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Insurance M&A markets look increasingly sophisticated
Our Global Capital Confidence Barometer shows 100% of insurance executives see the global M&A market as stable or improving in the next 12 months.
Insurance M&A markets look increasingly sophisticated
Financial Services Divestment Study 2018
Insurance Accounting Alert - February 2018
2017 Digital Underwriting Survey
Designing a workforce for the future of insurance
Global tax points for insurers (Volume 2, Issue 2)
The evolution in self-driving vehicles
Insurance execs show strong appetite for M&A
Cyber strategy for insurers
Navigating change to seize new global opportunities
Major regulatory change. The rise of emerging markets. Ongoing economic uncertainty. Technology-driven turbulence. Increasing consumer expectations.
These are the primary challenges and issues faced by global insurance executives. These challenges also offer the key to future profitability for insurers who make the right strategic, investment, organizational and operational changes.
Our global insurance practice helps insurers around the world successfully meet these challenges. We can help you ask the right questions, set priorities and define the action plans needed to succeed in the fast-shifting insurance landscape.
Our global network of insurance professionals provides guidance and insight on pivotal areas in the insurance industry today, including:
- Actuarial & Risk Management Strategies
As the insurance market undergoes radical change, insurance companies face a difficult balancing act. They must identify and assess new options for value creation while continuing to manage risks and meet emerging regulatory requirements such as Solvency II and IFRS.
Explore the service areas below to learn more about our actuarial and risk management expertise.
- Risk and capital
As capital becomes scarce and competition from other financial institutions increases, insurers are evolving from static to dynamic optimization of risk portfolios. We help companies optimize their risk portfolios under current rules as well as expected new regulations such as Solvency II.
- Customers and growth
The insurance industry faces many challenges: political changes, economics, product innovation, technology advances, competition from other financial sectors and changing customer behavior. We prepare companies for these changes by providing practical insights on consumer buying patterns. We also help you understand which customers truly create value so you can build strategies to enhance these high-value relationships.
- Financial reporting
The global insurance industry is facing a wave of new regulations and reporting requirements. It is crucial for companies to understand the micro and macro effects of new reporting requirements—the importance of reported figures and the wider implications for strategy and operations. We help companies understand and prepare efficient external and internal reporting frameworks by providing actuarial services that are part of integrated multi-disciplinary solutions.
- Actuarial transformation and offshoring
To improve cost-effectiveness, insurance companies have a broad range of options: integrated finance solutions, actuarial and risk reporting processes, selective offshoring and shared service centers for improving standardization and output quality. We help companies simplify their actuarial infrastructure and achieve cost efficiency by streamlining or offshoring/outsourcing their actuarial and finance reporting processes.
- Modeling
Actuarial and risk models are becoming increasingly crucial to business operations. Although a fast close of actuarial reporting remains important, regulatory focus and requirements to put a robust control environment around models are also increasing. We help companies make their actuarial and risk models efficient and fit for purpose.
- Audit and assurance
With long experience as auditors and more broadly on assurance engagements, our multi-disciplinary actuarial teams give comfort to Boards on key strategic items including managing supplementary financial information and meeting regulatory requirements.
- Asset management
Asset management is closely linked with capital optimization, product optimization and financial modeling. Facing innovation and competition from other financial sectors, insurers must develop optimal asset management strategies. We help companies with asset liability management, derivative pricing and performance management.
- Mergers and acquisitions
As companies revisit and optimize their portfolios, they look to acquire and consolidate more attractive businesses, and dispose of businesses in markets where they cannot compete. With depressed valuations in many insurance markets and the shifting strategies of multinationals, the mergers and acquisitions market is poised to become more active. Our experienced Transaction Advisory team provides integrated services to help companies with valuations and post-merger integration.
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- Risk and capital
- Customers & Growth
Your customers, your growth
In today's competitive and capital-constrained market, growing, deepening and retaining customer relationships is vital to achieving sustained and profitable growth.
Economic drivers, combined with changing demographics and buying patterns, are forcing insurers to re-evaluate their business models, the markets in which they operate and the propositions they offer.
Other dynamics include:
- The emergence of disruptive technologies
- Customers' unprecedented access to information
- The growing recognition of the importance of existing customers
- Evolving consumer protection regulation
We can assist your organization in addressing these issues to grow, protect and optimize your business. Specifically we can help you with:
- Turning customer data into value
Analytics is rarely a coordinated, organization-wide function within insurance firms. Although many insurers believe they are proficient in analyzing their large amounts of data, the role of analytics is changing and expanding rapidly.
Many executives recognize that they have only skimmed the surface when it comes to turning their data into value. Additionally, a lot of insurers grapple with the challenge of not knowing where to start and how to embed analytics as an organization-wide capability.
We combine our analytics expertise with business knowledge to help you use the data you have to identify opportunities that will differentiate and grow your business.
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- Improving and maximizing customer experience
Leading organizations are focusing on both top- and bottom-line efforts to drive margin improvement and advance a customer-centric operating model.
One critical component to success is the customer experience, which encompasses the entire customer lifecycle. We can work with you to determine:
- Which attributes of the customer experience have the most effect?
- Where can the biggest difference be made?
- What is the likely impact on revenue and costs?
- What needs to be done, and when?
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- Harnessing digital as part or an integrated channel strategy
Our research confirms that most consumers want access to a mix of online and personal contact. Although digital is not a panacea, it is a critical enabler to deliver the experience customers want.
The key challenge for insurers is how to harness the power of digital to better engage directly with customers, integrate it seamlessly with existing channels/access points and lower costs.
We can help you manage this challenge from inception to implementation, working with you to:
- Assess the maturity and competitive positioning of your current and future digital strategy
- Develop your digital strategy (including the investment case and delivery roadmap) and work with you to design your multi-channel operating model
- Implement the required capabilities, including the delivery of digital systems, technology and enhancements to existing processes and channels
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- Transforming your agency
There is significant pressure on insurers to improve productivity and customer outcomes, while remaining cost-effective.
We expect a significant increase in the requirements placed on insurers as regulators present a unified point of view to protect consumers. Costs to retain, support and compensate agents will come under increasing scrutiny as well.
We can help you transform by:
- Assessing the maturity, strengths and areas for investment across a broad range of dimensions, including:
- Alignment of culture and firm values
- Customer and agent segmentation (and mapping both)
- Agency management
- Enablement and operations—options and implementation
- Agency experience, product innovation and compensation
- Articulating the desired future state and converting this into an actionable strategy, business case and road map. This also includes the development of alternative or complementary channels to support your current distribution models
- Assessing the maturity, strengths and areas for investment across a broad range of dimensions, including:
- Creating effective bancassurance relationships
Despite the global downturn, the bancassurance channel has shown impressive growth in most of Asia Pacific. The growing buying power of the middle class remains the target market of banks and insurance companies, providing significant opportunities for the two to join forces
We can help you create effective bancassurance relationships by:
- Setting your bancassurance strategy
- Performing a review of your bancassurance business
- Deploying our tools and methodologies to transform the bancassurance customer service model
- Innovation for transformative growth
Succeeding in a competitive market takes more than just keeping pace with your rivals—you must surpass them in every aspect of the business. Innovation is the key to having the competition follow you, and it's the path to transformative growth for your company.
Innovation requires more than a bright idea or two though. It's a mindset that must be embedded in your culture and integrated into strategic decision-making.
Embedding innovation throughout the organization involves gaining insights from other industries, such as manufacturing, and from resources such as research lab and discovery centers. It also means introducing internal processes that enable fast experimentation to transform concepts into tangible outcomes.
We have the experience and subject matter expertise to establish innovation as a core competency in your organization. Our framework encompasses your company's vision and culture, its operating model (governance, KPIs and incentives) and the day-to-day processes that power innovation.
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- Finance Change
Today's insurance market is tougher than ever, with increasingly sophisticated customers and difficult economic conditions challenging insurers to innovate and reduce costs to survive. New and demanding regulation is only adding to the pressure.
Welcome to the "new normal" for insurance companies. By 2020, conditions will be just as, if not more, challenging.
To succeed in this new normal environment, all aspects of finance operations need attention: processes, people and organization, data and technology, and the sourcing and location of work. They must improve if finance is to meet its three most pressing challenges: lower cost, improved reporting and the delivery of real business value.
- Enterprise Performance Management
We have identified seven aspects of a planning, budgeting and forecasting process that must be improved to ensure that it delivers. This has been developed for transforming planning, budgeting and forecasting from an exercise that provides poor value to one that ensures continuous optimization of resource allocation decisions and consistent, effective execution of business strategy.
To support this we have developed a methodology that accelerates the planning, budgeting and forecasting transformation. The starting point for this journey is to conduct a rapid diagnostic:
- Assess current state processes, governance, systems, data and organization
- Compare and benchmark planning, budgeting and forecasting processes with leading practices and identify gaps
- Identify and prioritize initiatives for performance improvement
- Develop business case and roadmap for change
- pportunities identified typically create savings of 20 – 25% from finance costs
This allows insurers to identify an holistic roadmap for the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes in as little as six weeks.
- Solvency II Pillar III
Internal management information (MI) & Pillar III external reporting can sometimes become the forgotten pillar for many insurance companies (as highlighted by 2014 EY Pan European Survey). Solvency II reporting brings all the Pillar I and Pillar II work together. There will be challenges for clients around the frequency and timing of the reporting requirements, and the level of data and analysis required.
- Finance function of the future
The current insurance outlook will force finance function to change to deliver value to the business.
What are the benefits?
- Cost reduction
- Improvement in quality of data and control
- Faster reporting under the different financial reporting and regulatory reporting
- Added value to stakeholders in the business (business partnering)
- Investor story
The complexity and lack of transparency of insurance reporting has impaired insurers' ability to communicate effectively with investors and analysts. This is a longstanding issue, but one which has created further significant loss of shareholder value during recent volatile economic conditions.
Upcoming accounting changes may aid communication in some areas, but further complexity and detailed disclosures are unlikely to address the fundamental issues over the ability for investors to understand key business trends.
As we work with clients to help them prepare for upcoming accounting changes, there are opportunities to play a wider role in helping them plan and develop their MI, bridging the gap between internal decision making, external mandatory reporting and external market communication.
- IFRS 4 Phase II
The IASB / FASB joint project on insurance contracts has made significant progress on the latest revised Exposure Draft (ED). We expect the new targeted Exposure Draft to be issued in 2013 and the Standard to be issued in 2014 with a proposed effective date of 1 January 2018.
It is the right time for clients to start assessing the implications of the new standard and planning the implementation of IFRS 4 Phase II. IFRS conversions are a significant undertaking and require deep knowledge, not only of the accounting differences, interpretations and potential approaches, but also the business implications for performance measurement, staff compensation, tax, regulation and communication to stakeholders.
Our services include assistance in determining the accounting differences but, even more importantly, we can help design new processes to integrate with existing processes, systems and control changes to provide a detailed and robust approach. In addition, we provide full-scale project management across all work streams involved in the conversion from a global perspective.
- Integrated reporting
A new approach to corporate reporting that demonstrates the linkages between an organization's strategy, governance and financial performance and the social, environmental and economic context within which it operates, integrated reporting represents the tangible proof of how business can take more sustainable decisions. At EY we have defined the path to guide our clients toward more sustainable reporting.
'Integrated thinking' is the ability of management to monitor, manage and communicate the full complexity of the value-creation process, and how this contributes to success over time. Through this process of 'integrated thinking' organizations are able to effectively manage the creation and preservation of value. This can help investors, and other stakeholders, to understand an organization's:
- Past performance
- Current performance
- Future resilience
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- Governance
We, along with Tapestry Network, established the Insurance Governance Leadership Network (IGLN), a global network centered around non-executive directors from a select group of the largest insurers from Europe, North America and Asia. The IGLN provides a peer-to-peer platform for participants to discuss critical issues facing the industry globally. Its primary focus is the non-executive director, but it also engages senior management (notably chief risk officers) and regulators, all of whom are committed to outstanding governance and supervision in support of the mission to build strong, enduring, and trustworthy insurance institutions.
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- Growing in Emerging Markets
The global economy is at a turning point. Fast-growth economies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe now form almost half of global GDP and, in 2010, they contributed 70% to overall global growth.
These trends are accelerating. By 2050, fast-growth economies are projected to account for 65% of the global economy. In contrast, most developed markets are still struggling to recover after the global recession.
For many businesses, their very survival depends on pursuing a growth agenda. This might include expanding into new markets and sectors, finding new ways to innovate or taking new approaches to talent.
But there's one key question that must be answered: how can your insurance business make the most of the many opportunities that exist?
- Risk & Regulatory Transformation
The global insurance industry is emerging from a period of economic uncertainty. As the insurance market is undergoing radical change, insurance companies are facing a difficult balancing act. They must identify and assess new options for value creation while continuing to manage risks and meet emerging regulatory requirements, such as Solvency II. Risk and regulation is high on the agenda for insurers, and we work with clients to show them that good risk management doesn't slow an organization down — it helps it go faster.
- Solvency II
"EY welcomes the successful conclusion of the Omnibus II Directive negotiations, which provides clarity over the long awaited Solvency II implementation timeline," says Martin Bradley, Global Insurance Risk and Regulatory leader.
The final trialogue on the Omnibus II package delivers a provisional deal as agreement has been gained with Member States.
For more information and ways we can help, contact our Solvency II specialists.
Are you ready?
For related reading, visit our Solvency II site
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- Recovery & Resolution
In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, regulators focused their attention on banks considered "too big to fail." Now regulators are turning to insurers and assessing which ones are likewise systemically important.
Insurers and reinsurers will have to demonstrate their corporate agility and strength by setting out recovery and resolution plans (RRPs) in the event of a severe stress situation or failure. Global insurers and large domestic insurers, particularly those with international business, should begin to prepare.
We help global insurers develop RRPs (including submissions to regulators) using our industry-leading practices, including:
- Program launch
- Tailored scope and approach that fits your organization
- Analysis of existing risk management procedures
- Analysis of existing recovery and resolution plans
- Systemic risk management analysis
- Formal submission preparation
- Program management or independent quality assurance
- Delivery of sustainable plans and benefits
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We are increasingly living in a global economy — with trade and inbound and outbound investment a fact of life. It's no wonder capital markets have long advocated for globally recognized accounting standards.
Until recently, that common accounting language has been a missing link. Now, policymakers, lawmakers and regulators are working alongside standard-setters to provide a single set of high-quality, global accounting principles.
Benefit from our timely insights as your prepare for this transition.
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- Structural change & optimization
The corporate and capital structure of insurers is being shaped by regulatory and capital reform and the implications of recovery and resolution. At the same time, insurers are focusing more closely on management and the value generated from in-force business.
Combining actuarial, accounting, regulatory, operational and tax knowledge, EY offers a deep understanding of the structural options available to companies. We also have extensive implementation experience, with an approach that spans all parts of your balance sheet and recognizes the implications for asset and liability management.
Our approach takes into account metrics to be optimized, internal restructuring and transactions, external risk transfer, operational efficiency and new business design and strategy.
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- Are convertible bonds a wise investment?
- European insurers and renewable energy assets
- Matching adjustment for equity release assets
Life and general insurers have historically relied upon investment markets as key sources of profit and crucially have been able to do this whilst embarking on relatively "vanilla" investment strategies. In the current low yield environment, broadening their horizons is critical to maintaining profitability.
Fortunately there are a range of economic and political initiatives driving demand for institutional lending; in addition to this, traditional lenders (mainly the banks) are more reluctant than ever to tie up liquidity by lending for long durations. However insurers are subject to less pressure on liquidity than banks which may allow them to fill the void in the long-term debt market.
EY has developed a series of discussion papers considering alternative investment strategies for insurance companies. These papers will be published over the coming months. The first two in the series consider two asset classes which are not a significant part of typical insurance company investment portfolios.
- Risk transformation
In many insurance companies, risk management and actuarial capabilities have grown organically over time -- with new organizational units, processes and technology gradually added to meet evolving requirements for risk control and regulatory compliance. Too often though, these structures are not agile, efficient or aligned to the rest of the business (especially finance and treasury functions).
Insurance companies need risk and actuarial processes that link effectively with the rest of the organization. The processes must be effective at protecting the balance sheet from unexpected risks, while adding value to business decision-making within tight cost constraints.
We have the experience and tools to support your design and implementation of the following:
- Optimal vision and Target Operating Model for risk management
- More agile and simplified systems and data landscape to support risk-management analytics and reporting
- Cost-effective risk and actuarial oversight processes, including alternative sourcing options (offshoring and near-shoring)
- Rationalized approach controlling operational, reporting and compliance risks
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- Claims transformation
Our offerings enable transformational or step changes in claims capabilities. Our expertise and analytical insight can help you achieve better claims outcomes and expense management.
Our team can help insurers in the following ways:
- Claims performance analysis
An independent review can help your organization identify areas of claims inefficiencies and processes that can lead to failed implementation or claims overpayments.
- Claims analytics and predictive modeling
Predictive modelling techniques are crucial to improving your claims operations. Our teams have a deep understanding of these techniques and can use the resulting analytics to assist organizations in several ways:
- - Identifying drivers of unexpected claims development
- - Providing data guidance
- - Implementing models
- - Prioritizing processes via loss mitigation strategies
When combined with data from our claims leakage analysis teams, these analytics can be incorporated into a program that reduces overall claims costs and expenses and enhances underwriting practices.
- Claims capability maturity assessment
This assessment benchmarks your current business claims processes and capabilities against industry-leading practices. By knowing where your organization stands, you are one step closer to a strategic business and technology program.
- Claims target operating model and organizational design
We help organizations redesign their claims organizations, processes, governance and technology to align to business and operational strategies. We serve you by focusing on performance, process excellence, skill specialization, shared services, sourcing and continuous improvement.
- Claims transformation business case development
Our deep industry knowledge helps us prioritize claims initiatives that will provide the best return on an insurer's investment.
- Claims technology enablement
Our full-service claims system selection, design and implementation capabilities leverage onshore- and offshore-based functional and technical claims professionals. They provide extensive delivery experience in project management, business analysis, process design, business and systems architecture, product configuration, systems integration, conversion and testing.
- Claims change management
We offer a compelling vision so you can drive change, improve stakeholder engagement and communications and boost operational readiness. We also help you support training and align human resource processes (such as career paths and performance management) to encourage desired behavior and sustain results.
- Claims customer experience strategy
A review of the claims customer experience can result in a differentiating, multi-channel design that aligns with an insurer's corporate customer strategy. By bringing industry insights and experience to the process, we provide guidance in developing a customer experience roadmap that is tailored to claims strategic initiatives and practical to implement.
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- Policy Administration & Billing
Insurers are under constant pressure to reduce underwriting operations costs, while continuing to grow their customer base without increasing headcount. They also face tougher demands from producers and customers who want faster quoting, more accurate policy issuance, diversified billing and payment options and real-time self-service capabilities.
We can help you optimize the following:
- Assessment
We perform a detailed assessment of the current state of operational efficiency using our proven cost-related tools across rating, quoting, issuance and billing activities. This assessment can include an evaluation and quantification of the total cost of ownership for legacy policy and billing systems.
- Business and solution architecture
We develop a business architecture and implementation roadmap that sequences deployment of functionality by product line, geography, channel and transaction type. Our business case frameworks can accelerate measurement of business and technology cost reductions as aligned to the roadmap.
- Policy administration and billing solution implementation
We provide a full range of implementation services including solution selection, requirements, design, configuration, integration and deployment. We also assist with the change management aspects of these programs, helping establish new processes and controls to improve regulatory and internal audit compliance.
Working with leading policy and billing solution providers, we present you with objective insights to navigate the complex vendor landscape. Our extensive delivery experience with vendors helps with software selection and guides you through project delivery to achieve cost reductions and process improvements.
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- Assessment
- Product Development & delivery
Incompatible systems, organizational silos and disjointed processes perpetuate costly and low- quality product development approaches. As a result, many insurers have redundant product portfolios that complicate underwriting, operations and claims processes.
As insurers look to refresh and expand their products, these issues restrict their ability to react to market changes and satisfy their customers.
Product design and delivery architecture are central to innovation and fulfillment across the insurance enterprise, and they must be integrated into both business processes and technology solutions.
We can help your organization take the following steps to develop a robust suite of products designed for specific customer needs:
- Assessment
We review your current product development, processes, systems data, interfaces and delivery capabilities to increase speed to market. We offer tools to evaluate your products, learn if there are ways to simplify them and help reduce costs.
- Business and solution architecture development
We help you properly align organizational needs and technical priorities for product development. We ensure assessment and future state definition can be delivered using best market practices. By applying our proprietary tools, maturity models, product design know-how and business case frameworks, we assist with architecture assessment and help insurers deliver future solutions that are in line with best market practices.
- Product development workstation
We align and integrate product development workstation capabilities with other underwriting and policy administration systems. This includes developing a target solution architecture, as well as selection, design, configuration, integration and deployment of an effective workstation.
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- Underwriting & Pricing Effectiveness
Given unrelenting economic uncertainty and prolonged low interest rates, insurers face significant profit- and growth-related pressures and thus must improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their underwriting capabilities.
One way to improve risk selection and pricing is leveraging data to embrace more sophisticated segmentation. However, success will ultimately depend on adopting enhanced analytical and modeling techniques.
We can help you optimize the following:
- Assessment
Insurers must improve their underwriting and pricing operations to create consistency in their processes, while enhancing insight-driven decision-making, team collaboration, cross-sell/up-sell growth and account management. We review your organization's current underwriting and pricing performance, measure it against industry standards to determine where to make investments and provide technology solutions to fill operational gaps.
- Business and solution architecture
We offer program management, functional and technical design, integration, configuration and testing and deployment. We also assist in the technology selection process, helping you narrow the wide spectrum of underwriting automation components and applications.
- Underwriting workstation solution implementation
We assist you with the full spectrum of implementation services for underwriting solutions, including rules engine point solutions (typically selected by personal and small commercial line insurers) and robust underwriting stations (typically selected by middle market, specialty and large/multi-national insurers).
Unlike policy administration and billing systems, underwriting solutions can involve customization and extensive integration. We support the full implementation cycle, from requirements scoping to vendor software selection to deployment. We also provide important change management services to help you establish new roles and responsibilities in the new underwriting environment.
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The world is characterized by a rapid pace of technological change, increasing connectivity and ubiquity, exponential growth of data and continuous innovation. Digital technologies such as mobile, social, analytics and the cloud are rapidly converging on the wealth management industry and will fundamentally shape client value propositions and operating models of wealth managers in the years to come.


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To evoke American athletic clubs of an era past, Alesch and Standefer sought tile that looked like it had been soaking up steam for a century — not the typical glossy, looks-new subway tile. So the designers worked with Waterworks to create a custom tile with an aged patina. "It's a surface that looks a little like bone or stained teeth," Alesch said of the variations in the tile. "The fire really caramelizes the glaze." They also designed a decorative tile that avoided the "pregnant molding" syndrome of so many tile collections. "We wanted the decorative tile to lie flat, not bulge out like cake frosting," he said. The tile is now available to consumers as a new line called District at Waterworks.
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Forty years after the last Apollo flight to the Moon, our space correspondent examines the options facing companies and countries contemplating their own giant leap for mankind.
Going to the Moon is hard. And expensive. It took Nasa the equivalent of four million human-years to put twelve astronauts on the surface, at a cost of some $25 billion.
It is one of the reasons that ever since the Apollo 17 crew packed up their kit and flew home, we have not been back.
But, there now seems to be a renewed appetite for returning to the Moon. The Golden Spike Company recently announced that it can take you there by 2020 for $1.4 billion and we can only guess how much money China is putting into its lunar ambitions.
So, assuming you have the cash, what else do you need to get to the Moon? Here is BBC Future's seven-step guide for any individual, nation or company wanting to take a giant leap:
A new rocket
Escaping the Earth's gravity and getting people (and hardware) to the Moon requires a lot of energy. The 1960s solution, the Saturn V rocket, was a staggering piece of technology. Standing 30 stories high, the three-stage launcher was fitted with more than three million parts. But laying your hands on one may prove difficult. The only remaining Saturn V made up of original hardware intended for space, is in a giant shed in Houston. Nasa might notice if anyone tried to borrow it. And what was left of the failed Russian equivalent, the N1, has been made into bus shelters at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Given that there is no modern equivalent of the Saturn V or N1, and short of building a similarly massive rocket, you will need a plan B. Golden Spike proposes a multi-stage approach with multiple launches of smaller rockets (such as the Atlas 5) to ferry a lunar lander, crew capsule and two Lunar Transport Vehicles (LTV) into orbit. The LTVs will provide the power to take the lander and crew capsule from the Earth to the Moon.
Alternatively, you might choose to launch several sections of your spacecraft into Earth orbit, assemble them there and then fly onto the Moon. The various components could be launched on anything from a European Ariane to a SpaceX Falcon. But you could only fly your crew on a rocket certified for human spaceflight such as a Russian Soyuz or Chinese Long March.
Another way might be to use bigger rockets – or add new stages to existing rockets – to place your component parts into lunar orbit, and put the whole mission together there. Nasa is also developing a new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which is slowly moving from the drawing board to the factory but the first tests aren't scheduled until 2017.
Whatever you choose, the good news is that most of the technology is available and is coming down in price as private companies begin to offer alternatives.
A spacecraft
You may think that once the rocket is sorted, you are most of the way there. But that is only going to boost you into orbit. Once in space you need something to ferry you towards the Moon and land on its surface.
When they were designing Apollo in the early 1960s, Nasa engineers quickly realised that it made more sense to have two separate vehicles – an orbiter and a Moon lander – rather than a single spacecraft.
The 21st Century equivalent of the Apollo capsule is Nasa's Orion module. It resembles a super-sized Apollo and the first test versions of this "deep space" capsule are now nearly complete. However, it will be several years before it's ready for any crew.
If you cannot get hold of an Orion, Isle of Man company Excalibur Almaz Limited is reconditioning ex-Russian military space capsules for use in expeditions around the Moon. Joined to habitation modules, these spacecraft would be six times the size of Orion, making the journey much more comfortable.
So, when it comes to capsules, you have got some options.
But the same cannot be said of landers. There is nothing, in existence, like the Apollo lunar landers although concept designs have been developed. These include Nasa's recent Altair craft, but that programme has now been abandoned. Still, you could dust off the blueprints and, with a bit of imagination, new materials and techniques, it should be possible to put something together. It is almost certainly going to be expensive and, as with any new space technology designed for astronauts, it is going to involve a lot of risks.
The right stuff
Going to the moon is not going to be fun. It is likely going to be tiring, cramped and most of all dangerous. So, even if you have the cash, you will need the "right stuff".
Have you thought about the risks you are taking? How your family will cope if things go wrong? Have you even considered what to say when you get there? Will you come in peace for all mankind or are you just in it for personal glory?
For astronauts, the psychological aspects of being a spacefarer are every bit as important as the physical.
And then there is the training. An ability to work in a close-knit team and respond to emergencies in a calm, professional manner is vital if you want to get back alive.
Even Apollo's only scientist-astronaut, geologist Harrison Schmitt, was a fully trained jet pilot. The other Apollo astronauts were, for the most part, super-fit flying aces and many of today's astronauts are still from a flying background. Rookie UK astronaut Tim Peake, for instance, is a military helicopter test pilot – hardly a desk job.
If you plan to fly to the Moon before this decade is out then start training now. Even if you decide to employ professional astronauts to do most of the work, you still need to put in the hours. Apart from a rigorous fitness regime, you will have to learn how to fly the spacecraft, work in weightlessness and train for what to do when something goes wrong.
The right clothes
Once you and your hardy crew have escaped Earth's orbit and touched down on the surface, you are going to want to step outside the capsule. And for that you need a spacesuit.
These are effectively miniature spacecraft – containing everything you need when planting flags, hitting golf balls or just taking in the views from the lunar surface. To cram all the life support, communications and computers in, spacesuits are bulky. This does not matter so much if you are on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station in zero gravity. But if you are attempting to bounce around on the Moon, you will need something that is relatively compact and light. It will also need to be strong enough to avoid getting torn on rocks or damaged by lunar dust.
Apollo spacesuits were individually tailored to each astronaut and sewn and glued together by seamstresses. They consisted of multiple layers – from a mesh of coolant pipes near the body to a tough outer protective suit of fire-proof Teflon cloth. The iconic Apollo helmets featured gold-plated visors to protect the astronauts from the Sun and the gloves were made as thin as possible to maintain flexibility.
Thanks to the development of new lightweight materials, future spacesuits should be a lot less bulky but they will still need to be immensely complex. Try the funky new ones being developed by the University of North Dakota's Spacesuit Laboratory, for instance, which promise much greater range of movement and flexibility.
The maths
After President Kennedy made his 1961 pledge to put men on the Moon, Nasa drew up a list of all the challenges that would need to be overcome to make that goal possible. The gap between the tiny Mercury capsule, in which astronaut Alan Shepard had become the first American in space (but not even orbit) three weeks earlier, and the goal of men walking on the Moon seemed almost laughably insurmountable. There was so much that had to be figured out, with one of the biggest challenges being space navigation and rendezvous.
A lunar mission, then or now, involves spacecraft docking on the way to the Moon or in lunar orbit. If, for instance, Apollo astronauts failed to dock their command module with the lander, then the mission would be off. Worse, if on returning from the Moon, the lander failed to rendezvous successfully with the command module, then two astronauts would end up stranded, forever, in lunar orbit.
The maths of orbital mechanics and rendezvous became one of the primary objectives of the mid-60s Gemini missions, with MIT graduate Buzz "Dr Rendezvous" Aldrin taking a leading role. Although the navigation computer developed for the Apollo spacecraft was a marvel of 1960s engineering, astronauts still used sextants to verify their position.
Even with advances in computing, the challenges of space navigation remain. The spacecraft needs to know where it is. A glitch in the software and you could find yourself completely lost in space. China recently proved its orbital navigation capabilities, with its spacecraft docking to the Tiangong-1 space lab but if you want to go to the Moon, you must get your maths right. Half a degree out and you will never be seen again.
Mission control
Building, launching and flying a rocket to the Moon takes tremendous organisation. The genius at the heart of Apollo was mission control. Bringing together specialists from every aspect of the flight – from engine control to life support – and having a single Flight Director in charge, kept everything on track. The concept proved its worth when, during Apollo 13, things were going catastrophically wrong and the collected expertise at mission control saved the crew's lives.
Even today, the International Space Station has a room full of people on the ground to keep the astronauts in orbit safe. For your flight to the Moon you will need a skilled team of experienced personnel and a communications system capable of reaching the crew during every minute of the mission. You will also need engineers, back-up astronauts and a public affairs staff to keep those journalists happy.
Okay, so we've mentioned this once, but it is worth reiterating. Going to the Moon is going to need money. Lots of it.
The Apollo programme was initially estimated at $7 billion but this was quickly revised to around $20 billion. In the end, the final cost was reported to be $25.4bn.
All of which should make any budding lunar travellers take estimates with a pinch of salt. If you have ever employed builders, you will know that final costs tend to be a great deal more than the original estimates. And, as with builders, you should consider getting some other quotes.
Golden Spike estimates $1.4 billion for a trip. But here at BBC Future, we reckon we could do you a mission to the Moon for $1.3 billion. Cash in hand.
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When Anton Cooper was entertaining offers from teams for the 2013 season, he was concerned about making sure he'd sign for one with a bike that would fit him. Cannondale Factory Racing promised to take care of him. They don't make the carbon F29 in a small size, but for the junior world champion they were willing to make a special bike.
"Basically, I wasn't quite fitting on the medium bike – the reach was a little long," said Cooper, who is 1.64m tall (5ft 4in). "I discussed with [team manager] Daniel [Hespeler] if I could possibly get a small one made up and get that front end a bit lower. I never actually hopped on the medium, but I worked out from the measurements that the medium wasn't going to fit."
Cannondale sent him an alloy framed, small F29 as soon as he was on the team, and Cooper confirmed the sizing so they could move forward with a custom carbon frame.
However, even with the small size, the Lefty XLR Hybrid was going to put the front end too high with stock stems, so the next step was a custom stem. Leonardi Racing CNC-machined a Cannondale model per its One Piece Integration (OPI) technology, but with a negative 20-degree rise. Stock stems only go down to a negative 15-degree rise.
"Getting the bike low enough is an issue with the Lefty, and it's cool to be a part of a solution working around that," said Cooper, whose fork is adjusted to have 70mm of travel. "It's an amazing fork."
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Cooper is happy with the lengths Cannondale have gone to to accommodate his stature. "I was assured that something could be done and they stuck to their word and delivered the bike ahead of time."
The first-year U23 racer won the elite national title in New Zealand in February, on a bike similar to this one.
"I didn't ride this exact bike at the New Zealand championships. I had a bike like this, but it didn't obviously have the NZ national champion's colors. It had the team colors. I got this after I won the title. Now I can ride it – it's cool. It was a big surprise to come into the service course and see it. It's so special."
Note the special graphics for the New Zealand national champion
Custom stem and small frame size aside, Cooper runs a SRAM XX1 drivetrain with a 36-tooth chainring and 10-42T rear cassette. Avid World Cup brakes handle stopping duties (160mm rotor up front, 140mm in the rear).
ENVE provide their 29 XC wheelset with DT Swiss 240s hubs (left-specific up front) and DT Aerolite spokes. Cooper will race Schwalbe Racing Ralph 2.1 tires with snakeskin sidewall reinforcement.
He's also running an FSA SL-K 600mm bar with 9-degree backsweep and 4-degree upsweep. A Prologo X0 CPC seat, in custom Cannondale team colours, is mounted to an FSA K-Force (27.2mm diameter) seatpost with 25mm setback. Prologo also handle the grips.
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- Frame: Cannondale F29 with team paint job (S)
- Fork: Cannondale Lefty XLR Hybrid, 70mm travel, remote RockShox lockout
- Headset: Cannondale Headshock SI
- Stem: Leonardi Racing custom, -20-degree rise, Cannondale One Piece Integration technology
- Handlebar: FSA SL-K 600mm, 9-degree backsweep, 4-degree upsweep
- Tape/grips: Prologo
- Front brake: Avid XX World Cup, 160mm rotor
- Rear brake: Avid XX World Cup, 140mm rotor
- Brake levers: Avid XX World Cup
- Front derailleur: None
- Rear derailleur: SRAM XX1
- Shift levers: SRAM XX1
- Cassette: SRAM XX1 10-42T
- Chain: SRAM XX1
- Crankset: Cannondale SISL2
- Bottom bracket: Cannondale SI, BB30
- Pedals: Shimano SPD XTR
- Rims: ENVE 29 XC
- Front hub: DT Swiss 240s, Lefty-specific
- Rear hub: DT Swiss 240s
- Spokes: DT Aerolite
- Tyres: Schwalbe Racing Ralph 2.1 with Snakeskin sidewall
- Saddle: Prologo X0 CPC, Custom Cannondale color
- Seatpost: FSA K-Force 27.2mm diameter, 25mm setback
- Bottle cages: Cannondale alloy
Critical measurements
- Rider's height: 1.64m (5ft 4in)
- Rider's weight: 60kg (132lb)
- Saddle height, from BB (c-t): 665mm
- Seat tube length, c-c: 330mm
- Tip of saddle nose to c of bars: 520mm
- Top tube length: 575mm
- Total bicycle weight: 8.55kg (18.84lb)


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Well, this is a big comics week for me. I finally pulled the trigger and quit... yep, after 33 years of reading DC Comics, I think I'm finally done.
I'm more of a Marvel reader as well, but have picked up more DC over the years now too. I think some of the problem (with many things these days it seems) is that there is just too much out there. I mean, they know their market and everything better than I do, but when I look back at the issues from when I was a kid - and they list the subscriptions you could get - there would be like 10-20 ongoings that would cover the entire Marvel Universe. Rarely did a character have more than one book (other than big names like Spidey, Batman, or Superman), and you could basically pick up the entire universe in 10 books or so (maybe a little more). I think that made it easier to have things line up to some extent. Obviously, putting Wolvie and Spidey on every team doesn't help either - but in some cases I can see why they do it too.
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Joan, xeriscaping and water saving gardening in general are great gardening topics! I've been thinking about my 2013 yard. It's going to need more water, this year. That's because of the trees I planted. We let the grass go brown. After planting trees, the first couple of years they need more water. I think after that I can slack off. They will have deeper roots, then. Also if they spread their branches, they will shade the ground. Also, of course, I use lots of mulch.
I think we should always keep water in mind, for planning our gardens and yards. It might not be truly xeriscaped. But conserving water is good. Also if it's a dry year, and the yard is already dry tolerant, it can mean the difference between being all brown, and being interesting and colorful.
Thanks again for posting these links on xeriscaping/gardening.
Beautiful scene! I have added herbs in some areas, which are dry tolerant.
My partner likes lavender, which is also a favorite of honey bees, so there will be much more of that this year. I think lavender can be grown from cuttings, so will give that a try. Also got some lavender seeds, which I read are quite slow growing. Rosemary does well here too, so I've been adding more of that. Summer-dormant plants like alliums and other spring blooming bulbs make it through well without irrigation.
Somewhere I read that in Italy, grapes are not irrigated. That their roots go very deep, and that has a role in their flavor. Something about the minerals in the deeper layers of soil. So I suppose a kitchen garden with deep-rooted grapes and fruit trees would be another water-saving method.
Lavender is so pretty. Mine have seedling under the mother plant each year but I have never tried to save them. I suppose it would be easy to do. I have never tried cuttings.
Rosemary! My favorite and I cannot grow it inside as so many people can, and of course our winters are too harsh. It makes so many things taste better.
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Alliums, culinary and ornamental offer many wonderful features.
I didn't know that about grapes; it makes sense. I can almost imagine your fruit trees in bloom in spring' OH! you will have a lovely time ... every season!
I hope you share photos of your garden as it develops.
Xeriscaping is a good idea, even in the Midwest where we average 36" of rain a year. But, as you probably know, we had a pretty severe drought this past summer. My garden veggies were toasted, despite watering with two downspout rain barrels. Otherwise, I have to use well water. To water or not to water is a constant concern.
Spokane's average rainfall is 16" a year, and we have not seen serious drought although there are changes in patterns. We have less snow than in my childhood and more rain. Our forests have some changes taking place, with heavy die-off and beetle infestations. We will see some serious consequences when the forests dry out over time.
My daughter and her family live in a forest in northeast Washington state, very near the idaho border. All the adults in her family are volunteer fire fighters and they prepared their home and property for expected hot fires. They also work to educate the community about fire safety procedures.
The very first thing to go should be lawns. There are so many beautiful plants for xeriscaping, and potential for more beautiful landscapes. I have not one blade of mow-able grass on my place.
I will be interested to know how your rainfall changes from your average. Have you noticed difference in your water table?
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Anyone who loves to sing and celebrate the season en masse -- no matter whether you possess perfect pitch or a tin ear -- is being invited to attend an old-fashioned Community Christmas Carol Sing on Sunday, Dec. 16, in Bridgeport.
"As long as they want to sing, we want them to join us," said event spokesman (and professional pianist/organist) Tony Procaccini. And you don't even need to have memorized the words, as holiday song books will be distributed.
The sixth annual sing-along will take place on the picturesque great lawn of St. Margaret Shrine, a local Catholic landmark. The event is the brainchild of former Bridgeport Mayor Leonard Paoletta and is sponsored by an organization close to his heart: BACIO.
Paoletta points out that in Italian, "bacio" is the word for "kiss." It's also the acronym for the nonprofit Bridgeport Area Cultural Italian Organization, founded in 2003, with the mission of "preserving, enhancing and fostering our Italian roots, culture, heritage and traditions."
The 60-minute sing-along goes on rain or shine. (If raining, it will be offered indoors at the Circolo Sportivo Club across the street from the shrine's entrance.)
A free reception will follow, with the indoor location announced at the concert.
Procaccini said the former mayor was inspired to establish a yearly sing-along by a similar long-running event in Mystic.
Procaccini said that core singers "volunteer from local churches and the general public. They typically represent Bridgeport, Fairfield, Stratford, Trumbull, Easton and Monroe, but have also included some from Weston and other towns, too.
"We have a brass quartet every year," said Procaccini, who this year also is serving as music director. The quartet will be led by trumpeter Mike Pontecorvo.
"Santa Claus appears about halfway through, about 3:30, and greets the happy children. We aim to be a family event," he added.
On the program, he said, are "either carols or popular songs focused on Christmas. The event begins with our National Anthem. We usually also sing `Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle,' the most popular Italian carol, in keeping with the principles of BACIO."
Among the more than 20 songs on the program are "White Christmas," "Silent Night," "Deck the Halls" and "Joy to the World."
Procaccini said the concert is offered at the shrine in an effort "to make people aware of the location, and even increase its visibility, in the hopes of making it a well-known pilgrimage for prayer and contemplation."
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I hate the frontend. Maybe its just all the scars from the IE4 and IE6 days I had to suffer through, but since then I have taken every opportunity to move myself further away from the frontend. Database-land seemed equally ridden with incompatibilities but for some reason I coped better with that. Anyway, somehow this entire REST thing seemed frontend to me. I think at some point I ended up with the misconception that REST is about URLs. Mea culpa. Thanks to Fabien and his advocacy around learning the HTTP protocol and ESI, I took a second look and realized that there is a lot more to it and that one should care regardless of one considers oneself a frontend or backend guy. Independently I did develop an interest in being able to easily return content in different formats, which let to the creation of the ViewBundle and the MultiplexBundle. but now I am actually trying to learn what REST is all about. And while I am at it, I am teaching Symfony2 as well, et voilà RestBundle!
First up I should say that RestBundle is actually a merge of the ViewBundle and EverzetRestfulControllersBundle developed by Konstantin and Bulat. The goal is to provide a tool chain to quickly develop applications that follow REST principles. I am still far away from being able to lecture on these, but I have tried to put together a list of my recent reading material on the topic. The Bundle provides several optional features. One is the ability to generate routing rules by following naming conventions for Controller actions. Another feature is the ability to parse request headers to determine the proper output format as well as decoding parameters out of the request body. The listener I implemented for this is actually also now integrated in the Silex micro framework. Finally it provides means to handle generation of the final output in a separate view layer. One key result of this separate view layer is the ability to decide how to handle the common use case of having to redirect after a form submission, but not necessarily after creating a new resource via JSON/XML.
I am trying to keep Liip's HelloBundle up to date with examples of how to use all of this. For now there is an example of a controller showing off the route generation and view layer. Another example illustrates how to handle redirection with the view layer, though I still have some todo's here. Finally there is a controller showing off the integration with the FrameworkExtraBundle from Sensio.
The next big steps I want to see happen is adding a normalizer for form instances. The idea being that via a normalizer it will be possible to extract the errors from a form instance and serialize these to JSON or XML to return a response to a resource creation or update from the same Controller that generates an HTML form otherwise. The other important thing I want to deal with soon is teaching the Serializer component how to lazy load encoders and normalizers (*nudge* Jordi *nudge*). I think the service mapping features of the ContainerWrapperBundle could play a key role there once we get the issues caused by interface injection worked out.
In the mid term I want to see the testing improved as the bits of pieces that I mainly authored are severely lacking in this department. Also the documentation could be organized a lot better and expanded. This would be a prerequisite to be able to get this Bundle into the standard edition of Symfony2 which would mean it would be more realistic to make it a requirement for the AdminBundle which not only I would like to see. A bit more long term I want to look more into some of the other HTTP status codes that we might want to support as well as how to best deal with API versioning.
I'm following your efforts to make Symfony2 more RESTful for quite some time now and really appreciate all the hard work you and the others are doing.
I'm really ashamed to not have some spare time to give you a helping hand right now.
Anyway, keep up the hard and good work!
Ciao Lukas,
cool, another great news after the one that HTML5 working group will reconsider their decision about dropping support for PUT and DELETE:
This rocks. Great job. Parts of this RestBundle remind me of Zend Framework's Zend_Rest_Controller & Zend_Rest_Route. Anyways I'm happy to help out where I can.
Yeah, I saw these components in ZF, though this Bundle tries to build even more tools to help in REST applications.
As for helping, we still got lots of open feature, test and doc tickets


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Apple's recent apology to Samsung on their website was found to be unsatisfactory by the UK courts. They had since removed the statement from their website and have posted a reworded version that's also appearing in newspapers in the UK.
After ruling that the statement on Apple's site was non-compliant with the order, Apple was ordered to re-write the statement and present it on their website in at least 11-point font. It's now appearing on the bottom of their UK website.
On 25 October 2012, Apple Inc. published a statement on its UK website in relation to Samsung's Galaxy tablet computers. That statement was inaccurate and did not comply with the order of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The correct statement is at Samsung/Apple UK judgement.
The statement can be found at the very bottom of the UK Apple site and also includes a link to more information on the judgement.
Source: Apple UK
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This will probably be another very occasional series.
As you know, we have a wiki as well as a blog (in fact the wiki is more than a year older than the blog), and it only has a few (3 to 5 at any given time) regular editors. There's also a lot of attention paid to the Incidents relative to the rest of the wiki. That's not a bad thing, but the rest of the wiki could use some love too.
Hence, every so often we'll point out areas of the wiki you could help out with. At any given time, this list will be hugely incomplete, so you can also go over there and do what suits you.
If you need a hand, drop in on the Community portal and ask for help.
Getting articles ready for feature article status! Getting a featured article on our wiki is nothing like the arduous Wikipedia process: we simply want articles about a geek woman or group of geek women doing awesome stuff! They should be several paragraphs long, in the correct categories, and have a picture. Fixing up our proposed feature articles to bring them up to scratch would be a good task if you know your way around Mediawiki wikis a bit.
Improving our coverage of the Science field! You can see the base article: it covers all of science in about a screenful of content. Obviously that could be massively expanded in several directions: into the subfields, expanding the writeup of the issues, and documenting sexist incidents in science more fully.
Groups and events for younger women! There are lots and lots of outreach programs for younger geeks, and some autonomous groups run by teenagers for teenagers. But we don't have a lot of coverage of them on the wiki. I just started categories today for Young women's organizations and Young women's events. Please add to them! (Click 'Add a Page' to add a new page to the wiki and start writing! If you don't know wikis yet, someone will add the right categories for you, so don't worry about that.)
GF wiki editors or readers, what would you like to see more work on?


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By Sue Ann Rybak
Center on the Hill, the place for active adults, 8855 Germantown Ave., is hosting local seniors artwork as part of Philadelphia Corporation for Aging's tenth annual "Celebrate Arts and Aging," a month-long, city-wide celebration that features the talent and creativity of older Philadelphians.
Amanda Buonmo, PCA's special events manager, said the first exhibit featured only 20 pieces by senior artists older than 55. She said this year's exhibits features 180 works of art at four different locations throughout Philadelphia: Philadelphia Senior Center, Center on the Hill in Chestnut Hill, Independence Visitor Center in Old City and the Klein JCC in Northeast Philadelphia. The exhibits features a wide range of media including paintings, sculpture, collage, wearable art, photography and calligraphy.
Holly Lange, senior vice president for PCA, keynote speaker at Center on the Hill's reception, said this year's art exhibit, which features works from seniors 56 to 99 years old, is partially funded by PECO.
"Older people have many talents," Lange said. "Just because you retire, it doesn't mean you are going to sit in a rocking chair. Many of our older citizens in Philadelphia are very ambitious, very industrious and have a lot to offer."
Buonmo said that while a few of the participants are professional artists, many of the featured artists are not; they come from a variety of fields including nursing, business administration, computer programming and engineering.
"What is so great about this is many of these artists were not artists when they were younger," Buonmo said. "They picked it up when they were older. They are remarkable."
She said several of the artists started after attending a class at a local senior center. The quality of their work is incredible."
"They have time to see the light and the color and the time to paint it," Buonmo said. "It's my favorite time; it's like Christmas opening up all the artwork and seeing it all. I just love being able to showcase it all over the city."
Ed Richman, 72, who worked as a scientist and engineer for 42 years, said he started painting after retiring.
"I am very directed towards left-brain type of activities," Richman said. "I had to get into something where I could express myself. I started by buying the world's cheapest paints and painting on poster board. I saw something I thought would make a nice painting so I painted it, and it was awful. I said I got to do something about this."
So he decided to take classes at the Art institute of San Franisco. Richman's work is anything but awful. Richman, who has been painting for four years now, said his latest work is "technically better."
"You have to be pleased with what you do," Richman said. "That's what keeps us going – what drives us to stay alive. Taking a photograph just doesn't do it for me so I try to paint something of significance to me."
Sixty-six-year-old Mt. Airy resident Gwendlyn Bundy said she just started drawing one day and decided to take a class at Center in the Park for "fast drawing art."
"I always loved art," said Bundy, a former administrative coordinator. "It felt so natural to be drawing."
Bundy piece entitled "Complete" was mixed-media, a combination of acrylic and gel. She said her work has a lot of color and texture it it.
"I like to use some of the things people throw away as part of my work such as string or twine," Bundy said. "When I do something I give it a little of me. I like to put my spin on it. I think everyone is a little artistic."
For 64-year-old Mt. Airy resident Carol Perrott, photography is all about "capturing that magic moment." Perrott, a retired registered nurse said she started taking pictures as a hobby.
Perrott's photograph entitled "Gray Brick Road" was taken in the Sculpture Garden in Hamiliton, N.J.
"My two-year-old grandson, Cash, was wandering around, and I just snapped it," Perrott said. "This is the first time I have ever entered anything."
This was the first year 77-year-old Mt. Airy resident Dolores Bauerle Campbell entered the exhibit.
"I don't normally enter anything like this – for older people," said Campbell, a former art director and artist – "because I don't think of myself as old."
As part of the "Celebrate Arts and Aging" event, seniors will have the opportunity to "make and experience art" by attending free performances or participating in a free or discounted workshop. For example, Center in the Park is offering several classes including a color workshop on May 29 and May 30. Other events include free concerts at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts: Live from the Plaza Stage on May 26 at 6 p.m. or Sittin' In on Wednesday, May 30 at 8 p.m. For more information about these and other events throughout May go to www.phillyfunguide.com/celebrate.


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Junior musical theatre major Andrea Weinzierl and two Point Park University alumni, Jordan Haskins and Jereme Rodriguez, are performing in the non-equity national tour of A Chorus Line. Weinzierl plans to finish her degree upon completing the tour; Haskins and Rodriguez graduated in May 2012.
All three performed in the Conservatory Theatre Company's production of A Chorus Line during the Fall 2011 semester. In the national tour, Weinzierl is in the ensemble as a cut dancer and understudy, Haskins plays Bobby, the same role he played in Point Park's production, and Rodriguez booked the role of Greg.
Weinzierl, a Pittsburgh native, mentioned the perks of attending a performing arts university in the city.
"Downtown Pittsburgh is booming with arts-related opportunities in the Cultural District, and it's within walking distance to campus," she said. "For theatre students, it's like attending the most excellent classroom in the world, receiving training from faculty who are still working in the industry."
The advice Weinzierl has for future and current students in the Conservatory of Performing Arts is that if you work hard, take risks, and openly share your talents with your fellow students, you will grow.
Rehearsals begin Oct. 8 in New York City. A Chorus Line opens Oct. 21 in Tacoma, Wash. and travels across the United States and Canada through March 2013.
Article by Tess DeStefano, junior acting major
Photo by Julianne Brace
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Mozilla Summit 2010 Recap
The Mozilla Summit far surpassed my expectations. The event was personal, technical, creative and inspiring all at once.
The Mozilla Summit is an invitation-only gathering of some of the most active contributors in the Mozilla community. This year's theme was "Be More Like the Web".
I was lucky enough to be among those who were invited, due to my involvement with the Drumbeat project. There were a total of around 600 Mozilla community members at the event: hackers, localizers, testers, marketers, and the individuals formerly known as 'users'.
Mozilla is most well known for the open source browser, Firefox. In addition to Firefox, there are number of other software projects like Jetpack at Mozilla Labs. Although Mozilla has been incredibly successful with open source software, they're ambitious and ready for the next big challenge. As stewards of the open web, Mozillians around the world are banding together through Drumbeat: a collection of practical projects and local events that gather smart, creative people around big ideas that improve the open web. The Summit was our forum to share the project with the greater Mozilla community.
Day 0: Arrival & Reception
I flew in from Alaska, direct from my family vacation to Vancouver and then hopped on a bus to Whistler, BC. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon just in time to join the Mozilla Foundation meeting and presenter's workshop. I spent the better part of the afternoon working on a speed geek with my new partner in crime at P2PU, Pippa Buchanan. We rehearsed our talk a few times and got valuable feedback for the next day.
The rest of the attendees arrived in time for a reception, where we had a chance to get to know each other and kick off the event properly.
Day 1: Getting Started
The day started off early with a few inspiring keynote speakers and an extended lunch break to watch some of the World Cup. After lunch I headed to a session from Mozilla Messaging where they demoed experimental Thunderbird mail client features.Photo CC-BY-NC-SA, Nathaniel James
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The next session was "Drumbeat in 2100 Seconds," led by Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation. Mark took about four minutes to describe Drumbeat and why it is important to Mozilla before splitting the crowd into groups for the speed geek sessions. All three of the featured Drumbeat projects (P2PU School of Webcraft, Web Made Movies, & Universal Subtitles) were represented along with Drumbeat Events and a couple others. The speed geek session went really well; we got a few people to join the project.

Day 2: In the Groove
The second day was filled with more sessions, and some especially interesting HTML5 demos including WebGL and the <audio> and <video> tags. I had a chance to talk to Ben Moskowitz about open video and the upcoming Open Video Conference in New York City.
The Flight of the Navigator is a WebGL demo rendered in the browser that built by the Mozilla audio team. The demo pulls in live data and video from the web while rendering. Everyone in the crowd was awe-struck.
I spent the better part of the afternoon at the Summit Science Fair. There were around thirty individual booths showcasing all kinds of software. Everything from accessibility for the blind to a JavaScript framework for building Firefox extensions.Photo CC-BY-NC-SA, Michael Morgan
We rounded out the day with the Summit World Expo and International Dinner, where representatives from the over forty countries in attendance showcased their local communities and cultures.
After dinner, there was a late night JetPack hackathon. I built a Firefox extension (more details in a later blog post) in just a few hours. The extension is called 'Clickable Phone Numbers' and it makes any number on the web into a click-to-call number using the Twilio API.
Day 3: Grand Finale
The final day of the conference was a bit more laid back, we talked about the Drumbeat event strategy and did a bit of planning for Drumbeat NYC (August 7th) and the Drumbeat Festival (November 3-5) which is going to be held in Barcelona. I attended a few more lightning talks and a session on the future of client-side debugging.
Pippa and I ran our session on the P2PU School of Webcraft. There was a 10 minute intro, and then we split the audience into four groups with tasks:
- Design a course for P2PU School of Webcraft
- Brainstorm a list of core web developer skills
- Brainstorm a list of 'soft-skills' that employers look for in web developers
- Come up with ways to legitimize P2PU School of Webcraft so that we have some 'street-cred'
The session went incredibly well, so well that we had a lineup of people to talk to for almost 30 minutes after it was over.
At the end of the day, we took a Gondola ride up to the peak for a farewell party of sorts. The views of Whistler were magnificent and the "Army of Awesome" was incredibly fun. We enjoyed a delicious dinner, cartoony mascots, toasts, and a dance party before calling it a night.
Day 4: Departure
We left Whistler by bus through the mountains, luckily unobstructed by rock slides. Now I'm on the ground in Seattle for the next week, followed by a trip to Portland for OSCON. Get in touch if you're nearby.


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We know how important your car is to you, and a car accident, no matter how minor, can be a stressful experience. However, Land Rover is here to help you if this should occur.
We now provide a new, value-added service called Accident Assist to ensure that in the unfortunate event of an accident, we will help to put you back on the road as soon as possible. We've partnered with Compass Claims, an industry specialist in accident management, to make sure we look after you when you need it most.


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Every year, AEMO works closely with governments and the energy sector to prepare for the summer peak demand period. Damien Sanford is responsible for managing Australia's electricity and gas operations and explains how AEMO has moved early to prepare for summer following last year's blackouts in South Australia and the closure of Hazelwood power station in Victoria.summer, energy security, distribution, generation, peak demand
Like many other power systems around the world, Australia's electricity industry is rapidly transforming. This is being driven by a transition to low emissions generation, the rise of rooftop solar and large scale wind generation. New technologies and changing human behaviour are also having a significant influence on this change. Click on this short video to understand how it all works!energy security, emissions, video, electricity, generation, technology, consumers, battery
AEMO has entered into agreements with large electricity users, retailers and generators to secure a total of 1,150 megawatts of strategic reserves across Victoria and South Australia that we can call on in emergencies e.g. multi-day heatwave events occurring concurrently across both South Australia and Victoria through the Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) process.South Australia, Victoria, electricity, peak demand
Over two days, 300 stakeholders – political leaders, regulators, energy producers, disruptors, and users – come together for the nation's highest-level discussion of Australia's multiple energy challenges and opportunities.Audrey Zibelman, electricity, energy security, consumers, cyber security, innovation, national electricity market, renewables, solar, video, technology
Last week we introduced the concept of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and the power of consumer energy to transform the industry. Today, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a major new collaborative industry program to drive this forward.ARENA, Audrey Zibelman, battery, consumers, innovation, media release, renewables, video
Power systems around the world are built and operated with a certain level of reserve – a 'buffer' to assist with maintaining power system reliability for energy consumers. Pre-determined reserves in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) refer to spare capacity to provide this buffer, over and above the level of electricity demand that is forecast at any given time.electricity, national electricity market, peak demand
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How to copy videos located in your 360fly app on iOS to your computer
If you find yourself with too many videos on your iOS device in the "On my Device" section and need to free up some space, the following instructions will show you how to add those files to your computer or external hard drive for backup.
First make sure your devices are turned on. Next you will want to connect your iOS device to your computer with your iOS cable.
With your iOS device plugged into your computer, launch iTunes. Once iTunes opens and recognizes your iOS device, click on the device icon in the top left of the screen.
Next click on "Apps" and then scroll down to the "File Sharing" section and click on "360fly."
When you select "360fly" you will then see a list of all the videos that are currently saved in the app. Select which ones you want to copy to your computer and drag and drop them into a folder. Allow the copy to take place. Once the copy has completed, you may eject your iOS device or delete the files that you just saved if you no longer need them on your iOS device.
To see the whole process in action, here is a quick video:
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