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win98 message at boot 'floppy disk[s] failed [40]'.
in power management setup error message is 'floppy dish disabled'.
please help.
Make sure the floppy controller is enabled in cmos/bios setup. Make sure the drive is properly identified there--probably a 1.44. Make sure the cable is in good condition and tightly connected. Make sure it's properly connected--the red-striped edge of the cable connects to the # 1 pin side of both the drive and motherboard connector.
Floppy disk fail (40) is an error indicating that you have your BIOS set to the wrong floppy type than the floppy drive that you have. Change it to match and the error will go away. Change either the BIOS settings or the drive itself.
I use this error to weed out the 1.2 meg 5.25 drives from my 360K 5.25 drives - it never fails to indicate the incorrect drive setting. That is what it is for.
thanks dave,
which side is the #1 pin on ?
how can i tell the #1 pin?
If the floppy cable is connected wrong, the LED on the floppy drive will light up & stay lit. If that's not happening, the cable is probably connected correctly & your BIOS settings are wrong.
Look closely at both edges of the cable. One edge will have a red stripe running the length of the cable. That side connects to the # 1 pin side of the connectors. Also, the cable may have one of the holes filled in to match a missing pin on the motherboard and drive connections. That will be toward the # 1 pin side also. But if yours is that way then it'll only connect one-way anyway.
As mentioned above, the cable is likely connected OK but since you didn't give any history of what happened to it I thought it best to list all the possibilities.
The pin header on the drive itself and motherboard will often have a 1 and 2 on one side and 33 and 34 on the other to let you know which side the red stripe should go to. Those numbers will be on the circuit board so small you may not notice them at first.
With my aging eyesight, I'll often take a marker and wipe a nice dark line on the drive's case at the #1 side so it's no brainer from then on.


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The Ardern-effect continues to cast its spell, even more so since the announcement of her pregnancy. Despite that, the Government faces real policy challenges in the coming months and its challenge will be to build on the present positive energy as it grapples with the policy challenges it faces in the coming months.
However, it is slowly becoming apparent that there is more to Ardern than the feel-good factor. She is an unusually instinctive politician who can read the right approach for the right groups of people (Ardern would not call them stakeholders or audiences). Her deft handling of Waitangi was a case in point with her breaking from tradition in a number of small but significant ways and being rewarded for it. Expect to see her use this same skill as the country heads into winter (and the Government's first Budget). As expected, money will be tight and expectations high. The challenge of meeting those expectations is only likely to be increased by the possibility of a cooling world economy.
To date, the Government has moved relatively deftly, carefully calibrating the mandate it has and ensuring it does not unduly frighten the business community. It has signed up to the updated Trans-Pacific Partnership and it is only now looking at an aspect of immigration policy – post study work rights for international students. Its restrictions on overseas buyers purchasing residential property are blunt and questionable in policy terms, but likely to be popular with the electorate.
The biggest immediate challenges facing this Government are in housing and transport. It is in these policy areas that the National Opposition is posing the most questions. Voters want to see more houses. Those who already own houses don't want to see their value diminished. In transport, there is a complex web of central and local government costs associated with light rail and the out-of-Auckland provincial demands for major roading projects.
Māori will judge the Ardern-Government by different criteria. At Waitangi the Prime Minister invited Māori to judge her Government's performance. Māori want negative social indicators reversed and the fraught issue of water ownership addressed. Successive Governments have foundered on both.
The arbitrary timeline of the first 100 days are over. The spending has occurred and promises have either been delivered or some progress made. Key among these promises is the tertiary education free-fees and increased allowance package worth $360 million in the first year, an increase in the minimum wage to $16.50 from April 2018, a ban on overseas purchasers buying existing houses and Employment Relations Act amendments providing for collective bargaining, provision for meal and rest breaks and limiting the use of 90 day trial periods to businesses with fewer than 20 employees.
The Government has established 10 inquiries and working groups. Among them are a tax working group, an Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, an Interim Climate Change Committee and a Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse in state care. These are complex issues, and taking time to properly investigate policy solutions is a good idea. The plethora of inquiries and working groups does create downstream risks for the Government though – the reports and outputs of those groups will need to be acted upon, possibly leading to difficult budgeting decisions in the coming years.
The Government has backed off some policies based on official advice and political pragmatism. There's a pick-up in legislation introduced to Parliament. It has introduced legislation to set a child poverty reduction target and to change the Public Finance Act so the Budget reports progress on child poverty.
The Government is continuing to work at speed.
And it seems to be working with voters, at least so far. The latest Newshub Reid poll sees Labour's support at its highest since 2007 on 42.3 percent. National continues to lead on 44.5 percent. Labour's eight percent rise comes at the expense of New Zealand First, which is repeating the experience of gaining power but losing its independent voice. The consequences of this are inevitable and have been played out before.
Budget 2018
But with the preparation for this Government's first budget now underway, there are tough decisions to be made. Labour has an ambitious programme and there are cost pressures including significant public sector wage claims. Officials say the money has been spent in the first 100 days. Labour will find more, by repaying debt at a slower pace, but the Government's finances are tight. Finance Minister Hon Grant Robertson is working to manage and even lower expectations among colleagues as he juggles the spending bids from Ministers and coalition partners in his first budget to be read on 17 May. Ministers have been asked to go line by line through their budgets and prioritise. There will be cuts to expenditure – in some departments cuts are being sought of up to 5%. In many ways this is a similar story to the one that played out in the first years of the last National Government. The difference here is that Labour is looking to find savings to spend on other (social) programmes. The well-flagged cancellation of National's tax cuts has been met with little fuss. Dampening wage expectation in the public sector is going to be a particular challenge.
NZ First delivers to its base
Finalising Budget 2018 will also see tensions between Labour and NZ First come to the fore. NZ First will be looking to extract its price for enabling a Labour-led Government. Expect the Budget to deliver funding for NZ First's showcase policy, the Regional Performance Fund. This is set to include two all-weather horse racing tracks, hardly a serious contributor to regional performance.
When the Rt Hon Winston Peters announced the tracks at the Karaka yearling sales Grant Robertson called the track talk a 'budget bid.' Mr Roberston's challenge will be in ensuring that the successful 'bids' for Regional Performance Fund dollars are real contributors to a step change in the regional economy, rather than 'pork barrel' politics.
Mr Peters is also openly lobbying for more funding for MFAT and New Zealand's overseas aid budget.
The Greens' economic model
Meanwhile, Associate Finance Minister James Shaw has signalled that the Government's confidence and supply partner will be using new models of economic thinking that balance economic and environmental and social outcomes to guide decision making.
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Despite the pressures, and mindful of a fall off in business confidence, the Government has repeated that it will stick to its Budget Responsibility Rules and will continue to reduce net debt as a proportion of GDP.
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The Painter
The other day I was thinking about change. Sometimes it's very easy to change something. Your shoes, the clock, your gas tank's status. These things might seem effortless, but try sticking a newborn next to a gas pump and let's see if he does anything but coo or cry. I'd probably bank on the crying with that environment around him.I'm not a painter, but I've wanted something painted before. If I had brought that desire to fruition, I might have contacted an "official" painter and asked them to paint whatever it was I wanted. I imagine the process would have looked something like this:
Customer walks into Painter's studio timidly, Painter, confident of his ability, welcomes Customer.
Customer: I'd like this messed up, scratched and dirty canvas turned into something beautiful. I can imagine it and I know just what it's supposed to look like, but I'm not a painter. It's been sitting in my attic for a while now and I know it's time to let it be used for how it was created to be used.
Painter: Oh yes, I know exactly what to do.
Painter then takes the canvas and begins transforming it to be the work of art it is supposed to be. He knows exactly what to do and exactly what detail to put in or take out. It takes him months, but once his final stroke is brushed, the canvas is finished. He returns it to Customer, revealing it's completely renovated state. Customer is amazed, for it is exactly what she hoped for.I can't imagine this change, and sometimes, can't tell a difference from day to day. He does though. The Creator always know exactly what he is creating. I think I should trust the painter to finish the work, for He loves His work and wants it to shine and glow.
I think this is our hearts. Father reminded me the other day that I can't see the change I want so badly for my own heart. I can't even fathom it. I can choose to trust His ability to change me though. He's much more trained than I.
Someone recently led me to read something written to the people of Corinth, the 2nd letter. "..and we all are being transformed into the same image, from one degree of gl*ry to another. For this comes from Father."
Day by day, hour by hour, I'm asking him to keep brushing, keep using beautiful colors to cover the dark and dingy spots I allow to creep onto my canvas, continue to change, and never stop shaping that thing that was once left alone in the attic, into something worth hanging on the wall.
I trust the Painter, for He sees the beauty.
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jethker! i loved your painting story! how inspiring…i'm glad to hear you're doing SO well away from here and over there! pretty soon, i will know a little bit of the struggles you are facing due to being away! but i trust the painter too…He's always been faithful. 🙂
Beautiful! Father has gifted you with words and I loved reading this, friend. The picture you 'painted' with your words is a perfect illustration of our Painter and us as the canvas!
LOVE you 🙂


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The purpose of this project was to provide consultative services to health care organizations in the State of Vermont on the purpose and role of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). In providing a thorough overview of the CNL role including their improvements to patient care and care delivery, the desired impact was an increase in utilization of CNLs in pre-existing practice settings. Education was provided to three health care organizations in the State of Vermont. The post evaluation forms collected from participants of the consultative services highlighted an overwhelming interest in having their health care organizations actively or further pursue CNL use in their practice settings. Outcomes from the presentation highlighted strong rationale for continued consultative services at other organizations throughout the State of Vermont.
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"Stories!?!? About ME!!??" I squeal. "Of course!"
Although you can find her entry here. Please go read her entry, it's hilarious, but in an effort to make this easier for you, the reader, I will quote the her in spots for an easy flow for my response.
First the backstory: I spent the years of 14 to about 28 either onstage, rehearsing for a play, or figuring out how to get myself in a play. It was like living my entire life as Lucy Ricardo. It was good times. This is how I met The Crib Chick, fifteen years old in Drama I at Armpit High School.
On to my response...
...the old lady in 'Star Spangled Girl' that I think was the most fun. I know
what those of you who are familiar with Neil Simon are thinking. You're
thinking, "Um, Crib Chick...the old lady (I can't even remember her name, that's
how meaningful it was for me) was just talked about...she didn't actually appear
onstage." Well, she did in our version. And it was loads of fun. No dialogue to
memorize, just wacky props and costumes, and a gray wig. It was visionary.
Mrs. Mackeninny. Thank me later.
Picture it, OCU Children's Theatre, circa 1988. The Birthday Lady and The Big Blue Bunny charmed young theatre goers as the mascots of children's theatre.
On this particular day, the Educat was the Birthday Lady, lucky dog, and the Big
Blue Bunny was none other than yours truly. During one of our breaks, we decided
to descend to the basement dressing area, probably (again, I have a foggy
memory) so that the Birthday Lady could wrestle off my Big Blue Head, and I
could swear, and whine. Because the Big Blue Bunny suit was not new, friends.
Nor was it cool and breathable. Nor was it impossible to escape the odor which
was a constant reminder that you were not the first Big Blue Bunny. So, as we
began our trek down the stairs, I found myself tripping, probably because
wearing Big Blue Bunny feet to go down stairs, I found myself tripping,
probably because wearing Big Blue Bunny feet to go down stairs is akin to trying
to navigate them in skis. So I began to fall, trapped within my furry prison,
and helpless to realign myself, paws waving frantically. It was then that the
Educat grabbed me by the scruff of my furry blue neck, and through sheer brute
strength, hauled my blue furry behind to stability. I blinked at her, through
the ridiculous Blue Bunny face makeup; "You saved my life." And so she had.
I always thought I envied that Mrs. Chick got to be the Bunny. All the kids loved the fantastical Bunny, but I was just some silly girl in a 1980's Eagle's Eye skirt and sweater set. My mother loved them but I know I looked horrificly dorky. I wasn't a Bunny, and my mother dressed me funny. I was able to suddenly roll back my Bunny envy when I myself donned the big blue costume. I too surfed down a set of stairs in the huge bunny feet and all of the sudden, my teddy bear skirt and sweater held more appeal. My friend, I would save your life again.
My favorite (play), though? Gosh, I don't know. Educat, what's my favorite play?
Your favorite play is The Crucible, starring Educat and Anabaptist Monk (this is a huge joke, The Monk and I were Francis and Rebecca Nurse. He had about three lines and although the other characters talked about Rebecca quite a bit, her major stage time occurred at the end when she was hanged.). You also liked A Shayna Maidel. I played a dead woman. I was stunning.
Maybe if we prod her, the Educat will tell us the story about our co-star in
'The Haunted Maples'. That young man went on to great things. ;o)
Our greatest moment in children's theatre occurred in this production. Rather than dress up in silly animal costumes before the show, we dressed up like silly little boys and had actual lines. It was a dream come true. We two high school kids were in a college play! In the tradition of Russian children's theatre, the little boy characters were played by girls and Babba Yagga, the traditional witch in these fairy tales, was played by a man in drag. Who was that man in drag? Remember the 1997 scandal involving the film The Tin Drum? The fated movie watcher was none other than our Babba Yagga. I have since visited with Mike at a reception and was able to use my best conversation opener thus far: "You know, I bet I am the only person here who doesn't know you from renting a movie."
What a good time in the wayback machine! Thank you, my good friend. My thoughts here actually begin to set up my next entry...


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When it comes to making a kids-only garden, half the fun is in the designing. Here's where your backyard reflects your family's own style, your garden's conditions, and your region's climate. There are plenty of resources to advise you on the last two, but you're the expert when it comes to creating a garden that matches your family's personalities.
Brainstorm together. Try to use some part of everyone's ideas -- even if your kids claim they want a three-story tree house and a pond that has a cave you can only get to by swimming underwater -- all on your 30x30-foot suburban lot. Maybe you compromise a tad with a delightful 5x5x10-foot playhouse with vines growing up three sides and a circulating "waterfall" from the top deck to a pond below. Okay, maybe it means a twig-made dome planted with vines beside a lined half-barrel "pond." The pond features floating water plants, gold fish, and a "treasure chest" on a chain that they can drop in and pull out of the water. Your kids will love it. What they're saying is they want a lookout and a hideaway. Scale is negotiable.
The best words of advice for a first garden is to start small (and add on or up). Even beloved children's book character, Mary Lennox, stuck flowers in little beds before she boldly asked her uncle, "Might I have a bit of earth?" Then she revived "The Secret Garden."
One easy design is to divide one-foot-squares with paths, adding as many as you'd like in whatever pattern suits your spot. The paths can be made of stones, bark mulch, newspaper covered with straw, or even boards. Kids plant something different in each square. The design is tidy and manageable.
Circular gardens are fun, too. Slice them, pie-fashion, with the paths.
Once you have your basic shape, sketch it out on graph paper with one square equaling one foot. First add paths, and next draw any structures you're dreaming of (see Chapter 4). Perhaps a theme will dictate your design (see chapter 5). Choose the plants last. But before you do, here are some practical landscape considerations to think about as you fill that bit of earth:
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Celebrating the Musical Life of B.B. King
When we lost B.B. King on May 14, 2015, it was one of those earth-shattering, catastrophic events that make everyone take notice. Even those with zero affinity for blues music or guitar players could feel that something momentous and sad and never-to-be regained had occurred that day.
We lost a man who was such a tireless evangelist of the blues—and music in general—and one of the last surviving links to the plantations of Mississippi and its musical chroniclers of woe and hope. But King was so much more than a living history of war-era blues music. He also adored jazz, and he studied and read and practiced and lived in order to bring more depth to every note he played. He delighted in performing for young, white hippies in the '60s—when his act expanded into pop culture— and, somehow, he evolved beyond the love-ins, folk fests, and dance halls, and continued to thrill audiences of all types until shortly before his death. It seemed like he was always with us—whether he was slightly under the radar, or scoring huge pop hits such as Riding With the King with Eric Clapton in 2000.
Even as his musical powers diminished in his last years, his jovial, unbowed spirit could still inspire fans. He seemed to truly live for music. But his skill as a player and his history weren't the only reasons people revered him. He was also humble. Approachable. A charismatic celebrity, and, in later life, a very rich man, but one without all the star trips and entitled behavior. He was witty and kind and a gracious teacher to all who sought his wisdom. He encouraged most every musician he met. He probably wasn't a saint, but he appeared to be as close to one as an earthbound mortal could be. These are some of the reasons why his death had such resonance, and why, even a few months later, his absence is still felt so deeply.
The GP staff struggled a bit with how exactly to pay tribute to such a beloved and important guitarist. A man who—much like the mission of this magazine since 1967— worked tirelessly to bring the joy of guitar playing to as many lives as possible.
The answer was right in our archives.
King had been a huge part of the extended Guitar Player family from the beginning. We first featured him in 1969, and continued talking with him well into the 2000s (his last cover feature was October 2000). He's in our Gallery of the Greats, and the great man would occasionally stop by the office to jam back in the magazine's early days.
So while other publications can publish retreads of King's biography that, no matter how well written, can't mask that the facts can be found online and myriad other places, Guitar Player possesses decades of transcripts where B.B. talks directly to us (and you) about the music he made, his gear, his influences, his technique, and more.
And we want to share that with you now. We want B.B. himself to tell you the story of his life.
We can't publish everything we have in our archives in one issue, of course. (Someday, I promise we'll figure out a way to make our entire archival resources available online.) We hope we've selected some of the best bits for you to read here. Long live the memory of B.B. King!
—Michael Molenda
"The first electric guitar player I heard in person was when I saw a sanctified preacher named Archie Fair in the hills of Mississippi. He was my uncle's brother-inlaw. I must have been about seven or eight years old. He'd visit my uncle, and when it was time for the adults to go in the kitchen for dinner—the kiddies ate later, if we were lucky—he'd lay his guitar on the bed, and I'd crawl up and play with it. One day, he caught me and decided to show me a few chords: C, F, and G. Even today, I still use those same three chords a lot."
"The idea [to change my name] came from the local radio station where I was working, WDIA. I was singing some advertisements for Pepticon—one of those 'cure all' medicines. Later, I became a disc jockey with my own one-hour show, and they would call me the 'blues boy' or the 'boy from Beale Street.' A lot of times, they'd shorten it to 'B.B.,' and I liked that. It has stuck with me all this time."
"During the late 1940s, guitars hadn't really come into being, if you will. It was a bitch to try to get a good guitar at that time—just to try to get one. And when you did get one, you better hold onto it—don't loan it to nobody. If you did, they didn't come back. Nobody had any idea that the guitar would become what it is today. I've tried so many guitars through the years—you name them, I've probably had one. But when I found those Gibsons, that did it. That's like finding your wife forever. This is she! They had the ES-335, and then they had a new idea for the ES-355, so that's the one I've held onto."
"We used to be put down as blues singers. I've quite often said that if you were a black person singing the blues, you were black twice. And if you're a white person, you were black once. But my cousin Bukka White used to tell me, 'Dress neat and clean like you're going to try to borrow some money from a bank. When you're dressed up, the white people see you, and you look like a preacher or something like that, so you get by a little easier.' After that, I started a trend for my own band. I got used to dressing up, and I liked it."
"My first Lucille was a little black Gibson acoustic guitar, and I used a DeArmond pickup on it to electrify. My first amplifier—the very first one I ever had—was a little Gibson amp with something like an 8" or 10" speaker in it."
"Musicians influence me by how they phrase. Even though they may be in different categories— some are jazz and some are blues— when I hear their phrasing, each note seems to say something to me. And it doesn't have to be 64 notes to a bar. Just one note can tell me a whole lot."
"I believe that your sound comes from within you, because I can do that with almost any amp. You can manufacture a sound by having a wah-wah pedal or something, but the actual sound comes from within you. You know, if you have a piano sitting out in the lounge or someplace, and Ray Charles is playing it, he's going to sound like Ray Charles. If Elton John is playing it, he's going to sound like Elton. My point is that it's your touch and your soul that makes it sound the way it does."
"Let's put it this way: I won't say I invented [fingerstyle , perpendicular-to-the-neck] vibrato, but they weren't doing it before I started [laughs]. I will say that I'm still trying. Bukka White and quite a few other people used bottlenecks. But I have stupid fingers. If I get something like that in my hand and try to use it, it just won't work. So my ears told me that when I trilled my hand, I'd get a sound similar to the sound they were getting with a bottleneck. And so for about 33 years, I've been trying to do it, and now they tell me that I'm doing a little better."
"I cannot play and sing at the same time. I just can't do it—I've never accompanied myself. I've always been featured from the very beginning. I still can't play rhythm worth anything, because I never had the chance to really play in a rhythm section. But I know a few chords."
"Each person has their own idea of what they want something to sound like, and you can't tell anybody how something should sound to them. But I will say that if something doesn't sound good to you, you can bet it won't sound good to others. Now, if you don't care what it sounds like to others, then you aren't going to make any money or pay your bills."
"I was at the Apollo Theater one time, and a critic gave me one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever given me. He said, 'B.B. King sings, and then Lucille sings.' That made me feel very good, because I do feel that I'm singing when I play. That's why I don't play a lot of notes like some people. Maybe that's the reason most of my music is very simple—that's the way I sing. When I'm playing a solo, I hear me singing through the guitar."
"I'm kind of in a hurry when I record, but Eric takes good time doing it. He makes sure that each detail is worked out the way he thinks it should be. I would trust him completely. If it was something he felt that we—as a whole— didn't do like he thought we could do it, he'd mention it. We'd go back and do it over. He knew what he wanted. It was Eric's idea to revisit some of my old songs like 'When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer,' 'Ten Long Years,' 'Three O'clock Blues,' and 'Days of Old.' When we first talked about doing a record together, I said, 'Eric, I trust you with the songs. You choose them, and if I have a problem with anything, we'll talk about it.' He brought up tunes I had forgotten about. They say elephants have long memories? None of them has a memory like Eric! He was never demanding, and we always talked frankly to each other. Like I said, he knew what he wanted. I didn't [laughs]. I had no problem with any of the tunes Eric brought in, except one: "Come Rain or Come Shine." Ray Charles sang that, you know, so I didn't think I could do it justice. I feel that I'm quite limited, and I don't like to go beyond what I think I'm pretty good at. But Eric said, 'B., I can hear you doing it.' So we recorded it, and, sure enough, when I heard the results, I agreed with him. I think we did a very good job. I told Eric he's like my lady—he can get me to do things I'd never do!"
"I've heard some people say that I'm not playing blues anymore. Okay, so what am I playing? I'm playing B.B. King-style blues, and I play it the way I feel it. I'm not trying to please anybody but the audience and myself. I hope everybody else likes it, but if they don't—well, the critics have to eat, too."
"In my room, you'd be surprised at all the things I try, but I never go out on a limb onstage—no, no, no. I make enough mistakes. The guys in the band always tease me. But I've learned through these many years of being out there that if you make a mistake, work something into it, so that it's not a mistake."
"Many guitarists are so technical that everything is so right there. That's good— it shows that you practice. But when a guy lives what he's doing, you can feel it. I can't tell you what I'm listening for, but when I hear it, I know it. The people who I listened to in the early years—T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian— all lived their music."
"The big mistake about people in the blues is they seem to think you have to be high, completely smashed, or stoned out of your head to be able to play the blues. And I don't think a guy has to wear patched trousers, either. That image is what people seem to put on us, and it's wrong. Blues music is like any other kind of music. Some of us excel, and some of us don't. Some of us are really able to please people, and some of us can't. But we all have the blues—red, white, black, brown, yellow, rich or poor. You can be successful and still have the blues. I have been fortunate, and yet now I have more to sing about than I ever did before. I look around and read the papers, and I see what's happening in this country and around the world. There are money troubles. Food is running low is some places. There are oil problems. I go to the prisons and see what's happening there. I think of my people—the ones I left behind in Mississippi, and all the people in all the Mississippis. We are part of each other, you know. When one person is hurt, it hurts me, too. When I see their condition, I know what they feel, and I feel it. And it hurts."
"In the early years, I thought that everybody seemed to get a break but me. I wasn't bitter about it. I figured they got a break because they deserved it. But I thought I did, too. Finally, when the kids started to play blues, they opened up a lot of doors for B.B. King. I pray on it sometimes, and I say, 'Thank God—better late than never.' But I was never bitter. I don't feel I have a reason or a right to be bitter. No, I didn't get the recognition I thought I deserved, but why should I be bitter about it? You can't make people love you [laughs]. They love you if they want to. That's the way life is."
President Obama joins in singing "Sweet Home Chicago" during the "In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues" concert in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 21, 2012. Participants include (from left): Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks, B.B. King, and Gary Clark, Jr.
The world was so saddened by King's passing that scores of tributes flooded the airwaves and social media. Here's a sampling of some of those remembrances from GP readers, rock stars, and politicians.
B.B. King was the greatest guy I ever met. The tone he got out of that guitar—the way he shook his left wrist, the way he squeezed the strings. Man, he came out with that and it was all new to the whole guitar playing world. He could play so smooth—he didn't have to put on a show. The way B.B. did it is the way we all do it now. He was my best friend, and a father to us all. I'll miss you, B., and I promise I will keep these damn blues alive!
There's not a lot left to say, because his music is almost a thing of the past now. There are not many left to play it in the pure way that B.B. did. He was a beacon for all of us who love this kind of music, and I thank him from the bottom of my heart. B.B. King: Live at the Regal is where it all started for me as a young player.
To say that the loss of B.B. King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement. He defined the blues. He was the blues. He brought blues to an audience that would never have found the blues if B.B. was not the conduit. Never again will there be another as good, gracious, or as kind as Mr. King.
B.B. was one of the last of the great pioneers in the tradition of Chicago blues. Guitar as we know it wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for B.B. and his peers.
B.B. King is the most important electric guitar player for me that ever walked the planet.
No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues. He was an ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world.
In the fall of 1970, some fellow bandmates and I drove the four hours to Chicago to see B.B. King at a wonderful dinner club called Mr. Kelly's.
After the show, he was sort of hanging around in front of the stage, so I took that opportunity to talk to him. I told him I had been trying to learn how to play the blues by listening to and playing along with many of his records, but, no matter what I did, I didn't sound like him. I asked him if it was because I'm white and I would just never get it. He laughed and said, "No man, that's got nothin' to do with it. Have you ever been treated bad by a girl?"
And I said, "Sure."
He said, "Well that's the blues. Now you put that feeling into your fingers."
A major light bulb went off, and suddenly I got it.
Then, he said, "Learn from the records, but don't try to copy. Take what you learn and make it your own, because that's what will keep the blues alive."
Those two things had a profound impact on how I perceived music and guitar playing, and influenced everything I did musically throughout my career.
GP reader
I met him in Fort Worth, Texas. He was there with U2. I was waiting at the hotel lobby, hoping to run into Bono, and instead, here comes B.B. King with a bodyguard. I was so excited. I got to shake his hand and he gave me his autograph. I asked him if I could hold Lucille. He laughed, and said, "You may." He took her off his shoulder, and I was so honored. I told him, "I just want to get a little bit of your magic is all." He laughed out loud, and as he walked away, he nodded and said, "Keep some of that magic!"
GP reader
Three things that B.B. King shared with me:
[1] "When you get on that stage, you're King Kong. The stage is yours and you should own it. But the minute you leave that stage, leave that ego and that attitude right there. Don't ever take it with you. No one wants to deal with someone who carries that ego around."
[2] "I will play the blues until the day I die. As long as I can pick up my guitar and play, I'll keep going."
[3] "Don't chase trends. Just do what you do—even when you have to wait it out for a time. Muddy Waters once told me that a musician is like a horse on a track. It might look like the others are leaving you behind— and they will for awhile—but soon they'll all come back around, and be right where you are once again."
GP reader
I saw B.B. perform more than 20 times, and he was always gracious, humble, and quite often hilarious. It was always like being around an old friend whenever I got to see him and chat. I'm a teacher, and he told me he always wanted to better himself. He loved to read, to listen to all kinds of music, and work on song arrangements on his laptop. Once, I told him that the teachers in my district in New York were going through some protracted contract negotiations, and he said, "If you teachers ever need me to help you, just give me and Lucille a call."
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I was on a school field trip when I was 12 years old, and Mr. King came into the Varsity in Atlanta for lunch. I wanted his autograph, but the only thing I had for him to sign was a newly purchased copy of the Beatles' Let It Be. He told me it was a great album, and he'd love to sign it for me.
JC=Jim Crockett, March 1975; AE=Andy Ellis, October 2000; DE=Dan Erlewine, June 1992; JO=Jas Obrecht, July 1991; LS=Lisa Sharken, March 1999; AT=Art Thompson, February 2000; TW=Tom Wheeler, September 1980.
Dan Erlewine checks out Lucille's specs in 1992.
Anyone who knows anything about B.B. King is aware of his famous story about Lucille…
"I was playing a hall in Twist, Arkansas [in 1949]," he told GP in 1969, "and these men got into a fight and knocked over a burning barrel of kerosene they were using for heat. The whole place caught fire, and I had to run back into the burning building to get my guitar. I learned the men had been fighting over a woman called Lucille, so I named my guitar "Lucille" to remind me never to do a fool thing like that again."
King has had many Lucilles since that "fool thing" occurred, and Guitar Player staffers were lucky enough to get their hands on one of his ladies twice to detail how he liked his guitars set up.
GP columnist Dan Erlewine got ahold of "Lucille the 15th" in January 1992, and did a "setup CSI" that revealed a neck width of 1.698" at the nut, and a fret size of .098" wide by .045" tall. The neck relief (measured at the 7th and 8th frets) was .030", which is a lot of relief. Erlewine stated that .015" would be more normal, but he declined to arouse King's ire by making a surreptitious trussrod adjustment.
Ten years later, in the November 2002 issue, we had another chance at studying Lucille, when GP columnist Gary Brawer examined it for his "Setups of the Stars." At this time, King was using a 1999 model built by Bruce Kunkel of the Gibson Custom Shop. The guitar was presented to King for his 70th birthday, and it had one modification as a deference to the bluesman's age—an output jack on the back to accommodate his then-current style of playing while sitting down. The corian nut still had the 1992 measurement, but the frets were now .092" wide by .050" tall—much higher and narrower than what you'd find on a vintage ES-355. Brawer found the neck on the 1999 Lucille to be almost straight.
For the March 1975 issue, King revealed to GP's then-publisher, Jim Crockett, the players he dug the most. Here they are—right from the bluesman's mouth. How many of them are you aware of, or have heard perform in recordings?
I'm a mixture of many people—not just guitarists. People like alto player Louis Jordan, trumpeter Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Bobby Hackett, Cleanhead Vinson. If you listen to Louis Jordan's phrasing, you'll hear B. B. King. I'm as much a jazz fan as I am a blues fan, and I like country and western music, too. Chet Atkins is a master guitarist. But among my very favorite guitar players are these ten men…
T.Bone Walker has a touch that nobody has been able to duplicate. He has a strange way of holding his guitar, slanting it away from him, instead of having it lay flat against his stomach. It's almost like he were playing a steel guitar, but he curls his left arm underneath and reaches his fingers up over the top. And he seems to kind of scrape his pick across the strings. How he's able to hit specific strings, I just don't know. And that touch! I've tried my best to get that sound—especially in the late '40s and early '50s. I came pretty close, but I never quite got it. T-Bone was the first electric guitar player I heard on record—from "Stormy Monday, around 1943 or 1944. He made it so I knew I just had to go out and get an electric guitar. T-Bone used a lot of horns, too—trumpet, alto, tenor, and baritone. They made a beautiful sound. That was the best sound I ever heard.
Blind Lemon Jefferson played acoustic guitar, and just solo, but his way of execution left you with the feeling that you could hear someone else backing him up. He had a special way of phrasing that I don't hear from many people today. Anyone can play 64 notes in a bar, but to place just one or two in that same bar in just the right place—or maybe even let one go by, then double up on it in the next bar—that's something special. Blind Lemon was my idol.
Johnny Moore was Oscar Moore's brother, and when Oscar was with Nat King Cole, Johnny played in a similar trio with Charles Brown, who played piano and sang. This was in the 1940s. When Charles decided to go on his own, Oscar left Nat and joined Johnny as a duo. Then, they got another singer/pianist. After a couple of years Oscar and Johnny split up. Oscar stopped traveling and Johnny rejoined Charles Brown. But I remember seeing Oscar and Johnny playing together in Los Angeles. It was like meeting gods! Johnny used a big Super 400. He used to like to put in quite a few chord changes when he was playing—things like big, fat 9th chords. They were really modern changes, but they always fit what he was doing. He would slide into his chords sometimes—giving a good, bluesy, feeling to a ballad.
Bill Jennings used to play in Louis Jordan's band, Tympany Five. I first heard him on "Ain't that Just Like a Woman." Later, Louis featured him on tunes like "Salt Pork, West Virginia." I have lifted a lot of things from him. His rhythm was so even and so driving. You know, once you start a beat to going real good, keep it. That's what Bill did so well. So many guys back then were so good that if you listen to those old recordings today, they're still good.
Big Joe Williams is another great one. His playing with Sonny Boy Williamson was beautiful. Tunes like "Baby Please Don't Go" were really setting a pace.
Lightnin' Hopkins was another style setter. Blues guitarists have to all come through players like Big Joe and Lightnin'. It's much the same reason why lady singers have to come through Bessie Smith, and, later, Dinah Washington. Big Joe and Lightnin' covered everything.
Charlie Christian was amazing. I first heard him around 1941. There were these vending machines then—like jukeboxes but with films. You put in a dime or quarter, and you could see the most popular people of the day. That's how I first saw Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Louis Jordan, and that's how I saw Charlie Christian. To me, Charlie Christian was a master at diminished chords—a master at new ideas, too. He was kind of like a governor on a tractor. If a tractor is bogging down in the mud, the governor will kick in and give it an extra boost. Christian was the same way. When the band would hit the bridge, he would keep the whole thing flying, and get it really taking off. Charlie didn't fluff notes much, either. A lot of us slide into notes because we aren't sure. Like if you want to hit a Bb, you hit a B, and slide down into it, or hit an A and slide up. But Charlie Christian knew. He was so sure. It really bugs me when someone plays a little flat or a little sharp. All notes that you play in my band have to relate to the actual pitch. Like if the pitch of C were one inch wide, you can play at the outer edge of that inch, or at the inner edge. But if you get even a tiny bit outside of that inch, it bothers me. I always play right in the center. I may slide up or down, but I always land in that center.
Earl Hooker was the best slide guitarist I ever heard. He always knew exactly what he was doing. For instance, take a truck driver—tell him to park next to the curb, and he knows exactly where to put the rig. That's how Earl Hooker played.
Robert Nighthawk was Earl's teacher, and he was among the best. I can hear his playing in Earl Hooker. I was influenced somewhat by Robert, but only by his slide work. Earl Hooker, though, could get me both ways.
Lloyd Ellis is something else, man. The things he does are unbelievable. WesMontgomery carried his own chords as he soloed, and that's sort of what Lloyd does, but with rhythm. Lloyd, vibe player Red Norvo, and bassist Monk Montgomery [Wes' brother] had a drumless trio, but Lloyd's rhythm playing was so full that you'd swear you heard a drummer in there, too.
That's ten, but I could go on indefinitely. There's my cousin, Bukka White—a marvelous guitar player. Wes Montgomery was one of my favorite guitarists, too, and a good personal friend. Barney Kessel is another great player and friend, and so is Kenny Burrell. I never met Tal Farlow, but I love his playing so much that I feel we've known each other for years. Herb Ellis is another great one, and so is Muddy Waters—especially in his early slide work. Django Reinhardt can't be omitted, either—particularly some of his rare recordings with just a regular rhythm section. It's nice to think back to all the wonderful guitar players, but there are a lot of great ones coming up every day, and their playing will influence me, too, just as I hope that my playing will, in some small way, influence others.
For the September 2000 issue, King shared with GP Senior Editor Art Thompson his "rules of the road" for managing his group of musicians.
Everybody has an ego, but sometimes you don't see it—or they don't show it—so you have to be diplomatic. If you're what I call a "stiff boss," there's no gray area—either the band will get tired of you, or you'll get tired of them. I tell my musicians and everybody who works with me, "If there's something bothering you, let's talk about it. I'm not Lord, God, master, or any of that. I'm the bandleader and the guy that pays you."
It makes me happy when the guys are concerned enough to say to me, "How come we have to sound like that here? Why don't we try this?" I really welcome it, because if you can get everyone's ideas and put them together, it makes it better. One of the guys in my band has been with me for 21 years, and almost everybody else has been with me between ten and 15 years. There's no contract, though. There never has been. It's a handshake deal—my word, their word. Nobody has ever let me down, and I don't let them down. There have been times when I've paid them a month in advance, but they've always been there when I needed them. I've got the greatest bunch of guys that you could find.
Every household has to have some rules, though, and I have a few. You don't smoke, drink, or swear on the bandstand. I don't, so you don't. If you want to get drunk, do it in your room or someplace, but don't miss work. You don't fight, either. If you fight, you get fired. Another rule has to do with wives and girlfriends. A guy has to treat his lady like a lady when she's around us. It has been that way for 50 years.
A lot of the guys in my band are better musicians than me. Most of them read better and play better. The only thing I've got on them is age, and experience does come with age. That's the part that I ask them to respect. I tell my band, "It's like we're on a boat—if anyone opens a hole in it, we all sink."
The Guitar: Gibson B.B. King Signature Lucille.
The Amp: Lab Series. "I turn the Volume knob full up," said King, "the reverb is at 2, the treble is at 8, the bass at around 4, and the middle at 5. That's about it." King also liked Fender Twins.
Effects: "I don't use any pedals or nothing," said King. "It's just me and the strings and the amp."
Strings: Gibson B.B. King Blues strings, gauged .010, .012, .013, .024, .037, and .054. Although loyal to Gibson, King also started using Ernie Ball Skinny Top/ Heavy Bottom strings in 1992— gauged .010 or .011, .013, .017, .030, .045, .054—because he didn't like the wound G in the Gibson sets. "That's nice if you're playing jazz," he said, "but it's not the sound I'm looking for."


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Train from Chumphon to Kuala Lumpur
Train from Chumphon to Kuala Lumpur
I am looking at a train itinerary from Chumphon Thailand to Kuala Lumpur changing in Padang Besar. The train from Chumphon arrives at 8:53 and leaves Padang Besar at 10 am. My questions are:
1. Is this enough time to go through immigration and catch the train?
2. Does it behoove me to book theses tickets I'm advance online or is it easy to book at the station as I am travelling?
Thanks for any input!
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Hi Amber,
Yes, that is enough time for the changeover. (I'm assuming you mean it arrives at the border at 8:53!)
What time of year are you planning this? If in high season, yes I would book those in advance, even in off season, would be prudent (unless you have some flexibility in your travel plans).
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More to the point is the fact that the train may/ will be late arriving at the border so book the Thai train - definitely if you want a sleeper but do not book the Malaysian one
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Thanks for this info. I'm traveling mid April. If I don't book the Malaysian leg ( Padang Besar- KL) in advance, will it be easy to grab a ticket at the station on the spot?
Also, for booking the Thailand leg, I was thinking about using 12goasia. Has anyone had any experience with this agency?
Thanks again for the info!
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Beware mid April is songkran in Thailand and trains can be very difficult to get reservations. I always buy at the station in advance so have no experience of online but the state railway now do on line bookings check out man at seat 61.
Ask separately on the Malaysian forum about the need to book the long distance trains there if no answer here
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If 8.53 is Thai time and 10.00 is Malaysia time, won't that leave a margin of just seven minutes after allowing for the time difference? Not enough to get through Thai and Malaysian immigration and customs, even assuming the train from Chumphon arrives on time.
On the Malaysian side, if you don't need to reach KL on the same day you could probably get a ticket at short notice to somewhere like Alor Setar if all of the seats through to KL are fully booked.
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This is the point at which Avispa have to do something with their season. Having played Shonan, Kyoto and Ventforet away, and JEF, Verdy and Yamagata at home you could say we have played some tough teams in our poor opening to the season.
Despite this we are still not a huge gap away from the play-off zone and have a sequence of games which are much easier (on paper).
The first of these games is Toyama away, and following this we have 7 games that I think the club should be disappointed to get anything except a win from (Fagiano, Thespa, Giravanz, Matsumoto, Gifu, Yokohama, Ehime). They are clubs our 2 man midfield should be able to play against and if we can put a great run together now we would be firmly in the play-offs by the summer.
I don't know what will have happened with the travel this week. The club were up in Tochigi on Thursday night and it would seem easier to stay up there for the game 3 days later.
Avispa news
I think Sakata should be ready for a return to the starting squad this week after warming up against Tochigi, but that then asks who doesn't play.
Nishida has worked very hard after being given his chance. Jogo was fantastic as striker against Yamagata. Kihara did well on the wing given a starting place. I suspect that Kihara might drop down to the bench.
Suzuki and Sueyoshi will play in the middle, Naruoka will float around after nominally being on the left wing.
Kim is definitely out, Omata plays. I wouldn't be surprised to see Tsutsumi come into the middle for Hatamoto. Hatamoto has been great, but he is 19 years old and shouldn't be pushed too hard.
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Quite good news for Avispa as experienced defender Yosuke Ikehata is out suspended. Being a fast played with a giant leap he would have been a big problem at our terrible corner defending.
Elsewhere Kihara might be able to help with information about Korean midfielder Seo Yong-Duk as a colleague from Omiya, who will play with fellow loan player Hiraide from FC Tokyo in a team otherwise made up of players I'd hope we ere able to beat.
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NewZealand's Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has won silver?at the world championships in Anaheim, California finishing second in the women's super-heavyweights behind local favourite Sarah Robles.
It was the first time a New Zealander, male or female, had stood on the podium at the world championships, which have existed since 1891.
[…] The 39-year-old, who lived as a man for 35 years, was abused on social media before the championships, and many coaches were clearly unhappy with her presence.
Hubbard has had the benefit of performance-enhancing?testosterone to build body mass and muscle for 35 years. Those muscles did not disappear when he made the decision to become a she. If a biologically female athlete had been using testosterone for 35 years or even for a year she would not be allowed to compete. It is a travesty that biologically female athletes are being forced to compete against transgender women like Hubbard.
"When Sarah beat Hubbard in the snatch we were congratulated by multiple coaching staffs. Nobody wanted her to win."
Hubbard was eligible to compete because she complied with regulations on transgender athletes laid down by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), whose directives are followed by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
The regulations are unjust and will destroy women's sport. Hubbard should be able to compete in Men's competitions because biologically she is a man. Hubbard has the right to compete and Hubbard has the right to be called Laurel and to live life as a woman. Hubbard should not have the right to compete against biological women because he is not one.
"I don't think anybody was impressed with the whole situation," said Swords.
"I hope the IOC do something about it because this is really going to hurt our sport in the long run.? I'm not comfortable with it at all." […]
[…] In four international contests Hubbard has won three times and now finished second in the biggest event of the year, though she was helped by the absence of rivals from nine nations banned for multiple doping offences.
How ironic when for 35 years Hubbard has had the benefit of performance-enhancing testosterone.
Her total of 275kg would have earned her seventh place in the super-heavyweights, which were then +75kg, in the 2015 world championships, and?sixth place in the Rio Olympics.
A 40-year-old woman from Ecuador won a medal on Monday, and if Hubbard is keen to continue beyond next year's Commonwealth Games, in which she is ranked No 1 in her weight class, and can improve in her 40s she could be a contender at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games […]
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Royal DSM NV (DSM) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review
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Royal DSM NV (DSM) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company's businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company's key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.
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Royal DSM NV (DSM) is a science-based company with focus on materials, health and nutrition. It produces vitamins, carotenoids, nutritional lipids and other ingredients; specialty plastics; and fiber and resins solutions. DSM develops materials for medical devices and clean energy from crop residues and bio-chemicals. The company serves customers in animal nutrition and health, packaging and graphic arts, building and construction, pharma solutions, electrical and electronics, automotive, medical, personal care, energy, food, furniture, life protection, beverages and dietary supplements, marine, paint and coatings, manufacturing and equipment, sports, leisure and consumer goods, and textiles and clothing sectors. The company has operations across Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, and other regions. DSM is headquartered in Heerlen, the Netherlands.
Royal DSM NV Key Recent Developments
Mar 20,2018: AkzoNobel, DSM, Google and Philips receive first power from new Dutch wind farm Bouwdokken
Feb 15,2018: DSM Reports 2017 Results
Dec 11,2017: Syngenta's Chief Financial Officer Mark Patrick Joins Peers In Leading Way To Support Adoption Of Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
Dec 11,2017: DSM Announces Akulon and Novamid Polyamide 6 Price Increase
Nov 02,2017: DSM Reports Results First Nine Months 2017
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Royal DSM NV - History
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Head Office
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Joint Venture
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Company Overview
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Business Segment: Innovation Center
Business Segment: Materials
Business Segment: Nutrition
Geographical Segment: China
Geographical Segment: Eastern Europe
Geographical Segment: India
Geographical Segment: Japan
Geographical Segment: Latin America
Geographical Segment: North America
Geographical Segment: Rest of Asia
Geographical Segment: Rest of the World
Geographical Segment: Rest of Western Europe
Geographical Segment: The Netherlands
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Royal DSM NV - SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis - Overview
Royal DSM NV - Strengths
Royal DSM NV - Weaknesses
Royal DSM NV - Opportunities
Royal DSM NV - Threats
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Financial Ratios - Capital Market Ratios
Financial Ratios - Annual Ratios
Performance Chart
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Financial Ratios - Interim Ratios
Financial Ratios - Ratio Charts
Section 4 – Company's Lifesciences, Power Financial Deals and Alliances
Royal DSM NV, Petrochemicals, Deals By Year, 2012 to YTD 2018
Royal DSM NV, Petrochemicals, Deals By Type, 2012 to YTD 2018
Royal DSM NV, Recent Deals Summary
Section 5 – Company's Recent Developments
Feb 15, 2018: DSM Reports 2017 Results
Dec 11, 2017: Syngenta's Chief Financial Officer Mark Patrick Joins Peers In Leading Way To Support Adoption Of Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
Dec 11, 2017: DSM Announces Akulon and Novamid Polyamide 6 Price Increase
Nov 02, 2017: DSM Reports Results First Nine Months 2017
Aug 22, 2017: DSM Names Olivier Janin To Head Sales & Marketing DSM Dyneema
Jun 27, 2017: SunRISE TechBridge Challenge II winners announced by DSM, Fraunhofer TechBridge and Greentown Labs
Jun 14, 2017: Alpiq and the fine chemicals manufacturer DSM make secondary balancing power available to Swissgrid
May 02, 2017: DSM Q1 2017 Results
Apr 03, 2017: Royal DSM Opens New Biotechnology Center in Delft, the Netherlands
Mar 02, 2017: DSM Again Helps Startups Accelerate Innovations in Solar Materials Through Unique SunRISE Competition and Acceleration Program
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Royal DSM NV, Key Employees
Royal DSM NV, Key Employee Biographies
Royal DSM NV, Major Products and Services
Royal DSM NV, History
Royal DSM NV, Other Locations
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Royal DSM NV, Joint Venture
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Royal DSM NV, Performance Chart (2013 - 2017)
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