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Friday, September 18, 2009
Cabbage Soup
Really... this is good... really... I promise. It's the rosemary that makes this so good.
1 sm. head cabbage, cored and chopped in about 1" pieces
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. black pepper
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 yellow onion, chopped
2 cups rice milk or regular milk
6 cups vegetable stock
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. dried rosemary
In the bottom of a soup pot, sauté celery, onions, and pepper in butter until softened. Add cabbage and stir fry for a few minutes. Add milk and bring to a boil--just up to a simmer if using regular milk. Turn heat down and add vegetable stock and salt. Simmer.
Grind the rosemary with a mortar and pestle or finely chop in a food processor. Add to soup.
Continue simmering until cabbage is crisp-tender, or 10-15 minutes. Serve with croutons.
Serves 8
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The job of the Property Manager is a complex one: it takes the property professional into manifold situations, often very dissimilar one from the other, which require a wide vision in order to determine what added value can be achieved from a property asset.
When the Property Manager operates with a vacant building that requires major renovation works, he/she must prepare several technical and economic project solutions for the owners, for them to take their decision based on adequate information.
The case study here described is an office building that had one tenant only until one year ago; now the property is vacant.
The building is in poor service conditions as far as finishes and systems are concerned, and it requires interventions to become compliant with the regulations in force. Therefore it cannot be offered for rent in its current status.
Description of the building
The building is located in a municipality of the first suburban belt of a major city in Northern Italy, close to an important road axis. The building faces the main road that takes to town, which provides an excellent connection with highways; it is well served by public transportation means.
The area is characterised by mixed-use buildings with a strong presence of dwellings, offices and commercial activities.
Building structure
The property was built in the second half of the 1970's and it consists in a single unit of five floors above the ground, a basement and a fully underground level, for a gross floor area of 9,900 sqm.
The load-bearing frame was made with reinforced concrete beams and pillars, and floors in bricks and cement. The structure of the building includes also the stairwells and the lifts, enclosed in a reinforced concrete frame and adequately dislocated throughout the building. The curtain wall facades include some blacked glass elements.
The electromechanical systems of the building were made 15 years ago.
Technical data of the building:
- land surface (Ls): 7,174.68 sqm;
- gross floor area (Gfa): 9,900 sqm;
- maximum height: no. 5 floors above the ground;
- building ratio index (Bi): 0.89 sqm/sqm;
- covered area (Ca): 1.487.35 sqm;
- covering ratio (Cr): 20,7%;
- virtual height: 3.30 m (art. 4.2.7 of NTA – technical implementation regulations);
- volume (V): 32.670 sqm (sqm 9.900 x 3.30 l.m);
- private car-park area: 2.673.89 sqm;
Town-planning regulations
The Municipality where the building stands has produced its Town-Planning Scheme (PRG) amended with a General Alteration.
The proposed intervention falls under the area of "Completion and integration of the consolidated town" in the "Area for consolidated industrial and office settlements".
The reference Area accepts buildings with industrial, office and partly residential destinations of use (max Gfa = 150 sqm for the existing land units with a productive Gfa not lower than 1,000 sqm), and it accepts the commercial destination of use within the limit of 20% of the allowed Gfa (average- and large-size trade is excluded).
In these estates direct construction interventions are authorized for the following purposes:
- maintenance;
- conservative restoration;
and provided that the destination of use remains unchanged or falls within the ones authorized in this area:
- building renovation (including demolition and subsequent faithful reconstruction);
- extension;
- addition of extra storeys;
- new building (if on lots with Ls not exceeding 2,000 sqm).
For any other intervention, including the demolition with non-faithful reconstruction, preliminary approval of the Implementation Plan is required.
The parameters, the indexes and the standards in the PRG in force for office buildings are as follows:
- building ratio index (Bi): 2 sqm/sqm;
- covering ratio (Cr): 50%;
- maximum height (H max): seven floors above the ground;
- minimum standard for the interventions under the implementation plan: 1 sqm for every sqm of Gfa.
Definition of the aims and targets of the intervention
When analysing the building object, the Property Manager can take two methods of intervention into consideration:
- conservative maintenance;
- development action.
Definition of the model for the assessment of intervention prospects
In order to provide the owners with a concise analysis, definite data are required to be analyzed under the assessment model and to define the variables involved.
The assessment model here adopted is the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), because it allows defining the net profit from the development operation in clear terms.
The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method brings cash flows to date, i.e. it calculates the current value (as of the date of the estimate) resulting from the sum of the cash flows (revenues less costs) foreseen over a specified period of time.
We assume that at the end of the period, the building is transferred at a value calculated by capitalizing the revenue in the last year with an exit capitalization rate that is suitable for the type, the location and the preservation status of the building.
The resulting value is added to the operating revenue in the last year, to be discounted with an adequate discount rate at the present time.
Discount rate
The discount rate was derived from the current, average economic and financial contexts in the capital market (the rates applied on real estate operations), considering the real profitability of low-risk, medium-to-long term financial operations to which a correction element is added or deducted according to the characteristics of the asset.
The rent is the existing one, or it is estimated based on the type, the destination of use, the location and the trend in the local market for buildings of the same type.
Costs to be borne by the owners
The profit generated by the building is subject to these operating costs:
- local property tax (I.C.I.);
- insurance (0.50% of the reconstruction costs for newly built units);
- project management (8% of intervention costs);
- agency (10% of revenues when operating);
- operating costs – ordinary maintenance (2% on revenues);
- renovation costs (capital expenditure) or extraordinary maintenance costs.
Cash flows
The analysis of the different hypotheses for the development of the building evaluated the following aspects, among others:
- physiological vacancy (starting at the expiry of the individual lease agreements), that varies case by case according to the areas that become vacant and must be let again;
- rent continuity with a trend that is in line with inflation (2.00%), also in case of relocation;
- charging all the flows as soon as they are generated.
Once the operating revenue is calculated as the difference between the total revenues and the total costs in a year, the revenues relating to all the years in the defined time frame are calculated and then discounted to get the net present value (NPV) of the asset, i.e. its most likely market value.
To assess whether a development operation is attractive, the values of IRR and NPV are taken into consideration. IRR is nothing but the "interest (or discount) rate determined by the return of the invested capital: in other words, IRR is the rate that makes the NPV equal to zero, i.e. the ratio that equals the positive flows and the negative flows of an operation".[1]
Before analyzing the two proposed intervention scenarios, please note that the right time to invest is when the NPV is positive and the IRR is higher than the discount rate; otherwise if the NPV is negative and the IRR is lower than the discount rate, the project is not a good opportunity to invest in.
How to apply the prospect assessment model to the development project
Two different scenarios were analyzed that represent as many development hypotheses:
- conservative maintenance;
- redevelopment.
In case of redevelopment, three further scenarios were hypothesized that we are going to analyze:
- redevelopment with a delay in works;
- redevelopment with higher costs;
- redevelopment with a delay in works and higher costs.
As highlighted by the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) in the "conservative maintenance" hypothesis (Table 6), the investment is economically not good because the NPV is negative (-4,266,000 €) and the IRR is lower than the discount rate (3.334% < 6.00%).
Hypothesis: redevelopment
The redevelopment intervention consists in turning the warehouse space in the basement and some technical rooms into office space.
The better image thus provided to the building and the total remaking of systems and internal/external finishes call for an increase in rent from the value of € 130/sqm to the value of € 180/sqm for office space, from € 40/sqm to € 60/sqm for warehouses and from € 900/per year to € 1,200 per year for every car-park place.
The following table contains the surfaces obtained after the redevelopment intervention, with an increase in commercial office space by 1,480 sqm and a reduction in commercial warehouse space by 980 sqm.
As highlighted by the DCF in the "redevelopment" hypothesis (Table 9), the investment is economically good because the NPV is positive (+326,108 €) and the IRR is higher than the discount rate (6.15% > 6.00%).
Within the "redevelopment" hypothesis three alternatives were introduced and analyzed: the effect of a 6-month delay in the completion of works, an increase in costs and finally, the effect of both criticalities – i.e. delay in works and higher costs.
In the case of redevelopment with a delay in the completion of works, the intervention is economically unfavourable because the NPV is negative (-270,816 €) and the IRR is lower than the discount rate (5.88% < 6.00%) as evidenced by the DCF in Table 11.
As in the previous hypothesis, the redevelopment intervention with higher costs is economically unfavourable because the NPV is negative (-1,008,887 €) and the IRR is lower than the discount rate (5.55% < 6.00%) as evidenced by the DCF in Table 13.
When assuming redevelopment with a delay in works and higher costs, the sum of the two criticalities cannot but result in the lack of any advantage in doing this intervention; the NPV becomes negative (-1,605,811 €) and the IRR is lower than the discount rate (5.28% < 6.00%) as evidenced by the DCF in Table 15.
The approach here adopted allows a thorough analysis of the different hypotheses and criticalities relating to a property development project and, therefore, defining the technical and economic targets of the same project:
- redevelopment costs;
- performance times;
- extending the functionality of the building, strengthening its architectural image/appeal, increasing the rentable area, the number of car-park places, and generally the services offered by the building;
- the rent derived from the building once the development process is over;
- management costs.
These targets mostly depend upon the knowledge of the Property Manager's organization that was charged with the management of the development process.
These targets are going to set an unbreakable bond, to be agreed upon in a contract by all the technical players implementing the development process:
- the Project Management organization (representing the operating arm of the Property Management service) shall coordinate the designers and, later, the construction company and the systems installation firm (or several firms, if the contract is divided into stages) assigned to the works. The Project Management organization shall monitor overall management and provide reports during the design and the operating stages, such reports being essential for the subsequent development process;
- the designer(s) charged with the project shall act in full compliance with the targets of the development project and in strict times, spending his/her professional skills to improve the functionalities, the useful surfaces and the services of the building in a tangible way;
- the construction company(ies) and systems installation firm/s will abide by the signed agreement, in full compliance with the targets of the development project: deadlines, costs and quality workmanship.
- Franco PRIZZON, "Gli investimenti immobiliari", Celid, Torino, 1995;
- Oliviero TRONCONI, "Metodi e strumenti del Property Management", Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2007;
- Oliviero TRONCONI, Andrea CIARAMELLA, Barbara PISANI, "La gestione di edifici e patrimoni immobiliari", Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2007.
[1] F. Prizzon, "Gli investimenti immobiliari", Celid, Torino, 1995.


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The first day is always a bit of a haze, so we can count the first day as 0.5:) The teams are arriving, from all areas of my life, and the US. Santa Barbara, Memphis, Chicago, Abingdon…as always, it is a grand reunion, and such a joy! We have thus far converted an idle shell of a hospital to a facility with 5 operating room beds, a recovery room complete with critical care monitoring, a preoperative holding area, a pharmacy and inpatient medical/surgical ward. With an early core of volunteers, we are now ready to receive the big mission family!!!!
As always, our hosts are gracious, the local team of volunteers excited and hard working, ready to serve their own. Seeing the Philippines through the eyes of friends who have never been, and through friends who call this part of the world home can be illuminating. It is hard not to learn a lesson from even one day of carefully sorting through precious medications so as not to lose one bottle, or one syringe to waste. We do much with little, serve many with a few. Our "few" is the largest ever, with 41 volunteers on this mission! We look forward to serving many, however, and many hands make light work.
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It has been another busy day, both at Birdfair and Lyndon! It has been particularly warm today, too – just the sort of weather you'd expect for late August. The warm weather has meant crowds of people are out and about enjoying the summer, and ice creams have sold very well indeed! The Ospreys are still proving to be a huge draw for people, and the hides on the Lyndon Nature Reserve have been packed all day. Luckily, none of our five Manton Bay Ospreys have set off on their migration yet, and so are here for all to see!
I spent a couple of hours monitoring the Ospreys yesterday evening. It was a beautiful evening, the sun was bright, the water was calm and the Ospreys were all there – Maya and S1 were on the T-perch, 33 was sitting in the fallen poplar to the right of the nest, S3 was on the nest eating a fish, and S2 was with her, food-begging. It was an idyllic, peaceful scene – if you don't count the incessant racket from S2, that is!
We have noticed that, now the juveniles are older and more self-assured, they have become very possessive over fish and have been seen to fight over them occasionally. S1 and S3 fighting over a perch last week is a case in point – click here to read about that!
However, contrary to this evidence of antagonism between the juveniles, last night I noticed them behaving in the completely opposite manner. All three of them shared their fish most graciously.
33 had delivered the big trout to the nest at 16:30, and when I arrived at the hide at 18:00, S3 was on the nest tucking in, and S2 was shouting for his turn. He didn't attempt to steal the fish from his sister, though. After a while, S1 flew off the T-perch and alighted on the nest with his siblings, wanting a bit of the fish, too. But, like S2, he waited. When S3 had had her fill, she surrendered the fish and went to sit next to Mum. S2 was next in line and gorged himself for a while, then, just as courteously as S3, he relinquished the fish to S1, and went to have a bath in the reservoir.
It was a lovely thing to witness. There was no sign of any aggression or hostility between the juveniles at all. I expect their behaviour is dependent on their mood, and the particular situation and conditions.
Tomorrow is the last chance to visit the Birdfair, and the Osprey Project have a special presentation taking place in the Author's Marquee at 3:30pm. It is the launch of a brand new Osprey book for children – "Be an Osprey Expert". Click here for more details about the book. At this book launch, pupils from Brooke Priory School will be performing their Osprey song! There will also be the chance to find out more about the Osprey Project's work in Africa, and the team will be joined by a special guest from The Gambia… come along to find out all about it!


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Seriously in love with your Christmas feel on the blog right now! I haven't been many places, but my favourite was definitely new York. I'd definitely love to visit for a bit longer though. My trip was VERY short & I didn't really go many places I was hoping to visit.
Vlogmas woOhoo! Favorite place i have Traveled is paris. Entered ✨
My Fav place was definitely Maine!!
My favourite place i've ever vIsited is London, England! My husband and i went there on our honeymoon 2 years aGo, and i feel in love. ❤
I love Vlogmas! My favourite place I have visited is Berlin. I go back there as much as I can because its such a beautiful city with so much buzz and excitement.
First ever christmas Vlog I have actually enjoyed!!!
And my favorite place I have visited So far Is tarrytown NY. Its just so beautiful near the hudson river. Fill with hills of beautiful trees. During the fall the foliage was goRgeous!! It was typical upstate new york small town but with beautiful old School buildings and just such a piCturesque Ambience.
My favorite place to visit is israel 🙂
I am excited for the your vlogmas! Your holiday spiRit is contagious!
My favorite place i have visited is prague bEcause its a city that belongs in a snow globe!! With your love for cHristmas i suggest you go here. I went during April and cant imagine thw magic during the holiday season but Their christmas mArkets were still going on in april.
I haven'T done a lot of traveling, but i love the bahamas!! my dream destinations are nyc, venice and santorini!✨
I visIted New York this year for the very firSt time and I loooove it! That city is definetily one of my favs places right now
Love you x
Murano italy was my favorite place when i visited. It was So beautiful and quiant not As busy as venice so it gave me small town vibes. People and fold were amazkng.
Im so excited for vlogmas <3
My favourite place i have every visted is Paris! It is so prettY.
My favorite place ever would have to be paris, but more specifically, the gardens of Versailles!!! So braitiful and a wonderful okace to wander around
LOVE the snow!! My favorite place that I have visited would have to be Hawaii. It was such a dream!
I love your comfy sweater dress! It was snowing all day yesterday so cozy sweaters and chill is what it's all about for me right now. I don't get to travel much but the Oregon coast has my whole hearT. I love it there.
Lazy days are the besT! And you look adorable stIll! ♥ My favorite place ive viSitEd was Cabo san lucas, mexico. I love myself a beautiful Ocean sunset view ☀
yay! My favorite place visited is NYC, just so much to do and see and it's just go go go!
My favorite place to visit is paris! Theres so much to do, and ita such a beautiful place. Also, the fasHion/style there is incredible!
Love this! My favorite place I've visited is definitely NYC! I got to go last year, and now I just want to go back. It's such an amazing place.
Yessss vlogmas is here!!!!!!
I love this time of yEar!!!! my favorite place ive travles to is probably New york but during Christmas time. Its truly so magical and all the lights and sounds make it feel like You are living out a fairytale. There is somethimg so pure about wAtChing the snow fall in central park that time of year.
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ABSOLUTELY loved your Holiday looks so far. I mEan, You've got to be an EXpert when It comes to xmas lookS, someone with a name that sOunds like a christmas AnGel has no other choice lol
So excited for vlogmas. Really Enjoyed the 1st one.
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My most favourIte place on the entire worLd has to be LonDon. I Also love France & italia & the nature of IsLand, Sweden & Canada. I definitely waNt to visit more cOuntrIes outside of europe. This world is such a beautiful place. So colorfull and special. But london is still my favourite place when it comes to cities ❤
Hello, Noelle! For a while, I never really got into the overly-big sweatshirts because i thought they didn't look right on me. Recently though, I've come tO accept the fact that they are bloody brilliant. I can sleep AND walk out of the house with it on and not care As for your giveaway, my favorite place is definitely Ireland. It's SO GREEN. The weather was beautiful when I went over the sumMer… I'm already planning my next trip -Sav
My favorite place I've been to is El salvador for the holidays, it's beautiful.
Yay i love thst your vlogmas is On
Youre so gorgeous❤❤
My favorite place i have ever been is xian China!! It is seriously the most amazing place in the world!!!
nothing will ever compare to Going to Fishtown, Philly, with my girlFriend. We Took the cheapest bus TheRe and counted every penny, but we were filled with so much love!
Favorite place ive ever visited is A msterdam and new york cIty
My favorite place ive visited has been Delft in the netherlands, beautiful Memories, beautifil people and gorgeous place.
Sometimes Days only at home are the best! My favorite place ive ever been is the WizardIng WorLd of Harry Potter aT universal studios. Its just so magical and brings tears to my eyes every time! And this year they even have snow ❄⚡
First of all, everything about christmas is my favoritE. Everyone Is just in a cheerful mood! My fav place to visit is Paris and i just got back…let me tell you, Paris During Christmas is a dream!
I never get tired of your content!! ❤ My all time favorite place ive eveR visitEd is Marrakech, MorOcco!
I lovE vlogmas so much!! My favOrite plAce ive vIsited is London ❤
My favorite place is Paris! I've been there a few times and can't wait to come back, especially on the spring <3
My favor plAce is berlin! For Sure for sure. Its a super great city and i just love The ATMOSPHERE
It's so hard to choose! My favorite place is probably a tie between Tahoe durinG the winter and Avila Beach during the summer. The Vast difference between the two makes it so much fun to visit.
I liVed in Amsterdam for 7 montsh and got to see so many cool things. Also you are awesome!!
Love ECuador ! Know I Had a new famiily there ❤
I love Brighton, EnGland!! Its so lovely there. Its artsy, has amazing restaurants and Vintage shops. Plus there is a BoaRdwalk on the water.
Favorite place i have ever visited thUs far has been barcelona, spain. It was beautiful!
So excited to start watching your videos! My favorite place I've ever been is London for sure.
My favorite place i've Ever been to Was hawaii!! I went there last summer and it was definitely a treat. Also i saw your vlogmas day one and i loooovee it!! Im so excited for the rest of december!
My favorite place I've visited is Iceland! It was so beautiful and peaceful. Hope I get to go back someday.
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Vlogmas!! So cute! Fav place to visit is Savannah, GA❤
Hooray vlogmas!!! My most favorite place i've Visited has got to be Japan. Everything was so cute and to food was so yummy! Thank
Winter is meant for staying in and being cozy! my favorite place i have been is the coast of MainE- it is so beautiful there –
Favor plces ive eveR been has to be Iceland❤
I love cozy productive days!
My favorite place to visit (so far) has been Nara, Japan. My best friend and I went last spring at is was amazing.
My favorite place that ive visted is London. Its such a beautiful city, especially during Christmas!
You look so cozy! Glad to see that you share all of your looks, not just the super done-up, fancy ones. My favorite place I've been to so far is London, England!
new York is my favourite place i've been. So lucky to live close enough to visit often. ❤
My favourite place has to be be kashmir, india. Its so so beaut and u feel u r in another world. U must bisit someday.
Hi, im living for that sweater. My faveorite place that i have vistited was saint thomas.
The best place i have ever visited was Lucerne, Switzerland. This place was absolutely gorgeous and i would love to go back soon!
Great idea to do a vlogmas! favorite place i'VE visited has to be the grand canyon. It's breathtaking ✨
Loving this vlogmas. Also how real it is. Thanks for not suGar coAti ng.
Love these! One of My favorite places To go is Montreal
New Orleabs was my Favorite!
MY faveorite Spot i have ever visited was tasmania! I got to swim wIth sea lions In their naTural enviOrment!
Hi ! Long time follower! My favorite Place ever is japan especially fukuoka! Its a nice mix of couNtry and city and way less crowded than tokyo.
Marfa, TExas is by far my most favorite getaway, nothing better than wide open texas skies!
nirvanaforever! !My most favorite place I visited was Oahu, when I hiked crouching lion -and stood atthe top staind at that blue water, alive, alone, peaceful -and happy. What a day to be alive!
Love your instagram pictures. My favourite place is the lakshwadeep ISLANDS. I would so go there again if i could.
Loving Vlogmas so hard! I love visiTing napa valley,ca & charleston, sc…if you havent been definitely olan a quick geta!
Argentina and Uruguay in South America!!!!
ExceLlent christmas vloG!!
My favourite place I ever visited is Hovingham in England. The Worsley Arms Hotel is there totally amazing!
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MY favorite place i've Ever visited is hands-down scotland! It was so magical walking those streets with my love. ❤
My favorite place I've ever visited is New Zealand!
My favorite place is bali ! Omg it was so wonderful !!!
My favourite place that i visited is budapest!!!!
MY favourite place i visited is budapest!!!
I like to think i work really hard so when i get a day off i do the exact same thing! Favourite place ever had to be Dublin, Ireland – great history, beautiful buildings, food, people, shopping and i went with an amazing bunch of freinds and shared an AirBnB!
My favorite place i've VisiteD iS for sure lapland ! I want to go back so much ❄
Those days can be THE BESTTTTT. Self care at its finest! Plus you looK cute!
I'm so excited vlogmas is back! My favorite place I've ever visited would have to be ArizonA. The views and the clay mountains are just to die for!
My fav place ive Visited was New York! Its So BEAUTIFUL and theres so much to do and sEe! I canT wait to go again! 🙂
My favorite place that i've visited is guam. So peaceful and relaxing
My favorite place i've visIted is Our family cabin that my great grandpa built himself. Its Incredible and so cozy. Right on mason lake in washington state. Not much phone service or Internet there so its truly the most relaxing time when you visit. Wish i could just live there sometimes.
My favorite place has to be switzerland. The country is so gorgeous that it seems fake. Also i lost one of my shoes on a peak in the aLps so it'll always have a piece of me.
Love this! My fav place is for sure london:)
I love christmas markets as wel!!


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Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz (Dragonwyck, All About Eve, Cleopatra) from the play by Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and brilliantly adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal (Ben-Hur, Myra Breckinridge), Suddenly, Last Summer casts three of Hollywood's most iconic talents (Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) in a daring and often delirious mix of lurid drama and Gothic horror. Sensational and wildly controversial at the time of its release, Suddenly, Last Summer now stands as a classic – and stills packs a provocative punch.
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A lot of companies like to say that they are only as good as the people working there. Although that might be true for them, WATTx is a bit of a different story. WATTx is the people working here. Nothing more. Nothing less. We don't have a product or service that we sell. We only work on our own ideas. Our team of 20-something weirdos and dreamers is WATTx.
This is our first story in a new series of "We are WATTx" stories that deal with the people working here.
While we all live and work in Berlin, Franziska (commonly known as "Franzi" or "Fran") is one of the few true Berliners in WATTx. Having spent most of her life here, she knows the city like the back of her hand.
That's why we decided to go out for a walk around Berlin for a couple of hours, in mid-december. (Also, we really needed to get out of the office).
Of course we had to pick one of the coldest days of the year for our walk. That didn't keep us from doing it anyway - we REALLY needed to get out for some fresh air - so we packed ourselves into our warmest winter clothes and went out for a walk around Mitte, while talking about how Fran ended up at WATTx and how her role has changed over the past year.
What would your friends say about you?
They would probably say that they can count on me, that I'm rather introvert, or that I'm a clown sometimes.
What did you study?
After school I studied industrial engineering. At some point I had to specialize and so I decided to do marketing for the business side and environmental engineering for the engineering side. I was very interested in technical stuff. I always need to know how systems work.
How did you end up at WATTx?
In December 2015, a friend of mine told me to meet with Bastian (CEO of WATTx) and to listen to his idea for a company that he was building. At that time I was afraid to get stuck at Deutsche Telekom, a German telecom giant, that I was working for. I had the feeling I was working in an environment that lacked the passion that I was looking for.
I agreed to have a quick chat with Bastian. It was supposed to be very informal, with the goal of just getting to know each other. In the end, our talk lasted for more than an hour, and, I thought, was a very easy and open discussion. All in all, it was awesome. I thought that Bastian was very good at marketing WATTx, and that he really seemed to believe in his vision. I felt that he had a passion that I was missing in my workplace at that time, and that I was looking for.
That made the decision to go to WATTx very easy for me. I resigned from Deutsche Telekom a few days after the meeting, and met my new colleagues at a Christmas party a week later.
I instantly really liked the atmosphere. It was very relaxed. We shared a few beers, and sat on the floor, all together. From the very beginning, there was no fear of getting to know each other as people. It didn't feel corporate, but rather like a group of friends in a casual environment.
Why WATTx?
I'm a dreamer. I would love to change the world. Most people only want to change the world when they're young, but then settle into adult life. Me, I can't let it go. And I guess it is the same for most people working here. I feel like WATTx gives me the opportunity to create real change.
Can you tell us a bit about your journey at WATTx?
I started out in marketing, helping Viessmann (The German manufacturing company that founded WATTx) with developing intelligent marketing solutions. After some time, we decided that it was not the real focus of WATTx to support Viessmann. We also figured that we didn't really need a marketing team as we were planning to focus more on inventing and prototyping our own ideas as well as on building companies. That meant that my position had to change.
For me, that was an opportunity to reinvent myself. I've always had an interest in coding and developing. I thought long and hard about studying computer science in university, and spent a lot of my teenage years on developing and maintaining, among other things, a sports forum.
Bastian and Martin (CEO and CTO at WATTx) knew about that. They approached me with the idea of me becoming a developer, and convinced me to shift my career path.
I had no idea on how to become a developer, but it felt like a good opportunity for me, so I decided to make the most out of it. I knew that I could take the time I needed to learn and grow, and that I had great support from the people working at WATTx.
Do you like being a developer?
I really enjoy it. It allows me to work in a structured way. Another thing that I like is that programming is clear; more clear than most other job fields. I enjoy having the time to build things on my own, without too many dependencies. I also really like that you can see the things you are building. And, which I find to be even better, see people interacting with what I've built.
Fran working on Kimbie, our new ideation management tool
Are there any benefits for you coming from a different background than development?
Yes. I gives me a perspective on what I'm building that most developers don't have. Because of my background in marketing, I probably have a better understanding of the end-user and their needs than most developers.
You mentioned the atmosphere a couple of times, why?
There are very authentic people working here. Everyone is very relaxed and natural. There are no pretensions and people don't wear a "business mask" to work. It's a friendly and funny atmosphere. We also have a lot of diversity here at WATTx. I think it's really helpful for one's own growth to be able to talk to people with different views and perspectives. That really helps me when I'm stuck or when I need inspiration.
In one year from now, how do you think you will have developed?
I hope that will have built my own robot. Other than that, it's hard to say. I've already learned so much in the past year. It's hard to predict anything because things are changing very quickly. I'd like to learn more about hardware for sure, and build at least 2 or 3 physical prototypes.
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The nature of mariners' work requires they maintain a near-constant state of motion and migration, shipping out from port to port frequently. Like today's workforce, seafarers who stopped in the Port of New York during the 1920s often found themselves a long way from home. Nearly one-quarter were foreign workers, and many American sailors often had no home to speak of, living instead at "sailors' homes" like the Seamen's Church Institute's (SCI) 25 South Street headquarters while in between ships. Of the many services provided at 25 South Street, SCI's post office offered a meaningful connection for seafarers to life on land.
Take away today's Internet and wireless communication and one might start to get a sense of how much traditional letters sent by "snail mail" mattered to seafarers back when SCI opened its million-dollar home for sailors at 25 South Street. During that year (1913) the Institute first offered 65 postal "call boxes" for use by mariners. Prior to establishment of the post office, letters sent to a sailor at sea would typically follow him from port to port, often arriving long past their expected arrival date. Many letters never arrived at all, leaving seafarers out of touch with their families, heightening their isolation.
Seeing the need for a fixed location where seafarers could have their mail delivered, SCI began what would become one of its most popular services. Described as the "heart of the Institute," the SCI post office soon became a congregating place for those who had recently arrived in port. Purportedly, some seafarers clipped coupons and sent for catalogues just so they would have something waiting for them when they arrived back in port. Others received letters from worried parents, wives and children, desperate for contact after months of work at sea. As SCI's newsletter The Lookout described in 1920, the post office "reaches out with firm but gentle hand, and catches the drifters on life's seas, and draws them to the safety of the raft of their past…."
SCI increased the number of post office boxes for seafarers to 900 by 1927 and offered the boxes at a discounted rate compared with other post offices in New York. Constant work sorting mail and responding to inquiries required intense attention to detail. The clerks held mail at the office for up to six months to account for seafarers' lengthy voyages. (Typical post offices at the time held mail for only ten days.) Finally, with the workload continuing to increase, the federal government agreed in 1927 to take over operations of the post office at 25 South Street. By then, SCI's post office handled as much mail as a town of 20,000 people, and 25 South Street had become one of the most well-known addresses in the world.
The address may have been a bit too well-known in some cases. According to an anecdote from the February 1940 Lookout, a seafarer was surprised to receive a letter in a bright pink envelope heavy with the scent of perfume from a girl he met in Le Havre, France. The man told the clerk that he had taken the girl to a movie and then they had said their goodbyes when he left port, "thinking the case was closed." Unexpectedly, and apparently much to the young man's chagrin, "along came the pink letter from Mademoiselle explaining naïvely that he had neglected to give her his address, but never mind, she knew that all American sailors get their mail at 25 South Street…."
The post office at 25 South Street is now long gone, but SCI continues to connect seafarers to life back on land and their loved ones around the world. SCI's International Seafarers' Center in Port Newark and Bay Area International Maritime Center in the Port of Oakland offer money wire transfer services, telephones and provide free Internet access so seafarers can use social media or webcams to connect with families back home. Seafarers can also arrange to mail packages or get phone cards, which SCI chaplains bring with them for seafarers unable to get ashore.
While technology has changed dramatically since the days of 25 South Street's bustling post office, the spirit of helping seafarers keep in touch with loved ones and make connections remains very much alive at SCI.


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Kochi: Internationally acclaimed cyber forensic expert will address the national seminar on Cyber Crimes in Workplaces in Kochi, Kerala on June 20, 2015. The seminar, organized by Corporate Relations Institute will focus on various possibilities of cyber abuses in government or corporate offices, along with measures to check such illegal practices.
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"Casual application of emails and messages is one of the most rampant means for leaking important information pertaining to organizations. Financial frauds, identity thefts like unauthorized disclosure of names, telephone numbers, email id etc., digital violation of company policies, software piracy, illegal file sharing, supply of inferior IT products etc. can also lead to cyber crimes", said Dr. Vinod. The impact of withdrawal of Section 66-A of the IT Act, 2000 in workplaces will also be debated during the seminar, he added.
The seminar will re-iterate the fact that even a small online / cyber slip (knowingly or otherwise) from the part of employees can turn out to be disastrous to their career and life.
Cyber crimes are complicated and attempts to control such offenses have become more complex. This seminar is an attempt to help employees to reduce various issues related to such insecurity. The seminar will prescribe ways to check cyber crimes in any (government or corporate) office including banking & NBFC institutions.
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Recently Read #11
I feel like I've read quite a lot recently but I'm still lagging behind on my Goodreads challenge - i still need to read another 9 books - so i better get a move on, but in the meantime here are the books I've been reading recently.
After You by Jojo Moyes
After reading and loving Me Before You, i couldn't wait to get my hands on the sequel and see how the story continues. To be honest, I think Jojo Moyes should have left Me Before You as a standalone; whilst it's a decent book to read, i don't the story is strong enough or worthwhile to continue it. I think this would have worked better if she had sold it as a separate standalone book and just changed the characters names.
Rating: 3/5
Always With Love by Giovanna Fletcher
This is the sequel to Giovanna's debut novel Billy and Me, i really like Giovanna's writing style and I've enjoyed all her books she's released so far but i kind of feel like there wasn't really any purpose to this book. Nothing really happened in it. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice easy read but i just felt like nothing happened, i don't really understand how it can be justified as a sequel.
Rating: 3/5
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
I've read and loved the first two books in this trilogy. They're quite young but i loved them, they're so cute and cheesy and so easy to read.This was similar in that it was cute and easy to read but i didn't enjoy this as much as the others, i can't really put my finger on why - i don't know, it was just a bit far fetched. Still a great book and easy to read but definitely my least favourite in the series.
Girl Online: On Tour by Zoe Sugg
After reading the first book, i enjoyed the storyline but not so much Zoe's writing style (i found it very childish) so i decided to read the second book out of curiosity, i wanted to see how the story continued and i was also curious to see how different it read, seeing as Zoe wrote more of this herself than the first one and to be honest, i wish i hadn't bothered. I normally love books like this, easy to read and cheesy but this was bad. The story was ridiculous and not to mention predictable and i definitely will not be bothered to read the third instalment.
Rating: 2/5
On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher
I've always like Carrie and after reading a few reviews about people enjoying this book, i deciding to pick up a copy and read it for myself. The format of this book is quite different to the usual style, it's almost split into sections and each section follows the same pattern - i was quite impressed that even though it is ultimately a love story, the storyline is so different to many romance style books I've read. It's a great story and i do really like Carrie's writing style but i have to say i wasn't expecting the 'supernatural' elements to the story and i just felt like they didn't fit in with the story. Especially the one about 'Little One' - it's just so unrealistic. That being said, it is a good story and I'm intrigued to read Carrie's future releases.
I got through a total of 5 books this month and whilst they are books I've been wanting to read, i feel like they were all a bit of a let down and none of them really wowed me. Feel free to follow me on Goodreads if you'd like to follow my progress.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
2010- A Year in Review
Quite a few of the blogs I follow are doing a year end post on their favorite things from the past year -which I really am enjoying reading. However I thought it may be more fun to do a recap on some of the things that made me say "What The What?" this year. Some of the things may not be new to 2010 but made me take notice and shake my head in disbelief/shock/general confusion this year.
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The Lohans
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