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Do I need a reservation?
Reservations are highly recommended for dinner, please note bar areas or late night drinks reservations are subject to a minimum spend and terms and conditions. An equal mix of genders is required for bookings over 6 guests. You can make a reservation over the phone on 0207 314 4000 or directly through the website.
How do I go about making a reservation for a large party?
For large parties of 11 and above please contact email@example.com or call 0207 314 4000 for further information and the team will be happy to help.
Does the venue have an entry fee?
Yes, the venue charges an entry fee as below:
Friday – £15 from 10pm
Saturday – £15 from 9pm – 11pm / £20 after 11pm
What is the dress code and Door Policy?
At 100 Wardour St, our dress code is smart casual. We welcome and encourage style, however, we kindly ask that guests refrain from wearing shorts, beachwear, flip flops and sportswear, including athletic trainers. Our door staff have the right to refuse entry to visitors if their attire does not reflect the above. We reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone who appears intoxicated to ensure the general welfare of all of our guests. We operate a strict no drugs policy therefore you may be required to be searched at the door or in the venue.
Does the venue have an age limit?
For dining reservations there is no age restriction however due to the live music nature of our venue it is a not child friendly atmosphere especially for babies and toddlers. The venue does not provide a children's menu. All guests must be over 21 to enter after 10pm and may be required to present identification on entry.
Can I bring decorations?
The venue does not allow the use or supply of decorative items of any sort such as balloons, streamers, candles, confetti, celebratory accessories including hen party sashes or any items of offensive nature.
Do you accommodate for dietary requirements?
If you have any special dietary requests please inform our team when making a booking and inform your server on the night so that we can accommodate you.
Do you serve brunch?
Yes, brunch is served every Saturday 11.00 until 15.45 in the Bar & Lounge only. Please contact our reservations team if you would like to make a booking.
Are you open during the holidays?
100 Wardour St has special opening times for bank holidays, please contact us for further information.
When did 100 Wardour St open and who designed the restaurant?
The venue opened in January 2016 and was designed by Russell Sage Studio.
Who should I send my resume to?
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Debunking the Myths: Are there really 84,000 chemicals?
If you've ever read a news article or blog post about chemicals, you may have heard the oft-cited claim that there are 84,000 chemicals in commerce but only 200 of these have been tested for safety. What you may not know is that this "statistic" is entirely false. Unfortunately, it has taken on a life of its own thanks to the effective way it can be used to provoke fear and distrust in an unsuspecting audience.
So let's take a look at the facts:
Fact: There are not 84,000 chemicals in commerce today.
- The federal chemical regulation law known as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to keep a list of all chemicals manufactured or processed in the United States. This TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory included roughly 84,000 chemicals – but this number did not reflect chemicals that were actually being produced and used.
- The 84,000 number included numerous duplications, as well as chemicals no longer in use. A more accurate count of the total number of chemicals in commerce is closer to 7,700 – this reflects chemicals produced in what EPA considers "significant amounts" and widely used in commerce.
- TSCA was recently updated, with the passage of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA) on June 22, 2016. The new law requires that EPA update the inventory to distinguish active from inactive chemicals. That way, the Agency can focus on chemicals that are actually in use today.
- EPA will then use this inventory of active chemicals to screen all chemicals based on hazards, uses and typical human exposures. This will include consideration of vulnerable groups and the environment, proximity to drinking water sources and other relevant information. The screening will be used to prioritize which of those that EPA should focus on first for a risk evaluation.
Fact: EPA has reviewed thousands of chemicals.
- EPA has required significantly more testing than the "200 chemicals" figure cited. This figure only reflects testing done under one part of TSCA (Section 4) and overlooks testing EPA had required under TSCA's "significant new use rule provisions" (Section 5). In fact, over the past 30 years, under its approval process for new chemicals, EPA reviewed more than 36,000 chemicals and took regulatory action on nearly 2,600 of these.
- The LCSA gives EPA authority to immediately begin a risk evaluation for any chemical it designates as a "high priority."
- IF EPA's risk evaluation determines that a chemical or a specific use of a chemical presents an unreasonable risk, EPA can apply risk management measures including labeling requirements, use restrictions, phase-outs and bans.
Fact: The chemical industry is one of the most heavily regulated in the United States.
- The LCSA requires that EPA screen all chemicals in active use, with a focus on "high priority" chemicals.
- Besides complying with LCSA, new chemicals also must comply with myriad federal regulations, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, Consumer Product Safety Act, Federal Hazardous Substances Act and more.
- The following illustrates the rigorous review process that new chemicals undergo before they are used in products.
- Consumers also should have access to safety information about chemicals. The Responsible Care® Product Safety Code requires chemical manufacturers to evaluate and continuously improve product safety, while also making information about chemical products available to the public.
Chemical safety and providing transparent information about chemicals is a top priority for the chemical industry. Working with all stakeholders along the supply chain, the chemical industry is working to maximize the safety, efficacy and sustainability of all of the products it manufactures.


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You can control how aggressively View Manager creates linked-clone desktops on a datastore by using the storage overcommit feature. This feature lets you create linked clones that have a total logical size larger than the physical storage limit of the datastore.
This feature works only with linked-clone pools.
The storage overcommit level calculates the amount of storage greater than the physical size of the datastore that the clones would use if each clone were a full virtual machine. For details, see Storage Overcommit for Linked-Clone Desktops.
In View Administrator, click.
When you create a new desktop pool or edit an existing pool, navigate to the Select Datastores page.
On the Select Datastores page, select the storage overcommit level.
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Carl Froch has branded George Groves 'paranoid' for demanding neutral officials for the pair's super-middleweight world-title rematch at Wembley Stadium in May.
Groves complained of bias to the British Boxing Board of Control after referee Howard Foster controversially stopped November's first IBF title bout in the ninth round, handing victory to defending champion Froch.
Londoner Groves will refuse to fight Froch on May 31 unless the board grant his wish for non-British officials.
But Froch, 36, does not believe Groves' call will jeopardise a clash which will set a post-War British attendance record.
'I can't believe it and I'm not happy about it,' he said. 'We're all in this sport together and the British Boxing Board do a fantastic job.
'To say we don't want them officiating potentially the biggest fight in British boxing history, it almost makes a mockery of the board.
'This will unfold but it's George again playing clever clogs. Possibly he's paranoid about upsetting a lot of officials, from the last one, and he might feel it's going to have some backlash.
'I don't think something like that would mean this fight doesn't happen. I really don't think that.
'But it's something that's going to need discussing and ironing out.'
All 60,000 available tickets yesterday sold out, with 20,000 more available if Hearn gets the go-ahead from Transport for London and Brent Council.


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Nothin' finer than Music Festival Yoga!
Relax! It's a July Morning in rural Maine. The chickadees are chirping, a breeze rustles the pine boughs, kids are playing tag, fiddles are being tuned, and all you have to worry about is breathing.
The Ossipee Yoga Class is for all levels and ages, with a focus on stretching, balancing, breathing and honing in. Bring a water bottle, and a mat if you have one. Get there early as the barn is full during each session. The class runs from 10-11:30.
New! The Ossipee Kids Class is a gentle, upbeat and fun way to explore yoga! Lots of play including becoming cats, cows, eagles, even snakes! Balance games and more! A great way to encourage children to get moving, and to be mindful and calm all at once!
Katie O'Connell, Morning Yoga: Fri-Sun
Katie is a fun-loving yogi known for singing and jamming with her band The Starlight Honeys, her endless love of cooking, gardening, and snuggling with her kitty cat, Puddy, 2 kids, and husband Declan, and of course, practicing YOGA! She can be found doing yoga in the mountain forest, on a rock, on a paddle board, in a river, in snowshoes, on the beach… anywhere, and that includes at OVMF!! Katie has been practicing yoga for 20 years, teaching yoga since 2003, training yoga teachers since 2011, and has completed over 750 hours of primary and advanced yoga study as a lifelong student of Yoga & meditaton. Katie is also an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner and has over 900 hours of study as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurveda Yoga Therapist. She also has numerous certifications in Thai Yoga, Reiki, and is trained in SUP Yoga. Her greatest teachers of all are her students, her own children, and her husband and partner in everything, Declan, aka Dhadood with whom she leads Yoga Retreats to India, Central America, and beyond!
Mindy Pistacchio–Kids Yoga
Mindy is a 400 hour ERYT certified yoga lover who most enjoys incorporating play into her practice. She has taught children's classes and mixed age classes everywhere from apple farms to carribean islands, skiing mountains, and more! The class this year will incorporate imagination, games, and teaching mindfulness too! All while getting a healthy, balancing start to the day of fun! Stay tuned for the exact class schedule for kids yoga TBD.


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A New Vision of Race in America.
By Shelby Steele.
175 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press. $15.95.
For Shelby Steele, a professor of English at San Jose State University, blacks in the United States are ''on the other side'' of Martin Luther King's mountaintop and ''on the downward slope toward the valley he saw.'' Racism is no longer the presence in black lives that it used to be. New opportunities exist, and we are all challenged to wrestle with the sense of possibility engendered by the so-called ''declining significance of race.'' This is the premise, the ''new vision'' of Mr. Steele's collection of essays, ''The Content of Our Character.'' What will make this book controversial, however, is an old vision of blacks as their own worst enemies.
For Mr. Steele, black identity has become too rooted in lower-class mores rather than universal middle-class values; he sees it as ''a repressive identity that generates a victimized self-image, curbs individualism and initiative, diminishes our sense of possibility, and contributes to our demoralization and inertia. It is a skin that needs shedding.'' ''Black power,'' for the author, is little more than the ability to blame and manipulate white guilt in pursuit of collective black innocence. On these terms, black presence alone - including Mr. Steele's - is so ''challenging'' to whites that its rude assertion resides not only in words, but in the absence of words, in the persistent gaze, in the accusation of skin itself. For example, after interviewing some white college students who describe their black classmates in terms like ''oversensitive crybabies,'' Mr. Steele concludes that the attitude of these white students is a form of ''racial anxiety,'' the product of a ''politics of difference'' in which ''the color of my skin itself . . . not only accused them; it judged them. And this judgment was a sad gift of history that brought them to account whether they deserved such accountability or not.''
Similarly, hate speech, swastikas scrawled on campus buildings and The Dartmouth Review's ''ugly and confrontational'' harassment of a black music professor all undergo a sea change of misplaced responsibility in Mr. Steele's analysis: ''The ruthlessness of these attacks was a form of denial, a badge of innocence. . . . Racism became a means of rejecting racial guilt, a way of showing that they were not, ultimately, racists.''
Ruthlessness becomes forbearance, guilt is innocence, and whites who ''discredit blacks and deny their difficulties'' are really only suffering a form of denial that ''to blacks . . . looks like racism.'' White aggression is immaturity; black rage is the self-deceiving duplicity of repressed ambivalence. The more ''flagrant'' the racism, the more it reflects ''hidden guilt'' and ''a willingness to face oneself.'' Racism is ''self-recognition'' on the part of whites, not power play.Continue reading the main story
While there is undoubtedly some truth to Mr. Steele's characterizations as individual psychological models, they do not adequately address the complex reinforcements of group behavior. More dangerous still, they tend to minimize the force of deeply embedded social pathologies. Yet a distinguishing feature of Mr. Steele's message is precisely his use of psychology as politics. As a device, this risks substituting limited personal circumstances for broader historical analyses. In Mr. Steele's case, it has produced a narrative perspective that is relentlessly isolationist, even as it claims to be all-knowing.
In making his case that many middle-class blacks are suffering from ''a kind of race fatigue, a deep weariness with things racial,'' he dredges up a consensus of ''we's'' from his own imagination: ''I have seen the same well-dressed black woman in the supermarket for more than a year now. We do not speak, and we usually pretend not to see each other. But, when we turn a corner suddenly and find ourselves staring squarely into each other's eyes, her face freezes and she moves on. I believe she is insisting that both of us be more than black - that we interact only when we have a reason other than the mere fact of our race. Her chilliness enforces a priority I agree with - individuality over group identity.'' It never occurs to him that maybe she just doesn't like him. Nor does he question whether the unneighborly distance of this encounter is the desirable end of either black or white social development.
Throughout this book, Mr. Steele's claims to ultimate - and intimate - knowledge of others obviates simpler explanations, lost in the murkiness of transferred motivation. What makes this self-aggrandizement so particularly problematic, however, is that when Mr. Steele's inner thoughts become externalized as ''our'' world, some pretty reprehensible character traits get projected on ''us.''
Mr. Steele describes a time when he and a friend gleefully ''race-baited'' a white patron in a men's room with heart-rending sob stories until the man ended up leaving a $20 tip for the old black custodian. Chastened now, he attributes this calculated emotional blackmail to overstimulation from black-power philosophies. It is good that Mr. Steele sees the error of his ways; it is beyond me, however, why this sort of ''sucker, sucker'' game is assigned to to black identity, and not a certain Robin Hood mentality equally attributable to con artists everywhere.
Mr. Steele's philosophy is premised on other disturbingly fallacious equations. At one point he describes a conversation he had as a college student with a group of black classmates in which they probed their feelings about the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, who was tortured and mutilated for supposedly whistling at a white woman. One way to understand what Mr. Steele calls their ''ritual of group identification'' might be the cultivation of the ability to see commonality or feel empathy - the very bedrock of a collective identity forged in compassion; Mr. Steele, however, now sees it as a dishonest indulgence in the innocence of ''entitlement, even license,'' an attempt at ''appropriating an identity that in so many ways was not our own.'' His conclusion can only be understood within the model of private contract law, in which self-interested, right-thinking action becomes the credit limit on the moral claims each person can make on society. Mr. Steele wrongly poses this private contract as the antithesis of black identity: for him, the way out of inner-city ''hearts of darkness'' is to place in opposition the one and the many, so that ''individual effort within the American mainstream - rather than collective action against the mainstream'' becomes ''our means of advancement.''
What he calls racial ''bargaining'' is described in similarly confusing terms: on the one hand, ''a bargainer says I already believe you are innocent (good, fair-minded) and have faith that you will prove it.'' On the other hand, the quintessential racial bargain is one in which blacks purportedly ''[grant] white society its innocence in exchange for entry into the mainstream.'' But these two propositions are not the same: the first is a statement of moral commitment, an article of faith; the second is a statement of contract. By subtly blending one with the other, Mr. Steele ends up espousing an order in which free-market action becomes the measure of one's moral fiber. Furthermore, by extolling market behavior as the exclusive province of values that are ''classically American and universal to the middle class everywhere: hard work, self-reliance, initiative, property ownership, family ties and so on,'' he misleads the reader. Such values are neither exclusively middle-class nor universal to it. It is just as easy to romanticize class values to other ends: hard work, family ties and self-reliance are surely the shining hallmark of the ''lower-class'' American factory worker. And with not much effort the middle class ''everywhere'' could be characterized by a certain indolent country club grandiosity. But such facile characterizations, while provocative, even inspirational, do not deal with sociological realities. They certainly do not address the hard facts of an American middle class - whether black or white - that is largely debt-ridden, divorce-torn, politically apathetic and increasingly without property.
One of the most insidious failures of this book is that Mr. Steele mistakes material conditions for culture, so that the richness of the latter is entirely obscured by the poverty of the former. Pride in African-American heritage, by this measure, is empty pride: it is as though Mr. Steele were saying that as long as most blacks in this country are poor, then the content of ''black identity'' is mere victimhood, at best a mildly sadistic delight in terrorizing whites with the blunt instrument of their own guilt.
But black identity is more than Mr. Steele's reductive emptiness. It is a shared - as well as a diverse - culture; it is a history of literary, artistic, musical, scientific and religious tradition of which Mr. Steele seems either remarkably ignorant or uncommonly willing to ignore. Part of this might be explained by Mr. Steele's relentless ahistoricism; for him, memory of racism is something to be overcome - he even calls it ''the enemy-memory.'' The past and the present are not interconnected, but made one of a series of polarizations explicitly evocative of Christian imagery: he speaks of the ''believing self'' and the ''disbelieving anti-self.'' Whites suffer an ''archetypal Fall'' from racial innocence and then find themselves on the long trail to ''redemption'' from guilt. Blacks wallow in an ''underworld of doubt.'' Race itself is a kind of heathen force that has lost its ''juju, its singular capacity to conjure meaning.'' Freedom is neither a right nor a responsibility but an angry god who ''carries a burden of proof'' and ''makes blacks a brutal proposition: if you're not inferior, prove it.'' If the past was hell, the present is a limbo of delayed gratification and the future is the promised land.
There is even a lower-class Satan, an imaginary character named Sam, the invention of Steele family lore. Sam is a loud, flashy, womanizing drunkard who even Mr. Steele acknowledges ''looked very much like the white racist stereotype of blacks.'' Nevertheless, Mr. Steele embraces this brand of demonizing as merely ''an instrument of self-definition, not of sociological accuracy.'' This ''dissociation from images of lower-class black life'' is rationalized as a necessary referential ''counterpoint'' to the attainment of ''values and patterns of responsibility that are common to the middle class everywhere.'' And in a passage of stunning cynicism, Mr. Steele concludes that ''whether all this got started because the black middle class modeled itself on the white middle class is no longer relevant. For the middle-class black, conditioned by those values from birth, the sense of meaning they provide is as immutable as the color of his skin.'' The point that eludes Mr. Steele here is that black identification with lower-class interests during the 1960's was not, as he proposes, an exercise in group victimization. It was an exercise in not using the black underclass as precisely this sort of counterpoint; it was and still is a group commitment to stop hating those who were not only poorer, but by and large darker-skinned than the traditional black middle class.
A friend of mine once said that yuppie status is less about class than it is a description of someone utterly devoid of ethnicity. Middle-classness, said my friend, is just what happens, automatically, to those who have finally achieved the pure state of ethnic anonymity. If that is true, then ''The Content of Our Character'' is a blueprint for such achievement. Follow it and you will end up in the J. Crew family of man - upper-middle-class, attractively if predictably attired, polished rather than folksy, mild-mannered and soft-spoken, with a quietly Episcopalian sense of humor. There's nothing wrong with this vision in and of itself. But when it is posed as the point from which all other forms of life must be judged deviant, when it is used to disparage the underclass of any group, or as a recipe to ''cure the deficiencies'' of others, then it is a problematic, even colonizing, vision.
If only Mr. Steele had offered this book as a series of autobiographical object lessons - it might have been a fascinating study in self-confrontation - rather than as a prescription for the world. His style is graceful, his rhetoric inspiring, his optimism appealing. But Mr. Steele's naive presentation of hope without history renders the divisions of both race and class forever new, always inexplicable and shrouded in a deathly innocence.
In the early seventies, without realizing it, I made a sort of bargain with the prevailing black identity - I subscribed in a general way to its point of view so that I could be free to get on with my life. Many other blacks I knew made this same bargain, got on with their lives and fellow-traveled with black power. I don't believe this subscription was insincere, but it was convenient since it opened the individual space out of which we could make our lives.
And what were we subscribing to? Generally, I think it was a form of black identity grounded in the spirit of black power. It carried a righteous anger at and mistrust of American society. It believed that blacks continued to be the victims of institutional racism, that we would have to maintain an adversarial stance toward society, and that a tight racial unity was necessary both for survival and advancement. This identity was, and is, predicated on the notion that those who burned you once will burn you again, and it presupposes a deep racist reflex in American life that will forever try to limit black possibility. . . . The space I cleared for myself by loosely subscribing to this identity . . . ultimately put me in conflict.
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text: Markus 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2018 Hello, I have a 5-layer model, 230 km², uniform 50*50 m cells, 168 stress periods. LPF, RIV, SFR2, WEL, DRN, ET, UZF (RCH), PCG, MODFLOW-2005 The model is running fine using RCH with time variant and spatially distributed infiltration rates. Due to the fact that the modeled area has significantly varying groundwater distances within the range from 0 to > 100 m with correponding time series of groundwater heads, I think it is a good idea to use the UZF package. NUFZTOP=2 (3 does not work, input of array vks is not possible) IUZFOPT=2 (vertical conductivity is 5E-06 to 5E-05 m/s) IRUNFLAG<>0 IETFLG=0 NTRAILS2=40 NSET2=80 SURFDEP=0.5 IUZFBND=array IRUNBND=array (>100 SFR segments, some lakes) EPS=constant (2.5 to 5.0) THTS=0.3 THTI=0.05 NUFZ=1 FINF= 168 arrays After 15 SP modflow crashes. Examination of the water budget shows that in a few single cells a real huge UZF-RCH is formed (> 10 m³/s !), although there is no significant UZF-INF in the SP's before (the same FINF arrays were used successfully with the RCH package), no other possible sources. The water is generated "from nowhere" within the unsat zone. The problem cells do not have a thick unsat zone, only a few meters. Varying THTS, THTI, EPS does not help, all parameters are very sensitive, modflow crashes earlier. Lowering NTRAIL2/NSET2 as well. Assigning IUZFBND of these problems cells to zero leads to a shift of the problem to te next right model cells (and so on). I have attached a text file with selected lines of the volumetric budget of the model from the output of the model (regard SP 15) and a screenshot of the flow budget of a selected problem cell. Does anyone have an idea what is going on there? Thanks a lot, any help is really appreciated. Regards Markus UZF-selected-output.txt ScreenShotFlowBudget-SelectedCell.PDF Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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As Sarah mentioned in her recent post, a cornerstone of our research and inspiration for ArtsPool is linked to the sharing economy. At its heart, the sharing economy and its dramatic rise has exposed a shift from, "…a world where we're organized around ownership to one organized around access to assets…"[1]
In the world of the arts, ownership, or more broadly institutionalization, has often translated into increased infrastructure, which the field then struggles to sustain. Part of the challenge is that traditional notions of ownership and institutionalization place a premium on having your own space, your own staff, etc. But, that infrastructure quickly loses its value if we're spending a disproportionate amount of our time trying to maintain and pay for that infrastructure and spending less and less time, money, and other resources delivering on our core purpose.
We're not alone. The entire economy has shifted and many are turning to sharing as a potential solution.
"Almost everyone recognises that drastic change is needed in the wake of a collapsed economy and an overstretched planet…more and more people are rejecting the materialistic attitudes that defined recent decades, and are gradually shifting towards a different way of living that is based on connectedness and sharing rather than ownership and conspicuous consumption."[2]
Zipcar is an interesting case study in how the sharing economy has evolved. What their business model pushed against was the notion that people, in particular in major cities, needed to own a car. Instead, use one of Zipcar's fleet at the times when you actually need one. Others, like RelayRides and GetAround, ultimately leapfrogged Zipcar and "out-shared" them by creating web-based platforms that allow people to share their own cars. In these instances, the profits from the transaction are being shared and they're exclusively using existing assets.
"These marketplaces don't need to carry inventory. Their business model advantages are clear — the 'fleet' renews itself naturally, there are no parking or logistics issues, geographic expansion and scaling is more seamless."[3]
Ultimately, the reveal here was simple: to optimize savings, efficiency, and profit create structures where people can share assets that already exist.
The sharing economy has also brought up some interesting questions around its actual impact on the economy and employment. If I'm not buying a car and I'm instead sharing someone else's, aren't folks in the car-selling business losing money and jobs? Are hotels going out of business because of Airbnb?
"It's classic creative destruction. There may be a short-term negative for the economy because a person isn't buying a car. (A UC Berkeley study shows that for every vehicle used by companies like Zipcar, 9 to 13 cars are being ditched by car owners.) But long-term economic efficiencies result, and that's ultimately good for everyone. Airbnb commissioned a study of its economic impact on San Francisco last year and found a "spillover effect." Because an Airbnb rental tends to be cheaper than a hotel, people stay longer and spent $1,100 in the city, compared with $840 for hotel guests; 14% of their customers said they would not have visited the city at all without Airbnb."[1]
The macro numbers paint an even more dramatic picture.
"Forbes estimates the revenue flowing through the share economy directly into people's wallets will surpass $3.5 billion this year [2013], with growth exceeding 25%. At that rate peer-to-peer sharing is moving from an income boost in a stagnant wage market into a disruptive economic force."[1]
With that level of activity and growth comes challenges. Cooptation by big business, litigation, and regulation are all on the rise. But, what's clear is that the sharing economy has quickly rooted itself and is changing the nature of how people work and live.
So, how does the arts sector want to leverage the opportunities in this space?
The good news is, we're not starting from scratch. There are myriad examples of formal and informal sharing of resources that have happened in the arts for decades. The bigger question is how far can we go? Can we create robust enough structures and buy-in to achieve economies of scale and resulting efficiencies that will in fact be game changing? And, right along with that, can we make the necessary changes to our patterns of behavior and ways of working to fully embody a shared approach?
[1] Tomio Geron, "Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy," Forbes, February 11, 2013.
[2] Adam Parsons, "The sharing economy: a short introduction to its political evolution," Resilience.org, January 24, 2014.
[3] Arun Sundararajan, "From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy," Harvard Business Review Blog, January 2, 2013.


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Today was Alexandra's last day of High school. All that stuff about "where does the time go?" and "How can she be this big?" Yep, I'm totally feelin' that.
She's so beautiful and I'm so proud to be her mom.
We listened to Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen.
We cried.
I remembered that same good cry with my mom on the way from Iron Mountain to Marquette, only we were listening to Rod Stuart's Forever Young. Same cry, different song.
She's going to miss her teachers.
They were the kind of teachers they make movies about and I suppose she's the kind of kid that makes them keep on teaching.
We went Chinese, a tradition we've upheld since her first "last day of school" in Kindergarten.
Her fortune was Engrish. As always, that's so funny you learn how much rice hurts coming out of your nose.
We opened gifts that will be perfect in her dorm.
Now, she's gone to Detroit for the weekend and we are both trying to practice that feeling of her in Detroit and me here.
We are practicing Detachment.
How Zen.
Do you think Zen monks weep?
We sure do.
I read an article from Erma Bombeck which likens our children to kites. We let out more and more twine until they fly away on their own. I guess that's true in a way, but I don't expect we will ever really, fully let go and here's why:
As I reach my hand out from Alex, the hand of the Lord is what I grab. As she lets go of mine, she's in her own way and time, doing the very same thing. So then, even when we have to step back, even way back that we don't touch even finger-tips, maybe can't even sense the nearness of the other, we will sense His closeness and I'm betting that will be enough.
it always is.


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Diamond Jubilee in the North West
A mammoth four-day Diamond Jubilee bank holiday has kicked off. Across the North West, hundreds of street parties have been organised, as well as the lighting of Jubilee beacons. Enjoy the pictures, and send us yours!
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North West's biggest street party?
Thanks to Phil Hilton for sending us this timelapse video of the north west;s biggest street party. It took place in Southport yesterday.
Streford Mall celebrates in style
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Round up of your Jubilee photos
School children help light Buxton Beacon
Crowds gathered to watch Pendle Hill Beacon lit
Sir Paul McCartney meets Queen Elizabeth II backstage at Buckingham Palace concert.
Peter Kay introduces Sir Paul McCartney at the Diamond Jubilee Concert.
Jubilee Beacon lit on Pendle Hill.
The Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team have lit a Diamond Jubilee beacon on Pendle Hill, near Clitheroe in Lancashire. The Beacon is one of a chain of 4,000 that lit across the UK, with the final one being lit by the Queen at the end of the Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace.
Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team on Pendle Hill.
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Beacons lit across the north west
You have been sharing your photos of the Diamond Jubillee beacons being lit across the region.
Round up of your Jubilee photos
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NorthStar Genetics Ltd.
In 2016, NorthStar Genetics Ltd. celebrates 20 years in business. Founded in the winter of 1995-1996, NorthStar came to life out of Minnesota Crop Improvement Association (MCIA) members' desire to enhance current soybean and wheat business beyond publicly traded varieties. The company has grown substantially since, by forging farmer-dealer relationships and understanding that soybean seed is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
NorthStar specializes in Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield and Liberty Link soybeans, in a number of varieties well suited to particular geographic regions. By testing hundreds of varieties, NorthStar delivers the best advantage in terms of tolerance, resistance and high yield in a specific area.
Today, the company is the largest privately held seed company in Minnesota, producing more than 1 million units of soybeans throughout the upper Midwest and western Canada. "In terms of market share, we are the leader in soybeans in western Canada," says Dan Hogstad, CEO of NorthStar.
Locally grown by a trusted party
Hogstad, who has a background in agribusiness with Dairyland and Keltgen, was the first employee of NorthStar. "The company formed when the board of directors at MCIA wanted to form another corn and soybean seed company in the winter of 1995-1996," recounts Hogstad. "Twenty members of MCIA purchased stock in NorthStar and the company was organized. The first board of directors consisted of many crop improvement guys, who also owned finishing plants for wheat and conventional soybeans."
Seedstock was purchased and planted in the spring 1996, consisting of conventional soybean lines and a hard red spring wheat called Mercury. "Our early marketing slogan was, 'new genetics, locally grown and conditioned by someone you trust,'" says Hogstad. "It really defined who we are and still does."
In October 1996, NorthStar secured a license from Monsanto to grow and market Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans. "There were very few early varieties available and NorthStar tried them all," says Hogstad. As earlier maturing RR beans arrived on the scene, NorthStar gathered more investors from South Dakota and North Dakota. New distributors became involved and sales steadily grew.
The push into western Canada
"In the fall 1996 we held three meetings on how to grow soybeans in the Red River Valley," says Hogstad. "As our distribution broadened, opportunities in Canada opened up."
In 2004, NorthStar Genetics formed NorthStar Genetics Manitoba Inc. to distribute RR soybeans in Manitoba. The company shared ownership with 10 outstanding seedsmen in the province and its brand is current the No. 1 brand of RR soybeans in this market. "When we received our first Canadian license, we hosted more meetings, this time on how to grow soybeans in Manitoba," says Hogstad. "With the same model and locally-grown marketing slogan things took off and today we're the leader in terms of soybean market share in western Canada."
In 2007, NorthStar Genetics purchased the assets of Ziller Seed, a family-owned soybean seed company based in Bird Island, Minnesota. Ziller's 75 dealers continue to sell Ziller-brand soybeans, and have joined NorthStar dealers in selling NorthStar brand seed corn.
From a few investors to a footprint all across the upper Midwest and western Canada, NorthStar now covers extensive territory and the company has 20 employees. "We originally had local investors performing the role of staff – now we've segued from the entrepreneurial model to a distribution-inventory-sales model."
Nurturing dealer relationships
Hogstad says the only way for this model to work effectively is for NorthStar to build deep-rooted relationships with regional farmer-dealers. "Eighty percent of our distribution is through farmer-dealers, we have some cooperative retailers in the mix too, but we focus on the farmer-dealer model," he explains. "Our vision is to be the seed company farmers want to sell for. This is why our outreach to growers and building these relationships is critical. We want our dealers to stay and grow with us."
Hogstad is very hands-on in his approach. "Last year, I visited 80 percent of our dealers on the farm," he says. "We make a point to nurture these relationships."
He says a successful business model comes from these relationships and good genetics. "First of all you need good genetics, but we decided a long time ago that we're not going to come up with traits and we're not going to be the lowest price seller," says Hogstad. "Instead, we're going to be the relationship-based company that dealers know really well."
NorthStar is readying for its annual dealer vacation, an incentive the company offers to dealers who have earned a set amount of points. "This year, because it's our 20-year anniversary, we're heading to Maui, Hawaii," says Hogstad.
Close vendor relationships
NorthStar continues to offer the best genetics from trusted suppliers such as Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience and more. "We have great working relationships with multinational genetics and trait suppliers," says Hogstad.
Coming in the next year, Hogstad says there are several new traits in the works, currently awaiting approval in China. "We're looking at Xtend by Monsanto and Enlist by Dow," he says. "These traits are on the cutting edge in the industry and we'll be marketing both."
By forming close relationships with an extensive network of suppliers and dealer-farmers across the upper Midwest and western Canada and focusing on specific solutions that work for particular regions, NorthStar Genetics Ltd. has grown from humble beginnings to a leader in soybean production.


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SPECFUCKINGTACULAR!! I hope you are bringing us MUCH more of this beauty, especially I am hoping you have video!!!
Featuring: Charity Crawford and Patrick Delphia
Date: May 23rd, 2017
Photos: 36
"I was always popular in school, but I had a dirty little secret. While all my friends were drooling over the athletes and other popular guys, my panties were getting wet for the nerdy guys. You see, the popular guys got lots of ass. They were used to it. They could have their pick of the litter. But the nerdy guys didn't get any action, and most of them were probably still virgins. I could only imagine how horny they'd get if I'd come on to them, or how hard they'd jerk their cocks if I flirted with them. The whole idea really turned me on, so one day I got this nerdy guy to tutor me. Of course, I had no intention of studying. I totally seduced him, and I could tell that his mind was blown that I wanted to suck and ride his cock.
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On the magical little island of SYMI, at the top of the Kali Strata in the upper village Chorio, there is a lovely Cafe run by lovely Jenine and Tina. You will feel right at home in this cozy cafe, relaxing in the comfy atmosphere and making new friends.
But this lovely venue is so MUCH more than just a cafe... Besides serving delicious breakfasts, Greek yoghurt with fresh fruit salad, filled rolls and toasted pittas, homemade quiche and frittata, scrumptious cakes, slices and muffins, filled jacket potatoes, a full selection of coffees and freshly prepared juices... Jenine and Tina also organize a variety of exciting events, they have a selection of books and guidebooks you can browse, they will share information and maps on guided walks, beaches, transport, food culture, Symi events and a list of "must dos" whilst on the island, and last but not least they offer you a wireless internet connection to stay in touch with the rest of the world even when you're on this little island.
And this is the lovely place where I'm going to hold my little jewelry exhibition again this summer!
Thank you Jenine and Tina, you made me feel a part of the island community!


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I Now Pronounce You World Record Holders!
As of this morning we are the official Guinness World Record holders for the most in-game marriages in a 24 hour period! 21,879 of you tied the knot yesterday – and did it in style – just check out pictures from Tumblr and Facebook to see how others shared their vows!
Guinness World Records will log the marriages and the record will be considered for inclusion in the 2013 edition of the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition. All of you who participated will receive the unique in-game title "The Avowed" next week.
"Establishing this record was a monumental achievement for our development team and community of passionate players, and I couldn't be more proud," said Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer on Rift and Trion's CCO. "Ascended Weddings were a great way to lift the veil on Rift's new 'Gatherings' feature, social experiences that bring players together in new and interesting ways. We look forward to expanding this great new gameplay element in the always-evolving world of Telara."
Gaz Deaves, Gaming Editor for Guinness World Records, said "It's great to see the seeds of love blooming in virtual worlds, and particularly impressive to see so many gamers getting together to say their vows for one event like this. The evidence submitted was of a very high standard and we even witnessed some of the ceremonies ourselves, so this achievement will definitely be considered for the next Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition."
Thank you for making us a part of your day – we hope you had as much fun as we did and look forward to more special events in the future!
A toast to all our new couples,
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What awful luck, dsign49! Looking at that envelope, I'm surprised the other 2 cards were still intact.
What awful luck, dsign49! Looking at that envelope, I'm surprised the other 2 cards were still intact.
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There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
I was able to read the Found Poetry on the torn card. And there were no embellishment on any of them. The machine must of had a malifuntion.
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My returns arrived today - a really nice selection of found poetry - thanks to creativek, loladog and zandradee. I'll do rep points for loladog and zandradee right away - creativek, I've just repped you for another swap, so will have to "spread it around" a bit first. And TSMarie, I'll have to wait to give you itrader as well, as it hasn't been two hours since the last one, lol.
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My returns arrived unmutilated today! Fantastic found poetry from katelnorth, BluSkyHare and Asharnae. Thank you for hosting, T S Marie.
Thank you, TSMarie for hosting. Thank you to litefoot13, bastcrystal, and roadbike831 for their found poetry.
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Mine too are all in one piece, thanks goodness. Great cards from roadbike 83, dsign49 and katelnorth
Shirley the rpl
my mixed media site MIX UP YOUR ART! http://shirleybell.blogspot.com
Got my returns! Thankyou TS Marie for being a fab host, and sold thanks to the following for wonderful found poetry arts: Miss, Lysankya and BlueSky.
Off to leave reps and itrader
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Received my awesome found poetry cards earlier this week! I love them! Thank you to TSMarie for a fabulous swap. And thank you to Ali,miss and Lysankya for some amazing cards!!
My returns arrived a few days ago. Thanks to CreativeK, sarat and CastleQueen for lovely cards, and many thank to TSMarie for hosting.
I got my beautiful cards! Going of to rate right now. Thank you TSMarie for such a creative swap.
Yay! I received my awesome returns - thanks to these fabulous artists - Anita Mac (what it means to be human), Suzyq (flower bed and bird words) and Marie (It's a Big World) - I love them all! And huge gratitude to our amazing hostess, TSMarie! Off to leave ITrader and rep points.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
What a joy! I got my returns today! Thank you to my talented artists MicheleMC (Truth is), Suzyq (Unzipped Skull) and allegrae (Confidence). And a big thankyou to TSMarie for hosting.
I just received my returns, as I'd moved and had my return address listed as my parents so I wouldn't miss my cards coming in the mail. I love all of my three little beauties!!!! I will be posting them at my work desk for visual inspiration. A big thank you to Bluesky, miss, and sarat! And thank you to our gracious host for orchestrating such a fun swap!
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The last kid standing up against the wall:
— OS X through the years.
— Washington Wizards stand a good chance of achieving mediocrity in the coming season.
— Pakistani courts think A.Q. Khan needs more freedom.
— State-by-state transportation facts.
— Washington Post discovers the Chinatown bus.
Song of the day is "That's Not My Name" by the Ting Tings. Are these guys' other songs any good?


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Many people think that care centres in the independent sector are only for the wealthy. You may be surprised to know that the majority of care centres in the UK are owned by the independent sector and that 70 percent of residents have their fees paid partly or wholly by their local authority.
If you are paying all the fees yourself, you can choose whichever care centre you find suitable for your needs in your price range (see Care Type for more information on the different types of centres and the care they offer).
If your local authority is assisting with funding, it doesn't mean you have to choose one of their care centres. You can request any care centre that accepts residents funded by the local authority. However, the local authority will want to be sure that the care centre is suitable for your needs and doesn't cost more than it would usually pay for that type of care.
If you want a more expensive care centre than the authority is willing to pay for, you are allowed to 'top up' their contribution from another source.
We are experts in guiding potential clients and their families in obtaining assistance with the payment of fees from government bodies, social services etc. In many cases, we can help obtain a high percentage payment towards our fees from the relevant funding body, subject to qualification and means. Funding is provided by:
- self funding
- local authority
- local authority plus top-up
- PCT/continuing care
- insurance
- other
What will the state normally provide?
There was a time when we thought the state would look after us 'from cradle to grave'. These days, the state still provides a level of care for the least well off. But if the state thinks you can afford to pay, you will have to pay at least some of the costs of accommodation and personal costs in a residential care centre.
Where can I get more advice?
Paying for care is a complex subject, and everyone's situation is different. You should seek advice about your own case. Among the organisations offering specialist advice are:
- Charities such as Age UK (0800 169 65 65) and Independent Age (0800 319 6789)
- Your local Social Services department
- The Benefits Agency (0800 882 200)
- Independent Financial Advisers (ring 0117 971 1177 for the names of local IFAs)
- Insurers who specialize in care fees planning
What will the NHS normally provide?
Even if you are paying all your own fees, the NHS now makes a contribution to your nursing costs. Nursing care is defined as the care you are assessed as needing from a registered nurse.
If you live in a care centre that provides nursing care, the National Health Service (NHS) would normally contribute towards the fees to cover the cost of the nursing element. Some people will have the full cost of their care paid for by the NHS; this is called 'continuing health care'.
People who qualify for this type of care usually need ongoing specialist medical treatment on a regular basis. Hospital staff, or your local doctor (GP), can help arrange an assessment if you think you qualify. If you disagree with the decision made after your assessment you can appeal. If you are assessed as needing some regular nursing care you may receive a contribution towards your care centre fees from the NHS.
Will the local authority pay for care in my own home?
There is no simple answer. For care in a person's own home, each local authority makes its own decisions about charges. Some authorities do offer free services, but will assess your income and will charge you if your income is above a certain level. Benefits which may help
Many people are hesitant about applying for benefits, but if you want to remain in your own home, they can be extremely useful to you and your carers. For example, Attendance Allowance does not depend on your savings or income, and could enable you to contribute to the petrol costs of a neighbour who does your shopping, or pay for a home help to do the tasks you can no longer manage. There are also benefits for people under 65, and for carers. For example, Carers Allowance is for people unable to work because they are caring for someone. Everyone's situation is different, and you should get advice. Try Age Concern (0800 00 99 66) or the Benefits Agency (0800 882 200). Insurance policies to pay for care
Immediate care insurance may be suitable if you currently considering moving into a care centre. It involves paying a single large sum at the time you decide you need care. The cost is based on how long the insurer thinks you'll need care for, and the level of care you need. While the cost can seem a large amount, it should provide a fixed payment for as long as you need care, and can protect the rest of your assets.
The payments are tax-free if they are generally made directly to a care centre and are portable if you decide to move to a different centre.
Long-term care insurance, where you pay premiums over a long period before you actually need care, is no longer widely available. If you have already taken out one of these policies it should still be honoured. All policies are slightly different. We suggest you speak to an Independent Financial Adviser who specialises in care fees planning. Among the questions to ask are:
- What are the benefits and for how long will I receive them?
- What is the maximum amount the insurer will pay out per month?
- Should I take out capital protection so that the balance of any lump sum is returned to my estate?
- Are the benefits paid to me so that I can arrange my own care, or paid directly to the care centre?
- Are the benefits protected against inflation?