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Royal History of France and French Royalty
Archduchess Catharina of Habsburg was one of the "officious candidates" to Princess of Asturias. Now, she's happily married to Massimiliano Secco d'Aragona and she is mother of two children and two history books. The last one is about her ancestor Marie Antoinette.
Here's an interview she's given about the book.
From 20 Minutos:
From the presentation of the book, in Madrid:
Catharineaof Habsburg-Lorena demystifies the frivolous image of Marie Antoinette and gives "her humanity" back, in a biography written upon familiar and official archives of Paris and Vienna.
Like in her previous work, 'Las Austrias. Matrimonio y razón de Estado en la monarquía española', the author author of 'Maria Antonieta' has wanted to contribute to the historical debate of a new generation of people from the European royalty. When she started to write this biography, published by Esfera de los Libros, she thought that Maria Antonieta "had not had the usual characteristics of the rest of the Austrias, i.e. faith, dedication to their role as queen, austerity and humanity", explained the author. Nevertheless, by "reading and investigating on her, she surprised me because I discovered that she had all these characteristics in his personality, and I discovered a woman that became stronger, because of the problems experienced in her life, and who died guillotined with the dignity that few people had".
Catharina of Habsburg-Lorena assured that to understand the frivolous behaviour of Marie Antoinette "we must put ourselves in her shoes, at a time when having no descendants was much more stressing than it is nowadays". Thus, she took "eight years to get descendants, undergoing all kind of pressures and living invasions to her privacy". In addition, she lacked the attention of her mother, the empress Marie Teresa, who as the "Head of State did not have time for her". All those deficiencies and pressures were "canalized through whims and frivolities", that allowed her to escape from her problems.
Nevertheless, "her behaviour changed, when she realised the weight of the crown and its responsibilities" in the previous years to the French Revolution of 1789.
Besides, Catharina believes that Marie Antoinette "did not have any lovers", since she was not coherent with her own principles, "based on the education and values received from her mother, who considered prostitutes and lovers all the same".
The author insisted on that she does not want to excuse the Archduchess, but "explaining her life in an objective way, neither like an angel nor like a demon".
Catharina of Habsburg-Lorena, Archduchess of Austria, is granddaughter of Emperor Carl I of Austria and of Princess Zita de Borbón-Parma. She's graduated in Political Sciences and has a specialization in Law, by the University of Lovaina (Belgium). She has been the director of University SEK of Segovia International Relations and she collaborates with Radio España. At the moment, she lives near Milan with her husband, Count Massimiliano Secco d'Aragona, and her two children, to whom she dedicates the book, along with King Baudouin of Belgium.
Books about Napoleon
I have read through two books about Napoleon. One of them has been written by Seward Desmond, and another - by Ben Weider. Excuse me, but the first book has not liked me. How much the novel corresponded to the historical validity? Still also I have a question. What death Napoleon has died? From a poisoning or a cancer of a stomach?
Portraits of women in the age of Marie-Antoinette
A new french book with many reproductions of unpublished women portraits of the18thcentury, and a complete iconography of Marie-Antoinette.
The portrait on the cover is by Kucharski and painted in the Prison du Temple in 1792, it is an unpublished one.
The autor - Olivier Blanc- is a specialist of the Louis XVI society and wrote
severals books about women at the end of the 18th century.
Books about French royalty
Hello, All-
Do any of you happen to know if there are books in English on the French royal family?
I know there are several pretenders to the throne, so I am interested in whats available in english particularly of the late Countess Isabelle of Paris.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Books about the royal family of France
I recommend the following books:
1- "L'Album de ma vie"
Author: Isabelle Comtesse de Paris
This book is the album of Isabelle d'Orleans life. She was the last Countess of Paris.
Editeur: Perrin
11 avril 2002
2- "Mon Album De Famille"
Author: Michel de Grece
This book is an album of the last Count of Paris, the husband of Isabelle d'Orleans.
Editeur : Royal Books
15 août 2006
3- La Comtesse de Paris
author: Laot
Editeur: Omnibus
18 janvier 2003
4- Tout m'est bonheur
de Isabelle, comtesse de Paris
Tome 1 and 2
The is the official biography of the Countess of Paris. She wrote it.
Editeur : Robert Laffont
1 novembre 1981
Collection : Vécu
5- Contre-enquête sur le comte et la comtesse de Paris
Author: Vincent Meylan
Editeur : Pygmalion
10 août 2006
6- "Mon bonheur de grand-mère"
de Isabelle, comtesse de Paris
Editeur: Robert Laffont
12 septembre 1999
7- Diane de France, la princesse rebelle
Author: Stéphane Bern
Editeur J'ai Lu
6 janvier 2005
Diane is one of Isabelle d'Orleans daughters. She married an austriac aristocratic man.
8- "Princesse Diane: une artiste royale"
de Diane de France (Auteur), Jacqueline Malherbe (Auteur)
Editeur: Editions du Rocher
11 octobre 2007
Marie Antoinette
Book One of the Marie Antoinette Trilogy - "Vive Madame la Dauphine" is released on 16 October, 2008, to Commemorate the Day of the Guillotine
Soon it will be exactly 215 years since Marie Antoinette was guillotined on the chilly autumn morning of 16 October, 1793. To commemorate this anniversary and challenge popular perceptions about the reign of Louis Auguste ("the Dauphin") and his child bride, Marie Antoinette, André Romijn (author of "Hidden Harmonies: The Secret Life of Antonio Vivaldi") releases his autobiographical novel, "Vive Madame la Dauphine".
In Book One of the Marie Antoinette Trilogy, Romijn brings to life Madame la Dauphine as she transforms herself from an inexperienced 14-year-old arriving in Versailles for her wedding day in 1770, to becoming the fêted then ill-fated Queen of France - a crucial yet largely neglected period of her life.
The sweet smile and the face presented to the world by the charming, young Marie Antoinette would suggest that she wants for nothing; her life seems perfect bliss. Incarcerated within the labyrinthine walls of Europe?s grandest palace, surrounded on all sides by jealousy and intrigue, Marie Antoinette grows up isolated and alone. Her task - to produce an heir and ensure survival of the French Bourbon dynasty is none too easy if Louis Auguste, Dauphin and grandson of the French King Louis XV, refuses to share their marriage bed.
With an unconsummated marriage, how might Marie Antoinette win the heart of "Papa Roi" and avoid being sent home? How will she steer a course through the pitfalls laid by her enemies? What was the real role played by Austrian ambassador, Comte de Mercy? What effect did the Swedish Count Axel von Fersen have upon her young heart and mind? Was it possible for Marie Antoinette to love her husband Louis XVI, or he to love his wife?
What was the role of Marie Antoinette in this scenario and might she have saved herself from the guillotine?
Romijn conducts the reader into the presence of a new Marie Antoinette: a woman capable of holding her own amidst the chaos and acrimony of court life at Versailles; one who rises magnificently to the challenges of sovereignty, motherhood and love, but who allows herself finally and fatally to be caught up in the maelstrom of destruction that is the French Revolution.
Readers can lose themselves in the 18th century life at the Palace of Versailles. And, as if at first hand, they can witness the social change and gathering unrest that ultimately erupted in a malignant outburst that set all of Europe simmering.?
Book One of the Marie Antoinette Trilogy - "Vive Madame la Dauphine" (ISBN 978-0955410024) 360 pages, priced £14.95, from 16 October, 2008.
Vive Madame La Dauphine
I will have to stick to the books written in English, unfortunately.
Review of book: "Venus of Empire: the Life of Pauline Bonaparte" by Flora Fraser
Princess Hermine de clermont Tonnerre
Has anyone read any of her books ?
I recommend a lot the biography about Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser. Simply, the best :)
Hi Elisa,
Thank you for telling us about this book. Will it be published in English?
I love reading anything about Marie Antoinette. I find her fascinating.
What about Empress Eugenia?
empress eugenie was the wife of emperor napoleon iii she was overthrowned after the franco-prussian war in 1871 her life was rather sad she was to loose her husband soon after her exile and her son would follow some few years later she was a spanish-born aristocrats who at her time was consider improper for the imperial napoleonic bonaparte prince but she outdone them and became a legend in beauty,fashion and courage in a way her life kind of resemble diana{at least to me}
Title: Un Prince français
de Jean de France
editions pygmalion
Le livre du prince Jean de France « Un Prince français » - La couronne
Gens de France - Les présentations-signatures du livre à travers la France
Rosvall Royal Books has published a new Photobook aboute the descendatns of King Louis Philippe I. of the French. The title is Bourbon-Orleans - A Family Album by prince Michael of Greece. Apparently there are a lot of unseen photos in iot.
You can see the Cover here
New book about Eugenia de Montijo (Empress Eugénie)
Title: Pasión Imperial
Author: Pilar Eyre
Editorial: La Esfera
Language: spanish
Link of the book called Pasión Imperial:
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- No sit there. Daddy's seat.
- No singing.
- No dancing.
- No talking.
- No moving yo head (this was after I had already stopped singing, dancing, and talking and was just kind of bobbing my head.)
- No Sissy.
- Put Sissy down.
- Sit there.
- Nooooooooooo, sit over there!
- Mommy do it.
- Mah do it. (Mah = I, as in Esther)
This evening she was having a hard time and we could do NOTHING to please her. I let her choose between green beans and peas for dinner. She chose peas (these are much more expensive than the big bag, but they cook up so quickly and nicely!) and I popped them in the microwave. Lo and behold when I brought them out for us to eat, she no longer wanted the peas. We tried to entice her, but she would have no part of it. So I said,
"Well, Daddy and I are hungry, so we are going to eat our peas."
To which she replied:
Point taken - I'll add that to the list of rules.


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Welcome to the second edition of the Nationwide House Energy Ratings Scheme (NatHERS) Star!
Since the last update, the NatHERS Administrator has continued to deliver reforms to the program in line with activities in its 2015-18 NatHERS Strategic Plan, and in response to decisions made by state and territory and Commonwealth government representatives with oversight for NatHERS operation.
The NatHERS Administrator published an updated Protocol for Assessor Accrediting Organisations (AAOs) in March of this year, which comes into effect on 1 July 2016. The current Protocol is operating during the interim period.
Check out our NatHERS website which has recently had a major refresh!
We have recently produced a short video for a general audience to build awareness of NatHERS and to promote energy efficient design.
In response to common queries, the NatHERS Administrator has produced three new factsheets.
In March, an article was published in the Energy and Buildings Journal considering the effectiveness of NatHERS as a modelling tool to achieve higher energy efficiency and lower running costs for households.
On May 25th, the NatHERS Administrator hosted a Stakeholder Update at the Holiday Inn, Melbourne Airport.
Energy Inspection was granted short-term accreditation for the newest version of BERS Pro, v220.127.116.11 (3.13) in April this year. The software was accredited for use for energy ratings from 1st May 2016.
In our first Assessor Showcase we are featuring David Baggs of Integreco Consulting.


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A number of Facebook pages have attracted media attention recently for offering an opportunity to rank a partner's sexual 'performance'.
I have argued that the sites provide more opportunity for revenge and bullying through social networking pages (as if there isn't enough of that already).
Porn-inspired descriptions of various body parts appear to make up much of the reviews, relaying an impression that this is all there is to sex. Sex becomes about performance, not intimacy or connection with another person, which gives many young people, including those not yet sexually active, a limited view of sexuality and relationships. This creates additional pressure and stress about one's ability to provide the Porn Star Experience.
These are some of the points I made in a recent interview on Channel 7's Sunrise.


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As if hearing the phrase "Defending [Fucking] World Champion" before the word "Phillies" all month hasn't been making me nervous enough, now we're gonna have to deal with being assaulted with this full-blown curse all season as well?
J/k; he looks dreamy, as always, and this year it's gonna be a positive Philadelphia attitude, right?! At least at the beginning of the season before we fall back by 20 games, considering there's no way we compete with all the acquisitions made around us in the NL East PLUS the additional pressure of having to defend the aforementioned WFCship…right? Anyway, here's a link to the article.


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Billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein arrested for alleged sex trafficking
Epstein was the subject of a sweetheart prosecution deal after authorities investigated alleged sex with underage victims.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bi ... g-n1027126?
Let's see how far this goes this time around...
I won't copy and paste the article, as it's all over the news. It would be nice if some real justice actually started to be served.


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Florida's Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was conspicuously absent from a meeting President Donald Trump convened Wednesday in the West Wing with key lawmakers and stakeholders in the gun violence debate following the Parkland massacre, and on Friday he dismissed the meeting as show, and predicted Trump will pivot from assurances he made there.
Speaking on the MSNBC show Morning Joe Friday, Nelson said his snub by White House officials who did not invite him to the meeting was "counter productive that they would want to exclude me" from efforts to seek any bipartisan reforms in the wake of the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting that left 17 dead.
Nelson is likely to face Florida Gov. Rick Scott in this year's U.S. Senate election. Scott has been a strong supporter of Trump.
The meeting did have both Florida and Democratic representation. Florida's U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio was there. So was Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Orlando, who solicited the president's support for her House Resolution 1478, a measure with some bipartisan backing, which would lift the ban on federal research into gun violence.
Friday morning, Nelson dismissed anything that Trump did offer, embracing some gun control measures, as unreliable, especially since the president followed that meeting with one Thursday night with NRA officials. Trump tweeted last night, "Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!"
Nelson accused Trump of making promises and then rejecting them days later, and said that appears to be happening already with his interest in certain gun reforms.
"It's symptomatic of what's happening in our society today, where everybody is retreating to polls, they're getting very self-interested, highly partisan, highly-ideological rigid, and we're seeing that play into this question about what do we do in the aftermath of these massacres," Nelson said.
Nelson expressed strong pessimism that any significant reforms will clear Congress, noting that 60 votes are needed to get passage in the U.S. Senate.
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text: By Finley In Invertebrate Paleontology 26/11/2017 0 Treatise Of Invertebrate Paleontology The Yale Peabody Museum's collection of invertebrate fossils is considered one of largest within the United States, in volume and in geographic, stratigraphic and taxonomic illustration. When I am within the area, I am taking a look at fossils that take me again 450 million years in Earth's history, and I'm normally the first individual ever on Earth to have seen and accumulate these fossils. Acknowledged as one of many nation's greatest university repositories of microfossils and an necessary resource for researchers, the gathering continues to grow in dimension and scope. Previous to the Museum's move to Union Terminal, minerals were a serious part of public reveals in the Cincinnati Museum of Natural Historical past. Over the following six years, Raymond started the method of collection management of the Bayet collection and organized the section's specimen catalogs. For more than a century, employees and colleagues within the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology acquired strategic paleontological and stratigraphic collections to conduct research, enhance museum reveals, and promote science literacy. The paleontological collections signify the combined efforts of quite a few predecessors and companion establishments in the Cincinnati area. Strengths of the collection are in Cenozoic and Cretaceous Mollusca of the New World, notably the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains; Quaternary Mollusca worldwide; and the Mesozoic of England. Copyright © 2017, Yale Peabody Museum of Pure History. The museum just lately acquired a donation of 540,000 specimens, most of which are Paleozoic fossil invertebrates collected by Royal Mapes and his college students. Invertebrates are animals that lack a backbone. The Bear Gulch Limestone Invertebrates from Montana were ranked number three, and the Cambrian Trilobites of the North-Central Appalachian Basin had been ranked number five. #treatise, Share


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Oddly it wasn't the nudity that worried James Redmond when he joined The Full Monty company on what will be its last-ever tour (Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, February 11-16).
"I have done so much of that on TV. No, I was much more worried about the projection and the dialogue and the accent."
And above all the dancing. As he says, it takes some skilful choreography to get dancing wrong in exactly the way he and the company are supposed to be getting it wrong…
The tour is actually James's first-ever theatre job after a busy screen career including Finn in Hollyoaks and Abs Denham in Casualty.
"I went straight into TV and I did 11 years back-to-back jobs with only maybe only a week or two between them. I had never really had the chance to audition for theatre until two or three years ago when theatre directors started saying that they had wanted me to do something but that I was always in contract. So it was great to finally do some theatre."
Especially as it is a very, very different animal to screen work.
The Full Monty tour hit the road last September, so James is well and truly into it by now, but he admits it took quite some adapting.
"I have done stand-up comedy in the UK for nine years, so I am used to getting a few laughs and the immediate reaction and also having eye contact with the audience. But we have not got microphones in most venues, so we are having to project. In screen work, you can do things very subtly; you can convey so much with just a change of expression, but you can't do that in the theatre. They are not going to see you from row Z!"
At least you don't have to worry about "shadowing" on stage, though: "Everyone when you are doing television has got perfect lighting which means that you can't lean an inch to the right or to the left or else you will shadow them. Also you can't overlap dialogue… otherwise they will have problems in the editing. But on stage, you can shadow and you can overlap as much as you want."
But there are other considerations instead. It works both ways.
"I have been very lucky to do six years of Casualty. Every episode has got ten guest artists, and often they bring in theatre stars and movie stars, and they play the injured party or the relative of the injured party whereas the actors playing the doctors and the nurses have got to remain much more stoic.
"And sometimes we have actors coming straight in from the stage and they are playing it all very large. In some scenes the director will have to ask them to tone it down a bit because the camera is right on their face and with their big reactions they are going out of shot.
"But then it is just the opposite when you go on stage. If you try to be too subtle and if you don't liven it up a bit, then you can appear very, very dull."
It helps of course that The Full Monty is a such a cracking story, the tale of six out-of-work, impoverished steelworkers from Sheffield with nothing to lose.
"It's a real life-situation. Thatcher's government persuaded the working classes to buy their council houses and then they shut down the industry. Suddenly their houses were worth half of what they had been and there was no work in the area. People took desperate measures…"
"I saw all the blood and was convinced I was going to die"
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Ian Hislop on the "forgotten hero of free speech" he is bringing back to life in Chichester
Major new exhibition opens at the National Trust's Petworth House
40th anniversary celebrations for Chichester Cinema at New Park
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New book tells story of West Sussex's architectural "medieval jigsaw puzzle"
First acts for The Isle of Wight Festival 2019 announced
African stone sculptures go on show at Chichester's Oxmarket
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Chichester arts charity Outside In wins business backing from Investec
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Hundreds of people and businesses are expected to drop off turkeys at the charity's headquarters in Oak Park until 7 PM.
"We'll turn around Monday and believe it or not we will server over 7,000 families in eight hours."
That's Blake Young, president of the Sacramento Food Bank. He appeared on Insight with Beth Ruyak. Last year, people donated more than six-thousand turkeys.
The food bank is also gearing up for it's biggest annual fundraiser, Run to Feed the Hungry, held on Thanksgiving Day. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the run. The 10-K and five-K typically draws about 28,000 runners and walkers.
"We hope we eclipse the 30,000 mark just simply because it's our 20th."
The event generates about $850,000 for the food bank from the registration fees that people pay to participate.


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Outsourcing is a good choice if you cooperate with the professional development company, but if you make the wrong choice, this decision can turn into the considerable problem. We will tell you about the risks you may face when choosing the offshore outsourcing software development company.
Risks of outsourcing app development
First of all, when you offer a resident of another country to take part in the decisive process which defines the future of your company, you risk being converted to cultural barriers. Outsourcing software development proceeded by external agency means that cultural ideas of aesthetics and technology can differ, and as software development is mainly made on the side of the Third World countries, the standards used by external developers can not correspond to recent trends in the advanced countries. Other problem consists in the fact that they will need more time to understand the details of your project which could result in lower time and economic efficiency.
Problems with communication
Linguistic sharing is one of the main shortcomings. As you know, app development is a complicated process during which the participants have to share and express the difficult ideas and also carefully thought over IT terminology.
It is tough to express all your thoughts in detail to the person who does not perfectly speak your language. Besides, the person you transferring your project requirements is thousands of kilometers away in front of the camera of the computer which can be followed by risks of bad Internet connection and bad communication quality in general.
How much value does the developer bring?
But let's return to a subject, the basic reason why many companies choose outsourcing, is the cost. Yes, the external outsourcing company of the third world may charge you a tempting $15 an hour, but will the investments pay off eventually? An experienced outsource app developer who offers services at $150 an hour probably will bring you more value, than three junior developers working abroad at $15 per hour each.
Safety risks
Safety issues and data leakages are also frequent companions of foreign development. The statistics show that the outsource development experiences data leaks and IP losses 30% more often than the enterprises that build their software inside the country. Even if you sign the non-disclosure agreement, you provide valuable information on the business and precautions as settings of court.
Emergency signals to watch out for
It is entirely clear that even being aware of possible risks, sometimes outsourcing is the unique option. If you decided that you want to hire external application developers to create your business application, here is the list of alarm signals to watch out for in case of the choice of such agency:
- Extremely low cost. $75 an hour - the average standard to low cost that developers in this price tire charge. If you invest into developers who load $5-15 an hour for their services of software designing, it should strike a prevention note that the product will probably have low quality.
- Inappropriate contact information. Pay attention to contact details which the developer gives you. Development agencies based abroad, often buy the British or American zone code or use a temporary address to contact with internal clients. Modern technologies do such things easily achievable, both some firms, and non-staff experts exploit it as an aggressive strategy to increase their sales. Such developers usually delete this type of contacts after the product was delivered to prevent further transfer if there are any problems with the application. To salvage themselves of a problem, thoroughly investigate the candidates for employment and check the local or office numbers they provide.
- Unsafe wire transfers. Wire transfers are much less safe than credit card transfers. Be on the alert when the developer demands wire transfer instead of the credit card one. A reputable digital agency will accept secure payments which minimize probability of frauds and legal issues.
In-house App Development
Some companies prefer to create applications in-house because they believe that it is cheaper, quicker, more manageable, and much more efficient. You think of in-house app development? Then you should know about the three main difficulties with which the companies which prefer to develop applications themselves face:
- Problems with knowledge and experience of the employee. Even with the team of ten pilot developers working on the project, it is more than 90% of the companies, according to recent researches, lack employees with necessary skills to finish internal projects.
- In-house development is less cost and time-effective. Primary members of the group of developers include a number of programmers, a designer, a project manager and a quality assurance specialist. You may need weeks to find people with proper skills and to hire them.
- In-house software development includes many risks. Your digital specialists can not have high standard of knowledge and experience which you will not even know whether you are knowledgeable in development of the software. Scalability and traceability can also cause problems because you will have not enough staff if the project extends or may have problems when managing the process.


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Opening: Marc Chagall & Esther Warkov
Saturday, May 28, 2016 from 7pm to 10pm
Join us to celebrate the opening of three new shows – Chagall: Daphnis & Chloé, Chagall & Winnipeg, and Esther Warkov: Paintings, 1960s-1980s.
Featuring Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate playing Debussy, and dance by Gearshifting Performance Works.
Pioneer of modernism Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was one of the 20th century's most popular artists. Our latest NGC@WAG collaboration features Daphnis & Chloé, widely considered the crowning achievement of Chagall's career as a printmaker.
Presented alongside these romantic, dreamlike scenes is Chagall & Winnipeg, telling the story of friendship between Chagall and former WAG Director Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt through a series of letters, photographs, and works of art.
Esther Warkov's stylized motifs reveal an influence of Jewish folk art and Winnipeg's North End. One of Manitoba's most distinctive artists, Warkov invites viewers to meander through the strangeness of her painted worlds.
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Collaborating on continuous improvement efforts can help identify solutions, process strategies, share lessons learned, inspire new ideas, and accelerate learning and productivity. Six states have been doing just that—investigating and addressing specific, high-priority, high-impact ways to improve their educator evaluation and professional support systems.
The Collaborative for the Continuous Improvement of Educator Effectiveness Systems (the Collaborative), a partnership of the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, the West Comprehensive Center, and six states (Delaware, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Colorado, Arizona, and Rhode Island) have collaborated since 2016 to address state-specific design and implementation challenges. The Collaborative has worked to continuously improve their systems to assess teacher performance and provide high-quality, differentiated support and development. These states are staying the course on this work with the goal of improving teaching and learning for all. Each state has identified specific areas of improvement in its system impacting both policy and practice and, collectively, have developed a set of guiding principles that the six states consider essential for the continuous improvement of educator effectiveness systems.
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The Talent for Turnaround Leadership Academy (T4TLA) is a multi-year initiative designed to help states and districts align equitable access and school improvement efforts. The T4TLA focuses on the development of coherent and aligned talent management systems that can attract, support, and retain excellent educators in the lowest performing, highest need schools and districts. A collaboration among several centers in the comprehensive center network supports nine states and fourteen LEA teams from across the country, organized and implemented through both national and regional face to face and virtual venues.
As teams identify prioritized challenges and select strategies designed to address these challenges, the T4TLA provides coordinated and differentiated technical assistance based on SEA and LEA readiness and interest to support strategy implementation on the ground. This technical assistance integrates evidence-based practices in both talent management and school improvement to support T4T teams in designing and implementing talent management strategies in a turnaround environment.
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The WCC formed the College and Career Readiness Collaborative to leverage knowledge and expertise across states, address shared challenges collectively, and better prepare students for postsecondary studies and workforce entry. State education agency leaders working in the areas of career and technical education, comprehensive school counseling, college and career readiness, and dropout prevention established cross-agency secondary leadership teams. These teams compose this regional community of practice.
Current efforts focus on the implementation of individualized learning plans. Members are working with the Center for College and Career Readiness and Success to develop a best-practices compendium that includes learning plan implementation strategies, accountability indicators, monitoring systems, and improvement processes. Additional joint projects focus on career literacy, rigorous pathways, competency-based graduation requirements, interventions and supports for unique populations, and longitudinal academic and career advisement systems that include electronic portfolios.
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This project was developed in collaboration with the University of Virginia, Partnership for Leaders in Education (UVA-PLE) at the Darden School of Business, with input from State Education Agency (SEA) leaders in the west. The goal is to provide professional opportunities for SEA leaders that will successfully support their efforts to lead reform initiatives in their respective states. SEA executive teams and their chief state school officers meet regularly throughout the year. The sessions are designed specifically for SEAs to address their own organizational management issues in leading statewide initiatives with discussions and case studies led by UVA Darden faculty. Through both individual team time and whole-group discussions, SEA executive teams have opportunities to share efforts, address challenges, and learn from one another.
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Howdy all. Today I am following up on my series about our trip out west this summer. This time I am focusing in on our day at Bryce Canyon National Park, which was almost a 2 hour drive from where we stayed.
It definitely deserves its own post, don't you think? I've said this many a time over and over, but pictures really do it no justice. Bryce was absolutely stunning!
One of the things that makes it so unique are the hoodoos, these crazy cool rock formations that are literally everywhere at Bryce.
You can use your imagination as to what each looks like. The day we went, we were also gifted with a gorgeously blue, clear sky, which contrasted perfectly with the reddish orange color of the rocks.
We began our travels at the Visitor Center, then drove over to Sunset Point. From there we hiked down Navajo Loop, which is a steep descent down into the canyon. I was SO glad we used that trail for going down, not up! It was basically a series of tight switchbacks that go on and on. From there we went across the bottom of the canyon, hiking the Queen's Garden Trail. After going across a ways, we made our way up to Sunrise Point. One great thing about Bryce is that due to a much higher elevation, it is cooler in temperature than Zion. A bad thing is that unless you are used to the elevation, you can start to feel it when you hike. Thankfully we didn't notice it as much until near the end of our longer hike, when heading back up the canyon.
It is worth it though! Everywhere you turn is an amazing view! For several of my kids, along with my husband, Bryce was their favorite park.
After our hike, we chose yet another amazing place to have a picnic lunch, then drove around to several of the viewpoints. Each one was spectacular!
You can easily see at least the highlights of Bryce in a day trip, though I'm sure we would've discovered much more had we spent another day there. If you ever get a chance to visit, I'd highly recommend Bryce Canyon. It is truly a one-of-a-kind park that is unforgettable.


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Committee Against Bird Slaughter - CABS
Press release - Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Operation ´Nest in peace´: 24 illegal trapping sites dismantled
Slow police responce is unacceptable - CABS
In the last 10 days investigations of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) have led to the dismantling of 24 active trapping sites on Malta and Gozo. Numerous trapping paraphernalia such as clap nets, mist nets and cage traps as well as live Greenfinches, Linnets and a Robin have been confiscated by the authorities. At least 7 trappers were filmed actively trapping or have been apprehended by the police. The men are expected to be arraigned in court soon. A video summary of the evidence filmed by CABS and the action taken by the police has been published on YouTube today »» [2]
The footage shows birdtrappers on the run as well as police officers confiscating trapping equipment and live birds in St. Thomas Bay, Marsaxlokk, Dingli, Gharghur, Xghaijra, Manikata, San Gwann and near the Freeport.
CABS criticised that the A.L.E. office repeatedly refused to follow up CABS´ reports with the argument that they had orders only to take action if the report is filed at the police headquarters. "On certain days it was nearly impossible to file a realtime report", CABS press officer Axel Hirschfeld notes. According to CABS the average response time of the police was 71 minutes after the Bird Guards alerted the police headquarter ranging from 20 to 150 minutes. Hirschfeld: "Most of the trappers had enough time to collect their birds calmly and to disappear before the police arrived. In a country where the government claims to have a zero tolerance police towards poaching this situation is absolutely unacceptable".
A very sad example of the police´s obvious inability to respond in good time was given yesterday afternoon when a CABS team tried to report two active finch trapping sites near Marsaxlokk. Neither the headquarters, nor the office of the ALE nor the local police station reacted to the report. CABS said that its volunteers have been transferred from one police office to the other more than 15 times before the ALE arrived two and a half hours after their first call.
"When the ALE officers arrive on site in response to our reports they work in a professional and efficient manner, which we are grateful for. However the problem seems to lie in a breakdown of communication, since officers on several occasions said they had only received our report some minutes ago, when our original police report had been made more than an hour ago in several instances. This is an indication that the reports we make are not being passed onto the field officers fast enough, suggesting that the current system of reporting is inadequate", said CABS Wildlife Crime Officer Fiona Burrows
CABS announced that it will contact the Commissioner of Police to discuss how a quicker response of the police can be guaranteed in the future. The organisation announced that their operation ´Nest in peace´ will continue until May.
Contact for photographic and video material and other information: CABS Press Officer Axel Hirschfeld, Telephone 0049 1794803805 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Link to the video on YouTube: Illegal finch trapping on Malta in spring 2014 - CABS´ operation ´Nest in peace´ »» [2]


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Last month the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision perceived to be very beneficial to organized labor, as it erased 50 years of precedent to hold that an employer can no longer unilaterally discontinue dues checkoff provisions after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement. However, the Board might have unintentionally made it more difficult for unions to reach agreement with some employers on new contracts, thus promoting more industrial strife.
As we noted two weeks ago, in WKYC-TV, 359 NLRB No. 30 (2012), the Board reversed its decision in Bethlehem Steel, 136 NLRB 1500 (1962), as it relates to dues checkoff provisions based on "compelling statutory and policy reasons." Finding that there was no statutory basis to exclude dues checkoff from the general rule that employers cannot make unilateral changes regarding mandatory subjects of bargaining, the Board ruled that dues checkoff, like other terms and conditions of an expired collective bargaining agreement, is part of the status quo that cannot be changed absent agreement by the union.
This development is significant as some employers will object to continuing dues checkoff during negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement because it eliminates what has historically been a legitimate leverage point available to them. While unions ordinarily place high priority on these provisions, employers typically recognize they provide little benefit to operations while increasing administrative burdens. As a result, employers may give it a second thought now that the commitment will be more open-ended.
Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, the Board's decision in WKYC-TV provides employers an easier path for bargaining to impasse in either first or successor contract negotiations given the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Erie Brush & Manufacturing Corp. v. NLRB, Case. No. 11-1337 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 27, 2012).
As discussed in our analysis of Erie Brush, the NLRB found that the employer unlawfully refused to bargain with the union by claiming that there was an impasse. The primary issue leading to overall impasse in Erie Brush was the employer being "committed to an open shop," and thus unwilling to agree to the union's proposal on union security. On petition for review with the appellate court, the court vacated the NLRB's order because the evidence "uniformly" supported the employer's position that there was a bargaining impasse despite the fact that impasse existed on only two discrete issues:
Impasse on a single critical issue can create an impasse on the entire agreement. See CalMat Co., 331 NLRB 1084, 1097 (2000). A party asserting impasse based on a single issue must show that: first, a good-faith bargaining impasse actually existed; second, the single issue involved was critical; and third, "the impasse on this critical issue led to a breakdown in the overall negotiations." Id. The Board does not dispute that Erie established the second CalMat factor: union security was a critical issue. See Board Decision at 2; Resp't Br. at 26.
Although Erie Bush provides employers reluctant to bargain with a union an opportunity to create a bona fide impasse by insisting on an open shop, the tactic is very risky as the Board generally views an employer's reluctance to agree to union security as evidence of bad faith bargaining. See Clarke Manufacturing, 352 NLRB 141 (2008) (finding that an employer's submission, without a tenable explanation, of a regressive proposal to eliminate a union-security provision was unlawful under Section 8(a)(5) and (1)). Accordingly, the detrimental effect of Erie Bush, at least as perceived by organized labor, was somewhat limited–at least until the Board's decision in WKYC-TV.
WKYC-TV now provides employers an additional path under Erie Bush to use a singular issue to create an overall impasse. Because some employers will want to secure elimination of dues checkoff as an economic weapon in subsequent negotiations, they now have a "tenable explanation" for being "committed" to proposals that either:
- do not provide for dues checkoff; or
- expressly provide that dues checkoff ceases immediately before or at the termination of the collective bargaining agreement.
Given that most unions will likely refuse to agree to either of those proposals, it certainly appears that a bona fide impasse may be more likely to result in future negotiations than before, which may in turn result in more strikes, lockouts, and other industrial strife. So even if the current Board was trying to reduce industrial strife by shifting some bargaining leverage back in organized labor's favor, it remains uncertain whether WKYC-TV will actually achieve those results.


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I ventured out of London today for a day trip to Bath, famous for Jane Austen and for its 2,000 year-old Roman baths. I went with London Walks, which is well-known for its wide range of London walking tours, including its popular Jack the Ripper walk. Many people don't realize that it also organizes occasional day trips to nearby cities such as Brighton, Canterbury, and Oxford. I was amazed at how easy it was. I didn't even have to book in advance. All I had to do was show up at Paddington Station in the morning, pay the guide's fee and the tariff, which covered the train fare and admission charges, and off we went for the 90-minute train ride to Bath.
We started our day with a two-hour walking tour of the lower town. We saw the Guildhall, Pultney Bridge, Beau Nash's house, and the buildings that house the Roman Baths and the ruins of the Temple Minerva. If you feel tempted to try the waters yourself, you can test them out at Thermae. This luxurious spa offers visitors a modern version of the Roman and Regency baths experience. There was a long line of people waiting to pay £35 (a little over $50) for a 2-hour session in water from the town's naturally warm, mineral-rich springs. Guests can choose between an indoor pool or an open-air rooftop pool with magnificent views over the city.
We had an hour on our own after our morning walk. I grabbed a quick snack before visiting some of the shops in the lower town. Later I realized that I should have stopped for a sit-down lunch. My feet really regretted that extra hour of walking by the end of the day!
Our afternoon started with a tour of Bath Abbey. There's been a church on this site for more than 1,200 years. Edgar, the first king of a unified England, was crowned in the original Norman church in 973. The present church was built in 1499, but sadly, it was largely destroyed during the Reformation 40 years later. It was later repaired with support from Queen Elizabeth I. Additional restoration work was undertaken during the Victorian period, and again after it was bombed in World War II, so visitors can appreciate its full beauty. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Abbey in 1973 to mark the 1,000th anniversary of King Edgar's coronation. Her visit is commemorated by a memorial plaque on the floor of the chancel.
After our visit to the Abbey we had a steep, 15-minute climb to the streets of upper Bath, the epicenter for Jane Austen mania. There we saw the Assembly Rooms, the Circus, and the Royal Crescent. The Assembly Rooms were the most fashionable place to see and be seen in Jane Austen's time. The Circus and Royal Crescent are beautiful examples of Georgian architecture, although the photos I took don't do them justice.
We had another hour on our own at the end of the day. Many members of our group toured the Roman Baths, but my feet were rebelling after five hours of walking. Instead of the Baths, I opted for – you guessed it – tea! There are lots of tea shops in Bath. The most famous is Sally Lunn's, but it had quite a line. I opted for the charming Georgian Tea Room, where I had a tea worthy of Jane Austen.
After tea I was ready for the walk back to Bath Station for the train to London. We arrived back at Paddington Station around 7 pm. In case you were wondering, there's a lovely Paddington Bear shop in the station where you can stock up on a wide range merchandise featuring the cuddly bear. I'm glad I opted to take an organized tour for my first journey outside of London. I definitely saw a lot more of the city and learned a lot more about its history than I would have on my own. As an added bonus, I didn't have to worry about finding the right trains by myself!
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A Modular, Expandable Compost Bin That Can Grow Plants and Store Tools, Too
Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven't come across your desired shape or size, check out the Combox. This Spanish compost bin is the first of its kind that is completely modular in all directions, can be segmented, is totally expandable and can also serve as urban vegetable garden or storage for garden tools. And on top of it, this recycler is made of 100% recycled and recyclable post-consumer plastic waste.Shape and Size, you decide!
Starting with the basic 150-litre modules (60 x 60 x 40 cm), you can build the size and shape you need; for example L-shaped or, O-shaped around that big tree in the middle of your garden. If you live in a small household with a bit of garden, start with 300 litres. If you suddenly find yourself move into a big house surrounded by a lush garden, you can easily upgrade the Combox to 2100, 2400 etc. litres. Pick one of the standard designs, or build and customise your own with the COMbox online application (only in Spanish so far).
Multifunctional: Compost Bin = Urban Vegetable Garden = Storage
The Combox serves as a compost bin with different compartments according to the stage of maturity of the compost. Let the compost mature until you decide to fertilise the plants, while you start another module with fresh organic waste. Moreover, you can also use some of the modules as pots to grow your own vegetables, or as storage space for gardening tools or kids' toys.
Usually garden compost bins sit straight on top of the soil so that the organisms can get in easily and the compost tea can seep into the earth. The Combox can be used as such, but it also comes with an optional base that allows you to place it on paved floors, such as a terrace. The base has a built-in drainage system and collects the liquid fertiliser in a dish underneath, which serves to water the plants.
Easy to Use All Year Round
Accessibility is key. The lid allows you to easily add fresh organic waste at the top and stir the mixture from time to time. Each panel at the bottom can be opened like a door by sliding one of the bars up, in order to extract the mature compost. If you have dry leaves in your garden, it is recommended that you use one compartment to store those and add them little by little over the winter.
100% Recycler, Recycled & Recyclable
Combox is made of 100% post-consumer waste and is non-toxic, fire-proof and weather-resistant. It is long-lasting (around 30 years!) and can be fully recycled at the end of its life. The fact that it is easily expandable, repairable (all pieces are sold separately) and the shape can be adapted to any garden or space, makes it last a lifetime or more. The company calculated that by making a 450-litre Combox out of recycled plastic instead of virgin plastic, it saves 38 kilos of CO2 emissions, which compares to the emissions of a car driving 211 km.
Flat-Pack in a Reusable Bag
The Combox is completely flat-pack, which reduces the impact on the environment during transportations. It comes in a cool reusable bag, as opposed to a cardboard box which would only last the journey. The recyclable bag can be used to collect leaves, store stuff or for shopping at IKEA...
Combox is a product by Compostadores, a Spanish company that specialises in domestic composting. For more information in English, read the Combox leaflet 'The Limits Are Set by You' on Issuu and visit the Compostadores web site. The Combox is available throughout Europe via the Compostadores online store, and the company is currently looking for distributors in the US. Prices range from 65,25€ for 300 L to 369,75€ for a 2100-litre one. One side panel costs 7,25€. ::Compostadores ::Combox (in Spanish)
More domestic composting:
Compostalooza! A Crowdsourced Composter Competition
Compost Conundrum: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin Or A Can-O-Worms? (Part I)
Compost: How to Make It, Bins, Piles and More
Elegance in Composting with Valentina


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VR Ready Program
NVIDIA and Partners Deliver Virtual Reality (VR) Ready PCs, Notebooks and Graphics Cards
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX VR Ready program designates virtual reality ready PCs, Notebooks and Graphics Cards from leading add-in-card and system builder partners that are configured to deliver an optimal VR experience.
GeForce GTX VR Ready GPU Performance Requirements
GeForce GTX GPUs that meet the performance requirements of VR Ready include TITAN X, GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 as well as some GTX 900 Series cards. NVIDIA partners that meet these standards display a "GeForce GTX VR Ready" badge on their systems and graphics cards.
The combination of GeForce GTX GPUs and NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers, along with NVIDIA VRWorks technology, deliver the fast performance and low latency required for an amazing virtual reality experience.
VR Ready PCs and Notebooks
PCs and notebooks that qualify for VR Ready meet the following recommended systems specs. See here.


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Have you ever been stuck on a gift idea? I'm pretty sure there have been tons of you.
What do you get a kid that that could have too many toys and you don't want it to be too expensive and you definitely want the little one to enjoy their gift and have a chance to get creative with it. Well, look no further cause I have just discovered the coolest brand! The Itty Bitty Project specialises in cool themed t-shirts for kids that they can do themselves. I so wish I would have thought of this.
The Itty Bitty Project started when a little gift was made for a very special birthday.With a few scraps of felt, a button, and a very tiny tee - a crafty idea was born. And it stayed there... A year and a half later: The Itty Bitty Project is growing and developing all kinds of fantastic ideas for kids. Get yours today!
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Americans are rapidly moving away from desktops and getting comfortable, real comfortable, booking all of their travel reservations on tablets and smartphones. In other words, we're making our travel plans on mobile devices, not desktops and laptops.
Read more: http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/19/travel-bookings-by-mobile-devices-in-u-s-now-at-40-percent-and-growing-report/
Rapidly, crushingly, the market is moving to where our product vision has been since 2012. We started at 4% mobile users and now get 42% of our traffic from mobile devices and our apps.
These past months have, in a way that I would not have thought possible, created a start-up market situation closely resembling a certain period in time that we had in 1999. A number of new start-ups have sprung up that stem from what I call "feature-itis", that is: their main business idea is not the creation of a value that addresses a particular market in a way that is commercially feasible, but much more the "hey- wouldn't it be cool if it were possible to do this or that on the web" impulse.
If you sift through the business history of the first and second wave of the internet and try to analyze which companies ended up being successful, which companies were moped up as additional features to Yahoo! and bought out, and which companies simply failed, you find out that at the end of the day it's not at all about a new economy, it's about very old principles of
– servicing viable markets
- with a viable market proposition/value proposition
- and at an affordable price
in the widest sense of price, that is: convenience, access, time, budget and eventually price in dollars.
If we now look at what I like to call Web 3.0, that is, the commercial maturity of the social phenomena that we are observing with Web 2.0, then remembering that business history and applying the method of identifying customers for a market that are prepared to pay a given price, is a healthy mental exercise.
You'll allow me to refer to myself and my earlier Blog entry about the distinction between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 and briefly describe Web 2.0 as the discovery that the internet is not only a repository for information and data, and a network through which e-mail and chat communication can happen, but has become a medium where
the human source of information
and human source of opinion and entertainment becomes as accessible as the data that he/she has created, that is at the core of the Web 2.0 social revolution. And as any revolution, it creates a whole new set of social behavioural changes, business opportunities, political implications and essentially an entirely new medium- which incidentally is not only confined to the Blog or Social Network phenomenon.
Stating these now commonplace insights into Web 2.0 leads me to reflect upon the Web 3.0 phenomenon, that is the commercial viability of all of these changes. As described in my Blog entry, I believe strongly that this will be the era where the source of data and information, and essentially this means the
human individual as a source of expertise,
can more and more market that expertise in many different ways- either
- by being accessible as an expert or
- by offering more in depth information or
- services related to the information
- transactions / products related to the information
for any kind of currency (this may be a social reward or a commercial reward/payment) in a variety of models that can range from subscription to micro-payments or even other forms of transaction that we may not yet even imagine (my informed hunch is "subscription" will mean many different rental models that are being imagined right now). As of now, the main focus of business endeavour in the Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 transition era, is to create and monetize exactly these kinds of platforms- much in the way that sevenload is doing for the video world.
In the future, business focus will be to harness the technologies, communication methods and social behaviour of Web 3.0 to create new value and new markets, thereby disrupting existing business structures. Increasingly, this will be achieved by individuals and small companies rather than larger companies.
The challenge is to identify these markets beyond advertising. If we look at what is happening right now in the Web 2.0 sphere, it is essentially one giant cannibalization of the editorial market, trying to supplement old media and replace them with "Facebook-", "MySpace-", and "YouTube-" (new) models of broad- and selfcasting and interaction with the user. That will, of course, be successful, but it is hardly imaginable that more than a productivity or effiency increase of more than 25-35% (maybe even 40% or 50% through better targeting) with relation to the advertising market can be sustained.
Even more market volume may be created by opening the advertising market to new segments that, until now, had a high cost barrier towards advertising, for example in the Long Tail of smaller and mid-sized companies, or in niche markets which had to rely on direct marketing because there was no medium for them to address at sales efficient cost on a large scale.
This disruption of the advertising marjet is of course fueled by the radically changed cost-dynamics of Web 2.0 platforms and the possibility to address the long-tail of content and offering highly specific audiences to as specific advertisers.
This opening of niche markets for advertising may one day – probably soon to come – come as far as user groups and communities centered around exotic topics such as the nuts and bolts of drilling joints (or something similar).
But by and all, if advertising is the only focus of what is happening right now, there will inevitably be a crunch at the moment of realization that there is just not enough money in these markets to create hundreds of new billion dollar companies. Even though a return to the Nuclear Winter of The Internet of 2001-2003 seems unlikely, it is highly probable that we will have a structurally similar shake-down and that just one or two more Yahoo!(s) or Google(s) will crop up, having found the holy grail of
on-demand fully trackable horizontal niche long tail CPA advertising
By the way, addressing that advertising market will also have to overcome a formidable opponent which is very well positioned to address the long-tail of advertising, and that is Google.
My point in this Blog post is that there have to be, and there will be business models beyond advertising and they are starting to emerge. Essentially these will be transaction based and will be centered either around the handling of goods in an e-commerce sense (that is already being seen in a number of start-ups) for example, by itravel, but there will also more and more be transaction platforms centered around services, much in the sourcing logic mentioned above.
The sum of these developments is what I call "viral social commerce". It is viral in the sense that its dynamics of growth/expansion are very much word-of-mouth and very much based on the social phenomena of Web 2.0.
*I might add, that these phenomena are not new, word-of-mouth has always been the most powerful marketing instrument, it's just that technology has enabled it to travel at light-speed, where before it was at a horse carriage pace.
It is social in the sense that, not only communication, but also increasingly parts of the production process and the definition of the product/service offered will be defined not by an entity that is producing it, but rather by a group of people or a community that adds a significant part of the value that is being created. An example for that is again itravel, where the travel community creates a lot of the product knowledge and even product sourcing that is necessary to create its catalogue of once-in-a-lifetime-experiences. Another example is ChariTees, where the community sources not only the designs, but also decides which designs will appear on t-shirts and also decides which institution would benefit from that part of the proceeds of ChariTees that is being spent on charity.
The commerce part of the "viral social commerce" idiom, reflects on what I was describing at the beginning of my post, namely that this is more than a social communication phenomenon and it is also more than pure interaction, it is in essence a whole new commercial dimension to what happens in our increasingly web-enabled society.
Viral social commerce is, for me, the essence of what will happen with Web 3.0. In my next post, I will describe how companies can confront this development and attain competitive advantages by harnessing them.
Watch out for the new startups on the blo(g)ck! It's totally exciting to watch the startups of which I'm an angel investor evolve.
http://beta.sevenload.de launched 5 weeks ago and is at 250.000+ downloads of photos and videos… a day!
http://www.qype.de is growing fast and one of the hottest startups in the media
http://www.oneview.de is the original (yes, the original) to deli.cious and the only web 1.0 startup "rebooted" in web 2.0 – stay tuned!
http://www.itravel.de has a community in stealth mode and will become the hottest travel and social commerce play since ebay – that's what I believe – meanwhile, check out the trips, they're great – and real!
I missed the reboot because I was in Paris, but I hear it rocks. Hope to learn more soon.


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Solar Nap [1]
300 years ago, the Sun woke up from a lengthy "nap." For seven decades, almost no sunspots had marred its surface. That hasn't happened since, but it's almost certain to happen again.
Sunspots are dark magnetic storms. Their number typically waxes and wanes over a period of about 11 years. At the peak of this cycle, there may be hundreds of sunspots at a time.
But from 1645 to 1715, the Sun's surface remained almost unblemished. In some of those years — a period known as the Maunder Minimum — astronomers recorded no sunspots at all.
No one knows why the Sun became so docile. But evidence gathered from tree rings and ice cores, as well as observations of stars that are similar to the Sun, suggest that it happens every few centuries.
That's particularly intriguing because the Maunder Minimum coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age — a time when parts of Europe, North America, and other regions were especially frigid. The lack of sunspots may have corresponded with a tiny drop in the Sun's total energy output, which combined with other factors to chill our planet by a degree or so.
The current sunspot cycle, which peaked a year ago, is the weakest in more than a century. And some scientists predict that the next one could be weaker still. In fact, some have even speculated that we could be heading into a new Maunder Minimum. And even if we're not, there's little doubt that the Sun eventually will nod off for another long nap.
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Earn Kidz Rewards!
Buy classes now, save on classes later.
If you're a Kidz Central Station member, you can earn points through the Kidz Rewards program by purchasing and reviewing classes and activities! Points can be redeemed and used toward future purchases made on the site—the more classes you buy, the more you save!
Here's how it works:
- Earn 500 bonus Reward Points when you sign up for an account
- Make a purchase with a total value of $1–$499: Earn 1 point per $1
- Make a purchase with a total value of $500 or more: Earn 2 points per $1
- Review a class or activity: Earn 100 points
Rewards can be redeemed when you reach the following point amounts:
- 2,500 Reward Points = $25 KCS credit
- 5,000 Reward Points = $50 KCS credit
- 7,500 Reward Points = $75 KCS credit
- 10,000 KCS Reward Points = $100 KCS credit
Remember, to earn Kidz Rewards you must be a Kidz Central Station member. So sign up now (it's FREE!)!
When will my Kidz Rewards be available?
Points are awarded once a purchase is completed and confirmed. Points are not awarded for cancellations or refunds. Please allow up to five business days after the first day of the purchased class/activity for points to appear in your account. Once you have earned enough points to earn a Kidz Rewards credit, you will be prompted to use your credit when purchasing your next class or activity.
How do I review a class and earn points?
Give a shout out to your kids' favorite providers! Create an account on Kidz Central Station and write a review of any class or activity they (or you) have attended. Once your review has been verified and approved, points will be awarded. Please allow up to five business days after posting for points to appear in your account.
How do I check how many points I have?
Log in to your Kidz Central Station account and your Kidz Rewards balance will be displayed on the homepage. For a more detailed view, choose Kidz Rewards in the drop down menu under your account.Search Classes and Camps