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NZ media sale: MediaWorks looking to divest its television business
MediaWorks has announced that it intends to sell MediaWorks TV as well as its Auckland property which includes its television head office and studios.
The intention is for MediaWorks to sell the television side of the business while retaining ownership of radio and QMS.
The Flower Street property in Auckland will also be put up for sale with a lease back option for a buyer to continue to operate television from that location.
MediaWorks chairman Jack Matthews said that MediaWorks is committed to continuing to grow its business in New Zealand while recognising that free-to-air television operates in a challenging environment.
"The ongoing success of our radio business and recent merger with QMS demonstrates that MediaWorks has a very bright future. We are in the fortunate position of having two very strong growth platforms in radio and outdoor that deliver both revenue and margin growth. Our focus now is to accelerate the opportunities that exist for those platforms.
"We are in a commercial environment and have to face commercial realities. The market that free-to-air television operates in is tough and has been exacerbated this year. This is reflected in the performance of all free-to-air television operators in New Zealand, not just us. Clearly the market – alongside the structural hindrances we operate under – has a larger impact on Three given its genuine commercial imperative."
MediaWorks CEO Michael Anderson said: "We are very pleased with the progress that Three has made over the past five years. This year we have had record ratings and revenue share highs and we are very proud of our stellar local content.
"The role Three plays in New Zealand society is significant, from Newshub through to investment in local comedy and drama. We believe MediaWorks TV is now in a place where it can be separated from the radio and outdoor business to be operated under a new owner in a more sustainable fashion – and, ultimately, for profit."
A former TV executive is the favourite to win Melbourne Cup
Two months after Kerry Stokes liberated him from the top job at Seven West Media, Tim Worner is a favourite to win the Melbourne Cup, reports The Australian's Margin Call.
The serious, and seriously expensive, tilt at the race that stops the nation is Worner's first commercial venture since he was swiftly removed from the top job at billionaire Stokes' Seven West in August.
Margin Call can reveal Worner was a member of the wealthy syndicate that paid nearly $1.6m for fancied Irish horse Constantinople in September.
Word is that Worner – whose purchase was clearly aimed at winning the Melbourne Cup — thinks the three-year-old, David Hayes-trained horse is the best thing to happen to him since the creation of My Kitchen Rules.
Nine, Seven, Ten, Foxtel and SBS partner on ad platform
Nine, Seven West Media, Network Ten, Foxtel and SBS have put traditional rivalries aside to develop a new joint platform which will allow media agencies to buy advertising across commercial television in one place, reports The AFR's Max Mason.
The five companies have committed to building a demand-side trading platform for big media groups and independent agencies. They have commenced due diligence to scope out a technical supplier with the expectation it will be ready for use by April 2021.
Nine chief sales officer Michael Stephenson said the introduction of Virtual Oz, a new integrated database combining linear TV with live streaming and catch-up on all devices which will be available early 2020, was the starting point.
"For agencies to be able to buy those audiences, it's really important they have a leading piece of ad tech," he said.
Seven chief revenue officer Kurt Burnette said the industry has been talking about a combined trading platform for a long time. When combined with Virtual Oz, he believes it will make a big difference to buying and planning television.
"One of the absolute needs is an industry platform that uses Virtual Oz in the way it can be used. We need to make it easy."
Rod Prosser, Network 10's chief sales officer, said Virtual Oz will be a reset moment for TV.
"As part of this reset, we're excited to be uniting as an industry to make it easier to buy across TV. The single trading platform will utilise best-in-class technology and we'll reveal more on this soon."
Netflix recovers from rocky second quarter, adds 6.8m subscribers
Stranger Things helped propel Netflix to a strong summer, but there could be headwinds for the company going forward, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The streaming giant, which now has 158 million total subscribers, on Wednesday reported that it added nearly 6.8 million members during the third quarter, 520,000 in the U.S. and 6.3 million abroad. That's just slightly less than the 7 million subscribers that Netflix earlier forecast it would add during the three months from July to September. Wall Street was also looking for about 7 million total subscriber additions, 800,000 subscriber additions in the U.S. and 6 million internationally. Though the U.S. is becoming a softer market for the streamer as it reaches market saturation, the news was received positively and sent shares up Wednesday, where they peaked at around 10 percent.
"As we've improved the variety, diversity and quality of our content slate, member engagement has grown, revenue has increased, and we're able to further fund our content investment," reads Netflix's quarterly letter to shareholders.
The disclosure marked a recovery for the Reed Hastings-led company after a second quarter in which it lost 130,000 subscribers in the U.S. and missed its 5 million target by 2.3 million. At the time, Netflix blamed the soft quarter on both a recent price increase and on its content slate, which lacked a Stranger Things-sized debut, and the news caused its stock to plunge more than 10 percent. Shares have been trading down around 20 percent since July's financial disclosure.
Going forward, Netflix will start reporting membership guidance for its global audience instead of breaking it into U.S. and international reporting segments. "As we self-produce and license more original content that has global rights, we are finding U.S. vs. international segment contribution margin reporting is becoming less useful internally," the company said.
Seven Studios receives NSW Export Award for international success
Seven Studios, the content production division of Seven West Media, has been awarded the Premier's New South Wales Export Award for Creative Industries.
The Award acknowledges outstanding international success across all creative industries, including music and performing arts, film, television and radio, software and interactive content such as VR and AR, writing, publishing and print media, architecture and design, and visual arts.
Therese Hegarty, CEO of Seven Studios, said: "With our productions reaching over 190 countries globally across broadcast and streaming platforms, Seven Studios has established itself as a truly global player. This award coincides with Seven Studios furthering its international presence at MIPCOM 2019 in Cannes, France, selling our productions to a global audience.
"The Premier's New South Wales Export Award for Creative Industries is a reflection of the hard work and dedication of the Seven Studios team. From writers, producers, directors and crew, as well as the world-renowned Australian stars that features in our productions, Australia has the very best talent in the world, and this award demonstrates that.
"Seven Studios is thrilled to be recognised with this prestigious award, and we celebrate with our team both in Australia and abroad that have made this possible."
As an award winner, Seven Studios automatically progresses as national finalists to the Australian Export Awards. The Australian Export Awards is a national program where industry winners from all states and territories compete for an Australian industry award, including the coveted Australian Exporter of the Year.
Stan announces third season of No Activity US adaption coming soon
Stan has announced that all eight episodes of the third season of the US adaptation of its original comedy series No Activity will be available to stream from Thursday, 21 November.
Following last season's disastrous bust gone wrong, season three finds detectives Nick Cullen and Judd Tolbeck back in uniform with a revolving door of quirky new partners and even quirkier criminals, while robots edge in on Janice and Fatima in dispatch.
Co-developer, executive producer, writer and star Patrick Brammall will reprise his role as Detective Nick Cullen, a low-level cop who has spent far too much time in a car with his partner, Detective Judd Tolbeck.
Among the new guest stars this season are Beth Behrs (The Neighbourhood), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Keegan-Michael Key (Dolemite Is My Name), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) and Paula Pell (Stan's A.P. Bio). They will be joined by returning guest stars including Sunita Mani (Glow) as dispatch operator Fatima, Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth) as an undercover FBI agent, Amy Sedaris (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) as dispatch's mother hen, Janice, and Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Leon, the internal affairs investigator with a fondness for deep sea fishing.
No Activity is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Funny Or Die, Jungle, and Gary Sanchez Productions, and is based on the Stan Original Series produced by Jungle. The series is co-developed and executive produced by Trent O'Donnell and Patrick Brammall, alongside executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Joe Farrell, Mike Farah, Joe Hardesty and Jason Burrows. Nina Pedrad serves as co-executive producer. As in previous seasons, Trent O'Donnell will direct all episodes.
George Calombaris says 'brutal' career lows cleared the skeletons closet
George Calombaris has paid tribute to his "superwoman" wife Natalie and family as he returns to the kitchen following a "brutal" period in his life, reports News Corp's Jackie Epstein.
Calombaris said Natalie, the mother of their two children, had been his rock of support through recent tough times when he was fined for underpaying staff and exited MasterChef after 11 years.
"That girl is an absolute fricken superwoman,'' Calombaris said.
"You say you love someone and that's all good and well, but what she's done the last six months … I've kept it together with incredible humans around me. They've had to go through all of my pain."
Calombaris, who this week launched his new book, Just George, isn't sure what the future holds.
While rumours swirl that his former MasterChef cohorts Matt Preston and Gary Mehigan are being courted by Channel 7, Calombaris said he was focused on working at Hellenic Republic in Brighton.
Kyle Sandilands on "absurd amount of money I get to do something I love"
Kyle and Jackie O negotiated their new ARN contracts separately and have parity when it comes to their base salaries, reports News Corp's Andrew Bucklow.
However it's understood both hosts negotiated individual allowances linked to survey and revenue performance.
Speaking to news.com.au after the announcement, Kyle was uncharacteristically coy about his huge pay day, saying, "I don't discuss the absurd amount of money I get given to do something I love".
"Don't get me wrong, the money's fantastic, but what really counts for me is the acknowledgment that what Jackie and I have created is one of the most successful shows on earth," he said.
"There is no secret to the show's success," Kyle told news.com.au. "Ultimately it's genuine chemistry. I love working with Jackie and that simply can't be created; it's either there or it's not.
"A lot of other stations throw strangers together and scratch their heads when it fails miserably. Radio's actually really easy, it's just bad programmers that make it unnecessarily difficult."
Sports Media
Chris Judd departs Nine's Footy Classified ahead a major revamp
The winds of change are blowing through Footy Classified with Brownlow Medallist Chris Judd departing the Channel 9 show, reports News Corp's Scott Gullan.
That's unlikely to be the only change with a major revamp planned for 2020 including extra shows and new hosts.
After a tumultuous season in the hot seat where he struggled to combine it with his role as Carlton's football director, Judd decided to walk away after the final show of the season last month.
The question now is whether Judd will be the only major change from the line-up?
Original host Craig Hutchison's business commitments continue to expand while Caroline Wilson has also been on the show since its inception in 2007.
Eddie McGuire's JAM TV produces the Monday night show and is looking to shake it up with an increase to at least two nights a week on the agenda for next year.

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Simon Wee was born in Singapore in 1946. He graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1967.
The renowned first-generation Master Painter Chen Wen Hsi was his first teacher who introduced him to the basics of painting.
Most of Simon's works are painted with white, black and gold, which are his main, primary colours. His works reveal a sense of simplicity through the fluid strokes he creates, yet profound as they are derived from the inner recesses of his feeling. Hence his works are a reflection of the ebb and flow of life itself.
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Wait So The Fake Internet Money DogeCoin is Sponsoring a NASCAR Car Because If You Raise Enough Fake Money It's Worth Real Money
I don't know how to explain what I'm feeling right now. I invented NateBux because of all these fake currencies that are popping up and the Winkelvi are flying to the moon, and Chinese people are going to jail and just all sorts of weird Internet shit so naturally I needed to be in on it. So I invented my own currency called NateBux which are currently trading at $26 per bux. How it works is you tell me you want one and hand me 26 dollars, then I say okay you have a NateBux, and that's that. But now, a Doge Coin is sponsoring a race car. How in the..I don't even comprehend it. They invented a currency, pooled together their fake currency, and now fake dog internet money will be flying around Talladega.
So I suppose those who have NateBux better hold onto them because we are going places. But I don't want some stupid car. I'm eyeing the naming rights for Camden Yards as I type this. I just have to sell more NateBux and then I think I own the stadium. That's where we're at. NateBux Stadium at Camden Yards. Book it.


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Well we're half way through staff training week, and things are going swell. 🙂 The staff all really seem to be on board, and are showing much initiative! They've been working hard along with attending their training sessions. I had a couple gals help me this afternoon set up stuff for the snackshop and General Store. They did a fabulous job, and I have to brag on my own successful use of a drill for the first time. 🙂 We haven't received all of our merchandise yet, which kind of irritates me since I ordered it months ago!!!!!! Oh well, we'll get it this weekend (hopefully) and then all the little campers will have their choices of latte mug, water bottle, and some stylin' t-shirts!
Qade is quickly becoming the camp ham with all of his antics. He's taken more interest in walking lately, and this afternoon he walked the entire length of the Lodge by holding the back of my pants and walking with me. It was HILARIOUS!! I was glad though, that I don't have to take "baby steps" all the time!! This evening after the service we had icecream sundaes, and Qade LOVED the M&M's! 🙂 It was a late night for him tonight, and he was having a major meltdown before he got to bed. I'm glad that he's getting to "hang out" with the staff though, he's making some good friends. He still wants mommy most of the time, but he's branching out a little, and that's good.
Well, my hubby just got "home" from a fun-time rehearsal, and it's getting late, so I believe I'll say goodnight and snuggle for a few minutes before I hit the hay. 🙂 P.S. For Mom: I was going to call you this evening, but it got late fast. Hopefully we'll have a new phone soon. I love you!!!


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Jeff leads the design efforts and oversees the team of architectural multifamily designers across all offices. As an architect focused on sustainability and technology, Jeff's experience extends into office, retail, educational, community clubhouses, senior housing, high rise residential, multifamily and single family residential, custom homes, and subsidized housing. He is able to draw from 28 years of varied experience to ensure each project features a unique design that meets and exceeds client expectations.
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Clumping cat litter is a litter material that forms hard clumps when it comes in contact with liquid, such as your cat's urine. When your cat urinates into clumping cat litter, it creates a chunk that can easily be scooped out. This allows you to remove the strong odors of urine from the litter box and go longer between having to change the litter.
Cat feces are naturally solid in form so they can easily be scooped out. A clumping litter will stick to the feces but won't turn the litter into clumps, unless your cat's feces have more liquid in them than normal.
Clumping clay litter is the most common form of litter, the most popular among cat owners, and the most economical. However, that doesn't mean it's the best litter for you and your cat.
Is Clumping Cat Litter Better?
A clumping cat litter is better than a non-clumping cat litter because it allows you to remove more cat waste and bacteria from the litter box. This keeps the litter box cleaner for longer and helps reduce odors.
You also reduce costs and environmental waste since you don't have to dump the entire contents of the litter box out each week and replace it with fresh litter.
However, the type of clumping cat litter also factors into whether or not it's better.
Traditional clumping clay litters are easier to clean and don't require changing as often, but they are bad for the environment, your cat's health, and your health.
The clay used for clay litters is strip-mined, which is hard on the environment. It also isn't biodegradable. When you think about changing the litter box each month and how much litter your household alone tosses, you can imagine how much of this material is sitting in landfills.
There are many clumping litters on the market made with renewable, sustainable, and biodegradable materials that also naturally form clumps when they come in contact with liquid. These litters are better than non-clumping litters as they are the best of both worlds. They keep the litter box cleaner and are less harmful to the environment.
Is Scoopable Litter The Same As Clumping?
Scoopable litter is the same as clumping and means you can scoop all cat waste out of the litter box. Non-scoopable litter means you're able to scoop poop but you must dump the entire contents of the litter to dispose of urine since it doesn't form clumps that can be scooped.
Is Clumping Cat Litter Bad For Cats?
Clumping clay litter is bad for cats because it contains sodium bentonite and silica dust, both of which can be harmful to your cat's health, and yours. When the litter is made from natural, sustainable, renewable, and biodegradable materials, it's safe for your cat.
Sodium bentonite is the agent that makes clay litter clump. The material forms hard clumps and expands up to 15 times its size when absorbing liquid. This is an issue for our cats when they ingest the litter by cleaning it off their paws. It's not a material that belongs in our cats' bodies and it can cause intestinal blockages.
Many will argue that there isn't scientific evidence backing up that claim, but that's simply because studies haven't been conducted on the negative effects of clay litter.
When we use common sense and think about how often our cats use the litter box, that the litter gets stuck between their toes each time, and that they clean it out with their mouths, we know our cats are ingesting small amounts of litter.
We can also use common sense to determine that clay should not be ingested, by humans or by cats. And when a clumping clay litter brand warns that their litter can clog the drains in our homes, it's also likely it could cause a blockage in our cats.
Most cats don't ingest enough litter to cause a major intestinal blockage or to create major health issues. But that doesn't mean clumping clay litter is a safe material for them to have in their bodies.
Silica dust is also present. It's a known carcinogen when inhaled and has been linked to upper respiratory issues in both cats and humans (source). Each time you pour litter into the litter box, out of the litter box, or scoop the litter, you're stirring up dust and inhaling it. Your cat does the same each time they dig in their litter box and stir up the dust.
Clumping Litters That Aren't Bad For Your Cat
There are several naturally clumping litters made from materials that are sustainable, renewable, and biodegradable. These litters give you the best of both worlds; they help you keep the litter box clean and odor-free, and they're safe for both you and your cat.
Naturally occurring starches and fibers help the following litter clump:
- Sustainably Yours (corn & cassava)
- World's Best Cat Litter (corn)
- SmartCat litter (grass seed)
- CocoKitty (coconut pith)
- sWheat Scoop (wheat)
- I Am Tofu (tofu)
Do Cats Prefer Clumping Litter?
Cats prefer a clean, dry litter box and clumping litter allows cat owners to keep the litter box cleaner than non-clumping litter. Clumping litters absorb liquids quickly, which keeps the litter box drier and odors down.
However, whether you use a clumping or non-clumping litter, it's important to scoop and change regularly. If clumps of litter and feces aren't scooped from the litter box daily, odors will quickly build up and your cat won't be able to find a clean spot in the box to go. Using a product such as Litter Genie can make scooping easier and ensure your home doesn't smell like a litter box.
Cats don't notice if a litter clumps or not. However, they will notice if their litter is uncomfortable to walk on, irritating to their respiratory system and nose, or is dirty and has a strong urine odor.
How Long Does Clumping Litter Last?
Clumping litter will last up to one month when one cat is using the litter box. Each brand will have different guidelines that vary slightly based on the material of the litter. Clumping clay litter will last the longest since it does the best job of absorbing urine and forming hard clumps that can be scooped out.
You must keep in mind, although you're scooping urine and feces out of the litter box when using a scoopable litter, there are still particles of the waste left behind. The litter box may look clean to you but it's full of harmful parasites and bacteria. This is why it's important to scoop daily, change monthly, and properly clean the litter box with each litter change.
How Do You Dispose Of Clumping Cat Litter?
The best way to dispose of clumping cat litter is to put it in the trash. If you're using a clumping clay litter, that's the only option. When using a natural clumping litter, you have more environmentally-friendly options such as putting it in a biodegradable trash bag or composting it.
Biodegradable litters only:
- Throw clumping litter and cat waste in the trash – use a biodegradable bag when tossing biodegradable litter to reduce waste.
- Throw litter clumps and feces in the trash & compost litter – it's important to compost biodegradable litter properly. It should not be used in gardens growing edible items or near a water source.
- Use composted litter as fertilizer – it's important not to use it in edible gardens. Instead, use the decomposed litter in flower gardens or flower pots.
Although many cat litters claim to be flushable, it's best not to flush any type of cat litter or waste. In some US states, it's even illegal to flush cat litter.
Most water treatment systems aren't able to properly treat the bacteria, parasites, and pathogens found in cat feces. Even when feces are removed from the litter before flushing it, traces of bacteria are left in the litter.
Is Clumping Cat Litter Biodegradable?
Clumping clay cat litter is not biodegradable, while clumping litter made from natural materials are biodegradable. Corn, cassava, wheat, grass seed, coconut pith, and tofu litters are biodegradable and compostable.


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Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday that flooding in Turkey's agricultural province of Antalya has damaged 100 homes, 920 workplaces, almost 500 cars, and 49 square kilometres of greenhouses.The downpour on Sunday prompted officials to advise residents against venturing outdoors, as cars were swept away by rushing water on flooded streets.
"Mr Soylu said there are 50,000 to 55,000 acres of greenhouses in Kumluca where 12,500 acres of damage has already occurred. 'The job continues to discover damages,' he said."
On Saturday, December 12, 2022, Kumluca was inundated with rainwater, flooding many houses and businesses. This incident occurred as a result of heavy rain in Antalya.
The Antalya region's agriculture sector accounts for 20 per cent of the country's exports, Anadolu state news agency said. Many homes experienced power outages, the agency said.
Because of the flooding, classes were cancelled in Kumluca and Finike districts. No injuries have been reported yet.
Officials said 12 cities in Turkey would experience more turbulent weather on Tuesday.
There were hundreds of volunteers helping with the clean-up efforts, Mr Soylu said. He said water had risen to the ceiling of a parking lot, preventing people from leaving.
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Obituary of Samuel J. Pasceri
Samuel J. Pasceri passed away Saturday, July 29th in Naples, Florida. Born August 8, 1973 in Lockport he is the son of John and Camille (Maiorana) Pasceri. Sam was a wonderful husband and father. He was larger than life, an avid fisherman, tri-athlete, pilot and entrepreneur. Sam is remembered as a man that would do anything for his friends, he was thoughtful and generous.
Besides his parents Sam is also survived by his wife of 26 years Virginia (Tobin) Pasceri; children Dominic and Sarah Pasceri; brother Dominic (Molly) Pasceri; also several nieces and nephews.
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VITL Welcomes Emma Harrigan as Chair of the Board of Directors
December 21, 2023
PeopleAs the organization's new Board Chair, Harrigan will help VITL continue to advance health data sharing in Vermont.
VITL is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma Harrigan as Chair of its Board of Directors. Harrigan brings extensive expertise in health care policy, quality improvement, and data systems to this role.
Emma Harrigan succeeds Richard Elmore in this role. Elmore actively served on the VITL Board since 2015. VITL would like to express deep gratitude to Elmore for his crucial contributions to VITL's work, and his support of the VITL team.
Harrigan is Vice President of Policy at the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS). In this capacity, she provides leadership on mental health policy, quality initiatives, systems design, member development, emergency preparedness, and data analysis for hospitals and health systems across Vermont. Harrigan is recognized as a strategic advocate for data utilization and performance accountability, particularly in the context of mental health care.
"VITL is thrilled to welcome Emma as the Chair of our Board of Directors," said Beth Anderson, VITL's President and CEO. "Her extensive experience in health care policy and data-driven decision-making will be invaluable as we continue to advance health data sharing in Vermont."
Shawn Burroughs will continue to serve on the Executive Committee as Vice Chair, along with Jessa Barnard as Board Secretary, and Debra Royce as Board Treasurer.
"I'm honored to take on the role of Chair of the VITL Board of Directors," Harrigan commented. "I see the benefit of VITL's data to hospitals and other providers in Vermont, and I'm pleased to work with Beth and the Board of Directors to support this important work."


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How people act in a polycrisis world
Multiple crises create fear and anxiety: whilst difficult this may also well be a springboard for people steps to navigate the new environment collectively
A wide range of issues are occupying the minds of people around the world. Perhaps little surprise given the range of connected crises we are experiencing, including cost of living, the war in Ukraine and global warming.
A term that is gaining ground as a means to describe this is polycrisis: interacting crises that result in harms greater than the sum that the crises would produce in isolation. This week we are looking at the implications of living in polycrisis world: first we consider three different sorts of psychological impacts and then we put the case that this can result in people seeking out each other, rather than the usual sources of expertise, to make sense of and develop strategies to navigate this turbulent environment.
1: Tipping points
Much has been reported on the way that we are close to reaching environmental tipping points with recent news suggesting that giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change.
The notion of psychological tipping points is something we have touched on before and is useful to help us understand how people may be responding to the current situation. Work by people such as Seamus Power and Ed O'Brien suggest that we have points of reference we use to determine psychological tipping point. These are both points that we recall from the past but also what we might imagine for the future, allowing us to make comparisons and, as such, determine how things are for us right now.
Much of the time changes are of course slow and can be hard to spot but at certain points the comparison 'tips over' and becomes problematic. As O'Brien points out here:
"People subjectively diagnose tipping points (as opposed to passively responding to objective reality), a process that is shaped by individual and situational forces."
Clearly then, the wider media discussion about environmental tipping points will have implications for the way we determine our own psychological tipping points, signalling to us when to be concerned. If people are now feeling as if multiple crises are impacting them significantly, we could be reaching a point of significant anxiety and concern about the world.
2: Existential anxiety
Of course, for many people the effects of the crises are being felt here and now: vast numbers of people have died, have chronic health conditions, been forced to migrate and suffered loss and significant impacts on their lives. And for many others in the population that have not been so directly affected, there are still anxieties, not only for their current lives, but for future generations.
Indeed, the philosopher Samuel Scheffler argues that, regardless of theological or other metaphysical beliefs, each of us is psychologically invested in the existence of an 'afterlife', in the sense of a world that will outlast us. In a thought experiment, he suggests that if we knew that the world was going to end the very moment we died, or (as in the storyline for the science fiction film 28 Days Later) that we were the final generation, then in theory this should not affect us (we will be dead after all).
However, Scheffler makes a convincing case that the fact there will be others succeeding us in the world, substantially contributes to making our own lives meaningful. The notion that our lives of those to come after us will be significantly changed for the worst is something that can be a great source of fear and anxiety.
Turning to the psychological literature, Lisa Zaval and colleagues have explored this in experimental work, finding that promoting peoples' latent motivation to leave behind a positive legacy leads them to engage in behaviours that favour the well-being of future others.
3: Seeking control and mastery over our lives
In this environment of fear and anxiety, it is well known of course that we seek mastery and control over our lives. This response is something that Terror Management Theory (TMT) aims to describe, suggesting that our existential fears and anxieties (for ourselves and the future of our species) gives rise to an existential terror.
This terror is navigated by a buffering system to calm us, consisting of a range of activities but with one of them being to follow guidance from experts that can support us. Indeed, we saw this during COVID with the vast majority of the population following expert guidance for avoiding infection at the peak of the pandemic.
So with this in mind, what are the implications concerning how and where we look for guidance?
Guidance seeking
Work by Babak Hemmatian and Steve Sloman is helpful here. They set out the way we use intuitive default options for determining when we draw on those around us to provide guidance. Social norms is an obvious candidate here, providing helpful guidance on what makes sense to do, useful for settings where we ourselves have little or no knowledge but others do.
Of course, this works in stable and predictable situations where we can rely on the knowledge of what has gone before for us to build on. Neil Levy sets out the way in which as humans we live in a 'cumulative culture' in which our collective, shared knowledge has a type of a 'ratchet effect', with our collective knowledge becoming a shared platform on which others can build. In other words, we know that other people will know 'what works,' and we can then be guided by them, confident that their past learnings are something we can then simply adopt without scrutinising them particularly.
The challenge comes when we are in unchartered territory and we cannot necessarily rely on the past as a guide to what we should be doing now. In which case then effective outsourcing to those we have historically relied upon may lead us astray. Arguably we are increasingly in just such a place, with the uniqueness of the multiple crises facing us implying that we cannot rely too heavily on past data and learning to guide us. To quote historian Lorraine Dalston, we are perhaps in a time of radical novelty thrown back into a state of 'ground zero empiricism'.
Hemmatian and Sloman suggest that in these situations we need to deliberate more carefully and rely less on our intuitive mechanisms of where to seek guidance. For example, people are more careful about domains of expertise they draw on, refining and fine-tuning the way in which we assess the effectiveness of advice from the usual sources.
However, they also point out that there is a great deal of evidence that human collaboration is essential for effective deliberation. In fact, surely this is what often sets us apart from other animals, our ability for understanding other minds and using this to efficiently work out what is needed and then perform joint tasks.
So perhaps this helps us to explain some of the behaviours we are seeing now, where instead of relying on authoritative institutions and established expertise, collective deliberation is being taken. If we look across different areas of concern, we can see these emerging, such as:
There is a huge and growing 'prepper' community worldwide, who take steps to prepare for the worst-case scenario with things such as medical supplies, food stocks and sometimes even a chemically-insulated, well-stocked isolated bunker. Some estimates suggest that there are up to 20 million people taking these steps in the US alone: a brief web search will take you to a wide collection of sites dedicated to connecting preppers and offering advice and guidance.
In response to concerns over increasing pollution of UK rivers, there has been a call by Angling clubs for their members to be by 'citizen scientists', testing their stretches of river for pollution using kits supplied by the Angling Trust. These will be used to challenge official estimates and campaign for better pollution controls.
A group called the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, a collective of social media users — has co-opted the "doge" meme as a way to humorously undermine Russian misinformation concerning the war in Ukraine alongside raising money for frontline Ukrainian troops. This is in contrast to way it is claimed that institutions in the West often response to Russian disinformation as boring reports or bland public statements.
These might be seen as examples of the way in which people are turning to each other to make sense of, but also to have agency and control in, a turbulent world.
In conclusion
Bringing this together, we can see that psychological tipping points are likely being reached where people cannot avoid the existential fears and anxieties caused by the polycrisis environment. We seek to assuage these existential anxieties by seeking out guidance on how to navigate and make sense of this changing world.
But the normal intuitive heuristics that we use to draw on for guidance are arguably in danger of becoming less relevant. This is clearly an issue for the institutions that we have historically relied on such as government agencies, public health bodies, employers and brands.
Of course we need more than ever a range of bodies to support the population in a wide variety of ways but at the same time people may become more selective about determining who holds the expertise and support that is relevant to them. There is a risk that familiar organisations and institutions are trusted but increasingly seen as less relevant for supporting in the complexities and difficulties of this new environment.
People do not of course then become passive but instead will look for others to help them deliberate, reflect on what to do, and then start to take action. This is a subtle change to Terror Management Theory, where the buffering system to manage 'terror' may now increasingly be collective sense-making, working together to develop much needed strategies for mastery and control of this changing world.


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The 7 Different Team Roles Of Buurtzorg's Successful Self-Managed Teams. Last Sunday we wrote that self-managing teams are not new—they were already described in the academic literature as early as the 1950s.
The blog post created quite a fuss – many thought we opposed this type of "reinventing the wheel". But nothing is further from the truth. Whether a concept is old or new, as long as it contributes to better workplaces we're fully in favor of it. In fact, there is much to learn from the best-of-class self-managing organizations that successfully put this powerful concept into practice. Clearly, one of these is Buurtzorg, the Dutch health care organization that employs ~14,000 nurses. The Key to Better Strategy? Think More, Collaborate Less. Introversion within Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Mark Cuban: This 1 Personality Trait Makes You Golden in the Eyes of Your Boss.
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Awesome. Now it's time to prove your boss that she made the right decision to hire you. Play your cards right, and you'll become an invaluable member of the team and hopefully earn a promotion down the line. To get to that next level, let's take a chapter out of Mark Cuban's book. The sage billionaire, Shark Tank star, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks recently spoke with Money magazine about the skills he finds most valuable in employees. How to Manage a Team of All-Stars. Executive Summary Teaming people with different skills and perspectives together almost always produces more output than the sum of those individuals acting alone.
But with star talent, this relationship is more extreme: productive power increases geometrically with the percentage of star players on a team. A five-member team, comprised entirely of A-players, can produce 16 times as much output – or the same output in one-sixteenth the time – as the sum of five average players working individually. And the best companies are more than 25% more productive than the rest due to the way they deploy, team and lead scarce, difference-making talent. Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? 5 things that resilient teams do differently. High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here's How to Create It. Executive Summary The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety — the belief that you won't be punished when you make a mistake.
Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having it cut off — just the types of behavior that lead to market breakthroughs. So how can you increase psychological safety on your own team? Research: How Teamwork Powers Mindful {and Effective} Leadership. Why is genuine teamwork elusive? – The Mission. If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any market, against any competition.
But the truth is that genuine teamwork remains elusive in most organizations, and team leaders and members fall unknowingly to the 5 dysfunction pitfalls. Patrick Lencioni told a leadership tale in his book about how Kathryn, the new CEO of a once-promising but now-failing company, managed to bring the unconsciously dysfunctional executive team into a cohesive and effective team, to illustrate an actionable model which is applicable to any team. I thought it's worth sharing, if you haven't got time to read the original. 1.
Absence of Trust The word trust is used so often and in so many ways that it has lost its impact. More than anything I've told by others, I see a trust problem here in the lack of debate that exists during meetings and other interactions among this team. To Build Connection on Your Team, Skip Icebreakers and Talk About Photography. Executive Summary Imagine looking at a photo of a single shoe on the sidewalk, or two people embracing, or a person walking alone into a cemetery.
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Collaboration. A 6-Year Study Reveals the Surprising Key to Team Performance (and 9 Ways to Enable It) Cognitive Diversity Helps Teams Solve Problems Faster - HBR Video. What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. So Rozovsky started looking for other groups she could join.
A classmate mentioned that some students were putting together teams for ''case competitions,'' contests in which participants proposed solutions to real-world business problems that were evaluated by judges, who awarded trophies and cash. The competitions were voluntary, but the work wasn't all that different from what Rozovsky did with her study group: conducting lots of research and financial analyses, writing reports and giving presentations. The members of her case-competition team had a variety of professional experiences: Army officer, researcher at a think tank, director of a health-education nonprofit organization and consultant to a refugee program.
5 Ways to Build Trust Among Your Team Members. Trust is essential when building a healthy and productive work environment. Whether you're leading an entire department or you work hand-in-hand with just a few coworkers, it's important to build trusting relationships. Trust is essential to maintaining the company's brand as well as supporting a healthy and fun work environment. Here are five tips to help build trust with both your coworkers and your superiors: Be Honest and Share Information Completely Be straightforward and honest with everyone, and expect the same in return.
Be Open to Others Don't dismiss an idea simply because it doesn't align with what you had in mind.Take everyone's feedback into consideration before making a final decision and let others be heard. Stand Up for What You Believe In If you feel strongly about an issue, make sure you voice your opinion, but be prepared to share evidence to support your view. Six Common Misperceptions about Teamwork - J. Richard Hackman. By J.
Richard Hackman | 5:50 PM June 7, 2011 This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organization that has to respond quickly to changing circumstances. My research in the U.S. intelligence community has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that can sidetrack productive collaboration.
Here are six of them. Misperception #1: Harmony helps. Actually: Quite the opposite, research shows. The Clear Path to Great Teamwork. San Antonio Spurs Tribute - The Beautiful Game.


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Replenitol Tablets Benefits
What are the advantages of Replenitol tablets versus sachets?
Firstly, Replenitol is a proven effective medication that can help to significantly improve the symptoms of PCOS, including boosting fertility levels. In women who do not have PCOS, it has also been shown to significantly help. Replenitol tablets are much more convenient than sachets and have an improved bioavailability profile.
Improved Bioavailability
Replenitol tablets require time to dissolve in the digestive tract before they can be absorbed; inoself sachets are already dissolved in water and so it is absorbed very rapidly. The half-life in the blood of the active ingredient, myo-inositol, is 22-24 minutes. That means that approximately 3 hours after taking a sachet of inoself (allowing one hour for absorption) the amount of the delivered myo-inositol will have halved 5 times: i.e. roughly 95% of it will have been removed from your system. Some will have been used to supplement the deficiency at the cellular level but any circulating excess is swiftly removed. This is what makes inoself and Replenitol so safe but also presents some unique challenges which Replenitol helps overcome.
Replenitol tablets are compressed under very high pressure and must be dissolved in the digestive system before the active ingredient can be absorbed. In laboratory conditions at 37°C, the average time for the tablets to dissolve was 5-6 hours so the release profile is much more gradual, more closely mimicking the body's natural circulating levels of myo-inositol. The peak is flattened and the circulating levels are sustained over a longer period of time so that it is available for cells when they need it. This is the goal of many therapies and it is an objective which Replenitol tablets can deliver. You can this in the graph below.
inoself sachets provide the clinically effective dose of 2g of myo-inositol twice daily. As inoself is dissolved in water, it is absorbed very rapidly, leading to a rapid rise in blood levels and a similarly steep decline as the half-life is 22-24 minutes.
Replenitol tablets are absorbed gradually, leading to a more even blood concentration. 2 Replenitol tablets twice per day offers improved bioavailability; taking 1 tablet 4 times per day can help ensure that myo-inositol is available to your cells for a little more of the time.
Comparison between Replenitol tablets and sachets
Above is a comparison of bioavailability between inoself sachets taken 12 hours apart, Replenitol taken 12 hours apart and Replenitol taken 4 times per day as someone may wish to do. It must be stressed that taking 2g twice per day of either inoself or Replenitol is a proven effective treatment regime. Replenitol offers the opportunity to improve on that benefit by enhancing bioavailability: this property will allow you to work with your clinician to decide which regime is best for you. As you can see from the above graphical representation the tablets help to deliver a more constant supply compared with sachets: there are no high peaks and no low troughs, one sees a much more constant blood concentration. Normally, the kidneys each produce 2g of myo-inositol and do so at a fairly constant rate: Replenitol tablets can help restore normal myo-inositol throughout the day so that it is always available when needed.
This graph is based upon laboratory observations and the known pharmacokinetics of myo-inositol, it is not derived from data from individual test subjects. It shows that Replenitol tablets can reduce the peak concentration in the blood by up to 90% compared with sachets and remain at physiological levels throughout the day. With sachets, there is a period of about 2½ hours when the blood levels are above the normal level followed by 9½ when it is below the normal level. If two tablets are taken twice per day, that situation is reversed and this should be an excellent regime for most people. If required one could, for example, spread the 4 tablets across the day at 07.00, 13.00, 19.00 and 23.00 which gives us an even flatter line at physiological levels that more closely reproduces the body's normal state.


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What is an NFT? A low-fungible token (NFT) is often a product of data that can not be evolved or exchanged. It is actually kept over a blockchain, the industry type of electronic ledger. These tokens are unique and may be connected with reproducible digital data files. Hence, they can be used to exchange a number of goods and services. Keep reading to understand more about NFTs. Here are some types of the various kinds of NFTs:
First, NFTs are a form of art work. As with most varieties of fine art, they are online will work of craft. You could buy NFTs by selling or buying them. You can even promote these to other investors. There are many pros and cons of NFTs. 1 advantage of the NFT is the fact that its cost is really very low. The value of a single NFT are often very large. You may even market it in exchange for cash.
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With a NFT to develop a transaction is not necessarily a bad strategy. It is far from as risky as being a standard foreign currency. That is the benefit of an NFT. This means it really is quickly dispersed and cloned. There are many challenges linked to obtaining an unregulated NFT, having said that. It's better to utilize a cryptocurrency to sell and obtain. But bear in mind, it's essential to be aware that you're not reselling an NFT you do not individual.
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Hi All,
I want to read and write into Excel files.
I want my script to generate the required output directly in the Excel format.
Is it possible through unix scripting or shall I have to use some other language for this purpose?
Waiting for your suggestion.
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If you "cat" an .xls file, you will notice that unix understand it as binary file, and you won't see relevant content. Instead, you can rely on "
comma separated value format
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Some libraries you can use:
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Hummingbird species have closely evolved with the plants they feed on, which is confirmed by their often tight ecological relationships in natural settings. Hummingbird-plant interactions are of interest for research areas such as ecology, evolution, and even agriculture, as they usually inform on the conservation status of interacting species assemblages, and its disappearance may precede the population extinction of the species involved in the interaction. In Chile, there are nine hummingbird species, which interact with a large and diverse number of angiosperm species in forest, desert, and mountain range environments. The motivation to perform this review is to systematize the available information regarding the flowering plants visited by hummingbird species in Chile, to present some basic plant-hummingbird pollination network metrics, and on this basis to identify the components of the plant-hummingbird relationships in need of further research. A plant-hummingbird metanetwork revealed a low connectance value, low niche overlap, and strong modularity among species. However, the fact that most species present a strong allopatric distribution across Chile, suggests that network structure results mostly from the history of colonization rather than from ecological organization. Nowadays, the main threats to Chilean hummingbirds are anthropogenic disturbance and climate change, which disrupt hummingbird-plant interactions, leading to unpredictable ecological consequences at the community level. Long periods of drought may reduce the resource base for hummingbirds, with dramatic consequences for the maintenance of bird and plant populations.
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There are four topics that need to go into this post, but it's almost midnight, so that just aint gonna happen. Dance class ran long (we did circle dancing for the spring equinox).
Here's two out of four.
Next up will be posts about Riley and Lloyd, but for now it's Fatima and Fred.
Things Around My House Thursday (12 of 52)
I've had this Hamsa hanging on the front door of my homes for many years. It does come down every once in awhile so I can put up something seasonal, which I enjoy doing, even though it makes me feel a little "Martha".
Mr Roger's Sweater Day
Previously blogged about in this post.
Today was the day to wear a favorite sweater in honor of Fred Rogers. I wore the only full sweater I have knit (to date).
"Under The Hoodie" by Kristen Spurkland, from the book Stitch N Bitch. If you're on Ravelry, here's a link.
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I wore the sweater today in the morning until it got to warm outside (but, I'll say it again: yay, spring!!), and then the temperatures took a huge dive in the evening hours after the sun went down, so I wore it again to and from dance class.
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BOSTON, Mar 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As the April 2nd voting deadline approaches in its ongoing proxy contest with Ramius, Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) (the Company) cited the support of key proxy advisory firms, the repeated flip-flop in positions advanced by Ramius, and what the Company believes are the poor qualifications of certain of Ramius' nominees for the Orthofix Board, as it urged shareholders to reject the activist hedge fund's proposals.
Ramius' statements throughout this contest have shown a flip-flopping of positions on the major issue of how Blackstone Medical should be addressed as part of the Orthofix business strategy. In December, Ramius launched this proxy contest stating its belief that the Board should "explore and execute a sale of Blackstone at the highest possible price." Key industry analysts have questioned that position, however, with the analyst at Canaccord Adams stating in February, "We believe any attempt to divest the Blackstone business in a fire sale would disrupt Orthofix's current strategies and limit the company's near-term and long-term potential." Ramius subsequently flip-flopped its position regarding Blackstone, stating in their late February definitive proxy statement "the Ramius Nominees have no present plans to pursue specific strategies at this time..."
Ramius' lack of specific strategies for Orthofix was also noted by two independent proxy advisory firms in their reports. PROXY Governance urged shareholders to reject all of the Ramius nominees for the Orthofix Board, stating, "The problem with the dissident campaign is not an inability to evaluate what went wrong, but the profound absence of a plan to effect a credible recovery." Likewise, Glass Lewis recommended against 3 of 4 Ramius nominees, calling the Ramius plan "particularly light on details" and stating "the Dissident does not have a plan to pursue specific operating strategies to address its concerns regarding the Company's performance."
Orthofix has continued to question the qualifications of certain of the nominees that Ramius has recommended for the Orthofix Board. Steven Lee served on the Board of Directors of ICN Pharmaceutical (now called Valeant Pharmaceutical International) from 2001 to 2004. Following the initiation of an investigation by the SEC of Valeant, Valeant restated nearly a decade of financial statements as a result of inappropriate backdating of stock options. This activity apparently continued during Mr. Lee's tenure as a Director and a member of Compensation Committee. Further, Risk Metrics Group (RMG) recommended against Lee "due to concerns about regulatory issues at PolyMedica Corporation where he was the CEO until 2002."
Orthofix is also concerned about Peter A. Feld, a 30-year-old Ramius employee with no healthcare or operating experience. Feld's disconcertingly thin and apparently unproductive experience on the boards of two public companies includes Sharper Image, which filed for bankruptcy protection shortly after Mr. Feld's five month tenure. In their recommendation for Feld, RMG said he "has the least company/sector experience" of the Ramius nominees.
By executing the strategy of the current Board of Directors, Orthofix has made significant progress in recent months. As noted by an industry analyst at Jefferies & Company, "In our opinion, OFIX's decision to judiciously employ improving cash flows to pay down debt is sound. OFIX has steadily made prepayments to reduce the principle amount owed and the strategy to further delever as cash flows improve is crucial to avoid a covenant breach as the leverage ratio will come down to 3.25x in Q4:09 and 2.85 in Q1:10. OFIX's projection of an improving EBITDA run rate is consistent with our model, and we do not expect OFIX to break any covenants."
On March 24, 2009, the Company announced it had made a third, $5 million, partial debt repayment ahead of maturity. The Company has made a number of other recent positive announcements, including improved performance at Blackstone.
"Independent industry analysts and proxy advisory firms have confirmed what we have been telling our shareholders," said Orthofix CEO Alan Milinazzo. "Furthermore, the current Board is a highly qualified group with a prudent strategic plan for Orthofix, and we are confident that there will be more positive progress to come. We urge shareholders to vote the Company's BLUE proxy card and reject the proposals of Ramius, a shareholder that has been invested in our Company for only the past six months."
Orthofix continues to urge its shareholders to vote on the BLUE proxy card as recommended by the Board of Directors.
About Orthofix
Orthofix International, N.V., a global medical device company, offers a broad line of minimally invasive surgical, and non-surgical, products for the spine, orthopedic, and sports medicine market sectors that address the lifelong bone-and-joint health needs of patients of all ages-helping them achieve a more active and mobile lifestyle. Orthofix's products are widely distributed around the world to orthopedic surgeons and patients via Orthofix's sales representatives and its subsidiaries, including BREG, Inc. and Blackstone Medical, Inc., and via partnerships with other leading orthopedic product companies. In addition, Orthofix is collaborating in R&D partnerships with leading medical institutions such as the Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation, Rutgers University, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and National Osteoporosis Institute. For more information about Orthofix, please visit www.orthofix.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication contains certain forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, which may include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the projections, financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Orthofix and its subsidiaries and are based on management's current expectations and estimates and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences may include, but are not limited to, risks relating to the expected sales of its products, including recently launched products, unanticipated expenditures, changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, risks relating to the protection of intellectual property, changes to the reimbursement policies of third parties, changes to and interpretation of governmental regulation of medical devices, the impact of competitive products, changes to the competitive environment, the acceptance of new products in the market, conditions of the orthopedic industry and the economy, corporate development and market development activities, including acquisitions or divestitures, unexpected costs or operating unit performance related to recent acquisitions and other factors described in our annual report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Important Additional Information
Orthofix International N.V. ("Orthofix") has filed a definitive proxy statement, dated February 26, 2009, with the SEC in connection with a special general meeting of shareholders of Orthofix to be held on April 2, 2009 at which Ramius Capital and certain of its affiliates propose to make changes to the composition of Orthofix's board of directors. SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ ORTHOFIX'S DEFINITIVE PROXY MATERIALS AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT SOLICITATION MATERIALS FILED BY ORTHOFIX WITH THE SEC BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and shareholders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement and other materials filed by Orthofix with the SEC at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, at Orthofix's website at www.orthofix.com, or by contacting Georgeson, 199 Water Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10038 or by calling (212) 440-9800 (bankers and brokers) or toll-free (800) 323-4133 (all others).
Orthofix and its directors and certain executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the special general meeting of shareholders. The names of such persons are: James F. Gero, Peter J. Hewett, Jerry C. Benjamin, Charles W. Federico, Dr. Guy J. Jordan, Ph.D., Thomas J. Kester, CPA, Alan W. Milinazzo, Maria Sainz, Dr. Walter P. von Wartburg, Kenneth R. Weisshaar, Robert S. Vaters, Michael Simpson, Bradley R. Mason, Raymond C. Kolls, J.D., and Michael M. Finegan. Information regarding such participants, as well as each such person's respective interests in Orthofix (whether through ownership of Orthofix securities or otherwise), is set forth in Orthofix's definitive proxy statement dated February 26, 2009, which may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, Orthofix's website at www.orthofix.com, or by contacting Georgeson, 199 Water Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10038 or by calling (212) 440-9800 (bankers and brokers) or toll-free (800) 323-4133 (all others).
SOURCE: Orthofix International N.V.
Orthofix International N.V.Dan Yarbrough, 617-912-2903Vice President of Investor email@example.com
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