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BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, is helping to drive a revival in Japan's property market as investors bet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to sustain economic growth will boost real estate returns.
BlackRock is looking for investments outside of Tokyo this year as it seeks higher yields, said John Saunders, managing director and head of Asian real estate. Japan real estate investment trusts, or J-REITs, acquired properties worth 2.23 trillion yen ($21.6 billion) in 2013, almost triple the previous year, after raising a record amount of cash from equity sales, according to the Association for Real Estate Securitization.
Real estate investment has climbed since Abe pledged to end more than a decade of deflation and the Bank of Japan eased monetary policy, sparking growth in commercial land values and a drop in office vacancy rates. Acquisitions made by overseas investors will account for about 20 percent of all transactions this year, up from 13 percent in 2013, and commercial-property sales may grow to the highest level since 2007, according to brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
"Japan is experiencing a bit of a renaissance right now," said Christian Mancini, chief executive officer of North East Asia at brokerage Savills Asia Pacific Ltd. "There is favorable policy movement that has restored sentiment. All of a sudden, the market is pricing that forward."
The Bank of Japan has pumped $546.3 billion into the financial system since April, boosting business sentiment to the highest since 2007.
"When you have monetary easing, that is incredible because you suddenly put oxygen into a starved environment," Hong Kong-based Saunders said in an interview. He declined to comment on individual investments. BlackRock acquired private-equity property investment adviser MGPA last year to expand in Asia, including Japan.
Transactions Surging
Property transactions may rise as much as 30 percent to about 5 trillion yen this year from 4 trillion yen in 2013, said Takeshi Akagi, a director at Jones Lang LaSalle in Tokyo.
Alpha Investment Partners Ltd., a unit of Singapore-based Keppel Land Ltd., is among overseas firms interested to buy in Japan. Alpha manages $7.3 billion of assets with 22 of 51 properties in Japan, according to its website.
"The flow of capital from overseas, as well as domestic sources such as J-REITs, private REITs, corporations and developers is enormous," said Asao Mikami, president and chief executive officer of Alpha's local arm in Tokyo, declining to provide details. "The real estate market will be very, very active this year and next year. I am very optimistic."
J-REITs Buying
J-REITs were among the biggest property buyers in 2013 as a 36 percent gain in the Tokyo Stock Exchange REIT Index made it easier to sell equity. J-REITs raised a record 1.19 trillion yen in initial share sale and public offerings last year for acquisitions, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Mori Trust Sogo REIT Inc., which invests in office and commercial properties, in April acquired a building in Shibuya that houses the flagship store of Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB for 32 billion yen, with an estimated net operating income of 1.36 billion yen, according to a statement.
CLSA Capital Partners, which has $2.6 billion under management including real estate, is also seeking to buy, said Tokyo-based Hirotaka Uchiyama, head of Japan for Fudo Capital, manager of CLSA's Asian real estate investment funds.
"The banks are very keen to lend to the real estate sector," Uchiyama said. "Even though the market is getting competitive, it hasn't reduced the attractiveness of the investment."
'Road to Hell'
Not everyone is confident that Abenomics, as Abe's reflationary policies to kick-start an economy stagnant for two decades became known, will deliver. Yoji Otani, an analyst at Deutsche Bank AG, wrote in a Jan. 17 report titled "Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions" that Abenomics will become dysfunctional this year.
"Though the balance of bank lending is rising and the Japanese economy is headed toward normalization, these will likely be overshadowed by fiscal reform planned for FY2014 in the form of budget austerity and higher taxation," Otani wrote. The consumption tax will rise in April to 8 percent from 5 percent and to 10 percent next year.
The best time for real estate investment may have passed, Otani said in an interview. The Topix Real Estate Index, which gained 80 percent in 2012 and 71 percent in 2013, is one of the worst performers among 33 industry groups this year, declining 11 percent. That's a signal the real estate direct investment market will start to deteriorate, he said.
"It's not a good time to invest in the real estate market," Otani said. "Investors have come too late."
The Topix Real Estate Index rose for the first time in five days today, closing 0.4 percent higher in Tokyo.
Vacancies, Rents
Investors are being encouraged by an improvement in the outlook for the office market, where rents had been in decline since 2008. Office vacancies, a measure of unoccupied space, in Tokyo fell to 7.3 percent in December from 8.7 percent a year earlier, according to brokerage Miki Shoji Co.
Tokyo's average rents for grade-A offices, or those considered to be the most stable, high-income producing properties, will rise about 10 percent this year, according to an estimate by Jones Lang LaSalle. The office vacancy rate for grade-A buildings in central Tokyo dropped to 4.3 percent in the three months ended September, pushing rents 2.2 percent higher in the quarter, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.
Rising Prices
Sellers "recognize rental increases in high-quality buildings in Tokyo," said Akagi. "We expect further improvement in rents, capital value and transaction volume."
The capitalization rate, a measure of investment yield, for office buildings in Tokyo fell to 4.98 percent in December from 5.21 percent a year earlier, according to New York-based Real Capital Analytics Inc. A drop in the cap rate, which is a property's net income divided by the purchase price, usually signals an increase in real estate prices.
Property prices for "well located, good quality, medium size" office buildings in Tokyo have gained more than 15 percent in the past year, estimated Andy Hurfurt, a Tokyo-based executive director at broker CBRE Group Inc.
A surge in property prices in Tokyo has prompted investors to look at other major cities. BlackRock, which started investing in Japan property two years ago, in August bought an office and residential building in Osaka and is exploring investment opportunities in other cities Saunders declined to name.
Japan Recovery
"If you are a believer in recovery in Japan, which we are, then what you've seen happened in Tokyo will ripple out into the secondary cities," he said.
MGPA, the firm acquired by BlackRock, bought two Tokyo office properties last year, the South Shin Otsuka and Shinjuku TX buildings, according to a statement dated April 15, 2013, on the website of law firm Clifford Chance, which advised the investment firm on the purchases.
It paid 12 billion yen for eight office buildings in Japan in 2012, two people familiar with the transaction said at the time. Seven of the properties were in Tokyo, MGPA said that June. The other one was in Yokkaichi city in Tokai region near Nagoya, said the people.
LaSalle Investment Management is proceeding carefully, said Yasuo Nakashima, chief executive officer for Japan. The company, with $47.6 billion of assets under management, has focused on distribution centers in Japan.
More Difficult
"Abenomics has only affected the capital market so far; there is no change in terms of fundamentals such as demand and supply," Nakashima said. "That means finding the right opportunities to invest has become very difficult."
Property transactions in the Tokyo metropolitan area more than doubled to 1.51 trillion yen for the six months ended September from the same period a year earlier, while sales in the rest of the country gained 75 percent to 446.5 billion yen during the period, according to a survey by Urban Research Institute Corp.
Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's biggest developer by market value, on Nov. 29 sold a nine-story retail building in Fukuoka City's Tenjin shopping area to Tokyo-based United Urban Investment Corp., a real estate investment trust, for 4.35 billion yen with a yield of 7 percent.
'Early Stages'
"In regional markets you couldn't really sell properties, but now you can as capital is flowing in," Mitsubishi Estate Chief Executive Officer Hirotaka Sugiyama said in an interview. "The real estate market has become very active."
Land values rose at 107 locations out of 150 sites monitored by the government in the three months through Oct. 1, the most since the government increased the number of sites it monitors in 2008.
As part of Abe's "third arrow" of a three-pronged strategy, the government has promised deregulation and structural reforms to sustain a recovery triggered by fiscal and monetary stimulus.
The recovery in the real estate market will broaden to other types of properties such as logistics and suburban shopping malls as consumer demand grows, Jones Lang LaSalle's Akagi said.
The government on Jan. 17 raised its assessment of the Japanese economy for the first time since September, citing improvements in private consumption and business investment.
"We see Japan as a good opportunity," said BlackRock's Saunders. "The recovery is still in its early stages, so you can expect us to continue to increase our investment there."


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CricZo XI - 6 Draft Winner
Scorecard Draft (2010) V Sehwag, D Amiss, D Bradman (c), C Cowdrey, P Umrigar, A Faulkner, R Marsh +, M Marshall, W Hall, M Hughes, B O'Reilly
Alphabetical Draft (2011) S Watson, G Kirsten, D Bradman (c), K Sangakkara +, C Cowdrey, K Pietersen, A Flintoff, M Marshall, B O'Reilly, F Trueman, T Alderman
The Eras Draft (2014) V Trumper, A Morris, N Harvey, J Kallis, S McCabe, F Woolley, Imran Khan (c), J Dujon +, J Briggs, D Steyn, J Snow
By the way, when does the poll close ?
Yeah King Kallis probably has the edge but Howe_Zat's team is just so much cooler.
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I won't choose the likes of Hammond and Hadlee, who were absolute all-time greats in one discipline but probably not strong enough in the other to be placed among the 11 greatest all-rounders ever. Mankad was an excellent all-rounder (and he was equally good in both disciplines), but probably will be just out of my top 11 all-rounders. Procter could be included, but his batting wasn't much better than Hadlee's, if at all. Clive Rice would have been a serious consideration, but alas! he didn't play a test match!
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Francisco = Encarnacion', IMO.
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
I'd deffinately like to see them get someone who can spell Rolen...he obviously wore down the 2nd half of the season. I also think they need to start looking for a long term replacement.
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Rolen will be back to himself next year after some rest. The Reds need someone to spell him 40-50 games a year. This season he was playing so good I think they forgot to rest him enough and he wore down. I don't think they'll malke that mistake next season. So I do think the Reds will look for 3B help in 2011. Francisco is an option since he is already signed, and bats LH. Maybe if he's only playing every 3rd or 4th day the league won't catch on to the fact that he swings at anything and can be gotten out without throwing strikes.
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
You couldnt do any better job resting Rolen than Dusty did this year and he still looked cooked in the playoffs. For all the talk of the young guys not having playoff experience the play of Rolen and cabrera in the playoffs was etrocious. Rolen only homered three times in the second half and has chronic back problems. Make him a coach and get an everyday third baseman.
Read on ESPN that Beltre may not return w/ the RedSox next year, maybe we can acquire him?
I love the Beltre idea but I'm here in CA and Beltre is on Angels owners wish list. The bidding war will be way too high Boston and LA Angels and maybe the White Sox 12-15 mill minimum and no way Rolen becomes a bench player.
Up North the A's are said to be non tendering Kevin Kouzmanoff(sp) his bat may not be all that great but he is more that solid with the glove. Also the Red Sox will be declining Bill Halls option so he too will be a free agent worth looking into in my opinion. He hits the Reds hard and hits especially well in GABP.
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Mohammad Hegazy, who sparked controversy when pictures of him posing with a poster of the Virgin Mary were published in newspapers, was threatened by a cleric vowing to seek his execution as an apostate.
"I know there are fatwas [religious edicts] to shed my blood, but I will not give up and I will not leave the country," the 25-year-old Hegazy said from his hideout.
Hegazy made a public splash when he took the unusual step of going to court to change his religion on his national ID card. His first lawyer filed the case, but then quit after the uproar; his second is still considering whether it's worth pursuing.
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Land Board wary of ditching float-home rent policy
If the state strictly limits the number of float-home moorings on state-owned lakes, is that a free market? State Land Board members indicated Tuesday that it's not – and questioned a recommendation from the state lands staff to repeal the board's reasonable-rent policy for float-home tie-ups and throw the issue open to market forces.
"This is a very small marketplace," noted Attorney General Lawrence Wasden. Idaho forbids the permitting of any new float-home sites on Coeur d'Alene and Pend Oreille lakes, and there are only about 100 sites now on each of the two state-owned lakes.
Rather than adopt the staff's recommendation, the Land Board voted unanimously to form a subcommittee to research the issue. Three of the four members at the meeting – Gov. Butch Otter, state Controller Donna Jones and state schools Superintendent Tom Luna – were participating in their first Land Board meeting. "That would at least give me more time to learn more about this," Luna said.
Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, welcomed the Land Board's decision. "It's not the free market there – I think special considerations have to be given to at least the owners that are there now," Clark said. He said he and other area lawmakers have been meeting with float-home owners and hoped "to stop the Land Board from doing something stupid." Read the full story here in today's Spokesman-Review.
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Richie Havens, an American folk singer who gave the opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, has died. He was 72.
According to his family, Havens died of a heart attack on April 22. He had kidney surgery several years back and never fully recovered from it, and it was announced in 2012 that he was unable to continue touring as he had in the past. Havens did perform at the sold out 40th anniversary Woodstock concert in 2009.
"Richie played the most legendary music festivals that ever were, and most of the world's greatest concert venues," a statement on his website reads. "But even when performing in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse or a small club or regional theater, he was eternally grateful that people in any number turned up each time to hear him sing."
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Google aims to show enterprises how to process logs from many sources and extract meaningful information by using Google Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Dataflow.Google has released a new technical paper and reference implementation for organizations looking for help in extracting value from the voluminous log data generated by their cloud applications and services. Such log data can give companies valuable insights into not just how their applications might be performing but also how customers are interacting with them, Google Solutions Architect Sandeep Parikh said in a Nov. 24 blog post. But the massive size of the data sets involved and the growing complexity of the data make it hard for business to process and extract value from log data, Parikh said. "As deployments grow more complex, gleaning insights from this data becomes more challenging," he said. For one thing, logs come from multiple sources, making them hard to collate and query. Building an infrastructure to collect, collate and analyze log data in massive volumes can be also be hard and requires expertise in running large storage systems and distributed servers.
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As the ball drops in Times Square this New Year's Eve, you can ensure an even brighter new year with one simple secret—think like an optimist.
Like nutritious food, pure water, and exercise, a positive outlook on life keeps you healthy. Though scientists aren't sure exactly how optimism promotes good health, they suspect it has to do with the effects of your mental outlook on immune function.
An entire field of medicine called psychoneuroimmunology has been created to study the effects of your thoughts and emotions on immunity, and the findings are compelling. From laughter to tears, from friendship to romantic love, your emotions and attitudes all have a bearing on promoting good health.
Optimism is a skill, one we can all acquire (or get even better at)—here's how:
- Count your blessings. While pessimists tend to focus on what is wrong with their lives, optimists are more likely to count their blessings.
- Smile. Studies have shown that you can actually "change your mind" by changing your body language. Smiling on the outside will send a message to your brain, which will "assume" that you're happy.
- Walk tall and meet people's glances. Like smiling, this simple act will "tell" your brain that you are confident and upbeat. The positive responses you get from others will reinforce that, improving your optimism.
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Saturated Fat 18.1 g90.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 230.4 mg76.8%
Sodium 1032.2 mg43%
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Here's a look at interest rates on five banking products from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts conducted Wednesday. (Note: A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percentage point.)
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Mortgage rates were quiet this week as investors waited for Congress to reach an agreement to pass a budget and raise the debt ceiling.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 2 basis points to 4.39 percent.
The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage was 3.47 percent, the same as last week. The average rate for 30-year jumbo mortgages, or generally for those of more than $417,000, stayed at 4.58 percent.
The 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage fell 6 basis points to 3.34 percent. With a 5/1 ARM, the rate is fixed for five years and adjusted annually thereafter.
0.23% (1-year CD yields); 0.79% (5-year CD yields)
Rates on certificates of deposit are once again unchanged.
For five weeks, the one-year and five-year CD yields have been stuck at 0.23 percent and 0.79 percent, respectively.
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For the eighth week, the average money market account yield was 0.1 percent.
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Rates on new- and used-car loans spiked this week. For a 60-month new-car loan, the average rate rose 7 basis points to 4.08 percent from 4.01 percent. The average rate on a 48-month new-car loan jumped 8 basis points to 3.98 percent from 3.9 percent.
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5.18% (line of credit); 6.07% (loan)
Rates on loans backed by home equity climbed.
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The typical home equity line of credit, or HELOC, rose 9 basis points to 5.18 percent.
13.02% (all fixed);
15.36% (all variable)
The average annual percentage rate, or APR, for variable-rate credit cards increased 5 basis points to 15.36 percent from 15.31 percent. The APR for fixed-rate cards stayed steady at 13.02 percent, where it's remained since mid-February.
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text: Millennial Media Company Profile (NYSE:MM) Ratings Earnings Estimates Dividends Insider Trades Headlines Social Company Profile FAQ Charts About Millennial Media Millennial Media, Inc. is an independent mobile advertising marketplace delivering products and services to advertisers and developers. The Company offers advertisers a suite of solutions that allow them to reach and connect with the target audiences across screens, from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to PCs. The Company offers developers the ability to maximize the advertising revenue and acquire new users for apps. Its advertiser and developer solutions support all mobile operating systems, including Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. For clients who want a higher degree of customer service, the Company offers its managed media services with dedicated account teams. For its clients who want to interact with it on a more automated basis, the Company offers tools that allow advertisers to buy its ad supply in a programmatic fashion through its ad exchange and developers the opportunity to manage and monetize the ad inventory through its supply side tool. Industry, Sector and Symbol: Sector: Services Industry: Marketing Services Sub-Industry: Internet Software & Services Exchange: NYSE Symbol: MM CUSIP: 60040N10 Key Metrics: Previous Close: $0.0050 Day Moving Average: $2200 Day Moving Average: $2Trailing P/E Ratio: N/AForeward P/E Ratio: 175.00P/E Growth: 0Market Cap: $N/A Additional Links: View MM on Google FinanceView MM on Yahoo FinanceView MM's Company Profile on ReutersSearch for Millennial Media, Inc. on Google Companies Related to Millennial Media:MDC Partners (NASDAQ:MDCA)RetailMeNot (NASDAQ:SALE)Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX)Harte Hanks (NYSE:HHS)Inuvo (AMEX:INUV)Constant Contact (NASDAQ:CTCT) Analyst Ratings Consensus Ratings for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM) (?) The ratings breakdown includes the most recent rating from each analyst that has rated the stock within the last twelve months. The ratings score is a calculation of the average number of sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings (0-1.5 = Sell, 1.5-2.5 = Hold, 2.5-3.5 = Buy, >3.5 = Strong Buy). The consensus price target is a mean average of the most recent price target set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.Ratings Breakdown: 1 Buy RatingConsensus Rating:Buy (Score: 3.00)Consensus Price Target: $24.00 (1,271.43% upside) Analysts' Ratings History for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM) Show: Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage All Ratings For This Stock DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetDetails2/24/2016Jefferies Group LLCReiterated RatingBuy$24.008/11/2015Canaccord GenuityReiterated RatingHold$2.50 -> $2.15(Data available from 2/24/2015 forward) Earnings Earnings History for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallDetails11/4/2015 8/10/2015Q215($0.06)($0.05)$69.91 million$65.80 millionViewListen5/5/2015Q115($0.12)($0.09)$57.30 million$63.17 millionViewListen3/9/2015Q414($0.07)($0.02)$73.30 million$86.40 millionViewListen11/6/2014Q314($0.14)($0.07)$67.60 million$69.81 millionViewListen8/11/2014Q214($0.12)($0.06)$73.20 million$67.30 millionViewListen5/7/2014Q114($0.10)($0.04)$75.52 million$72.60 millionViewListen2/19/2014Q413($0.05)$0.08$95.62 million$109.50 millionViewListen8/13/2013Q2 2013($0.01)$0.02$59.24 million$57.00 millionViewListen5/8/2013Q1 2013($0.02)($0.01)$49.40 million$49.40 millionViewListen2/19/2013Q4 2012$0.03$0.03$62.89 million$58.00 millionViewListen11/5/2012Q312($0.02)($0.02)$45.48 million$47.40 millionViewN/A8/8/2012($0.05)($0.03)ViewN/A5/14/2012($0.07)($0.05)ViewN/A(Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Estimates Earnings Estimates for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)Current Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $-0.18 EPSNext Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $0.01 EPS Dividends Dividend History for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)No dividend announcements for this company have been tracked by MarketBeat.com Insider Trades Insider Trading History for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionDetails12/12/2014Jason KellyInsiderBuy125,000$1.65$206,250.00 12/5/2014Andrew J JeanneretCFOBuy15,000$1.58$23,700.00 11/12/2014Matthew GillisInsiderBuy10,000$1.92$19,200.00 6/16/2014Robert P GoodmanDirectorSell66,667$4.29$286,001.43 6/12/2014Robert P GoodmanDirectorSell33,333$4.28$142,665.24 5/20/2014Alan MacintoshDirectorSell50,000$4.17$208,500.00 5/16/2014Mary SpilmanEVPBuy15,000$3.83$57,450.00 5/16/2014Thomas EvansDirectorBuy25,000$3.78$94,500.00 5/15/2014Ross LevinsohnDirectorBuy30,000$3.79$113,700.00 5/13/2014Michael BarrettCEOBuy291,000$3.45$1,003,950.00 11/20/2013Paul PalmieriCEOBuy10,000$6.58$65,800.00 11/19/2013Matthew GillisEVPBuy5,000$6.27$31,350.00 11/19/2013Paul PalmieriCEOBuy10,000$5.92$59,200.00 8/7/2013Alan MacintoshDirectorSell4,500$9.00$40,500.00 7/31/2013Alan MacintoshDirectorSell4,700$10.18$47,846.00 7/26/2013Paul J PalmieriCEOSell262,500$10.03$2,632,875.00 7/24/2013Alan MacintoshDirectorSell4,500$9.74$43,830.00 7/17/2013Alan MacintoshDirectorSell4,500$9.26$41,670.00 7/10/2013Alan MacintoshDirectorSell9,000$9.00$81,000.00 6/10/2013Andrew J JeanneretSVPSell2,336$8.46$19,762.56 5/14/2013John D Jr. MarkleyDirectorSell20,000$8.09$161,800.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Headlines Latest Headlines for Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)DateHeadlineTurner and Snapchat Expand Existing Partnership with Portfolio-Wide Content, Distribution & Advertising Deal (NYSE:MM)www.turner.com - December 8 at 7:09 PMArrest Made In 2007 Rutherford County Murder (NYSE:MM)www.newschannel5.com - December 8 at 7:09 PMYour Media Morning: Another Print Magazine Dies, VR Cash Crunch Coming, Drama at The LA Times, Publishers Ignoring Twitter Now... (NYSE:MM)www.mediawiredaily.com - December 8 at 7:09 PMBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices Announces New REthink Council Members (NYSE:MM)www.enhancedonlinenews.com - December 8 at 7:09 PMMore original shows coming to Snapchat courtesy of expanded Turner partnership (NYSE:MM)www.digitaltrends.com - December 8 at 7:09 PMHuawei Fit, the New Style of Fitness (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - November 3 at 10:03 AMStartup of the Week: Rize makes you save, even when you don't want to (NYSE:MM)www.bizjournals.com - June 10 at 2:50 PMRivier College President's Circle features CEOs Sharing Successes - Londonderry News (NYSE:MM)www.londonderrynh.net - May 20 at 4:49 PMSharkReach Announces Hiring Of CFO - PR Newswire (press release) (NYSE:MM)www.prnewswire.com - May 17 at 8:36 AMWhat's Millennial Media, Inc. Upside After Today's Huge Increase? - Stock Caller (NYSE:MM)www.stockcaller.com - April 13 at 5:13 PMMillennial Media Inc's (NYSE:MM) Sentiment is 0 - Business Standard Tribune (NYSE:MM)www.standardtrib.com - April 7 at 5:25 PMAfter Galaxy J3, Samsung to unveil 5-inch foldable smartphone next year - Economic Times (NYSE:MM)economictimes.indiatimes.com - April 2 at 9:56 PMIs your smartphone secure? Android malware were reported to have doubled in 2015 - Economic Times (NYSE:MM)economictimes.indiatimes.com - April 2 at 4:51 PMMicrosoft announces new free development tools for developers - Economic Times (NYSE:MM)economictimes.indiatimes.com - April 1 at 10:21 PMTake your pick: Premium smartphones launched in India in 2016 - Economic Times (NYSE:MM)economictimes.indiatimes.com - April 1 at 5:16 PMMillennial Media Incorporated – Will NYSE:MM be able to hit earnings expectations? - The Duncan Independent (press release) (blog) (NYSE:MM)www.duncanindependent.com - March 16 at 10:06 AMInstitutional Investors Are Dumping Millennial Media Inc (NYSE:MM) - Clinton Financial (NYSE:MM)www.clintongazette.com - March 8 at 4:53 PMIs Selling Millennial Media, Inc. Here a Winning Strategy? - Clinton Financial (NYSE:MM)www.clintongazette.com - March 2 at 9:37 AMTime to launch Sports Illustrated multi-platform broadcast, digital networks across Asia - TelevisionPost (NYSE:MM)www.televisionpost.com - March 1 at 9:32 AMMerrimack Reports Fourth Quarter 2015 Financial Results - SYS-CON Media (press release) (NYSE:MM)news.sys-con.com - February 25 at 10:12 PMConvergent Dental Reveals New 1.25 mm and .75 mm-XC Spot Sizes for Solea at Chicago Dental Society Midwinter ... - SYS-CON Media (press release) (NYSE:MM)news.sys-con.com - February 25 at 4:56 PMNew LUMIX G VARIO 12-60mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / POWER O.I.S. Lens (H-FS12060) - SYS-CON Media (press release) (NYSE:MM)www.sys-con.com - February 24 at 4:17 PMJefferies Maintains a Buy Rating on Millennial Media - Analyst Ratings (NYSE:MM)www.analystratings.com - February 24 at 9:25 AMWall Street pines for Bloomberg - Politico (NYSE:MM)www.politico.com - February 22 at 4:05 PMams Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) - Comparison with ALS featured in iPhone 6s & Samsung Galaxy S6. - SYS-CON Media (press release) (NYSE:MM)news.sys-con.com - February 19 at 9:12 AMSciaky, Inc. Introduces IRISS™ Closed-Loop Control for its Industry-Leading EBAM Metal 3D Printing Systems - SYS-CON Media (press release) (NYSE:MM)news.sys-con.com - February 17 at 3:58 PMYear in Review 2015: The big stories from Baltimore's startup scene (NYSE:MM)www.bizjournals.com - December 22 at 7:05 AMAOL finalizes $250 million acquisition of Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)www.bizjournals.com - October 23 at 10:50 AMAOL Completes Acquisition of Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)www.noodls.com - October 23 at 10:20 AMMILLENNIAL MEDIA INC. Files SEC form 8-K, Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement, Completion of Acquisition o (NYSE:MM)biz.yahoo.com - October 23 at 9:21 AMMILLENNIAL MEDIA INC. Files SEC form 8-K, Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and Exhibit (NYSE:MM)biz.yahoo.com - October 19 at 5:14 PMMillennial Media CEO, top executives to leave after AOL deal closes (NYSE:MM)www.bizjournals.com - October 16 at 12:45 PMVerizon to Boost Advertising Programs with AOL Technology (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - October 9 at 2:15 PMAOL Seeks Mobile Ad Revenue with Millennial Media Acquisition (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - October 2 at 2:07 PMStockholder class-action lawsuit seeks to block Millennial Media acquisition by AOL (NYSE:MM)www.bizjournals.com - October 1 at 1:00 PMSorry Verizon, Facebook Is About to Crush Your Mobile Ad Dreams (NYSE:MM)www.fool.com - October 1 at 8:03 AMAOL's Interest in Millennial Media's Mobile Ad Platform (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - September 30 at 5:48 AMVerizon's AOL to Acquire Millennial Media (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - September 30 at 3:33 AMWhy Google and Facebook Should Be Wary of AOL (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - September 25 at 12:07 PMVerizon's Go90 Leverages Earlier Acquisitions (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - September 21 at 11:27 AMAn Unexpected Disruptor? Verizon's Bold Digital Strategy (NYSE:MM)www.forbes.com - September 17 at 12:15 PMTelecom Stock Roundup: Verizon Leads 5G Race, Trials Go90, T-Mobile US Unveils Video Calling (NYSE:MM)finance.yahoo.com - September 10 at 6:06 PM Social What is Millennial Media's stock symbol? Millennial Media trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MM."Where is Millennial Media's stock going? Where will Millennial Media's stock price be in 2017? 1 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Millennial Media's stock. Their forecasts range from $24.00 to $24.00. On average, they expect Millennial Media's stock price to reach $24.00 in the next year.When will Millennial Media announce their earnings? Millennial Media is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 4th 2015.How do I buy Millennial Media stock? Shares of Millennial Media can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. How much does a share of Millennial Media stock cost? One share of Millennial Media stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1.75. Millennial Media (NYSE:MM) Chart for Friday, February, 24, 2017Institutional Ownership ChartEarnings History ChartDividend History Chart Last Updated on 2/24/2017 by MarketBeat.com Staff


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It must be something like this to have a nervous breakdown. We find ourselves inside the mind of a woman whose psychopathic son has driven her over the edge. This is not entirely his fault. We gather she didn't want to get pregnant, isn't sure why she's married, is a mother who tries to mask hostility with superficial kindness. If she had her way, she would put her life on rewind and start all over again — maybe even as somebody else, since she's not very fond of herself.
Directed by Lynne Ramsay, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is fragments of time, jagged and confusing, lurching around inside her mind. The film moves without any pattern between past, present and who knows when. We cling to guidelines like the length of Tilda Swinton's hair to figure out where we are. For much of the film, she lives with her husband, son and daughter in an expensive suburban home, and when we realize they've lived there for several years, we begin to wonder, how can four people occupy a home for over a decade and not accumulate anything? The shelves and tabletops are as barren as those in a display home. What kind of a kitchen has empty counters? These people live there, but they've never moved in.
The mistake would be to take the film apart and try to reconnect the pieces in chronological order. The wife and mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton), has been so overwhelmed by despair that her life exists in her mind all at the same time. There is no pattern. Nothing makes sense. She isn't even really at the center of it; that position is occupied by her son, Kevin, who is an instinctive sadist with a gift for knowing exactly how to wound her, reject her, deceive her and make her soul bleed. Kevin does things to Eva in this movie that are so cruel that an evil demon seems to be regarding her from his eyes.
That the film works so brilliantly is a tribute in large part to the actors. Kevin is seen at three ages. As a baby and toddler, he is merely colicky, irritating and would try the patience of a saint. Between the ages of 6 and 8 years old, played by Jasper Newell, he is a clever little monster who glares at Eva hurtfully, soils his pants deliberately and drives her into such a fury that she breaks his arm. In any other movie, that would be child abuse. In this one, it is Kevin's triumph.
As a teenager, Kevin (now played by Ezra Miller) has started to cruelly resemble his mother in profile and hairstyle. A demon seed. He is loving and affectionate with his father, Franklin (John C. Reilly), and has a way of making it clear that it's a deliberate charade designed only to hurt Eva. Franklin himself lives in a state of demented decency, deceiving himself that his family are living acceptable lives. He's positive, cheerful, disconnected; he always behaves as nicely as he can, and in doing so, suggests his profound cluelessness. Only the daughter, Celia (Ashley Gerasimovich), seems halfway normal.
An early scene shows Eva apparently participating in an orgy in a lake of blood. This turns out to be some sort of annual Italian tomato festival, but the image is disturbing. Eva apparently thought her early life was on the right track and tells her screaming baby boy she would frankly rather be back in Paris than changing his diaper. He can't understand her, but don't you suppose he understands her dislike? Apparently even before he began to talk, Kevin made a vow to punish Eva for her feelings.
In an ordinary movie, there would be scenes in classrooms, meetings with counselors, heart-to-heart discussions between the parents. Not here. They never talk about Kevin. I have the feeling that this film, by entering Eva's mind, sees only what has been battering her down for 16 years. Ramsay regularly cuts to a scene where Eva is driving her car past flashing police lights toward the scene of some tragedy. Maybe everything else is intended to be a flashback, and the timeline begins when she finds out what Kevin did at his high school. Then she goes home. Does she ever.
Eva often looks like she's in a state of shock. Her body can't absorb more punishment. She is the wrong person in the wrong life with the wrong child. Is her husband as zoned out as he seems or is that only her perception? As a portrait of a deteriorating state of mind, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a masterful film. Swinton told me of a line in the script that wasn't used, wisely, I believe. After you see the film, think about it. She asks Kevin why he didn't kill her. His reply: "You don't want to kill your audience."
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During my childhood, I often heard older women advise young girls in the family about the importance of being educated. It had little to do with the noble goal of gaining knowledge, but it was about something more practical. It was about securing employment so as to not depend on one's husband completely, or being employable should the husband lose his health, life or limb.
It seemed, at times, that these old women were a paranoid lot who were overly worried about the possibility of ending up alone. However, I now know that some of the really wise women were actually focusing on the importance of living a life of dignity under any given circumstance.
As a child, I saw some married women, and also widows, who ran a "pooTakULLa illu" providing sumptuous meals to many hungry people, and using the money thus earned to maintain the household and educate their children. I saw women making and selling beautiful flower garlands. I saw women selling fruits, vegetables, bangles and other things. I saw women learn tailoring skills and sew clothes as a source of livelihood. I saw women learning typing and shorthand and become secretaries. I saw the more ambitious ones complete their bachelors degree and a B.Ed and become teachers. Some took the bank exams, worked as clerks and rose in the ranks to become officers too.
I still see some women constantly pushing their limits, trying to excel in what they do, and supporting themselves, while making a difference to others.
The common trait of all these hardworking women is that they held on to their dignity even through the roughest patches of their lives, and stood as good role models to their sons and daughters.
If I remember it correctly, it was sometime during the late 1980s that a strange notion of "women's empowerment" began. Women were now being encouraged to exercise NOT their right to education, NOT their right to employment, but their "right to divorce" and "the right to be maintained by their ex-husbands"!
This new wave was pushing women to become quite the opposite of what the wise old women of my childhood were suggesting. Suddenly, it was a woman's right to live the life of a parasite. It was a woman's right to throw all her education and training, experience and wisdom by the wayside, and to appear in court as a mendicant seeking maintenance from her separated or ex-husband.
This new idea of "women's empowerment" gradually began obscuring the erstwhile virtue of dignity. It was no longer important to remain positive, strong and self-reliant in the face of adverse family situations. It was more important to "teach men a lesson" by unleashing all the laws of maintenance and alimony, to achieve whatever one can, ranging from extracting paltry sums of money every month to extorting an obscenely fat one-time alimony.
As an adult, I have seen hundreds of educated and able-bodied women frequenting courts, presenting themselves as some of the most unfortunate, destitute and vagrant beings, with no abilities or skills needed for daily sustenance, and praying the courts to order their estranged husbands to maintain them.
Today, the most vociferous women's rights activists and women's empowerment advocates endorse and encourage parasitic existence of women sans dignity, personal satisfaction, professional enhancement nor spiritual enrichment. We have been forced to accept that this is NOT enslavement of women, but a veritable path to women's liberation!
As a thoughtful gentleman puts it on his blog, today, "many women who can logically plot the route and plan their logistics to lawyer's offices and courts somehow just stop themselves short of plotting their the route to their own earned livelihood and dignified living."
There are many people who believe that paying maintenance and alimony may hurt men but "being maintained" hurts the dignity of women even more. These people rarely exercise their freedom of expression for the fear of being labeled anti-women. However, this Women's Day, a bunch of concerned men decided to take it upon themselves to remind the world about the need to uphold women's dignity.
On 6 March, they all stood at traffic junctions carrying boxes labeled "Wife-maintenance fund", and handed out pamphlets which carried the following note:
Dear Sir/Madam
I am petitioning the public for funds for MAINTENANCE as demanded by my wife. I believe that all adult human beings with a sound body and mind, whether MALE or FEMALE, are capable of working and earning for their own sustenance.
I believe that many wonderful women who have achieved success through hard work have done it on their own will with a sense of dignity and purpose. I also believe in giving the same education and ideals to my daughter also. I will discourage my daughter if she wants to depend on anyone else financially after she grows up. #REALWOMEN
If you think that women are incapable of working or doing hard work, it is a gross insult to all working women who struggle on a daily basis to maintain their sense of dignity. However, if you still wish women to completely depend on men forever; please donate some money to my wife's maintenance fund.
But if you think that women are equal to men in terms of financial capability and hard work, please support the concept of women's dignity by work. On this Women's Day let us appreciate the achievements of so many wonderful working women in our lives and public arena.
Thanking You
These men are observing "Women's Dignity Day" on 7 March, a day before Women's Day.
What a thoughtful gesture! Women's dignity should indeed come first because Women's Day has no meaning in the absence of women's dignity. I am sure all the wise old grannies and self-respecting young ladies would agree.
"lEchiMchi, nidra lEchiMdi mahiLaa lOkaM, daddarilliMdi puruSha prapaMchaM…" https://youtu.be/MmVujeuCKmI (the women's world has woken up from slumber, and the man's world shook with panic) was a song I used to love as a child. As a fiery young woman, I frowned upon what I thought was "misogyny" on the part of one of the greatest Telugu lyricists ever. Now I admire the clarity of thought of Sri Pingali Nagendra Rao gaaru who penned the song way back in 1962, at a time when the country was still tolerant to truth.
To elaborate on Pingali gaaru's poetic rendition of facts, the first Lok Sabha in India in 1951 had 22 women MPs. Soon after, in 1955, with the advent of the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) in 1955, Indian society was, for the first time, introduced to the concept of "divorce". Contrary to its title, the HMA has nothing to do with marriage. It does not explain what marriage means nor does it enumerate the responsibilities of a wife and husband towards themselves, each other, their children, both sides of the family or the society. It enumerates circumstances in which a Hindu marriage can be legally broken. It was introduced to enable women who could not tolerate marriage to legally liberate themselves from wedlock, and to claim share in the marital property in the name of maintenance and alimony (HMA Section 24).
The most common grounds for divorce – cruelty, desertion, impotence, adultery etc. – are not only poorly defined, but are also difficult to prove. In addition, because litigation involves evidences and arguments from both parties, HMA did not prove as "empowering" to women as was envisioned by women's rights activists (WRAs).
Enacting the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act of 1956, which entitles a woman to be maintained by her husband during her entire lifetime (Section 18), and CrPC of 1973, which extends maintenance to wives indefinitely even after divorce (Section 125), did not do the magic either, since they still involved time taking two-sided legal procedures.
In the year 1983, the Parliament passed a criminal law, Indian Penal Code 498A, which made "cruelty towards a married woman" a cognizable and non-bailable offence. Here, the word "cruelty" was left undefined and allowed to be a function of a woman's perception and her lawyer's imagination. Divorce and maintenance cases, combined with this draconian criminal section, which allows immediate arrest and incarceration of the husband and in-laws, proved to be fantastic tool of blackmail, vengeance and extortion in the hands of disgruntled wives for many years. It was accompanied by vigorous campaigns by WRAs to "sensitize" the police and the judiciary to be sympathetic towards women. Even such drastic measures did not prove to be "empowering enough" according to WRAs, because not all husbands succumbed.
The conviction rates under IPC 498A remained very low and the law only gained notoriety for its misuse. The hope that all husbands could be reined in and forced to pay a "monetary compensation/settlement" under the fear of arrest and criminal prosecution started waning.
In 2005, a new and elaborate civil law, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act was introduced. The act not only categorized every possible male action as an act of domestic violence, it also made provisions for a wife and a live-in partner to use DV accusations to claim monetary reliefs including maintenance (Section 20) and residence rights (Section 19) in the same property where the alleged violence had occurred.
Every year, several thousands of Indian women leverage the power sanctioned to them under these laws to terrorize husbands and to extract alimony and maintenance from them. Still, the utopia envisioned by the WRAs remained elusive since entangling a man in multiple litigations ensured neither speedy divorce nor quick extraction of maintenance and alimony.
In 2013, the Rajya Sabha approved the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill which, once again, claimed to make "divorce friendly for women" by providing for the wife, a share in the husband's immovable property, after "irretrievable breakdown of marriage". The Bill empowered the courts to decide the "compensation amount" from the husband's inherited and inheritable property. Recognizing the "grave and far-reaching legal, social and economic implications of the proposed amendments" as pointed out by senior citizens groups and NGOs working for men, the NDA Government's Law Ministry decided to put the Bill on hold.
According to news reports, there is now a fresh proposal "to explore the possibility of making it easier for women to walk out of a marriage". This brand new endeavor, backed by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, proposes to give legal validity to prenuptial agreements.
The Economic Times (18 Sept 2015) quotes an official of the Ministry of WCD who stated that the introduction of prenuptial agreements will "save marriages" because, "once, the liabilities, assets and responsibilities are decided in advance, a husband will be more careful and cautious in seeking dissolution. He would have a clear idea of the amount of alimony he will have to pay to his wife".
The article also quotes another senior official of the Ministry who supported prenuptial agreements as a way to counter the "judicial delays on account of backlog of cases", and the "delaying tactics husbands resort to".
It is noteworthy that for the last 60 years, champions of women's empowerment have been preoccupied with women obtaining an easy divorce and collecting maintenance and alimony by hook or crook. Their proposal to legalize prenuptial agreements is neither novel in its approach nor noble in its goals.
Aside from the fact that this initiative too has nothing to do with really empowering women, here are just a few problems with prenuptial agreements:
It is about time the Ministry of WCD stops barking up the wrong tree and looks into positive ways of empowering women by helping, stimulating, supporting and encouraging them to achieve true economic independence. It is time we realize that unless women learn to want economic independence and unless they work hard to achieve it, without depending on maintenance and alimony, all the talk about empowerment and equality is meaningless.
It is time the "women's world" awakens to this reality and embraces ways that are uplifting to themselves and the entire society, rather than those that shake men with fear and shatter their lives.
India Times ran an informative poster campaign about men's issues on International Men's Day, 19th November, 2015.
Feminists have exposed their intolerance for any discussion about men's issues and the celebration of International Men's Day. They bullied India Times into retracting the article from their website and forced them to issue an apology. Here's the apology note by India Times:
Ironically, India Times only recently updated its cover photo to one which says, "Not afraid".
Of course you are, India Times! You are just plain afraid!
Thanks to the internet and social media though…Truth can be deleted from a website, but cannot be completely erased!
Thanks to https://legalfighter.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/indiatimes-bows-down-before-feminists/#comment-3258 for saving, reproducing the posters and making them available for download.
Dear Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda,
I am writing as a responsible citizen of India, who cares about the health, well-being and safety of men, women and children.
As you may be aware, 19 November is International Men's Day, and it is being celebrated in over 80 countries in the world this year with the theme "Make a difference for men and boys".
On this occasion, I would like to specifically draw your attention towards the health and well-being of men and boys.
It is important to remember that everyday, men make many sacrifices to protect and provide for their families, and thereby make many positive contributions to the community, society, family, marriage, child care and the environment.
However, men's health, both physical and emotional, is one of the areas which is seriously neglected in India. Even the most recent National Health and Family Survey of 2015, only addresses maternal health and child health, while examining the key indicators of health and family welfare. It refers to men only in the context of family planning and as to how they can contribute to the health and welfare of women and children.
In India, a lot of health problems in men remain poorly diagnosed or left undiagnosed. Male-specific health problems also tend to be more fatal. For example, as against 5.37 lakh women, only 4.77 lakh men were diagnosed with cancer in India in 2012. In the same year, 3.26 lakh women and 3.56 lakh men, i.e. 30,000 more men compared to women, died of cancer (Ref 2).
A recent study (Ref 1) reports that the incidence of prostate cancer among Indian males is "constantly and rapidly increasing in all the most recent Population Based Cancer Registries (PBCRs)", and "the cancer projection data shows that the number of cases will become doubled by 2020." The study also states that "Given the current age-specific incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates of prostate cancer, this disease will become a far greater public health problem in the future".
While the top five cancers that claim men's lives in general are lip/oral cavity, lung, stomach, colorectum and the pharynx (Ref 2), this recent study (Ref 1) shows that prostate is "the second leading site of cancer among males in large Indian cities like Delhi, Kolkatta, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram, the third leading site of cancer in cities like Bangalore and Mumbai and it is among the top ten leading sites of cancers in the rest of the population based cancer registries (PBCRs) of India".
Male-specific health issues are often blamed on negligence of men themselves. No effort is made by the Government on spreading awareness about or for preventing and controlling male-specific illnesses, diseases and disorders. As a citizen, a voter and a taxpayer of this country, I believe that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare must
On the occasion of International Men's Day (19 November), I request you to focus your attention on the above issues , and help make a difference for men and boys.
Thank you,
Uma Challa
Author, Hyderabad
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International Men's Day – India – 2015
Veeraiah stands atop an electric pole fixing power lines while thousands of people call the electricity department asking when the power supply would be restored.
Rajanna, an emaciated old man, ploughs the field where crops are grown to satisfy the hunger of men, women and children in far off places.
Mallesh, a spirited young lad, rarely gets his head out from underneath the chassis of an automobile, while everyone busily zooms around town in their sleek cars.
Suresh misses his family reunion and goes on rounds in the hospital wearing scrubs, to ensure that his patients are recovering well.
There are countless number of such invisible heroes who make positive contributions to the community, society, family, marriage, child care and the environment every day.
These men include sanitation workers, construction workers, chemical and gas factory workers, mechanics and miners; soldiers, firefighters, land mine removers, deep sea fishermen, electric linemen, house painters and glass cleaners; farmers, weavers, tea sellers, drivers, paperboys, mailmen and watchmen; teachers, doctors, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and public servants; fathers, sons, grandfathers, brothers, husbands, friends and colleagues.
Everywhere in the world, performing the most difficult, exhausting and dangerous jobs is more of a necessity than a choice for men. Everywhere in the world, most men dedicate themselves to protecting and providing for their families at the expense of their own health, wellness and safety. Young boys are also taught and expected to grow up to be men who will follow the same path.
Sadly, the present day society and media tend to idolize and honor just a handful of stars and celebrities, while ignoring the contributions of the majority of men. They also demonize all men and everything masculine, without realizing the negative impact that it can have on men, women, children, and the society as a whole.
International Men's Day (IMD) is a day to
IMD is also a day to examine the various issues faced by men and boys and to discover ways to address them. It is a day to sensitize the society to work towards making a difference for men and boys. This year True Equity Network (TEN) India and All India Men's Welfare Association (AIMWA) will be focusing on two important issues, namely, health and education of men and boys.
Men's health, both physical and emotional, is one of the areas which is seriously neglected in India. Even the most recent National Health and Family Survey of 2015, only addresses maternal health and child health, while examining the key indicators of health and family welfare. It mentions men only in the context of family planning and as to how they can contribute to the health and welfare of women and children.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare must acknowledge the place and the value of men in the family. The country and the society must spend time and resources to spread awareness about stress and depression, male specific cancers, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases which are responsible for reduced quality of life and premature mortality among men. The Government must allocate resources to conduct research and to find affordable remedies and cures for male-specific disorders, diseases and illnesses.
On the occasion of IMD, TEN – India and AIMWA will be conducting a "Movember March" which is meant to specifically draw attention towards the health and well-being of men and boys. We will be writing to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare about the need to include men's health, well-being and safety in their agenda.
Education of boys is another area that needs immediate attention. Boys falling behind in education has become a global trend.
In India, the situation is often touted as girls being "more willing to learn" or being "capable of outdoing boys" in academic performance. While a lot of encouragement and incentives are provided to send girls to school and to keep them from dropping out, no such efforts are made to keep boys in school. Recently, the female Chief Minister of a certain State even demeaned boys at a school function by referring to them as "rejected maal". Such discrimination has a severe demoralizing effect on boys, leading to underperformance in academics and dropping out of school.
Social scientists and educationists have also observed that since boys are expected to support the family, the need to earn taking precedence over the desire to learn, especially during times of crisis, is another major factor forcing boys to drop out of school and migrate to find jobs.
On the occasion of IMD, TEN – India and AIMWA will be writing to the Ministry of Human Resources Development asking it to correct this imbalance and to take measures to encourage and support boys to complete their schooling.
As Late Dr. K Anji Reddy, Founder of Dr. Reddy's Foundation said,
"The highest patriotism and philanthropy consists in helping and stimulating men and women to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action."
This IMD, we ask everyone to help and stimulate, encourage and support men and boys to stay healthy and to realize their true potential.
Let us join hands and make a difference for men and boys!
Make a difference for men and boys!
The 19th of November is being celebrated the world over as International Men's Day (IMD) since the year 1999. Every year, the number of countries celebrating IMD keeps growing, and this year, the number has reached 80.
Although this is the 9th year that India is celebrating Men's Day, questions as to whether or not such a celebration is needed and if men really deserve a special day still linger in the minds of many. The answers to these questions were spelled out long before the questions even arose.
President Abraham Lincoln once said, "Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."
Along similar lines, President John F. Kennedy said, "A Nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers…".
While we see a handful of men constantly being idolized as heroes, and many film stars and sports stars being felicitated by the society, there are countless number of invisible heroes who make positive contributions to the community, society, family, marriage, child care and the environment.
It is often forgotten that everywhere in the world, men perform a variety of tasks, including some of the most difficult and daunting jobs, to protect and provide for their families. It is often forgotten that doing these jobs is more of a necessity than a choice for men. The goodness and selflessness of these men is often taken for granted.
As the former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, rightly said, "When surrounded by day to day issues, there is a tendency to forget the good things we are bestowed with."
This International Men's Day let us remember all the good things about men and boys around us. Let us acknowledge and celebrate the invisible heroes of everyday. Let us honor them for all their positive contributions to the world. Let us pray for their health, well-being and safety. Let us vow to ensure fairness towards men and boys in all walks of life. Let us join hands to end misandry and to restore respect for masculinity.
Let us all work to "make a difference for men and boys"!
Here's wishing all men and boys a very happy International Men's Day!
– Uma Challa


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Ghanaian textile designer Philip Adu-Gyamfi wakes up in the middle of the night worrying about what he will design the next day. The African prints he and his team design for textile firm ATL are hugely popular. They are worn to church, funerals and weddings – every occasion, traditional or modern, that Ghanaians can find an excuse to wear them to. But Chinese copies of these designs are being smuggled into the West African country and sold at vastly-reduced rates. And this is forcing designers like Mr Adu-Gyamfi to work doubly hard to stay ahead. "It is not easy at all," he says. "You get to a market and the design you have made has been copied, you feel like crying."
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What are your thoughts on phys/chem for leaving cert? is it a good or bad idea if you are considering courses like medicine, dentistry and pharmacy
if you think you can do it then its a good choice but you kinda will need to study and put alot of effort. in my opinion if ur intrrested the go for it and gud luc


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