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xlf Custom functions
Function arguments with percentage and decimal format
Excel formulas accept percentage values in both decimal form and the percent operator. For example, 0.055, and 5.5% both return 0.055 when entered in a cell in Excel.
Consider the following formula for calculating the present value \(PV\) from the future value \(FV\) on an amount, at a discount rate \(r\) over \(n\) periods.$$PV=FV(1+r)^{-n}$$
In code 1. the custom function for this formaula is named
The syntax is:
PValue(DiscRate, FValue, NoPeriods), where
DiscRate is the interest rate per period,
FValue is the future value, and
NoPeriods is the number of periods.
Code 1: A UDF that returns Present Value. DiscRate is in decimal form
Function PValue(DiscRate As Double, FValue As Double, NoPeriods As Double) As Double PValue = FValue * (1 + DiscRate) ^ -NoPeriods End Function
Calling the PValue custom function from Excel
PValue in the Excel formula bar is straight forward, because Excel automatically accepts percentage values in decimal form and with with the percent operator.
The same applies to a custom function entered via the Function Wizard on the Formulas tab. In this example, the discount rate
DiscRate is entered as 7.5%, and is stored in computer memory as 0.075 as shown in figure 1.
DiscRate 7.5% = 0.075.
Calling the PValue custom function from VBA
VBA does not automatically convert percentage values such as 7.5% to decimal format. In VBA the % character is a type declaration character for an integer.
The Sub procedure
PValue_test in code 2 is used to illustrate the differences under three different scenarios.
- Scenario 1, the rate is in decimal format 0.075
- Scenario 2, the rate is in percentage format 7.5%, and
- Scenario 3, the rate of 7.5% is passed with a variable of the type String.
In each case, the output is sent to the Immediate Window with the Debug.Print statement.
Details of VBA functions:
Replace:Returns a string in which a specified substring has been replaced with another substring a specified number of times.
Val:Returns the numbers contained in a string as a numeric value of appropriate type.
Code 2: A procedure 1. decimal 0.075 - line 5, 2. 7.5% as String argument - line 8, and 3. 7.5% as String variable - line 13
Sub PValue_test() Dim ans As Double Dim dRate As String '' Scenario 1 ans = PValue(0.075, 115.5625, 2) Debug.Print "1. PValue(0.075, 115.5625, 2) returns: " & ans & vbNewLine '' Scenario 2 ans = PValue(Replace("7.5%", "%", "") / 100, 115.5625, 2) Debug.Print "2. PValue(Replace(""7.5%"", ""%"", """") / 100, 115.5625, 2) " & _ "returns: " & ans & vbNewLine '' Scenario 3 dRate = "7.5%" ans = PValue(Replace(dRate, "%", "") / 100, 115.5625, 2) Debug.Print "3. PValue(Replace(dRate, ""%"", """") / 100, 115.5625, 2) " & _ "returns: " & ans & vbNewLine End Sub
In scenario 1, line 5, the 0.075 is simply passed as a double to
PValue and the return value is received by the calling procedure. In Scenario 2, line 8, and scenario 3, line 13, however, the 7.5% must be entered as a String and is enclosed with the "" expression.
Normally, the
Val function would be used to extract the leading number sequence from the string, however, it does not work in this situation. The problem is that the % character is treated as the VBA Type Declaration Character for an Integer. This means that if "7.5%" is passed to the
Val function, it only returns the integer component 7. It also returns a
Type mismatch error. To prevent this, the
Replace function is used to strip out (replace) the % character with nothing "". So Replace("7.5%") / 100 returns 0.075.
Another feature of code 2 is the inclusion of double quotes in a text string. In code 2, line 13, the "%" character is entered with double double quotes ""%"".
The Immediate Window with details for each scenario is shown in figure 2.
Debug.Print statement for each scenario
- This example was developed in Excel 2010 32 bit


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Enhanced nitrogen deposition exacerbates the negative effect of increasing background ozone in Dactylis glomerata, but not Ranunculus acris
Wyness, Kirsten; Mills, Gina; Jones, Laurence; Barnes, Jeremy D.; Jones, Davey L.. 2011 Enhanced nitrogen deposition exacerbates the negative effect of increasing background ozone in Dactylis glomerata, but not Ranunculus acris. Environmental Pollution, 159 (10). 2493-2499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.022Full text not available from this repository.
The combined impacts of simulated increased nitrogen (N) deposition (75 kg N ha−1 yr−1) and increasing background ozone (O3) were studied using two mesotrophic grassland species (Dactylis glomerata and Ranunculus acris) in solardomes, by means of eight O3 treatments ranging from 15.5 ppb to 92.7 ppb (24 h average mean). A–Ci curves were constructed for each species to gauge effects on photosynthetic efficiency and capacity, and effects on biomass partitioning were determined after 14 weeks. Increasing the background concentration of O3 reduced the healthy above ground and root biomass of both species, and increased senesced biomass. N fertilisation increased biomass production in D. glomerata, and a significantly greater than additive effect of O3 and N on root biomass was evident. In contrast, R. acris biomass was not affected by high N. The study shows the combined effects of these pollutants have differential implications for carbon allocation patterns in common grassland species.
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Simon Cowell's letter to his younger, cocky self
In an age where celebrity is held higher esteem by tweens and teens than ever before, Simon Cowell has emerged as an unlikely superstar: old enough to be most teens' dad, appearing to have the Midas touch where everything he touches turns to gold, the evil-turned-soft record label mogul.
In the last week, he's written a letter to his younger self which every admiring fame- and money-obssessed youngster should read to gain a worthwhile reality check.
On the eve of his 50th birthday last week wrote a letter to his younger self (A letter to my shallow, reckless, cocky younger self). It charts the rise and fall and rise and another fall of the boy who thought he had it all when, in fact, his bank account read zero:
"Look at you. You look like a complete idiot. Could you be any worse? You are about as bad an example of Eighties' excess as you could possibly be.
"You are overconfident, far too cocky and dressed from head to toe in expensive designer gear. Armani and Versace. Oh, nothing but the best for you Simon! It hasn't dawned on you yet, you idiot, that you can't afford any of this stuff.
"You believe that everything is just going to get bigger and bigger and that you are an intrinsic part of it all. You are up there, riding so high, that you cannot see what is really happening.
"What the hell is that outside your interior designed, four-bedroom house in Fulham? Please don't tell me it is a Porsche? Doh! Of course it is, what else could it be? You are driving a Porsche because everyone did in those days."
Read more of it over on the Daily Mail, and, if you recognise the cocky youngster about to lose it all (for the first time) sitting in your classroom, maybe send them the link.


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President Abraham Lincoln's graffiti-painted likeness lies under a dark blue staircase in the spacious entryway of Lincoln Middle School. Spray painted on canvas by the local graffiti artist, ARCY, the giant painting now sits waiting to be encased and hung for all students, teachers, and parents who enter the school. "It took him all day to make. It came out so spectacular and he did it freeform with spray paint. Freeform! I got the chills just thinking about it," Principal Dianne Vumback says, gazing at the painting with delight.
While the former president temporarily gazes at the underside of a stairwell, student paintings of Anne Frank and the Vans logo are encased in glass displays just a couple yards over in the bright and airy hallway. Vumback, the 2018 Connecticut Principal of the Year, points to those too, equally impressed by her students' work. Dressed in a black and white houndstooth dress, she walks quickly in her short heels, her hair bouncing on her shoulders in soft curls, and her fingernails painted a dark pink. "We're set up like Times Square, very open," she explains, her voice just loud enough over the thunderous noise of hundreds of eighth graders eating lunch.
Lincoln's a big school. Knocked down and rebuilt almost fifteen years ago, it still feels modern with multiple stories and wings for the grades. Even so, there are plenty of students to fill the school. "We're huge this year. I'm pushing eight hundred kids. I barely have enough lockers," Vumback confesses. Many of the skinny blue lockers are home to the increasing population of bilingual students. "Last week I got eight new students who qualified for bilingual education. Eight in one week. And what was special about last week, we don't know."
What she does know is Meriden—a city nestled in the Northeast corner of New Haven County, and her home for most of her life. Meriden's Hispanic population has grown to nearly a quarter of the almost sixty thousand residents, the percentage higher than both Connecticut and the United States' average, 15 percent and 17 percent, respectively. One in five Meriden residents speak Spanish, well over the U.S.'s average of 13 percent. These numbers represent the need for bilingual education in Meriden, a challenge Vumback has been facing for several years.
Unfortunately, the laws regarding bilingual education are extremely broad, leaving school administrations to improvise, and money tight. Here's the breakdown: If a school has twenty or more students that speak the same language, the school must offer a bilingual education. Bilingual education means that the student can use their native language more freely in order to learn the curriculum. A student can have up to three years of bilingual education before transitioning to ESOL support, English for Speakers of Other Languages. ESOL curtails the student's native language, relying more heavily on English during instruction.
By the end of a student's first year, instruction must be given in English for at least 50 percent of the time, and a student does not qualify for bilingual education if he or she has less than thirty months until graduating high school. Besides this English objective, there are no regulations in what a bilingual student should be taught or what type of curriculum they should receive. The teachers don't even have to speak the native language, which can make learning much more difficult for students.
Vumback recognizes this. "When you have the language it's so much easier, especially at a middle school level, to help students resolve conflict, to overcome obstacles, to learn how to advocate for themselves." At Lincoln, two out of her three bilingual teachers speak Spanish, in addition to some grade-level teachers being fluent or proficient. "Students know there's somebody here that understands me because they understand my language."
When Vumback started in 2010, she knew there needed to be a better support system for the many bilingual students—currently sixty-one in the bilingual program and 152 EL students, English Learners. Vumback wanted a shift in what her bilingual students were taught and how they were treated in the school.
"Last week I got eight new students who qualified for bilingual education. Eight in one week."
Nine years ago, the bilingual students, no matter what grade level, were taught in the same classroom. This was a problem. "The bilingual teacher was teaching them math, science, English, and social studies," Vumback says. "But that teacher wasn't a certified science teacher or a certified math teacher so they weren't necessarily getting grade level opportunity. They weren't learning about modeling and the planets or bridges, they were learning what that teacher knew."
Not only was this system unfair to the bilingual students who deserved an equal education, but it could be detrimental to their future. A study done by Connecticut Voices for Children on immigration found that Connecticut "middle and high school age students with limited English proficiency, and students who arrive in the United States with significant gaps in their previous schooling, fare substantially worse than their peers." Without the proper grade-level support, bilingual students can face daunting post-school challenges.
Also worrisome were the social implications of separating the bilingual students from their peers. The lax laws allow for linguistic segregation. "We noticed socially, they didn't have friends, they didn't communicate and learn and challenge one another which is what middle school is all about."
To combat this, Vumback overhauled the system. "I put together a committee of those that were passionate about it, those that I knew were going to move it forward, those that felt that sense of urgency because our students needed to catch up to everybody else."
After a year of research, the committee decided to take their three bilingual teachers and assign them to each grade level. Now "the bilingual seventh grade students are in the seventh grade hallway in the seventh grade classroom with all seventh grade." The students are integrated with their English-speaking classmates. The bilingual students have their English class, then go to the mainstream math, science, and social studies classes with the bilingual teacher traveling with them.
On a recent Thursday in a sixth grade English classroom the air is tense. Students hunch over laptops playing Kahoot, an online trivia game. Clusters of students groan when they miss an answer or high-five when correct, while down the hall, in a bilingual classroom, the sixth grade students are in the second hour of their double-block English class, the extra time used to better learn the regular English curriculum through sheltered language acquisition support. After English, the bilingual teachers support their bilingual students in other classes, moving with them to translate and offer adaptations. Bilingual teachers learn this language acquisition support through extensive workshops and training.
But it wasn't just the bilingual teachers receiving the training, it was everyone. Vumback had consultants from the Sheltered Instructional Observation Protocol, or SIOP, provide training to the entire staff to help language acquisition students. SIOP advisers provided helpful strategies and procedures for how to teach English Learners successfully through workshops and site visits. "We did that for all my staff here. In other schools they may, but it's really all ESOL teachers who take it. I was like, no, we're all ESOL teachers."
In addition to hours of training, she focused on improving communication and collaboration between the bilingual and grade-level teachers. She built in prep time for teachers to discuss and plan future lessons. "They sit down and create things for our bilingual students and that support's needed. It's been a lot of effort to beef up that mainstream classroom so that they could support all students, including our bilingual students."
The walls of the bilingual classrooms display colorful flashcards in English and Spanish. On the whiteboard, there's both a content objective and a language objective written in black and red marker. The content objective is overall for the class, while the language objective focuses on using English in their other subjects. In a sixth grade ESOL classroom, the language objective reads: "I will use English to research the organs of the body and explain their functions. I will then draft and write a five-paragraph essay on one organ."
Vumback explains that these prompts are a huge leap in student expectations. "These kids are writing a five paragraph essay. In the old days it would be a sentence, and of course the kids are happy with the sentence, but no, they could do more."
She's right. Each year the bilingual students must take state tests to show their growth and proficiency. The English Learner Students at Lincoln had a 1 percent to 4.3 percent increase in their reading scores, as well as a jump from 0.8 percent to 1.8 percent in Math. Because of results like these, Lincoln moved out of the Focus School category, meaning they are no longer in the classification of schools at risk. Lincoln is improving.
Though the progress has been rewarding, Vumback admits that it wasn't a painless transition. "The biggest challenge was fear." She explains how the bilingual students were nervous to be in the mainstream classes and have to speak in English in front of other kids. "They're very self-conscious and middle school kids are goofy; they may make fun of them. Our culture has changed because that doesn't happen like it used to, but when they were segregated, it did."
Then there was the fear of mainstream teachers suddenly teaching students who knew little to no English. They needed to adjust and learn how to not only communicate with these students, but connect with them. "I have teachers right now who have students who cannot speak any English. That's scary, right? Because you're responsible for their growth and you want to be able to help them."
Vumback understands that she asks a lot of her staff. Her short black heels clack on the tile as she passes through the eighth grade entryway. A "Class of 2023" banner hangs above in blue lettering. "It is so much work, it's overwhelming. My teachers are so positive and supportive, but I know they're going home stressed out because these students still have to take the state test, and they're still accountable. Think about it, how are you going to teach them how to model wind forces? Like what's the first step? Very, very difficult."
But through all the training, meetings, and preparation, the teachers have been getting it done. "I have teachers going in where many of the students don't speak English, and they're still making it happen. They're finding a way for them to learn and every single teacher here is committed to that."
The growth in her bilingual students is most rewarding for Vumback. When asked what she is most proud of in the program, she pauses, peering out the large windows, watching the yellow school buses slowly pull into the parking lot, one after the other. "I'm so moved by the fact that students that are in our bilingual program have high expectations for themselves. They want to learn. They want the same middle school experience as everybody else and that's so important."
The high achieving students at Lincoln are not the norm. Bilingual programs at other Connecticut schools struggle due to a lack of resources or proper guidelines. Researchers from the Connecticut Voices for Children study found that students with lower levels of English proficiency populate the same areas, so they are constantly surrounded by other LEP (Limited English Proficiency) students. This is called linguistic segregation. This culminates in a snowball effect as these groups keep expanding instead of spreading out evenly throughout different school districts. The problem is nationwide. These pockets of the country "have greater difficulties hiring teachers and are more likely to rely on unqualified and substitute teachers than schools with few or no LEP students." These students often end up at high-poverty schools which can lead to "a high risk of poor educational outcomes," lower paying jobs, and higher levels of poverty later in life.
Principal Vumback knows that the laws in place have let down bilingual students. In her near decade as a school administrator she hasn't seen much of a shift in Connecticut's approach. But for now she's focusing on what her school can do to make students' lives better. "Were there challenges, some resistance? Absolutely. Was it worth it? Yeah, the kids are thriving, they're connected. We have more students in our bilingual program that are participating in afterschool activities, sports, drama, than ever before."
As the bell rings, the students head outside, a half-an-hour earlier on Wednesdays—another initiative to allow prep time for all teachers. The sunlight dances and flashes as the students throw the doors open to greet the buses, their sneakers squeaking on the blue and white tile as they pass by Lincoln's watchful eyes.
As the kids file out, tables are being set up and model rockets moved to the gym as teachers, custodians, and students prepare for a family science night. Fold-up tables pop into place while students hustle by with poster board and colored markers. There's music playing in the auditorium, something brassy and light-hearted, though not quite distinguishable over the noise. "Not only is it the law," Principal Vumback says, as a teacher rushes by with a star rocket launcher for tonight. "It's our moral obligation to be educating all students that come through my front doors."
Headline photo courtesy of Sabrina Cofer for Blue Muse Magazine.
Sabrina Cofer is a staff writer for the Blue Muse Magazine.


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Politics was one of Srinivas Kuchibhotla's favorite subjects. The 32-year-old would get his fix from newspapers, network news and radio shows.
But that all ended when Kuchibhotla, an engineer from India, was fatally shot in a Kansas bar early last year, allegedly after the gunman used "racial slurs" and yelled "get out of my country."
For Kuchibhotla's widow, Sunayana Dumala, there's a sort of irony that almost a year later she'll be the one attending President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday, at a time when Democrats and Republicans in Congress take up the battle over legal immigration.
"I wanted to use this one opportunity that was given to me to help me in spreading my message of love, unity and empathy," said Dumala, who plans to go as a guest of Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan.
Each member of Congress gets to invite one person to the State of the Union, their choices typically representing the issues they hope to highlight.
Yoder is lead sponsor of a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to eliminate the per-country percentage caps for employment-based immigrants. Those caps, according to the congressman, have caused backlogs in the employment-based green card system, disproportionately affecting highly-skilled immigrants from large countries like India and China.
Yoder said it would be symbolic and a fitting tribute to bring Dumala, who came to the United States in 2007 to pursue a master's degree.
Trump mentioned the Kansas shooting in his first joint session speech before Congress back in March.
"We would love for him to acknowledge her during the State of the Union, to speak about her as a representation of our value in having a good immigration system that brings people from around the world here, the positives of immigration, combined with speaking out against the hatred and negativity we see in our country," Yoder said.
Dumala said she was taken by surprise when she received the invitation from Yoder's office around New Year's Eve.
"For him to choose me from his entire district, that is a big thing," she said.
Dumala didn't immediately accept, though. On the one hand, she said she knew it was a great opportunity that provided a national platform to spread her message.
"It also reminds me what I've been through," Dumala added.
Kuchibhotla, an aviation systems engineer and programs manager at GPS maker Garmin, was at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, when he was killed on Feb. 22.
Two others — Kuchibhotla's friend Alok Madasani, from India, and patron Ian Grillot, who intervened — were wounded in the attack.
Adam Purinton, then 51, is accused of opening fire after using "racial slurs" and yelling "get out of my country," the Associated Press and Kansas City Star have reported.
Purinton was charged in the shooting and awaits a state trial on one count of premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated first-degree murder. He was also indicted in June on federal hate crime charges, which carry a possible penalty of death.
As Dumala was coping with the loss of her husband, she also learned last year that she had temporarily lost her U.S. resident status, which was tied to Kuchibhotla through marriage.
Kuchibhotla was on an H-1B non-immigrant visa, which is granted through sponsoring U.S. companies to foreign workers with bachelor's degrees in specialty fields like engineering, computer programming, and science.
Yoder had stepped in to help secure Dumala a temporary work visa. Then January brought some good news.
"After the New Year, my work visa was finally approved, which came as a big relief, not just for me, but also my family," she said. "Now I have the flexibility to travel to India."
Dumala is planning that trip for February, to mark the one-year anniversary of her husband's passing. She has also organized a peace walk for March 9 — Kuchibhotla's birthday — from Garmin to Austins Bar and Grill and back.
Dumala and Intouch Solutions, a marketing firm where she works, have already launched a social media campaign entitled "Forever Welcome." The goal is to help ensure the U.S. is a safe place for current and future immigrant generations to pursue their dreams, said Wendy Blackburn, executive vice president at Intouch Solutions.
The video on its Facebook page was inspired by a question Dumala asked shortly after the shooting — "Do we belong?"
"I think me trying to be active and raising awareness on hate crimes, or sharing our story and trying to save other people, is all in a way to honor him," Dumala said, referring to her husband.
Before Tuesday's State of the Union, Dumala plans to attend a panel in the morning that is scheduled to include several victims and survivors of hate crimes and incidents. They plan to discuss their stories and highlight the human impact of hate.
Later that evening, Dumala expects to take her seat in the gallery and listen to Trump address Congress and the nation.
"I would like to see him talking more about welcoming everybody and then extending that invitation of friendship to all and acceptance of all," she said.
"My hope is we kind of try to fix the broken immigration system and try to make it fair for everybody." Dumala added.
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Final Sculpts For Afterlife's Commandos & Pulse Mechs Arrive!
April 14, 2015 by brennon
Anvil Industry have shown off the final sculpts for both the Republic Pulse Mechs and Commandos that will be rocking out in the world of Afterlife and beating those Unity Council soldiers into the dust!
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First up we have the Pulse Mechs who are looking a lot more animated that I imagined they would be from the renders that we'd seen. See what you think...
Above you can see the Veteran landing atop that huge part of terrain alongside some of the other versions of the Pulse Mech with a variety of different weapon options. While there are some cool sculpts here I actually really like the simple 'standing still and firing' pose on the far right of the last image.
I've finally got round to finishing off my Republic soldiers (it's only taken a year!) so hopefully I can pick some of these up and give them the same treatment. The models were great to paint with a wash allowing you to pick up so many different levels of detail.
Commandos Go!
As well as the Pulse Mechs above there are some more specialised soldiers for the Republic in the form of the Commandos. Check out these highly trained soldiers ready to do some fighting behind enemy lines...
These soldiers have different weapon options compared to the existing troopers and are posed to be more animated. It certainly makes sense since these troops would be running around controlling objectives while the other troops are laying down some covering fire.
The leader-type Commando with the Grenade is my favourite of the bunch and I'm so very glad that these models have tabs under their feet for making these a doddle to put together. I can't stand trying to stick running troops to their bases!
What do you think?
"I can't stand trying to stick running troops to their bases!"
"These soldiers have different weapon options compared to the existing troopers and are posed to be more animated"


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Before Hedi Slimane's much-hyped Saint Laurent debut in Paris, the designer cast a handful of relatively unknown models as exclusives and worked with them daily during the weeks before the show. One of these girls was Louise Parker, a Minnesota native who graduated from Bard College last May with a degree in photography. Street-scouted while she was still in school, Parker hadn't walked a single runway in her life until this season, when she signed with Marilyn at the beginning of New York Fashion Week.
Parker was cutting her teeth on a few relatively small gigs in New York — including Peter Som, VPL, Osklen, and Hache — when her agent told her to get ready for Paris. Barbara Nicoli, the casting director for Saint Laurent, had seen a video of Parker and wanted her to meet with Slimane. "I was told to either pack for a day or for three weeks, because depending on how the meeting went, I'd either come back home or stay," Parker said. The meeting was a success, and she became part of Slimane's team for the next several weeks, eating family-style meals in the office and working with him every day. Read on to learn about why Slimane chose Parker, what it was like to work with him, and how it felt backstage at that infamous Saint Laurent show.
How did you get started with modeling?
While I was in school in the Hudson Valley, I did a little bit of modeling — but it happened randomly. I was street-scouted for Ryan McGinley, and I did a trip with him, and a couple of shoots. And through Ryan's agent, Shea Spencer, I met the photographer Roe Etheridge, and I did a couple of shoots with him. So when I graduated, I looked into signing with an agency, found Marilyn, started with them about a month ago, right at the beginning of New York Fashion Week.
How did you wind up getting cast for Saint Laurent?
Honestly, I'm not exactly sure. My agent took a video of me walking, and sent it out to a few clients, and Saint Laurent was interested. I met with their casting director, [Barbara Nicoli], in New York during New York Fashion Week. She liked me, and set up a meeting for me to go to Paris to meet with Hedi.
What was your actual meeting with Hedi like?
Those kinds of meetings are always really brief, because they're seeing 50 girls a day. I just went in and I walked for them, and they put me in the Saint Laurent shoes, which were crazy. I don't have much experience walking in heels, and these were difficult to walk in. Hedi told me that I had a pretty bad walk, and that I needed to work on it, but he was really nice about it — he said, "Oh you're great, you'll work for me, but your walk really needs some help." And then I started working with them three days later. I was so, so excited when I found out they'd chosen me. I would have felt really defeated if I had gone all the way there and then had to come back to New York the next day because it hadn't worked out.
What was it like to work with Hedi leading up to the show?
They initially told me I would have a week off before I started working, but then called me three days later to say that they needed me to come to the office to shoot looks. They just had me trying on the clothes so they could figure out which skirt goes with which blouse, and stuff like that. So up until the show I was working every day, shooting looks and doing fittings. A lot of modeling involves waiting around — sometimes you're just sitting for hours waiting for someone to tell you what to do.
Did you interact a lot with Hedi?
All of our meals were eaten together, and we got to talk to Hedi a lot — he took the time to get to know the models. There were three other models who had been there for even longer than I had, like a month.
What do you think it is about you that made him cast you?
I know that Hedi likes American girls. He lives in L.A., and he loves that L.A. look. Most of the other girls who were exclusive were American. I also know that he loves long hair and I have very long hair. I think he also can see personality and if someone has a good attitude. I don't know exactly why I was chosen but I was happy that I was.
Did you have to keep it a secret that you'd been cast?
I did. But before I went, I was confused and didn't know that it was supposed to be a secret. So I told a couple people that I was going, like my family and a few of my friends. But then we had to sign a confidentiality contract about everything. We weren't allowed to take photographs or tweet or Instagram while we were at work.
Was it hard to keep it a secret all that time?
It wasn't that hard. I understood why he wanted that, and I respect that it's his creative process and he wants to have control over the end product, which makes a lot of sense. I respected that.
Did you get to keep any of the clothes?
No, I wish — especially after trying all of the clothes on and seeing them every day. I loved them.
If you could have kept anything for yourself, what would it have been?
One of the leather jackets. I've always been looking for the perfect leather jacket, and he definitely made them. The dresses were also super fun, but I don't know when I would be able to wear something like that.
What was Hedi like on the day of the show?
I was expecting him to be really high-stress, or really nervous, but he was always very consistent with his attitude. He never got catty or angry or anything. He was really calm and positive and sweet.
How did your problematic walk end up?
Good! I think I nailed it. But I had so much time to practice, and I had one of the other girls take some time to teach me. And I was able to walk the runway the night before, like seven times or something, because they were checking lighting. The turn at the end was kind of weird, and I'm still not sure if I did it right or not. But I didn't fall, which was my biggest concern.
What were the shoes like?
They were really simple platforms with a tall, skinny heel. I'm not sure how high they actually are, but they felt like they were seven inches tall. In the end, I was really comfortable walking in them, but when I first tried them on, I was like, "There's no way."
Do you think that your photography degree helps you with modeling?
I think it does. It definitely makes me more interested in what I'm doing, and being able to work with photographers that I respect and admire has been a really cool experience. But I'm still trying to figure out what my photography has to do with their photography. It's really different, because I was never really interested in fashion photography.
Do you feel like this experience has opened a ton of doors for you?
I hope so. I'm still figuring out how the whole modeling industry works, and part of is just getting used to not knowing what's going to happen next and how your schedule will work the next day.


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April 22 – April 28, 2018
In celebration of Preservation Week 2018, please stop and take a look at the display case located just outside the entry doors to the Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives. Preservation Week was established by the Association for Library Collections & Technology Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), as a means of encouraging institutions to highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections.
Why is preservation important?
In 2005 the first comprehensive national survey of the condition and preservation needs of the nation's collections reported that U.S. institutions hold more than 4.8 billion items. Libraries alone hold 3 billion items (63 percent of the whole). A treasure trove of uncounted additional items is held by individuals, families, and communities.
Some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As natural disasters of recent years have taught us, these resources are in jeopardy should a disaster strike. Personal, family, and community collections are equally at risk.
Key environmental factors that place collections at risk:
- Light: Ultraviolet rays from natural and artificial sources can cause fading and disintegration.
- Pollutants: Dust is abrasive and can accelerate harmful chemical reactions.
- Heat: High temperatures can accelerate deterioration.
- Moisture: High humidity promotes mold growth, corrosion, and degradation, while excessive dryness can cause drying and cracking. Fluctuations between extremes can cause warping, buckling, and flaking.
Key items that should be preserved
Historical materials that are unpublished and one-of-a-kind, such as:
- architectural drawings
- artifacts
- audio and video recordings
- diaries
- genealogical information
- letters
- maps
- memoirs/reminiscences
- minutes/reports
- photo albums and photographs
- printed materials
- professional and business papers
- speeches/lectures
Preservation Fast Facts
- More than 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections, and archaeological repositories in the United States. 1.3 billion of these items are at risk of being lost.
- Roughly 70% of institutions need additional conservation or preservation training for their staff and volunteers.
- A majority of collecting institutions, more than 80%, do not have a disaster plan in place that can be executed by trained staff.
- Nearly a quarter of all the 21 million paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art in U.S. collections need conservation treatment or improved care and conditions.
- More than 50% of collecting institutions have had their collections damaged by light.
- More than 65% of collecting institutions report damage to their collections due to improper storage.
*Source: "A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections," Library of Congress. For additional information regarding Preservation Week, please visit www.ala.org/preservationweek.
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A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday, May 15, for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York, a record price for a living artist.
"Rabbit," a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of the auction house's spring sale and overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)," which sold last November at Christie's for $90.3 million.
It was a return to the top for Koons, 64, whose "Balloon Dog (Orange)" for five years held the record for highest price reached at auction for a living artist after its 2013 sale for $58.4 million.
The selling price of "Rabbit" was only $80 million, but once commissions and fees were added, the final total rose to $91.075 million.
In an unusual turn for an art auction at this price range, the buyer of "Rabbit" was actually in the room during the sale.
Wednesday's milestone came two years after Christie's in New York set the record for most expensive work of art known to have been sold with the sale of Leonardo de Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" for $450 million.
Created by Koons in 1986, "Rabbit" is among the best-known works by the artist, who built a reputation for challenging art world conventions.
He has exhibited his larger-than-life creations worldwide, including a 2008 showing in France's historic Chateau of Versailles that so jarred French traditionalists a small group of them protested outside the event, demanding Koons's works be sent to "Disneyland."
At 41 inches (1.04 meters) in height, "Rabbit" was auctioned from the collection of deceased publishing mogul S.I. Newhouse.
Before his death in 2017, his empire included Conde Nast, which published magazines like Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Alexander Rotter, chairman of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's, told AFP after the auction "Rabbit" is "the most important piece by Jeff Koons and I want to go even a step further and say the most important sculpture of second half of the 20th century."
"It's the end of sculpture. It's the anti-David as I call it," he said, referring to Michelangelo's masterpiece. "You can't go any further away from David still being figurative and a traditional sculpture."
The sale was a new triumph for the controversial artist, who since his emergence in the 1980s has been the subject of endless conversation over his work's commercial and artistic value.
He's raised eyebrows throughout his career, particularly with paintings and sculptures depicting him having sex with Italian film star Cicciolina, to whom he was married between 1991 and 1994.
Arriving in New York in 1976, Koon has built up a studio that at its height in 2015 employed more than 100 artisans tasked with meeting his exacting standards. HM /ra
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Actor and one time Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan backpacks around the world with his family in this six-part series which was originally broadcast on CBBC and Sky as 'Travelbug'. It shows Peter, his wife Annie and their children Lucy, Katie, Georgia and Arthur starting their expedition in Europe, reaching Egypt and then going on safari in Zimbabwe.
In Nepal, they trek to 16,000 feet in the Himalayas and then fly to the Southern Hemisphere where they reach New Zealand and sail around French Polynesia.
Read an article from The Observer 22nd July 2001 here.
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Having leftover baked ham is a good thing. There are so many tasty dishes to make with the leftovers. I think I like these dishes even better than the original. Here is the link for the post on baked ham.
Chicken Cordon Bleu
2 servings
2 boneless chicken breast cutlets
2 slices leftover baked ham
2 slices (2 oz) Swiss or Gruyère cheese
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon olive oil
Breading Mix
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons almond flour
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1 large egg
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Place each breast on a cutting board and make a horizontal slit through the thicker side, cutting almost to the opposite side.
Place a ham slice and a cheese slice in each pocket, leaving a 1/2 border. Seal chicken over the filling.
In a shallow bowl, mix the egg with the milk.
In a shallow plate, combine the flour, almond flour, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.
Carefully dip each piece of chicken first in the milk mixture, then in the crumb mixture to coat.
Place chicken in a baking dish coated with cooking spray.
Combine melted butter and oil, and drizzle half over the chicken; turn breasts over and drizzle with the remaining butter mixture on the other side.
Bake about 30 minutes, turning once halfway through cooking time, until lightly browned on the outside and cooked through.
This dish goes well with oven roasted asparagus.
Ham and Cheese Egg Muffins
Egg Muffins make an easy, portable, and tasty breakfast that's packed with protein and are good-for-you.
Makes 12 egg muffins
8 large eggs
½ cup refrigerated egg substitute (Egg Beaters)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup cubed leftover baked ham
1 cup shredded cheddar, Italian blend or mozzarella cheese
1 cup red bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup golden (or red) grape tomatoes, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
1/8 teaspoon cayenne powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk together the eggs, egg substitute, salt and seasonings. Stir in the ham, cheese, bell peppers, tomatoes and green onions.
Spray a standard 12 cup muffin tin with olive oil cooking spray.
Using a muffin scoop, pour the egg mixture filling into each cup filling them to the top.
Bake for about 25-30 minutes until cooked through and puffy.
Ham & Cheese Omelet
2 servings
2 tablespoons butter
3-4 slices of baked ham, cut into smaller pieces
2 slices of American, Cheddar or Swiss cheese, cut into 8 pieces
6 large eggs
1 tablespoon heavy cream
Black pepper to taste
Melt the butter over low heat in a skillet or omelet pa. Add the sliced ham and cook until hot and beginning to brown slightly.
In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs with the cream and some black pepper to taste. Pour the mixture over the ham.
Cook until the eggs begin to set. Place the slices of cheese over the eggs. Cover the pan and let cook until completely set. Uncover the pan.
Fold half of the cooked egg over the other half to form a half circle. Let cook a minute or two and then serve.
Stuffed Peppers with Ham and Cauliflower Rice
These little ham stuffed peppers are great for lunch. The recipe can be doubled and tripled. You can also use regular rice if you prefer.
2 servings
2 small bell peppers
1/2 cup cauliflower rice
1/4 medium onion, finely chopped
1 celery stalk, finely chopped
1 tablespoon butter
2 ounces shredded mild Cheddar or American cheese
1/2 cup diced baked ham
1 tablespoon minced parsley
Black pepper to taste
To prepare the cauliflower rice:
Wash and cut a head of cauliflower into small pieces.
Put the cauliflower pieces into a food processor and process it until it is in rice-size pieces.
Reserve 1/2 cup for this recipe and use the remainder for another dish.
Cook the whole peppers in 2 cups of lightly salted boiling water for 3 minutes.
Reserve 1/4 cup of the cooking liquid and then drain the peppers.
Cut the tops off the peppers and remove the seeds and white membrane. Reserve the top slice.
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
In a skillet, sauté the onion and celery in butter until tender, about 4 to 5 minutes.
Add the cooking water and shredded cheese.
Stir until blended; add ham, cauliflower rice, parsley and pepper.
Fill peppers with the ham mixture and top with the pepper lids.
Coat a small baking dish with cooking spray and place the peppers in the dish.
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Wow, just wow. Did you get a chance to hear the new show from Ramsey Solutions called Borrowed Future? The link to the podcast is posted below, and you have to carve out time this afternoon to listen when you decide NOT to borrow for college, everything changes. Step 1: Homeschool for College Credit.
It's a listening party! I'm tuning in, you should tune in too. Let's talk about how your teen can work Dave's plan and get your teen through college debt-free.
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Do NOT send your teen to college on Day 1 with 120 credits to pay for. A bachelor's degree "costs" 120 college credits. That means, there are 120 credits in front of every person who starts a college degree and their finish line. Half the students will never cross the finish line, but when you Homeschool for College Credit, you put your teen closer to the goalpost, you start them 25%, 50%, 75% closer to that goal than the other students!
When you Homeschool for College Credit, you pay cash because you HAVE TO pay cash! There are no student loan options for teens in high school, so the credits earned are paid for over the period of the years your teen is in high school. A bonus is that many teens in this country can take all the community college classes they want for free or reduced tuition – while in high school. Once you graduate, you pay full price (rack rate) tuition.
When you send your teen to college with 120 credits to earn, that's like standing at the checkout and asking the cashier if she has any idea how to pay less for your groceries! At that point, it's too late. The cashier doesn't care if you have to borrow to pay for those groceries, the cashier doesn't know how to teach you how to shop with wisdom, and the cashier is just there to do her job. It's you, the shopper, who planned the menu, picked the grocery store and put the items in the cart. Homeschooling for College Credit backs you up to your kitchen table and helps you resourcefully plan your teen's high school so that it injects college credit and brings the goal post closer.
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It was only eight months, but the Miami Marlins aborted their immediate 2012 to 2014 gameplan for a changed approach based on a struggling 2012 season. Gone are Hanley Ramirez and Omar Infante, two parts who figured to stick around for a good deal of that time period, and in come a slew of young players to replace them. It is a fire sale all over again.
Wait, what?
No, the Marlins did not sell off the team in the sort of over-the-top, spectacular fashion they did in 1997 and in 2006. The trades of Infante, Anibal Sanchez, and Ramirez were reasonable moves. Dealing relievers like Edward Mujica and Randy Choate were the sort of plays a non-competing team would make. Trading Gaby Sanchez was an attempt to get any value from him without triggering his Super Two status. This was, by no means, a fire sale.
But the Marlins have struggled in 2012, and it seems the front office is lamenting some of its so-called mistakes of the offseason. At least that is the sentiment David Samson is sharing.
"We set ourselves up for it,'' acknowledged Marlins president David Samson of a grand makeover that failed miserably. "We paraded around Dallas. We signed those guys. We opened a new ballpark. We said we're 'all in.' ''
The team's biggest mistake, Samson said: overestimating the team's talent level and believing it to be a playoff contender that would lead to the Marlins' first postseason appearance in nine years. Instead, the Marlins struggled simply to stay afloat.
But as Grant Brisbee asks, did the Marlins really overestimate their talent, or did the team simply not play up to what our expectations were?
Seems like Samson's arguing with himself, but the overall point isn't wrong: The Marlins looked to be a helluva lot better going into the season. The disappointment wasn't isolated to an overly optimistic intern in the front office. Everyone was giddy about the Marlins.
But there's something to be said about Samson fighting for that point. I'm not sure if the fire sale was made with a unanimous consensus, or if it came at the behest of Jeffrey Loria in a fit of regret and second-guessing. The problem wasn't that the Marlins didn't have talent. The problem is that so much of their talented players underperformed expectations.
You see, a lot of parties thought the Marlins were going to be pretty good. It was not just me who predicted the team would make the Wild Card. Twenty-nine of the "experts" ESPN asked to do preseason predictions guessed that the Marlins would make the playoffs. And it was not just the John Kruks of the world. Dave Cameron of FanGraphs thought the team would make the playoffs. Dan Szymborski, who runs the ZiPS projection system, guessed that too. So did Jonah Keri of Grantland. A lot of people, smart people, thought this team would be good.
You know why? Because it should have been good, based on what we knew before the season. And that's why I cannot blame the front office for doing what they did this offseason in going "all-in." Because as far as they knew heading into 2012, they were right.Hindsight is 20/20
Marlins fans and media need to lose the 20/20 vision known as hindsight. It is easy now, after the Fish struggled through another ugly June, to say that the team obviously was not going anywhere. It is easy to point at a 50-60 team and say "that team clearly isn't any good, what were they thinking?"
But the lens of the preseason said different things. With so many parties expecting a potential Marlins playoff berth, you had to believe that there were legitimate reasons for expecting good performance. Going into the 2012 season, the Marlins had talent that was projected to be good. The Fish boasted maybe two below-average players in their starting lineup. At worst, two of their starting pitchers were slightly below average, but still at the level one would expect from a fourth or fifth starter. This team had a good number of things going for it in terms of projections. Here is what we projected for the team before the season began:
Total Projection (Position Players): 26.5 WAR
Total Projection (Pitchers): 18.0 WAR
Total Projection: 44.5 WAR
Estimated W-L Record: 87-75
This is not out of line with what the so-called experts also said. In fact, this guess lined up fairly nicely in the "Marlins contend for Wild Card" storyline that many people in baseball probably expected.
Obviously the Marlins did not hit their projections. But as we have been saying all season long, they did not just miss their projections by a little. It is not as if a player or two missed their reasonable pre-season estimates. Everyone missed their projections. Five out of the team's eight regular hitters hit below expectations, with a few of them costing us ten or more runs from their expected preseason marks. When you are losing up to 10 or 15 runs on three players and losing runs on two more, it is no wonder your offense is among the worst in baseball.
But the fact that we expected them to be better means the front office could not blame themselves entirely on their failures. Going into the season, they saw a group that could contend with the better offenses in baseball, and that should have happened. The fact that it did not puts the onus on the underachieving players as much as the front office that put them together.
Yes, Larry Beinfest, Michael Hill, David Samson, Jeffrey Loria, and the entire cast of decision makers on the Marlins should not be absolved for assembling a team that did this poorly. But it is not as though they had reason to believe it would do this poorly, because the expectations were rightfully high based on the numbers. The players, it turns out, underachieved and were probably a bit less talented than we thought they were going into the year, but there was no way any front office could have foreseen the staggering number of on-field failures this Marlins team has undergone in 2012.
It Had To Be Done
There is another argument that is just as important as the argument that the Marlins, on paper and after crunching the numbers, had assembled a playoff contender that in the end did not play like one. The Marlins had to do this to drum up interest. It was the right move from a public relations standpoint as well as a baseball standpoint. Did the Marlins front office honestly have a choice with all of their discussion that the new stadium would bring revenue that would allow the Marlins to spend more money and be legitimate free agent market players? Could the team really have gone by the 2013 offseason without making a few splash signings?
No, even the most diehard Marlins fans (and there a select few) would not have embraced years of promises that a new stadium would bring legitimate changes to how this team was run, only to see the team run in a similar cheapskate fashion. The fans already felt shafted by the new stadium deal; a sign of "the more things change, more they stay the same" would have been disastrous publicly for a Marlins team that wanted to re-brand and identify itself with Miami. In order to do that, the Marlins had to make a splash, and they did so and did it (for the most part) responsibly and intelligently.
No Regrets (Or Some Regrets?)
Did the Marlins do everything right in the offseason? Clearly not, and it does not take more than a cursory glance at this blog's offseason posts to see that the team's moves were not all well-received. But was the general plan correct? Absolutely. The team's plan was to fill three holes with appropriate free agent signings and hope that regression to the mean would give the Marlins more wins from Hanley Ramirez and Josh Johnson. The team expected its veterans to stay mostly on course and its young players to improve a little. If these things happened, the Marlins would be in contention.
When all of your plan goes down the drain, some of that eventually has to be your fault for perhaps overestimating the talent on the team. But for this much to go catastrophically wrong, it takes more than just misjudgment from the front office; the players did their share of failing to achieve what was reasonably expected of them. But because the plan was right and the idea was sound, the Marlins should not regret what they did. Their reasoning was right. Their calculations were right. When they got on the field, all hell broke loose. They shoulder some of the blame, but to say they made grievous errors in judgment for actions that they basically had to make both for baseball and publicity would be wrong.


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In this article, we present 5 ways of getting from Wrocław airport to the city center. We've sorted them from the cheapest to the most expensive ones. We've also included approximate travel time and some useful tips.
Getting from Wrocław airport to the city center by public transport is one of the cheapest way of transportation from the airport that we encountered in various cities around the world. One way ticket costs only 3.4 PLN (less than 1 USD) and buses leave the airport every 15 minutes.
The bus stop is on the right side of the terminal entrance. In order to get as close to the city center (the Market Square) as possible, get off at the "Pl. Orląt Lwowskich" bus stop (estimated travel time: 32 minutes). If you want to get to the train or bus station, get off at the last stop "Dworcowa" (estimated travel time: 40 minutes).
You can buy the ticket in the machine located at the exit of the Arrival terminal or in the bus. If you choose the second option, remember that the vending machines in the buses accept only credit and debit card. Do not be surprised if you do not receive a paper ticket – the ticket is coded directly on your bank card.
Click here to check the timetable
WRO Airport Express bus stops only at two stops: Galeria Dominikańska (shopping mall located in the city center, few steps from the Market Square) and Dworzec Autobusowy (Bus Station) which is located in the area of Wroclavia shopping mall.
The bus runs every 50 minutes from the stop located near the Arrivals terminal.
The ticket costs 10 PLN (about 2.6 USD) and can be booked online or bought directly from the driver – cash and card payments are available. The journey time is about 30 minutes and free Wi-Fi is available on-board.
The huge advantage of requesting the Uber is a very short waiting time. Few cars are usually located near the airport, so you will wait no more than 5 minutes for a pickup. The fare depends on the time of day, but getting to the center of Wrocław should cost you about 25 PLN (6 USD).
To request the Uber, simply open the Uber app once you've collected your luggage and exited the terminal, select pickup location, destination and confirm your choice. The driver will meet you in front of the Arrivals terminal.
This is definitely one of the most expensive options. You can access taxis when you arrive – you will find them at the front of the Arrival terminals. Simply follow the sign. A ride to the city center should cost no more than50-60 PLN (13-15 USD). It is worth asking about the price of the ride before entering the taxi.
We have several taxi companies in Wrocław offering low-fare journeys, but unless they are just bringing passengers from the city to the airport, they usually don't wait longer than a few minutes at the front of the terminal.
If you want to order any of the low-fare taxis in Wrocław, you must call the company or book the ride online.
We recommend Ryba Taxi or WICAR.
Car rental desks are located in the Arrival hall. Click here for more info.
If you plan to stay in Wrocław for a few days, make sure that you visit some Lower Silesia gems. Click here to read our list of the best day trips from Wrocław.


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Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
By Sophie Pedder
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In 2011 Emmanuel Macron, no stranger to statements of the obvious, wrote in Esprit: 'Everything ought not to be expected of one man. The 2012 presidential election will no more deliver us a demiurge, a mechanic of the universe, than any previous election has … The reconstruction of responsible politics cannot be effected by personal charisma, by a compact between an absolutist and his people.'
It is, of course, difficult to imagine anyone less like a demiurge than François Hollande, the excitingly pudding-like small-town lothario who got the socialist nomination in a faute de mieux-ish way because Dominique Strauss-Kahn (bizarrely endowed by Sophie Pedder with 'rock-star appeal') went just a tiny bit too far in a New York hotel room. Hollande then won because his opponent was the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Luck was with Hollande, just as it would be with the keen young Macron, who threw in his lot with Hollande after being courted by both Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn. Macron rose and rose before shafting his patron when the latter's popularity rating fell to 4 per cent.
In cafes, in friends' apartments and in his own flat (bought with a 'loan' from one of his many 'mentors', the late businessman Henry Hermand) Macron conspired to form a party, En Marche! (now LaREM), a mix of campaign machine and self-advertisement. He convinced thousands of teenagers and young adults to doorstep on his behalf. This smartphoned volunteer force of Macron Jugend defied conventional French wisdom that such a form of targeted canvassing was intrusive and ineffective; but conventional French wisdom was formed long ago, in the dark ages before the electoral uses of social media had become apparent. France was a latecomer to the digital party, handicapped by its reluctance to abandon Minitel, a system every bit as successful as Betamax.
Macron had further convinced his followers – clearly a dangerously credulous bunch – that he was a métèque, a pejorative, racist word with which he probably intended to express the idea of 'mongrel'. He was, supposedly, an outsider to the farcically corrupt and properly despised classe politico-médiatique, but are there any politicians who do not present themselves as outsiders, anti-elitists, opponents of the establishment? This has been standard-issue political mendacity since the advent of Bomber Blair. If we are to take these power-hungry prefects at their word, there are no insiders left. It's akin to The Man Who Was Thursday. Nonetheless, to manage this was quite a feat of legerdemain for Macron, who is an énarque, a sometime inspector of finances, an ex-Rothschild banker, a greedy accumulator of offices, a former ministerial adviser (or, according to his many enemies, 'an intern') promoted to minister, and a negotiator of revolving doors who obtained the bulk of his party's funding from businesses and corporations that he publicly lambasted but with whose higher echelons he had connected very well indeed and whose interests he looks after. He also has a promiscuous fondness for les people (airhead showbiz celebrities).
It might be said, as it always is, that he made his own luck. But he can have had no control over Hollande's minister for industrial renewal Arnaud Montebourg, who in 2014 broke ranks to publicly criticise the splendidly humourless prime minister, Manuel Valls. Macron was the beneficiary of Montebourg's dismissal. Appointed in his stead, he became known for the first time to the public.
A far greater stroke of luck was the fall of François Fillon, the favourite to win the 2017 presidential election, a rightish Catholic placeman whose main achievement as Sarkozy's prime minister had been to keep his head down and not appear too complicit in that president's caprices. His decades-long peculation of public money, paying his alarming, sinecurist wife and school-age children as 'aides', was exposed when he was ahead in the polls and appeared likely to win the presidency. His nemesis was Le Canard enchaîné, which revealed his activities. Was this Macron's lucky break? Or was it down to cunning? Where did the paper get its information? The timing would suggest that Macron and his accomplices were behind the detailed revelations, which could only have come from somewhere near the heart of government. The hyper-Tartuffe Fillon's exposure cleared the way for him, for victory and for one of those things that come round twice every decade: 'a new beginning'.
A year on, a 'popular tide' is rising. It has partly been whipped up by the unions, partly by the leftist bully boy Jean-Luc Mélenchon (yet another self-proclaimed outsider), partly by Macron himself. He makes tactless gaffes, preposterously suggesting, for instance, that the French should not complain about cuts in housing allowances when they could act like the heroic Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, who exchanged himself for a hostage in a terrorist attack near Carcassonne and paid with his life. He lacks empathy with all but the wealthy and has no grasp of the struggles faced by the majority of his concitoyens, whom he patronises as his subjects. Effigies of him are being burned in the streets, placards showing him dressed in SS uniform (with, predictably, an Israeli armband) are held high in demonstrations all over the country and the polls show his popularity is declining – but that goes with the job. He is actually marginally more popular than Sarkozy and Hollande were at the same stage of their presidencies. Both, note, enjoyed but a single quinquennat. It seems likely that Macron will similarly not secure a second term.
Sophie Pedder's Macron is a complicated gamut of contradictions whose obsessions include being taken for a statesman, spending almost €9,000 a month on a make-up consultant and gauging the meaning of his every heavy-handed gesture. The day he announced his candidature he went to the Basilica of St Denis, where kings and queens are buried. The symbols of office, French history and myth, a Barrès-lite mysticism, grandiloquent shows of duty, international prestige – these seem to preoccupy him in a way that quotidian matters don't. It's as though his solipsism enables him to inhabit some higher plane, a place of exceptionality, in signal contrast to his immediate predecessor. How this goes down in the grim corons of the Pas-de-Calais and the HLMs of Bobigny is not hard to guess.
Pedder has been The Economist's bureau chief in Paris since Chirac presided. Leave aside her gift for pitch-perfect journalese and novelettish description; she is formidably knowledgeable, can find her way through the labyrinth of ministries and functionaries, is fluent in Macronese, is perhaps somewhat in awe of the man and certainly shares his enthusiasm for digital start-ups, which may not be quite the panacea France needs. She has interviewed him several times and obviously writes with sufficient lack of animus to get herself invited back. This is not to say that she is a journalistic béni-oui-oui, a yes-woman.
Macron tends to surround himself with such people. It's as if he has taken to heart George Harrison's observation, 'It's better to have yes-men than no-men.' There is, then, little brake on Macron's impetuosity. Pedder possesses a marked discretion that he lacks: 'Macron's haste and ambition lead him to push too hard in ways that are divisive.' Too right. His ability to alienate, for instance, white blue-collars and boondocks smallholders marks him out as either clumsy or negligent. He is routinely compared to Napoleon III.
The one person he listens to is his ever-smiling wife, on whose behalf he self-importantly militated so that she might be officially pronounced première dame. Nothing doing. Pascal Bruckner, the no-longer nouveau philosophe, calls her, with unusual lack of originality, l'éminence grise. In this guise she was probably responsible for her husband's cravenly bathetic performance at Johnny Hallyday's funeral – several minutes of high-octane drivel that caused the insentient to weep and the sentient to wince. Pedder amiably describes it as 'both romantic and deeply calculating'. The same might be said of any number of populist, lush, intellectually void spectacles that offer no more than temporary relief, temporary communion. They are mere diversions. They are his forte. Chiselhurst awaits.


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QuickBooks 2016 is available as of this week to all users! This year's release brings several new features and improvements to existing ones:
Bill Tracker: A dashboard with real-time access about the money-out of the business (Purchase Orders, Bills, Item Receipts); it is similar to the Income Tracker that is available since previous QuickBooks versions
Bulk Clear Send Forms: Allows removing the "Email Later" flag from Customer Invoices in mass
This Fiscal Year-to-Last Month Report Filter: New very useful report date filter
Auto Copy Ship-To Address: New "Drop ship to customer" option when creating a Purchase Order from an Estimate or Sales Order; Ship To field auto populates with the customer's address from the sales transaction
Filter for Custom Fields in Item Reports: Item based reports now recognize the filter settings for custom defined fields
Continuous Feed Label Printing: QuickBooks supported printing sheets of labels on standard printers before — now users can print labels on single-roll continuous labels
Sort on Columns in Receive Payment: Work more efficiently in the Receive Payment window to sort transactions on this form [this feature is only in Enterprise]
Improved E-Invoicing: Set a specific payment method preference by Customer, including Credit Card and Bank Transfer (ACH); using E-Invoicing is a fee based service — to learn more, contact us at 954.447.0250!
Improved Verify and Rebuild Process: New detailed reporting before and after a Verify or Rebuild routine to help more accurately troubleshoot data integrity issues
Simplified Upgrade Process: The process to update a QuickBooks file from one year's version to the next has been streamlined into just a few clicks
Batch Delete/Void Transactions: Mass delete or void groups of transactions by the use of multiple filters; transaction types that can be deleted or voided are Invoices, Bills, and Checks [this feature is only in Accountant Edition and Enterprise]
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Humanity is never going to give up on the idea of finding another lifeform somewhere in this universe, so why not search on something that's pretty close, like the moon?
The International Lunar Observatory Association, or ILOA from here on out, is launching a plan that seeks to build a lunar base and research facility on the Dark side of the Moon, which is actually only the Far side of the Moon spoken of with some cooler intent.
Right now, there's about $100 million invested in the project, hoping to land a telescope that will search the galaxy and maybe beyond for extraterritorial life from the dark side of the moon.
According to ILOA founder Steve Durst, the main objective is to better understand the cosmos by observing it from the moon, but the cooler objective to focus on is searching for extraterrestrial life. SETI researchers are listening for interstellar communication—radio waves and micro waves—to see if anyone out there is transmitting a signal.
It's not a new idea – it's been around for a few decades now, with the groundwork being laid In a revolutionary 1959 article, "Searching For Interstellar Communications" by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison. The SETI@home experiment has attracted millions of people to get involved in a search for "narrow-bandwidth radio signals in space," by distributing bite-size pieces of data to be sifted through by ordinary computers.
Pretty much anyone can participate, and there's even a software that can run in the background of a smartphone. Landing a telescope on the far side of the Moon would improve the chances of picking up on signals that might be blocked by interference: Our lights and our telecommunications are both born by and contribute to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) that is obstructing the search for anything coming from the darkness. In the next three to four decades, the use of radio telescopes will be far too overwhelmed by manmade interference.
For more on telescopes, check out NASA's public space telescope.