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Global Relaxor Ferroelectric Ceramics market size will
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Chapter Two: Executive Summary
Chapter Three: Market Size by Manufacturers
Chapter Four: Relaxor Ferroelectric Ceramics Production by Regions
Chapter Five: Relaxor Ferroelectric Ceramics Consumption by Regions
Chapter Six: Market Size by Type
Chapter Seven: Market Size by Application
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Roth appears in the following tongue twister:
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- part of Bavaria, Middle Franconia
- capital: Roth, Bavaria
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- Roth a.k.a. Roth, Bavaria: Roth is a town in Bavaria, Germany, the capital of the district Roth. It is located about 25 km south of Nuremberg.
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- Roth is a river of Bavaria, Germany.
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- Roth is a fictional character in the 2011 action crime drama film Setup.
- in the film "Setup", played by Shaun Toub
- Roth was a fictional character from the 1935 film King Solomon of Broadway.
- in the film "King Solomon of Broadway", played by Bradley Page
- Roth is a fictional character in the 1958 film The Naked and the Dead.
- in the film "The Naked and the Dead", played by Joey Bishop
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- in the film "Lucky Number Slevin", played by Danny Aiello
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- in the film "Boiling Point", played by Tobin Bell
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The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio (1884)
Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc. ...
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Sweet Lechery (2014)
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Philip Roth is a stone-cold materialist, a sco}er at superstition and magical thinking. Yet Roth has been known to visit the grave of...
Philip Roth is an unwavering atheist and perhaps the most sternly ...
The Witching Herbs (2017)
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Harold Roth is an extraordinary man—wise, generous, and deeply entwined in the mysteries of the green world from...
Beauty is Nowhere (1998)
Ethical Issues in Art and Design by Jean Dubuffet, Richard Roth, Susan King Roth
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Philip Roth and the Jews (2012)
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For Podhoretz, then, Roth is a member of this self-styled "conscience constituency"— indeed, its laureate—who see themselves above and scomful of the masses.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime (2014)
by Rosemary Gartner, Bill McCarthy
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A Novel by Joseph Roth
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U.S. President Donald Trump angered Iran with his speech on refusing to re-certify the nuclear deal, but Tehran is unlikely to walk away from the agreement in retaliation.
Brinksmanship aside, Iran needs to sell its oil on the international market as allowed by the atomic accord. And politically, Trump's speech helps the same hard-liners America's president says he wants to target, offering them a convenient punching bag as many Iranians took his words as a personal insult.
"Iran relents when it faces international unity and lacks domestic unity," wrote Karim Sadjadpour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "Trump is unifying Iran internally, splintering international unity."
In particular, Trump's insistence on using the term "Arabian Gulf" in place of the Persian Gulf riled the Iranian public. Online, Iranians shared historical maps and videos of former U.S. presidents all calling it the Persian Gulf. Many saw it as a nod to the Gulf Arab states of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two major U.S. allies that long have criticized the nuclear deal.
The comments could also be seen as validating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's longtime warnings against trusting the U.S. or expanding negotiations beyond the narrow scope of Iran's nuclear program.
Since Trump's speech, which puts the burden on Congress to decide the nuclear deal's fate, Iranian officials have threatened that they too could decide to unilaterally walk away.
"If someday our interests are not realized and other parties want to violate their commitments, they should be aware that Iran will not hesitate a moment," warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
But the posturing belies the fact that Iran can ill-afford to risk the deal, which lifted crippling international sanctions in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities.
Iran rushed back into the global oil markets once the deal took effect, boosting its gross domestic product by 7.4 percent in the first half of 2016 and 2017, recovering from a recession in the period prior, according to the International Monetary Fund. That's even with global oil prices now halved, after falling from highs of over $100 a barrel in the summer of 2014.
U.S. lawmakers have about two months to decide whether to put the accord's previous sanctions back into place, modify them or do nothing.
But even if Congress restores all the pre-2015 sanctions, Iran could agree to a revised deal with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union, the other parties to the accord, which have been telling Trump's administration to stay in. That would hurt Boeing and other American companies, and make EU firms with U.S. business interests wary, but Iran would likely see it as a far better outcome than the pre-2015 status quo. It also would limit Trump's ability to unilaterally impose new terms on Iran, like limiting its ballistic missile program, and potentially affect his maverick, hard-line diplomacy with opponents like North Korea.
"Iran is very unlikely to reflexively abrogate the agreement, given the substantial economic benefits it continues to receive," wrote Cliff Kupchan, the chairman of the Eurasia Group.
However, the IMF warned that GDP growth outside of the oil industry averaged just 0.9 percent, a sign of the continued difficulties the average Iranian faces in the deal's wake. While authorities announced landmark billion-dollar deals with Boeing, Airbus and other global entities, the typical person still struggles to find a job or have their stagnant salary keep pace with Iran's lowered but still nagging inflation.
"We are sure that despite all this rhetoric, foreign investment and participation in infrastructural projects will be continued in our country," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday. So far, Iran's stock market and hard currency markets remain unchanged.
Rallying around the flag does have its limits in Iran. Iranians applauded when Zarif challenged Trump on the naming of the Persian Gulf, but the foreign minister drew criticism from some quarters when he tweeted that "Iranians - boy, girls, men, women are all" part of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
The Guard, while fighting against the Islamic State group in Iraq, supports embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad in his country's civil war, which some Iranians have started criticizing in public in recent months. The Guard also routinely arrests and imprisons dual nationals and others over espionage charges on secret evidence, drawing international rebukes. Its hand in putting down the Green Movement protests born out of Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election also lingers in Iranians' memory.
The Guard has made a series of threatening remarks around Trump's speech. It could test-fire another ballistic missile or force another tense encounter with the U.S. Navy, which bases its 5th Fleet in Bahrain.
So far this year, the Navy has recorded 14 instances of what it describes as "unsafe and/or unprofessional" interactions with Iranian forces, the most recent coming in August, when an unarmed Iranian drone flew close to a U.S. aircraft carrier as fighter jets landed at night. The Navy recorded 36 such incidents in 2016 and 22 in 2015. Most involved the Revolutionary Guard.
"We're watching closely," said Cmdr. Bill Urban, a 5th Fleet spokesman.
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Scientists from NeoGen Labs in Bangalore, India, spent a week in September at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Newborn Screening Laboratory learning about Wisconsin's testing and reporting processes.
NeoGen scientists Dr. Ruby Poickaranparambil Babu, consultant biochemist, and Aggunda Channa Poornima, senior manager for laboratory operations, came to Wisconsin to learn about validating test assays and determining result cutoffs, routine testing workflow, troubleshooting, quality control, and assay result interpretation and reporting.
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Network. Learn. Connect. Join HFTP in London for an upcoming European event this March. Whether you are looking to network with new hospitality professionals, learn about the latest industry trends or connect with colleagues, please save the date for this upcoming event hosted by HFTP. *Please RSVP as space is limited.
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Root canal therapy is needed when the nerve of a tooth is affected by decay or infection. In order to save the tooth, the pulp (the living tissue inside the tooth), nerves, bacteria, and any decay are removed and the resulting space is filled with special, medicated, dental materials, which restore the tooth to its full function.
Having a root canal done on a tooth is the treatment of choice to save a tooth that otherwise would die and have to be removed. Many patients believe that removing a tooth that has problems is the solution, but what is not realized is that extracting (pulling) a tooth will ultimately be more costly and cause significant problems for adjacent teeth.
Root canal treatment is highly successful and usually lasts a lifetime, although on occasion, a tooth will have to be retreated due to new infections.
Signs and symptoms for possible root canal therapy:
Reasons for root canal therapy:
What does root canal therapy involve?
A root canal procedure requires one or more appointments and can be performed by a dentist or endodontist (a root canal specialist).
While the tooth is numb, a rubber dam (a sheet of rubber) will be placed around the tooth to keep it dry and free of saliva. An access opening is made on top of the tooth and a series of root canal files are placed into the opening, one at a time, removing the pulp, nerve tissue, and bacteria. If tooth decay is present, it will also be removed with special dental instruments.
Once the tooth is thoroughly cleaned, it will be sealed with either a permanent filling or, if additional appointments are needed, a temporary filling will be placed.
At the next appointment, usually a week later, the roots and the inside cavity of the tooth will be filled and sealed with special dental materials. A filling will be placed to cover the opening on top of the tooth. In addition, all teeth that have root canal treatment should have a crown (cap) placed. This will protect the tooth and prevent it from breaking, and restore it to its full function.
After treatment, your tooth may still be sensitive, but this will subside as the inflammation diminishes and the tooth has healed.
You will be given care instructions after each appointment. Good oral hygiene practices and regular dental visits will aid in the life of your root canal treatment.
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The Great PC Decline Isn't As Bad As It Looks
Like we said yesterday (here) the so-called Great PC Decline isn't as bad as you've been told.
The reports, from industry-tracking stalwarts Gartner and IDC, show an overall drop in the global PC market of 8 and 10.4 percent, respectively. That sounds bad. And to be fair, it's not actively good. Take a closer look at what the numbers actually say, though, and the context in which they say it, and you have a picture of an industry whose death has been greatly exaggerated.


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Yes, I'm still reeling from my vacation back home and it's been a little hard to re-adjusted to the cold and gloomy weather over the last few days! I also had some big news that caused quite a lot of stress and commotion but I will write about this later on as this post was intended to go up a few days ago just as I got back but with all of what's been going on has been pushed aside.
So this post is dedicated to another one of my favourite places in Tel Aviv and it's the Tel Aviv Museum of Art which hosted not one but two great fashion exhibitions, the first pictured above was dedicated to Cristobal Balenciaga's archive of collected garments along with a presentation of Cristobal Balenciaga's designs and inspiration. I was really impressed with the setup and the amount of articles , the presentation was quite interesting as well with mannequins standing in a slightly cold and industrial setting that was a complete opposite to the beautiful designs and archived garments but nevertheless I was really impressed with the collection and setup which were both gorgeous.
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The exhibition raises a discussion about the methods and representations of fashion—a discipline representing a mechanism of constant change'.
Apart from Sandra Backlund's designs I spent a long time staring at the videos and by Boudicca, the room was completely dark with only small item, mannequins and video screens showcasing the designs and work process.
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And of course I couldn't avoid walking through the rest of the exhibitions in the museum , from room to room and from the new to the old wing, even though I spent hours there when I was young in all sorts of art courses I was still excited to walk around the permanent exhibitions and changing exhibitions despite the fact my brother was hoping to get out early and run to the beach (we eventually got there!) but if I only had more time I think I would have come back on another day to do another walk around !


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She's got the beauty, style, the physique, and she flaunts it big time. Yes, the Harare-born Big Brother Africa star, Pokello Nare, is causing a stir in the fashion world in Africa.
The Zimbabwean television presenter has teamed up with her Ghanaian fashion designer boyfriend-cum-BBA housemate, Elikem Kumordzie, to reshape and promote African fashion.
The lovebirds have in the last few months been riding on their newfound fame to promote authentic African print designs with the trade label (Polikem) on the continent.
Pokello, also known as 'Delicious Delilah' has already toured some parts of Africa with Elikem to promote the brand at various fashion shows where she models in an array of dresses made from African fabrics.
Following her love for dresses made with African prints, Elikem has built a small walk-in closet in Ghana for his sexy Pokello.
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Here is a full chapter from our new book, Intelligent Fanatics: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:
The Fighting Scottish Clan: Harold & Dan Leever
MacDermid Inc.
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." —Plutarch
Why do so many companies never sell to an outside investor or go public? Simple: they don't want to disrupt their company culture or legacy. Quality ownership thinks and acts for the benefit of the long term. Often, families and their employees own these businesses outright. Their goal is to pass the company to future generations or to employees. Other owners sometimes have different motives. They are often short term–minded, looking for a quick dollar at the cost of long-term sustainability.
Why do some companies choose to sell their businesses at a lower price to Berkshire Hathaway rather than a selling at a higher price to other companies or private equity institutions? Berkshire Hathaway is the rare company that has a long-term mind-set. Companies trust Berkshire Hathaway will not change what made them great in the first place. The probability that their business will sustain its success for generations is higher under Berkshire Hathaway's umbrella.
What happens when the wrong type of owners take over an intelligent fanatic–led organization? The win-win relationships built with employees, suppliers, and stakeholders tend to get compromised. The culture dies and performance suffers. MacDermid Inc., a specialty chemicals company, was one such business.
In this chapter, the history of MacDermid will be highlighted, from its founding through its subsequent evolution. Harold Leever, MacDermid's second leader, would instill the foundation of a quality-driven culture. Despite some cultural dilution in the domestic operations under Harold's successor throughout the 1980s, a renaissance would soon occur. Harold Leever's son, Daniel, brought about an intelligent fanatic amplification. Dan built upon his father's vision and got extraordinary results out of ordinary people.
Like other intelligent fanatics, Dan Leever stood on the shoulders of giants. He took the best ideas from a wide variety of mentors and other business operators, both within and outside the specialty chemical industry. His vision and strategy from 1990 to 2013 led to industry-leading performance, and MacDermid's equity value would trounce its peers and the S&P 500.
MacDermid was sold to Platform Specialty Products in 2013. The culture that Dan Leever and his father, Harold, had worked so hard to build at MacDermid would soon be diluted. MacDermid has been "corporatized" as win-lose propositions have started to creep in. Dan Leever retired from the company in 2015, and he regretted selling the company to private equity in 2006. There are many lessons to learn from Dan Leever's experience, one being that intelligent fanatic ownership is extremely important to the success of an organization.
MacDermid is a story of four phases, which starts with its founder Archibald "Archie" J. MacDermid. Archie was born in West Kilbride, Scotland, in 1884. The eldest of ten children, Archie would spend several years of his youth as an apprentice in industrial shops throughout Scotland. At the age of nineteen, in 1903, Archie, like many other Europeans, decided to take a chance and emigrate to the United States. Opportunities were better for a young man in the United States in those days, and a few relatives who had already made the move were ready to help him.
Archie's first job was with the Connecticut Dynamo Company in Plainville, Connecticut. His uncle was an officer. The company manufactured low-voltage motor generators for electroplating. Archie served as a factory worker and salesman while also getting his first taste of the nascent electroplating industry. A brief stint working on the Panama Canal at the age of twenty-seven provided him with valuable management experience. Arriving back at Connecticut Dynamo in 1913, Archie furthered his understanding of electroplating—and noticed an opportunity.
Cleaning metals was at that time a time-consuming, labor-intensive job. An opportunity arose for someone to introduce a chemical cleaner to reduce labor intensity. Realizing that alkali cleaning compounds could eliminate that tedious physical labor, Archie set about furthering his exposure to this field. He took a job with J. B. Ford Company in Michigan and rose from Eastern sales manager to foreign sales representative.
In the nearby town of Waterbury, Connecticut, Archie saw where his preparation would pay off. Since the early nineteenth century, the town had been considered the "Brass Capital of the World." One-third of U.S. brass was made in Waterbury. Archie's observation of chemical cleaners and electroplating prepared him to seize the opportunity. In 1922, Archie successfully convinced friends and family to loan him $4,000, added $3,000 of his own money, and started his own venture, MacDermid Chemical Company. The company's first product was Metex Metal Cleaner no. 1, an industry-first electrolytic brass cleaning process.
From scratch, Archie led the company to $391,690 in sales and $22,603 in profits by 1929. Each year, it was profitable. The company's strong sales focus and ability to produce needed, innovative products were the key to becoming a dominant local chemical producer in New England. However, the company fell on the hard times during the Great Depression. Waterbury's brass industry imploded. MacDermid's sales fell to $167,670 in 1932. It was Archie's conservative cash management that enabled MacDermid to survive the worst of the Great Depression.
Archie's insistence on selecting competent employees, sharing financial successes with them, and creating a caring, family-like working atmosphere not only enabled MacDermid to make it through the Depression but also set the foundation for a great company. All that was necessary was a new, hungry leader with the right skills to take the company to the next level.
By 1938, MacDermid hired its first research chemist, Harold Leever. Harold, too, was of Scottish heritage, and he quickly made an impact on the company. He developed a lucrative chemical finishing product called Anodex, a reverse-current alkaline cleaner. The cleaning results on steel, and the prevention of the formation of metallic films on the metal, resulted in tremendous savings in production time. There was no such cleaner for steel on the market at the time. This led to a huge boom in sales to U.S. auto manufacturers, and MacDermid became a national chemical company.
Harold Leever oversaw much of MacDermid's development of creative technical staff, sales personnel, and manufacturing expansion. Eventually, in 1954, Harold became MacDermid's president. The secret to MacDermid's success during this period was Harold's insistence on building upon Archie's founding values and culture. Many characteristics of that culture fit perfectly within the intelligent fanatic model. Leever would expand the company's vision, which would survive and later thrive under his son's tenure. The values included:
Our business is serving our prospects' needs, known or unknown, so that we can increase his profitability, the results of which will be profits and opportunities for all.
Our formula is that the man selling the product will make the difference. We will be effective where our salesmen and technical people serve and add to the systems they are selling.1
Five years later, in 1959, when Archie was ready to retire and the company received an offer from a potential buyer, Archie sold MacDermid Inc. to Harold and fifty-six employees. The company was acquired for $961,640, or $33.16 a share.
Harold would grow MacDermid to $4.8 million in sales by 1962. By that time, the chemical product line had expanded. In 1965, MacDermid had entered the Japanese market, supplying electronics manufacturers with chemical solutions. On June 22, 1966, MacDermid became a publicly traded company, selling 20% of its shares to the public, and that year the company generated $16.8 million in sales. By 1980, Harold Leever would grow MacDermid to $56.8 million in sales and $5.3 million in earnings.
Harold's success could be traced back to his infusion of "the religious, moral, ethical, and philosophical ideas, so much a part of his own character, into the bloodstream of the organization." His philosophy was that "the worth of the individual is supreme, his self-development sacred."2
In 1982, Harold Leever stepped down from day-to-day operations as CEO and remained as chairman. The third phase of MacDermid would begin when Art LoVetere took Harold's spot as CEO. MacDermid's U.S. domestic operations would lose the leadership and discipline that had been instrumental in the company's prior growth. Now MacDermid had a manager who was trying to smooth out financial results. MacDermid's internal focus, cost discipline, and respect for the individuals in the trenches, who were generating revenue, fell considerably. In other words, Art came in to "MBA-ize" the company.
Art's style wore on MacDermid employees. Even though the company expanded internationally, in Japan and Hong Kong, and acquired a few firms, results started to wane. Sales increased rapidly but MacDermid's U.S. earnings started to fall precipitously. Those reductions in profits and cash flow were a result of poor cost discipline. The only bright spot was the international division.
MacDermid's high insider ownership allowed it to think long term in the face of poor performance. There were concerns, and surely things could have been changed sooner, but the company was not desperate. Chemical Week described MacDermid's unique position in 1987: "The company thinks in the way [the] Japanese do. They run the business with a view to the long-term success of the company, and most companies are prone to short-term pressures."
Fortunately, future leadership had already started developing within the company. Daniel Leever, much to the chagrin of his father, Harold, got a job at MacDermid in 1982. Dan had a winding road to the company. In grade school, Dan had a learning disability and was held back twice due to poor grades. Eventually, Dan would fight and overcome his obstacles.
After school, Dan started work as a salesman for MacDermid. When he realized he wasn't great at sales, he decided to open his own business, selling consumer telecommunication devices and importing cell phones from Asia. Along with his brother, Andy, the two ran Leever Brothers, turning it from a one-store retailer into a wholesaler. Their customers included Macy's, Sears, and other large retailers.
Both brothers worked extremely hard. During this time Dan learned how to compensate for his deficiencies by leveraging other people: "I found a way for coping with my mental limitations: it was called having an assistant."3 This would help him greatly during his leadership at MacDermid. Leever Brothers was a modest success, reaching $10 million in sales with twenty employees. Unfortunately, a Federal Communications Commission decision on phone adapters would wipe the company out virtually overnight. The experience served as an important lesson for Dan in the adaptability of organizations.
Nearly broke, with "little to show but a shirt on my back," Dan worked at a Sambo's restaurant, similar to a Denny's, and made his way into the management training program. The experience helped bolster Dan's confidence in himself and taught him some valuable management lessons. He worked his way from assistant manager to manager, turning the worst restaurant in the chain into one of the best. Unfortunately, Dan wasn't running all of the chain's stores. The Sambo's chain went bankrupt soon after. Dan again was without a job.
In 1982, about the time that Dan's father stepped down from day-to-day operations, Dan joined MacDermid. He became a low-paid analyst and Art LoVetere's assistant on a few projects. Various positions later, Dan would be involved in running MacDermid's fledgling international operations. First, he headed the operations in South Africa, then Asia, and then worked his way to running all overseas operations.
It wasn't long before MacDermid's foreign operations were running much better than the U.S. operations. From 1985 to 1989, MacDermid's international sales and profits were growing more than 23% annually, even while U.S. sales and profits were in decline. By 1989, international profits were nearly twice as large as those of MacDermid's domestic operations. Much of this was due to Dan Leever's leadership and decentralized model of "strategic business units"—small, loosely organized, minimally controlled, fast-reacting units throughout different regions.
The strategic business unit model was so effective internationally that it would be executed in the United States when Dan Leever was appointed MacDermid's chief operating officer. When Art decided to leave MacDermid to become a deacon in the Catholic Church, MacDermid appointed Dan Leever as president and CEO, in 1990. Dan took his father's vision and improved upon it to create a high-quality organization, and he was about to unlock MacDermid's full potential.
It was maybe the most important thing that I did for many, many years, was to reinforce and develop the culture.
—Dan Leever
Intelligent fanatics are self-aware enough to understand their shortcomings. To make up for those weaknesses, they surround themselves with people that fill their deficiencies. In addition, a quality leader is able to motivate his or her team to do extraordinary things. Humans have much latent ability. People need to be inspired to attain levels they never before thought possible. In Dan Leever's case, he would rebuild and retool the culture to make an effective, high-performance organization. He would turn MacDermid's domestic operations around by focusing on the company's core values. Gone were the days of treating employees working in the trenches without respect.
Dan made significant improvements to MacDermid's culture. MacDermid would go all in, with a fighting Scotsman's mentality that Dan described as "very, very hard driving," focused on the motto "If it's to be, it's up to me." In MacDermid's 2002 shareholder letter, Dan described Clan MacDermid as:
"Clan" is the Scottish word for "family." We are a classic Scottish family, dedicated, scrappy, and committed to the cause. I'd hate to be a competitor of MacDermid. We just keep on coming at you. We have the unusual ability to rally around the tartan. You as a shareholder are lucky to be partnered with such a fine group of men and women. I am lucky to be their leader. We have come through a trying period. Our strategy going forward is simple, the execution of it is not. I promise you maximum effort from a dedicated Clan MacDermid.
MacDermid would take care of employees and other stakeholders. Dan Leever's refocus, back to intrinsically and extrinsically motivating employees, was an extension of his father's vision: "We really felt strongly about the concept that if we take care of the employees, the employees will take care of the customers, and the customers will take care of the shareholders." Dan was right; MacDermid's results under his tenure took care of themselves.
During Art LoVetere's tenure, MacDermid was growing; however, it was growth for growth's sake, and Art did not adapt. Harold Leever initially built MacDermid paternalistically and was successful. Harold never fired anybody during his whole career. Dan said, "He was so judicious about hiring people and being so lean that he could get away with that." Harold Leever highlighted this early on: "MacDermid personnel shall be carefully selected. The firm will not grow for growth's sake. The main emphasis shall be on the worth of the individual, his ability to perform, and his personal characteristics, so that each person can utilize the best of his skills."4
MacDermid's growth brought challenges in acquiring new employees, and cultural dilution took place. MacDermid needed a strong leader to adapt to the new situation and provide a higher cause. Instead of paternalism, Dan described his leadership style as being objectivist. Accountability became a focal point.
Dan would try everything he could to help those in the organization who were struggling. Tools and support were given to prop people up and make them successful. Peter Kiewit and other fanatics in this book would do the same, and also would put underperforming individuals in more appropriate positions. One of the most important jobs of a leader is to put people into the jobs most suited to their abilities. Employees who couldn't or wouldn't get it, with all the support, were given a recommendation for another job. Dan and other MacDermid executives were prepared to let those individuals go. It was best for the overall organization and for those employees who did follow MacDermid's values.
Dan worked hard to destroy the bureaucracy that had been building at MacDermid. During Art LoVetere's tenure, the dissemination of policy manuals for U.S. employees had been increasing at a rapid pace, stripping away an employee's ownership of his or her job. Management's lack of respect in their U.S. employees was a large driver in MacDermid's domestic underperformance during the 1980s.
Dan changed this by getting rid of domestic policy manuals. Individuals in the trenches were given back the authority to do their jobs. Leever did this by splitting MacDermid's domestic operations into thirteen different strategic business units, each with approximately $4.5 million in sales. Each unit leader acted like an entrepreneur, with a small base from which to grow his or her business. As the 1989 annual report stated, "In a $4 million 'business,' a very interesting opportunity could be as small as a $100,000 niche. Many of these 'niches' might otherwise fall to small regional and local operators."
The decentralized model allowed MacDermid to react much quicker to customer needs. The strategic business units acted as MacDermid's eyes and ears to listen to customers. This system skewed the odds in MacDermid's favor when competing with all types of competitors, both large and small.
MacDermid employees now had intrinsic ownership of their jobs. Ownership became an inspiration for employees to do what they felt was right. As the winningest coach in women's basketball, Pat Summitt, often said, "Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have."5 The entire organization had the right environment again to unlock its fullest potential and dominate its niches.
An important aspect of ownership, found in the best intelligent fanatic–led organizations, is the philosophy of calculated risk taking. At MacDermid, it was called the "guts to fail." Harold Leever believed that "an organization run on conviction, motivation, and morale, where the individual is allowed to and can 'have the guts to fail' " will be successful.6 Dan reintroduced that ideal, and he described his personal "guts to fail" in MacDermid's 2002 shareholder letter, stating, "Basically this holds that one must take risks to gain advantage. We judge ourselves not by our mistakes, but by the end result, in balance." Everyone throughout the organization at MacDermid gained ownership of his or her work by being allowed to make mistakes and learn. As Stephen Covey said, "Accountability breeds response-ability."7
Dan Leever also started to listen to employees, especially the ones at the bottom. By listening to those individuals on the front lines, Dan was able to let problems percolate in his mind. As months went by, he'd piece together unique insights about the operations, to help make better decisions. This is a fantastic example of stuffing the subconscious mind with relevant detail and then letting the information form new associations. Jack Henry, of Jack Henry & Associates, was often found utilizing the same tactic, and any elite leader, regardless of the field, has successfully mastered this skill.
External incentives were also important. Employees had just about every form of financial incentive available. MacDermid had a defined benefits plan, a 401k plan, a profit-sharing plan, a cash bonus plan "that went all the way down to the bottom of the company," and stock options for virtually every employee in the company. When there were tax problems with such incentives in international locations such as China, MacDermid did "to the extent they could" to give employees proper incentives.
Other initiatives were put in place to help inspire employees. One of the most interesting things at MacDermid, dating back to the 1950s, was a company picnic. In the early years, Harold Leever, Dan's father, had a tradition of giving a speech about every person who made it five years with the company. Dan built on this tradition and kept it going even after MacDermid had 2,500 employees. Dan said:
I would tell a story about the individual. I would also try to pick something about that function or that person that was a little bit unique, that reinforced the culture. People were sobbing in those things, because their spouse may have never heard anyone talk so nicely about their spouse before.
Throughout this process, employees would be singled out and honored, regardless of their position at the company. Like his dad, Dan knew virtually all MacDermid employees by name, even as the company grew to a large size, and he knew enough to tell a story about each one of them. This recognition and praise showed employees that their leader truly cared about them.
Dan Leever also mentioned that he really believed in the integrity of the process, finding something genuinely good to say about everyone. He believes that there's always something good you can say about somebody. Doing so brought him respect, and the speech was a great way to reinforce the values of MacDermid.
One last example Dan Leever gave was MacDermid employees bonding through events. Groups of the top one hundred most senior MacDermid employees went to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, and once to Disney World. In both instances, the group of MacDermid employees dressed in kilts (at Disney World) or similar shirts (at the Berkshire meeting), displaying the MacDermid name to show their team spirit. At Disney, Clan MacDermid paraded through Epcot Center with a bagpiper one evening. Dan said, "The whole place came to a stop. It was really cool." After Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, Warren Buffett's secretary mailed MacDermid and asked whether the group was part of MacDermid. Dan wondered, "It's hard to describe why that [those two events] should matter, but in some way it does."
In addition, MacDermid annual meetings hosted several hundred sales and technical employees. Usually, these meetings were held at ski resorts in New England during the summer. Rituals play an important part in our daily lives, and group rituals help create a cohesive team spirit.
If you're curious and you're trying to get better, you should try to constantly search for who has got a leading edge out there that you can learn from.
—Dan Leever
One key to this book, its predecessor, and IntelligentFanatics.com is to seek out exceptional business leaders to learn from, internalize, and emulate. Intelligent fanatics often utilize this technique to their own benefit. There is no quicker way to learn than by standing on the shoulders of giants. Dan Leever found multiple mentors to learn from.
One of Dan Leever's greatest mentors was, and continues to be, an unknown but fantastically successful investor. Thomas W. Smith ran Prescott Associates from 1973 to 2015. Tom had been a director of MacDermid, and he continued in that role during Dan Leever's tenure. Tom's investment philosophy is very similar to Warren Buffett's, and his performance has been almost as impressive. According to Prescott Associates investor letters, Tom and his team have compounded capital at about a 15% compound annual growth rate since 1973. Dan learned a lot from Tom, and he relied heavily on Tom's focus on cash flows and capital allocation.
It was from Tom Smith that Dan Leever learned of Warren Buffett. Admiring Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders, Dan, too, would communicate with MacDermid shareholders as if they were partners. Dan's philosophy on acquisitions, long-term thinking, ownership, and capital allocation were clearly communicated. Leever would go so far as to borrow heavily from Berkshire Hathaway's "owner's manual" and create the same at MacDermid.
Tom Smith also introduced Dan Leever to Henry Singleton's share repurchase philosophy at Teledyne. When Mr. Market was undervaluing and underappreciating MacDermid at $20 per share in 1994, Dan would emulate Henry Singleton with a Dutch tender for 23.8% of shares outstanding. The offer was for $30 a share, and the company's largest shareholder, Fidelity, was pleased to exit its position for a premium. They believed MacDermid's illiquid stock—the public float greatly reduced—would not go anywhere. Within nine months the stock was at $100 per share.
Dan Leever learned cost discipline from one of the most efficient chemical companies of the time. Dan had been introduced to Emerson Kampen, the CEO of Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. Dan described the transformation of Great Lakes:
Great Lakes was basically in the bromine business. This is going thirty years ago or something like that. He took a company that was basically a commodity chemical producer, and by taking costs out, created essentially a specialty company out of it. He ended up with a company that—I think in the probably late 1980s or somewhere around then—was doing $600 million in revenue and $100 million dollars in free cash flow. It was an amazing company.
While touring the company, Dan described the headquarters as "spartan as all get out." There was little in the way of extravagances. In the conference room next to Kampen's office was a light that ran on a fifteen-minute timer—and then the room went dark. Dan said, "Obviously with $100 million in free cash flow, he could afford to pay the light bill. The symbolism of that . . . holy cow."
During Art LoVetere's tenure, MacDermid had lost its cost discipline. A great, albeit small example related to water. MacDermid had problems with its tap water in the 1980s, because its office, located at the end of the water line, had contaminated water. Therefore, the company was forced to purchase bottled drinking water. However, the water line had been repaired some five years before Dan became CEO. For five years, MacDermid continued to purchase bottled water. After Dan met with Emerson Kampen and saw how frugal he was, he questioned employees about the water expense. They told him about the fix and said that it was costing $50,000 per year to keep buying water. Employees agreed with Dan that they could eliminate this expense. Dan would soon find many other superfluous expenses to cut.
Dan mentioned one area that should be highlighted in the optimization of profitability. All too often, organizations that focus first on making shareholders happy will find themselves looking at profit optimization as a zero-sum game. Although Dan Leever had an eye on reinstating cost discipline at MacDermid, he did not let the endeavor get out of control. He stayed true to his father's win-win relationships with all counterparties. When a company sees profit optimization on a zero-sum basis, or as a we win–you lose scenario, it is not sustainable.
If you had purchased shares of MacDermid in 1990, at the start of Dan Leever's tenure as CEO, and held until 2006, when the company was purchased by private equity, you would have realized a 19.79% compounded annual return. Private equity then sold MacDermid to Platform Specialties in 2013, where its value ascended at a similar CAGR. An investment in the S&P 500, comparatively, would have grown at a 6.45% CAGR during the same period.
"Our progress and your progress, our company's long-term advantage and your long-term advantage, lie in human resources. Other advantages that come about from technological improvements, the opening of new markets, lower costs, all prove to be relatively short run. So, it is the initiative, the will and the motivation people bring to their work that we have to rely upon for survival and growth."
—Harold Leever, in Following the Road Less Traveled . . . The MacDermid Story
Intelligent fanatic–led organizations can lose their edge when the company's culture deteriorates. The wrong type of owner can dilute the culture and the essence that makes a great company.
For years, Dan Leever tried to sell MacDermid to Berkshire Hathaway. At first MacDermid was too small, and later it was too expensive. Dan said:
I tried to convince Warren Buffett. I said, "Listen, this is a company that grows cash flow by 10% a year. It doesn't need any capital at all." Why wouldn't you just take the coupon? Where are you going to get a company that grows, and it's all in cash, where you can just take the cash out. It doesn't need any cash unless you want to invest in an acquisition or something like that. The kind of return you get, with the growth rate built in, it's twenty percentish.
In 2006, Dan Leever, Court Square Capital Partners, and private equity firm Weston Presidio took MacDermid private for $1.3 billion, in a leveraged buyout. Dan regretted the decision, and it is a great lesson for any leader. Dan's original exit strategy was "a pine box . . . but it's not always up to you." Without control, and with incorrect partners, he couldn't fully choose his destiny. He recalled:
I tried really hard to get the exit [from MacDermid] as an IPO [initial public offering]. I almost pulled that off. But when you sell it to somebody? Boy, it's pretty hard. If there's a single mistake that I made in my career that outweighs all the rest, it was the LBO [leveraged buyout]. By doing the LBO, I lost control of the future. I could have done all kinds of things—recaps, other things like that—that could have accomplished the same thing without losing control.
In the absence of Dan's full control, MacDermid was then later sold to Platform Specialty Products, a specialty purpose acquisition corporation. At first, the idea of partnering with Martin Franklin, Platform's owner, looked attractive. Martin Franklin had a track record and skill set as a talented business acquirer. Franklin had previously invested in Alltrista Corporation (renamed Jarden Corporation in 2002), and he became the company's CEO after working with the board. Franklin provided significant value with his buy-and-build strategy. From September 4, 2001, to June 2011, when Franklin stepped down as CEO, Jarden's equity value grew at an annual compounded rate of more than 35%.
The idea with Platform Specialty Products was to combine Martin's acquisition skills with Dan's operational skills to recreate a similar buy-and-build strategy, only in the specialty chemicals space. The two men did not see eye to eye. Instead of exiting in a pine box, feet first, Dan would retire as CEO of Platform in October 2015.
While Dan Leever rolled 100% of his equity stake in MacDermid into Platform, he had to work with a board that didn't share the same values. One of the first orders of business Franklin and others believed necessary was to replace the employees' defined benefit pension plan. The idea was to cut costs, but Dan refused. He stated:
We had the least expensive pension plan for like twenty years, and we were triple the benchmarks. All we did was not do stupid sht. Our largest investment actually was in Prescott, Tom Smith's company. We put $20 million into Prescott, and I think it's worth $80 million today . . . but they were insistent [on changing the plan].
Dan's problem was that any other plan they would choose would likely be more expensive and would be a detriment to employees. If the costs were lower and didn't compromise employees, that would be okay. Franklin and others ultimately decided to change the pension plan, and of course it was more expensive and to the detriment of employees. Dan went on to say, "I fully respect there are different, effective ways to operate a business. It could very well be I was the one out of step. Platform's style and mine just didn't mesh, so I needed to leave. I certainly wish them well in the future."
As was described in the chapter on Jack Henry & Associates, an acquiring firm has a great opportunity to demonstrate its values to all stakeholders. The message that Platform Specialty sent to MacDermid employees was that they were not going to be treated as well as they were under previous ownership. That single action would morph into a different feeling within the company, which Dan described: "Right now the rank and file do not know what's going on, don't feel a part of it . . . It's kind of a typical company approach where everybody is kept in the dark, and they're only told what they need to be told."8
Investors and entrepreneurs can learn from Dan Leever's experience. While Platform Specialty continues to grow through acquisitions, the new ownership's hand is on the table. The authors believe the pension change is a losing proposition for employees and has started to unravel MacDermid's founding culture. Employees do not feel the same way about the management and ownership of the company. The company might continue to do well, but it could likely do better over the long term under ownership that truly believed its greatest competitive advantage lies in its human resources.
Harold Leever summed it up many decades ago: "When you do the job right, money happens."9
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text: A dishwasher eases our lives. The advantage is that we don't lose time anymore on washing dishes by hand and using a dishwasher, the dishes will come out really clean. On the other hand, a study has been made and shown that a dishwasher can increase your child's risk of developing allergies. Let's have a look at how can this happen.


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There is a time for everything! There is a time for love but there is a time for spring cleaning your house, too!
Today, it was realistically the first day of the spring. Sunny spells, trees in bloom and hummingbirds singing … it felt like a rebirth of the nature and soul.
I have found it as, the perfect time to do a spring clean. I knew I had to start from the top and de clutter the loft. An old Christmas tree, a rattan chair and a full bag of toys from my nephew, all good to go to a charity shop. I rushed myself to de clutter my closets as well, if I was going to pay a visit to the corner charity shop anyway. Dresses, shoes and coats I have not worn in a longtime! Time to get rid of them and refresh my wardrobe. I had some bedding stuff to give away, too. Next, was kitchen! Have I got older? Grandma used to keep everything, from mugs and plates in different colors and sizes, to every kitchen utensil you can ever imagine.
I had not even started the cleaning but I already felt great. The clutter removal spurred new energy and gave me a spark of joy. You might remember as well, the good feeling of giving away stuff you do not need anymore, the warmness and lightness of your soul when you know you can help others. When I was halfway to what I wanted to achieve, I knew straightaway that I would deserve a nice cup of tea before I was to proceed with the proper cleaning.
Windows and window frames needed a thorough clean. The humidity over the winter season grew plenty of mold. It was time to take control. Then, I dusted everything from top to bottom including any cobs removal. As I had already booked my carpets to be shampooed that afternoon, I was not too concerned with giving a good hover to the carpets. Cleaning the bathrooms was not easy. I wanted to do a deep clean and de scale all the taps, sink and toilet bowls. I gave a good wipe to the wall tiles and could not wait to smell the freshness of my house, after I wiped down the floor with my new citrus chemical.
To shift the energy of the space, I changed the layout of our light furniture, here and there. I have always been into the Feng Shui stuff. If your home is de cluttered, well lit and has got a proper furniture arrangement, your life will be filled with sparkly energy and will present you with growth opportunities.
There is a time for everything! There is a time for love but there is a time for spring cleaning your house, too! If you need help with the spring clean including the removal of any clutter, our team can give you a hand!
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Hey everyone!
I had some problems with my editing software and I didn't want to post random photos. I'll probably post all missed manicures today, starting with my St. Patty's manicure.
I didn't do anything that was screaming St. Patty's mainly because we don't really celebrate the holiday where I live, but also because it was late and I wanted to sleep (hence the flash photo below).
I used Essence Grunge Me Tender as a base and added two coats of Flormar 392 on my ring finger. Flormar 392 is actually a holo glitter polish, but you can't really see that on the photo. I figured rainbows would be suitable for St. Patty's along the green base.
Thanks for reading!
p.s. Unfortunately, this is the last you'll be seeing of my long nails. I broke my pinky nail a day after I took this photo and now they're very, very short. I'll probably be doing the April Challenge, too, because growing them out seems to be easier when I keep doing nail art over and over.


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It's SNEAK PEEK time!
This is my first official month as a design team member at My Creative Scrapbook and you are gonna just love the kits this month! We are so excited to reveal the beautiful lineup of kits that we have coming your way for March. The full kits are going to be revealed on the 5th but in the meantime, our designers have prepared some sneak peek eye candy for you.
Have a look at our March Main Kit:
Here are a couple of March Main Kit layouts!
Have a look at our March Creative Kit (this is the one I played with!):
and a March Creative Kit layout!
Next... our March Limited Edition Kit:
and a couple of March Limited Edition Kit layouts!
Have a look at our March Album Kit:
and a look inside the March Album!
As always, this is only a little sneak peek at what's coming in the March kits. The full kit reveal is coming up on March 5th... be sure to check back then!
Don't forget to reserve your kits.
Please visit MyCreativeScrapbook.com for more information.
I'll be back to share all my projects with you on the 5th!


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At one time in Earth's history this massive formation of sands, silts, and clays completely covered over a half million square miles of area that included eight of our western states and a portion of Canada. A slope-former where it crops out, the Morrison Formation is a product of 8 million years of erosion and deposition that began during the Jurassic Period, some 155 million years ago. This deposit of multicolored siltstones, mudstones, and sandstones stretches from Arizona and New Mexico northward to Idaho, Montana, and Canada, but only a small part of it is exposed. A combination of uplift and subsequent erosion has stripped the Morrison Formation from the crest of the rising Rocky Mountains, leaving only remnants of this important rock layer on either side of the mountain range. The rest is still buried under the prairies of the western Great Plains.
The Morrison Formation is mostly mudstone but thin layers of coarser siltstone and sandstone and even the occasional limestone are found within the formation. These sediments and the fossils found within them all indicate a non-marine origin for the Morrison, although the presence of thin micritic limestones may be evidence for minor oceanic transgressions in some areas. Crossbedding is common in the formation as are flood deposits, which occur in scoured-out channels within the surrounding mudstone. These lag deposits of flood debris sometimes contain the flotsam and jetsam of ancient life. The Morrison Formation is not a particularly thick bed of sediments. Averaging only 200 feet in thickness, it reaches its greatest dimensions to the southwest and generally thins eastward. It is more than 400 feet thick in many sections of its range.
The Morrison Formation has provided more information about the ancient Jurassic world than any other formation in North America. It is a time capsule of Jurassic life and has yielded a treasure trove of fossils. The remains of fish, turtles, crocodiles, and mammals have all been recovered
from the Morrison, while as many as 250 species of plants have been identified in the deposit. As a source of dinosaur fossils, it is unrivaled. Indeed, it is from this humble mudstone that most of the Jurassic dinosaur fossils in North America have come!
Dinosaur remains are rare in the Morrison Formation, but occasionally the odd bone will turn up in the flood deposits that crisscross the ancient mudstone surface. On extremely rare occasions, the fossilized skeletons of multiple individuals will be found; their disarticulated bones concentrated and jumbled up by the forces of nature. But once in a blue moon, fully-articulated dinosaur skeletons are found. Only a few of these have been discovered in the last century and a half and all are important to science. But none are more important than the fossils found by a paleontologist named Earl Douglass one hot August day in 1909 near the Colorado/Utah border. Douglass's discovery would lead to the formation of Dinosaur National Monument, one of America's great national monuments and parks.
The fossil discoveries made by Earl Douglass in the Echo Canyon area during the summer of 1909 were not the first dinosaur finds in the now famous Morrison Formation. In 1871, the Hayden Survey team noted the presence of Jurassic-age sediments in eastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. These beds were probably the same bone-bearing formations described by John Wesley Powell as he explored the Green River that same year. Powell recorded a number of fossilized reptile bones weathering out of the steep river bank as he passed by.


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The enduring popularity of 2004's Mean Girls—screenwriter Tina Fey's dead-on satire about high school cliques, with a perfect cast led by Fey, Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams—has inevitably led to a Broadway version. But is updating the story for our social-media age and shoehorning in songs enough to give Mean Girls a new life onstage?
The answer is a qualified yes. Although Jeff Richmond's songs and Nell Benjamin's lyrics are the usual pedestrian combo that infects current musicals, Fey has smartly turned her original script into a book that may be even funnier and more pointed than the movie. And Casey Nicholaw has choreographed and directed with smashing effectiveness, his endlessly clever dance sequences (including great tap dancing and use of school cafeteria trays) and inventive movement throughout propels the show forward.
Nicholaw's ace design team—Scott Pask (sets), Gregg Barnes (costumes), Kenneth Posner (lighting), Brian Ronan (sound), and Finn Ross and Adam Young (video projections)—creates a high school world with an impressive visual sheen that underscores, not undercuts, Fey's slyly conceived paean to female self-empowerment (song titles include "A Cautionary Tale," "It Roars," "Fearless" and the big finale, "I See Stars").
But making Mean Girls unmissable is its exuberant cast. Erika Henningsen is a charmingly ordinary Cady (the Lohan part), while Grey Henson and Barrett Wilbert Weed make Cady's uncool friends Damian and Janis amusingly sarcastic guides to the proceedings. The Plastics—McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert in the movie—are enacted by Ashley Park, whose Gretchen literally bleeds funny neediness; Taylor Louderman, who embodies the towering blonde goddess Regina spectacularly and star-makingly; and Kate Rockwell, who as Karen does an incredibly difficult balancing act: playing an incredibly stupid character with so many smarts that she's sidesplittingly hilarious as she steals scenes left and right.
Too bad that Kerry Butler, a wonderful comedienne and golden-voiced singer, has little to do in her three roles (teacher Ms. Norbury, Cady and Regina's moms): but her natural charisma considerably brightens her infrequent onstage moments anyway. Broadway's Mean Girls should please both die-hard fans and those looking for a rollicking good time.
Mean Girls
Book by Tina Fey; music by Jeff Richmond; lyrics by Nell Benjamin
Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw
Opened April 8, 2018
August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street, New York, NY
photo credit: Joan Marcus


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Multi-options mini sawmills
Featuring 3 versions of mini sawmills each of which uses the same basic 25mm x 25mm steel hollow box section frame and can mill logs in excess of 12" diameter. In the plans the bottom rails of the red frame are attached with bolts instead of being welded on they can quickly be detached and the cutting head slid off and any of the other cutting heads fitted instead making this a truly versatile go-anywhere small log milling system. The figure in the image is scaled to 5'2" to give you a reasonable idea of it's diminutive size.
Version 1 shown below is a 2 axis chansaw mill which can cut vertically or horizontally to create dimensional timber and which is suitable for 16" chainsaws in the 2.5 to 4hp range including electric ones.
Version 2 shown below is a 1 to 2hp treadmill motor belt-driven bandsaw mill utilising 10" wheelbarrow wheels. While these wheels are by far the cheapest the composition of their tyres limits the blade speed more than might be desired.
Version 3 shown below is a chain driven variant of the bandsaw mill which uses the larger 12" diameter rear wheels intended for use on mini-moto motor bikes. These wheels although having a flimsier spindle which requires support at both ends are rated for twice the speed of the wheels in the previous version and are mounted inboard of the frame to give a much better centre of gravity.
Download the free plans here


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For years I've been a liar. Not to everybody, just those of authority (bosses, teachers, etc.) and my family. To the figures of authority I'll make up why I'm late or not showing up to work, I'll exaggerate details or even make some up to strengthen my side of a story, I'll deny petty things that I think don't matter. To my family I put on a new face. A good face. The face that I think they want me to have – a Christian face.
Being raised a pastors kid certain choices and beliefs were made for me before I was born: live for Jesus, don't swear, maintain purity and innocence, marry a Christian man, be a witness, the list goes on. The majority of my life I've lived in a naive ignorant bubble – unaware of much of the world outside Christianity until I was nearly an adult. Once that bubble popped I quickly realized that I cannot and don't want to be the girl my family desires. I also knew that informing them of my revelation would be the same as saying "Hey Mom and Dad, your only daughter is going to Hell." So I did what any rebellious child would do, I lied.
I got very comfortable when lying, and I was good at it. To be a good liar is simple: don't over complicate your tale, use bits of the truth for credibility, don't ever admit to fibbing, and if possible temporarily convince yourself that you're either telling the truth or are correct.
I lied until I was nearing the point of insanity. Frustration towards my family, organized religion, and the Bible brewed inside of me. I feared what they would think if I let them see the version of me that I liked best. My friends got used to the occasional religion rant, often they chimed in agreement. My boyfriend at the time got used to me complaining about how religion fucked with me. He encouraged me to tell the truth – my friends did not.
Even with superb lying skills I reached my breaking point … this evening actually. Note: not because of my ex-boyfriend, though I am curious how me being honest with my family would have influenced our relationship.
So now my mom knows that I believe in God but have no desire to become involved in the church. She told me she was devastated, that I was throwing away everything, that the devil was devouring me, that she had sensed the lack of spirituality in me, and several stories about her God experiences. But she's going to think of me with mercy. Eventually I had to stop her preaching. For I have heard it all before and was aware that if I were to say how I feel or think about most things she would listen with an ear of disappointment, there was no chance that she would even consider that I was right. And that's what I hate about those type of conversations, the preacher never considers adjusting their beliefs. Never.
People say that the truth will set you free. Well, the truth also sucks. The truth in my situation gave me a 70% chance of sermon when in the presence of family. Which I consider rude and disrespectful of me and my valid opinions. Still, I'm glad I finally told the truth, at least I've opened the door towards a real, even if uncomfortable, relationship with my family.


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Mr F
I recieved an unprotected handjob from a prostitute 7 weeks ago. I have not had any symptoms, but a week ago i began to have a rash which looks like pityriasis rosea. I had taken a metronidazale medication and i researched that it might be a cause of this rash. Now i'm freaked out. am I seroconverting? Is it possible to get HIV from a handjob? I think there was a small cut on my penis when i recieved the handjob. Am at risk? Please help
Hi there, thanks for contacting the AIDS Vancouver helpline with your questions. We're happy to help!
I understand you're concerned about an experience you had, hopefully my answer will be able to clarify the situation and relieve your worries.
There is No Risk for HIV transmission through a handjob. Handjobs are considered non-penetrative masturbation and thus have no exchange of bodily fluids. Without any bodily fluid exchange, there is no opportunity for an HIV transmission to occur. Additionally, the cut on your penis would not provide a risk either, as a cut needs to be severe in order to increase HIV risk. A cut needs to be able to provide direct access to the bloodstream in order for an HIV infection to be established. To do this, it must be severe such as one that's gushing blood or requires immediate medical attention such as stitches. If this is not the case, there is no risk for HIV transmission.
Please check out this transmission equation as it may help to clarify the 3 components that are necessary for HIV transmission to even be possible.
|• blood (including menstrual)
|• unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse
|• vagina
|• semen
|• sharing needles
|• anus
|• pre-cum
|• mother to child (in specific cases)
|• urethra in the penis
|• rectal secretions
|• open cuts and sores (in theory)
|• vaginal fluids
|• other mucosal membranes
|• breast milk
|• points of needle injection
Additionally, please check out avert.org for more information about how HIV is and isn't transmitted.
I hope this helped!
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text: My medical school classmate, John Oppenshaw, is now an infectious disease fellow at Stanford. He is working in Bangladesh studying emerging zoonotic pathogens. His work aims to "detect viral spillover events from animals to humans with the hope of eventually understanding the ecology that drives this process." See his website.