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. tiuin ir phosphate i>om dei s sold oi ij in | uus lioyai i'.akimi powdek co..10i wall st s i foi sale l»v bin<rli;im & co . young a cos ; i tinn and \. i murpln . t asleep on the track a little child tired of piny had pillowed wa head on a railroad track and fallen asleep the train was almost upon linn when a passing strang-er rushed forward and saved him lroma horrible death perhaps you are asleep on the tr.uk too you are if you are neglecting the hacking coug-h the hectic hush the loss of appetite growing weakness and lassitude which have unconsciously crept upon you wake up or the train will be upon you consumption which thus insidiously fastens it hold upon its victims while they are un 1 conscious of its approach must betaken in tune if it is to be overcome dr tierce's golden medical discovery lias cured thou sands o cases of this most fatal ol maladies if taken in time and given a fair trial it is guaranteed to benefit or cure in every case dt consumption or money paid for it will be promptly n funded for weak lungs spitting of blood short ness of breath bronchitis asthma severe coughs and kindred affections it is uu effi cient remedy copyright 18s8 by world's di mi:r ass'lt fp^fisqkflfi reward w rpv 0 v u u t |( \ s •:? incurable case of catarrh in i s*k ••■" the head by the proprietors of dr sage's catarrh remedy only 50 cents rioid ti3 - druggists everywhere d a at well's hardware store where n full line of poods in his line may ii va s l>e found r sale by jno ii exxiss druggist ki:i:i c in '■■• '•• "• cucmex 1 craige & clement a.ttoi'3icvs a."t xj o x/v sai.isi;i::y x 0 feb mid 1881 hr j c mccubbins " jsui'scoii dentist salisbury - - - n 0 office in cole im.ildinp.secoml floor next to dr campbpll.k opposite d a atwell h i mlware store main street v subscribe for the carolina watchman ' a culprit the maiden aunt in her straight-backed chair with i tlti^li on her pule and wrinkled cheek and i horrified mortified mystified air was just about to spenk and t!il maiilen riioce — a nice little maid — stood meeklj twirling her thumbs about with ii half-triumphant half-afraid an>l wholly bewitching pout said the ra li'.len aunt will you please ex plain \\ hat your heads were doing so close together , you coul i easily i nssure you jane uave kuockc.j me down with a feather when i think of your bringing up — my care my scrupulous care in.l it's comes to this 1 you appeared to be sitting calmly there and letting a vouxg man ivis-i you vow tell me at once just what he said and what you replied this is quite a trial so do not stand then and imnir your head ur attempt the least denial ■if 1 catch you once more in such a — fix — though you art eighteen i can tell you jane j 1 hnl treat you just as it you were six an 1 send you to school a^.iin are you going to tell me what he said and what you said i'll not stand this trif ling so look at me janel lift up your head don't go as if you were statlin hit voice was shaken — of cenrse with feiir — j he s.iid — he said will you have me june and i said 1 would lint indeed aunt dear we'll never do so agaiu !" — ilarg tret i './ n d jri/t . - m.o th3 allianca exposed secretsofthe order kevealed — trib rlatioxs of a candidate one mckeever ints been telling the editor of llic elberton ga star his experience in j ining the alliance he seems to have had a rough time ami will nut take the other seventeen de crees his story runs '■i made up mv mind to join the al liance and yesterday donning my sunday-go-to-meeting clothes repaired tn the school house where the order met and sent in my application bv a neighbor wlu was a charter member in due season the glad tidings were conveyed to me tint i had been ballot ted lor and accepted and boiling over with eager gratification followed mv conductor into the wood-room adjoin ping the main building here my guard m id ■our presence known by picking up a section of a fence rail and rapping three limes on tii door this gentle signal was answered by three raps from within and the query " who conies there " a horny-handed son of nil jro ! ing in the darkness ami anxious to have the light of the alliance shed upon him replied my guide " bie.ik down the barricude that stands between a brother farmer and light and admit the applicant spoke a s iiorous voice from \\ it inn lust at that instant tin old door which had been removed from its hin ges was kicked over and striking me on top of the head raised this lump yon see here i thought it was an ac cident at the time and so made up mv mind to grin and hear the pain two stout men stepped forth and violently seizing me by the arms i was carried in to the middle of the main room 1 saw that the house was pretty well filled with spectators sitting on top of a cotton bale was the grand mogul of the order as i afterwards leainsd on his right a section of rail fence had been built and astride this was sitting another officer with it pile of guano sacks under him which 1 believe was the grand secretary i noticed that i all the officers and their assistants were in their shirt sleeves and wore jeans ants held up by one suspender each these parties i afterward learned rep resented the poverty-stricken condition ; of the farmers in one corner stood six men arrayed in their l>est store clothes and plug hats and each had a feather pillow rammed into his pants j to represent high living who were to act as merchants i had scarcely time \ to take a hasty glance around the room 1 when a fellow stepped up and dashed about a pint of guano in my face and before 1 had time to wipe my eyes or spit out the stuff my sight wan ob scured i an old guano sack — that didn't smell by any means like the hist rose of summer — lifting bound over my orbs of vision i was then led three times around the room and halted in froul of the grand tycoon on the cot ton bale " benighted brother farmer who hath been groping in darkness the light of organized agriculturists is now about to break upon you " spake the tycoon you are now within the sacred precincts of the farmer's alliance and in order to fix indellibly on your mind great truths we will proceed to carry yon through the or deals of initiation that handful of guano cast into your eves is intended to show you the folly of an undue use of this expensive commodity a lim ited use of guano in the right place is proper but you will not i hope soon forget the lesson taught you about its abuse now carry the benighted bro ther to the grand vice tycoon for further instruction " 1 was turned violently around my guards released me and i was told to go straightforward at a brisk trot this i did but soon ran against a ten rail fe.ice that had been secretly built in my path in the fall i was skinned from h j ad to heels 1 was soon brought up standing again the guano sack removed from my eyi ai.d i was carried before the fellow sitting on the pile of sacks with a look of pitying contempt this viee-tycoon spake to me fchusly " benighted brother farmer seeking the liylit of truth we administered to you the fence degree in order to im press upon your mind that to be a pros perous farmer it is necessary to avoid too close intimacy with a fence it is the habit of too many farmers to sit astride a rail fence and watch a nigger work his crop we trust that the les son you have just learned will not be lost the six well-.lressed men you see over in that corner represent the mercantile world and we will proceed to administer to yon what is known in the alliance as the ox or hewer of wood degree " my guide then stepped up and tying a board over my eyes like they do fence-breaking steers i was led into the centre of the room soon i heard ! a scuffling at the door and the six fel lows representing merchants forced into the room a little spotted bull calf as wild as a texas pony he was then brought up alongside of me and the pair of us yoked together one of the merchants holding tt rope tied in a ring of the yoke 1 thought i lud i seen prelty tough times but i soon knew that my past experience was but child's play compared with th ordeal before me that little hull and i were turned loose and the time we made around that room would shame a race horse i knew i had to keep up or my neck would be broken it had always been a mystery to me how a steer could turn his yoke but it is no longer a secret the bull turned his twice and i turned mine three times 1 veiled for some one to head us but the louder i hollered the fatter the little bull traveled just a i gave m - if up for lost we were broi'ghi to . ' • 1 stili the yoke removed from my bn -- ed and bleeding neck and i was again led before the grand tycoon who con solingly addressed me thiisly benighted brother seeking visdom i the lesson you have just received is to i impress upon your mind the sad truth that you are but a beast of burden for the commercial world the inerch-ant has a oke of servitude upon your neck au.'l you can only look tor relief to a farmers alliance man \\ e will now administer to you another degree showing the difference between cash i and credit i was again taken in hand by two merchants who forcibly tied a strong cord around each of my thumbs and ! in a twinkling i was suspended to a ridgepole that 1 yelled with pain and begged for mercy it is needless to add one of mv torturers demanded to know how much cash 1 would pay him to be released i offered all the money in my pockets which was 35 cents he agreed to let me down for i 1 cash or 10 on credit secured by a mortgage lien deed of gift and waiver note on my farm stock wife and children i eargerly accepted and on being released stepped to the table and in the presence of two witnesses signed the paper i was then led before the officer astride the worm fence who ex plained the thumb swinging degree as follows " benighted brother the ordeal which you have just passed through is administered for the purpose of re minding vou that there is a broad tl if — ference between buying on credit one dollarr in hand would have saved you from all that misery but for ' a lack of ready cash you were forced i to pay ten tunes the required sum this is the last degree we will admin ister to you at this meeting there are yet seventeen other degrees requir ed illustrating the different trials in a i farmer's life before you are a full blown member of the alliance i will state that they are somewhat severer than the initiations through which you have just passed but you will muster ! up the resolution to bear them identifying mr johnson u is thera a mr johnson in this car called the conductor as he entered a coach on a l«high valley train and held up a telegram to view there is replied three men in chorus as they rose up but this dispatch is for john john son that's me replied two of them while the third lojked relieved and sat down which of you ii mirried cjiitin ued the conductor 1 am both answered well i think tliis dispatch relates to the birth of twins at borne and is ! congratulatory ' tint lets ui out thank heiven 1 exclaimed one johnson as he sat down to wipe his brow while the other flash ed red and white for 1 moment and then received the dispatch iv v suit observation taught him now bee 1 s lid the architect is a plan for a 3,000 house which i think is about what ou want no said his customer inspect ing the plan i can't afford to put s5,000 in a house i said 3,000 not i^ooo 1 yes i understand you a s3,c00 1 house on paper costs 5,000 to build according to the plans draw me plans fora 1,000 hoiwe i don t want the structure to cost me over 3,000 the international congress of american states the congress of the three americas was formerly opened on october 21 at washington d c the hon jas g blaine secretarr of state of the uni ted states was elected president and senor romero minister from mexico was at the head of a committee to re port at the meeting of the congress upon a list of committee tor consider ation of the different subjects to be dis cussed as none of the delegates to the congress have power in full to act independently of their government the congress action will be in the nature of advice to th different countries but the results of the convention must be of the highest importance on the day mentioned above repre sentatives delegated from the follow ing countries were present hondu ras mexico nicaraugue peru salva dor uruguay venezuela bolivia brazil columbia costa kica guate mala united states in conference these delegates together with repre sentatives of the spanish-american commercial union a.e to determine what measures can betaken to increase commerce between the political di visions of the three americas to rec ommend changes in our modifications of existing international relations and to give as practical a meaning as pos sible to the doctrine of america for americans in europe the citizens of the western hemisphere sees much that is repugnant to his ideas libor is there established on a basis that does not accord with our ideas standing ai mies and compulsory military service war of great expense both as regard lives and the general resources of life immense and expensive navies are not attractive objects for our imitatioir in his address to the convention 1 mr blaine spoke of the immensity of j j tlie-fnterests represented nearly 1 xx),000 of square mile or mi are.-i three times as large na ah europe with 120,000,000 of population wei eluded in the countries of the conven tion his address was a plea for closer commercial relationship for co-opera tion and confidence to do away with the necessity for the maintenance of j the balance of power and for friend j j ship instead of force as the dictator of international relations after some further addresses the congress adjourn i : ed until monday november lstii i the intermediate time will be devoted j j to a forty day excursion through the | i united states by invitation of the ! i government a magnificent train the finest in equipment that has ever been made up is to transport them to the j leading points of interest of the country ! while the productions of america especially in the line of machinery ! enjoy a world-wide reputation they are l i not on that account free from compe ! : tition not only have the manufac i j turei v s of this country open rivals but ' a species of underhand competition is ! i at work foreigh producers copy the j ' forms and characteristics of our goods ! in cheap material and thus succeed in j i placing them in markets which have i j been worked up by ourselves the j i south american countries are a favor ite field for this form of competition this is but a side issue the main j fact is that the great opening for trade i afforded by them is not utilized by the i united states england germany and . france are hot competitors and have [ already left us far behind in the race ; it is to be hoped that the outcome of , 1 1 10 convention will b<i the establish ment of better commercial relations transportation is against us owing to ! the want of adequate steamship facili 1 ties to much of south american territory the quickest route is via england many other circumstances operate in the same unfavorable way there is one element in the problem j apparently but not in reality a minor ; one that admits of easy attack cotn i paratively few people realize how im j perfect are our postal arrangements with these countries letters can be sent by regular mail but of the proper postal facilities for business there i a | i great deficiency million of dollars j : worth of busiues i transacted annu ally within the united stares through the post office samples of goods are j sent by mail and selections are made | i from them as the bahis of orders to be 1 in turn sent by mail and pai.l for by postal money orders the federal ■government in providing these facili ! ties appears in its constitutional role of a regulator of commerce between the j states the post office has already i become an important element in the i actual business transactions of buying i and selling in this country and with the establishment of a more compre hensive parcels post will become a still larger factor if we turn to the southern countries and colonies all appears different over twenty-five independent states and colonies on the continent and islands are among them with the exception of a few unimportant isl ands there is practically only a letter post between us and them money orders cannot be sent so that without special accouiits small financial trans actions are debarred it is safe to say that no more easily executed and important improvement can fall within the scope of delibera tion of the congress the business of vending samples by m iil implies the necessity of cheap postal r-it^s then a a third innovation an pflvotive par cel pist should 1 establi bed the bine-glass craze bbowstsequard's ei.ixik recalls use of the funniest medical excite ments st i.oui giobe-bvmocrat in ls7t general pleasauton pub lished a work fully explaining his the 1 ory as u rhe infallibility f blue ghiss for iuvik'-'rating and retaining or re storing health in a subsequent edi tion he added a list of testimonals from ijr a tef ul patients who professed to hive il-rivel immense benetits from the treatment an i also the full text of the specification for his patients h:s book was entitled blue kay of the 1 sunlight and of the blue color of the sky in developing animal and vege table life in arresting disease and in restoring health in acute and chronic diseases in human and do mestic animals the general adorn ed the frontispiece with a rather un fortunate quotation if this theory be true it upsets all other theories 1 the converse seems to have lx*en very satisfactorily established a full re ■. cord of the general's military exper ience is also given apparently a.s ■tnew at . f i gu r nty of gool faith the u'*.th r's first experiments were i on grape vines in hi greenhouse he substituted blue for white glass in every eighth row and succeeded in producing grapes so fine that all others were rendered insignificant beside them in iso'j he treated some hogs to a sim ilar dose and some little pigs grew and thrived so well that a royal road to a fortune in hog-raising seemed to have been found xext he tried the effect of blue glass ou an alderney bull calf which grew six inches almost as by a miracle and became a veritablesaul among the little calves on the estate from hogs and cattle the descent to poultry was short and easy and a chicken-house was h'ited with just the is i re ready for tl ■.... . ".. . the su those that escaped the ' usual a i propel spring chicken route to oblivion grew into splendidly devel oped ami plumaged birds it needed not implicit belief in dar winism to induce the general to ap ply his experiments to men and wom en architects would be required to ! so arrange buildings as to insure ihe introduction of the elixir-like rays so that the owners and occupiers might enjov the marvelous advantages and mankind will then not only !><• able to live fast but can live long and also live wel judged by the fact that the bine glass craze general as it was during the years 1870 and part of 1877 died out quietly and has long since been decently interred some of the testi monial as to its efficacy from very funny leading they show that if all the writers meant what they wrote general pleasanton invented an elixir to cure not only every ailment but to supersede surgery and obstetrics in fact it m.ist have been omnip tent a man with varicose veins was able to throw away his silk stocking after sleeping in a room a few nights u . blue glass in the windows typhi patients after a day or two arose i •• giants refreshed and dismissed the physicians a bald-headed lady was delighted to discover an embryo crop of hair after seven days treatment while another grateful recipient en larged on the marvelous effects of blue grass on his ancient mule this once gray and festive quadruped had been deaf for ten years its limbs wire stiff and it was a very bad way but after blue grass was inserted in the stable window jack braced up could hear the word •'() its if only whispered could kick its owner across the yard and generally acted like a vivacious three year-old excitement ran high and the criz-3 j traveled north south east and west the wildest stories of cures were cir ciliated men hear 1 ofobjeets of pub lic sympathy getting cured almost without money and without price and entirely without trouble for never was there so passive treatment recom mended nor one less hampered with direction as to what should and should not be eaten and what habits or vices should be abandoned the demand for blue glass was such as the ni"st ardent enthusiast never anticipated it gradually and finally d iwned up.m the credulous public that thev had made themselves ridicrrlous blue glass became a drug on the market and flu people who were sick or wanted to grow young again looked elsewhere for remedies and elixir sleep is much modified by habit thus an old artilleryman often enjoys tranquil refuse while the cannon are thundering around him an engineer has been known to fall asleep within a boiler while his fellows were beating on it on the outside with their ponder ous hammers and the repose oi the miller is nowise incommoded by the noise of his mill sound ceases to be a stimulus to such men and what wonll have proved an inexpresible an noyance to others is by them altogeth er unheeded it is common for sol diers to sleep on horseback and coach men on their coaches during the battle of the nile some boya were so exhausted they fell asleep on the deck ami the deafening thunder of that 1 dreadful engagement ohio farms extiact from an account of a trip made by georgia fanners to qhio m published in the atlanta constitution in the first place no withstanding the fait that the value uf the farm lands m ohio under mortgage is much greater than those in gorgia the farms are in far superior condition i he mortgages in almost ev r instance are for improvements kv rv farm il rli sr.-.tr t least i vei * >, the liar gi.ms saw was is clean md neat as a garden the faim hou>es i'.re a a rule small u pretty modern cottage well furnished and comfortable the barns tire sujierior to the dwelling the first story generalh of stone '< r brick and the balance of w i thev are painted and • r one has a in • m the ro f which - ves it a rather pleasing appearance thegrouud fly arc for stmk ami \ chicles the >•/> * averaging room v fromtweutv toon hundred head of catl le and horses above is for the grain hay forige antl agricultural implements the farms the >' iteover will aver age not more ti n one hundred and twenty-five acres each everyone is in the very highest state of cultivation the most improved agricultural nnple-b innits nv used consequently the t'.mu-h ers require vevy few farm laborers every farmer raises horses cattle tilfl hogs ami the majority of them >' .^| sheep consequently tr h ve mou fl stable manure to highh fertilize tli.^h farms without the use f am u r i ■i^i quantity of commercial fertilizers in fact nrany of the farmers use no com mercial fei tilizers at all however thesecret of the great yield per acre in the ohio farms is general ly conceded to be due to the manner in which t!x--r lauds are prepared when the ohioiaiih were informed by the georgia farmers t!..;t in georgia w never go down m plowing in<ir tuaii • : ■- « ohio tii -\ never plow less than n_'ht inches deep and oft«*n as much is twelve by thn deep low ing three horses in ■;:)•,' iis.-il to each plow they claim that the soil will pro duce much m ire and that it does not require as nine ferl il rr again there is nothing losi on im ouio farm the strictest ecomomv is studied and executed even person on the farm ha his duties and th-v are carried out to the letter i'hc la borers re few but are well pnid and required to work even inenilier ol the fanner's family works and the women ii as much as the men in fiict farming in n,nu has been reduced to the most eco i nuical svstem i » ■1 1 every tanner lives well his home is comfortable and his table is invariably laden with the l»--t the land afford i'he beautji ol it however is that every tiling is raised on t he farm 1 think tin great need of a georgia farm is grass stock and in nure i would be glad georgia fanners could be induced to practice the sys tem and economy uniformly followed b i )\ ,.. farmers in < reorgia our rie n culture has a constantly withdrawn it.,irnl our land an therefore left i-arn-n and denuded again you understand that their grasses induce and maintain the rais ing of stock which together with the immense amount f straw and wstste vegetable matter makes lrye ace u init iations of i rich barnyaid manure all this is careful hamili d in < hi and judiciously applied to the binds ohio farmers rely alnn st exclusively upon clover and barnyard manure to gether with proper rolati-ni of theii crops georgia farmers dej»end too iiiuch upon commercial manures and allow their fields to be too closeh glean ed by stock in it lean take a thousand dollars and invest it in georgia land u:il ri'.i moi than an ghio fanner can with an investment of 3,ihh !>-■ii-e their laljorers wili do a linn more than ours their prejudice are much stronger pgiinst the negro than ours tii can i t pay more forthe kinif class labor i r > \ regaxl the negro as an unprofitable servant 1 they rate him bel v i i - r«*al merits we are better - itisfied with our own staif we have found that we have a better market for all farm pr ducts we - ' ■wn o'ir u re.ige iii'i increase ■■net profits \\ •• shall m ike our in ing at home and surplus cr p cotton will in time make us rich the fayetteville centennial is at tracting a gooil deal of attention the i •■people are working with great nthiwsiasm and the affair at present promises to be a grandsuc cess daiks's 2z::uc :: plax cough cure i . . ■''. ■inn p i!i |» runts the ■in i ;., - i ■!. iilii.i --. 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|Carolina Watchman
|The Carolina Watchman
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|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
|Date Digital
|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|Project Subject
|State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive
|The Thursday, October 24, 1889 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
|The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
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|Carolina Watchman
|The Carolina Watchman
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|Hamilton C. Jones
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|Project Subject
|State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive
|An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
|The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
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I have honestly never seen a single person have any issues with directories, nested or no, and as old as the concept might be, the people I interact with seem to be able to handle it just fine. Contrary to the broad strokes made in the article, nested folders really aren't all that complicated conceptually, especially not when compared to, say, the mouse (indirect manipulation), the concept of applications (totally arbitrary), and dozens of other accepted computing concepts.
In fact, a complete absence of a regular accessible directory structure seems to create more problems than it supposedly solves. Applications on the poster child for this concept, iOS, are islands, and the files within them are not easily shared, which leads to all sorts of different problems. Then there's the issue of not knowing where a certain file is; instead of having your own structure, tailor-made for you because you created it in the first place, you now have to remember which application created what file. And what happens when it's in an application you deleted? It's all needlessly complicated.
It seems to me that directory structures are something that some people desperately want to be difficult, but in reality, really aren't. It's a conceptual problem that, in reality, doesn't exist. I've never heard anyone say "Instead of tucked away in folders I can remember, I want all my files to be in one big mess of a pile that only a searching tool can make sense out of, so that I, consequently, have to remember each and every file name or parts of its content". I also have never heard people say "I wish all my files were strictly tied to individual applications, making it very hard to move them around or take them with me."
All this talk about directory structures as if they were the seed of the devil annoys me, because it seems like the success of iOS makes it a legitimate position, as if iOS' success is 100% - or even 10% - based on how it
doesn't handles files. The fact that virtually everyone I know with an iPhone or iPad emails files to themselves to get them on those devices illustrates just how far we've regressed.
Emailing files to get them on devices? Seriously?
Directory structures are not evil, and they're not hard to understand just because some people believe they should be. Like cupboards, Tupperware, boxes, closets, pockets, wallets, and about a gazillion other products, directories allow us to organise our stuff, and that's a concept as old as time itself. Throwing them away just because Steve Jobs hated them is not only short-sighted, it's destructive, and makes computing more complicated, not less.
Right, so this paragraph wasn't supposed to be here, but this just hit me the moment I wanted to press publish: making files harder to move around? Making it harder to find them? Making it harder to take them with you? It's been staring me in the face this whole time.

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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli has announced agreements with Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond to encourage their suppliers to report on workplace safety, human and worker rights and environmental compliance.
"Companies face significant legal, reputational and operational risks when their suppliers do not promote sustainable business practices," DiNapoli said. "Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond have agreed to encourage accountability among suppliers on critical issues, which demonstrate that they are operating responsibly. Companies across the globe should take a comprehensive look at their operations and determine whether their suppliers are taking similar steps to ensure labor, environmental and safety standards are upheld."
The agreements follow discussions with both companies after the New York State Common Retirement Fund filed shareholder resolutions earlier this year. The resolutions, which have been withdrawn at both companies, asked that the companies' significant suppliers take necessary steps to publish an annual, independently verifiable sustainability report that it would make available to its shareholders:
Among other disclosures, reports should include the suppliers' objective assessments and measurements of performance on workplace safety, human and worker rights, and environmental compliance using internationally recognized standards, indicators and measurement protocols.
Best Buy agreed to encourage 20 of its major suppliers to produce regular sustainability reports and help them in building management systems that will increase those suppliers' abilities to report on their sustainability efforts. In addition, the company committed to send a letter to all of its suppliers encouraging them to produce regular sustainability reports and to provide them training and tools to support these efforts.
"Best Buy's efforts send an important signal to investors that the company values compliance and ethics as key components of good corporate governance practices," says Meredith Miller, chief corporate governance officer, UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, the co-filer of the resolution at Best Buy. As of March 27, the trust held 119,825 shares of Best Buy, worth $2.6 million.
Bed Bath & Beyond agreed to add language to its vendor compliance guides, scheduled to be released in January 2014 or sooner, for domestic and foreign vendors. In particular, the company will add the following language to sections dealing with social compliance and merchandise quality standards:
"BB&B is constantly looking for ways to improve in the area of corporate responsibility. In connection with this effort, we encourage our vendors to adopt a comprehensive program of responsible practices and to prepare a corporate responsibility (or 'sustainability') report if they do not already do so."
In 2010, the Common Retirement Fund, in concert with other signatories of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, wrote letters to selected apparel and consumer durables companies asking them to call on their overseas suppliers to implement the core labor rights standards of the UN's International Labor Organization, and to allow independent monitoring of their compliance.
DiNapoli reached an agreement in 2011 with Mohawk Industries, a leading supplier of flooring, to adopt a labor code of conduct for its suppliers. In 2012, Leggett & Platt, a leading manufacturer of furniture and bedding, agreed to create a supplier code of conduct, which provided a uniform code of conduct throughout its world-wide supply chain. The code became part of the company's standard contract terms and conditions.
As of March 22, the fund owned 770,945 shares of Best Buy valued at $17.6 million, and 703,193 shares of Bed Bath & Beyond valued at $45.4 million.


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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina State University is commemorating the anniversary of a shooting with a panel discussion on the impact the event had on college campuses.
Friday marks 45 years since the event that became known as the Orangeburg massacre. Three S.C. State students were killed on Feb. 8, 1968, after state troopers opened fire on campus on protesters angry about a local bowling alley which was segregated.
The panel discussion is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday, while a ceremony honoring the victims is slated for 3 p.m. Jordan Simmons III, who was 1 of 27 people injured in the shooting, will talk about his memories.
An FBI investigation led to charges against nine troopers, but a jury of 10 whites and two blacks acquitted them.
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PLANS for ten 126m high wind turbines on the Yorkshire Wolds between Malton and Scarborough will not go ahead after the Secretary of State overturned a planning inspector's decision.
Permission for the wind farm - which has been the subject of a four year long planning wrangle - on Heslerton Wold was quashed in a decision by the Secretary of State.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles reviewed and then overturned a planning inspector's decision on RWE nPower's plans.
In a ruling issued on Wednesday, Eric Pickles said that even though the wind farm would boost the amount of renewable energy in Ryedale and help lower CO2 emissions, its impact on the cultural heritage and landscape of the area would be too much.
German based energy company RWE nPower was initially refused permission to build the 10 turbines, each 126 metres tall, high on agricultural land at Heslerton Wold when the case went to Ryedale District Council's planning committee.
It attracted heavy opposition for campaigners and local residents, including farmer Paul Stephens, who said:
"First and foremost, we didn't want an industrial operation - this wind farm - dominating our Yorkshire Wolds.
"We are farmers and have a duty as custodians of the land to look after it."
But the company then appealed refusal and the plans were approved by a planning inspector in February, before the Secretary of State announced he would review the decision because it was of such major significance to the area and, this week, overturned it.
Yesterday Mr Stephens welcomed the Secretary of State's decision to stand by local people and refuse the plans.
He said: "I am over the moon that it has come to this conclusion."
He and other campaigners had watched the Secretary of State's decisions on other wind farm cases and were hopeful the Heslerton case would also be turned down.
"The Secretary of State said six months ago that local people must have more say in their surroundings.
"Local people made their decision on this at the planning committee when it was refused, but when it went to appeal it became a dictatorship because one man - the planning inspector - can over rule local opinion."


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As an alternative, measuring the GFR can be useful in numerous situations commonly encountered in practice, such as
In this test, 300 mg/kg of iohexol, a commonly used radiographic contrast agent, is administered intravenously, and blood samples are typically drawn two, three, and four hours later.1,2 The timing of sample collection is flexible, but the exact time the samples were drawn needs to be accurately recorded so the precise time elapsed since injection can be calculated. The most commonly used veterinary diagnostic laboratory that offers measurement of iohexol concentrations and calculated GFR is Michigan State University's Diagnostic Center for Population & Animal Health (animalhealth.msu.edu/Submittal_Forms/AD.ADM.FORM.017.pdf), and results are generally available within a week. Other radiographic contrast agents such as iothalamate cannot be substituted for iohexol because the assay specifically measures iohexol and does not detect iothalamate. Although iodine allergic reaction or development of mild reversible acute kidney failure has been reported in people undergoing this type of test, the risk in animals appears to be low.3
Case examples: Iohexol clearance
The next four brief case examples reveal how measuring GFR with the iohexol clearance test was a valuable tool in patient management.
Her GFR was measured by iohexol clearance, with a result of 1.635 ml/kg/min, which is a 70% reduction from the expected mean of 5.48 ml/kg/min, confirming IRIS Stage I chronic kidney disease (iris-kidney.com/pdf/IRIS2009_Staging_CKD.pdf). Inadequate urine concentration tends to occur with over 66% reduction in GFR, whereas azotemia occurs with over 75% reduction.
A renal diet was initiated. One month later, hypertension was diagnosed, so benazepril and amlodipine were prescribed. Nine months later, Sheba remains clinically stable.
A senior dog with PU/PD and cystic calculi. Belle, an 11-year-old spayed female mixed-breed dog, was presented for evaluation of polyuria and polydipsia. Her BUN concentration was 12 mg/dl, creatinine concentration was 1 mg/dl, and urine specific gravity was 1.018. ACTH stimulation test results were normal, as were fasting and postprandial bile acid concentrations. An abdominal ultrasonographic examination revealed cystic calculi. The owner was unsure if there had been a partial improvement in the polydipsia after a course of antibiotics.


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text: Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, and that the killing take place accidentally during some harmless flirtation on Hayward's part. He was vetoed by the timorous Republic staff (even the slightest hint of miscegenation was taboo in 1950), but House by the River turned out pretty well all the same.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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A Winning Place to Study
Windward Community Colleges Library Learning Commons earns design and building awardsWindward Community College
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Windward Community College's Library Learning Commons received the People's Choice Award at the 2013 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honolulu Design Awards "Shaping Hawaii Through Design Excellence" Gala and celebration on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at the Hawaii Prince Hotel in Waikiki.
The AIA Honolulu People's Choice Award gives the public an opportunity to view AIA distinguished entrants and determine a winner by popular choice. Architects Hawaii, Ltd., principal Terry McFarland, accepted the award for 2013 and described the project.
"We used an integrated design process in which students, teachers and administrators were involved to help establish a design program and design direction," said Terry McFarland, principal at Architects Hawaii, Ltd.
As the first green library in Hawai'i, the Windward Community College Library Learning Commons is an example of how architecture can contribute to the advancement of education and technology in the 21st century. The library features elements beyond a regular library including a media center, classrooms, and a coffee shop. Open common areas, including the three-story atrium, bring in natural daylight creating a collaborative and efficient learning environment. As a focal point within WCC, the library maintains the campus aesthetic of Spanish Mission Revival Architecture. Along with state-of-the-art technology, unique features include its furniture made of recycled materials from the previously demolished building. The library is in the process of receiving the LEED® Silver Certification.
Other awards received:
• Building Industry Association, Renaissance Overall Grand Award for New Commercial project – 2013
• Building Industry Association, Renaissance Grand Award, Hawai'i Built Green Division, National Green Standard Commercial project – 2013
The 28th Annual Building Industry Association of Hawaii's (BIA) Renaissance Building and Remodeling Awards is the "Voice of the Construction Industry" representing builders, developers, contractors, suppliers and associates whose business is construction. For this award, the focus is on the design of the project, celebrating excellence, and recognizing the collaborative partnerships within the building industry. A total of 38 entrants participated. The Grand "green" award was judged on creativity, use of materials, environmental & sustainability, functionality, design principles, value, interior space, overall quality and workmanship.
• American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase, Outstanding Designs and Citation Winner – 2013
American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase is a national publication that is part of the American School & University magazine. It is focused on the latest education facility innovations and information.
• Masonry Institute of Hawai'i, Project of the Year – 2011
Masonry Institute of Hawaii, a local organization focused on the importance of the use of masonry as a building material. Masonry is sustainable, energy efficient, durable, and provides the most efficient use of materials and labor.
The WCC Library Learning Commons' multiple award-winning design reflects a commitment to craftsmanship, a dedication to collaboration and an abiding respect for the islands and its people. Many who visit the library say, "I want to go to school here!"
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Sony has filed a new patent which may be useful in combating piracy.
If this actually works, it would be incredible for Sony. I would hate the idea of my game unintentionally being read as illegal, but since I don't download illegally, as long as it doesn't affect me, more power to them.
This is a bad idea because of hardware wear and tear.
There are a number of ways it could go wrong, but hardware slowdown is one I'm sure they'll be able to address. Like I mentioned, if it works well, okay then. However, if they can't successfully implement it on the PS4, then it's a problem.
Moving parts wear out in very predictable ways. All they have to do is track for the age of the blu-ray drive, and they can probably develop some function of legitimate slowdown, vs the slowdown caused by pirated disks.
@r21 below...
Welcome to the x86 world, where every caveat and detail about the cpu is known by hackers around the world. Now that the PS4 is based on that, I expect it to have a piracy problem comparable to what the xbox 360 has...
No, guys, I want to explain what the article creator didn't understand. It's looking for load times faster than they should be. For example Ni No Kuni had a bunch of people complain it crashed. But it was revealed that only downloaded copies of the disk version loaded a certain element too fast causing a memory conflict and crash. The Digital Download version was altered to not do this. So again there not looking for files that load too slow, there looking for files that load too fast.
It's sad that so much time and resources are needed to try and combat piracy. Not sad that they are doing it but sad that they pretty much have to.
With the internet being such a public place and a wealth of information it's easy to see why they have to try and take drastic measures to stop piracy. Once the key is out there it becomes very hard to lock the door again.
Just imagine it's your game, that you've spent 2-3 years of your life working on and some snot nosed little punk is enjoying the f-out-of-it and you get nothing for it. Used games is one thing but on this issue Sony should do everything in their power to prevent.
31 people + dont know what wear and tear would do.
Except the 360 already does it and it doesn't work because they (c4eva) found ways to combat it.
Instead of searching for ways to stop piracy, they should be giving people incentives to not pirate. As Gabe Newell said, you need to offer people something that is better than free. That's how you stop piracy.
It does sound like a good attempt at fighting back piracy but I dont think piracy is that rampant on blu ray games.
Yeah, I can't imagine it would be. It's always good to have a safeguard though.
I'm not entirely sure this will be implemented though. Unless of course they're able to sort out any issue it may have in wrongly identifying games as pirated.
You dont need a BluRay copy to pirate PS3 games, there are other methods resorting to the console HDDs.
I dont think this will work out, Pirates always find ways to conutermeasure these anti-piracy things.
I think the point is that with BD games when people would pirate them, at least with ps3, most people would run custom firmware that would allow them to store the entire game on the HD, which case in point allows for faster loading times. this new software would allow the hardware to detect a program loading too fast thereby distigiushing it as a pirated program.
The only problem I have with fighting piracy is that the ones that are actually paying for everything are the ones that really pay the price for a few douchebags that want to play for free.
And don't forget that just because a company patents something doesnt mean it will ever see the light of day.
It won't work, this has been utilised (in some form) before on PC games, didn't stop them games being pirated.
Cool tech but Sony hasn't needed it this gen on ps3
I still haven't heard of anyone pirating games on the ps3 even though it has been cracked
Let alone not many people going to go out of their way to download 25+ of gigs to play a game
On top of that you need ancient PS3 firmware that does not go online....too much hassle...iMO
Oh you haven't heard of it so it can't be true then?
PS3 is cracked wide open now. Any game is playable and while it's not as rampant as 360 piracy that's only because it took longer to do it properly.
And no you don't need an ancient FW at all, not anymore! And as for online, that is obviously a choice pirates don't mind making (same as multiplayer PC games).
As someone said above, with the new architecture, hacking should be technically simpler but Sony may have some "imaginative" safeguards in place that could be tricky to bypass.
So long as they allow used games/sale of used games they shouldn't suffer from piracy in any meaningful financial way (none of the consoles do, even with Piracy the games industry makes a massive amount of cash thanks to high prices - but sales are high partly because people feel they are buying a game that they own, they can sell on half price, or more, towards their next game, I have always done this as it funds my 'habit' but if they stamp out used games, then I can't justify the high prices of games anymore and nor can they.
If there is no piracy and no used games then game prices MUST be halved, as those things were always used as 'excuses' for the ridiculously high prices of videogames.
Like the music industry, their greed will bite them in the ass if they push their luck next gen.
Buy, sell and trade with friends - allowed.
Pirate game without paying anything - BAN(and should be).
I think the best solution for them is to reduce the price of video games especially the ones downloaded digitally. I don't understand why a lot of games are marked at 60$ to 65$ with tax. I dont see anyone trying to pirate angry birds! Yea sure they work 2 to 3 years to make a video game but what about movies that come out they take about the same amount of time to make too and they go for about 20 to 30 dollars. I could name loads of video games this past generation that were not worth 60 dollars
The chances of this thing working as expected (ie: not blocking legitimate users) are about the same as the infamous Sony BMG Rootkit malware working without locking up users drives:
I really hoped they learn from past lessons.
Sony Patents tech that Tracks Load Times to detect Pirated Software''''
Stop this BS, Sony..
No matter what company or how big that company is, there is always someone out there smarter than them who will come up with a hack. Just saying..
it is an interesting idea, but I think there are too many factors at play to be able to do this reliably. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
*reads title*
suck on that, pirate scum :)
The best thing about ps4 is x86 architecture.
This thing will be cracked soon enough, and all the great emulators from pc will be ported.
Idk man, the Xbox was also x86 architecture and it hasn't even been emulated yet after almost a decade.
I was thinking about ps4 running emulators that already exists on x86/pc, like Dolphin,Mame,PS1,PS2...
That would be a true PlayStation.
Only hope for Sony boys to play a N game on Sony hardware ;-)
Oh man that would be great since i enjoy playing snes and n64 games a lot on my pc and then i could on my ps4 but then again i would be happier if the thing isnt hack at all just like how my ps3 is and im sure sony has something up their sleeve to prevent this from happening
lol like if this is enough to stop them....
you can always fool a system, no matter what.
what sony is doing is asking hackers to actually hack the PS4 since most of hackers always seek a challenge to build up their name, like YinFanLu did with the PSVita.
and now with the PS4 having a PC-like structure it will be even easier, have you noticed how many times DRM has failed on the PC? it always does.
emulation is not easy at all, and demands lots of coding and power, example of this is PCSX2, you need a pretty decent computer to be able to play some games from the PS2 at full speed. another example would be the N64 emulator on the PSP after for like 5 years it is still in development!!!
what sony should had done if they really wanted to stop piracy a bit, would be for them to make a completely proprietary struture.....
Great idea but I thought with the PS3, hackers burn the games to the HDD so they don't play them off a disc. Won't this be the same it PS4 gets hacked? (I really don't want that happening.)
Just because a company Patents a product doesn't mean they'll use it.
We saw the Patents for the Playstation controller that splits into two. And we've all seen the new Dualshock 4.
And not forgetting the 'Used game blocking' Patent. Sony has already confirmed that the PS4 WON'T block used games.
Personally, I've not nothing against tech that will block pirated games as long as it doesn't have any negative or noticeable impact on my console.
This is why I love Sony , they are always innovating and looking for the tech edge. Genius idea.
If they altered the digital version of Ni No Kuni to overcome this too fast load time then what is to stop a pirate from applying a similar patch to a pirated game to achieve the proper load time?
Don't mess with c4eva...he will F*** up Sony. Its a mission for him as well as a hobby. LT is coming to a PS4 near u.
Do you REALLY want for that to happen.
Certain economies are hinged on this joint venture you know.
Is it now ok to not help those selling the genuine?
Would you like for your hard work given away too?
i buy the games i like. Micro$oft should be thanking C4eve for helping them sell there system.
I'd rather piracy to stay far far away from the PS4 as long as possible.
Preferably for six years or more.
Hmmm... if rfid chips aren't for used software then what could they be for?
Could it be that BC's presence would casts unknown vulnerabilities if included?
Did Sony start over with a clean slate on the PS4?
Hopefully those jangly "keys" are buried in the earth's core this time around. lol
What if you use an SSD or other different type of internal HDD?
Sounds like a good way for Sony to sell more blu-ray burners and empty discs.
This makes sense because the ps4 is so similar to PC architecture, it may be cracked relatively easy compared to the cell. One patent I hope they never use is blocking used games. If they implement it, Microsoft may be quick to announce they won't carry the feature and divert sales from Sony. That may be a positive however, as it would force Sony to drop the terrible feature.
I dont get it, so theyre saying if the game loads any faster than what is expected, you'll get blocked/banned?
What happens if it just loads quicker for no reason, or when a developer releases a patch to make the game load quicker?
Maybe they should make games cheaper so people wouldnt have to want to pirate games... I don't see people pirating angry birds
Angry birds isn't exactly on the top of the list there guy...
So if I want to put an SSD in my PS4, it's going to tell me I pirated the game because it loads too fast?
Check it folks!
Think back a couple years ago... April 2011 to be exact, that ring a bell. Following that, a patent was filed in August 2011. When someone busts your house down sometimes irrational is all you can think. "Sigh"... hindsight is 20/20.
Now fast forward to to 2013
Either Sony has those discs/lasers/disks rendered bulletproof or they may as well go about strangling themselves. I'd like to think Sony has thoroughly tested this patent in everyday, random and even interrupted use. Hopefully Sony sees reason and decides to have it heavily amended.
If not, gun meet... foot... repeatedly.
Sony Idea won't work. A dirty laser can in fact affect the loading time.
Good So I will do something to slow down my load times and when sony blocks my system I will sue them.
Easy money!


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A Studio in Contrasts
Belgian architect and interior designer Gert Voorjans transformed Dries Van Noten's retail empire, creating homey environments layered with decorative elements from around the globe—and tied aesthetically to his home and studio in Antwerp, the birthplace of his eclectic inspirations
THE QUAI MALAQUAIS is not a fashion street. Though the tree-lined thoroughfare along the banks of the Seine is prime Parisian real estate, the neighborhood consists of antique dealers, bookshops and art galleries. Across the river, major luxury brands cluster along the Avenue Montaigne and the Faubourg St. Honoré. But the Quai is where designer Dries Van Noten chose to open his men's and women's flagship boutiques.
Inside the shops, the atmosphere flouts luxury retail convention even further. Entering the airy and bright women's store at number 7 feels like trespassing in the private apartment of a generations-old Left Bank family with impeccable taste and heavily stamped passports. The men's shop at number 9 gives off the mood of a traditional club—a bit decadent, but still elegantly appointed.
The creative force behind both spaces—and most of Van Noten's nine flagship locations and countless department-store boutiques—is 50-year-old Belgian interior architect and decorator Gert Voorjans. Since Van Noten first hired Voorjans almost two decades ago, they've concocted a distinctive residential look that might be overwhelming in its highly eclectic mix of eras and cultures if it weren't so refined.
This is equally true of Van Noten's collections. Although the clothes and the stores share a seamless quality, they are both intensely researched and considered—a truth that Voorjans passionately attests to. "A lot of people think, Oh it's like mique-maque. You go to the flea market and then you do something expensive and cheap," he says. "They think it's like clothing. A little Zara, a bit of Dior, you mix it up and it's easy. I can tell you it's not easy at all. It looks natural, but it's really studied. It's not like, Oh Jesus, we're opening on Monday, let's go and get some things."
THERE ARE MANY SUCH "THINGS" in Voorjans's Antwerp studio, which is housed—along with his offices and his apartment—in a mostly traditional four-floor 19th-century townhouse on a quiet square called Leopold plaats. The building itself abides by his sensibility, having been partly refurbished in the early '30s. "They had ideas to take it all down," he explains, "but then came the crash." The result is a smooth, white Art Deco façade, with generous windows that allow light to pour in. "Even in gray Belgium, we have some sun," remarks Voorjans dryly. His name is above the door in neat black Deco letters—a deceptive exterior given what's inside.
At the time of our interview, the front hall is lined with several larger-than-life Italian wood panels with a trompe l'oeil painting of a classic Polish interior waiting to be installed in a library. Nearby hangs a sculptural piece of German textile art from the '60s that was probably described as groovy back in the day. In the sunny plant-filled front room, an outsize antique museum cabinet from Brussels reaching almost to the ceiling contains everything from the skull of a hippopotamus and papier-mâché carnival masks to globular vases in Meissen porcelain and jade-green glass. Although variety isn't the sole spice of his work, it's a dominant flavoring.
" "People think, Oh, you go to the flea market and you mix it up and it's easy. I can tell you it's not easy at all. It looks natural, but it's really studied." "
Voorjans receives clients in the studio but insists that it's not a showroom. "Somebody always comes in and asks 'How much is this? How much is that?' " he says. "When the clients first come in here, I don't want to tell them, 'Your home will be like this.' This is more like the artistic studio where you have an eclectic mixture. But this is too crazy. It's more like an inspiration."
When Voorjans first moved here 24 years ago, he settled in the third-floor apartment, then expanded as other floors became available over the years until he had the entire house to himself. In the parlor, Voorjans's love of color and texture is apparent in an Uzbeki kilim, a pair of Howard & Sons wing chairs in Easter-egg lavender and a Knole settee with brocade upholstery that's slightly disintegrating. On the walls, a 17th-century Flemish tapestry faces a lenticular portrait of Jimi Hendrix by Gered Mankowitz and a series of small '20s-era Cubist paintings. The overall effect is jarring, yet has a strange harmony—even as it lacks any apparent logic. "Sometimes with this room," he says, "people have to look at it again."
It might actually surprise some to know that Voorjans even exists. Van Noten's retail spaces so closely echo the designer's finely wrought blend of old and new, classic and kitsch, and exotic and traditional that you'd expect both the fashion and the decorative styles to have sprung from the same source. In fact, the design process is so intensely collaborative it's almost as if a single creative mind is at work. "We know each other so well and we collaborate so well that it's difficult to say what's his idea, what's my idea, what's Patrick [Vangheluwe] my partner's idea," says Van Noten. "It's really the three of us going on the Internet looking for furniture or paintings and saying, 'What about that?' At the end, it's like one group product."
Voorjans is undeniably less reserved than the soft-spoken Van Noten. He's also a bit of a dandy. When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.
The pair met in the early '90s. After Voorjans graduated from the College of Architecture in Hasselt in Belgium, where his parents owned a furniture store, he briefly studied art history in Siena, followed by a course at Sotheby's in London. Then, in 1988, he embarked on what would become a seven-year stint working for legendary Belgian antiques dealer and interior designer Axel Vervoordt—who he says was his "god" at the time. "Axel was the first who started this path of working," says Voorjans. "Before, you had antiques dealers and that brown dark stuff, or you had design. It was all in cupboards and used only on special occasions. But Axel lived with these things—the silver, the beautiful glass."
IT WAS THROUGH Vervoordt that Van Noten, a fervid admirer, first encountered Voorjans. In 1995, when the designer received a contract to open three flagship stores—including one in Tokyo, as well as several other shop-in-shops in Japan—he asked Voorjans to come work for him full-time for a year. The decorator accepted, eager to move on. "I wanted to do my own thing," Voorjans says. "More color, more extravagant, a bit more crazy mixture."
Drawing on his architectural training, Voorjans starts every project, whether residential or retail, by examining a building's original elements and usually preserving or heightening them, with his own spin. The lacquered cinnabar walls of the Paris men's shop, for instance, were original to the primitive art gallery that previously occupied the space. He'll never succumb to the nostalgia of a faithful restoration or its polar extreme. "I will not do tabula rasa or retro!" he says. "I don't like when people buy a 19th-century building and want to make it completely modern."
" "It's really sad when you travel and see the same merchandising. I want each store to have its own soul" "
His hallmarks are extreme contrasts in height and volume, sharp shots of bright color and a preference for natural materials over the coldness of steel and plastics, or the faux warmth of things like shabby- chic whitewashed wood. But his aim is never to shock, or to make his mark as a decorator too apparent. "Every element we add has to at least give the impression that it could have always been there," he says. Voorjans is very decisive and clear about what he likes, but he's also not a tyrant imposing his aesthetic will. He admits that clients can also teach him. "I have a few very extravagant ladies who like fuchsia velvets and the like," he says. "Suddenly it changes your eye as well."
A sense of narrative is another recurring theme, especially in the stores. Every Van Noten shop draws its sense of place from its locale while also making a link back to Antwerp. Van Noten famously doesn't buy advertising, and in a way the stores serve to tell the story of his brand. "I think it's really sad when you travel and go to Hong Kong or New York and see the same stores with the same windows and the same merchandising," says Van Noten. "I want each store to have its own soul and look really different."
In Tokyo, the minimal concrete-and-wood space is punctuated by a Renaissance-era painting, A Dispute Between Achilles and Agamemnon, bought at auction in Brussels. Also hanging in the shop are three paintings: modern interpretations of European old master works commissioned from contemporary Japanese artists. In Paris, the eclecticism of the women's store is an homage of sorts to Madeleine Castaing, the legendary '30s-era French decorator whose shop was nearby on Rue Jacob. "Those stores made you feel like you're in a special place," says Julie Gilhart, former fashion director of Barneys New York, who was one of the first to bring Van Noten to the U.S. "It's not that slick, let's-repeat-this-a-million-times kind of thing."
There are certainly fewer than a million stores, but Van Noten's retail expansion maintains a slow but steady clip. In the past three years, they've opened the men's store in Paris, two boutiques at Bergdorf Goodman and a flagship in Kuwait. Voorjans's understanding with Van Noten is that he will always be available for projects and keep his other retail work to a minimum. Of course Van Noten's stores, particularly the pair of Paris shops, function as subtle marketing for Voorjans's independent work—the bulk of which is for private residences. "It had an unbelievable impact," he says. "I had a lot of clients who went over there, sat on the sofa in the women's shop and said, 'The guy who did this, he can do my home.' "
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NEWTOWN, Pa., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Connexion Healthcare announces the addition of Chirag K. Patel, PharmD, as Senior Medical Director. In this role, Dr. Patel will be responsible for providing overall medical direction for clients and internal staff, along with medical expertise for new business opportunities related to the continued growth and enhancement of the Rare Disease and Neuroscience business units of Connexion Healthcare.
Dr. Patel comes to Connexion after gaining experience in medical communications and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry through his roles as Medical Director and Medical Strategist for such companies as GSW Worldwide, Vox Medica, and Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare. Dr. Patel's background is as a community healthcare pharmacist. He earned a Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Michigan and then completed a Rutgers Institute for Pharmaceutical Industry Post-Doctoral Fellowship in medical strategy, virology at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
According to Susan C. Stein, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Connexion Healthcare, "Chirag's expertise in medical strategy, market research, and key thought leader communication will further support the overall growth of Connexion, helping to maintain our continued commitment to quality, service, education, and creativity in program execution."
Connexion Healthcare--Complex Science. Clear Communications. It's what we do. Grounded in science, refined through strategy, and inspired by a passion for better healthcare, at Connexion Healthcare we are focused on developing high-quality scientific communications that educate, motivate, and inspire healthcare professionals to improve patient care. We do this through three main business units—Oncology, Rare Disease, and Neuroscience. Our clients are pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies that work with complex scientific concepts that need to be translated into clear and consistent communications.
Colleen Harrison
SOURCE Connexion Healthcare