Into Threat Activity
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JOAKIM KENNEDY: Thank you all for coming.
So what we're going to go over is a little bit of a story of a joule thief.
And that's sort of been running a little bit rampant in the last almost two years now.
So before we start-- so who am I?
So my name is Joakim Kennedy.
I am a threat intelligence manager for Anomali.
I work in the Anomali threat research team.
We are the ones that produce most of the public research that goes out on the blog.
Most of the stuff we do otherwise gets sort of published into threat stream as part of intelligence.
I like to do research.
And this is kind of part of what I like to do, which is to track what bad guys are doing and see how they evolve and report on it and force them to change their behavior.
And sometimes I build stuff to just assist us thing.
I just like to build things too as a former engineer.
Sort of the agenda.
So we're going to go over who is this Rocke.
And then we're going to take a look at the activity that they've had throughout sort of the last years.
And with any sort of good high story, we can sort of divide this up into three distinct sort of epochs that we will walk through.
So who's Rocke?
So Rocke is a Chinese actor.
They were first reported by Cisco Talos about a year ago.
It was in August 2018 and that they first announced.
They are mainly interested in getting crypto mining currency-- sorry, mined cryptocurrency on your devices.
They target Linux servers.
And the way they've mainly been doing this is been to scan the whole internet and to find and devices to compromise.
And then they've installed crypto miners on them.
The name of the group comes from an email address that he used one time for a public crypto mining pool.
So that's kind of where the initial name of the actor came from.
They have been active since late 2017.
It's hard to find sort of the original first infection, but that's sort of when the activity sort of started.
So if you kind of look at this, it's kind of a partial timeline of the group and sort of how they've changed.
The same color is when the stuff is being hosted on the same IP address.
If it's gray, it's usually a shared hosting or something that cannot really be tagged directly to the specific actor, but it is things that they've used.
So for the first sort of group, I'm going to take a look at this first epoch.
The yellow dot on the yellow square on the timeline-- that's when Talos did the initial research or made public.
So this is where their research focused on.
Turnout was also another organization that picked up on the story, but it was later linked back to the same group.
So some of this would also include a little bit from F5.
So this early tech activity-- they were basically scanning the whole internet looking for anything that had vulnerabilities related to Apache Struts, WebLogic, ColdFusion, and Jenkins.
They would scan.
And then, once they found a vulnerable host they would exploit it and install a cron job.
What this cron job would do was to reach out to a host that they controlled and download something with a JPEG-- which was clearly not a JPEG, it was a binary or usually the mining application.
A lot of this stuff was hosted on-- first started with Gitee, which is a Chinese sort of equivalent of GitHub.
They moved over also to GitHub and to GitLab and sort of host everything from the script to the binaries that they were downloading.
Then, later on, they moved on to Hadoop.
And so they were hosting their own Hadoop file share where this was hosted.
and it would just connect and download.
So some of the functionality of what this sort of cron job was doing-- it would actually look and uninstall any AV products that potentially were had on the Linux box.
It downloaded a compiled version of libprocesshider.
This is an open source-- how to frame it?
Kind of like a userland rootkit.
And it's using a functionality in Linux that is using the LD_PRELOAD, where you can basically put any shared objects or any library to be loaded in at your application start.
And what this one does, it will override a bunch of libc functions, so you can actually alter the behavior of, for example, when you open files so you can hide stuff-- so, say, something Linux malware uses.
So it's a way of actually doing a userland rootkit.
It used SSH for lateral movement.
So this is part of the script that was pulled down by the cron job and executed.
It will look for the known hosts and if there is any public keys.
And it will just try to execute a crawl command that would download this sort of setup and just sort of propagate through whatever host that you have connected.
It used public mining pools.
So once the miner was pulled down, it connected and started to read.
So it was quite easy to figure out how much they were making and sort of tracking the behavior based on the wallets that they were using.
So this was kind of the initial way of putting all these campaigns together.
So taking a look at the setup script-- when exploited, it would inject sort of a crontab entry.
So here, for example, we put something in there.
You can see that the fake JPEG is being downloaded and then executed in the shell.
The first set of sort of commands in this setup script is just to kill a bunch of other stuff.
Most of these are other mining pools or other malicious miners.
This is kind of the common thing you see in this field, where everybody compromises the same host and you want to make sure that actually you are the one they have your coin being mined.
So further down afterwards-- and this is a couple hundred after-- you can see it's downloaded its resources.
So you have-- they make it even hard for you to read.
But it defines a couple of variables here and then it will execute down here, id4, which is this one here, x.
So this is kind of the initial pull down-- download everything.
You can see it downloads from GitLab.
And this is the install.
So this is what it was executing, which is executing another file.
And it sort of drops in this, the new shell.
The new cron job sets up some scripts to monitor and then execute the update.
This part here on the run is where it actually starts the miner, figures out if it is a 32-bit or 64-bit so it knows what to run.
And there's some interesting code reuse.
So this is actually something that was picked up by F5.
They actually looked at this code snippet here that you're seeing.
They found actually a question on Stack Overflow that asked, how do I determine if-- how can I relaunch an application if it's been executed based on the PID.
And if you're actually looking at it, you have significant overlap in their code between them by Mr.
John Smith.
So this was posted in October 27, so kind of early on in their public career.
There's some other postings.
What this user has been asking about is-- you have a little bit of doing a mass scan of the internet.
And then we have an IRC bot written in Python at around the same time.
And then also questions with regards to bitcoin, which are the-- AUDIENCE: Did anybody answer those questions?
JOAKIM KENNEDY: I can't remember.
They've moved onto a different technique from now on, you know?
So this was actually posted just a few days-- a couple of weeks before the first release of the report on the group.
And it's the last thing that they've posted with this.
F5, I think was from July, so just a few weeks before this.
So it might have picked up that someone had actually detected who they were and sort of they've stopped using the account.
So that's kind of the first sort of initial activity of this group.
Now we are going to focus on a big part here.
So I'm going to break this down into two parts.
What you have actually, the first block here is based on a report from Palo Alto Networks, and it will basically focus from October and onwards.
And then you have-- this is in a report that we-- that we published.
And that's when we started tracking this group.
And then we have another thing happening around with sort of GRA.
So at this time, the group started to just change their persona.
And they moved over from hosting stuff on Hadoop and GitHub or Git hosting and moved their stuff onto pastebin.
They also started moving a lot of the infrastructure that was hosting the miners and the setup script from Chinese hosted providers to US based hosting provider.
So they seem to have focused on more going away from China to more targeting the Western world.
They also started to use CDNs probably to try to handle more of the activity or hide where they were actually hosting this stuff.
We've seen a lot of URLs being directed to the CDN and not where the file is hosted on their controlled infrastructure.
They actually started to write actually malware to handle a lot of the setup and things like that.
So going away just from a shell script running to actually pull down something more substantial that will also control the host.
So here's the change of sort of the script.
We still can see the initial part of the killing a lot of processes, which is all about the same making sure that your stuff is the one running.
And also cleaning up and removing everything there.
So we still have this kind of competition going on.
And we still see the same sort of rootkit stuff.
Here is the ld preload that is being download as a fake JPEG again.
And we also have the setup here with a pastebin getting added into the crontab.
So following along, it follows the same sort of TTPs that's used by the group.
And still to this day I think they're still using the ld preload.
They started flirting a little bit with Python.
So you have a code here that will actually reach-- it's base-64 encoded, but under the hood it's pulling down stuff from pastebin and also more sort of setup with cron jobs.
It's mainly the way that they're kind of keeping persistence on the box.
This is the base64 encoded code, which you can see reaching out to a pastebin site.
We also saw uninstalling monitoring software.
So these are basically instructions lifted from Tencent-- hosting provider from Alibaba web.
And all they have sort of providing monitor software so that you can put on your instance to monitor what's going on.
And if you want to uninstall it, this is kind of their instructions.
So a lot of Chinese AV products and things like that that are usually run in cloud, it does try to uninstall.
And then also the mining.
Same kind of idea-- figure out which architecture it is, pull it down, and as a fake JPEG.
This is also a domain controlled by the threat actor and just download.
It also tries to disguise the name as either known Linux servers.
So we have seen, for example, Kerberos being impersonated.
They usually try to impersonate some of the kernel threads.
So here we have the kworkerd thread, but just swapping sort of the ds is usually the way to do it.
So that's kind of the initial phase where they moved in to pastebin.
So then we started tracking the group beginning of March.
And what we picked up was it downloaded actually something new.
So instead of reaching out, initially we thought it would be in the minor.
It actually pulled down something different.
So first off, that infrastructure, that site.
So it's what seem to be an image hosted site.
This website, from our sort of understanding, is completely controlled by the threat actor.
It's made to look like a site that you can upload and host your own screenshot or your identification card that can be used when you're registered to certain Chinese services.
But clearly, it can be used to host any type of binaries and it's just used as a front.
The C2-- the sort of infrastructure they used-- we could call it like a three pastebin process.
So you have first a paste that would tell the actual current version where you should be at.
So that's the version paste here.
Then you have a-- if this string doesn't match what the malware has, it will connect to A, which is essentially just a redirect pastebin.
It pulls down what is there and executes it.
But what it pulls down is a curl or a wget command that will point to the updated version.
So it allows them to sort of shield the update stuff.
And that will be the B.
So this started, as you can see, around at the end of February.
And by the time that we looked at it, they had close to about 20,000 queries.
To give kind of an idea of how much traffic we're seeing.
So this dropper that it pulled down is a pretty big binary.
It's written in Go and it comes packaged with a minor inside it plus all the other stuff it needs.
I think the author might have some fun naming it.
If you go to GitHub.com/hippies/lsd it does not exist.
And I don't think that that organization is actually the group behind it, but they simply had the fun.
I don't what LSD stands for.
Maybe it's Linux System Dropper or something.
Who knows.
But it's sort of plastered everywhere in the file, as you can see.
The way this one is setting up as a persistence-- it will install itself either as a systemd daemon.
Or if it's an older system it will do an init system.
So it just runs as a normal service.
So the summary of this malware.
In addition to sort of doing exactly the same as the setup script does, it actually will reach out to a proxy or like a private pool.
So instead of actually connecting to something that's public and give its wallet address, it'll just connect immediately to this entity-- will sort of identity itself.
So it's made it pretty much impossible to track how much money they are making because it's sort of shielded.
And this is where it started.
This was a droplet on digital ocean that they completely control.
The miner does not have a configuration, so it's all statically compiled.
Once you run it, it will connect immediately to this.
So the configuration is inside the binary.
As I said, the malware is written in Go.
It also started to sort of move on.
Prior to this, we've seen that the group is actually scanning the internet and basically breaking into the machines.
This malware started also to scan, the initial version of it would just look for exposed Redis servers and then try a set of credentials.
We've also seen the same with SSH.
And it also started using this sort of persona of SYSTEMTEN, which will come up in just a second.
And then we saw a second wave.
So this happened around April, where there was a lot of post on Atlassian's forum about their confluence servers being hacked and started to consume a lot of CPU cycles.
This is kind of what they found with the crontab, which is matching pretty much straight on to what the group was doing.
So the security advisory came out on the 20th of March and we started to see them exploiting around the 17th of April.
So pretty quick picking up of the actual exploit-- pick up the vulnerability and actually develop and exploit.
The mining pool was shifted.
Instead of having direct to the IP address, it actually reached out to this domain name.
And we see the same name as it was for the pastebin user.
The malware was pulled down.
It was pretty much the same malware as we saw earlier on.
It added exploitations for Jenkins.
We actually cannot find a sample that actually is exploiting the confluence vulnerability.
From what it looks like from published reports of users, they could pinpoint a bunch of IP addresses with actually scanning.
So it's likely that the threat actors liked using infrastructure to scan the internet and then attack.
So it's not a fully wormable malware that they are using.
The Jenkins vulnerability that they use is from 2018, so about a year old.
So chaining a couple of exploits used for bypass which leads then also to remote code execution.
So sort of this last phase, we have sort of coming in from the summer.
And I call this a little bit of bringing it in back home and getting more control.
So we've seen the group going on from hosting everything on GitHub pages to pastebin, and the last sort of step is more getting just self hosting everything.
So what they started doing was instead of hosting the actual setup script as a paste on pastebin, it was served directly when you're connected to this domain name.
The update check that you would have as another pastebin was now returned via a domain name.
And these were hosted usually behind CloudFlare on some sort of shared hosting provider.
This kind of started at the end of July.
We saw a huge spike.
This is actually for the update.
So this is some data from Cisco Umbrella.
And the metric that you're seeing is about at around noon on the 29th there's about went to the update domain.
So it's kind of a shift.
And after that, it's been sort of stagnated at around 200 per hour.
They also did some changes to the malware with regards to it continuing also with the vulnerabilities.
It added a new exploit in the malware but something they've used previously in older campaign.
They started targeting ActiveMQ.
The way it's doing that-- it is reaching out to this sort of URL.
So it takes the host that it scans for and looks to see if this port is open, if it can-- it basically tries to upload a file.
AUDIENCE: What's ActiveMQ?
JOAKIM KENNEDY: ActiveMQ-- it's a message broker similar to Redis, similar to RabbitMQ, so you can publish and subscribe to messages.
It's usually used in the back end for a lot of web services and things like that.
It has a functionality for some file server-- it's a file server.
It was a vulnerability in 2016, which you can upload a file via a put command to that URL and then subsequently do a move verb to move that into somewhere else.
So what they are doing is the uploading a cron job, and then the command afterwards is a move to put it in where cron jobs will go.
And then next time it kicks off it will infect the host.
And other way it changed was a new way of doing like a mutex.
So it starts a web server on a very high port.
And then if another malware comes in-- if this is not a version of itself come in-- it tries to connect to this port.
And then, if something is listening it will exit because it knows it's running.
It's kind of an interesting way of doing.
I've seen it sometimes but not very common.
Sort of changed the way of making sure it's the only one that's running.
So instead of basically killing based on IP addresses or file names and stuff like that, it actually has hard-coded MD5 hashes of its miner.
And it will figure out which of the running applications is these, and then it will iterate through all of the other running applications.
If it has a CPU usage of about a bit over 40% it will kill it.
So skipping its own miner.
So it's kind of the way it's making sure that it's still the king of the hill.
So as a summary of the activity of this group, it is a Chinese threat actor.
They've been active for close to about two years.
They mainly are compromising Linux servers, as we have not seen them moving over to any other area yet.
It's been an interesting sort of journey of seeing them moving from a mainly focus on the Chinese market and the Chinese infrastructure to more Western right now.
And there's not a lot of the infrastructure they are using at all-- they used to use Alibaba and Tencent and now everything is DigitalOcean, buying CloudFlare, and things like that.
They've also migrated from just using scripting languages to a full blown malware, which sort of-- the group is sort of evolving and getting better and better and better at what they're doing.
And how do you sort of prevent this from happening?
Well, patch and don't use weak credentials.
That's the main way that they actually break in.
They seem to be somewhat efficient, given we've seen about reaching out to these domains.
It would suggest there is definitely stuff out there that's been infected.
But we know that it's more than just three movies in this sort of storyline and the groups keep evolving.
So this is probably the beginning of the fourth sort of story.
So on September 17th, so less than two weeks ago, they pushed some updates to their infrastructure and the malware they're using.
So first off, they basically stopped using this system 10 domain.
So this is another domain with just a lot of gibberish.
And instead of hosting the actual files on it, it is now reaching out to this domain name and asking for a text record.
So the scripts are hosted in the domain on the name server as records.
It's encrypted with AES and the key for it is a two-round MD5 hash of the actual domain name.
So they're making it a little bit harder to find it, but the malware gives away how it is all hidden.
If it fails to get this via the text record, it actually goes back and uses DNS over HTTPS by connecting directly to CloudFlare.
So you're actually seeing a-- this is not the first time in a malware-- I think it's the second or third iteration I've seen-- but what it's reaching out to is cloudfaredns.com doing a HTTPS request to get this data over DNS.
So it's all cached by CloudFlare.
So quite an interesting change.
They've pretty much have moved away from hosting all this data on servers and it's just on domain names.
I think even the binaries are encoded and stored in these records.
And the only thing that they have now running is the mining pool.
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SF Parts Procurement Program
Prior to State Farm launching a test of an electronic parts procurement program with its Select Service shops in San Diego, an insurer spokesman said the company is considering what role it can play in streamlining other aspects of collision repair claims.
George Avery
“I don’t think this is it. This is not the end,” George Avery, a claims consultant with State Farm, told those attending the Collision Industry Conference (CIC) in Las Vegas in late October.
“We’re looking at rental. We’re looking at towing. We’re looking at ways to make you efficient because… of the customer that we share. I want to make it a positive experience. That positive experience, we believe, can be achieved, by getting into what is really making it inefficient.”
Improving such inefficiencies in the parts procurement process is the reason the insurer has launched its latest test program, Avery said, emphasizing that it is a test only. Select Service shops in the two markets are required to order parts using two electronic systems – because not all auto manufacturers are using the same system – from dealers that also using the systems.
State Farm has negotiated various discounts of about 3 percent off parts list prices from at least six of the largest auto manufacturers. Avery reiterated that the program has been designed to not cut into a shop’s parts profit. He asked shop owners at CIC to visualize the dollar amount of profit they currently make on a particular hood.
“When the discount that we have negotiated with the OEs results in a lower price for that hood, the amount that’s your profit dollars will remain the same,” Avery said.
He later emphasized again that it’s not that a shop will receive the same percentage but of a lower retail price, but instead will still receive the same actual profit dollars as before the discount program.
“The electronic ordering platforms that we’re working with are going to manage that,” he said.
Select Service shops are free to buy from dealers not using the electronic parts ordering systems, Avery said, but under the Select Service agreement, such shops would be required to give State Farm the parts discount.
The test is designed, Avery said, to see if the electronic parts ordering and pricing systems work, if dealers are willing to participate, and if it helps shops operate more efficiently by, among other things, reducing parts errors and returns. He said he could not offer a timeline for how long the test would run nor when national roll-out of the program might begin.
He also said the program had no connection to whether the insurer decides to again call for use of non-OEM parts, something it halted several years ago following a lawsuit.
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Avery said he could not speak for the automakers but believes they agreed to the discounts because “State Farm brought some value to them in several different ways relative to fewer total losses, fewer parts returns” and more data.
He said the program has been in development for about two years, including discussions with State Farm’s “advisory council,” which includes shop representatives and which has acknowledged inefficiencies related to parts as well as concerns about maintaining shops’ parts profit.
Avery said the company has cut the number of shops participating in Select Service to about 11,200 nationally, down from about 20,000 that participated in the Service First program. That number will continue to change based on the insurer’s capacity needs in each market, he said.
He said the percentage of State Farm claims being processed through those fewer shops has “dipped slightly” from its national average of 64 percent under Service First. But Avery said that percentage varies from a low of 17 percent in some markets to a high of more than 80 percent in others.
In terms of State Farm’s additional involvement in other aspects of the collision repair business, Avery used an analogy of the threshold of the front door of his home; he said he interacts with some people who never cross that threshold, others who are invited in to the entry-way, and others invited in even farther, but that no one but family goes upstairs.
“That’s none of your business up there,” Avery said. “And I see it that way for the repair industry. That’s what we need to work through with the advisory council, drawing that line on what State Farm’s goal is on that threshold and what that business relationship is that you allow. I don’t want to go upstairs. I’m not interested in being in the house all the time, but if there are some advantages that we both see to be more efficient, I’d be glad to talk about that.”
Auto recyclers grading parts
Also speaking at CIC in Las Vegas was Jim Watson, an Illinois auto recycler and past president of the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA), who explained the recently-developed parts identification and grading system now being used by many suppliers of used parts.
A three-digit code, for example, can describe the type, degree and location of damage on any of 25 commonly-used body parts.
The amount of damage is described in terms of “units of damage,” Watson said, with one unit defined as “damage not exceeding the surface area of a standard-sized credit card.”
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Integrated Reservoir Description of the Ugnu Heavy-oil Accumulation, North Slope, Alaska
Alaska’s North Slope is a world-class petroleum basin, with some of the largest producing fields in North America. What is not widely known is that the North Slope also holds a vast resource of heavy oil that is mostly undeveloped. The Ugnu sands, with 12 to 18 billion bbl original oil in place, account for about one half of the heavy-oil resource and are the focus of appraisal activity to determine development potential.
The Ugnu resource occurs at depths between 610 and 1524m(2000 and 5000 ft) true vertical depth subsea along a regional normal-faulted monocline. Oil quality in the Ugnu ranges from heavy to extra heavy, with API gravities that range from14 and 88 API, with corresponding live oil viscosities ranging from 300 to more than 50,000 cp. The gross interval ranges in thickness from 107 to 152 m (350–500 ft) and consists of unconsolidated sands separated by thinner silty mudstones units. Sandstone thickness ranges from 1 to as much as 30m(3–100 ft). Sand quality is excellent, with porosities ranging between 30 and 36% and permeabilities between 400 and 6000+ md.
Core description of the Ugnu identified 10 facies associations that represent fluvialdeltaic, floodplain, delta-front, and offshore environments. The primary reservoir facies are fluvial-deltaic channel fills and sandsheets. The fluvial-deltaic sandstones were deposited by meandering channel systems based on paleoflow indicators from image logs and sinuous amplitudes from three-dimensional (3-D) seismic data. Palynological analysis defined five regional stratal surfaces (sequence boundaries and flooding surfaces) and revealed that lower delta-plain environments persisted during most of Ugnu deposition.
Careful integration of log, core, and seismic data provided the basis for defining the reservoir architecture and depositional model. The primary reservoir zones are the Ugnu M sands that are subdivided into the M70, lower M80, and upper M80 subzones. The M70 and lower M80 zones are characterized by regionally extensive erosional unconformities and sequence boundaries at the base that are overlain by multistory channel-fill sandstones deposited in lower and upper delta-plain settings. The upper M80 is bound by a marine flooding surface at the base (where present). The interval cleans upward and becomes progressively sandy in the east, corresponding to a transition fromdelta-plain to delta-front environments. The Ugnu reservoirs were deposited by meandering rivers that transected a flat coastal plain. Regionally, the Ugnu fluvial-deltaic system prograded from southwest to northeast during the Late Cretaceous to the early Tertiary and was deposited during an overall, but phased, base level rise.
Hulm, E, Bernaski, G, Matson, R, Kostic, B and Lowe, S. (2013) Integrated Reservoir Description of the Ugnu Heavy-oil Accumulation, North Slope, Alaska. In Hein, F. J, Leckie, D, Larte, S and Suter, J. R (eds) Heavy-oil and oil-sand petroleum systems in Alberta and beyond: AAPG Studies in Geology 64: p481-508
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Andrew Schwedel: Firm of the Future
Over the next 10 years, major structural forces such as technology and a changing workforce will shape a new era of business.
By Andrew Schwedel
Over the next 10 years, major structural forces such as technology and a changing workforce will shape a new era of business. Andrew Schwedel, a partner with Bain Futures, discusses the five emerging themes that will characterize the firm of the future and how leadership teams can adapt their skill sets and strategic approaches to pursue their prospective place.
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ANDREW SCHWEDEL: What do we mean by the firm of the future? Fundamentally, it's about new execution models, rather than a complete change to the basic laws of strategy. It's about how you deliver the benefits of scale and intimacy better and faster to your customers in a highly turbulent environment.
The first important point to recognize is that while change happens all the time, there are distinct eras in the evolution of business. These eras typically last about 40-to-50 years. And they're marked by a set of unifying characteristics and a quintessential company that comes to symbolize the era, such as Standard Oil during the trust era at the turn of the last century.
We're currently living in what we call the shareholder-primacy era. Because the single most important theme has been the relentless pursuit and prioritization of shareholder value. You can date this era to the mid-1970s. And it stands in sharp contrast to the previous era of professional management.
Both periods had a lot in common, such as scale to achieve leadership economics, and the power of professional managers. But there are also important differences. The shareholder-primacy era has seen a greater focus on the core; moves away from diversification; and increased alignment of management and ownership, with far higher rewards to capital vs. labor.
It's not always obvious at the time when an era is shifting, and it takes time to play out. But we believe the current era is starting to break down. The next 10 years will see the rise of a new era, and the nature of the firm will undergo its greatest shift since the 1970s.
We see four major structural forces behind this. First is technology, which for many, many years has driven up the returns to scale, but is now favoring returns to speed even more. Second is a more challenging macro environment, with more activist governments, more populism, and a backlash against short-term thinking, along with increased calls for companies to pursue a higher purpose in addition to profits.
Third is the changing nature of the workforce, with the rise of the gig economy and millennials seeking a new deal for talent. Finally, the nature of the firm itself within the firm feels increasingly complex and harder than ever to translate strategy into fast and effective execution.
So what will the new era be like? We see five emerging themes. First is the changing relationship between scale, speed and customer intimacy. Traditionally, strategy has viewed a fundamental trade-off between scale and intimacy. But now technology allows firms to have both.
Technology also makes it easier than ever to rent scale, even as it increases the importance of speed. In the new era, just as firms will continue to manage their unit costs with scale-based experience curves, they'll need to adopt new measures and tools for delivering customer intimacy, such as Net Promoter systems, and speed, such as Agile and Scrum techniques. This is going to require greater investment in peer-to-peer learning systems.
The second theme is the need for companies to adopt a clear mission, translate that mission into mission-critical roles, and rally the entire weight of the firm around those roles. This sounds obvious, but it's a departure from how many companies work today. All too often, we see companies not being disciplined about defining what their mission-critical roles are. And too often, the professional manager is at the center of the firm, rather than those mission-critical roles.
In the future, we see most work being either outsourced or automated. And what remains will effectively be those most mission-critical roles filled by people in self-organizing, Agile, project-based teams, and with far fewer professional managers than today.
A third theme is around the shift from ownership of assets to control of ecosystems as the basis of economic advantage. This will involve a greater use of outsourcing deeper and deeper into the core; more prominence of platform companies, and not just in the technologies sector; and greater intra-industry collaboration. And a key success factor for any firm will be its ability to forge win-win partnerships with companies across that entire ecosystem.
The fourth theme is around the emergence of new ownership models to enable a longer-term perspective, including longer holding periods for private companies, more-concentrated ownership of public companies, and more-flexible capital that allows investors to invest in specific projects rather than in an entire firm. Finally, the firm of the future will need to be able to run two businesses in parallel. An Engine 1 that is all about routines, discipline and continuous improvement, and an Engine 2 that is all about innovation and rapid adaptation, and becomes the vehicle to transform the entire firm over time.
What does all this mean for companies and their leadership teams? First is that the new era is going to require a very different skill set and leadership approach than what's prevailed for the last 40 years. It will look a lot more like the combined skills of a venture capital firm, with its ecosystem-outlook and its focus on mission-critical roles, and a professional services firm, with its ability to rapidly mobilize and demobilize resources, rather than a classic corporate.
Second, the professional managers who have successfully guided us through the last 90 years will either be the greatest partners to or the greatest obstacles to this change. To help them adapt and succeed, we're going to need new metrics and tools for speed, for learning, for helping talent reach its full potential. And this is an enormous change-management challenge that will take years to realize. So companies really need to begin the journey now.
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Ballina chosen for national ‘Town Centre Health Check’ Programme
Ballina Tourism 4th November 2016
Ballina is one of 10 towns which have been chosen to take part in a national Town Centre Health Check pilot programme. The pilot which aims to support socio-economic, cultural and enterprise growth and development and sustainable tourism within historic Irish towns, has been developed by the National Heritage Council and RGDATA.
Irish town centres are extremely important in terms of national, regional and local growth and development. They contribute to local distinctiveness, identity and sense of place. One of the aims of this pilot is to raise awareness and understanding of the crucial role that our historic town centres play and the wide-ranging impacts that their vitality, vibrancy and viability have on overall socio-economic, environmental and cultural growth and development, and on quality of life for citizens and visitors alike.
‘Collaboration, Co-Operation and Co-Ordination’ the key behind Ballina’s Health Check
Partnering with Mayo County Council on this initiative are GMIT, Ballina Chamber of Commerce and Ballina Tidy Towns. The National Town Centre Health Check Programme will enable the local authority, local businesses and local citizens to assess how their town centre is performing, and will facilitate them to form local partnerships to prepare and implement an agreed and shared Town Centre Management Strategy.
Heritage Council TCHC ‘Pilot’ Programme Co-ordinator Alison Harvey said, “Irish Town Centres have a rich critical mass of heritage assets with hundreds of years of living history in our buildings, streets, parks and squares. We are delighted to collaborate with so many local authorities, chambers, communities and third-level institutes on this exciting ‘pilot’ training and capacity-building programme, which aims to enhance overall vitality and viability and ensure that our historic towns survive and thrive for future generations”
Left/Right; Michael Hogan, Ballina Tidy Towns; John Scahill, GMIT; Dr. Deirdre Cunningham, Heritage Officer, Mayo County Council; Bernadette Cunningham, Mayo County Council; Mags Martin, Ballina Chamber of Commerce; Alison Harvey, The Heritage Council; Kevin O’Callaghan, GMIT.
Survey work for the ‘Health Check’ of Ballina’s town centre.
GMIT students will be in Ballina Friday and Saturday, 4th and 5th November, carrying out land use surveys to establish retail and residential patterns, and vacancy rates in the town centre; shoppers’ surveys to rate visitor experience and satisfaction; and footfall surveys to establish actual town centre visitor numbers. Other surveys to be carried out by Mayo County Council and Ballina Chamber of Commerce include retailer surveys to establish current levels of commercial activity and outlook; vehicle counts, car parking and permeability. Environmental quality, crime figures and other existing studies carried out by Mayo County Council will be incorporated into the study.
Speaking about the project, Mags Martin, Ballina Chamber of Commerce and Tourist Office said “We are delighted that Ballina has been chosen for this initiative. It is a great opportunity for us to work with Mayo County Council Heritage Officer and Planners, GMIT and The Heritage Council to research and collect vital information on the health of our town. It will give the chamber and everyone involved direction and focus, and enable us to plan in the best possible way for the future of Ballina”.
Left/Right; Dr Deirdre Cunningham, Mayo County Council; Mags Martin, Ballina Chamber of Commerce, Kevin O’Callaghan, GMIT; John Scahill, GMIT.
This collaborative programme will develop an innovative town centre-led commercial, cultural heritage and tourism baseline. Driving forward by all the project partners. It is envisaged that this pilot programme will be recognised internationally as a best practice collaborative model for town centre management and revitalisation. Further information on the project is available at www.mayococo.ie/heritage
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Pak-Afghan relations are improving: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
March 3, 2015 in National
ISLAMABAD:(APS) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that relations with Afghanistan had undergone qualitative transformation since the government took over last year.
The Prime Minister expressed these views in a meeting with Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan Janan Mosazai here at the PM House.
The PM said Pakistan hopes that the process of peace talks within Afghanistan would speed up and reach a successful conclusion soon.
He expressed satisfaction over the increased security cooperation between the two countries and said the recent visit of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif proved quite helpful in streamlining important matters.
He was also pleased over the first meeting of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Business Council that would be taking place in the next few weeks to attract international investors to both countries.
PM Nawaz approved of the appointment of a focal person for following up implementation on the decisions taken during inter-ministerial meetings with Afghanistan on daily basis.
A similar focal person would be appointed from the Afghan side as well, a PM Office statement said.
Referring to the loss of lives due to the recent avalanche in Afghanistan, the PM said Pakistan stands with its brotherly neighbouring country in this hour of need and added that he was deeply concerned upon learning about the devastating incident.
He said Pakistan would be happy to provide any further assistance to help the people of Afghanistan meet this challenging situation.
The Ambassador thanked the government of Pakistan for providing generous support to Afghanistan in the form of relief supplies in the wake of the destruction caused by the avalanches.
He also thanked the Prime Minister for sending a message of solidarity to the President of Afghanistan on this hour of grief.
The Ambassador said Afghanistan was highly appreciative of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s vision of peaceful coexistence with all neighbouring countries.
He informed the PM that there was a strong domestic consensus in Afghanistan on peace efforts these days.
The matters relating to Afghan Transit Trade and CASA 1000 power transmission project also came under discussion.
The Ambassador also conveyed best wishes of the President of Afghanistan to PM Nawaz.
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Issue a safe passage Canadian passport for Raif Badawi
2015-09-11: Official Launch of Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom
MONTREAL, Sept.11, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ – Today the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom was officially launched by friends and family. The Foundation is named after the blogger, who is imprisoned since 2012. Raif Badawi was condemned to a thousand lashes in Saudi Arabia, for he was accused of apostasy and of insult to Islam. The Foundation’s objectives are to providie education on the topic of freedom of press and freedom of speech.
The announcement was made successively in Germany and in Montreal. The President, Mrs. Ensaf Haidar, Mr. Badawi’s spouse, was in Berlin to meet with dignitaries in order to gain their support regarding her husband’s liberation, atop of taking part in the press conference. “I am truly grateful for the support that has emerged across the world for the Foundation. This justifies in my opinion, its very existence and its necessity,” declared Mrs Haidar. “Its goal happens to embody Raif’s values, who would be very happy to see that his struggle is a concern for so many people around the world,” added Mrs. Haidar. It is to be noted that Mr. Badawi will be honorary president of the Foundation.
Help me free my husband, petition of Ensaf Haidar for the liberation of her husband Raif Badawi
2015-02-25: Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award for Raif Badawi (Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster.)
2015-02-17: 20 rights groups to bestow courage award upon Saudi blogger at Geneva Summit, Geneva Summit for Humans Rights and Democracy
2015-02-15: Raif Badawi’s Sister: Saudi Arabia Jailed My Entire Family, The Daily Beast
2015-01-13 : Vigil for Raif Badawi, Complexe Guy-Favreau, Montréal
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2015-01-09: 1000 LASHES HAVE STARTED, ARE PLANNED TO TAKE PLACE OVER 20 WEEKS!, Amnesty International
2015-01-27: Shame and scandal in Saudi Arabia, Tarek Fatah, Toronto Sun
2014-11-13: Doudi, son of Raif, writes to his father in prison, video
2014-05-28: Two more penalties for Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi
We have just learned that on May 28th 2014, a Saudi court added two new penalties to the already draconian punishment meted out to the blogger Raif Badawi, for the “crime” of insulting Islam in his writings. Thus, in addition to the 10-year prison term, 1000 lashes and 1,000,000 riyal fine declared by the court on May 7th, this more recent decision adds 10-year travel and publication bans to follow his release from prison.
Thus, the penalties against Raif Badawi are now:
Ten years in prison for creating the Saudi Liberal website and insulting Islam.
One thousand lashes, to be completed in 20 sessions in front of a mosque, for creating the Saudi Liberal website and insulting Islam.
A fine of one million riyals.
A ten year ban on foreign travel after his release.
A ten year ban on participation in visual, electronic or written media after his release.
Canada Must Demand the Release of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi Press release, Atheist Freethinkers (AFT)
Release Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi, International Association of Free Thought (IAFT)
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Thomas G. Harrington, MD, FACS
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Thomas Gregory Harrington, MD, a Long Island native, graduated from St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School and received a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Binghamton University. He received a Doctorate in Medicine from New York Medical College and went on to complete an internship in General Surgery at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. Following a second year of General Surgery at S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, he completed his Urology residency at Stony Brook in 1997, during which time he published articles on the subjects of male infertility and urologic trauma.
Dr. Harrington is the Chairman of Urology at St Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown and has served as Director of the Department of Surgery and also as President of the Medical Staff. He is also on the attending staff at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson, as well as Huntington Hospital. Dr. Harrington is a Diplomate of the American Board of Urology, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and practices Adult and Pediatric Urology in Smithtown.
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A Couple of Minutes with Jane Austen
Some time ago, we held a program meeting for various members to speak on whatever sparked their fancy, as long as it had to do with Jane Austen, her contemporaries, or some aspect of life during Regency times. Thirteen members agreed to talk for two minutes each. In my foolish youth (lo these three long years ago), I thought that it would be easy to stand up and talk about something for two minutes. Our problem was that people couldn't speak for that long of a time, but the opposite. Hardly any of us (and I was the first culprit) were able to keep our talks down to two minutes. So... the meeting ran long and we still didn't get to hear everyone's talk.
I gathered the written notes or fully written pieces from each of those who had not been able to speak, saving them for the newsletter. Only to have our newsletter suffer the "ax" when we couldn't find someone to take it on. When we decided we'd completely overhaul our online presence, we decided a blog could cover the articles sections of the newsletter. And so, here is our very first blog post of one of those wonderful talks. This is Debbie Johnson's essay on the deftness of Jane Austen's work.
Julie Buck
Much has been written about Jane Austen’s genius for characterization, and in my two minutes I want to highlight a small aspect of that genius—which is her deftness.
The dictionary defines “deft” as “quick and skillful in action” and throughout Jane Austen’s works we see this “deftness” at work when she precisely and economically reveals character in one or two sentences, often spoken by the character him or herself.
My first example of this deftness is from Emma, and the character is Mrs. Elton during the party at Hartfield, speaking to Mr. Weston about her brother-in-law, Mr. Suckling. By this time in the story the reader is already aware of Emma’s opinion of Mrs. Elton--that she is ill-bred yet proud--and that the source of that pride is her sister’s marriage to the wealthy Mr. Suckling of Maple Grove.
In this scene Mrs. Elton is speaking about her disgust for “upstarts”, such as the Tupman family who have only lived a year and a half in large house near Maple Grove, yet who evidently think themselves equal “even to Mr. Suckling”. Mrs. Elton’s final sentence of that scene shows how ill-founded her arrogance is when she adds: “Mr. Suckling, who has been eleven years a resident at Maple Grove, and whose father had it before him—I believe, at least—I am almost sure that old Mr. Suckling had completed the purchase before his death.”
In just that one sentence Mr. Suckling’s own status as an “upstart” is revealed, and that revelation punctures Mrs. Elton’s arrogance—second-hand arrogance, no less--in a deft and wickedly funny way.
The second example is from Sense and Sensibility, in the scene where Mr. John Dashwood has just been introduced to Mrs. Jennings. After telling Elinor that he believes Mrs. Jennings will leave her and Marianne a large legacy, and further, that the wealthy Colonel Brandon is sure to ask Elinor to marry him, we have this sentence about Mr. Dashwood:
“He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal”.
Not only is this a deft summation of Mr. Dashwood’s feelings, but it is (to me) a profound insight into one aspect of human motivation that is not often discussed—that of encouraging other people to do something that we ourselves should have done; or worse, criticizing others for not doing something that we also did not do. Jane Austen has described this particular form of hypocrisy in a few deft and memorable strokes.
My third and final example of deftness is from Persuasion, at the end of the novel when the narrator summarizes what happens to the other characters after the marriage of Anne and Captain Wentworth. In describing how Elizabeth and Sir Walter bore the deception and loss of Mrs. Clay the narrator says: “They had their great cousins, to be sure, to resort to for comfort; but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.” In addition to the delicious irony of this statement (irony for which Jane Austen is of course also famous), it sums up in one phrase the vanity of Elizabeth and Sir Walter and by extension, that of all people whose self-worth depends solely on their worldly status. It can equally be applied to today’s cults of “celebrity”, where many of those who become famous—through no particular accomplishments—are “flattered and followed” into believing that their mere fame—like the mere fact of being born into the aristocracy--is proof of an innate superiority. And like Elizabeth and Sir Walter, when the world stops “flattering and following” them, it will be “but a state of half enjoyment” indeed.
The fact that Jane Austen could deftly sketch the foibles of her individual characters, and cause readers to draw from those deft sketches eternal lessons about mankind is yet one more aspect of her genius, and one more reason to love her writing.
Hi. My name is Mary. I’m a Jane Austen addict.
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Nora Quoirin's parents demand answers as Malaysia closes probe into teen's death
"It is moreover utterly unacceptable that we have not received a single update from Malaysia since Nora’s death".
Chris Kitching
The heartbroken parents of Nora Quoirin are demanding answers after being told the case has been closed by Malaysian authorities.
Nora's mum Meabh, who hails from Belfast, and dad Sebastien said they found out on Friday that Malaysia's Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) had this week classified the probe as "no further action".
The pair have recently said they still maintain there was a 'criminal element' in their daughter's tragic death.
It means there will be no inquest into the death of the 15-year-old, whose unclothed body was found in the jungle 10 days after she disappeared from the Dusun resort, where she had been on holiday with her parents and young siblings.
The Quoirins do not believe their "vulnerable" daughter, who had learning difficulties, was alone the entire time she was missing and they say Malaysian police have refused to answer their questions or hand over a full copy of the postmortem report.
The couple have rejected the theory of police, who believe Nora wandered off alone and there was no foul play involved, reports The Mirror.
In a written statement released by the Lucie Blackman Trust, the Quoirins said: “We have today learned that the AGC of Malaysia has classified Nara’s case as 'no further action'.
"This essentially means that, at this time, there will be no inquest.
"We are shocked by this decision, not least because it is based on a preliminary report from the Coroner’s office."
They added: “To date, we have only received a short explanation from the pathologists who conducted the postmortem in Malaysia which confirmed the cause of death as gastro-intestinal bleeding and an ulcer (likely brought on by starvation and/or stress).
Nora Quoirin's parents say they believe there was a 'criminal element' to daughter's tragic death
Nora Quoirin funeral remembers 'gentle and innocent' teen
"We must emphasise however that this is only a brief extract of what will be the full postmortem report, which is as yet still unavailable.
"It is critical that we receive this report.
"It may reveal other significant details that contributed to Nora’s death, such as why a severe ulcer was triggered so quickly in her body.
"It is moreover utterly unacceptable that we have not received a single update from Malaysia since Nora’s death.
Nora was on holiday with her family, including her mum Meabh Quoirin (Image: PA)
“The AGC’s decision prevents justice being done. As we have stressed from the beginning of this case, it is crucial to understand how Nora came to be found where she was.
"As a vulnerable child, with significant physical and mental challenges, we strongly refute any conclusion that Nora was alone for the entire duration of her disappearance.
"We have repeatedly asked the police to clarify answers to our questions in this regard – and we have been repeatedly ignored.
Nora Quoirin family have 'many questions' over her death in Malaysia
Nora Quoirin family lawyer insists things just don't add up
"This stands in stark contrast with the promise of transparency that we received from the Deputy Prime Minister and other prominent officials whom we met in Malaysia."
Nora's body was found next to a stream about 1.6 miles from the Dusun resort.
Malaysian police said previously that a postmortem found no sign of foul play, concluding that the Irish-French teen died of internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress.
The force believed she died two or three days before she was found, meaning she was alive for about a week in the jungle.
“We believe it is a democratic human right to seek the truth. We have witnessed how our most vulnerable citizens in this world are all too often ignored and we are now facing considerable prejudice in our search for answers.
"We cannot believe, nor understand why, any modern economy would label such a harrowing and mysterious case NFA without full process and the total refusal to communicate with us is both insulting and unfathomable.
Nora was missing for a week (Image: PA)
"Our governments in France & Ireland support our demands for justice. We therefore now appeal directly to the highest levels of Malaysian government as well as the Attorney General’s office to assist our quest for the truth.”
Matthew Searle, head of the Lucie Blackman Trust, which has been assisting the family, said: “It seems unbelievable that, in a case that looks so complex and currently unexplained, that any authority could effectively close it down without even waiting for full reports.
"The idea that Nora went off, on her own, seems incredibly unlikely.
"This family need answers and at least deserve an investigation to the greatest lengths available. We are urgently seeking answers from various authorities – Nora’s death needs to be explained.”
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During the Future of Diplomacy Project's 2017 'Europe Week' series, diplomats, scholars, and policymakers visited the Kennedy School to examine Europe's greatest challenges.
Secretary Albright on Negotiation: Photo Gallery
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The Future of Diplomacy Project proudly hosted former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright at the Spangler Center in April through the American Secretaries of State Project, jointly directed by Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School's Program On Negotiation. Led by Faculty Directors, Professor Nicholas Burns of the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor James Sebenius of the Harvard Business School, and Professor Robert Mnookin from Harvard Law School, the program seeks to interview former Secretaries of State to gain their insights into how modern diplomacy and negotiation can be used effectively in response to "intractable" conflicts.
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BAS > Data > Explore polar data > Our publications > High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects
High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects
This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in three parts: the principal high-resolution proxy disciplines (trees, corals, ice cores and documentary evidence), emphasizing current issues in their use for climate reconstruction; the various approaches that have been adopted to combine multiple climate proxy records to provide estimates of past annual-to-decadal timescale Northern Hemisphere surface temperatures and other climate variables, such as large-scale circulation indices; and the forcing histories used in climate model simulations of the past millennium. We discuss the need to develop a framework through which current and new approaches to interpreting these proxy data may be rigorously assessed using pseudo-proxies derived from climate model runs, where the `answer' is known. The article concludes with a list of recommendations. First, more raw proxy data are required from the diverse disciplines and from more locations, as well as replication, for all proxy sources, of the basic raw measurements to improve absolute dating, and to better distinguish the proxy climate signal from noise. Second, more effort is required to improve the understanding of what individual proxies respond to, supported by more site measurements and process studies. These activities should also be mindful of the correlation structure of instrumental data, indicating which adjacent proxy records ought to be in agreement and which not. Third, large-scale climate reconstructions should be attempted using a wide variety of techniques, emphasizing those for which quantified errors can be estimated at specified timescales. Fourth, a greater use of climate model simulations is needed to guide the choice of reconstruction techniques (the pseudo-proxy concept) and possibly help determine where, given limited resources, future sampling should be concentrated.
Authors: Jones, P.D., Briffa, K.R., Osborn, T.J., Lough, J.M., van Ommen, T.D., Vinther, B.M, Luterbacher, J., Wahl, E.R., Zwiers, F.W., Mann, M.E., Schmidt, G.A, Ammann, C.M., Buckley, B.M., Cobb, K.M., Esper, J., Goosse, H., Graham, N., Jansen, E., Kiefer, T., Kull, C., Küttel, M., Mosley-Thompson, E., Overpeck, J.T., Riedwyl, N., Schulz, M., Tudhope, A.W., Villalba, R., Wanner, H., Wolff, Eric W., Xoplaki, E.
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Atmospheric decadal variability from high-resolution Dome C ice core records of aerosol constituents beyond the Last Interglacial
Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial: the ice core record
A good millennium?
The distribution of impurities in Antarctic ice
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BC Athletics Policy on Harassment (Abridged)
BC Athletics, in an effort to provide a safe and harassment free environment within its activities and those of its members (individuals and clubs), has set out the following Policy on Harassment in order to clearly indicate it's position on Harassment of All Types and initiatives to inform and educate its members. The policy provides for an informal, confidential and non threatening alternative to a formal registering of complaints as well as a formal process involving individuals designated by BC Athletics and possessing the training and appropriate background to investigate complaints.
BC ATHLETICS LEGAL and ETHICAL DUTIES
BC Athletics has a legal responsibility to act in the best interests of its members.
BC Athletics has a legal responsibility to intervene if they know of matters within its operation which are contrary to the country's laws and the organizations by-laws, rules, policies and codes.
This is an extended responsibility which is subject to a legal test of reasonable conduct, meaning that the responsibility exists not just when the organization knows, but also ought reasonably to have known, of matters requiring action.
Specifically with regard to matters of abuse and harassment, BC Athletics is aware that there are circumstances when cases are completely outside the Association's jurisdiction and within the purview of the justice system. These are cases which involve persons who are not of the age of legal majority, or any other age specified by law. Even when the persons are of the specified age, when the notion of consent is often an issue, we must all be aware that the concept of informed consent is a legal one which BC Athletics realizes is defined by Canadian Law.
BC Athletics has a responsibility to ensure that all members are aware of the policy to a reasonable extent. This includes clear information on the steps which are taken when cases are reported.
KEY CONCEPTS in the BC ATHLETICS POLICY
An Association where the participants may reasonably expect to be able to carry out their activities free from abuse and harassment.
That as a sport association it is important to have such policies, information and educational initiatives.
That all reports and allegations follow the process as contained in the Harassment Policy and are dealt with in the manner as set out.
POLICY OBJECTIVE
To establish BC Athletics as an organization in which all members, employees and volunteers may reasonably expect to participate free from harassment.
To provide an environment when members, employees and volunteers contribute to the Association's goals in the knowledge that their personal aspirations and dignity will be respected.
To create an awareness of the nature and types of harassment.
Members, employees and volunteers of BC Athletics are jointly responsible to free their sport/working environment of harassment by:
taking assertive action should they feel that they are being subjected to harassment.
fostering an environment free of harassment by attempting to stop incidents of harassment whether there is a complaint or not. Failure to take appropriate corrective action may be interpreted as condoning the prohibited behavior.
1. STATEMENT OF POLICY
1.1 Harassment of any kind will not be tolerated by BC Athletics.
1.2 BC Athletics is committed to providing a sport and work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to participate and work in an environment which promotes equal opportunities, prohibits discriminatory practices and is free from abuse and harassment.
1.3 BC Athletics is committed to the education of all of its members in the area of harassment and to providing information to the parents/guardians of its youth members on the policies, procedures and education initiatives on harassment.
1.4 This policy applies to all employees, directors, officers, volunteers, coaches, associates, officials, and athlete members of BC Athletics. BC Athletics encourages the prompt reporting of all incidents of harassment, regardless of who the offender may be.
1.5 For the purposes of this policy, sport and/or workplace harassment can occur in the following places:
at sporting events, competitions, and in training sessions;
at the office;
at sport/office-related social functions;
at the organization's business functions, such as meetings, conferences, training sessions, and workshops;
during sport/work-related travel;
through any form of communication device/system including but not limited to telephone, email, fax, postal service;
elsewhere if the person harassed is there as a result of sport/work-related responsibilities or a sport/work-related relationship.
1.6 Notwithstanding this policy, every person who experiences harassment continues to have the right to seek assistance from the B.C. Council of Human Rights, even when steps are being taken under this policy.
1.7 An investigation under this policy shall follow the process of natural justice, as described in this policy.
2. PREVENTION
2.1 BC Athletics is committed to the elimination of harassment through educational programs including information and training. Please refer to Appendix 1 for educational and informational programs that form part of this policy.
3.1 Harassment: Improper behavior by any person towards another which a person knows or ought to know would be unwelcome. This behavior includes comments, conduct or gestures which is insulting, intimidating, humiliating, hurtful, malicious, degrading, or otherwise offensive to an individual or group of individuals or which creates an uncomfortable environment, or which might reasonably be expected to cause embarrassment, insecurity, discomfort, offense, or humiliation to another person or group, including, but not limited to:
written or verbal abuse or threats;
physical assault;
unwelcome remarks, jokes, innuendoes, or taunting about a person's body, sexual orientation, attire, age, marital status, ethnic or racial origin, religion, etc.;
displaying of sexually explicit, racist or other offensive or derogatory material, sexual, racial, ethnic or religious graffiti;
practical jokes which cause awkwardness or embarrassment, endangering a person's safety or negatively affecting performance;
hazing or initiation rites;
leering or other suggestive or obscene gestures;
intimidation;
condescension, paternalism, or patronizing behavior which undermines self-respect or adversely affects performance or working conditions
conduct, comments, gestures or contact of a sexual nature that is likely to cause offense or humiliation or that might, on reasonable grounds, be perceived as placing a condition of a sexual nature on employment or any opportunity for selection, training or advancement;
false accusations of harassment motivated by malice or mischief, and meant to cause other harm, is considered harassment;
sexual harassment, as further described in section 3.2
3.2 Sexual Harassment: One or a series of incidents involving unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, or other verbal conduct of a sexual nature:
when such conduct might reasonably be expected to cause embarrassment, insecurity, discomfort, offense, or humiliation to another person or group;
when submission to such conduct is made either implicitly or explicitly a condition of employment/sport related activity;
when submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for any employment/sport decision (including, but not limited to, matters of promotion, raise in salary, job security, benefits affecting the employee, team selection);
when such conduct has the purpose or the effect of interfering with a person's work/sport performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work/sport environment.
For a complete outline of the policy please contact the BC Athletics Office at 604-333-3550 or bcathletics@bcathletics.org.
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Lot 2 CENTRAL EUROPE. Boii. GOLD Stater (2nd-1st centuries BC). "Muschel" prototype.
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Lot 3 CENTRAL EUROPE. Boii. GOLD 1/24 Stater (2nd-1st centuries BC). "Athena Alkis" type(?).
Lot 4 EASTERN EUROPE. Imitations of Philip II of Macedon (2nd-1st centuries BC). Tetradrachm.
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Lot 5 EASTERN EUROPE. Imitations of Roman Republican. Eravisci (After 75 BC). Denarius. Imitating Q. Titius.
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Lot 6 LUCANIA. Metapontion. Ae (Circa 225-200 BC).
Lot 7 LUCANIA. Paestum (Poseidonia). Ae Triens (218-201 BC).
Lot 8 LUCANIA. Thurium (as Copia). Ae Quadrans (Circa 193-150 BC).
Lot 9 SICILY. Akragas. Hexas or Dionkion (Circa 460-450/46 BC).
Lot 10 SICILY. Mamertinoi. Ae Quadruple (Circa 275-264 BC).
Lot 11 SKYTHIA. Olbia. Cast Ae (Circa 437-410 BC).
Lot 12 CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Ae (Circa 310-304/3 BC).
Lot 14 MOESIA. Istros. Drachm (Circa 313-280 BC).
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Lot 16 THRACE. Abdera. Hemiobol (Circa 473/0-449/8 BC).
Lot 17 THRACE. Ainos. Ae (Circa 205-196 BC).
Lot 18 THRACE. Apollonia Pontika. Drachm (Circa 480/78-450 BC).
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Lot 29 THRACE. Apollonia Pontika. Diobol (Circa 410/04-341/23 BC).
Lot 30 THRACE. Byzantion. Ae (3rd century BC). Alliance issue with Kalchedon.
Lot 33 THRACE. Byzantion. Siglos (Circa 340-320 BC).
Lot 34 THRACE. Maroneia. Ae (Circa 240/39-200 BC). Pythonikos, magistrate.
Lot 35 THRACE. Mesambria. Ae (Circa 175-100 BC).
Lot 37 THRACE. Mesambria. Diobol (Circa 420-320 BC).
Lot 42 THRACE. Thasos. Stater (Circa 480-463 BC).
Lot 43 THRACE. Thasos. Stater (Circa 480-463 BC). Contemporary imitation.
Lot 46 THRACE. Thasos. Drachm (Circa 404-355 BC).
Lot 47 THRACE. Thasos. Tetradrachm (Circa 148-90/80 BC).
Lot 50 KINGS OF THRACE (Odrysian). Sparadokos (Circa 450-440 BC). Diobol.
Lot 51 KINGS OF THRACE (Seleukid). Adaios (Strategos, circa 255-245 BC). Ae. Kypsela.
Lot 52 Attractive Style Lysimachos Tetradrachm KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Tetradrachm. Sardeis.
Lot 53 KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Tetradrachm. Lampsakos.
Lot 55 KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Drachm. Ephesos.
Lot 58 KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Drachm. Kolophon.
Lot 59 KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Drachm. Kolophon. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon.
Lot 60 KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Ae Unit. Lysimacheia.
Lot 61 THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION. Uncertain. hemiobol (Circa 5th century BC).
Lot 62 KINGS OF MACEDON. Philip II (359-336 BC). GOLD Stater. Pella.
Lot 63 KINGS OF MACEDON. Philip II (359-336 BC). GOLD 1/4 Stater. Pella.
Lot 64 KINGS OF MACEDON. Philip II (359-336 BC). Tetradrachm. Amphipolis.
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Lot 75 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Drachm. Lampsakos.
Lot 78 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Drachm. Kolophon.
Lot 79 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Drachm. Miletos.
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Lot 81 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Sardeis.
Lot 83 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Drachm. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor.
Lot 84 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Contemporary imitation of Macedon.
Lot 85 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Phaselis. Dated CY 7 (215/4 BC).
Lot 86 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Perge. Dated CY 24 (198/7 BC).
Lot 87 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in southern Asia Minor.
Lot 88 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Damaskos. Possible lifetime issue.
Lot 89 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Arados. Possible lifetime issue.
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Lot 93 KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Tetradrachm. Tyre. Uncertain RY date of 'Ozmilk.
Lot 95 KINGS OF MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios (323-317 BC). Drachm. Kolophon.
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Lot 97 MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE. First Meris. Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 BC). Amphipolis.
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Lot 100 ATTICA. Athens. Tetradrachm (Circa 470-465 BC). Transitional issue.
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1 Samuel 23 :: King James Version (KJV)
David Delivers Keilah ©
1Sa 23:1
1Sa 23:1 - Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
1Sa 23:2 - Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
1Sa 23:3 - And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
1Sa 23:4 - Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1Sa 23:6 - And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1Sa 23:7 - And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
1Sa 23:8 - And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
1Sa 23:9 - And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
1Sa 23:10
1Sa 23:10 - Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
1Sa 23:11 - Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
1Sa 23:12 - Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
1Sa 23:13 - Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
1Sa 23:14 - And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
Saul Pursues David ©
1Sa 23:15 - And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
1Sa 23:16 - And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
1Sa 23:17 - And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
1Sa 23:18 - And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
1Sa 23:19 - Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
1Sa 23:20 - Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
1Sa 23:21 - And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
1Sa 23:22 - Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
1Sa 23:23 - See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
1Sa 23:24 - And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
1Sa 23:25 - Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1Sa 23:26 - And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
1Sa 23:27 - But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
1Sa 23:28 - Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.
1Sa 23:29 - And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
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Values and Strategy
rtallia posted this question in "Hey, Bill". I machine-gun-typed an answer, but then I liked the answer enough that I decided to expand the answer and post it here, as an article:
A question on your "relievers throughout history" article. Since the top reliever workload is now exactly half of what it was 30-40 years ago, presumably those next 70 innings are now being pitched by each team's SECOND best reliever. The question is...is that 2nd reliever, who gets a bunch of "Holds" to his credit and maybe 4-6 saves throughout the season, almost as good (at this point) as the closer himself? Do you think that the combination of the 1 +2 revlievers, especially over the past 5 years, is equal in effectiveness to that 140 innings from the top reliever from 40 years ago?
My answer, somewhat edited:
I don't have a good understanding of that, nor, I think, does anyone else.
In the evolution of strategy, when the managers/executives by groupthink focus on an advantage within a strategy, they are working blind to the fact that there is also a disadvantage within that strategy. Eventually the strategy will expand usage until the point is reached at which the disadvantage becomes self-evident. But to calculate the costs and benefits of a strategy is in almost all cases such a complex mathematical problem as to be almost impossible to resolve.
For every strategy, there is a point in its expansion at which the costs of strategy will outweigh the benefits. Stealing bases, for example. If you only have one base stealer and he can steal 80% of the time, no doubt it is a good strategy. If you start stealing bases with your second-best base stealer, your third-best, your fourth-best. ....
If you start stealing bases in the optimal base-running situation. . .let's say two out, singles hitter at the plate. . ..if you start stealing bases in that situation, OK, but then you start stealing in the less-optimal situation, the next less-optimal, until eventually you are trying to steal bases down 4 runs in the 9th inning. Which I have seen, I think; I have seen players do that.
If you start stealing bases when you have a pitcher on the mound who is slow to the plate and a catcher who doesn't have a great arm, that may be a great strategy. The pitcher is slow to the plate and the catcher has a "D" arm; GO. But then you start stealing when the catcher has a C arm, and when the catcher has a B arm, and when the catcher has an A arm. As you expand the use of the strategy, you move into the area in which it is no longer optimal strategy.
Let us say that a leadoff man who has a .350 on base percentage but can steal 100 bases a year is more valuable than a leadoff man who has a .360 on base percentage but can't get out of his own way. But as you expand the strategy, the on-base percentage of the players you choose to put on your roster gets lower and lower, until eventually you have Omar Moreno in your lineup every day. The costs of the strategy expand as its usage expands.
What I am trying to get to. . .EVERY strategy is bound in this way not by a single cost, but rather, every strategy is surrounded on all sides by a variety of costs, all of which increase as the usage of the strategy increases. It is impossible to calculate what all of these costs are at each point. Baseball people see the benefit in a strategy and adopt it and use it more and more and more, until it becomes apparent that its cost are outweighing its benefits. But no one ever knows what that point is until it becomes apparent; therefore, strategy changes endlessly, always shifting, always trying to find the balance points at which each strategy is at maximum value in comparison to other strategies.
And this, of course, is not unique to baseball or to sports. Every business, every endeavor at all points in time is relying on strategies that have expanded to the point at which they have become self-destructive. Television commercials. Television stations rely on commercial revenue, so they try to sell more commercials and more commercials and more commercials. But as the strategy expands, the costs of the strategy expand. You put enough commercials in the middle of a sitcom, people start watching baseball games; you put enough commercials in the middle of a baseball game, people start watching soccer, or they go out bird-watching or mountain-climbing or kayaking or something. Then somebody starts something like Netflix; they can make sitcoms just as good as the TV station can, collect a few dollars a month from a vast number of people, and all of a sudden the network which relies on selling commercials finds its revenue plummeting. It works until it doesn’t work anymore.
Or negative advertising/opposition research in political campaigning. The assholes who promote this stuff have studies that prove that it works. They can prove the benefits—but the costs are enormous. You start broadcasting negative stuff about your political opponents; eventually people start to believe that it is true. They start to believe that is true about both sides. After a while you have Senate confirmation hearings in which every Senator makes an ass of himself trying to throw mud the other Senators. Eventually you have riots in the streets, with the people who believe that the Republicans are venal rioting against the strongholds of the Republicans, and the people who believe that the Democrats are venal rioting against the strongholds of the Democrats.
It is the same thing; it is strategies expanding until the costs of them become much higher than the benefits. We are surrounded by this on all sides; the undocumented, unmeasured costs of old strategies wash up against the sides of our house. This is why societies need value systems. You need a value system that says "attacking your political opponents is wrong" which is stronger than the research of political operatives which says "NEGATIVE ADVERTISING WORKS."
In baseball, too, you have to be guided by Values, rather than strictly by math and strategies. Many of you will remember that I have written many times about Red Rolfe in Detroit in 1951-1952 platooning Vic Wertz. This fascinates me because it is one of the clearest examples of this principle that I am trying to explain here. Casey Stengel’s brilliant use of platooning made platooning a hot strategy. Detroit manager Red Rolfe started platooning Vic Wertz, who had driven in 133 and 123 runs the two previous seasons. It pissed off Wertz, destroyed Rolfe’s managerial career, and the Tigers went from 95 wins to 104 losses in two years. VALUES. You don’t believe in the strategy more than you believe in the player. You don’t believe in the commercial revenue more than you believe in producing a good television show.
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laferrierelouis
Maybe someday someone will come with the idea that giving only 60 innings a year to your best pitcher is not the ultimate stategy.
8:11 PM Jan 15th
Interesting article. I commented on previous article about use of relievers and what is best strategy for such usage and I stated we don't know what is the best strategy. Now you've got me to think that there never can be an optimal use that stays optimal in that the opponent is always adjusting to meet your strategy. Evolution shows this in spades. War too. And the cost/benefit dichotomy always is there to affect what you can do: i.e., designing/building a bridge - you have to define weight requirements that the bridge will be expected to hold, how long the bridge will last, cost of repairs, etc. It would be crazy to spend triple the money to make a bridge that can hold more traffic than you can park on the bridge. At least baseball has tried to reduce the effects of some strategies that would hurt the game, i.e., how many players you can have, luxury tax if you pay too much for your players, both these rules reduce the effect of buying and stockpiling all the best players. Having all the best players would be an effective strategy.
11:26 PM Jan 14th
Thank you once again for your clear thinking, Bill.
PeteRidges
We might think that MLB.TV would be Netflix to the mainstream's...well, mainstream. But no! On MLB.TV, when you've paid your subscription there are commercials between innings and when there aren't, there are highlights of old games. And you can't fast-forward through them.
But hey, it's in summer so as Bill says, I can just go mountain-climbing instead. And I do.
arnewcs
Over-reliance on a single strategy is most obviously damaging in a war or in the circumstances that lead to a war. The story you hear is that in its wars, the U.S. military has a bias toward attaining control of the air, and this leads it to neglect control of the ground, where the people it fights are living. Hence the inability to subdue Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
wdr1946
Don't forget that baseball is a game in which a team often can NOT use its best players, certainly not as often as it would want to. Miller Huggins, the Manager of the 1927 NY Yankees, would have liked to use Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in every at bat, but he couldn't- besides them, he had to draw up a lineup which included the shortstop, the catcher, and the pitcher. The "second best" relief pitcher on a team might well be as good as the first best reliever after 70 innings.
1:33 AM Jan 14th
MarisFan61
Great references to how this has applied (and is applying) to things besides baseball.
I sometimes think baseball teaches us about everything.
Correction: I always think it.
Bill, it's one of the things I've most appreciated about your writing: how the things you say can be key for things in general. And really, the gist of this article is much the same as the main gist that I've gotten generally out of your work forever:
Issues have multiple factors within them, operating in different directions and carrying different weights. Try to discern what are the main factors for any given issue, have an idea of what direction they operate in and how much, and crunch it all together in the most meaningful way you can.
I use it in everything.
Regarding the original question about relievers, my guess is that the combination of two relievers pitching 70 innings each is less effective than the single 140-inning reliever--in the season where he's actually pitching 140 innings. The gain comes from the increased likelihood that the ace will pitch 70 effective innings the next year, and the year after that, instead of tearing a ligament or a rotator cuff.
That's my guess, like I said. I haven't studied the question of whether relievers tend to stay healthier now than 40 years ago.
Despite being a certified baseball nut, I stopped watching baseball games decades ago. The commercials drove me crazy. Not only every half inning, but worse, every bloody time a reliever comes in. Nothing kills the excitement of a rally more than switching to a commercial just as a team brings in a reliever to quell a rally.
Getting even more tangental to a discusion of strategies, how about balance? Everything in life has sweetspots - just the right balance or ratios. They may flucuant, but at any given moment, there is an optimal amount.
TheRicemanCometh
Strategy, in baseball at least, has hit a point where the game is boring. That's why baseball is losing interest among the youngins. It's boring. Baseball needs rule changes because the dominant strategies of today are creating a boring game that after my generation no one will care about.
doncoffin
Stolen base attempts (SB+CS per 40 PA), after rising steadily between 1950 and 1980 have been falling pretty consistently since. Stolen base success rates [SB divided by (SB+CS)] have been rising steadily since the 1920s.
I started thinking about the "three true outcomes" offenses yesterday, really about this issue (see my post in the reader post section). Overall, runs per game have not varied much over time. But since 1980, the game has shifted toward a lot more strikeouts (up from 12.5% of plate appearances to 23.4%), and more home runs (from 1.9% to 3.5%). (Unintentional walks haven't changed significantly.) But my sense is that for a lot of fans these changes have degraded the game experience even as scoring has, basically, not changed. I don't know whether the rising strikeout rate (which really took off around 1980) led to the rising home un rates, or vice versa. But it does seem that, once it started, it has fed on itself.
evanecurb
This idea is true, and I've never seen it expressed so clearly. I thought of an example from football. For years, football rules have been modified to encourage more passing and scoring. There's a cost to that: more injuries. In brief,
More passing = more plays from scrimmage
More scoring = more kickoffs, which are more dangerous than plays from scrimmage
More passing = more high impact collisons
More plays per game + more passes + more kickoffs = more injuries. Not because the individual plays themselves aren't safer than the plays that were run in 1975, but because of the increase in the number of plays being run. It's a huge cost that's not totally offset by safety measures or advances in medicine, training, and equipment.
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Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, CytoDyn in Manufacturing Partnership for COVID-19 Drug
BioPharm International Editors
The companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement to supply leronlimab, an investigational new drug currently being used in clinical trial protocols for COVID-19.
On May 5, 2020, Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services (Aji Bio-Pharma), a contract development and manufacturing organization, announced that it has entered into a manufacturing services agreement with CytoDyn, a late-stage biotechnology company, for the supply of the investigational new drug, leronlimab (PRO 140), which is currently being used in clinical trial protocols for mild-to-moderately ill and severely ill COVID-19 patients.
Leronlimab is a novel CCR5 antagonist with the potential for multiple therapeutic indications. It has been and is currently being administered to COVID-19 patients at New York City area hospitals as part of an emergency investigational new drug (EIND), granted by FDA as part of Phase I, Phase II, and Phase IIb/III clinical trials. CytoDyn is currently enrolling patients in two placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials for Phase II and Phase IIb/III.
"We are very excited to support CytoDyn's efforts to utilize this promising antibody therapeutic in the fight against COVID-19," said Kristin DeFife, PhD, senior vice-president of Operations and site head at Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, in a company press release.
"We are extremely pleased to already have been collaborating with Aji Bio-Pharma for the production of leronlimab for other therapeutic indications, allowing us to quickly provide this therapeutic to COVID-19 patients in clinical trials," said Nader Pourhassan, PhD, president and CEO of CytoDyn, in the press release. "Aji Bio-Pharma's drug product experience, infrastructure, and strong regulatory track record were important to this partnership and in the timely supply of this therapeutic."
Source: Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services
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BlackCraft
Black Forest Magazine
Art in its Blackest form
Idre – when eerie darkness strikes you with a massive melancholy
June 28, 2014 by Jan F. Lindsø Leave a Comment
Idre is probably a new name for the most of you, at least it was for me. They released their first album on May 5th, 2014 through Dust House Records. Their two track album really has a special atmosphere, and even shows some true potential to become something even greater. You can stream the full album at the bottom of this article.
After listening to their album, I decided to hook up with Ryan Davis (guitar, vocals) and Nicholas Wojcik (drums) of this Oklahoma-based trio.
Give us a short introduction to the two tracks on your album. What stories does the songs tell, and does the album have a concept?
Ryan: I wrote “Factorie” over the course of two years or so, during which time I had a few experiences as a migrant laborer. The song itself was highly influenced by these experiences, particularly the multifaceted degradation that my coworkers and I experienced and the toll it all took on our bodies and minds. Though it clocks in at over 26 minutes, the song was initially much longer–it probably could have been a full-length release on its own, and was written for classical guitar, cello and vocals before our current lineup was together. It was also my first attempt to tell a fictional, though very personal, story through a song. When Andon joined on bass we ended up trimming it down.
I think the reason for it’s seemingly incorrect spelling was a desire to make the factory itself a proper noun and to give it agency as the malevolent entity I believe it to be.”Witch Trial” came about much more fluidly and was the first song that our band in it’s current form had all been a part of the writing process together on, and lyrically, is also a kind of Western style story that follows a protagonist.
Thematically and tonally speaking, feelings of anger, alienation, depression and anxiety, coupled with self-destruction and a generally shitty outlook surely play a decent role in the whole songwriting process.
Your music is quite dark and heavy. Where did you get the inspiration for it?
Nick: “Dark and heavy” – thanks, we’ll take that as a compliment. On a basic level, Ryan is responsible for writing the guitar work on the album, which ultimately set the stage for everything else. Beyond that I can only speak for myself. As a drummer, I have a particular interest in dynamics and tonality, and I guess I do tend to stray towards the darker side of things when it comes to the ways in which I explore the drum kit. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music from across the globe, so naturally I do find myself drawing inspiration from other artists, but also equally from outside sources that carry their own sense of power and weight, such as the natural landscape, personal experiences, etc. At rehearsal, I’ll come up with something to compliment Andon and Ryan and test it out. We’ll all talk about it and figure out what works and what doesn’t. Again, we like to take our time. The end result is always something we all collectively feel good about and confident with.
Ryan: I feel as though “dark” comes fairly natural to me as a songwriter. I’ve never been one to listen much to or ever play “fun” music. There’s almost always some sense of melancholy or somberness present in the music I find myself relating to, whether it be as a listener or songwriter. Thematically and tonally speaking, feelings of anger, alienation, depression and anxiety, coupled with self-destruction and a generally shitty outlook surely play a decent role in the whole songwriting process. As far as heaviness is concerned, Nick and I are just a couple of metal heads.
When will we hear more from Idre, and what are your ambitions?
Nick: We have skeletons for 3 new songs we’ve been working on and they seem to pick up right where our debut album left off. We are all anxious about the new material, but we are not ones to rush the creative process either; we like to take our time, start with a framework and build, ironing out all the little nuances along the way. We’ve analyzed the self-titled record ad nauseum and discussed ways in which we’d like to take the next recording to bring forth something that shows that we are growing as a band, as a unit – we have no interest in rehashing the same record over and over. Our plan is to enter the studio before the year’s end, with live dates mixed in there as well. As far as live dates go, this past spring saw us playing a heavy number of regional shows, including some festival dates, so we would therefore like to shift gears and concentrate more on playing cities/states we’ve never been to. It would be great to eventually get to Europe and elsewhere…We certainly welcome any such opportunities that come our way…
We’re really looking forward to what the future brings for Idre, and hopefully you’ll be able to see them live somewhere nearby. Until then, you may check out their album below:
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About Jan F. Lindsø
Norwegian musician, photographer and writer. Founder and owner of label and management Black Forest Records.
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The Bridge: Denmark and Sweden
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Price From $6,120 pp excluding flights
Flight time 1HRS 50 MINS FROM LONDON. 8HRS FROM NYC
Inspired by the latest Nordic Noir series, the dark, urban crime drama The Bridge, this five night Scandinavian trip takes you from the culturally rich capital of Copenhagen to the hip Swedish cities of Malmo and Stockholm. Walk the cobbled streets and alleyways of Copenhagen on a private literary tour with writers who helped produce some of our favorite Scandi dramas such as The Bridge and The Killing. Then cross the Oresund Bridge, where the chilling murder took place, into Malmo. You’ll finish up in the Swedish capital of Stockholm for an exploration of one of Europe’s most sophisticated cities. Get a bird’s eye perspective as you climb to the roof of some of the city’s architectural gems on a thrilling rooftop walking tour where you’ll get incredible vantage points of the city and surrounding archipelago.
Chilling Copenhagen
Touch down in Copenhagen, one of Europe’s most effortlessly chic cities with its meandering canals, cobbled squares and of course culinary giants. Noma aside, Copenhagen has also become the cinematic center piece for the wave of gritty Scandinavian crime dramas known as Nordic Noir that have graced our TV screens in the last few years. You’ll be driven to your hip city crash pad for the next three nights – the exclusive Hotel Nimb located inside Tivoli Gardens in the heart of downtown Copenhagen. The city is renowned as one of the culinary capitals of the world, so take your pick of the 12 Michelin starred restaurants that the cast and producers frequent whilst on location.
Rise and shine early and meet your driver for a cultural immersion into Copenhagen by visiting its iconic sites that feature in the series; the Supreme Court and the Royal Library and the grand City Hall.
From here your guide will take you past the Royal Theater to “Newport” with its buzzing atmosphere, row of charming old Copenhagen buildings and canal full of old boats, you’ll feel as though you’ve stepped onto the set of a Nordic Noir.
After lunch, another expert guide will pick you up for a special private literary tour focusing on the famous series The Bridge or Borgen. This 2 hour city walk will take you into the “universe” of either of these series and you will visit all the places famous from the series, such as the Politigården (Police Headquarters) and the City Court which is used for a trial against a policeman who allegedly abused a man to death. For a last stop head to Blågårdsgade, a parallel street to Nørrebrogade in inner Nørrebro, a trendy pedestrian street lined with hip coffee shops, art shops and galleries, and quaint restaurants.
Crossing the Bridge
In the morning after breakfast, your private driver will pick you up and bring you across the famous Oresund Bridge to the city of Malmo in Sweden. The iconic structure takes about 40 minutes to cross so your driver will stop off for a chance to capture the views from the bridge which connects Denmark to Sweden, 15.9 km of architectural beauty. Once over the bridge you’ll meet your guide in Malmo who will take you on a tour of the city by bike, the best way to the see the sites of the city. For art buffs head to the Moderna Muséet, the city’s new cultural hub set in a former power station that now contains one of the most comprehensive 20th-century art collections in Scandinavia. To really soak up the atmosphere of the city head to The Little Square a perfect place to sit and relax, with its cobblestones, carefully restored houses and 16th-century charm.
Stylin’ in Stockholm
The following morning you’ll be transferred to the airport for your flight to Stockholm. Arriving at Arlanda Airport you’ll be met by your driver and taken to the contemporary Lydmar Hotel perfectly located in the heart of the city. As well as being one of the most forward thinking cities in the world when it comes fashion and design, the Swedish capital is also a gourmet hotspot where you will find world-renowned restaurants as Restaurant Mathias Dahlgren, Restaurant Frantzen and other Michelin-starred experiences. For the next few days you’ll explore all that’s great about this uber-cool city from Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s Old Town to the stylish Södermalm district. Keeping in line with the theme of chilling experiences, we’ll arrange for you to take to the rooftops of the city on an exhilarating rooftop walking tour of the old city – not for the faint hearted. With a guide at hand you’ll be harnessed to the rooftops as you take in the incredible views of Stockholm. Notice the Royal Palace, official residence of the King and the old town which is right under your feet. Enjoy your last night in the capital hitting the famous night spots before bidding farewell to the Nordic nations and catching your flight home.
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by Stassi Reid March 31, 2017, 10:26 am in Life
15 Animals/Insects That’ll Be Extinct in Your Lifetime
Before we know it, these animals and insects will cease to exist.
In a perfect world, humans and all 8.7 million land and ocean species would perfectly co-exist together. But due to various risks, including natural causes, hunting, pollution, and climate change, many of Earth’s animals and insects are going extinct. As the endangered species list grows longer and longer over the years, here are a few of the species that will probably go extinct during your lifetime.
1. Lemur
There are more than 100 species of lemurs in the world, and all of them are listed on the endangered species list. As of 2013, it has been estimated that 90% of all lemur species will be extinct within the next 20-25 years. Habitat destruction and hunting have been noted as the causes of this animal’s sharp decline in population.
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Best Companies to Work For 2018
Leading the Change
ICICI Bank, which has always been at the forefront of change, is on an HR transformation exercise to handle the digital revolution.
Anand Adhikari | Print Edition: March 11, 2018
A few months ago, Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank, visited one of the branches in the coastal district of Odisha. The Balasore branch is more than 200 km away from Bhubaneswar and Kolkata airports. However, the 56-year-old Kochhar paid a 'virtual' visit while sitting at the bank's headquarters in Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex. She had a long chat with the employees, enquiring about their well-being, business and customers. The e-visits are designed to connect with branches in far-flung areas, especially as the bank has many well-performing branches in remote areas. Balasore, for instance, has huge business potential in agriculture, fishing and tourism. Then there are several well-known companies in the area, including Birla Tyres, Balasore Alloys and North Eastern Electricity Supply Company of Odisha, or NESCO. Kochhar often makes these e-visits to boost the morale of branch employees and also to ensure better productivity and efficiency of the senior management team.
That ICICI Bank is aggressively embracing disruptive technology is not new. From setting up ATM networks to reimagining retail business in the 1990s and the 2000s, the private sector Goliath has adapted to change by marrying technology with its people. A year ago, the organisation kicked off a large initiative called '#ICICI lead the new' to capture the massive changes technology is bringing in life and also in the way banking used to be done.
"Our consumers are getting more digital, more mobile and younger. As a bank, we have to be relevant and seamlessly integrate with their digital life. The only way we can do it is by preparing our employees and also adopting that mindset. In a way, it is not a big challenge as our workforce is also getting younger," says Kochhar (unlike many public sector banks, the average age of ICICI employees is just 30 years).
Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, Icici Bank
While technology enthuses its young and dynamic workforce, there is something more. "Today's youngsters want engagement," emphasises T.K. Srirang, Head of Human Resources at ICICI Bank. The traditional banks are gradually realising that the age-old hierarchy-based structures are not necessarily the most effective way to deal with people or do business. "The market today is all about speed and agility, and how quickly you can respond to a changing requirement," the HR head believes.
The heady cocktail of mass-scale digitisation, a young workforce and an upwardly mobile customer base are transforming the entire banking model. Therefore, changes are required at the organisational level to manage and deliver banking services. Like they say, the simpler the systems and processes, the lesser the complications. The bank has started its journey of making things simpler for its employees, which is also helping its customers.
Here is an example. A year ago, all directors were given certain key projects where the bank wanted to reduce turnaround time across various transactions. Sixty-plus projects were picked up for this purpose. Of course, a bank of its size has systems and processes built over the years to run it in a certain manner. And it is true for other banks as well. But ICICI Bank is probably acting faster to be ahead of the curve. "The idea is to relook at the (existing) system and evaluate if it is still required," explains Srirang.
The need to change and act fast rises on many occasions. For instance, customers often want to convert resident savings accounts into non-resident ones when they shift base and go abroad. Earlier it used to take a lot of time as a customer had to send the right set of documents through an international courier. Many a time, he/she did not send the right set of documents at one go, causing delays. But the entire process has been digitised now, and customers can easily upload the documents via Internet banking. As a result, the conversion time has been reduced to almost one-tenth of what it used to be at the start of the project. "More projects are under way to reduce turnaround time drastically," says Srirang.
Many blame technology for reducing the human touch, but ICICI Bank has used it well to open new channels for reaching out to people. Much like the successful e-visit to Balasore, Kochhar communicates with all 83,300 employees by way of a new technology that combines webcast and videoconferencing (VC). It enables a two-way communication where employees get a chance to have a live chat with her. Kochhar holds this kind of meeting once in three months to discuss key issues. According to insiders, these interactive sessions may go on for two hours or so. "The idea is to improve the whole process of connecting," according to Srirang.
The bank is also using the technology to provide financial performance updates to employees or explain how appraisals have been done. Plus, the senior management now gets instant employee feedback, which would have been extremely difficult in a hierarchical system.
"But we have physical interactions as well," adds Kochhar. She meets 30-40 employees on a regular basis even without any specific business agenda. "What technology does is to enable you to reach out to a large number of people."
The bank had used the VC-Webcast system during demonetisation as Kochhar reached out to employees and urged them to serve their customers better. In one such meeting, there were discussions on better crowd management at the branches. During those days, customers had to wait for hours to withdraw money, and many of them could not be serviced on the day they came due to insufficient funds or other reasons. Employees of a branch came up with the idea of a token system. Accordingly, coupons were handed out to customers not serviced so that they would get preference the next day.
Use of new technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, and revamped processes also pose a stiff challenge to the employees. The bank has been visiting engineering colleges over the past three years to hire tech talent. It is also investing in intense training to improve the skills and capabilities of its employees. "We are taking big initiatives in the design thinking space. We have to think of designing a product from a customer point of view," details Srirang.
ICICI Bank engaged ExperiencePoint in a series of design thinking workshops that were co-designed by IDEO, a global company that has designed and developed apps for iPhones and iPads and ExperiencePoint. "We aim to prepare people so that they can think about the best possible design, colour, user interface and so on," says Srirang but refuses to disclose more.
Analytics is another focus area where the bank is investing. Frontline managers trained in banking are also getting trained in analytical skills. The reason: Banks today have the largest source of data, but ICICI is not comfortable sharing it with fintech companies or developers. So, the best option is to build analytical skills within the workforce. ICICI runs a three-level programme for creating awareness regarding the use of data and its interpretation for better decision-making. "Every leader has the basic tools and skills to use data," affirms Srirang.
T.K. Srirang, Head of Human Resources
In spite of technology adaptation, Kochhar feels the banking business will remain people intensive as "it is a hugely growing business. Gradually, there will be some amount of change in skills, and technology will also add qualitatively to jobs. You require more data analytics skills, statisticians, knowledge of machine learning and so on."
It is not easy to anchor the 'change and reshape' culture that is driving the new-age bank, but Kochhar and the senior leadership team seem well-prepared and ready to handhold the rest. They attended a two-day programme conducted by Harvard University's Professor Ronald Heifetz, who talked about the transformation that companies need to go through. There are fundamentally two kinds of transformation. One is technical challenges and the other is behavioural, which is more difficult. "People normally do not change," observes Srirang. "Heifetz discussed how to handle the adaptable challenges."
Kochhar and her deputies also drive a core team that tracks tomorrow's winners - big projects and big ideas where the bank should invest today to stay ahead of competition or to add significant value to the brand. Their imprimatur is likely to keep it nimble enough to think on its feet, explore the positive side of change and enhance employee excellence through better engagement.
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Birds of Europe, Russia, China, & Japan. Non-Passerines: Loons to Woodpeckers
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This is one of two companion field guides that illustrate and describe all of the approximately 1,800 bird species found in the Palearctic--the huge region that includes Europe, Asia north of the Himalayas, Africa north of the Sahara Desert, and the Middle East excluding the Gulf countries. This volume covers non-passerines--non-songbirds, including raptors, owls, swifts, hummingbirds, cuckoos, and pigeons. It includes every non-passerine species and subspecies, in every adult plumage--all illustrated and described by Norman Arlott, a leading bird artist with many years of field experience.
The two volumes of Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan are the only field guides to illustrate and describe every bird species in the Palearctic. And, for many parts of this region, these books provide the first and only field guides.
* Color plates of all field-identifiable species, including subspecies and color morphs
* Succinct facing-page text concentrates on key field-identification features, including voice
* Detailed distribution map for each species
* Well-researched and accessible
* Handy format--the ideal field guide
* Essential for anyone interested in Eurasian birds.
91 color plates, distribution maps. The companion to Arlott�s volume on Passerines, published in 2007, completing the series that illustrates every species in the Palearctic.
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Seeing how this is such an amazing initiative, even cats decided to join in on the fun! Restaurants in Dubai have all but banned cats from their premises, as they are at a risk of being fined by the Emirates Municipality if stray cats were to be found inside restaurants or on restaurant grounds. We'd like to see this move as an attempt to get cats to enjoy the spirituality of Ramadan, because why should expats have all the fun?
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by Mike Cassling on August 29, 2018
You may have noticed that we’ve gone a little ultrasound-crazy here at Cassling.
It’s not until October that we celebrate Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, or as we’ve taken to calling it, #MUAM (my social media team tells me I have to use the hashtag or it doesn’t count). School is barely back in session, but we wanted to get the party started early so we can properly recognize everything sonographers do for patients and the healthcare field as a whole.
To that end, I want you to know about the celebratory ultrasound promotional toolkit we have available to order. Many of you have likely ordered these annual materials in the past, while for others, this may be your first year. And still there may be some of you reading this who aren’t completely sure what I’m referring to. Let me explain.
We are giving promotional items dedicated to Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, for free, to any healthcare institution who requests materials. By submitting your order by September 7, sonographers, their supervisors, physicians and other healthcare professionals who want to recognize the integral role of the sonographer can order:
Full-color 12"x18" Posters
Word Search Activity
Crossword Puzzle (my personal favorite)
Some of the items are available for immediate download; others will be shipped at no cost to your facility in time for the celebration.
We will also be hosting a webinar on October 18 for sonographers and other attendees to earn 1.0 CE Credit from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (the ARDMS accepts these credits as well). It’s called “Arterial Ultrasound in the Abdomen,” and it’s hosted by Dr. Ann Marie Kupinski.
The webinar is an extension of our popular Investing in You continuing education series, which we now offer in both live and on-demand formats so you can watch and earn CE credits in a way that fits your schedule.
Ultrasound is Having a Moment
It’s been a big year for ultrasound.
Ultrasound continues to gain ground throughout hospital systems as physicians and others recognize the benefits of a non-invasive means of testing and the expertise of the professionals conducting these tests. It’s been a pleasure to witness this immense growth in ultrasound, driven by technological capabilities and innovative new methods of diagnosing various conditions.
The new technology available in the field is astounding as well. Siemens Healthineers, with whom we partner to provide imaging technology to healthcare entities throughout the country, has generated considerable buzz by introducing two groundbreaking new systems: the ACUSON Sequoia and the ACUSON Juniper.
The Sequoia brings a level of depth penetration that’s unprecedented. To demonstrate this, Siemens is featuring a sumo wrestler as the centerpiece of its promotional launch, and it’s easy to see why. Being able to attain accurate images with larger patients has long remained the goal for sonographers, and with 40 centimeters of penetration possible, the Sequoia has achieved something that greatly benefits diagnoses.
The ACUSON Juniper is remarkable for other reasons. Its light weight and portability are impressive, offering an enhanced degree of comfort that patients and sonographers alike have really responded to.
Meeting You Where You Are
If you’re interested, I invite you to see the ACUSON Sequoia and ACUSON Juniper firsthand at one of the Ultrasound Road Shows we’re hosting throughout the Midwest in October (you can see a full line-up here). We’ll be providing one-on-one demonstrations of the technology with live subjects, letting you get up close and personal to see the technology for yourself.
Each of these events will feature a 1.0 CE credit educational presentation centered around the Sequoia, titled “BioAcoustic Imaging Technology.” If you happen to be in town for the Omaha road show specifically, be sure to stay an extra day to attend our Investing in You seminar, where you can take part in a packed, all-day agenda worth 6.0 CE credits.
For me personally, I’m excited that we’ve been able to bring Cassling closer in touch with the sonography community. Another way we do this is by offering ultrasound equipment service for our customers, the first time we’ve done so in our history. We have a team that’s been introducing themselves to customers throughout the Midwest and responding when any technical issues arise. The feedback we’ve gotten even in just the first couple of months has been extremely positive, as Jerod, Dale and the rest of the Service team have been able to limit downtime and get facilities up and running quickly and safely.
We’ve gone “all-in” on ultrasound at Cassling. I remain committed to providing you with advanced solutions that ultimately impact patient care. The role sonographers play on the care team is more important than ever, and we will continue to support our ultrasound colleagues in the medical community however we can.
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Automation Alley teams up to boost PPE production
By: Terry Oparka | C&G Newspapers | Published July 7, 2020
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METRO DETROIT — “COVID-19 was a wakeup call for the global manufacturing industry,” said Tom Kelly, executive director for Automation Alley, at a June 30 press conference at the facility.
“While Michigan companies rose to the challenge to provide critical personal protection equipment, we must ensure the continued resiliency of manufacturing in our state and in our counties,” Kelly said.
On June 30, Kelly announced that Oakland and Macomb counties will donate $10 million and $2 million, respectively, to a program to support manufacturers in providing personal protection equipment for first responders, health care professionals and residents.
“Oakland County, in partnership with Macomb County and Automation Alley, created the Personal Protective Equipment Resilience Grant Program to address the urgent need to move Oakland County and Macomb County-based companies quickly into the digital manufacturing age of ‘Industry 4.0’ to help improve our region’s manufacturing agility for PPE,” states a press release from Oakland County.
“Industry 4.0 technologies, for the purposes of this grant program, refer to: internet of things (IoT), big data, robotics, artificial intelligence, the cloud, cybersecurity, additive manufacturing, advanced materials, and modeling, simulation, visualization, and immersion,” the release states.
Automation Alley, according to the release, facilitates “public-private partnerships by connecting industry, education and government to fuel Michigan’s economy and accelerate innovation.”
Some examples of Industry 4.0 uses during the pandemic include:
• Additive manufacturing to produce ventilator parts and molds and PPE.
• Big data used to assess COVID-19 spread, behavior and trends.
• Cyber security technologies critical for secure contact tracing.
Kelly thanked Oakland County Executive David Coulter and Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel for their leadership “in recognizing the need for rapid ramp up” of 4.0 technologies.
“Automation Alley has become the go-to source for advanced manufacturing in the digital era,” Kelly said. “Manufacturers accepted into the program will receive strategic guidance on how to transition from legacy operations to digital manufacturing.”
“We’re pleased to be in partnership with Macomb County,” Coulter said at the press conference. “It’s an awesome opportunity to show that together we can shore up the manufacturing sector in both our counties and do it in a way that makes our region stronger.”
He thanked the Oakland County commissioners, who he said unanimously approved spending this money to help small manufacturers.
Hackel said Macomb County has a rich history of working with Automation Alley.
“We (both counties) may be competitive to some degree; we are.” Hackel said. “But the reality is we need to join together because we need to be more competitive as a region.”
Oakland and Macomb county-based manufacturers interested in applying for the Personal Protective Equipment Resilience Grant Program can find more information and a link to the application at https://automationalley.com/PPEgrant.
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Best and Worst of 2017 - Best Five Films
I've already covered the worst cinematic efforts of last year, and my list of the finest is late to say the least - sadly Disney decided to release Pixar's latest product Coco two months later here in the UK and considering it's outstanding acclaim upon debut in the US, I decided to wait and check it out before listing my favourites of the past 12 months. Perhaps I've also been a bit lazy in recent times...so, with Coco reviewed a few weeks back, let's finally commence with a long overdue ranking of the best films of 2017...
#5 - It
First brought to life as a television flick starring Tim Curry in 1990, Stephen King's arguably most renowned novel made it's way to cinema screens for the first time last September to rather outstanding results, scooping up $700 million in global earnings to rank as the horror genres highest grossing effort. Such accolades don't go undeserved - thanks to a superb script, haunting visuals, and a fantastic lead performance by Bill Skarsgård, It ranks as a terrifying yet thoughtful tale, far from afraid to censor the novel's key thrills whilst also never forgetting the complex story behind it all. Certainly one of the best horror films I've seen in quite a long time, and one fans of the genre must make checking out a huge priority.
#4 - The Disaster Artist
Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece of bad filmmaking The Room remains an icon to many - and so a film based on it's development, in turn adapted from the 2013 memoir of the same name, was inevitable for sure. James Franco finds himself helming and starring in this retelling of Wiseau's adventures throughout his films' bizarre production stages, and while Franco's own re-enactment of some of The Room's most infamous scenes are not always as faithful as one would hope, his overall effort in capturing the detail and depth to each character in such a story is inspiring for sure. Ranking as a humourous yet surprisingly deep story, The Disaster Artist is also an admirable and reasonably faithful effort to retell a strangely iconic part of film history.
#3 - Paddington 2
Paddington, released back in 2014, raised initial concerns of being a beloved childhood character being forced into a silly modern, pop culture riddled story simply to cash in on the appeal and earn a quick buck for needy film studios. Thankfully, the final product was a loveable and superbly told family adventure, and this all carries over into the sequel with equally fantastic results. With our titular hero once again brought to life with superb visual effects and rich voice work from Ben Wishaw, what also makes this another loveable watch is of course the superb blend of tender emotions and big laughs - we're left once again with a film apt for wide range of audiences in almost every way, only building upon the many successful merits of it's predecessor.
#2 - Coco
Again, I had to see this first before making this list - it may have not even made it on, but based on it's overwhelming critical success, I had a major feeling it simply would. Alas, Coco certainly stands tall as one of Pixar's very best efforts, let alone one of the best films of last year, showing how the studio has yet to lose their touch when it comes to crafting beautifully original stories that help prove animation still has the potential for complexity and emotional depth - not just ranking as colourful silliness to keep the kids quiet. It succeeds in pretty much every key category for sure - it looks gorgeous, has a handful of memorable songs, and a rich narrative that has the courage to explore deep themes in an approachable manner, leaving it a heartwarming masterpiece for all age groups.
#1 - War for the Planet of the Apes
The Planet of the Apes series recovered from a downward spiral with it's 2011 reboot, which revitalised the central story with a well told origin tale featuring some of the most exceptional motion capture CGI effects seen in a modern blockbuster. Last year's War for the Planet of the Apes brought the central trilogy to a close, despite potential for more sequels, and everything you'd expect from a closing installment is met in this emotionally stirring yet still suitably epic sci-fi hit. Alongside remarkable special effects, it's the lineup of fine performances that also help bring a well structured story to life in the best way possible, notably Serkis as ape leader Caesar once more and Woody Harrelson as our intimidating villain, simply known as the Colonel, who lacks the amount of screentime one may expect from a major foe but this somehow doesn't prevent him from remaining a thrilling antagonist. All this coupled with gripping yet never overly excessive set pieces leave this a superb finale to a fantastic story, maintaining all the positives of the previous entries and treating us to a lot more to boot.
Apologies once again for the major delay with this post, but there you have it - now let's see how this year's lineup of films compare...
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2013 Smart Forstars Concept is coming to Paris
In a recent statement, Mercedes announced that a new Smart concept vehicle will make its debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. Known as Forstarts, the future concept is an EV, described as being a Sports Utility Coupe (SUC) which can offer room for two people and a lot of stowage space.
Annette Winkler, Smart’s boss, says that ”The Smart is Europe’s most inexpensive series-produced electric car. Not only is it emission-free and fast, it is also possible to conveniently set the perfect interior temperature in advance with a smartphone, and it is simple to charge at a domestic socket. What’s more, with its powerful battery and integrated projector the smart forstars can transform any grey backyard into an animated open-air cinema.”
You’ve got that right. Thanks to its glass roof and a video projector integrated in the hood, Forstars “enables the work on film stars to be spontaneously shared with friends at any time.”
Only 3550 mm long, 1710mm wide and 1505mm tall, with a 2470mm wheelbase (603mm longer than the fortwo), Forstars concept it is based on the same on the same powertrain of Smart ForTwo Brabus Electric Drive.
The 80 hp magneto-electric motor has 135 Nm and reaches a tops-peed of 130 km/h. He is kept alive with the help of a 17.6 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.
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Trek Marlin 5 - 2021
Marlin 5 is a trail-worthy daily rider that's perfectly suited for everyday adventures, on and off the trail. A suspension fork, 21 speeds, and mounts for a rack and kickstand make it an ideal choice for new trail riders or anyone looking for a comfortable, stable commuter with the ruggedness of a real mountain bike. It's right for you if... You're new to the trail and you’re looking for a real mountain bike that doubles as a commuter—and you want it all at an exceptional value. The tech you get A lightweight aluminum frame with internal shift cable and brake hose routing to protect your cables and add to the bike's sleek look, 21 speeds, a wide range of gearing so you always have the right gear for your terrain, powerful hydraulic disc brakes, and a suspension fork that takes the edge off bumps and rough terrain. The final word It’s built in Trek's MTB heritage, so you get a great ride for all your adventures. But it's also versatile, and Marlin 5 is a popular ride on college campuses because the rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize and haul a load. Why you'll love it - It's a real mountain bike that's also perfectly suited to daily commutes, rides around campus, or just getting from A to B on any surface - Smaller frame sizes (XS and S) have short-reach brake levers that make it easier and more comfortable for riders with smaller hands to brake confidently - Marlin models in XS and S frame sizes have a curved top tube and a lower standover height that makes it easier for smaller riders to mount and dismount - Rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize, so your mountain bike can double as a rugged commuter - Like every model in the Marlin family, it's backed by Trek's lifetime warranty
Trek Marlin 5 Women's - 2020/2021
Marlin 5 Women's is a trail-worthy daily rider that's perfectly suited for everyday adventures, on and off the trail. A front suspension fork, a frame and parts designed specifically for women, 21 speeds, and mounts for a rack and kickstand make it an ideal choice for new trail riders or anyone looking for a comfortable, stable commuter with the ruggedness of a real mountain bike. It's right for you if... You're new to the trail, and you're looking for a great value on a real mountain bike that can double as a commuter. You also side with women who prefer the fit and feel of a bike made specifically for them. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Silver Aluminum frame with a sloping top tube on smaller sizes for better standover height and more confidence on the trail, touchpoints—like the saddle, bars, and grips—that can provide a better fit to women from the start, 21 speeds, a wide range of gearing for big hills, hydraulic disc brakes that feel smoother than mechanical disc brakes, and a suspension fork with 100mm of travel. The final word A trail-tough mountain bike built specifically for women. It's built-in Trek's MTB heritage and more than capable of taking on trail adventures. But it's also versatile. It's a popular ride on college campuses because the rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize and haul a load. Why you'll love it - It's a real mountain bike that's also perfectly suited to daily commutes, rides around campus, or just getting from A to B on any surface - Smaller frame sizes (X-Small and Small) have short-reach brake levers that make it easier and more comfortable for riders with smaller hands to brake confidently - It has separate brake and shift levers (a feature that's common on more expensive mountain bikes) so you can fine-tune the positioning for comfort - Rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize, so your mountain bike can double as a rugged commuter
Marlin 6 is a cross country mountain bike built to give you an efficient off-road ride with a suspension fork that locks out, and smoother-shifting 2x8 drivetrain. It's made for mountain biking, but it's also equipped with features like rack and kickstand mounts that make it a great choice for adventurous daily commutes. It's right for you if... - You're testing the waters of off-road riding, and want a real mountain bike at a great value, with a wide range of gears to cover more ground on the road and trail. The tech you get - A lightweight aluminum frame with internal shift cable and brake hose routing to protect your cables and add to the bike's sleek look, an efficient 2x8 drivetrain, powerful hydraulic disc brakes, and a suspension fork that takes the edge off bumps and rough terrain, plus a lever that lets you easily lock the suspension so you don't waste energy on smooth terrain. The final word - Marlin 6 gives you upgrades you'll notice on every ride, like the suspension lockout and a really smooth-shifting Shimano drivetrain. Extra-strong, double-walled rims and powerful hydraulic disc brakes give you durability and stopping power for your most rugged adventures on the trail, in town, and everywhere in between. Why you'll love it - The 2x drivetrain gives you all the gears you need and none you don’t - Smaller frame sizes (XS and S) have short-reach brake levers that make it easier and more comfortable for riders with smaller hands to brake confidently - Marlin models in XS and S frame sizes have a curved top tube and a lower standover height that makes it easier for smaller riders to mount and dismount - Rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize, so your mountain bike can double as a rugged commuter - Like every model in the Marlin family, it's backed by Trek's lifetime warranty
Marlin 6 is a quality introductory cross country mountain bike with front suspension and an upgraded 2x8 drivetrain that's light, simple, and easy to use. It's built-in Trek's trail heritage, but also equipped with features like mounts for a rack and kickstand that make it a great choice for daily commuters. It's right for you if... You're testing the waters of off-road riding, and want a real mountain bike at a great value, with a wide range of gears to cover more ground on the road and trail. The tech you get The heart of Marlin 6 is a lightweight Alpha Silver Aluminum frame with internal routing to protect your cables and add to the bike's sleek look. It has an efficient 2x8 drivetrain, hydraulic disc brakes that feel smoother than mechanical disc brakes, and a suspension fork with 100mm of travel and a lockout feature that lets you temporarily lock the suspension for better efficiency while climbing. The final word Performance features like suspension lockout, stronger double-walled rims, and hydraulic disc brakes. It's also equipped with rack and kickstand mounts and a wide range of gears. These design details make it a great choice if your mountain bike doubles as your commuter. Why you'll love it - The 2x drivetrain gives you all the gears you need and none you don’t - Smaller frame sizes (XS and S) have short-reach brake levers that make it easier and more comfortable for riders with smaller hands to brake confidently - It has separate brake and shift levers (a feature that's common on more expensive mountain bikes) so you can fine-tune the positioning for comfort - Rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize, so your mountain bike can double as a rugged commuter - Like every model in the Marlin family, it's backed by Trek's lifetime warranty
Trek Marlin 6 Women's - 2021
Marlin 6 Women's is a cross country mountain bike built to give you an efficient off-road ride with a suspension fork that locks out, and smoother-shifting 2x8 drivetrain. It's made for mountain biking, but it's also equipped with features like rack and kickstand mounts that make it a great choice for adventurous daily commutes. It's right for you if... - You're testing the waters of off-road riding and want a real mountain bike at a great value with a wide range of gears to cover more ground on the road and trail. The tech you get - A lightweight aluminum frame with internal shift cable and brake hose routing to protect your cables and add to the bike's sleek look, an efficient 2x8 drivetrain, powerful hydraulic disc brakes, a saddle designed for women, and a suspension fork that takes the edge off bumps and rough terrain, plus a lever that lets you easily lock the suspension so you don't waste energy on smooth terrain. The final word - Performance features like suspension lockout; stronger, double-walled rim; and hydraulic disc brakes. It's also equipped with rack and kickstand mounts and a wide range of gears. These design details make it a great choice if your mountain bike doubles as your commuter. Why you'll love it - The 2x drivetrain gives you all the gears you need and none you don’t - Marlin models in XS and S frame sizes have a curved top tube and a lower standover height that makes it easier for smaller riders to mount and dismount - Smaller frame sizes (XS and S) have short-reach brake levers that make it easier and more comfortable for riders with smaller hands to brake confidently - Rack and kickstand mounts make it easy to accessorize, so your mountain bike can double as a rugged commuter - Like every model in the Marlin family, it's backed by Trek's lifetime warranty
Marlin 7 is where race-worthy mountain bikes begin. The smooth, lightweight RockShox fork and upgraded parts make this model the best choice for new riders who want a fast cross country hardtail that will hold its own against our higher-end race bikes. It's right for you if... - You're new to the trail but have serious singletrack aspirations, and want a race-worthy mountain bike with upgrades on the parts that make a big difference in performance, like a higher quality suspension fork and a wide-range 1x drivetrain. The tech you get - A light frame with internal shift cable and brake hose cable routing, a smoother-feeling RockShox Judy fork with a lockout, Shimano hydraulic disc brakes, and a simple 1x drivetrain that ditches the front derailleur for less clutter and easier operation. Don't worry, with the wide-range 11-46 cassette, you still get all the gears you need for clawing up climbs and blazing down descents. The final word - The RockShox suspension, wide range of gearing, and quality parts make it the best choice in the Marlin lineup for new mountain bikers who know they want a serious bike for their money. It’s fully capable of taking on off-road marathon rides and XC races. Why you'll love it - This is one of our most popular bikes for good reason. You get all the value, plus all the versatility—it's a totally race-worthy mountain bike, with rear rack mounts if you use it for commuting too - It's really fun to ride, and feels like a much more expensive mountain bike - Great suspension at an even better price - The 1x drivetrain gives you all the gears you need and none you don’t - Marlin models in XS and S frame sizes have a curved top tube and a lower standover height that makes it easier for smaller riders to mount and dismount
Trek Procaliber 9.5 - 2021
Procaliber 9.5 is a lightweight carbon hardtail with the unique advantage of our trail-smoothing IsoSpeed decoupler. It's the most affordable carbon model in the Procaliber mountain bike family, and it's built for speed and efficiency on singletrack with a wide-range Shimano Deore 1x12 drivetrain, RockShox Judy SL fork, and speedy 29er wheels. It's right for you if... You love riding singletrack. You've entered several XC races, enjoyed every single one, and want to give racing a serious go. You're looking for a solid carbon race bike at an affordable price. The tech you get A light and stiff carbon frame with trail-smoothing IsoSpeed, a 100mm RockShox Judy SL fork with Solo Air spring and a TurnKey lockout, a smooth-shifting Shimano Deore 1x12 drivetrain, powerful Shimano hydraulic disc brakes, and fast, tubeless ready 29" wheels. The final word Procaliber 9.5 gives you the advantages of a carbon race bike with IsoSpeed at a wallet-friendly price, and it gives you solid tech where it matters most. Why you'll love it - You're getting into a carbon race bike at an awesome price - The IsoSpeed decoupler and carbon frame makes it ride smoother than any other hardtail, so your body doesn't get beat up by trail chatter - You get a Straight Shot downtube for extra-stiff, responsive handling without added weight and a Knock Block headset that protects against spinning bars and fork crowns - The RockShox fork's Solo Air spring can easily be adjusted for a specific rider weight, and it's lighter than a coil spring
Procaliber 9.6 is a race-ready cross country hardtail. Its fast carbon frame boasts a trail-taming IsoSpeed decoupler, fast 29er wheels, and a RockShox Reba RL suspension fork to keep you fast and smooth over roots and rocks during your most demanding mountain bike rides. It's right for you if... You're more than a casual singletrack rider. You put in long miles on the trail, show up to race, and want the speed, efficiency, and light weight of a carbon cross country bike with IsoSpeed. The tech you get A light and stiff carbon frame with the unique advantage of our trail-smoothing IsoSpeed, a 100mm RockShox Recon Gold RL fork with a plush DebonAir spring and remote lockout, a lighter-weight wide-range Shimano SLX drivetrain, powerful Shimano hydraulic disc brakes, and tubeless 29" Bontrager Kovee Comp 23 wheels. The final word This bike can compete with the very best hardtails out there. You get fatigue-fighting IsoSpeed with parts upgrades that save weight and give you better handling. If you want to rock the local race scene and rack up serious mileage, Procaliber 9.6 is a great choice. Why you'll love it - The upgraded fork gives you a remote lockout, a more plush spring, and a damper that gives you more control over the rough stuff. - The IsoSpeed decoupler and carbon frame makes it ride smoother than any other hardtail, so your body doesn't get beat up by trail chatter - The solid XC parts group will hold its own on the race course, but it's also going to hold up through everyday training rides - You get a Straight Shot downtube for extra-stiff, responsive handling without added weight and a Knock Block headset that protects against spinning bars and fork crowns - The remote lockout lets you lock out the fork without taking your hands off the bars
Trek Roscoe 6 - 2021
Roscoe 6 is the ideal gateway to mountain biking for new riders looking to have a fun time on the trail. It has plus-sized tires that inspire confidence by keeping you stable, a suspension fork that soaks up the big bumps and roots, an easy-to-use 1x drivetrain, and playful frame geometry that makes it easier to control your bike on technical trails and winding singletrack. It's right for you if... - You know there are good times to be had on the trail, and you want to be part of them! You're looking for an easy entry to the sport of mountain biking on a bike that will keep you excited and motivated to get out there day after day. The tech you get - A strong aluminum frame, confidence-inspiring 27.5+ wheels with wide, grippy tires, and an SR Suntour fork with 120mm of travel. It has a trail-tough Shimano drivetrain with 10 speeds and a wide range of gears for climbing, hydraulic disc brakes, and a dropper post for extra room on rough trails. The final word - Roscoe 6 is like the friend who takes you mountain biking for the first time and never gets frustrated while they're teaching you how to ride. It's all about getting out there, having fun, and enjoying the great sport of trail riding! Why you'll love it - It's more fun to be a better rider: Roscoe is so stable and forgiving, it's like an instant ability upgrade - Even when the trail gets rough, the wide 27.5+ tires deliver more confidence, traction, and stability - The dropper post lets you lower your saddle on the fly so it's out of the way on descents - It has rack mounts so you can use it for bikepacking or even running errands Features: Built for fun - Roscoe is a confidence-inspiring trail hardtail with stable handling, robust parts, and a longer-travel fork that gives you more control over bigger hits. Built to party with 1x drivetrains and dropper posts, these models are perfect for anyone who values fun over fast. High tech frame - The Alpha Gold Aluminum frame is packed with features that make your ride better. A tapered head tube gives you more precise, confident handling on the front end, while Boost 141 rear hub spacing gives you shorter chainstays for more nimble handling out back. 27.5 Plus traction - Better traction gives you more confidence. Roscoe's extra-wide 27.5 Plus tires give you more grip and overall stability so you can roll over anything with confidence.
Roscoe 7 is a mid-fat trail hardtail for riders who favor a fun and lively ride. Confidence-inspiring 27.5+ wheels and plus-sized tires, a plush suspension fork, and a wide-range drivetrain with plenty of gears make Roscoe 7 stable enough for new riders, and playful enough to make even the most experienced shredders smile. It's right for you if... You're new to the trail and want a fun and accessible hardtail that keeps you confident and in control when the trail gets rough. Or, you're a more experienced trail rider and you want a bike with more traction that knows how to party when you're out riding with friends. The tech you get Roscoe 7 features a strong Alpha Gold Aluminum frame with internal routing for cable protection and a clean look, confidence-inspiring 27.5+ tires mounted to Tubeless Ready Bontrager Line rims, 2.8-inch mid-fat tires, and a 120mm RockShox Judy SL fork with a TurnKey hydraulic lockout. It's equipped with a reliable SRAM SX Eagle 1x12 drivetrain, hydraulic disc brakes, and a dropper post for extra room on rough trails. The final word When you're riding Roscoe 7, it doesn't matter if you're a first-timer or an off-road pro—whatever your skill level, you're gonna have fun. It's built for ease of use and durability, so you can focus on enjoying the trail ahead. Why you'll love it - It's more fun to be a better rider: Roscoe is so stable and forgiving, it's like an instant ability upgrade - A shorter stem and wider handlebar make it easier to control - Even when the trail gets rough, the wide 27.5+ tires deliver more confidence, traction, and stability - The dropper post lets you lower your saddle on the fly so it's out of the way on descents - The RockShox fork's Solo Air spring can easily be adjusted for a specific rider weight, and it's lighter than a coil spring
Roscoe 8 is a trail hardtail for anyone looking to have some serious fun out in the dirt. Its 27.5+ mid-fat tires, a wide-range 1x12 drivetrain, and 120mm suspension fork make it a blast on every trail, from packed singletrack to the loose stuff. It's a laid-back trail mountain bike dressed in a high-quality spec that's ready to party. It's right for you if... You want to have fun. You're searching for a playful trail bike with high-quality parts and plus-sized tires so that when you're out on the trail, the only thing you have to worry about is your face hurting from smiling too much. The tech you get Roscoe 8 features a strong Alpha Gold Aluminum frame with internal routing for cable protection and a clean look, confidence-inspiring 27.5+ tires mounted to Tubeless Ready Bontrager Line rims, and a 120mm RockShox 35 Gold fork with Motion Control damper and lockout. Plus, a dropper post, a SRAM NX Eagle 1x12 drivetrain, and Shimano hydraulic disc brakes. The final word High-quality components for high-quality trail days. It's all about fun, but it's also all about performance. With a 12-speed drivetrain, hydraulic disc brakes, wide handlebars, and 27.5+ wheels, this bike takes trail riding shenanigans seriously. Why you'll love it It's more fun to be a better rider: Roscoe is so stable and forgiving, it's like an instant ability upgrade Even when the trail gets rough, the wide 27.5x2.8? tires can deliver confidence, traction, and stability The dropper post lets you lower your saddle on the fly so it's out of the way on descents The RockShox fork's Solo Air spring can easily be adjusted for a specific rider weight, and it's lighter than a coil spring
Trek X-Caliber 7 - 2021
X-Caliber 7 is the perfect entry point to fast cross country riding and racing. It's a fully capable hardtail mountain bike with expert tech where it matters most, like in the lightweight and durable alloy frame, RockShox fork, Shimano drivetrain, and hydraulic disc brakes. It's right for you if... You're new to mountain biking and want a high-value bike that's perfect for local XC trails and even racing. You want to invest in the parts that make a difference in performance—frame, suspension, and brakes—and want a bike you won't immediately outgrow as your skills advance. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Gold Aluminum frame, a RockShox 30 Silver 100mm suspension fork with a lockout and an air spring that's lighter and more adjustable than a coil spring, a dependable Shimano 1x10 drivetrain with a wide range of gears for easier climbing, and tubeless ready wheels with wider Boost141 hubs for increased wheel strength and better tire clearance. The final word X-Caliber 7 is a great cross country mountain bike at a great value. It has the same features found on higher-end bikes—like internal cable routing, dropper post compatibility, a tapered head tube, and Boost hub spacing—all on a platform that's easy to upgrade down the line. Why you'll love it - It gets you into the world of cross country riding and racing at a great price, and it's a mountain bike that can grow with you as your skills advance - The sleek internal cable routing gives you clean looks, protects your cables, and makes it easy to upgrade to a dropper post for even more capability - Smart Wheel Sizing means you'll get the fastest wheel that fits (29" wheels on larger frames, 27.5" wheels on smaller frames) - The RockShox air fork has a rebound adjust and can be tuned to the rider’s weight, and it’s way higher quality than what you’d normally get on an MTB at this price - The 1x drivetrain delivers a wide range of gearing with the simplicity of a single shifter
X-Caliber 8 is a cross country mountain bike made for fast laps and long days on the trail. It's built with special attention to value and the parts that make the biggest difference in performance. A 1x SRAM drivetrain, RockShox fork, and hydraulic disc brakes make it a great choice for new mountain bikers and XC racers searching for fast, fun, singletrack adventure. It's right for you if... You're looking for a fast mountain bike for singletrack—one that's fully capable of taking on races, marathons, and competitive group rides. You want something that is reliable and fun with dependable, lightweight parts. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Gold Aluminum frame, a RockShox 30 Silver 100mm suspension fork with a lockout and an air spring that's lighter and more adjustable than a coil spring, tubeless ready wheels with Boost141 hub spacing, and a smooth, efficient SRAM SX Eagle 1x12 drivetrain with a wide-range cassette. The final word With X-Caliber 8, you're getting a performance frame paired with performance parts, like a RockShox air fork and 1x SRAM Eagle drivetrain. Plus, it's equipped with durable, lightweight alloy rims that save weight and are easy to upgrade to tubeless. Why you'll love it - It has the price of a more basic hardtail, but the parts and performance of a more expensive one - The RockShox air fork has a rebound adjust and can be tuned to the rider’s weight, and it’s way higher quality than what you’d normally get on an MTB at this price - The frame is fully compatible with higher-end parts, like race wheels and a dropper post, if you ever find the need to upgrade - Smart Wheel Sizing means you'll get the fastest wheel that fits (29" wheels on larger frames, 27.5" wheels on smaller frames) - The 1x drivetrain delivers a wide range of gearing with the simplicity of a single shifter
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Published: November 29, 2017, 11:25 pm
Tags: Oakland County, Family, News, Education, Local 4 News at 11
How paid counselors are helping students with demanding college application process
Lara Zammit works with paid professional who helps her applications stand out
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Lara Zammit is a senior at Mercy High School who is working on her college applications.
The 17-year-old is pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor.
"Some sort of doctor," she said. "I'm interested in the brain, so maybe in like neurology."
Zammit works with a paid professional, Julie Gould, who helps make sure her applications stand out.
"She's helped by editing my essays and really helping me with content. She is very knowledgeable about the different schools and what they want," said Zammit.
Gould is a licensed professional counselor. She is nationally certified and works for a company called College Admissions Consulting. Her job is to help kids get through the college application process.
"Requirements have continued to go up, and college admissions have become more and more competitive," said Gould.
Universities came out with a common application years ago to simplify the process. However, now many schools accept additional essays. That's where the competition really grows.
"I'm always telling kids, don't tell them about yourself. Show them these traits about yourself," said Gould.
Gould suggests students don't write they are a leader and instead write about and explain how they are a leader. Don't write you are creative -- show how you are creative.
"She understands what colleges are looking for in an essay," said Marina Zammit, Lara's mother. "So she was able to help Lara craft an essay that showcased her abilities and what she had to offer to that college."
Marina said Gould helps take away the stress between a parent and child. Gould said students their early high school careers need to stand out and do activities such as volunteering and taking leadership roles.
"Leadership is definitely a big deal. It's almost like required," she said.
Gould also helps students find the school that's going to be a perfect fit for them.
"We're talking about things like do you see yourself in an urban environment? You know, do you want to go far away from home?" she said. "We try to be very realistic with kids about chances for admittance."
Gould has more advice:
Make a college wishlist
Know all the deadlines
Create an action plan
Show examples of who you are
"Just because you have someone helping you doesn't mean that you can just slack off and wait until the last minute," she said.
How much does this help cost?
Typically, you can spend about $175 an hour for this kind of counselor. On average it can take about 5 hours to get a student prepared. However, it depends on the student.
"It's the best money I ever spent," said Marina.
10 things juniors should be doing to prepare for college admission:
Maintain best possible grades
Research colleges
Visit as many colleges as possible. Visit college websites and talk to family and friends about college experiences. Start a list of colleges that interest you. Make a list of the most important criteria for you in a college. Attend college presentations at your high school.
Include all activities in and out of school and highlight leadership positions.
Create a Testing Plan (ACT vs. SAT)
Determine which test is best for you and when you’ll take it. Also, note if you need to take any SAT II Subject Tests.
Visit Your High School Counselor
Discuss with your counselor your course selections and your college search. Inquire with him or her about resources available at your school. Make sure you have met all graduation requirements.
Take the PSAT
Juniors can qualify for the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the PSAT.
Request Letters of Recommendation
In the spring of your junior year, ask teachers who know you well for letters of recommendation. Typically, you won’t need more than 2-3 letters and they won’t be completed until the fall of senior year. Be sure to follow up with your teachers and thank them.
Stay Involved in Activities
Consider taking on a leadership role. Colleges are looking for depth of commitment rather than breadth of involvement.
Begin a Scholarship Search
Make Meaningful Summer Plans
Provided by College Admissions Consulting (www.cactoday.com)
Karen Drew
Karen Drew is the anchor of Local 4 News First at 4, weekdays at 4 p.m. She is also an award-winning investigative reporter and part of the Local 4 Defenders team.
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Shining a light on environmental health and safety
CMU offers Michigan’s only accredited program in a field where opportunities abound
2/12/2020 | Updated: 2/13/2020 9:00 AM
Contact: Gary H. Piatek
Central Michigan University has the state's only accredited program in a career field where job opportunities are growing and graduates report starting salaries as high as $70,000.
But it is overlooked by many students, even as some unknowingly take prerequisites for the program while pursuing other career paths.
The under-the-radar field is environmental health and safety, or EHS, a profession where a report finds that 26% of workers in health departments and related jobs across the U.S. plan to retire in five years while just 6% of public health students are pursuing EHS concentrations.
Environmental health and safety is an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree program between The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions and the College of Science and Engineering. Graduates' broad range of knowledge makes them candidates for a wide variety of jobs. Interested? Check out the program page.
Science and engineering faculty member Rebecca Uzarski is director of the interdisciplinary major, and she is determined to spread the word.
"There are so many opportunities, so many options for advancement, so many areas to work in, but people don't know what jobs fall under the EHS umbrella," she said.
Broadly, environmental health officers protect the public from environmental threats and help communities recover from natural disasters.
Some job examples:
Food safety.
Water quality.
Disease prevention.
Occupational safety.
Emergency preparedness.
And sanitarian.
That's the title for December 2019 EHS graduate Grant Ruppert, who works at the Allegan County Health Department. Sanitarians are also known as health and safety specialists. Their job is to ensure the public's health safety through inspections of hospitals, restaurants, industrial facilities, hotels, and more.
"I wanted to start at the sanitarian level because you get to do it all," Ruppert said.
His goal is to earn a master's degree in an environmental health field, such as toxicology of public health.
Small program, large opportunities
"The small number of students in the program was a huge advantage in getting a lot of one-on-one time with my advisor, networking with the other students, meeting professionals at educational conferences and competing for scholarships" Ruppert said.
Ruppert received three competitive scholarships in 2019: the National Environmental Health Association's undergraduate scholarship, the Michigan Environmental Health Association Endowment Scholarship and the National Environmental Public Health Internship.
The NEHA also paid for him to move to Ohio, where he had an internship with the Van Wert County Health Department.
U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Shelby Foerg works with Lt. Cmdr. Tim Taylor to test the indoor air quality of a tribal housing complex.
Alum and U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Shelby Foerg found her passion after her 2014 graduation during an internship with the Junior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program. She spent the summer working on environmental health issues among American Indian tribes in Michigan and Wisconsin.
"Early into this experience, I knew that I wanted to pursue a career as a U.S. Public Health Service officer," she said. "You could say that I got my cake and ate it, too, with my interests in health and science lining up together in a field where it is difficult to be unsuccessful."
She was promoted to lieutenant in January 2019.
'A way of life'
"The person who graduates from this program not only is almost guaranteed a good-paying job, but one that is also doing good for the world," said Tom Masterson, dean of the College of Health Professions.
"It's more than a program, it's a way of life."
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Our “Love Thy Neighbour” Campaign is the name we have given to those areas of campaigning for justice that do not fall under a specific, ongoing campaign team’s focus, but are simply what we do as Christians who are seeking to live out Jesus’ teachings about loving others.
In our first year, we’ve been able to do this in several “rapid response campaigns” as issues arose in the Australian media that we felt compelled to respond to.
Some of the actions this included were our campaign that encouraged Christians to fight to Save Australian Aid; our campaign to stop the WA Government from “Hosing Away the Homeless” with sprinklers they had installed outside Perth’s Kings Street Arts Centre; and our celebration of the “Good Samaritan” who was assaulted after standing up for Muslim women who were abused on a Melbourne train, following which we encouraged Australian Christians to Go Love Likewise and make a public commitment to stand up for those who were being harassed.
Possibly one of the most rewarding ‘campaigns’ Common Grace was involved in this past year, though, was in forming a generous, Christian response during the Sydney Martin Place Siege in 2014. At a time where the Christian response had the potential to be unhelpful, we were able to consult with other groups in framing a response, pass on opportunities for great Christian leaders to speak to the media with a Christ-like tone, see the media promoting churches that were open for prayer and, most importantly, call for prayer.
Our Love Thy Neighbour Campaign is one area where we are most excited to see our work go forward and pray that funding allows it.
We have plans to partner with Louise Hope, a wonderful, generous-spirited Christian woman and a Sydney siege survivor around Harmony Day. Louisa is a compelling spokesperson who is passionate about calling Australian Christians to live without fear and with a genuine commitment to lovingly embracing others. We adore her and we know that you will too!
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If Everyone in Chicagoland Chips in $100, We Can Buy The Vista Tower
Written By Editor on February 1, 2018 in Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
It’s been said that you should always trust your gut. Well, we didn’t. And that’s why we’re bringing you this story on Thursday instead of last Friday. Last Friday we wrote a story laying out the dots for readers to connect. It was a speculation piece about whether China’s now-fourth-richest man would start shopping around Chicago’s Vista Tower development. But we shelved the piece because...
Wanda Vista Tower Begins in 3… 2… 1… Now!
Written By Editor on May 11, 2016 in Construction, Lakeshore East, New East Side, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
The most anticipated Chicago skyscraper in half a decade is about to go from paperwork and promises to concrete and steel. Soil sampling trucks have begun work at 375 East Wacker drive, tasting the muddy loam where both legs of the supertower will be planted so it can straddle North Field Boulevard. Loop Spy Jon was the one who spanked our Tip Line with the good news. You can see his photos above and below where the 95-story tower...
Chicago Welcomes Wanda — Its New 1,151-Foot-Tall Bride
Written By Editor on November 19, 2015 in Construction, Lakeshore East, New East Side, Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
The Chicago Plan Commission has voted to approve the Wanda Vista Tower, the new 11-hundred-foot-tall residential and hotel skyscraper planned for 381 East Wacker Drive on the northern edge of Lakeshore East. It’s Chicago’s most anticipated supertall tower since the last one, which ended up not getting built. Not just “not getting built,” the Chicago Spire ended up leaving a giant circular acne scar on the...
First Look Inside the (Wanda) Vista Tower
Written By Editor on September 17, 2015 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
Last night Lakeshore East residents and pretty much anyone who filled out the inquiry form on the (don’t call it Wanda) Vista Tower’s web site was invited to a presentation about the ultra-lux skyscraper planned for 381 East Wacker Drive. We’ve already seen lots of glossy pictures of the outside of the Magellan Development/Wanda Group 93-story supertower. Last night was about the interiors, which were designed...
What’s Next For Lakeshore East: Pedways, Parks and Pupils
Written By Editor on June 22, 2015 in Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
The late mayor Richard J. Daley famously referred to Chicago as “The City That Works.” The reason the City That Works works at all is because of a complex thicket of paperwork that spells out the rules and procedures for pretty much everything that happens in the city, from the correct size of a parking space on a one-way street with diagonal parking on both sides (17 feet x 9 feet) to the number of parking spaces...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Wanda Vista Tower
Written By Editor on June 18, 2015 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
Where do we even begin with this one? The Wanda Vista Tower is official. Not that the 1,151-foot-tall supertower planned for 381 East Wacker Drive wasn’t official when Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China, ballyhooed her into existence almost a year ago. Or when 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly held a public meeting about her two months ago. But the kind of official we like — in black and white paperwork, stacked high, in...
Where to Get Your First Real Taste of the Wanda Vista Tower
All eyes are on 381 East Wacker Drive these days as everyone from heavy-breathing skyscraper nerds to drooling real estate agents search out any sign that Chicago’s next mega tower might actually be built. That sign has come. In the form of a building permit for the Wanda Vista Tower’s sales office. The sales office will be carved out of 10,000 square feet of space at the nearby Coast building (345 East Wacker Drive)....
Taller, Flatter Wanda Vista Tower Meets the Public
Written By Daniel Schell on April 13, 2015 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
The upgrade in ballrooms at the Radisson Blu Aqua (225 North Columbus Drive) turned out to be a great call, as hundreds of people packed the seats the hear Alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) introduce the latest revision to Chicago’s next big thing — The Wanda Vista Tower (381 East Wacker Drive). Rest assured, it wasn’t just the tables full of cookies the crowd wanted to see. Downtown residents were eager to get their first...
Come Say Hello to Wanda
Written By Editor on April 3, 2015 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Proposals, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story
A couple of days ago, The Chicago Architecture Blog’s Daniel Schell stood near an empty lot in Lakeshore East, craned his neck skyward and tried to imagine the muddy chunk of barren land as something more: The Wanda Tower, climbing 88 stories into the blue, blue Chicago sky. Amazingly, at that very moment the mailman was delivering letters from 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly inviting neighbors to a public meeting to discuss...
Wanda Tower Loses One Floor, Internet Loses its Mind
Written By Editor on December 18, 2014 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Skyscrapers, The Loop
Editor’s note: It’s not often I publish an article like this, but some days when you wake up and the cats are fighting and you’re out of milk and one communist nation is making threats while another communist nation is cozying up to your government, you just need to rant a little. In the greatest MacBeth-ian tradition, this article is “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing....
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Americans Exercising RIghts – Finally!
Posted on April 17, 2020 by marcia
Protests against lockdowns: here they come
Apr17 by Jon Rappoport
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” — Edmund Burke, 1784.
The Chinese regime broke the ice by imprisoning 50 million people at the start of Operation Fake Pandemic. It sent a signal to the fascist CDC and World Health Organization that they could command huge imprisonments in other countries.
Well now, in America, a different kind of ice is being broken. —The resistance against the imprisonment, against the economic devastation, against the loss of freedom.
The governors of American states are behaving like the governors of the original colonies, taking their orders from a foreign power. In this case, the power is the CDC, the World Health Organization, and by extension, the United Nations, of which the WHO is a branch.
Yes, a bloodless coup has already occurred.
The UN, in particular, has stated in a thousand different ways that it wants the US, and every nation, to bow to a world authority. The current strategy is medical. If climate change didn’t do the trick, try another angle.
“This will teach the Americans a lesson.”
Americans may have their own lesson to teach.
The last time I looked, Bill Gates hadn’t bought off the whole country yet.
The Telegraph, UK, April 16: “Release us!’ Anti-lockdown protests break out across America, with some featuring flags and guns”
“Four states see protests with more to come as critics target governors and demand their constitutional rights”
“In Kentucky the protesters chanted ‘we want to work’ and ‘facts over fear’. In Michigan some carried rifles with their US flags as the snow fell.”
“There were Trump caps visible among the crowds gathered in Ohio, while in North Carolina a woman led away by the police shouted ‘God Bless America’.”
“Right across the United States, a country now in its second month of tight restrictions to stem the spread of Covid-19, small but vocal protests have begun to spring up.”
“These anti-quarantine gatherings, emerging amid unprecedented surges in unemployment, are happening at state capitals and often targeted at governors.”
“The common thread is a demand for orders keeping people at home and businesses shut to be loosened, thereby helping a US economy choked off by the lockdowns.”
“Many of the signs and shouts accuse the state governments of overreach – a clue, perhaps, as to why such protests are being seen in America but not yet in Britain.”
“Suspicion of big government is deeply rooted in a country born from revolution and a point of pride on the Right, where many of the protests appear to be emanating from.”
“It may also reflect frustration voiced by Donald Trump, who has made no secret of his desire to lift restrictions and at times bemoaned scientific advisers pushing social distancing rules.”
“On Wednesday the US president was set to share with governors his administration’s guidance on how to open back up society after the ‘Great Lockdown’.”
“In recent days Mr Trump has stuck an upbeat tone, talking of ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ and saying on Wednesday that America had passed its peak of Covid-19 cases.”
“One of the biggest protests occurred in Michigan, whose governor Gretchen Whitmer is a rising star in the Democratic Party and has clashed with Mr Trump in recent weeks.”
“Thousands of people descended on the Michigan Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, many sitting in cars and honking horns in what was dubbed ‘Operation Gridlock’.”
“One poster read ‘hands off our citizens!!!’. Another declared ‘I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery’. A third just had two words written: ‘Release us!’”
“Some of those present said Ms Whitmer’s stay-at-home order was too restrictive, stifling the economy and unfairly undermining personal liberty.”
“[A] woman who spent some of the protest waving the stars and stripes from the back of a pick-up truck had been impacted by job losses.”
“’Our community is struggling. My husband is on unemployment [benefits] for the first time in our life,’ she said. ‘We want to go back to work’.”
“Michigan has been one of the US states hardest hit by the financial deep-freeze caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with a quarter of the workforce filing for unemployment.”
“Right across America record job losses are being recorded. On Thursday it was announced 5.2 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week.”
“That takes the four-week total up to 22 million, or around one in eight people working a month ago. It is unlike anything seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s.”
“In Kentucky, another Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, was the target of criticism as around 100 protesters voiced their disapproval at the state Capitol in Frankfort.”
“They chanted ‘open up Kentucky’ and ‘you’re not a king, we won’t kiss your ring’, sometimes through megaphones, as the governor tried to brief the press on the outbreak…”
—For one of their International Youth days, the United Nations cooked up the slogan, “Change Our World.” Through their World Health Organization, they’re trying all right. But the phrase is so weak. Maybe I can help them out.
—Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. Remember that one? Doesn’t really gain traction when the first step is firing all the workers from their jobs. How about one people, one country, one leader, Hitler’s contribution. No thanks. There’s always Stalin’s gem: a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. No, let’s leave Joe and Mao and Adolf in the dustbin of lunatics. So what else?
I like the simple: LIBERTY.
It ripples. It has waves. Far reaching implications.
Those protestors in Michigan and Kentucky and Ohio and North Carolina. They’re peculiar. They’re not behaving like robots wearing medical masks. They’re acting like… live humans. Humans who are free.
from: https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/17/protests-against-lockdowns-here-they-come/
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Author: Cameron Farley
Big govt, Courts, Politics
Russia Investigation: Hillary Fundraiser Gets Immunity
In Robert Mueller’s topsy-turvy world, prosecuting white collar crimes that have nothing at all to do with the entire purpose of his special counsel appointment is apparently peachy keen. What’s also apparently okay is giving immunity to a Hillary crony who might have been connected to the actual election collusion by the FBI and the DNC. Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary campaign chairman John Podesta, was offered a get out of jail free card by Mueller in exchange for testimony against Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign adviser, for alleged crimes entirely unrelated to the presidential election. Facepalm.
Here’s more from PJ Media…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has offered Clinton crony and fundraiser Tony Podesta immunity to testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported Thursday night based on two sources.
Podesta, whose brother is Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, is the founder of the now-defunct Podesta Group, a Democratic lobbying group that worked with Manafort’s consulting firm in 2012 on a sham campaign called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, which supported then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Manafort’s lobbying work for Ukraine reportedly ended two years before he joined the Trump campaign.
Neither Manafort nor Podesta properly registered with the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) in 2012, and both retroactively registered their firms with the Department of Justice as foreign agents of Ukraine in 2017.
Big govt, Politics
George Soros: Obama ‘Greatest Disappointment’
Mark it down on the calendar. This date may be the very first (and almost certainly the only) occasion in which we agree with George Soros on anything. According to a leaked email from the leader of one of Soros’s lefty organization, Soros admitted that one of his many mistakes in life included supporting Barack Obama in the Democrat primary against Hillary Clinton in 2008. He described to his minion that Obama was ‘his greatest disappointment’. We’re not sure whether it’s because Obama hedged on his push for full socialism or that it’s so easily being undone by the Trump administration. Either way, cheers!
Here’s more from Breitbart…
Progressive billionaire George Soros says former President Barack Obama is his “greatest disappointment.”
George Soros, an early backer of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential run, described the former president as “his greatest disappointment,” in an interview with The New York Times published on Tuesday. On the advice of an aide to Soros present during the interview, the open-borders financier made clear his disappointment came on a “professional level.”
According to Soros, the Democrat lawmaker “closed the door” on him after winning the White House. “He made one phone call thanking me for my support, which was meant to last for five minutes, and I engaged him, and he had to spend another three minutes with me, so I dragged it out to eight minutes,” the progressive billionaire recounted to the paper, later adding Obama had a reputation of taking “his supporters for granted.”
Neera Tanden, head of the left-leaning group Center for American Progress, revealed in a May 2012 email to Hillary Clinton that Soros admitted to her that he regretted supporting Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
“I told him I worked for you in the primaries and he said he’s been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and said he hasn’t met with the President ever (though I thought he had),” wrote Tanden.“He then said he regretted his decision in the primary – he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them.”
Socialist Candidate Calls for Occupying ICE, Airports
In case you’ve been out of the country over the last 30 days, you might have missed the brouhaha in New York after self-described socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez destroyed an incumbent Democrat in the congressional primary. While sipping on a latte and rocking out to tunes on a slick new bluetooth speaker, Cortez called her Millennial ne’er-do-wells to join her in ‘occupying’ ICE, airports and the border. The logistics of occupying a border aside, someone might remind her that her uber-lib pals behind the barista bar at Starbucks might take umbrage at the suggestion that profits be directed to the government instead of employee raises.
Here’s more from Hot Air…
I believe it was only yesterday when Ed Morrissey described New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “the gift that keeps on giving.” Well, the giving continues today and it’s only getting better. (Editor’s note: The phrase “better” may only apply if you are a conservative.)
She gave an interview to Democracy Now! this week where she set forth some of her agenda for her swelling army of socialist supporters on the Democratic left flank. Rather than focusing on new progressive policy initiatives or getting out the vote, Ocasio-Cortez called on the unwashed masses to take to the streets in the fashion of Occupy Wall Street, but relocate their forces to “occupy” the nation’s airports, all of the ICE offices and “the border.” I’m not sure how one “occupies” a border but at least she’s thinking outside the box. (PJ Media, emphasis added)
Democrat candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a huge splash since trouncing incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in the NY-14 primary, calls herself a socialist and is big on activism, if not geopolitics.
So big on activism, in fact, that in an interview with Democracy Now! on Monday, she called for the “occupation” of airports and ICE offices as part of the effort to “mobilize” the so-called Resistance…
“We have to have a rapid response,” she said. “And I think every day that we go on, especially a day when something that heinous happens, we have to occupy all of it. We need to occupy every airport. We need to occupy every border. We need to occupy every ICE office until those kids are back with their parents, period.”
“We have to show people that we’re willing to walk the walk,”she said.
Lisa Page’s Testimony Contradicts Peter Strzok’s
Peter Strzok’s congressional testimony last week was smug, evasive and defensive, to say the least. No matter how damning the evidence was against him, there was always a reasonable explanation, from his perspective, on why he repeatedly sent text messages painting a picture of collusion against a would-be president. Then came Lisa Page. In contrast, her testimony was ‘contrite’ and much more forthright in explaining that many of the texts were exactly as they appear. So what we have here is a tale of two cities in which congressional leaders must decide whether the smoke leads to a gun or simply to an innocent campfire, as Strzok would have us believe. Something tells us they’re not in the mood to go camping.
Here’s more from The Daily Wire…
Congressional leaders have praised the testimony of former FBI agent Lisa Page in recent days and have said that they found her testimony to be very credible as some of them claim she gave a very different account of events than her former lover, disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that there were “significant differences” in Page’s testimony compared to the testimony given by Strzok and that she gave congressional investigators new information they did not previously have.
“In many cases, she admits that the text messages mean exactly what they say, as opposed to Agent Strzok, who thinks that we’ve all misinterpreted his own words on any text message that might be negative,” Ratcliff told reporters on Monday, according to ABC News.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) agreed with Ratcliffe’s statement, saying, “She’s certainly more cooperative than Peter Strzok was and the pieces of information filled in some blanks along the way, but we’ve got a huge jigsaw puzzle to put together.”
Nunes: Mueller’s Russia Indictment Ignores GOP Report
We know this is difficult to believe, so bear with us. Special Counsel Robert Meuller has issued an indictment of a dozen Russian officials on the charge of election hacking. But curiously the details of the indictment ignore critical findings from the House intelligence report. Perhaps it’s because that report contained questions about collusion at the hands of the agency that’s signing Mueller’s paychecks. While the mainstream media is fixated on Trump’s foreign policy missteps, it’s conveniently ignoring the pink elephant in the room. Typical.
Here’s more from Washington Examiner…
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 12 Russian officials on charges of hacking Democrats’ computers during the 2016 campaign looks “ridiculous” because it left out Republicans who were also targeted.
During an interview Sunday on Fox News, Nunes accused the media of largely ignoring the findings of his committee’s months-old report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which he asserted was more comprehensive than Mueller’s indictment. However, he also claimed the redactions in his panel’s report prevented the presentation of the full picture and urged President Trump to declassify it.
“This entire report that you have in front of you, all you had to do was get to page 4, and you only had to read chapter 2 and you would have had nearly everything that’s in the indictment,” Nunes said, referring to a copy of the report held by host Maria Bartiromo. “There’s more in this report than what’s in the indictment. And this is what’s very frustrating.”
A grand jury returned Mueller’s indictment Friday, after which it was announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Strzok Admits FBI Based Investigation on Polls
The media are just now beginning to dig into the explicit and implied obfuscation, er, um, ‘testimony’ delivered last week by Peter Strzok. Among the details that escaped broader reporting was the fact that Strzok admitted FBI officials debated whether to pursue a Russia collusion investigation based on Donald Trump’s polling numbers. According to Strzok, his infamous ‘insurance policy’ text was a reference to that debate. The text aside, why would a federal agency base any official decision on the poll numbers of a presidential election? Shouldn’t the question be whether to do the job American taxpayers are paying for? And if Trump had been leading in the polls, would the FBI have been more dogged in pursuing the investigation earlier? Strzok is digging a deeper hole.
In statements largely unreported by the news media, FBI official Peter Strzok described an alleged debate that took place within the FBI about how aggressively to pursue the Russia collusion investigation based on Donald Trump’s poll numbers in the 2016 presidential election.
Strzok made his statements about nine hours into Thursday’s televised congressional hearing during a section in which he was explaining his infamous August 2016 text message referencing an “insurance policy” in the event that Trump wins the election.
“The insurance policy text that has come up before?” began Strzok. “That text represented a debate on information that we had received from an extraordinarily sensitive source and method and that typically when something is that sensitive if you take action on it you put it at risk. And so there is a tension there. Maybe we should just roll slow. Take a typical 3, 4-year counterintelligence investigation because the more aggressive you are the more you put it at risk. And some people said that.”
Paul Ryan Promises to Hear Democrat ICE Bill
Surprise, surprise. Democrats attempted to smear Republicans and the Trump administration on immigration by offering a bill to abolish ICE. But that was before the polls came out showing voter support for ICE. Now Paul Ryan and Republicans in the House are calling their bluff by promising to bring the bill up for a vote. And when it fails miserably, it’ll be just one more example of why Hillary lost in 2016: Democrats are out of touch with the American people. As long as immigration is the top issue going into November, Democrats are nearly guaranteed to lose.
After Republicans promised to bring the “abolish ICE” bill to the floor for a vote in the House, Democrats now appear to have gotten cold feet.
Several of the lawmakers who introduced the bill now say they will vote “no” if it comes up for a vote. In truth, the proposal to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was never serious and was simply an exercise in tossing raw meat to their rabid, far-left base.
But Republicans have called them out for their political stupidity and they are backtracking as fast as they can.
“We know Speaker [Paul] Ryan is not serious about passing our ‘Establishing a Humane Immigration Enforcement System Act,’ so members of Congress, advocacy groups, and impacted communities will not engage in this political stunt,” Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Adriano Espaillat of New York told The Hill and other news outlets. “If Speaker Ryan puts our bill on the floor, we plan to vote no and will instead use the opportunity to force an urgently needed and long-overdue conversation on the House floor.
Whoever said a House speaker had to be “serious” about passing a bill to bring it to the floor? I think Ryan was being quite magnanimous and accommodating in allowing Democrats the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is on abolishing ICE.
A major problem for the Democrats is that several potential candidates for the presidential nomination of their party backed the radical proposal.
Strzok: ‘Patriotism’ Shows No Blackmail Potential
Among the highlights of disgraced FBI special agent Peter Strzok’s testimony Thursday was his dismissal of DOJ reports concerning the threat of blackmail over his affair with bureau lawyer Lisa Page. In response to questioning from Rep. Karen Handel, Strzok deflected, “I never, never could have been blackmailed or coerced by the nature of that relationship. The nature of my patriotism and the nature of what I believe in this country, you could not, nobody could have made that.” After everyone’s eyes finished rolling, the Google searches for ‘Benedict Arnold’ skyrocketed. Somehow attempting to derail the campaign for president of a Republican nominee now apparently qualifies as ‘patriotism’.
Disgraced FBI special agent Peter Strzok testified before House Judiciary and House Oversight Committee members Thursday and contradicted reports that Justice Department officials expressed concerns of blackmail over his extramarital affair with bureau lawyer Lisa Page.
A partial transcript follows:
REP. KAREN HANDEL (R-GA): I have found your testimony today, frankly, to be quite remarkable in its disingenuousness, and you have shown a disturbing degree of denialism about your actions and the impact of those actions. I think we would all agree that everyone does have personal viewpoints. That is very true, but against Strzok, there is a very big difference between someone expressing his or her political views generally and someone leading an FBI investigation making highly negative and explosive comments about the actual target of that investigation. Would you agree? That’s a yes or no.
FBI AGENT PETER STRZOK: Can you rephrase the question? I don’t understand.
REP. HANDEL: You have a really awesome talent for filibustering. Think about running for the Senate. I’ll just say again, you are the lead investigator, and you made highly negative, explosive comments about the actual target of an investigation. That is distinctly different from an individual expressing his or her political views.
What I also find stunning is that someone in your role and responsibilities that you’ve had engaged in such grossly unprofessional, unacceptable, and unethical behavior. Now, truly ironic – did I hear you say earlier you’re in a senior position at the HR division for the FBI?
STRZOK: Yes, ma’am.
REP. HANDEL: That’s very ironic. So let me ask you this. You were in a supervisory role within the FBI; suppose you found out that one of your direct reports was sending the kind of text messages that you were sending about the target of an investigation that they were working. What action would you take?
STRZOK: Ma’am, if they were sending personal opinion about a political matter, that’s their business. I think given my experience to date, I would caution them against doing that on a government device.
Gowdy Fires At Stzrok: ‘I Don’t Give A Damn’
In his effort to avoid giving actual answers to members of Congress, disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok succeeded in firing up former prosecutor Rep. Trey Gowd, (R-TX). Strzok refused to acknowledge that his inherent bias played a role in his firing telling Gowdy: “If you want to represent what you said accurately I’m happy to answer that question, but I don’t appreciate what was originally said being changed.” Gowdy responded accordingly: “I don’t give a damn what you appreciate, Agent Strzok.” Things did not improve for Strzok. Can you say ‘indictment’?
Here’s more from The Daily Caller…
Rep. Trey Gowdy got heated while questioning anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok Thursday.
Gowdy told Strzok that the doesn’t “give a damn” what Strzok appreciated or wanted.
Gowdy questioned Strzok on why specifically he was let go from the Mueller investigation.
“How long did you talk to him when he let you go?” Gowdy asked.
“My recollection it was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes,” Strzok said.
“And your testimony is: Bob Mueller did not kick you off because of the content of your texts; he kicked out you off because of some appearance he was worried about,” Gowdy said.
“My testimony — what you asked and what I responded to — is that he kicked me off because of my bias,” Strzok responded. “I’m stating to you it is not my understanding that he kicked me off because of any bias — that it was done based on the appearance. If you want to represent what you said accurately I’m happy to answer that question, but I don’t appreciate what was originally said being changed.”
“I don’t give a damn what you appreciate Agent Strzok,” Gowdy shot back.
“I don’t appreciate having an FBI agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016.”
Big govt, Issues, Politics
Parents Fighting for Rights in LGBT-Friendly Schools
Parents in Delaware are taking on the transgender agenda at local schools with more than 11,000 filing objections to the Delaware Education Department’s Regulation 225 which sought to allow children to switch their gender at school without parental notification, let alone consent. In the midst of the parental outrage, the Department of Education and Indian River School District’s board of education unanimously voted against the original version, rewriting the decree to put parents back in the decision-making loop, though ‘trans’ students still have the choice of which locker rooms or bathrooms to use. Once upon a time, parents were the stewards of their children’s future; now they’re just bystanders for the government’s cradle to grave nanny state.
Larry Mayo, a grandfather with two relatives who are gay, spoke out against the Delaware Education Department’s Regulation 225 when it was released for public debate last November. The regulation was a bureaucratic move to allow school recognition of children wanting to change their gender without notifying their parents.
“The authority to raise children is not for the state. It’s for the parent,” said Mayo during an Indian River School District Board of Education meeting.
In the face of a firestorm of protest — more than 11,000 people filed objections with the Department of Education and the Indian River School District’s board of education voted unanimously to oppose the original version — Regulation 225 has been rewritten to put parents back at the top of the decision-making process. However, the updated version of the regulation still instructs school districts to make sure kids who decide their birth gender is no longer a good fit can use the locker rooms and bathrooms of their choice.
“Transgender youth deserve equal protection under the law. They don’t deserve special protection,” Mayo added. “I got harassed because I was 5 feet, 3 inches in the ninth grade. I dealt with it.”
Like Mayo, Linda Schroeder told the Indian River Board of Education her disagreement with Regulation 225 didn’t come from a dislike or fear of transgender people.
“We are not against a community or a person for their choice that they make,” Schroeder said. “The Department of Education wants to take our rights away as a parent – not knowing these things that are detrimental to our children – and give the authority to somebody else to decide what is best of your child.”
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Is Servant Leadership Effective?
Is Servant Leadership the Most Effective Type of Management?
The phrase “servant leadership” was first used by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader. Greenleaf, a longtime director of management development at AT&T, defined a servant leader as someone who feels naturally inclined to serve others, and who then consciously aspires to serve in a leadership role.
This mindset, which directly opposes more traditional views of leadership that focus on accumulating and exerting power, has grown in popularity over the years. Today, it is considered by many to be the best form of leadership.
But is servant leadership really the most effective management style? Here, we look at what it means to be a servant leader, what servant leadership looks like in the workplace, and how servant leadership compares to other management styles.
What Is a Servant Leader?
Servant leaders focus on the growth and well being of their employees above all else. They consider themselves “first among equals” (rather than above others) and are willing to teach as well as learn. Servant leaders draw on the strengths of their employees and allow others to do what they do best instead of forcing a specific plan of action. They take equal responsibility for successes and failures, and are willing to step aside to let others lead when necessary.
Servant Leadership Qualities
In his essay, Greenleaf defines five key servant leadership qualities:
Access to intuition and foresight
Use of language (communication)
Pragmatic measurements of outcomes
The first, listening, is the most important tool of a servant leader. Servant leaders must take the time to actively seek out the opinions and ideas of their followers, absorb what is being said, and then move forward appropriately. This builds mutual respect and shows that the leader is willing to grow alongside his or her followers.
Persuasion often has a negative connotation and conjures images of arm-twisting and trickery. That’s not the case here. Persuasion in relation to servant leadership means a servant leader uses his or her influence to point followers in the most beneficial direction for the team. They take various ideas and goals and combine them into one action plan that best fits a situation.
The last three qualities — access to intuition and foresight, use of language, and pragmatic measurements of outcomes — are less action oriented and more individualistic. They require practice and effort, and are areas in which a successful servant leader is always looking to grow.
Basically, these qualities mean that servant leaders gauge individual situations and respond to them in unique, rather than blanketed, ways. They are perceptive and go out of their way to effectively communicate their vision to followers. By asking questions, listening, thinking ahead, and taking every factor into consideration, servant leaders are then able to anticipate the needs of their followers and guide them toward an outcome that fosters growth, contentedness, and encouragement.
How Servant Leadership Affects the Workplace
A lot of literature talks about what an individual needs to do to be a servant leader. But what about the whole workplace? A workplace practicing servant leadership focuses on individuals and a decentralized organizational structure, according to Larry Spears, president and CEO of the Larry C. Spears Center for Servant-Leadership, Inc. It serves all stakeholders in the corporation, everyone from the managers all the way to the customers. When properly implemented across the board in a workplace, servant leadership emphasizes relationships over returns.
Servant leadership in the workplace means the qualities of a servant leader — listening, persuasion, intuition and foresight, communication, pragmatic measurement of outcomes — are applied in employee–customer relationships as well as manager–employee relationships. Employees need to stay connected to customers and industry developments, listen and remain receptive to clients, and practice empathy by taking the point of view of a customer.
When a company employs servant leadership across the board it can help the business run more effectively and efficiently. A good example of this is Johnson & Johnson (J&J), whose mission statement puts the needs and well being of the customer first. This means that J&J's upper management takes the time to serve employees and develop leaders who believe that what is good for the customer is good for business. That, in turn, motivates them to create products of high quality and value.
How Servant Leadership Compares to Other Leadership Styles
There is no definitive list of leadership styles. Some experts consider Daniel Goleman’s 2000 Harvard Business Review study, Leadership That Gets Results, the ultimate compilation. The study, conducted over three years with 3,000 mid-level managers, uncovered six leadership styles that the majority of managers use. The six styles, as well as examples of each servant leadership style, are:
The Pacesetter Leader expects and models excellence and self-direction, sets high standards for performance, and is focused on doing things better and faster Example: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
The Authoritative Leader moves people toward a new set of shared goals, articulating where a group is going but not how it will get there Example: Martha Stewart
The Affiliative Leader emphasizes the importance of team work and creates harmony in a group by connecting people to each other
Example: Joe Torre, former manager of the New York Yankees (1996–2007)
The Coaching Leader employs a one-on-one style focused on developing individuals, showing them how to improve performance, and helping to connect personal goals to the goals of the organization
Example: Andrew Carnegie (mentored Charles Schwab, first president of U.S. Steel)
The Coercive Leader (or Military Style) demands immediate compliance, rarely involves praise, and frequently employs criticism; leads with a “do as I say” mentality
Example: Tom Coughlin, head coach of the New York Giants
The Democratic Leader builds consensus through participation, draws on peoples’ knowledge and skills, and creates a group commitment to resulting goals
Example: Dwight D. Eisenhower
In addition to these six, The Center for Association Leadership outlines its own set of leadership styles. These are based on Louis Mobley’s teaching that leadership is based in experience and habit, not intellect. Mobley was the director of IBM’s executive school in the 1950s and ‘60s, and taught that great leaders don’t know different things from everyone else, but they think in different ways.
The Center’s list includes the following six leadership styles, in addition to the Pacesetter and Coercer styles from above:
The Charismatic Leader influences through power of personality, acts passionately, and spurs others to action through his or her own energetic efforts
Example: Oprah Winfrey
The Innovative Leader breaks established norms and goes beyond the usual course of action, creating a climate of innovation that encourages others to think in new ways
Example: Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group
The Laissez-Faire Leader takes a backseat approach, trusts others to do good work, monitors performances, and gives regular feedback without micromanaging
Example: Donna Karan, of DKNY fashion
The Servant Leader puts service to others before self-interest, involves the whole team in decision making, teaches, and accepts successes and failures alongside employees
Example: Herb Kelleher, cofounder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines
The Situational Leader changes plans according to a group’s readiness and skills, and is directing and supportive as well as empowering and coaching
Example: Pat Summitt, former head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team
The Transformational Leader leads by doing and expects team members to take risks and give their best even when the going gets tough Example: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, of Ben & Jerry’s
Lists aside, most experts conclude that the best leadership style is one that encompasses all the aforementioned styles — a combination style that addresses every employee and every problem in a unique way.
If that’s the criteria for building the most successful leadership style, then it could be said that servant leadership is, in fact, the most effective type of management style. Not only does it approach every situation as a singular event, but, as we mentioned earlier, it also challenges leaders to read between the lines, find ways to effectively communicate their vision, ask questions, listen, think ahead, and anticipate the needs of their followers. It’s a leadership style that encompasses the best aspects of the other leadership styles and boils them into one wholesale approach.
We agree with experts that every leadership style has its strengths and weaknesses, and each can be inspiring in certain circumstances. But while no person or approach is perfect, given the qualities displayed by servant leaders, we think it’s safe to say that servant leadership is one of the most effective approaches to guiding employees toward an outcome that fosters growth, contentedness, and encouragement.
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IHRA returns to Cordova Dragway Park with thrilling Summer Nationals July 18-19
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For six exciting years in the late 90s and early 2000s, Cordova Dragway Park was on top of the IHRA world.
Hosting the annual Summer Nationals with the International Hot Rod Association’s professional drag racing series from 1997-2002, the world-class facility, famous for its incredible fan and racer hospitality and blazing fast track, produced one of the premier, must-see events on the IHRA schedule.
Now, after a 12 year wait, the IHRA is finally back in the Quad Cities.
The Summer Nationals will feature one of the biggest Nitro Funny Car races of the year with more than a dozen of the world’s best drivers
Cordova Dragway Park, located on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, will once again host the IHRA’s biggest summer spectacular as the Summer Nationals return to Illinois for three full days of drag racing action capped off with the Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series professional competition July 18-19.
Featuring one of the biggest nostalgia Nitro Funny Car races in the country, plus action in Nitro Harley, Nitro Altered, Pro Stock, Jet Dragster and more, fans will be in for a treat when the IHRA returns to Cordova Dragway Park for a massive celebration of all things drag racing.
“Having this event back at Cordova Dragway Park is a big win for the racers, fans and businesses in the Quad Cities area. It has been more than a decade since the IHRA last raced at Cordova Dragway Park and I am thrilled to be able to bring this unique and exciting event back to Cordova,” said Scott Gardner, President of IHRA Motorsports and former manager of Cordova Dragway Park. “This event, coupled with an already stellar lineup of great racing events held throughout the year, will only help elevate the tracks reputation as a leader in providing world class motorsports entertainment in the Quad Cities region.”
Race fans will enjoy over two dozen nitro-powered race machines when IHRA returns to Cordova Dragway Park as the track hosts competition in Nitro Funny Car, Nitro Harley and Nitro Altered, plus racing in the powerful mountain-motor Pro Stock division, the world’s only Jet Dragster class, a full weekend of sportsman racing with the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour and more.
Ron Hope will bring the fire burnout to Cordova Dragway Park
And this year, every lap matters as the stars of the Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series push their machines to the limit in their chase for the 2014 IHRA World Championships. Already this season, IHRA fans have witnessed multiple records in three professional classes shattered by the intense competition.
Among the record-setting performances in 2014 have been great showings from IHRA’s Nitro Funny Car class, made even bigger at the Summer Nationals as Cordova hosts one of the biggest Nitro Funny Car races of the year.
IHRA’s only completely open field will welcome more than a dozen of the fastest Funny Cars in the world trying to make an eight-car field and take home one of the most coveted trophies of the year.
“While all of the classes present something unique and exciting, there is no denying the star power of the Nitro Funny Car class at Cordova,” Gardner said. “We are going to have the world’s best in nostalgia Funny Car racing gathered in one spot competing for, what I believe, will be one of the most sought after wins in the history of this class.”
California native Jason Rupert currently leads the IHRA Nitro Funny Car championship standings in the Bays and Rupert “Black Plague” ’69 Camaro coming off of four Nitro Jam victories in the first six races and a brand new elapsed time record set in North Carolina earlier this year. Rupert will be joined by fellow 2014 Ironman winners John Hale in the “Mike Burkhart” tribute Camaro and Mike McIntire Jr. in “McAttack” Camaro, along with former Cordova finalists in Top Fuel from the early years in Bruce Litton and Paul Romine, both of which will be entered in Funny Car at the Summer Nationals.
The Summer Nationals take place July 18-19 at Cordova Dragway Park
Other drivers scheduled to compete in the Clash at Cordova include “Mr. Explosive” Mark Sanders, Tim Boychuk in “Forever Forward,” Ronny Young in the world famous “Blue Max,” Mike Halstead in “Candies & Hughes,” Marc White in “Flashback,” Shawn Bowen in “Violator,” Bazz Young in “Down Under Thunder” and more.
The event promises to be one of the biggest nostalgia Nitro Funny Car races ever held with six nostalgia champions represented in the field. The race will feature former champions Hale, a two-time DRO champion, three-time NHRA Heritage Series champion Rupert, two-time DRO champion Romine, former Nitro Jam champion Steve Nichols and 2013 DRO champion Bowen.
Also making history in Cordova will be the debut of the world’s only Jet Dragster championship program being contested by the four fastest women in drag racing – the Larsen Motorsports jet team. This four-car team is made up of four very talented female competitors with vastly different backgrounds. From a 19-year-old college student, to a female test pilot and an entrepreneur who holds the operation together, the team will compete in 300 mph, side-by-side jet-powered drag racing action.
IHRA’s other nitro divisions will include Nitro Harley and Nitro Altered, two radical and extreme classes that are among the most popular in the world for their death-defying competition.
Iconic racer and previous Cordova finalist Jay Turner leads the 220 mph nitro-powered motorcycle class, joining points leader Randal Andras, Canadian Mike Scott, Mark Cox and more. Nitro Altered, another extreme class once banned from organized competition due to the extreme danger behind the wheel, will include Arizona native Ron Maroney in “Blind Faith,” Las Vegas native and third generation racer Kyle Hough in “Nanook, the popular “Arizona Thunder” driven by Mike Hilsabeck, “Bullet Bob” driven by Don Blackshear, Ron Hope in “Rat Trap” and more.
Among the special attraction’s at this year’s event will be a once-in-a-lifetime fire burnout, just like the ones done in drag racing’s glory days, performed by one of the sport’s all-time greats in Hope.
Wrapping up the professional competition will be the thunderous Mountain Motor Pro Stock division. With powerful 800+ cubic inch powerplants guiding these cars more than 220 mph down the quarter-mile, the intense competition between the Black Diamond Motorsports team, consisting of Kevin Bealko and John DeFlorian, and the Goforth Racing Team, made up of Cary Goforth, Dean Goforth and Todd Hoerner, will resume, alongside former IHRA champion Pete Berner, two-time event winner this season John Konigshofer and more.
In addition to all of the on-track action, the 2014 IHRA Summer Nationals will feature an all-new and fully interactive Fan Fest pit experience. Fans can tour the pits, meet the drivers and take part in a number of fun family activities including the Larsen Motorsports Jet Technology Center, a hands-on look at the design and technology behind a jet-powered racing team, and the Hollywood Cars of the Stars featuring real cars from famous movies and television shows such as the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard, the DeLorean from Back to the Future, the Batmobile from the 1960s Batman television series and more.
In addition to the professional action, the Summer Nationals will also include two full days of sportsman racing competing on the IHRA’s Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL. Racing for that series will take place Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets to the 2014 IHRA Summer Nationals can be purchased in advance at www.nitrojam.com or at the gate day of show.
Showtime is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday.
For more information on the 2014 IHRA Summer Nationals, visit www.nitrojam.com or call Cordova Dragway Park at (309) 654-2110.
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Warriors, Magnolia Brewing team up to make Dubs…
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Warriors, Magnolia Brewing team up to make Dubs Golden Ale
The beer will make its debut at San Francisco's Chase Center well before basketball season
Dubs Golden Ale is a new co-branded beer from the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco’s Magnolia Brewing Co. (Photo courtesy of the Golden State Warriors)
By Linda Zavoral | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 4, 2019 at 12:44 p.m. | UPDATED: September 5, 2019 at 4:17 a.m.
The Bay Area’s newest beer is described as a “light, easy-drinking golden ale with a swish of evergreen hop character.”
Swish?
That can mean only one thing! The Golden State Warriors must be involved.
Indeed, the team has partnered with San Francisco’s Magnolia Brewing Co. to produce a co-branded beer called Dubs Golden Ale.
The brew will make its debut before the NBA season starts. Music fans attending the inaugural event at Chase Center — the Metallica concert on Sept. 6 — will be among the first to purchase.
At all Chase Center events, the beer will be sold at Magnolia’s two on-site bistros, at 30 other booths in the facility and by vendors in the stands.
Dubs Golden Ale is brewed in the city at Magnolia’s two production facilities, one in the Haight and one not far from Chase Center. The team’s jerseys from the 1990s influenced the can’s design, the promoters said.
Dubs Golden Ale is also available at Bay Area select grocery stores; stay tuned for a list.
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Beijing Diary
Why Modi's China visit is incredibly significant
PM will travel on April 27 and 28 for an unprecedented informal summit with President Xi Jinping, in the city of Wuhan.
| Beijing Diary | 3-minute read | 25-04-2018
Ananth Krishnan
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If you had put to even the most experienced of Beijing’s top strategists eight months ago that China’s all-powerful President Xi Jinping would be breaking with protocol, leaving his Beijing bastion, and flying half-way across the country to welcome India’s prime minister, you would have been laughed at.
It was only last August that the Chinese government was publicly reminding India about the lessons of 1962. But such is the nature of the India-China relationship — and its unpredictable ups-and-downs — that we are now talking about a strategic rapprochement that would have been unthinkable last year amid the 72-day border stand-off at Doklam.
The announcement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China on April 27 and 28 for an unprecedented informal summit with Xi, in the city of Wuhan on the Yangtze river (where Mao once hosted foreign leaders in his private villa, now a tourist site) was delivered Sunday evening in Beijing.
When external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi came out of their hour-long meeting at Beijing’s Diaoyutai state guesthouse, the media knew it was not business as usual, given the elaborate arrangements for a press briefing (itself unusual in China where ministers don’t take questions on a frequent basis).
The visit is being seen in Delhi and Beijing as a “bold” move by both sides to reset ties, but it is not without risks. “It is certainly a very bold step,” former foreign secretary S Jaishankar told ANI. “The fact that they have agreed on an informal summit shows that the two leaders realise the importance of this relationship,” he said.
Jaishankar added, “They have taken on the responsibility themselves on putting it on a better course… I think what is different about this particular summit would be that it is an informal summit so the meeting will be in a very informal and casual environment. The agenda would be open, they’ll spend a lot of time over two days and there’ll be different kind of conversations, which would be much more personal and much more interactive in comparison with the formal meetings.”
Travelling to China for a summit meeting with President Xi — that too only a month before an already scheduled June trip for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) security summit — is certainly a bold move by PM Modi.
Both leaders are approaching the summit with different motivations. For India, stabilising relations with China at a time of global uncertainty could yield dividends, both from attempting to avoid frictions ahead of an election year and also maximising the economic dividend from the world’s second-largest economy when it is embroiled with a trade spat with the United States and seeking alternative options.
For President Xi, he is keen to show his statesmanship at the start of his second term — and how could he be a global statesman if his relations with his biggest neighbour were fraught? — and that he has allies in his Modi and Xi move fast to reset ties PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Sushma’s Hindi-Chini diplomacy tense battle with the West over trade, with China and the US on the brink of a trade war.
Their different objectives, however, won’t matter all that much if they can find some much-needed common ground on the banks of the Yangtze.
(Courtesy of Mail Today)
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Will Brock survive?
With his health in a serious condition, Lara and Nigel are forced to use unconventional methods to try to save him. At the same time, Sally and Tyrone are sent to the CEAK (Close Encounters All Kinds) Institute to help their scientists on a mission. They've developed a new technology called Jumpspace, and it holds great promise for the future. It has the capability to allow people to travel across the galaxy in an instant.
There's just one problem. The first expedition sent to another world has not returned.
If Sally and Tyrone can't locate the expedition, then the wonders of the galaxy will remain unavailable to humanity forever...
Past Shadows
Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you…
While Lara follows up on her premonition of Earthly destruction, Sally is called upon to investigate the kidnapping of a young girl. The ransom must be paid to guarantee the girl’s return, but a lot of things can go wrong. Especially when the exchange is happening in a dark and abandoned cemetery!
At the same time, Tyrone is contacted by someone he never expected to hear from again: his brother. Flynn is in trouble. Tyrone can save him, but it might cost him his life.
How far will Tyrone go to save the brother he once abandoned?
Can a dead superhero come back to life?
NEST is called to the little town of Elben, Pennsylvania, to investigate a strange glass monster who has been stalking the citizens. The beast bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter, their friend, who was killed in a battle with killer Graham Kemp.
But Peter’s dead. Or is he?
At the same time, Sally follows up on the deaths of her parents. Her quest takes her and Brock to Florida to investigate the mysterious Project Icarus.
They’ll be lucky if they survive…
Fear Fight
Sally hasn’t found the people who killed her parents—yet—but she’s not giving up.
First, she’d got to do battle with her team against a pair of deadly bank robbers. They can stop you from telling up from down, left from right. And they’re not alone. They’ve brought with them a horrible little girl who can blow tornados from her mouth.
Together, the three of them form a deadly trio…
It’s no wonder that Tyrone gets injured. But then he goes missing.
Where has he gone? Has he left the team? Or has something far worse happened to him?
Tyrone seems to have vanished from the face of the Earth…
Someone wants Sally Tyler dead.
After the brutal murder of her parents, Sally Tyler is homeless and on the run. Then she is offered the chance of a lifetime—join a bounty hunting organization called NEST and become a superhero. She’ll work with the other members of NEST—Lara, Tyrone, Brock and Nigel—to catch the bad guys the police can’t catch.
At the same time, she’ll be able to discover who murdered her parents and destroyed her life. It all sounds perfect.
Except being a superhero doesn’t make her safer. Now, more people than ever want her dead….
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P&W takes a bite of Healthy Food Brands
Pemberton & Whitefoord is set to take a stake in Healthy Food Brands, a start-up company that owns packaged goods brands Honegar, Rayner’s baking essences and PLJ cordials
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Pemberton & Whitefoord is set to take a stake in Healthy Food Brands, a start-up company that owns packaged goods brands Honegar, Rayner’s baking essences and PLJ cordials.
P&W director Adrian Whitefoord explains that the consultancy started working with HFB after Martlet Natural Foods – the company that previously owned the three brands – went into receivership last year.
Whitefoord already has a personal connection with Healthy Food Brands managing director Cliff Moss, from a separate joint shareholding venture, Free Natural. To gain an insight into the direction of HFB, Whitefoord has been attending board meetings and plans to ‘trade shares in the back company’.
The first rebrand by P&W – PLJ – launches with a new look this week (pictured), while plans to relaunch the Honegar and Rayner’s ranges are in the pipeline. ‘As a brand, PLJ is one of the three sleeping giants in the HFB portfolio. It hasn’t done anything for a long time, but it has a lot of relevance for the health-conscious market. We have lots of ideas how to take it even further,’ says Whitefoord.
Whitefoord feels there is a lot of mileage in the company’s brand portfolio, adding that, as well as taking the Rayner’s brand back into the UK market, there are plans to raise the profile of Honegar, a ‘health mix’ made from cider vinegar and honey. ‘With home baking making a comeback, this suite of products could be right “on trend”,’ he says. ‘It’s all about consumer recognition.’
Rayner’s is currently an export-only brand, selling mainly in the Middle East, with an annual turnover of about £1m.
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The waters around the Lizard, the most southerly point in Britain, have always been a hazardous shipping zone and, long before the first tower was built here, there had been demands for a lighthouse to guide and warn approaching vessels. Legend suggests that protests from local villagers actively caught up in wrecking and looting prevented this from happening until 1619, when Sir John Killigrew started the process. However, lack of financial backing would seem a more logical explanation, since Killigrew paid for the construction himself. His attempts to recuperate his investment by collecting from passing ships he presumed would be grateful for the guiding lights failed and so, only four years after its erection, the first Lizard lighthouse was demolished in 1623 and Killigrew was declared bankrupt.
Over 100 years passed before another lighthouse was built on this spot 70 metres above high tide level, this time by a Thomas Fonnereau in 1751. This was a twin-towered construction, joined in the middle by a row of keepers’ cottages. Long before the electric light bulb, or even the oil lamp, the important part of a lighthouse at the time was, in fact, a coal-fired beacon on the top of the tower. People were employed to keep it ablaze and, so, at the Lizard lighthouse the keeper would sit in a centrally placed building from where he could keep a vigil over his workers on either side through specifically positioned windows.
Later that century Trinity House took charge of the affair and in the 19th century the coal fires changed to oil lamps and eventually to electricity in 1878. The two beacons continued until the early 20th century, when one was made redundant though both towers still stand and the now automatic Lizard lighthouse is a popular visitor centre.
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LICENSING ACT 2003 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES UCENCE OR CLUB PREMISES CERTIFICATE
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Chloe Ayling 'kidnap': Brother of chief suspect to fight extradition
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Michal Herba, brother of Lukasz Herba, had been arrested
The brother of the chief suspect in the alleged kidnapping of British model Chloe Ayling is to fight extradition to Italy.
Ms Ayling, 20, is believed to have been snatched by a group calling itself Black Death after being lured to a fake modelling shoot in Milan last month.
Chief suspect Lukasz Herba has said he did not knowingly take part in any crime, and on Wednesday the National Crime Agency (NCA) said his brother, Michal Herba, had been arrested.
The 36-year-old was detained by officers from West Midlands Police and East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) at an address in the Tividale area of Sandwell, West Midlands.
Michal Herba was apprehended on a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Italian authorities and London's Westminster Magistrates' Court heard on Thursday that he would contest extradition.
Model Chloe Ayling leaves her home and gets onto a taxi bike in Coulsdon
Chloe Ayling kidnap: Police arrest another man after glamour model snatched in Milan
Ms Ayling, 20, was allegedly drugged and bundled into the boot of a car after being tricked into attending the bogus photoshoot in Milan on July 11.
Poland-born Lukasz Herba, 30, is said to have planned the abduction, and Italian police claim he is part of a group active on the dark web called Black Death. Black Death say they sell women as sex slaves online to buyers in the Middle East.
Prosecutor Florence Iveson told the court: "It is said that Mr Herba acting in joint enterprise with his brother Lukasz Herba between July 11 and 17 acted to kidnap and abduct and unlawfully detain Chloe Ayling.
"It is said the victim was drugged, taken from Milan to Lemie and kept from 11 to 17 July and a ransom of 300,000 euros was demanded."
Michal Herba appeared in the dock dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and was helped by an interpreter.
He spoke only to give his address and date of birth and to state that he contested his extradition.
Katherine Newey, for the defendant, made no application for bail.
"The offence took place relatively recently, no evidence has been served in this case, Mr Herba denies involvement," she said.
Listing the case for a full hearing on September 25, Deputy District Judge Tan Ikram said: "No bail application is made on your behalf. I'm satisfied there's substantial grounds to believe that if I were to release you today you would fail to surrender.
"I came to that view in the light of the seriousness of the offences for which you are wanted in Italy and it's very recent age."
The defendant is due back in court for a bail application on August 23.
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Government lockdown forces Woodbine Entertainment to end thoroughbred season early
Riders and their horses race around the first turn during the ninth race on opening day at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto on Saturday, June 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Michael Burns MANDATORY CREDIT
TORONTO - A thoroughbred racing season that was delayed due to COVID-19 is also ending prematurely because of the pandemic.
Woodbine Entertainment has announced that Sunday will be the final day of the 2020 season. Several races planned for Sunday were cancelled due to weather, including snow, fluctuating temperatures and mixed precipitation.
News of the truncated sesaon came two days after the Ontario government revealed its new COVID-19 measures.
On Friday, the government moved Toronto and Peel Region - two COVID-19 hot spots - into lockdown. That means the shutdown of businesses such as salons and gyms, while restaurants will move to takeout only and retail to curbside pickup.
The new restrictions come into effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday.
The revamped 2020 thoroughbred season was slated to end Dec. 13.
“We have been, and continue to be, extremely supportive of the Government's efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19 throughout our province and appreciate the many difficult decisions they have to make,” Woodbine CEO Jim Lawson said in a statement Sunday. “We have approached the government to explain the impacts this decision will have on our business and the horse racing industry in Ontario.
“With a better understanding of our operations and based on our safety record in operating live racing at our racetracks, we hope that the government will consider these impacts in the future and assist us in managing the potentially devastating impact to horsepeople and animal welfare this early shutdown will cause.”
Woodbine Entertainment said it has about 1,300 employees either temporarily or permanently laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It added this shutdown also negatively impacts the about 2,000 horsepeople on the Woodbine backstretch, putting many of them out of work.
“Since we started racing at Woodbine and Mohawk Park in early June, we have demonstrated that racing without spectators poses no greater health risk to participants than training,” Lawson said. “We have been a leader in health and safety since the beginning of the pandemic and we are extremely proud of our record and the co-operation of our racing participants in maintaining safe racing environments.”
Under the new restrictions, horses can train only without spectators and not run in actual races. While there's been racing at Woodbine since June, all events have been conducted without fans in the stands.
The start of Woodbine's 2020 racing seasons - thoroughbred and standardbred - were delayed for several weeks due to the global pandemic before being allowed to begin on June 5.
Standardbred racing at Woodbine Mohawk Park in Campbelleville, Ont., which also began June 5, will continue. That track is located roughly 64 kilometres west of Toronto and outside of the lockdown boundaries.
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Turning Point - Douglas House
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Turning Point is a national health and social care charity, providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability. Turning Point operates Douglas House which is an independent mental health hospital in Didsbury, Manchester, which can admit both informal and detained patients. Douglas House provides a total of 12 beds to both men and women and provides rehabilitation and recovery services.
Turning Point - Douglas House has been registered with the CQC since 8 February 2011. It is registered for the following regulated activities: assessment and treatment under the Mental Health Act and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. These regulated activities permit the hospital to provide care and treatment to informal and detained patients.
There have been four inspections carried out at Douglas House. The most recent inspection took place on 22 July 2013. Douglas House was compliant across all the standards we looked at on that inspection which included consent arrangements, meeting people’s care and welfare needs, meeting nutritional needs, safeguarding, recruitment of staff, complaints and record keeping.
At the time of this inspection, there was a registered manager in place who was also the named controlled drugs accountable officer. This meant that there was a senior person in charge who checked that the hospital met the appropriate regulations and oversaw the arrangements for managing controlled drugs (drugs that require special storage with additional record keeping rules).
We carried out a routine Mental Health Act (MHA) monitoring visit in July 2015. On that visit we found good overall adherence to the MHA and MHA Code of Practice and only identified minor shortfalls. Managers of Douglas House provided an action statement telling us how they would improve adherence to the MHA and MHA Code of Practice in these areas.
Latest inspection: 7, 8 and 18 March 2016
Report published: 4 August 2016
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Depeche Mode 'MODE' 2020
THE DEFINITIVE DEPECHE MODE STUDIO COLLECTION
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DEPECHE MODE:
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A 2020 limited edition CD box set containing all 14 studio albums, and four discs of b-sides and rare tracks.
Depeche Mode Announce MODE Box Set
The impact of Depeche Mode's music on their fans, and the musical landscape as a whole, is undeniable. By constantly evolving and pushing boundaries, while staying dedicated to their identity, Depeche Mode have maintained credibility with longtime followers, attracted new fans and continually inspired countless other musical artists. As the band continues this musical legacy, the MODE box set celebrates this history with an eye to what is still to come.
MODE is a comprehensive collection of the band's work to date - comprised of all 14 studio albums plus additional non-album material -- from 2017's Spirit back to DM's debut album Speak & Spell. In line with DM's signature aesthetic, the numbered, limited-edition set is housed in an elegant and minimalist black cube, with each disc similarly enclosed in a black, heavyweight card wallet. The albums' original covers have been re-interpreted in uniform black-on-black designs exclusive to this box set, and four additional bonus discs provide a chronological collection of non-album singles, b-sides and bonus tracks. Accompanying the audio content is a 228 page, gilt-edged book containing all of Depeche Mode's lyrics, compiled together for the first time, highlighting their collective visceral power and impact.
Reflecting on the set's content and design, the band commented, "With everything together in this all-black design it feels like a modern reflection of who we are and where we've come from. The set couldn't be more Depeche Mode."
Depeche Mode Box Set
Initial : release date - 22 November 2019
Final : release date - 24 January 2020
This box set collects all 14 of the band’s original studio albums in their original UK track listings and an additional 63 tracks across 4 CDs gathers together non-album singles, b-sides and bonus tracks from 1981 to 2017 including the previously unreleased "Heroes (Highline Session Version)". All of the band’s iconic artwork has been re-interpreted in all black artwork on exclusive black card sleeves. A 7 x 7" black gilt edged, 228 page book features the complete lyrics alongside career-spanning photographs and the original album cover artwork.
The CD contents are as below:
1. Speak & Spell
2. A Broken Frame
3. Construction Time Again
4. Some Great Reward
5. Black Celebration
6. Music For The Masses
7. Violator
8. Songs Of Faith And Devotion
9. Ultra
10. Exciter
11. Playing The Angel
12. Sounds Of The Universe
13. Delta Machine
15. M (1981-1985)
16. O (1986-1990)
17. D (1993-2005)
18. E (2006-2017)
BOX RELEASE
DELUXE EDITION | LIMITED EDITION | NUMBERED | CD BOX SET
CD1 | SPEAK & SPELL (889853894921)
1. New Life 3:46
2. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead 02:18
3. Puppets 03:58
4. Boys Say Go! 03:07
5. Nodisco 04:15
6. What's Your Name? 02:45
7. Photographic 04:44
8. Tora! Tora! Tora! 04:37
9. Big Muff 04:24
10. Any Second Now (Voices) 02:35
11. Just Can't Get Enough 03:44
CD2 | A BROKEN FRAME (889853894922)
1. Leave In Silence 04:48
2. My Secret Garden 04:46
3. Monument 03:14
4. Nothing To Fear 04:16
5. See You 04:33
6. Satellite 04:43
7. The Meaning Of Love 03:06
8. A Photograph Of You 03:05
9. Shouldn't Have Done That 03:13
10. The Sun And The Rainfall 05:05
CD3 | CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN (889853894923)
1. Love, In Itself 04:29
2. More Than A Party 04:45
3. Pipeline 05:54
4. Everything Counts 04:20
5. Two Minute Warning 04:13
6. Shame 03:51
7. The Landscape Is Changing 04:49
8. Told You So 04:26
9. And Then... 04:36
10. Everything Counts (Reprise) 01:00
NOTE : Track 10 not mentioned on the cover.
CD4 | SOME GREAT REWARD (889853894924)
1. Something To Do 03:46
2. Lie To Me 05:03
3. People Are People 03:52
4. It Doesn't Matter 04:45
5. Stories Of Old 03:14
6. Somebody 04:27
7. Master And Servant 04:12
8. If You Want 04:40
9. Blasphemous Rumours 06:22
CD5 | BLACK CELEBRATION (889853894925)
1. Black Celebration 04:55
2. Fly On The Windscreen - Final 05:18
3. A Question Of Lust 04:20
4. Sometimes 01:53
5. It Doesn't Matter Two 02:50
6. A Question Of Time 04:10
7. Stripped 04:16
8. Here Is The House 04:15
9. World Full Of Nothing 02:50
10. Dressed In Black 02:32
11. New Dress 03:42
CD6 | MUSIC FOR THE MASSES (889853894926)
1. Never Let Me Down Again 04:47
2. The Things You Said 04:02
3. Strangelove 04:56
4. Sacred 04:47
5. Little 15 04:18
6. Behind The Wheel 05:18
7. I Want You Now 03:44
8. To Have And To Hold 02:51
9. Nothing 04:17
10. Pimpf 04:55
CD7 | VIOLATOR (889853894927)
1. World In My Eyes 04:26
2. Sweetest Perfection 04:43
3. Personal Jesus 04:56
4. Halo 04:30
5. Waiting For The Night 06:07
6. Enjoy The Silence 06:12
7. Policy Of Truth 04:55
8. Blue Dress 05:41
9. Clean 05:28
CD8 | SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION (889853894928)
1. I Feel You 04:35
2. Walking In My Shoes 05:35
3. Condemnation 03:20
4. Mercy In You 04:17
5. Judas 05:14
6. In Your Room 06:26
7. Get Right With Me 03:32
8. Rush 04:37
9. One Caress 03:32
10. Higher Love 05:56
CD9 | ULTRA (889853894929)
1. Barrel Of A Gun 05:35
2. The Love Thieves 06:34
3. Home 05:42
4. It's No Good 05:58
5. Uselink 02:21
6. Useless 05:12
7. Sister Of Night 06:04
8. Jazz Thieves 02:54
9. Freestate 06:44
10. The Bottom Line 04:26
11. Insight 06:26
12. Junior Painkiller 02:11
CD10 | EXCITER (8898538949210)
1. Dream On 04:18
2. Shine 05:29
3. The Sweetest Condition 03:40
4. When The Body Speaks 06:00
5. The Dead Of Night 04:48
6. Lovetheme 02:00
7. Freelove 06:07
8. Comatose 03:22
9. I Feel Loved 04:18
10. Breathe 05:16
11. Easy Tiger 02:05
12. I Am You 05:05
13. Goodnight Lovers 03:48
CD11 | PLAYING THE ANGEL (8898538949211)
1. A Pain That I'm Used To 4:11
2. John The Revelator 03:42
3. Suffer Well 03:50
4. The Sinner In Me 04:55
5. Precious 04:10
6. Macro 04:02
7. I Want It All 06:10
8. Nothing's Impossible 04:21
9. Introspectre 01:42
10. Damaged People 03:28
11. Lilian 04:46
12. The Darkest Star 06:55
CD12 | SOUND OF THE UNIVERSE (8898538949212)
1. In Chains 06:53
2. Hole To Feed 03:59
3. Wrong 03:13
4. Fragile Tension 04:09
5. Little Soul 03:31
6. In Sympathy 04:54
7. Peace 04:29
8. Come Back 05:15
9. Spacewalker 01:53
10. Perfect 04:33
11. Miles Away / The Truth Is 04:14
12. Jezebel 04:41
13. Corrupt 05:04
CD13 | DELTA MACHINE (8898538949213)
1. Welcome To My World 04:56
2. Angel 03:57
3. Heaven 04:03
4. Secret To The End 05:12
5. My Little Universe 04:24
6. Slow 03:45
7. Broken 03:58
8. The Child Inside 04:16
9. Soft Touch/Raw Nerve 03:26
10. Should Be Higher 05:04
11. Alone 04:29
12. Soothe My Soul 05:22
13. Goodbye 05:03
CD14 | SPIRIT (8898538949214)
1. Going Backwards 05:42
2. Where's The Revolution 04:59
3. The Worst Crime 03:48
4. Scum 03:14
5. You Move 03:49
6. Cover Me 04:51
7. Eternal 02:24
8. Poison Heart 03:17
9. So Much Love 04:29
10. Poorman 04:25
11. No More (This Is The Last Time) 03:13
12. Fail 05:07
CD15 M | MODE 1981-1985 (8898538949215)
1. Photographic (Some Bizarre Version) 03:12
2. Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (Flexi-Pop Version) 02:18
3. Dreaming of Me 04:03
4. Ice Machine 03:53
5. Shout! 03:43
6. Any Second Now 03:08
7. Now, This Is Fun 03:24
8. Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) 04:09
9. My Secret Garden (Excerpt from) 03:17
10. My Secret Garden (Further Excerpts from) 04:24
11. Get the Balance Right! 03:12
12. The Great Outdoors! 05:02
13. Work Hard 04:23
14. Fools 04:16
15. In Your Memory 04:01
16. (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me 04:15
17. Shake the Disease 04:51
18. Flexible 03:13
19. It's Called a Heart 03:50
20. Fly On the Windscreen 05:06
CD16 O | MODE 1986-1990 (8898538949216)
1. Dressed In Black (Record Mirror Version) 02:45
2. But Not Tonight 04:18
3. Breathing In Fumes 06:07
4. Black Day 02:38
5. Christmas Island 04:52
6. Agent Orange 05:05
7. Fpmip 05:21
8. Pleasure, Little Treasure 02:53
9. Route 66 04:10
10. Stjarna 04:25
11. Sonata No 14 in C#m (Moonlight Sonata) 05:38
12. Dangerous 04:22
13. Memphisto 04:08
14. Sibeling 03:18
15. Kaleid 04:18
16. Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) 04:58
17. Sea Of Sin (Tonal Mix) 04:44
CD17 D | MODE 1993-2005 (8898538949217)
1. My Joy (Seven Inch Mix) 03:58
2. Death's Door (Soundtrack Version) 03:54
3. Death's Door (Jazz Mix) 06:40
4. Slowblow 05:25
5. Painkiller 07:29
6. Only When I Lose Myself 04:34
7. Surrender 06:19
8. Headstar 04:23
9. Easy Tiger 04:56
10. Dirt 04:59
11. Zenstation 06:26
12. Free 05:11
13. Newborn 05:35
14. Better Days 02:28
15. Martyr 03:23
CD18 E | MODE 2006-2017 (8898538949218)
1. Oh Well (Single Version) 04:25
2. Oh Well 05:59
3. Light 04:44
4. The Sun and the Moon and the Stars 04:41
5. Ghost 06:25
6. Esque 02:17
7. Long Time Lie 04:23
8. Happens All the Time 04:20
9. Always 05:05
10. All That's Mine 03:23
11. Heroes (Highline Session Version) 06:30
BOX TITLE:
MODE The definitive Depeche Mode studio collection
MODE contains all 14 of Depeche Mode's original albums presented in exclusive black card sleeves with re-interpreted, all-black artwork.
An additional 4 CDs collect 63 non-album singles, b-sides and bonus tracks from 1981 to 2017 including the previously unreleased Heroes (Highline Session Version).
The 7" x 7" black gilt-edged, 228-page book features the complete lyrics alongside career-spanning photographs and the original album cover artwork.
STICKER:
The definitive
All 14 original studio albums
4 bonus discs featuring
63 b-sides and bonus tracks
Exclusive 228-page book includes
career-spanning photos, original
cover art and complete lyrics
collected together for the first time
88985389492S1
The sequence number from the limited run appears on the back of the included book, embossed in gold ink.
Label Code: LC 05834
Other: Made in the EU
Runout / CD 1 SONY MUSIC 57327222/88985389492-1-1 21
Runout / CD 10 SONY MUSIC 57331670/88985389492-10-1 21
BOOK (228 page)
PRODUCTION DETAILS TRACKS
"New Life" 3:46 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" 02:18 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Puppets" 03:58 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Boys Say Go!" 03:07 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Nodisco" 04:15 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"What's Your Name?" 02:45 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Photographic" 04:44 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" 04:37 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Big Muff" 04:24 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Any Second Now" (Voices) 02:35 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Just Can't Get Enough" 03:44 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Leave In Silence" 04:48 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"My Secret Garden" 04:46 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Monument" 03:14 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Nothing To Fear" 04:16 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"See You" 04:33 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Satellite" 04:43 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"The Meaning Of Love" 03:06 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"A Photograph Of You" 03:05 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Shouldn't Have Done That" 03:13 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"The Sun And The Rainfall" 05:05 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Love, In Itself" 04:29 • Produced by Daniel Miller & Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones. Recorded at The Garden,London. Mixed at Hansa Mischraum, Berlin.
"More Than A Party" 04:45 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Pipeline" 05:54 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Everything Counts" 04:20 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Two Minute Warning" 04:13 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Shame" 03:51 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"The Landscape Is Changing" 04:49 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Told You So" 04:26 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"And Then..." 04:36 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Everything Counts" (Reprise) 00:55 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Something To Do" 03:46 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Lie To Me" 05:03 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"People Are People" 03:52 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"It Doesn't Matter" 04:45 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Stories Of Old" 03:14 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Somebody" 04:27 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Master And Servant" 04:12 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"If You Want" 04:40 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Blasphemous Rumours" 06:22 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones. Assistant Engineers - Ben Ward, Stefi Marcus, Colie McMahon.
"Black Celebration" 04:55 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Fly On The Windscreen - Final" 05:18 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"A Question Of Lust" 04:20 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Sometimes" 01:53 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"It Doesn't Matter Two" 02:50 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"A Question Of Time" 04:10 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (London) and Peter Schmidt (Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Stripped" 04:16 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Here Is The House" 04:15 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"World Full Of Nothing" 02:50 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Dressed In Black" 02:32 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"New Dress" 03:42 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Never Let Me Down Again" 04:47 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"The Things You Said" 04:02 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Strangelove" 04:56 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Sacred" 04:47 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Little 15" 04:18 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Behind The Wheel" 05:18 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"I Want You Now" 03:44 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"To Have And To Hold" 02:51 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Nothing" 04:17 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Pimpf" 04:55 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Engineered by David Bascombe. Interlude "Mission Impossible" Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"World In My Eyes" 04:26 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Sweetest Perfection" 04:43 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Personal Jesus" 04:56 • Mixed by Flood.
"Halo" 04:30 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Waiting For The Night" 06:07 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Enjoy The Silence" 06:12 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Daniel Miller and Flood. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky. Interlude "Crucified" Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Policy Of Truth" 04:55 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Blue Dress" 05:41 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Daniel Miller and Flood. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky. "Interlude" Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"Clean" 05:28 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Francois Kervorkian. Engineered by Pino Pischetola, Peter Iversen, Steve Lyon, Goh Hotoda, Alan Gregorie, Dennis Mitchell and Phil Legg. Assisted by Daryl Bamonte, Dick Meany, David Browne, Mark Flannery and Ricky.
"I Feel You" 04:35 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Walking In My Shoes" 05:35 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Condemnation" 03:20 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Mercy In You" 04:17 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Judas" 05:14 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe. Uileann pipes by Steafan Hannigan.
"In Your Room" 06:26 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Get Right With Me" 03:32 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe. Additional vocals by Bazil Meade, Hildia Cambell and Samantha Smith. "Interlude" Remix by Brian Eno. Additional guitar by Jamie West-Oram. Additional synths by Brian Eno.
"Rush" 04:37 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"One Caress" 03:32 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe. Strings arranged and conducted by Wil Malone.
"Higher Love" 05:56 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Mark Stent. Engineered by Steve Lyon, Chris Dickie and Paul Kendall. Assisted by Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun de Feo and Volke Schneider. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe.
"Barrel Of A Gun" 05:35 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Percussion by Victor Indrizzo.
"The Love Thieves" 06:34 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Additional vocals engineered by Gareth Jones.
"Home" 05:42 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Additional vocals engineered by Gareth Jones. Strings arranged by Dave Clayton. Strings scored and conducted by Richard Niles. Strings coordinated by Graham Perkins.
"It's No Good" 05:58 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Percussion by Victor Indrizzo.
"Uselink" 02:21 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Gareth Jones. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. System 700 by Daniel Miller.
"Useless" 05:12 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Drums by Gota Yashiki and Keith Le Blanc. Percussion by Danny Cummings. Bass by Doug Wimbish.
"Sister Of Night" 06:04 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Jazz Thieves" 02:54 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Freestate" 06:44 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Additional vocals engineered by Gareth Jones. Percussion by Danny Cummings.
"The Bottom Line" 04:26 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange. Percussion by Jaki Liebezeit. Pedal Steel Guitar by BJ Cole.
"Insight" 06:26 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Junior Painkiller" 02:11 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Dream On" 04:18 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"Shine" 05:29 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"The Sweetest Condition" 03:40 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"When The Body Speaks" 06:00 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh. Solo Cello by Knox Chandler. Strings by Todd C. Reynolds, Joyce Hammann, Natalie Cenovia Cummins, Ralph M. Farris and Leo Grinhauz. String arrangement by Knox Chandler.
"The Dead Of Night" 04:48 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"Lovetheme" 02:00 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Freelove" 06:07 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh. Percussion by Airto Moreira.
"Comatose" 03:22 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"I Feel Loved" 04:18 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh. Percussion by Airto Moreira.
"Breathe" 05:16 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"Easy Tiger" 02:05 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"I Am You" 05:05 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh. Drums by Christian Eigner.
"Goodnight Lovers" 03:48 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"A Pain That I'm Used To" 4:11 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"John The Revelator" 03:42 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Suffer Well" 03:50 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Original Programming by Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"The Sinner In Me" 04:55 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Precious" 04:10 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Ben Hillier and Steve Fitzmaurice. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Macro" 04:02 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"I Want It All" 06:10 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Original Programming by Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris. Piano by Dave McCracken.
"Nothing's Impossible" 04:21 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Original Programming by Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Introspectre" 01:42 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Damaged People" 03:28 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Lilian" 04:46 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"The Darkest Star" 06:55 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice and Ben Hillier. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"In Chains" 06:53 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Hole To Feed" 03:59 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.. Original programming by Christian Eigner & Andrew Phillpott. Drums by Christian Eigner.
"Wrong" 03:13 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Fragile Tension" 04:09 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.. Drums by Christian Eigner.
"Little Soul" 03:31 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"In Sympathy" 04:54 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Peace" 04:29 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Come Back" 05:15 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.. Original programming by Christian Eigner & Andrew Phillpott.
"Spacewalker" 01:53 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Perfect" 04:33 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Miles Away / The Truth Is" 04:14 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.. Original programming by Christian Eigner & Andrew Phillpott.
"Jezebel" 04:41 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Corrupt" 05:04 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Welcome To My World" 04:56 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Angel" 03:57 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Heaven" 04:03 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Secret To The End" 05:12 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"My Little Universe" 04:24 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Slow" 03:45 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Broken" 03:58 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"The Child Inside" 04:16 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Soft Touch/Raw Nerve" 03:26 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Should Be Higher" 05:04 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Alone" 04:29 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Soothe My Soul" 05:22 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Goodbye" 05:03 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Going Backwards" 05:42 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"Where's The Revolution" 04:59 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"The Worst Crime" 03:48 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"Scum" 03:14 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"You Move" 03:49 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore
"Cover Me" 04:51 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums, pedal steel guitar on “Cover Me”), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Christian Eigner, Dave Gahan, Peter Gordeno
"Eternal" 02:24 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"Poison Heart" 03:17 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Christian Eigner, Dave Gahan, Peter Gordeno
"So Much Love" 04:29 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"Poorman" 04:25 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"No More" (This Is The Last Time) 03:13 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Dave Gahan, Kurt Uenala
"Fail" 05:07 • Producer by James Ford (mixing, drums), Programmer by Charles M. Duff (Matrixxman), Mastering by Brian Lucey (Magic Garden Mastering), Written-By: Martin L. Gore
"Photographic" (Some Bizzare Version) 03:13 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Recorded at Stage One. This was the first track Depeche Mode ever recorded. It originally appeared on the "Some Bizzare" compilation (hence the mix name).
"Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead" (Flexipop Version) 02:18 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Dreaming Of Me" 04:03 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Ice Machine" 04:05 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Shout" 03:46 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Any Second Now" 03:08 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Now, This Is Fun" 03:27 • Produced by Daniel Miller & Depeche Mode. Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London. Engineered by Eric Radcliffe and John Fryer.
"Oberkorn" (It's A Small Town) 04:09 • Produced by Daniel Miller & Depeche Mode. Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London.
"My Secret Garden" (Excerpt From) 03:17 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"My Secret Garden" (Further Excerpts From) 04:23 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe.
"Get The Balance Right!" 03:17 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller.
"The Great Outdoors!" 05:04 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Work Hard" 04:24 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Fools" 04:17 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"In Your Memory" 04:06 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller. Engineered by Trigger. Recorded and mixed at Aosis Studios, London.
"(Set Me Free) Remotivate Me" 04:18 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Tonmeister - Gareth Jones.
"Shake The Disease" 04:47 • Produced by Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode and Gareth Jones at Handsa Mischraum, Berlin.
"Flexible" 03:13 • Engineered by Flood.
"It's Called A Heart" 03:50 • Produced by Daniel Miller and Depeche Mode. Engineered by Dave Allen. Recorded at Genetic Studios, and mixed at Livingston Studios.
"Fly On The Windscreen" 05:06 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller.
"Dressed In Black" (Record Mirror Version) 02:45 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (Westside, London) and Peter Schmidt (Hansa, Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"But Not Tonight" 04:19 • Recorded and mixed at Hansa Tonstudio, Kreuzberg. Produced by Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones.
"Breathing In Fumes" 06:08 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (London) and Peter Schmidt (Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young. Editing assistance by Thomas Stiehler.
"Black Day" 02:39 • Produced by Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Assistant Engineers - Richard Sullivan (London) and Peter Schmidt (Berlin). Mastered by Tim Young.
"Christmas Island" 04:52 • Recorded at Trident, London. Produced by Depeche Mode. Engineered by Trigger.
"Agent Orange" 05:05 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Additional production and help from Daniel Miller. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Fpmip" 05:21 • Produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Pleasure, Little Treasure" 02:53 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Dave Bascombe. Engineered by Dave Bascombe.
"Route 66" 04:11 • Produced by Depeche Mode & Dave Bascombe. Engineered by David Bascombe.
"Stjarna" 04:25 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Engineered by Stephan Taylor. Assisted by James Monkman. Recorded and mixed at The Strongroom, London.
"Sonata No.14 In C#M (Moonlight Sonata)" 05:36 • Engineer by Stephen Taylor. Engineer (Assistant) by James Monkman. Performer by Alan Wilder. Producer by Depeche Mode. Written-By Ludwig Van Beethoven.
"Dangerous" 04:21 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Mixed by Flood.
"Memphisto" 04:01 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Recorded and mixed at The Church.
"Sibeling" 03:17 • Produced by Depeche Mode and Flood. Recorded and mixed at The Church, London. Engineered by Steve Lyon.
"Kaleid" 04:17 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Recorded at Worldwide Studios, London. Engineered by Steve Lyon.
"Happiest Girl" (Jack Mix) 04:58 • Mixed by Francois Kervorkian at Axis Studios, New York. Engineered by Lloyd Puckitt. Additional production by Alan Friedman.
"Sea Of Sin" (Tonal Mix) 04:43 • Mixed by Francois Kervorkian at Axis Studios, New York. Engineered by Lloyd Puckitt. Additional production by Alan Friedman.
"My Joy" (Seven Inch Mix) 04:01 • Mixed by Steve Lyon and Depeche Mode.
"Death's Door" (Soundtrack Version) 3:54 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Engineered by Steve Lyon.
"Death's Door" (Jazz Mix) 06:40 • Produced by Depeche Mode. Mixed by Depeche Mode and Steve Lyon at Konk Studios, London.
"Slowblow" 05:25 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon. and Q. Recorded and mixed at Abbey Road, London.
"Painkiller" 07:29 • Produced by Tim Simenon. Mixed by Tim Simenon and Q. Engineered by Q. Programming by Kerry Hopwood. Keyboards and Keyboard programming by Dave Clayton. Assisted by Paul Hicks, Guy Massey, Lee Fitzgerald, Tom Rixton, Gary Forde, Lee Phillips, Jamie Campbell, Jim, Greg, Audie Chamberlain and Robbie Kazandijan. Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.
"Only When I Lose Myself" 04:35 • Produced and mixed by Tim Simenon. Engineered by Robin hancock. Recoreded at Eastcote. Mixed at Abbey Road. Programming by Stephan Hilton. Additional Pro Tools work and engineering by Tim Weidner and Philip Bagenal. Additional live drums by Christian Eigner. Strings scored and conducted by Richard Niles, recorded at Abbey Road and engineered by Guy Massey. Assistant at Eastcote - Seymour Milton. Assistant at Abbey Road - Paul Hicks.
"Surrender" 06:19 • Produced and mixed by Tim Simenon. Engineered by Robin hancock. Recoreded at Eastcote. Mixed at Abbey Road. Programming by Stephan Hilton. Additional Pro Tools work and engineering by Tim Weidner and Philip Bagenal. Additional live drums by Christian Eigner. Strings scored and conducted by Richard Niles, recorded at Abbey Road and engineered by Guy Massey. Assistant at Eastcote - Seymour Milton. Assistant at Abbey Road - Paul Hicks.
"Headstar" 04:23 • Produced and mixed by Tim Simenon. Engineered by Robin hancock. Recoreded at Eastcote. Mixed at Abbey Road. Programming by Stephan Hilton. Additional Pro Tools work and engineering by Tim Weidner and Philip Bagenal. Additional live drums by Christian Eigner. Assistant at Eastcote - Seymour Milton.
"Dirt" 04:59 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"Zenstation" 06:26 • Produced by Mark Bell. Engineered by Gareth Jones. Pre-production and additional production by Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
"Free" 05:11 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Ben Hillier and Steve Fitzmaurice. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Newborn" 05:35 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Better Days" 02:28 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Ben Hillier and Steve Fitzmaurice. Programming by Dave McCracken and Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris. Written-By Martin L. Gore.
"Martyr" 03:23 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140db. Mixed by Jeremy Wheatley for 365 Artists at Twenty-One Studios. Assisted by Richard Edgeier. Programming by Dave McCracken, additional programming by Richard Morris. Engineered by Ben Hillier and Richard Morris.
"Oh Well" (Single Version) 04:25 • Recorded By Vocals, Engineer Vocals by Kurt Uenala. Written-By Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore.
"Oh Well" 05:59 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Light" 04:44 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"The Sun And The Moon And The Stars" 04:41 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Ghost" 06:25 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Esque" 02:17 • Produced by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Mixed by Tony Hoffer. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Programming by Luke Smith. Assistant Engineer: Josh Garcia (Santa Barbara), Jesse Gladstone (New York) & Anthony Palazzole (New York, Mixing). Pre-production assistance by Sie Medway-Smith - Grabbing Hands. Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
"Long Time Lie" 04:23 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Happens All The Time" 04:20 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Always" 05:05 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"All That's Mine" 03:23 • Produced by Ben Hillier. Programming by Christoffer Berg. Engineered by Ferg Peterkin. Additional Programming and Vocal Recording by Kurt Uenala. Assistant Engineers: Tomas Deltoro-Diaz / Will Loomis / Dan Tobiason. Mixed by Flood. Mix Engineer: Rob Kirwan. Mix Assistant: Drew Smith. Mastering Engineer: Bunt Stafford-Clark.
"Heroes" (Highline Session Version) 06:30 • Lead Vocals: Dave Gahan, Guitar and Backing Vocals: Martin Gore, Keyboard: Andrew Fletcher, Rhodes Piano: Kurt Uenala, Synth Bass: Matrixxman, Produced and mixed by Kurt Uenala at Blanco Studios, NYC, Recorded by Jimmy Robertson at Highline Stages, NYC on August 3rd 2016, Recording Assistance by Brendan Morawski.
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Upon reviewing the first MODE boxes coming off the production line, we've identified a handful of places where the box is not up to our standards based on the prototypes that were approved, and we're insisting that these issues are fixed before any boxes go to retailers or to fans. Our top priority is to ensure that the quality of the box, artwork, and printing match what was designed and intended.
These issues have been resolved but the MODE box set will now be released on Jan 24th.
If you planned to gift the box set for the holidays we’ve created the following that you can share with the recipient: depechemodeboxset
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Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 Tri-band Wi-Fi router unveiled at CES 2021
By Press Release | Published on 14 Jan 2021
Netgear has launched the world’s first all-purpose Wi-Fi 6E router called the Nighthawk RAXE500 Tri-band Wi-Fi router. The new router promises faster connectivity on the new 6GHz and that’s free of interference and congestion.
Read the complete press release below
NETGEAR, the worldwide leading provider of award-winning advanced networking products for home and office has announced, during the historic, virtually-hosted CES 2021, the introduction of the world’s first all-purpose Wi-Fi 6E router, the Nighthawk RAXE500 Tri-band Wi-Fi router. Promised to elevate the Wi-Fi experience by providing speeds up to 10.8Gbps 1, this latest addition to the Nighthawk line of performance routers ushers in a new era of fast connectivity on the new 6Ghz band, free of interference and congestion.
A CES 2021 Innovations Award Honoree, the Nighthawk RAXE500 Tri-band Wi-Fi Router is designed to provide the fastest Wi-Fi speed possible with higher-capacity, lower latency, and the latest WPA3 security. With cutting-edge technology, the new Wi-Fi 6E router from NETGEAR expands Wi-Fi for more capability, capacity, and experiences for a new world of uninterrupted connectivity while simultaneously conducting distance learning, video conferencing, and 4K/8K video streaming. With the new 6GHz band, this Nighthawk performance router delivers faster speeds, smoother streaming, less interference, and improved latency for devices and Wi-Fi-hungry applications for an overall enhanced experience.
Apart from the new Nighthawk RAXE500, NETGEAR also introduced two new mobile products: the Industry’s first Wi-Fi 6 mobile wireless router – the Nighthawk® 4G LTE Wi-Fi 6 Router (LAX20)- and the NETGEAR® 4G LTE Modem (LM1200).
The Nighthawk LAX20 router supports advanced Wi-Fi 6 networking technology delivering 1.8Gbps of high-performance Wi-Fi and improved network capacity to handle a greater number of connected devices on the home network. Combined with a 4G LTE modem for instances where traditional wired internet options are not available or reliable, the Nighthawk LAX20 router provides an alternate mobile internet connectivity option. The new router also serves as an ideal solution for those who need internet access for limited time frames for instances such as a vacation home or short-term rentals.
The NETGEAR LM1200 modem is an affordable and reliable internet connection via the 4G LTE network when faced with slow internet options (DSL) or the lack of fixed-line broadband service. The latest 4G LTE modem from NETGEAR is certified to work with AT&T and T-Mobile at launch. Get connected easily to strong and reliable internet using a 4G SIM on the LM1200 and connect to a Wi-Fi Router or Mesh solution for internet connectivity throughout your home.
Speaking on the occasion, Marthesh Nagendra, Country Manager India, ME & SAARC, NETGEAR commented, “At NETGEAR our aim is to provide cutting edge technologies that enable people to work, learn, stream and game more effectively in a connected world. We are pleased to announce various Wi-Fi tools and solutions at CES this year that would provide connectivity for households and businesses regardless of where they may be located.”
During the event, NETGEAR also showcased the newly announced WAX214 and WAX218 wall/ceiling mount Wi-Fi 6 Access Points, expanding the Business Essentials line of powerful, easy-to-deploy, and affordable business networking products. The WAX214 and WAX218 provide today’s home office workers, micro businesses and small retail owners with a cost-effective solution to typical wireless networking challenges. Problems such as spotty connectivity, congestion due to limited bandwidth, dropped connections; low speed, complex installation, and lack of security are all solved thanks to the advanced technology built into the WAX214 and WAX218. These Wi-Fi Access Points deliver what small business owners and working professionals need most to improve the performance and reliability of their work-from-home network.
“We are also thrilled to announce the industry’s first all-purpose Wi-Fi 6E router which lets you enjoy ultra-fast speeds, smooth streaming, and lower latency for your 4K/8K streaming, AR/VR gaming, and video-conferencing. The Nighthawk RAXE500 Tri-band Wi-Fi Router will capitalize on the available bandwidth afforded by the new 6Ghz channel, delivering an increase in speed and capacity that has never been experienced up until this moment”, added Nagendra
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Pitches: Onus not just on startups, but judges too
By Gabey Goh January 28, 2014
Entrepreneurs need to understand that judges on pitches have just about seen it all
Judges need to engage as well, and realise that livelihoods and dreams are at stake
THE topic of pitches and all the drama that goes with them has flared up again in the last two weeks or so.
I found myself counselling a young student who tried his hand pitching at the recently held Activate Singapore Tech Talent Day only to fall apart and leave his pitch incomplete. I say, “Stop apologising, pick yourself up, learn from it and move on.”
Another more seasoned entrepreneur, Alvin Koay of MobileAds, reported a disastrous pitch session to friends on Facebook, only to find out at the very end that he had emerged victorious. Congratulations!
My short retelling on Facebook of one young entrepreneur’s recent horrid experience trying to pitch to a panel for funding also sparked a long and insightful comment thread by members of Malaysia’s startup community.
So let me start by getting the obvious out of the way: Malaysians are not known for their polish or savvy when it comes to pitching on stage.
Yet that hasn’t stopped the most determined of our entrepreneurs from doing it over and over, a fact we should be proud of.
Khoo Chien Shiang, founder of SeQ.Me which developed the personal safety app Watch Over Me, recalled how he once got rejected on national television during the first season of Make The Pitch, a reality show sponsored by MyEG.
“I thought it was the end of the world for me, and I ended up complaining and cursing this and that, but I realised that I was going nowhere,” he said.
Khoo said that he once read an article which stated that on average, a Silicon Valley startup needs to pitch to at least 50 venture capitalists before getting a ‘yes.’
“So I would advise the founder: Learn what is missing from your presentation. Is it your presentation deck? Your style of presenting? Then move on, tell yourself ‘One down, 49 more to go!’ ” he added.
The onus is always on the entrepreneurs to shine and stand out in front of a panel of judges, who are swamped with dozens upon dozens of proposals.
Tang Chun Cheuh, a freelance writer and photographer, shared his experience on Facebook about helping a friend draft a pitch for Cradle Fund, the Ministry of Finance agency.
“One proposal document looks the same as another, especially if you’re pitching to something like Cradle. I take pride in my writing skills, but the legal format just makes anything look boring.
“And if I as the writer don’t feel the proposal format is letting me explain my concept to the fullest potential, how can I expect the judge to be enthused about it? Of course it will depend on your verbal pitch to get the panellists hooked. Any proposal to get money isn’t about what you sell, but how you sell it,” he said.
Tang urged entrepreneurs to look at the situation from the other side of the table. Funding agencies and panellists get swamped by pitches every day, “all of which want a piece of the funding, but many are half-hearted proposals for easy money with little merit.”
“A lot of so-called project pitches are little more than tech demos of existing products. They’re not even proofs-of-concept. Many even use the default demo material that comes with the product,” he added.
Dhakshinamoorthy Balakrishnan, president of the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia (TeAM), also shared his thoughts. He emphasised that the onus is on the entrepreneur to engage the panel and make them understand the idea.
“So my take is, stop complaining. Go and convince more people your idea is awesome. If it is great, don’t stop at the panel, go and wait at the door of the agency or seed company and pitch till your mouth bleeds. You will get somewhere!” he said.
All great points and any startup founder reading this should be mindful that the burden to prove themselves is one aspect of entrepreneurship that they can’t avoid – and that scaling back on complaints would be the classy and productive thing to do.
For today’s column, I’m going to go out on a limb and take the side of all entrepreneurs out there and say this: It takes two to make a deal.
To investors, startup evaluators or anyone with a role in deciding who gets how much of limited funding, I urge you to meet these entrepreneurs halfway or at the very least, pay attention.
One point of contention I keep consistently hearing from startup founders is the lack of engagement or understanding from gatekeepers when the pitch is being made.
We know that Malaysia lacks a deep pool of tech startup savvy investors, with most purse strings controlled by investors from conventional backgrounds – bankers and finance experts who are more fluent in the language of traditional enterprises.
Jared Lim, founder of financial product comparison site Loanstreet, pointed out that for some lucky founders, fund approval is implicitly winked their way, with the filling of paperwork and meeting with gatekeepers merely a formality to be completed.
“From personal experience, going through suffocating amounts of paperwork but finally getting thrown out by less than enthused gatekeepers has been the most draining period of my personal journey. Life isn’t fair, we just deal with it,” he said.
The make-up of a judging panel also has an impact on proceedings. With Tang pointing out that as “important as it is to get tech-savvy judges sitting in the panel, I’d also want a layman on it who doesn’t get dazzled by tech jargon and can see the business, or at least practical sense of the project.”
Ikhawn Nazri, chief executive officer of Amanz.my, agreed that having a layman on the panel would make for a more rounded evaluation, but argued that having the majority of judges “get it” is equally important.
He shared how a single judge who understood what he was trying to achieve salvaged his own pitching experience.
“I had just graduated, entered a pitch and was inexperienced in pitching, and got rejected by two judges, but one of them was Premesh Chandran of Malaysiakini who got the idea.
“You can say I’m lucky because he got the idea, but we need a judge who can speak, understand or who lives in the tech space, to judge a tech pitch, and that should be the majority of panel judges,” he added.
We will always look to the failings of the entrepreneur first when breaking down an unsuccessful pitch, and it is not wrong to do so. After all, money and returns on investment are at stake here.
Founders still have to prove that it is a viable idea and not half-baked.
We know that sitting through endless pitches made by not-so-smooth founders can be a draining experience, but that does not excuse coming off as unengaged or unwilling to ask questions to learn more about a particular venture you don’t quite grasp at first.
Much like how we keep telling founders that it’s all about the attitude they bring to table, the same can be said for the very people who evaluate these pitches.
Power is intoxicating. And if you’re sitting on a judging panel, you hold the power to directly decide the fate of those entrepreneurs standing before you, clutching their notes with sweaty palms.
Our entrepreneurs, for the most part, are working their butts off with livelihoods on the line. So acknowledge it and take that responsibility seriously, even if their idea really sucks.
Don’t agree to be a startup evaluator if you can’t find it in your heart and soul to approach every pitch like it’s the first of the day and not the last of hundreds. And of course, tell them exactly where they went wrong so they can improve.
After all, with great power comes great responsibility.
This column originally appeared in the Metro Biz section of The Star and is reprinted here with its kind permission.
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Get a sneakerhead: how to use the internet to buy the rarest sneakers
By Keith Nelson Jr. April 25, 2015
If you’ve walked by a sneaker store in the last 20 years, chances are you saw a line of people shivering outside days in advance for the release of a limited edition pair of shoes. Whether it’s the chaotic crowds that formed for the Supreme Foamposites last year, or the murderous attempts for the Air Jordans in the 1990s, camping out for new sneaker releases has become as deeply embedded in American tradition as the Super Bowl.
However, with the evolution of social media and Web browsing, camping out is becoming antiquated, a counterproductive means to securing the most elusive sneakers on the market. The resale market for sneakers, valued at $1 billion last year, is littered with insomniacs who have all the tips, tricks, and caffeinated beverages needed to round up dozens of pairs at a time, which they resell at high markups. With dozens of different premium sneakers released in the first four months of 2015 alone — including the Adidas and Kanye West’s Yeezy Boost collaboration — it’s time you learned a few tech-savvy tricks of the trade.
Adidas Confirmed App
Adidas released adidas Confirmed on iOS devices, the first footwear reservation app for its limited edition sneakers in anticipation of the Yeezy Boost release. The app allows users in a specified area to receive push notifications on their mobile device for sneaker releases and reserve sneakers. It also verifies your location in order to prevent automated bot systems from wiping the inventory clean before you get a chance to start. Finally, it gives those with confirmed reservations, information on where to pick up their shoes.
Nike SNKR App
Not to be upstaged by its three-stripe competitor, Nike also released its own app for its vast inventory of releases, SNKRS back in February of this year. The app will send you a push notification when the new Lebron’s are 15 minutes from hitting the digital shelves. SNKRS also allows users to customize the list of future releases they wants updated news by simply tapping on an the array of choices. Search, personalize and purchase your favorite Nike sneakers from your phone. The app is only available on iOS, but an Android version is slated to hit the Google Play Store later this Spring.
Twitter Notifications are vital in the sneaker hunt
The tweets are always watching, and the commercial power of the house Twitter built is never more apparent than in the sneaker world. Nike’s NikeStore Twitter account tweeted out a link to the highly anticipated final collaboration with Kanye West, Nike Air Yeezy II by surprise at 1 p.m. on February 9, 2014. Within 11 minutes all of the limited edition sneakers were sold out. Setting up your Twitter account to receive push notifications to your phone when brands’ Twitter accounts tweet out release links can be the difference between paying $245 for a special edition sneaker and donating a college tuition payment to your sneaker habit. Here are a few key Twitter accounts to follow to stay abreast of the latest releases of special edition shoes: @NikeStore, @heidiburgett (PR Director of Nike), @Jumpman23 (Official Jordan brand Twitter account), @ShoePalace (premier shoe retailer), and @flightclub (premiere sneaker marketplace).
How to use online Bots to hunt for sneakers
Contrary to Her, software can not read your inner thoughts and suggest how to respond to an email, but it can help you get sneakers. Bots and automated systems have proliferated in the sneaker community in recent years, and many will automatically scan a product page and/or Twitter account, and add shoes to your shopping cart for checkout. Convenience does not come cheap in the sneaker world, and these bots cost upwards of $225 on some sites.
There are a variety of bots, but NikeShoeBot claims to be the creator of bots and has multiple bot packages for purchase that work as Firefox and Google Chrome extensions, as well as an iOS app. You simply download the bot, enter the name and size of your desired shoe, and finally, input your shipping and payment information. The bot secures your purchase and goes through most of the checkout process, as soon as the shoe’s release link is tweeted out. It only requires you to play Nike’s recent CAPTCHA system, and your order is complete.
Page Monitors are also helpful
The Google Chrome extension Page Monitor automatically refreshes numerous specified webpages in the background, and reports back when it is updated. You can set Page Monitor to give you desktop notifications and adjust the update interval to as little as 5 seconds, so you don’t have to obsessively check if the sneakers were released in between every eye blink.
The style code for upcoming sneakers such are normally released months in advance, either on the company’s website or sites such as Sole Collector. Searching for the style code of future releases on company’s official sites will usually yield no results. However, click Monitor This Page on the Page Monitor extension, and seconds after a purchase link for that sneaker appears on the site, Page Monitor will let you know. You will have to be aware of the time the sneakers are scheduled to be released and have all your purchase information ready for when those kicks become available. This is perfect for when multiple sneakers are being released on the same day, like the Nike Dunk High CMFT Premium “All Star” and adidas Ultra Boost, which both dropped on February 11.
Popular sneaker news website KicksOnFire provides a comprehensive and regularly updated list of new releases from all the major brands to help you with your sneaker quest. With Nike and Adidas beginning serious initiatives to bolster their online sales while precluding any gaming of their systems, there will be sneakers to buy for those with these tips.
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Distances from 84.64662,113.55766
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#1 84.64662,113.55766
Latitude: 84.64662 84° 38' 47.832'' N
Longitude: 113.55766 113° 33' 27.576'' E
Distance facts
North pole: 370.00 mi (595.46 km)
How far is 84.64662,113.55766 from the North Pole? 84.64662,113.55766 is located 370.00 mi (595.46 km) south of the North Pole.
Equator: 5,850.35 mi (9,415.23 km)
How far is 84.64662,113.55766 from the equator and on what hemisphere is it? 84.64662,113.55766 is 5,850.35 mi (9,415.23 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere.
South pole: 12,070.42 mi (19,425.47 km)
How far is it from 84.64662,113.55766 to the South Pole? From 84.64662,113.55766 to the South Pole, it is 12,070.42 mi (19,425.47 km) in the north.
Antipode: -84.64662,-66.44234
Where do I get to when I dig a hole in 84.64662,113.55766 through the centre of the earth? This is the point on the Earth's surface when you draw a straight line from 84.64662,113.55766 through the centre of the earth.
Furthest cities from 84.64662,113.55766
Which city (at least 500,000 inhabitants) is furthest away and what is the distance from 84.64662,113.55766?
Mar del Plata (14,825 km)
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Airports near 84.64662,113.55766
HTG Khatanga Airport 885.22 mi (1,424.63 km)
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Mode of Action: Recent developments, regulatory application and future work
Mode of Action:
Recent developments, regulatory application and future work
21-22 February 2013, Vienna, Austria
Organised in conjunction with the
on Chemical Safety
A mode of action/human relevance (MOA/HR) framework has been developed in initiatives of the International Life Sciences Institute Risk Sciences Institute (ILSI RSI) and the World Health Organisation International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS). It derives from earlier work on MOA in animals of the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and IPCS, and has involved large numbers of scientists internationally. The framework is described in several publications listed below.
In November 2009, a workshop of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) / ILSI Research Foundation (RF) / Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) addressed how MOA information can improve regulatory decision-making and made several recommendations, amongst them:
Establish an expert working group to oversee the creation of a repository or reference database of agreed MOAs.
Continue and extend training and educational programmes based on risk assessment practices using MOA.
Promote a change in the present risk assessment paradigm to encompass early focus on hazard characterisation including MOA.
Provide guidance on the generation of information during standard toxicity tests that could be of value in MOA analysis.
Develop predictive methods for MOAs, focusing on key events.
Agree and harmonise MOA terminology on a global level.
A subsequent meeting in October 2010, convened by WHO, recommended an umbrella plan for future international collaborative work on MOA. The plan identified activities in the following areas:
a) Updating of the MOA framework guidance.
b) Development of case studies.
c) Implementation of MOA in category approaches.
d) Education.
e) Development of an MOA database.
A WHO Steering Committee is overseeing implementation of this plan. The Committee comprises experts from Imperial College London, US EPA, University of Ottawa, EFSA, ECHA, JRC, IARC, OECD, ECETOC and ILSI/HESI, and activities are implemented by the institutions concerned.
In line with these developments, the MOA/HR framework has recently been updated to reflect increasing experience in integrating information from different levels of biological organisation, including that from evolving technologies. It addresses context-specific implications for priority setting, risk assessment and testing strategies for both individual chemicals and groups. An increasing number of case studies are being prepared to illustrate its application in regulatory guidance and assessments. The framework is expected to inform qualitative and quantitative analysis of species concordance, consideration of human variability, dose-response extrapolation and read-across, and effects of combined exposures.
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Livestock/
Diversification Helps Level Returns
Some stocker operations spread out risks with custom backgrounding and cow-calf herds. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Becky Mills)
By Becky Mills
Progressive Farmer Contributor
Adam Wilson likes stocker cattle. "We've had stockers in some form for close to 25 years now," he notes. There can be a whole lot more upside potential with stockers. Of course, in a bad year, there can be a lot more downside, too."
Thankfully, the good years come more often than the bad. Andrew Griffith, University of Tennessee (UT) ag economist, says, "Older research shows the stocker cattle business is more profitable than the cow/calf business in seven to eight out of 10 times. The expected return is going to outweigh the actual risk."
Griffith adds the wait isn't as long for a return with stockers. "The stocker business is very concise. You buy them, take care of their health and feed, and you market them in 120 to 150 days. With the cow/calf business, you have to breed the cow or heifer, wait nine months, then wait another seven or more months before marketing a calf."
Wilson likes that the stocker business is more fluid. "You can change the inventory, change the mix," he says. Still, the young cattle producer is also a strong proponent of diversification. It helps ease the pain of bad years and often improves cash-flow. Case in point: He's done some custom backgrounding for nine years. This helps limit his risks, but it is a high-pressure segment of the industry, because he wants to do as good a job with another producer's cattle as he does with his own.
Wilson handles as many as 260 custom head at a time. He backgrounds cattle for around 60 days, normally putting about 100 pounds on each head. His charge for custom backgrounding varies with what a customer wants. One customer, for example, may supply his own feed and meds, so Wilson charges only for hay and yardage. For another customer, he charges yardage, plus feed and meds, and a per-head fee to work the cattle.
In addition to custom backgrounding and a stocker operation, Wilson Farms has its own commercial cow/calf business with 90 head in a fall-calving group and 80 cows in a spring-calving group.
The spring calves are an Angus-Balancer-Charolais mix and will go in with the stockers once weaned. Fall calves are sold as weaned and preconditioned. He markets through a variety of sales, including the Virginia Quality Assured (VQA) group, which has requirements for both preconditioning and genetic quality.
While three enterprises can stretch him a bit thin, Wilson says, "We can do it with the help of the fine folks we work with, like Alan McCall and all our family and friends."
Whether the job is custom backgrounding or raising his own calves, he says the goals are always the same -- quality and a repeat customer.
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Mark Collett joined Dubbo Christian School at the beginning of 2014 after serving as Principal at Kuyper Christian College. He is an educator with over 20 years’ experience, including both teacher and executive positions in a number of different schools. While his primary subject area is Mathematics, Mark has a strong interest helping students become wiser, smarter and more compassionate, and with a stronger understanding of their place in God’s world.
As Head of Secondary Mark ensures that students are enrolled in the correct course of study as well as taking a pastoral interest in all students. He enjoys good relationships with colleagues and parents and works to maintain a positive learning culture in Years 7-12.
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Entertainment for all as Ardee Baroque festival makes return
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Marking its fifteenth anniversary, Ardee Baroque returns from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 November with a weekend of music and events.
Whether you’re a seasoned baroque music fan or someone completely new to it, this year’s Festival is tailored to provide entertainment for all.
Ardee Baroque was formed in 2004 by Louth County Council Arts Office and the Irish Baroque Orchestra and the orchestra remains at the heart of the Festival.
They return this year with a programme of Italian cantatas, the cornerstone of the baroque era, led by their Artistic Director Peter Whelan with soloists Aisling Kenny and Francesco Giusti.
Other events in the weekend include Wintersong by the acclaimed Tonos, featuring Eamon Sweeney and Roisín Ó’Grady, poetry reading by the Meath/Cavan group Lit Lab, workshops in the community and closing with a showstopper concert which features all the best-known and loved baroque music, including the most famous of all, the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah.
Programme director, Pauline Ashwood said: “We’re delighted to have reached this milestone anniversary and thrilled that the founding ensemble, the Irish Baroque Orchestra is still anchoring the festival ensuring the quality of music and performance remains as high as possible.
“One of the many strengths of Ardee Baroque is that while it remains one of the few specialist early music festivals in the country, it also features events that will appeal to those new to the era, such as the closing concert on Sunday afternoon.”
Over the years, Ardee has been host to many special musical events and seen some of the greatest performers of baroque music visit the County Louth town.
As the cold and darker evenings draw in, the town gears itself up for an influx of musicians and people to support this great festival.
The Irish Baroque Orchestra remains the headline act for the Festival on Saturday 17 November in St Mary’s Abbey at 7:30pm.
Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter Whelan, the orchestra will be joined by singers Aisling Kenny and Francesco Giusti in a concert of baroque duets by Handel.
Described by The Irish Times, Peter Whelan is ‘as exciting a live wire as Ireland has produced in the world of period performance’. Audiences will remember the flare and dynamism Peter showed when he last directed the orchestra in Ardee for Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Opening the Festival on Friday 16 November at 7pm, WinterSong is a concert of Christmas music from the 16–18th centuries for Voice, Lute, Renaissance and Baroque Guitars. Part of a nationwide tour which includes the launch of their new CD, Tonos will also work with two schools in Ardee as part of Music Generation Louth’s impressive education scheme.
Also on Friday evening, in the intimate surrounds of Hatch’s Castle, Lit Lab, a group of published and prize-winning writers from Meath and Cavan whose focus is writing poetry and prose, return to Hatch’s Castle at 8:30pm to read and recite from their latest anthologies.
On Sunday afternoon, 18 November at 3pm there’s a chance to hear some of the best known and loved Baroque works performed by the musicians of Musici Ireland and Melisma choral group. With works from Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Water Music, they will also perform the most famous baroque chorus of all time, Handel’s wonderful Hallelujah from the Messiah. This is the perfect closing concert for Ardee Baroque 2018 and is sure to send the audience home singing.
Throughout the course of the weekend, there will be outreach events and community engagements for the people of Ardee.
Full details on the Festival are available on www.ardeebaroque.com Tickets are on sale through An Táin Arts Centre, Crowe St, Dundalk, Co Louth +353 42 9332332 or www.antain.ie
The festival is funded by Louth County Council, Create Louth and the Arts Council.
Date: Friday 16 November
Venue: St Mary’s Abbey
Lit Lab
Venue: *Hatch’s Castle, Market St
*Please note Hatch’s Castle is not easily accessible for those with restricted mobility.
Two’s Company
Baroque duets by Handel
Aisling Kenny (soprano) & Francesco Giusti (countertenor)
Directed by Peter Whelan
This concert will run without interval
Date: Saturday 17 November
Time: 7:30pm. Price: €18 / €15 conc.
Baroque Favourites
Date: Sunday 18 November
Price: €15 / €12 conc.
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App Developers: Lodsys is Back. It's Time to Beat this Troll.
By Julie Samuels
It's been nearly two years since we first reported about Lodsys, the patent troll who targeted app developers. You might remember that Lodsys had actually filed lawsuits against some app developers in Texas; that case was (and is) slowly moving forward. We hadn't heard anything else from Lodsys in the meantime and assumed (foolishly, perhaps) that it was waiting to see what the judge said. This week, that all changed. It appears that Lodsys sued at least ten more app developers—many smaller players along with larger ones such as Walt Disney.
First, a quick refresher on Lodsys: Lodsys claims that typical "click to upgrade" functionality found in apps infringes two patents that it owns. Lodsys starting by targeting iOS and Android app developers, sending letters demanding that those developers pay Lodsys a license fee (and providing proposed licenses like this one). Lodsys' claims on their face were troubling, but the story was more complicated. For starters, the technology that Lodsys claimed infringes its patents is provided to the app developers by Apple and Google. That's right, the developers don't even create this technology themselves. In other words, when they use this technology, they are taking on risks that they never could have contemplated. After countless app developers received these threatening letters, Lodsys went ahead and filed a lawsuit against 11 app developers in federal court in Texas. That case is still pending.
Now, to both Apple and Google's credit, each got involved to defend its app developers. Apple filed a Motion to Intervene in the lawsuit, arguing that the law (and its license covering the Lodsys patents) allows it to provide its app developers the technology at issue free from claims of infringement. The Court granted Apple's motion to appear in the case, which is good news, but it could still take years before there is a final ruling on its legal claims. (Note: a ruling in Apple’s favor would also bode well for Android developers, as Google could presumably make the same legal argument.)
Google took action of its own, filing a Request for Inter Partes Reexamination with the Patent and Trademark Office on the two patents Lodsys is asserting against app developers. A reexamination is a proceeding before the PTO, brought by a third party to challenge the validity of a patent. The PTO agreed to consider some of Google’s arguments, but it will likely take some time (though not as long as litigation) to get a decision—and then there is no guarantee that the patents will be fully invalidated. Perhaps more likely, the claims will be narrowed. If that happens, they remaining claims may or may not cover the in-app payment and upgrade functionality that Lodsys claims they currently do.
We've been watching these legal developments closely, and all seemed quiet on the Lodsys front. But, as we said above, this week, that all changed. Lodsys is back at it, and this time, again, it's doing more than merely threatening. It's actually filing lawsuits. These lawsuits against app developers are just part of a dangerous recent trend of patent trolls going after end-users. For example, a shadowy collection of shell companies has been blanketing the nation with letters demanding that companies pay them $1000 per employee for the privilege of using standard office technology like scanners and email. And another patent troll is targeting the podcasting community.
So what do you do if you're an app developer? First, you can check out the FAQs we provided when Lodsys first came on the scene. Second, you can reach out to the Application Developers Alliance (you should email patents@appalliance.org), an important group and ally in this fight that's working hard to organize app developers facing the Lodsys threat. Finally, continue watching this space for more updates; we'll continue to post news as it becomes available.
If you'd like help finding a lawyer, you can start by emailing EFF at info@eff.org. (If you’re a lawyer who is willing to help out, please email info@eff.org with your contact information or the contact information for your firm, and the states in which you are licensed to practice law with the subject line "Lodsys Attorney Addition.")
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How to Breed Peacock Cichlids
Written by: Katherine Barrington
Breeding fish in a captive environment can be difficult but, with the proper information and environment, peacock cichlids can be bred in captivity. Peacock cichlids are a breed of African cichlid native to Lake Malawi. These fish are very colourful and non-aggressive, which makes them excellent fish to keep.
In order to successfully breed peacock cichlids you will need to set up a breeding tank and, once your cichlids spawn, raise the fry in a tank separate from the parents.
Breeding fish in a captive environment can be difficult but, with the proper information and environment, peacock cichlids can be bred in captivity.
Set up a breeding tank for your cichlids. The breeding tank should be at least 45 gallons and it should be adequately filtered and heated between 25.6 and 28.9 degrees Celsius.
Fill the bottom of the breeding tank with sand or fine gravel substrate and decorate it with large rocks and caves. In the wild, male peacock cichlids situate themselves outside of rock caves and grottos in order to attract the female.
Introduce your breeding group of peacock cichlids into the breeding tank. For the best results, use a ratio of 1 male to 3-5 females. Watch the male for signs of breeding behaviour. The male will dig a shallow ditch in the substrate and begin to make displays to attract a female and to lure her to the place he has chosen for the eggs.
Watch as the male courts the female. During the mating process the male and female will make several passes over the selected area and, once the female drops the eggs, the male will fertilise them. After the eggs have been fertilised, the female will gather the eggs into her mouth where they will develop over the next few weeks.
Introduce your breeding group of peacock cichlids into the breeding tank.
During the mating process the male and female will make several passes over the selected area and, once the female drops the eggs, the male will fertilise them.
Monitor the pregnant female for the next two or three weeks as the eggs develop in her mouth. This time period is referred to as the holding period. During this time the female will eat very little and may avoid opening her mouth at all. Make sure there are plenty of hiding places in your tank so the pregnant female can hide out and remain undisturbed.
Carefully transfer the pregnant female into a fry tank just before she releases the fry from her mouth or 2 to 3 weeks into the holding period. The fry tank should be at least 10 gallons in size and equipped with an aquarium heater and a sponge filter. Cover the bottom of the tank with Java moss or leave it bare to make it easier to clean.
Monitor the pregnant female for the next two or three weeks as the eggs develop in her mouth.
Carefully transfer the pregnant female into a fry tank just before she releases the fry from her mouth or 2 to 3 weeks into the holding period.
Allow the female cichlid to remain in the fry tank for two or three days after releasing the fry so she can rest and recuperate before being returned to the main tank. In the wild, peacock cichlids care for their newly hatched fry for a week or so but this behaviour is not consistently observed in captivity.
Feed the cichlid fry a diet of liquid fry food and newly hatched brine shrimp. You may also supplement this diet with finely crushed flake food.
Maintain the fry tank by performing weekly 5 to 10 per cent water changes. Keep the temperature in the tank steady and ensure adequate filtration and aeration by keeping your filter clean.
Separate the fry into larger rearing tanks once they grow to about an inch in size. By separating the fry, you will be providing them with more room to grow. After four months or so the male cichlids should begin to show their colouring and the fry will be ready to sell or give away.
Allow the female cichlid to remain in the fry tank for two or three days after releasing the fry so she can rest and recuperate before being returned to the main tank.
After four months or so the male cichlids should begin to show their colouring and the fry will be ready to sell or give away.
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The Shadow Ghost game-streaming box won't replace your PC or console
It's a clear example of why game streaming still has a long way to go.
Devindra Hardawar, @devindra
Blade's Shadow game-streaming service made a big splash when it launched last year. For $35 per month, it brings the power of a gaming PC to almost any device, be it a smartphone or a slim notebook, by streaming gameplay from powerful servers. But what if you wanted to play on a TV without connecting a PC? That's where the Shadow Ghost comes in: It's a sleek, $140 set-top box that lets you bring the service just about anywhere. The Ghost is a major upgrade over the previous Shadow Box: It's smaller and fan-less, and it adds WiFi support. It's exactly the sort of device Blade needs right now, especially as other companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft and even Verizon are exploring game streaming.
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Based on my short time with the Shadow Ghost, though, it's clear that the device and service still needs some work. I can excuse buggy software, especially since I was testing the Ghost a bit early, but Blade's core game-streaming technology left a lot to be desired. That's a shame, since I was initially impressed with it last year when I saw games like Street Fighter V and Ghost Recon: Wildlands running across smartphones and a MacBook Pro.
The Shadow Ghost makes an excellent first impression. Its curved design is unique in a world of dull rectangular boxes, as if someone stepped on an early prototype and the company just stuck with the look. There's a large, triangular power button up front, and around the back there are two USB 2.0 ports and a pair of USB 3.0 ports as well as HDMI, headphone and Ethernet connections. With all of those USB options, you should be able to plug in a keyboard and mouse while still having room for other accessories.
And as you'd expect, it also supports Bluetooth, giving you a wireless way to connect plenty of other gear. Altogether, the Ghost has all the connectivity you'd want from a gaming notebook -- the kicker is that it's a simple, fan-less box that uses around 30 times less energy than a desktop (according to Blade).
Setup is pretty simple: Just plug in the power and HDMI connections, connect to Ethernet or WiFi, and sign on to your Shadow account. At first, the Shadow Ghost couldn't see my 5GHz wireless network -- the only one you should dare to use for such a bandwidth-intensive service. Lucky for me, Blade deployed an update shortly afterward that cleared up that issue. You can also connect Bluetooth devices from the Ghost's home screen. It had no trouble recognizing my Logitech Craft keyboard and Xbox One controller, though the latter wasn't actually recognized when I tried to game. I ended up using a SteelSeries Stratus Duo controller, which relies on a USB wireless receiver. (Since the Bluetooth connectivity is controlled from the home screen, you'll unfortunately have to jump out of your Shadow instance every time you want to add a new device.)
Once I logged in, I was presented with a surprise: Cortana and the Windows 10 setup screen. I knew that subscribing to Shadow gives you access to a beefy server (it's powered by an NVIDIA GPU delivering GTX 1080-level performance, 12GB of RAM and an Intel Core i7), but it hadn't occurred to me that you also need to go through the whole first-launch experience. It took around five minutes to reach the Windows desktop, and I was surprised to find that Blade didn't do much to customize the installation. There's a desktop shortcut to change a few settings for the Shadow Ghost, but beyond that I was staring at a typical Windows PC screen.
My first task: Install Steam and download a few titles. I opted for Resident Evil 2, Hitman 2 and The Witcher 3. It took around 10 minutes to grab RE2 -- a few minutes to allocate disk space and the rest of the time to download the 23GB game at a steady 50Mbps. Shadow only gives you 256GB of storage (20GB of which is taken up by Windows), which means you'll need to be choosy about which titles you keep around. That's a particularly tough situation when games like Destiny 2 now clock in at more than 81GB. After installing Nier: Automota, in addition to the titles above, I received errors that there wasn't enough disk space to update Resident Evil 2. I was forced to uninstall Nier just to get my zombie fix on.
Blade says Shadow supports game streaming up to 4K 60Hz, or 1,080p 1,44Hz. The 4K option is better if you care about image fidelity while the latter's higher refresh rate should deliver smoother gameplay. In comparison, NVIDIA's GeForce Now service, which is still in beta, only supports 1080p up to 120Hz. Shadow should have the advantage, though based on my testing NVIDIA's tech delivers an experience closer to a typical console's.
Resident Evil 2 was playable in 4K with medium graphics on my LG OLED TV. Unfortunately, the streaming was choppy, there was a noticeable delay when moving my character and the game simply didn't look as sharp as it does on my PC with the same settings. There were ugly jagged lines along the edges of objects (even with a high level of anti-aliasing set up in-game), and panning the screen was jerky and headache-inducing. The erratic performance made it tough to tell if a bullet was actually going to reach a zombie (not ideal when ammo is so scarce) or if my head was about to be chewed off.
Bumping down the resolution to 1,440p made the game run beyond 60 fps, but the buttery smoothness of that frame rate was nowhere to be found. I'm not sure if it was lag from Shadow or my home network, but there was a noticeable difference compared to my gaming rig. And before you blame Shadow Ghost's performance on my 5GHz AC WiFi network, I also ran the game on Shadow's PC client over Ethernet and noticed similar issues, though admittedly to a lesser extent.
Hitman 2 and The Witcher 3 didn't fare much better. Even though they were technically running faster than they would on an Xbox One X or PlayStation 4 Pro, playing them from a far-off server simply felt worse than using those consoles. That's an essential problem for Blade to solve if the Ghost, or its streaming service, has any chance of success. Blade ended up delaying the launch of the Shadow Ghost by about a month, and in that time they've made the streaming performance a bit smoother, though it still can't really compare to a dedicated gaming PC or console.
With gaming hardware becoming cheaper and more capable, asking people to pay $150 for another box plus $35 per month for a worse experience seems insane. I could see gamers using it as a way to play their favorite titles while traveling, but it's still not worth it at that cost. And Blade will definitely have to expand the amount of storage being offered, otherwise you'll end up spending lots of time waiting for games to install.
It's hard to fully judge the Shadow Ghost before its launch, since Blade is continually optimizing the device and its streaming service. But given the way things typically go with online platforms, I expect performance to get even more sluggish once more people jump online. To be clear, I'm not giving up on game streaming yet. But the Shadow Ghost makes it clear how far the industry has left to go.
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The BMW M52B20 is a 2.0 liters (1,991 cc, 121.5 cu-in) straight-six, four-stroke cycle natural aspirated gasoline engine from BMW M52-family. The engine was manufactured on Munich Plant (Munich, Germany) from 1994 to 1998.
The M52B20 engine features a cast-aluminum alloy cylinder block with Nikasil coated cylinder liners. The aluminum cylinder head uses chain-driven double overhead camshafts (DOHC) and four valves per cylinder (24 valves in total). It is equipped with a Siemens MS 41.0, DME (Digital Motor Electronics) system, VANOS (Variable Valve Timing System from BMW) and a distributorless ignition system with individual ignition coils for each cylinder.
Cylinder bore and piston stroke are 80.0 mm (3.15 in) and 66.0 mm (2.6 in), respectively. Compression ratio rating is 11.0: 1. The BMW M52B20 engine produced 150 PS (110 kW; 148 HP) at 5,900 rpm of maximum horsepower and 190 N·m (19.4 kg·m, 140 ft·lb) at 4,200 rpm of peak torque.
The breakdown of the engine code is as follows:
M52 – Engine Family
B – Gasoline
20 – 2.0 Liter Displacement
Engine code M52B20
Layout Four stroke, Inline-6 (Straight-6)
Production 1994-1998
Displacement 2.0 L, 1,991 cc (121.5 cu in)
Fuel system Fuel injection system
Power adder None
Max. horsepower 150 PS (110 kW; 148 HP) at 5,900 rpm
Max. torque 190 N·m (19.4 kg·m, 140 ft·lb) at 4,200 rpm
Firing order 1-5-3-6-2-4
Dimensions (L x H x W): –
Weight ~158 kg(348 lbs)
The M52B20 cylinder block is cast aluminum alloy with Nikasil coated cylinder liners. The cylinder bore is 80.0 mm (3.15 in) and the piston stroke is 66.0 mm (2.6 in). The cylinders are exposed on all sides to circulating coolant. The counterweighted crankshaft rotates in replaceable split-shell main bearings. This engine used seven main bearings.
The forged steel connecting rods use replaceable split-shell bearings at the crankshaft end and solid bushings at the piston pin end. The pistons are of the three-ring type with two upper compression rings and a lower one-piece oil scraper ring. Full-floating piston pins are retained with circlips. The compression ratio rating is 11.0:1.
Cylinder block alloy Aluminum alloy
Cylinder bore: 80.0 mm (3.15 in)
Piston stroke: 66.0 mm (2.60 in)
Number of piston rings (compression / oil): 2 / 1
Number of main bearings: 7
Cylinder inner diameter (standard): 80.000-80.010 mm (3.1496-3.15 in)
Piston skirt diameter (standard): 79.985-79.994 mm (3.149-3.1494 in)
Piston pin outer diameter: 22.000 mm (0.8661 in)
Piston ring side clearance: Top 0.020-0.055 mm (0.0008-0.0022 in)
Second 0.020-0.055 mm (0.0008-0.0022 in)
Oil 0.020-0.055 mm (0.0008-0.0022 in)
Piston ring end gap: Top 0.100-0.300 mm (0.0039-0.0118 in)
Crankshaft journal diameter: 60.000 mm (2.3622 in)
Crankpin diameter: 45.000 mm (1.7717 in)
The cylinder head is made of an aluminum alloy with good cooling efficiency. The M52B20 engine uses chain-driven double overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. Standart head height is 140.0 mm (5.5118 in). The cylinder head employs a crossflow design for greater power and efficiency. Intake air enters the combustion chamber from one side while exhaust gasses exit from the other. This engine is equipped with a single VANOS (Variable Camshaft Timing) system.
Intake valves are 30.0 mm (1.1811 in) in diameter and exhaust valves are 27.0 mm (1.063 in). Valve clearance is set by self-adjusting (zero-lash) hydraulic lifters for reduced valve noise and the elimination of routine valve adjustment.
Cylinder head alloy Aluminum
Valve Arrangement: DOHC, chain driven
Valves: 24 (4 valves per cylinder)
Intake/Exhaust duration: 228°/228°
Valve head diameter: INTAKE 30.0 mm (1.1811 in)
EXHAUST 27.0 mm (1.063 in)
Valve steam diameter: INTAKE 6.0 mm (0.2362 in)
EXHAUST 6.0 mm (0.2362 in)
Head tightening procedure and torque specs:
Step 1: 40.0 Nm; 4.1 kg·m; 29.5 ft·lb
Step 2: Turn all bolts 90°
Step 3: Turn all bolts another 90°
Maintenance data
Compression pressure
Minimum 10.0 kg/cm2 (9.9 bar, 145 psi) / 350 rpm
Compression differential limit between cylinders: 1.0 kg/cm2 (1.0 bar, 15 psi) / 350 rpm
Recommended engine oil SAE 5W-30
Oil type BMW LL-01 or LL98
Engine oil capacity (Refill capacity) ~ 6.5 L (6.87 US. qt, 5.72 Imp. qt.)
Oil change interval, km (miles) 5,000-10,000 (3,000-6,000)
Spark plug Bosch: FBLDCR
Spark plug torque: 25 N·m (2.5 kg·m, 18.4 ft·lb)
Model Years Produced
BMW 320i (E36) 1994-1998
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I’m A Celebrity…
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is an ITV reality show where celebrities camp together in an Australian rainforest and take on a number of ridiculous challenges as they compete to be crowned King or Queen of the jungle.
It was first broadcast in August 2002 and has been hosted by Ant and Dec for all of the eighteen series it has aired on TV.
Viewers vote on who should leave the camp – but also on which celeb should undertake a bushtucker trial, a challenge that often involves snakes, spiders or other jungle creatures.
The success of a bushtucker trial determines how much food the group receives.
Eating trials can see celebs dared to scoff unusual animal parts, including kangaroo testicle and camel penis.
As long as a contestant is successful – and does not submit by declaring “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!” – stars equal to one meal for the camp will be awarded for each disgusting dish eaten.
These trials have proved controversial, however. Ofcom is believed to have received 694 complaints after Ferne McCann ate a live water spider during a bushtucker trial in the 15th series.
And RSPCA Australia sought to prosecute Gino D’Acampo and Stuart Manning after a rat was killed, cooked and consumed. Despite being charged police, both men escaped prosecution. ITV was fined £1600 over the incident.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! winners have included Tony Blackburn, Kerry Katona, Christopher Biggins, Joe Swash, Stacey Solomon, Charlie Brooks, Vicky Pattison, Scarlett Moffat and Georgia Toffolo.
International versions of the show have aired in Australia (with the camp relocating to South Africa), Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the US.
Only the UK, German, Hungarian and Australian series are still in production.
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CareerBuilder Acquires Textkernel
By Joel Cheesman January 23, 2019 January 24, 2019
Back in 2015, Chicago-based CareerBuilder bought a 60 percent majority stake in semantic search solution Amsterdam-based Textkernel. At the time, CareerBuilder was pivoting from being a job board to becoming a one-stop-shop technology provider. You may remember the logo change.
“Textkernel is closing the communications divide between recruiters and candidates by helping them speak the same language on the back end,” said CareerBuilder’s then-CEO Matt Ferguson at the time. “We’re excited to leverage their technology to enhance our semantic search and data analytics globally, and provide a greater ROI for our clients’ most valuable and under-used asset: their internal candidate database. We can facilitate faster, easier, and more successful connections between employers and job seekers.”
CareerBuilder CEO Irina Novoselsky
In layman’s terms, Textkernel’s technology would power CareerBuilder’s search, both for job seekers and employers alike, bringing smart search to the process, correcting things like misspellings. Employers and job seekers often use different words to describe the same thing. Textkernel’s technology was there to take into account language patterns to provide the best search results.
Fast forward to 2017, CareerBuilder announces it’s getting into bed with Google, integrating the world’s most popular search engine’s API to be the underlying tech for job searches. Believing whatever Textkernel has must not be on par with Google, I assumed Textkernel was toast.
Announced today, CareerBuilder has gone all-in on Textkernel, acquiring the entire company. Financial terms were not disclosed. According to the release, CareerBuilder will use Textkernel’s AI and ML technologies — including industry-leading semantic search, match, and parsing capabilities — to enhance performance for both sides of its marketplace.
“In our nearly 25 years of experience, we’ve learned that recruiters speak one language and candidates speak another. We are building and implementing technologies that close this gap for both sides of our marketplace, and improve every stage of the hiring process,” said Irina Novoselsky, CEO of CareerBuilder.
CareerBuilder added that this acquisition will strengthen CareerBuilder’s data science team by connecting more than 200 data scientists, engineers, and AI specialists who are now collectively working to solve candidate and employer problems across CareerBuilder. Employees of Textkernel will now be brought under the CareerBuilder umbrella. Textkernel was founded in 2001 and employs about 120 people.
“The acquisition of Textkernel and deeper investment in AI is a part of our overarching strategy to create the most advanced solutions for our customers,” said Novoselsky. “And our combined data science, R&D, and product development teams are already fast at work to create the next-generation technology and tools that bring qualified candidates to jobs faster and easier, even in a tight employment market like the one we’re in now.”
So does the acquisition mean Google’s search technology will be benched or even thrown out? No. CareerBuilder will work to integrate both Google and Textkernel to build the best search functionality possible.
“We were an early adopter of AI technology five years ago — and fully integrating Textkernel’s industry-leading technology is a natural next step in our commitment to giving our customers the ability to hire the best talent faster and work more efficiently,” said Humair Ghauri, chief product officer at CareerBuilder.
While I don’t see this move as game-changing, especially since CareerBuilder was already providing Textkernel functionality, I do see it as a nice talent-grab in light of some recent brain drain. One insider who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity said, “All the Textkernel engineers I knew and came across were really smart.”
Update: The co-founder of Textkernel, Gerard Mulder, has accepted an expanded role as president of CareerBuilder in EMEA. As a serial entrepreneur, co-founder Jakub Zavrel will be starting his next venture, following the acquisition transition period.
Joel Cheesman
Joel Cheesman has over 20 years experience in the online recruitment space. He worked for both international and local job boards in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. In 2005, Cheesman founded HRSEO, a search engine marketing company for HR, as well as launching an award-winning industry blog called Cheezhead. He has been featured in Fast Company and US News and World Report. He sold his company in 2009 to Jobing.com. He was employed by EmployeeScreenIQ, a background check company. He is the founder of Ratedly, an app that monitors anonymous employee reviews. He is married and the father of three children. He lives in Indianapolis.
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28/02/2013 2013/266 ESMA and the EBA warn investors about contracts for difference MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
119.01 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) have published a warning to retail investors about the dangers of investing in contracts for difference (CFDs).The two authorities are concerned that during the current period of low investment returns, inexperienced retail investors across the EU are being tempted to invest in complex financial products, which they may not fully understand and which can end up costing them money they cannot afford to lose.Andrea Enria and Steven Maijoor, Chairs of the EBA and ESMA, warned:“Retail investors across the EU should be aware of all the risks arising from investing in CFDs. These products appear to promise investors substantial returns at a low cost but may ultimately cost them far more than they may have intended or could afford to lose.“CFDs are complex products that are not suitable for all types of investors, therefore you should always make sure that you understand how the product you are buying works, that it does what you want it to do and that you are in a position to take the loss if it fails.”Investors trading CFDs should protect themselvesInvestors should only consider trading in CFDs if they have extensive experience of trading in volatile markets, if they fully understand how these operate and have sufficient time to manage their investment on an active basis.Investors should carefully read their agreement or contract with the CFD provider before making a trading decision. They should make sure that they at least understand the following: • the costs of trading CFDs with the CFD provider, • whether the CFD provider will disclose the margins it makes on their trades, • how the prices of the CFDs are determined by the CFD provider, • what happens if they hold their position open overnight, • whether the CFD provider can change or re-quote the price once an investor places an order, • whether the CFD provider will execute investor’s orders even if the underlying market is closed, • whether there is an investor or deposit protection scheme in place in the event of counterparty or client asset issues.If investors do not understand what’s on offer, they should not trade. Further information Always check if the CFD provider is authorised to do investment business in your country. You can check this on the website of the CFD provider’s national regulator. A list of all the national regulatory authorities, and their websites, is also available from:• ESMA at http://www.esma.europa.eu/investor-corner; and • EBA at http://www.eba.europa.eu/Publications/Consumer-Protection-Issues.aspx.The investor warning on CFDs will be translated into the official EU languages.Concurrently with the publication of this warning, the EBA is addressing an internal Opinion under Art. 29 of the EBA Regulations to national supervisory authorities on the prudential supervision of CFDs. Notes for editors1. ESMA/2013/267 Investor Warning – Contracts for Difference (CFDs)2. ESMA and the EBA are independent EU Authorities that were established on 1 January 2011 and work closely with the European other European Supervisory Authority responsible for insurance and occupational pensions (EIOPA).3. ESMA’s mission is to enhance the protection of investors and promote stable and well-functioning financial markets in the European Union (EU). As an independent institution, ESMA achieves this aim by building a single rule book for EU financial markets and ensuring its consistent application across the EU. ESMA contributes to the regulation of financial services firms with a pan-European reach, either through direct supervision or through the active co-ordination of national supervisory activity.4. The EBA has a broad remit in the areas of banking, payments and e-money regulation, as well as on issues related to corporate governance, auditing and financial reporting. Its tasks include the protection of consumers and depositors, preventing regulatory arbitrage, guaranteeing a level playing field (especially by building a single rule book for the European banking system) strengthening international supervisory coordination, promoting supervisory convergence and providing advice to EU institutions. Further information:Reemt SeibelESMA Communications Officer Tel: +33 (0)1 58 36 4272Mob: +33 6 42 48 55 29Email: reemt.seibel@esma.europa.eu David CliffeESMA Senior Communications OfficerTel: +33 (0)1 58 36 43 24Mob: +33 6 42 48 29 06Email: david.cliffe@esma.europa.euRomain SadetEBA Communications Officer Tel: +44 (0) 207 997 5914Mob: +44 (0) 7785 463278 Email: romain.sadet@eba.europa.eu Franca CongiuEBA Communications OfficerTel: +44 (0) 207 382 1781Mob: +44 (0) 7771 376395Email: francarosa.congiu@eba.europa.eu
11/06/2013 2013/726 ESMA clarifies pay rules applicable to investment firms MiFID - Investor Protection Press Release PDF
04/07/2013 2013/889 ESMA Vice Chair and Management Board Election Results Management Board, Board of Supervisors Press Release PDF
93.43 KB ESMA Vice Chair and Management Board Election Results Vice Chair Re-elected The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has re-elected Carlos Tavares as its Vice Chair. Mr. Tavares, who is Chairman of the Portuguese Comissão Do Mercado De Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), has completed an initial 2½ year term and will now serve a further term of 2½ years in the position. Management Board Election The terms of three members of ESMA’s Management Board expired and elections were held by the Board of Supervisors to fill the positions for a term of 2½ years. Those elected are: Kostas Botopoulos, Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC), Greece – new member; Klaus Kumpfmüller, Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), Austria – new member; and Martin Wheatley, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom –re-elected for a second term. The outgoing members were Karl-Burkhard Caspari from the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) of Germany and Raul Malmstein of Estonia’s, Finantsinspektsioon. The Management Board, chaired by Steven Maijoor, the ESMA Chair, is responsible for ensuring that the Authority carries out its mission and performs the tasks assigned to it under the Regulation. The Management Board now consists of: Steven Maijoor, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA); Kostas Botopoulos, Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC), Greece; Klaus Kumpfmüller, Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), Austria; Jean Guill, Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Luxembourg; Gérard Rameix, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France; Julie Galbo, Finanstilsynet, Denmark and Martin Wheatley, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom. Reference 2013/889
07/02/2014 2014/152 ESMA tells firms to improve their selling practices for complex financial products MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors Press Release PDF
92.57 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an Opinion on practices to be observed by investment firms when selling complex financial products to investors. ESMA is issuing this opinion to remind national supervisors and investment firms about the importance of requirements governing selling practices under MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive).ESMA is issuing this Opinion as it is concerned that firms’ compliance with the MiFID selling practices when selling complex products may have fallen short of expected standards. The concerns relate mainly to the suitability and appropriateness of complex products that are increasingly within the grasp of retail investors. The Opinion sets out ESMA’s minimum expectations with respect to the conduct of firms when selling complex products to retail investors.Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said: “Investment firms increasingly sell complex financial products such as warrants, different types of structured bonds, derivatives and asset-backed securities, which were previously accessible mainly to professional investors, to retail investors.“ESMA is concerned that this trend greatly increases the risk that customers do not understand the risks, costs and expected returns of the products they are buying. Therefore, we believe that it is crucial that investment firms act responsibly and in the best interest of their clients.“The level of concern regarding the risk posed by these products to investor protection when MiFID rules are not fully respected is such that we have also issued an EU-wide warning to investors in order to raise awareness about the risks arising from investing in these types of complex products.” The marketing and sale of complex financial products, in particular to retail investors, is an important investor protection area where ESMA wants to ensure a consistent approach to the application of the MiFID conduct business rules - thereby improving supervisory convergence.The areas covered by the Opinion relate to: firms’ organisation and internal controls; the assessment of the suitability or appropriateness of certain products; disclosures and communications in relation to products; and compliance monitoring of the sales functions.
27/03/2014 2014/334 ESMA issues good practices for structured retail product governance MiFID - Investor Protection, Innovation and Products Press Release PDF
105.37 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an opinion on structured retail products, setting out good practices for firms when manufacturing and distributing these products.
22/05/2014 2014/557 ESMA consults on MiFID reforms MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases, MiFID - Secondary Markets Press Release PDF
119.33 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched the consultation process for the implementation of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). This is the first step in the process of translating the MiFID II/MiFIR requirements into practically applicable rules and regulations to address the effects of the financial crisis and to improve financial market transparency and strengthen investor protection.MiFID II/MiFIR introduces changes that will have a large impact on the EU’s financial markets, these include transparency requirements for a broader range of asset classes; the obligation to trade derivatives on-exchange; requirements on algorithmic and high-frequency-trading and new supervisory tools for commodity derivatives. It will also strengthen protection for retail investors through limits on the use of commissions; conditions for the provision of independent investment advice; stricter organisational requirements for product design and distribution; product intervention powers; and the disclosure of costs and charges.MiFID II/MiFIR contains over 100 requirements for ESMA to draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS), and to provide Technical Advice to the European Commission to allow it to adopt delegated acts. In order to ensure that MIFID II achieves its objectives in practice, ESMA is publishing the following documents:1. Consultation Paper on MiFID/MiFIR Technical Advice – ESMA needs to deliver this advice to the European Commission by December 2014 and is therefore subject to a condensed consultation process for this paper; and2. Discussion Paper on MiFID/MiFIR draft RTS/ITS – this will provide the basis for a further consultation paper on the draft RTS/ITS which is expected to be issued in late 2014/early 2015. The closing date for responses to both papers is Friday 1 August. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said:“The launch of today’s MiFID II/MiFIR consultation process is an important step in the biggest overhaul of financial markets regulation in the EU for a decade. The reform of MiFID is an integral part of the EU’s strategy to address the effects of the financial crisis and aims to bring greater transparency to markets and to strengthen investor protection. These changes are key to restoring trust in our financial markets.“We appreciate the magnitude of this exercise for stakeholders. We strongly encourage all those affected by these reforms to provide their views to ensure that we take them into account in our final proposals.”The main issues covered in the Discussion and Consultation Paper are divided into those addressing the structure, transparency and regulation of financial markets, and those aimed at strengthening investor protection.Financial Markets Structure, Transparency and RegulationThe main proposals in this area cover the following issues: enhanced transparency and trading obligations - increasing pre- and post-trade transparency for many categories of instruments, e.g. shares, ETFs, certificates, bonds and derivatives, limitations to trade shares OTC and new obligations to trade derivatives on trading venues; micro-structural issues – refining the definition of high frequency trading and direct electronic access and specifying the requirements for operating in the market using algorithmic techniques; data publication and access – issues related to the development of the consolidated tape including requirements for tape providers, approved publication arrangements and reporting mechanisms, and the definition of a reasonable commercial basis for data sales; and the access to CCPs, trading venues and benchmarks; other organisational requirements for trading venues; and commodity derivatives – new regulatory tools, including position limits. Investor ProtectionThe main proposals relating to the improved protection of retail investors include technical advice on: inducements – new limitations on the receipt of commissions (inducements); independent advice – clearly distinguishing independent from non-independent advice; product governance – requirements on the manufacture and distribution of financial products including target market and risk identification; product intervention/banning - introducing powers for both ESMA and national regulators to prohibit or restrict the marketing and distribution of certain financial instruments; and improved information on costs and charges – requirements to provide clients with details of all charges related to their investment (relating to both the investment service and the financial instrument provided) so they can understand the overall cost and its effect on their investment’s return. In addition, the draft regulatory technical standards in the investor protection area relate to the authorisation of investment firms, passporting, and certain best execution obligations.Next StepsESMA will hold three public hearings about secondary markets, investor protection and commodity derivatives issues on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 July. Further details on the hearings will be published on ESMA’s website. 2014/548 2014/549
29/09/2014 2014/1191 ESMA Management Board Election Results Corporate Information, Management Board, Board of Supervisors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
90.35 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority has elected three new members to its Management Board to replace outgoing members whose term will expire in October this year. The election took place at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Rome on 25 September and the successful candidates, who will serve a term of 2½ years beginning on the 1 November 2014, are: • Cyril Roux, Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), Ireland – new member; • Gérard Rameix, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), France – ending first term and re-elected; and • Marek Szuszkiewicz, Komisja Nadzoru Finanswego (KNF), Poland – new member.
19/12/2014 2014/1571 Final Report on draft Implementing Technical Standards on main indices and recognised exchanges under the Capital Requirements Regulation MiFID - Secondary Markets Technical Standards PDF
281.16 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has developed draft Implementing Technical Standards specifying main indices and recognised exchanges as required under Paragraph 8 of Article 197 of Regulation (EU) 575/2013 (Capital Requirements Regulation). These have now been submitted to the European Commission submitted for endorsement of the draft ITS.It has 3 months to make this decision.
19/12/2014 2014/1574 ESMA provides implementing rules for MiFID II MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases, MiFID - Secondary Markets Press Release PDF
110.55 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its final technical advice (TA) and launches a consultation on its draft regulatory technical and implementing standards (RTS/ ITS) regarding the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). Both ESMA’s TA and draft RTS translate the MiFID II/MiFIR requirements into practically applicable rules for market participants and national supervisors. The new regulatory framework aims at ensuring that secondary markets are fair, transparent and safe and that investors’ interests are safeguarded when being sold investment products. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said:“Today’s implementing rules on both secondary markets and investor protection issues reflect ESMA’s desire to achieve the best outcome for market users and investors, taking into account the extensive submissions received from our stakeholders. The advice now goes to the European Commission to use in preparation of its delegated legislation, while our technical standards are open for a second round of consultation. “Once fully implemented, MiFID II will have a significant impact on the EU’s securities markets, its users and infrastructure providers. It will bring greater transparency and improve the overall functioning of markets thus strengthening investors’ trust in the financial sector.”MiFID II to include most financial instruments, trading venues and techniquesMiFID II/MiFIR introduces changes to the functioning of secondary markets, including transparency requirements for a broad range of asset classes; the obligation to trade derivatives on trading venues; requirements for algorithmic and high-frequency-trading and new supervisory tools for commodity derivatives. The key proposals stemming from ESMA’s TA/draft RTS cover the following issues: • increased trade transparency, for non-equity instruments, in particular bonds, derivatives, structured finance products and emission allowances;• a trading obligation for shares and a double volume cap mechanism for shares and equity-like instruments, introducing a major change to the framework for trading these instruments in the Union;• an obligation to trade derivatives on MiFID venues (regulated markets, multilateral (MTFs) or organised trading facilities (OTFs)) only, in line with G20 requirements;• newly introduced position limits and reporting requirements for commodity derivatives;• rules governing high frequency trading, imposing a strict set of organisational requirements on investment firms and trading venues;• provisions regulating access to central counterparties (CCPs), trading venues and benchmarks, designed to increase competition in the Union; and• requirements for a consolidated tape of trading data, including rules for tape providers, reporting, publication and sales of data.MiFID II to improve investor protection ESMA’s TA proposes that the Commission adopts a number of measures that will further the protection of investors across the EU. The main proposals relating to the improved protection of investors, especially retail, include:• clarifications about the circumstances in which portfolio managers can receive research from third parties;• clarifications under which circumstances inducements meet the quality enhancement requirement for the provision of advice;• requirements for investment firms manufacturing and/or distributing financial instruments and structured deposits to have product governance arrangements in place in order to assess the robustness of their manufacture and/or distribution;• requirements for firms to provide clients with details of all costs and charges related to their investment, including cost aggregations, the timing of disclosure (ex-ante and ex-post); information to non-retail clients; the scope of firms subject to this obligation; information on the cumulative effect of costs on the return; • organisational requirements for firms providing investments advice on an independent basis; and• specification of powers for ESMA and national regulators with regards to prohibiting or restricting the marketing and distribution of financial instruments. Next stepsThe TA has been finalised following extensive consultations with stakeholders and will now be sent to the European Commission. ESMA’s draft RTS/ITS, already previously consulted upon, are open for public comment until 2 March 2015. In addition, an open hearing will be held in Paris on 19 February 2015. ESMA will use the input received from the consultations to finalise its draft RTS which will be sent for endorsement to the European Commission by mid-2015, its ITS by January 2016. MiFID II/ MiFIR and its implementing measures will be applicable from 3 January 2017.
16/02/2015 2015/281 Press Release- ESMA publishes annual report and supervisory focus for CRAs and TRs Corporate Information, Credit Rating Agencies, Post Trading, Press Releases Press Release PDF
186.67 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today an annual report (Report) on its direct supervisory activities in 2014 regarding credit rating agencies (CRAs) and trade repositories (TR). The report summarises the key actions taken during 2014 and outlines ESMA’s supervisory work plans for both sectors for 2015.
25/02/2015 2015/495 ESMA publishes review on best execution supervisory practices under MiFID MiFID - Investor Protection, Press Releases, Supervisory convergence Press Release PDF
112.68 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has conducted a peer review on how national regulators (national competent authorities or NCAs) supervise and enforce the MiFID provisions relating to investment firms’ obligation to provide best execution, or obtain the best possible result, for their clients when executing their orders. ESMA found that the level of implementation of best execution provisions, as well as the level of convergence of supervisory practices by NCAs, is relatively low. In order to address this situation a number of improvements were identified, including: . prioritisation of best execution as a key conduct of business supervisory issue; . the allocation of sufficient resources to best execution supervision; and . a more proactive supervisory approach to monitoring compliance with best execution requirements, both desk-based and onsite inspections. The review was conducted on the basis of information provided by 29 NCAs and complemented by on-site visits to the NCAs of France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Spain.
01/04/2015 2015/674 Press release- ESMA launches centralised data projects for MiFIR and EMIR MiFID - Secondary Markets, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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IPL 2017: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad match preview – essentiallysports.com
In what seems to be a repeat of the 2016 IPL final, the Royal Challengers Bangalore will face off against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on the 5th of April at 8:00pm. When these two teams squared off in the final last year, it was the Sunrisers who cam out on top. But now, its a new year and a new season. The teams have met a total of 9 times including the IPL final last year. SRH currently lead the head to head matchups with 5 wins over RCB’s 4.
The 10th edition of the IPL kickstarts tomorrow with the defending champions facing the runners up
SRH come into the tournament as the hot favourites and as one of the strongest teams so far. Coach Tom Moody was confident of the teams chances because none of the players have been injured so far. In 2016, the SRH team had a bowler heavy unit and only David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan were there to headline the batting firepower. This year, Dhawan and Warner will once again lead the batting squad. In the middle order they have players like Deepak Hooda, Yuvraj Singh and Naman Ojha. With regard to all-rounders, Moises Henriques and Ben Cutting are the ideal choices. Domestically, Vijay Shankar can prove to be an asset. SRH will miss Mustafizur Rahman due to the latter’s international duties, but are compensated for by Mohammed Nabi. In the spin department, the Hyderabad squad have a choice between Nabi, Rashid Khan and Pravin Tambe. Rashid has an advantage due to his higher ranking. Rashid has taken 40 wickets in 24 matches in this format at an average of 13 and an economy of just over 6. The pacers have always been the backbone of the team, the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra and Chris Jordan.
The Orange Army will be ready to defend their crown
Their squad includes Shikhar Dhawan, Naman Ojha, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Barinder Sran, Bipul Sharma, Ricky Bhui, Yuvraj Singh, Siddarth Kaul, Abhimanyu Mithun. David Warner, Moises Henriques, Ben Cutting, Mustafizur Rahman, Kane Williamson, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Eklavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin and Mohammed Siraj.
The RCB team comes into this match at a disadvantage due to the fact that a number of key players are sidelined by injury. Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and AB De Villiers have been forced to sit out of the tournament. Now, the team is lead by Shane Watson who could possibly promote himself up the order and open with West Indies juggernaut Chris Gayle. In the absence of De Villiers, Travis Head is likely to get the nod. Joining them and adding a domestic flavour is Mandeep Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Sachin Baby and Stuart Binny. The RCB spin department has players like Iqbal Abdullah and Yuzvendra Chahal. Sreenath Aravind, Aniket Chowdhary and newcomer Tymal Mills, add a dash of pace into the mix. With Mitchell Starc and Sarfaraz Khan also joining Kohli, Rahul and de Villiers in the injury list, RCB have their work cut out for them since they are the worst affected by the injury wave.
Chris Gayle will have to shoulder a lot of the burden with regard to adding runs to the scoreboard
Both teams are extremely well balanced this year. Now with the inclusion of Afghanistani players, it adds an interesting twist to the game. The full squad includes Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Chowdhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Tabraiz Shamsi and Avesh Khan.
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This video is unavailable. 2019-20 13/1.021. 7. Value. Watch Queue Queue. 1.132 Mikel Merino Zazón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmikel meˈɾino]; born 22 June 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Real Sociedad and the Spain national team. [19], Merino was part of the Spain under-19 team which won the 2015 UEFA European Championship in Greece. Fiche Joueur: Merino (Mikel Merino Zazón) FIFA 19 14 février 2019 - 22/06/1996 (22 ans) - NOTE 75 - POTENTIEL 84 His career was also associated with Osasuna, as both a player and manager. Mikel Oyarzabal. 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I received an email that I created a new SoFIFA account, but I didn’t sign up for a new account, 3. [23], "Updated squads for 2017/18 Premier League confirmed", "Mikel Merino, noveno juvenil en debutar", "Mikel Merino llevará el dorsal 8 y Kenan Kodro, el 9", "Merino: "No sé si le saldré barato o caro al Borussia, me centro en jugar, "Osasuna toma ventaja, pero no sentencia", "Borussia Dortmund verpflichtet Mikel Merino", "Newcastle land Mikel Merino on loan from Borussia Dortmund", "Fix! Mikel Merino est un joueur originaire de jouant pour le club Real Sociedad du championnat LaLiga Santander. Profile. Join the discussion or compare with others! €36.5M. [7] In that stage's first round, he netted a brace in a 3–1 home win against Gimnàstic de Tarragona,[8] and added another goal in the second leg (3–2 victory). Merino 75 - live prices, in-game stats, comments and reviews for FIFA 19 Ultimate Team FUT. €33K. How do I merge multiple SoFIFA accounts. Merino was definitely promoted to the main squad on 31 January 2015, being awarded the number 8 jersey. [9], On 15 February 2016, Merino signed a five-year deal with Borussia Dortmund, which was made effective on 1 July. [4] He scored his first professional goal on 21 December, the winner in a 2–1 away victory over UD Las Palmas.[5]. [10] His first appearance in the Bundesliga occurred on 14 October, when he played the full 90 minutes in a 1–1 home draw to Hertha BSC. 6. Agé de ans et mesurant 186 cm, il est postené régulièrement au poste de MC. https://www.transfermarkt.com/mikel-merino/profil/spieler/338424 FIFA 21 FIFA 20 FIFA 19 FIFA 18 FIFA 17 FIFA 16 FIFA 15 FIFA 14 FIFA 13 FIFA 12 FIFA 11 FIFA 10. 5. 85. FIFA series and all FIFA assets are property of EA Sports.Terms Privacy FAQ. [3] He made his senior debut with the reserves in the 2013–14 season, in Tercera División. [22], Merino's father, Ángel, was also a footballer. mikel recalde 19.11.2020 | 01:30 Mikel Oyarzabal celebra el gol que marcó en Balaídos. In the 2015–16 campaign, Merino scored four goals from 34 appearances to help Osasuna finish sixth and reach the promotion play-offs. How do I add a profile picture or change my current picture on SoFIFA? Mikel Merino 67 In Game Stats, Comments and Reviews for FIFA 16 Career Mode. ... El virus FIFA pone en peligro la final de la Copa del Rey para los internacionales de la Real. 2. [12][13] On 13 October this was invoked, and he agreed to a five-year contract. 2020-21 16/1.163 . FIFA 21 FIFA 20 FIFA 19 FIFA 18 FIFA 17 FIFA 16 FIFA 15 FIFA 14 FIFA 13 FIFA 12 FIFA 11 FIFA 10 FIFA 09 FIFA 08 FIFA 07. [20] He received his first call up to the senior side on 20 August 2020 for the initial two matches of the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League against Germany and Ukraine,[21] earning his first cap against the former on 3 September by replacing Sergio Busquets early into the second half of an eventual 1–1 draw. Copy URL MIKEL MERINO ZAZóN. We will send you an email containing further instructions. Player Page: Merino (Mikel Merino Zazón) FIFA 20 19 march 2020 - 22/06/1996 (23 years) - OVR 80 - POTENTIAL 86 [17] His first match in La Liga took place on 18 August, when he played 59 minutes in a 2–1 win against hosts Villarreal CF;[18] his first goal on 21 September won the game at SD Huesca. Overall Rating. Grâce à son pied Gauche, ses 3 étoiles de gestes techniques et ses 3 étoiles de pied faible, il … 2019-20 9 partidos/731 minutos. © 2009 - 2020 Powered by SoFIFA.com. He made his full debut in 2020. How do I update SoFIFA profile information like my name and email? Foto: ... Mikel Merino. Join the discussion or compare with others! Mikel Merino 74 - live prices, in-game stats, comments and reviews for FIFA 16 Ultimate Team FUT. He scored their first goal of the tournament, opening a 3–0 win over holders Germany at the AEL FC Arena in Larissa. Fiche Joueur: Merino (Mikel Merino Zazón) FIFA 20 19 mars 2020 - 22/06/1996 (23 ans) - NOTE 80 - POTENTIEL 86 [6] He was a regular starter in his first year, helping them narrowly avoid relegation. [15], Merino returned to Spain on 12 July 2018, signing a five-year deal with Real Sociedad for an undisclosed fee[16] reported to be €12 million. Nov 17, 2020. 9. Mikel Merino participe au championnat d'Europe des moins de 19 ans 2015 organisé en Grèce.Lors de la compétition, il inscrit un but face à l'Allemagne [1].L'Espagne remporte la compétition en battant la Russie. (Jun 22, 1996) 6'2" 183lbs. [3], On 23 August 2014, Merino made his first competitive appearance with the first team, starting in a 2–0 home win against FC Barcelona B for the Segunda División. Wage. How do I change my password on SoFIFA? Please provide your email. ... Mikel Merino Zazón. [14], Merino made 24 competitive appearances for the Magpies, scoring once, a late header that was the only goal against Crystal Palace at St James' Park on 21 October 2017. Info. ULTRAFIFA ©2013-2020 - All FIFA assets property of EA Sports - Política de privacidad. 81. I can't sign up for an SoFIFA account because an account with my email address already exists. Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Merino began his career with CD Amigó, later moving to CA Osasuna. [11], In July 2017, Merino joined Newcastle United on a season-long loan – the Premier League club agreed to a clause obligating them to sign the player permanently, based on a number of appearances. CM 24y.o. Mikel Merino Zazón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmikel meˈɾino]; born 22 June 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Real Sociedad and the Spain national team.. After starting out at Osasuna, he went on to play for Borussia Dortmund, Newcastle United and Real Sociedad.. Merino represented Spain in two European Under-21 Championships, winning the 2019 edition. Watch Queue Queue After starting out at Osasuna, he went on to play for Borussia Dortmund, Newcastle United and Real Sociedad. Join the discussion or compare with others! Merino represented Spain in two European Under-21 Championships, winning the 2019 edition. Potential. Player Page: Merino (Mikel Merino Zazón) FIFA 19 13 june 2019 - 22/06/1996 (22 years) - OVR 75 - POTENTIAL 84
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Vestas to build 1,000 wind turbines for Iowa wind farm
June 21, 2016 reve
announced that it was selected as the sole provider for a major new wind farm in Iowa.
They entered into a conditional agreement with MidAmerican Energy to supply as many as 1,000 new wind turbines for project which is pending approval by the Iowa Public Utilities Commission.
MidAmerican is a first of it’s kind utility that plans to provide customers with power completely generated by renewable sources. The bulk of that electricity will come from wind.
“This project, if approved, will bring considerable economic benefits to MidAmerican’s rate payers and communities, and Vestas is proud to partner with MidAmerican Energy in their commitment to generate 100 percent renewable energy,” said Chris Brown, President of Vestas’ sales and service division in the United States and Canada.
Vestas employs around 500 workers in at their tower manufacturing plant in Pueblo.
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Excelsior Adds Michael Blea and Scott McMillan to Management Team
Print October 31, 2017 News
Michael Blea and Scott McMillan to lead National Provider Marketing and California Senior Markets Sales teams
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas – Excelsior Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (“Excelsior” or the “Company”) announced the appointment of Michael Blea as the Vice President of National Provider Marketing and California Senior Market Sales and Scott McMillan as Director of National Provider Marketing and California Senior Market Sales. In these roles, Blea and McMillan will lead efforts to expand the Company’s Medicare focused distribution channel and grow partnerships with senior market provider organizations.
Excelsior is a multi-line brokerage offering solutions for independent brokers in the senior and group markets. Excelsior’s tools, support and training are designed to help brokers capitalize on expanding opportunities, maximize earnings, and convert more prospects into clients.
“We believe the addition of Michael and Scott to the Excelsior management team provides Excelsior with a unique skill set to build partnerships with provider organizations,” said Tom Nicol, President and Chief Executive Officer of Excelsior.
“The combined strength of our firms will further solidify Excelsior’s expansion into the senior market. And, it will enable us to bring new technology, support and products to the brokers, carriers and providers we serve to help them deliver more relevant, cost effective and sustainable benefits. It is an exciting partnership for us and I look forward to working with the Excelsior team,” Blea added.
Prior to joining Excelsior, Blea served as President of TeamUP Insurance Services, Inc., a Southern California based Medicare focused distribution organization. He also served as President of Alignment Health Advisors and a Vice President and General Manager for Golden Outlook.
About Excelsior Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
Excelsior Insurance Brokerage, Inc. is authorized to transact business as an insurance agency in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and does business as Excelsior Benefits Insurance Services, Inc. in California (CA LIC #0G78200) and New York. Excelsior Insurance Brokerage, Inc. is a multi-line brokerage offering solutions for independent brokers in the group and senior markets. Excelsior’s proven business model of group and senior market sales, individualized service and renewal support, together with its tenured sales team, carrier relationships and product expertise, have allowed Excelsior to build a compelling portfolio for brokers and their clients.
Cautionary Statement Related to Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements regarding Excelsior Insurance Brokerage, Inc. These forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance, and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Such forward-looking statements can be identified by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “objective,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential” and similar expressions. These statements are based on management’s current beliefs, expectations and assumptions, and actual results may vary materially from those included in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update them, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements made by us.
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