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Were you are the Sebago launch last night? If not, never mind, just pop by and take a look at Regent streets new addition to the high street. The store was so rammed last night that it was difficult to get some decent shots to show you without loads of people in front of everything. As you know, we don't do people in our images. However, here are a few at least. With their ocean liner interior space this is actually quite a beautiful store. On the 'lower deck' gorgeous leather chairs and references to all things nautical. As you can see, from the middle image, port holes illuminated from behind highlight the product. This is quite a relatively small space by Regents street standards, although the guys here have really open this up and down stairs (or lower deck) you would have absolutely no idea where you were - pure escapism. Upstairs, we love the old leather sofas and in particular the small props supporting the product. Thanks guys for a great evening and hope the store is a great success.
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Committed to urban sustainability driven by data and renewable energy
Cities and urban areas are at the core of society's endeavour to become truly sustainable.
Therefore, providing tools and services for cities to enable them to tackle issues such as energy, reducing CO2 emissions, and the social wellbeing of the citizens is something all companies should strive for. Tieto is committed to building a more sustainable society, and we are not alone.
Converting the vision towards a 100% renewable energy future into reality
According to an African proverb, "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." In this spirit, this blog post is an open invitation for the whole energy ecosystem to innovate together with us at Wärtsilä.
We are committed to our vision towards a 100% renewable energy future and we want to work together around innovations to accelerate the transition towards renewable energy. We see business opportunities and we are confident that we, together with others, will revolutionize the global energy market.
All hands on deck
Energy transition is also about reforming lifestyles and redesigning the energy market. This is not a job for the energy sector to do on its own. Building partnerships across sectors is crucial for creating impactful solutions for the 1.5 degree world.
It is hard to disagree that the whole energy system has to go through a holistic reform and it has to happen quicker than we have ever seen before.
Wärtsilä, Tieto, St1, Fortum and Demos Helsinki launch Innovation Community initiative to speed clean energy targets
Wärtsilä, Tieto, St1, Fortum and Demos Helsinki have introduced their Innovation Community initiative aimed at drastically accelerating the global energy sector's transition to cleaner, more environmentally sustainable energy generation. The announcement of this initiative was made in Helsinki at the Slush 2018, the world's leading startup event.

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Rally for life
About 6,500 Virginians rallied at the State Capitol in Richmond on Wednesday to voice support for the unborn. The first Virginia March for Life coincided with the legislature's day to consider bills that Gov. Ralph Northam vetoed. One of the measures he blocked would have protected babies from taxpayer-funded abortions on the basis of a disability diagnosis.
Many demonstrators came to protest remarks Northam made in defense of Del. Kathy Tran's bill to legalize abortion through the moment of birth. Northam, a Democrat and a physician, said that babies with deformities who survived a late-term abortion could be left to die after safely being delivered.
"My hope is that so many legislators that think this is not on people's radar will realize there are a lot of Virginians who are really upset about this, very willing to be mobilized … that there is going to be pushback and they are going to hear from their constituents," Dawn Beutner, a rally attendee from Annandale, Va., told The Federalist.
Jeanne Mancini, president of National March for Life, said that rallies like Virginia's are integral to the pro-life effort. "We are seeing the abortion [industry] lobby for extreme bills at the level of the state," she said. "The stakes are higher, and we think rallying the grassroots at the state level is critically important." —S.G.


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Here again finally catching up on previously provided eARC's. Huge shout out to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for this one in particular. In this historical fiction novel, we follow Frances Gorges as she joins the court of King James to care for his daughter, Elizabeth. While there, she fights for her life after being labeled … Continue reading The King's Witch by Tracy Borman
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The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin
I know what you're all thinking... Michelle hasn't posted about a fantasy series in a while... and now she's posting about a mystery???? It's ok, hold your panic. I'm fine... we'll, as fine as any of us book addicts are, amiright? *wink* MG Martin goes about her life, working on comics, dying her hair crazy … Continue reading The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin
Paramnesia by Brian Wilkinson
Wow friends, I'm so far behind on my eARCs it's not even funny. First a big thanks to Brian Wilkinson, Blue Moon Publishers, and NetGalley for providing a copy of the book for my honest review. We follow our heroine through a tragic night that leads to her seeing dead people. Super The Sixth Sense, … Continue reading Paramnesia by Brian Wilkinson
War by Jennifer Anne Davis
Happy Christmas Eve, everyone! I finished the True Reign series. Feel free to catch up by checking out my review of The Key and Red. The final installment finds our friends traveling to Emperion to ensure that Rema not only lives through her kidnapping, but is able to take her rightful place reigning over her … Continue reading War by Jennifer Anne Davis
Red by Jennifer Anne Davis
Book 2 of the True Reign series. Feel free to check out my review of The Key to catch up! First, we have to talk about how badass this cover is. I swear this book's cover is at least part of the reason I started this series. I even weirdly showed it to some non-book … Continue reading Red by Jennifer Anne Davis
The Key by Jennifer Anne Davis
Embarrassing admission happening in... 3... 2... 1... This book totally joined my TBR list because I was obsessed with that terrible show Reign (loosely based on Mary, Queen of Scots) and read this series had a similar vibe. I'd say sue me, but I lack the funds to make that worth your while and any … Continue reading The Key by Jennifer Anne Davis
The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I read the first book in this "series" what feels like forever ago. I think this one was released, but I would've had to pay for it, and, to be honest, I already pay for two book subscription services, so I try to not buy a ton of books outside of those as well. I … Continue reading The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes


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As great companies and great managers know, human capital is likely their organization's primary source of competitive advantage. Moreover, it is generally understood that in order to maximize that competitive advantage, employees have to be fully "CALLED" --- another one of my favorite acronyms invented during a bout of insomnia:
- Cost-optimized … invest more in employees when business-justified
- Aligned … employee goals/priorities/behaviors with company goals/priorities/culture
- Leveraged … with respect to competencies, skills, ideas and creativity
- Listened to … for the next great idea or product, knowledge of key customer issues, etc.
- Engaged … committed and motivated employees stay longer and perform better
- Deployment-optimized … right people with the right skills in the right jobs at right time
While a tad more controversial than the above, many great companies and great managers also know that more time, attention and resources should be devoted to the top 20 percent of your employees, i.e., your top performers. This is because you can usually increase company revenue by millions of dollars by improving retention rates on that top 20 percent. Intuitively, this means utilizing the right -- often personalized -- mix of total rewards, recognition and retention vehicles for those exceptional performers.
That gets back to the first "L" in the "CALLED" acronym, because you can only get that right mix by listening. A related point is that key employees who are retention risks should generally get the most immediate attention.
Important note ---- HR organizations that are able to develop and then validate a practical model for predicting or identifying Key Employee Retention Risks (or "KERR") demonstrate to their internal clients that they can dial-up more 'science' in their 'art and science' professional HR repertoire.
Feel free to contact me if you wish to know more about one such model that I developed -- email@example.com.
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Communications promoting specific products or services related to insurance and the capabilities of financial institutions offering these services.
Young God – serious illnesses
Prudential, brand associated mainly with saving insurance, had a strategic goal to communicate its wider offer and to increase sales in the 2nd key segment, protective life insurance. We wanted to reach a carefree and over optimistic urban middle class – who do not think that anything could disrupt their perfect life. By using light hearted crossmedia campaign, we made the Young Gods to reflect on the fact that disease can ruin not only their health, but also home finances. We've exceeded all of our sales and awareness goals.
Brand: Prudential
Client: Prudential
Agency: Starcom
We Know From Experience Campaign
Even insurers don't want to talk about insurance, spending their enormous budgets on gimmicky advertising. We had to breakthrough the noise, and with a budget nearly 10 times less than competitors. We found a way to differentiate via our insurance expertise. The "We Know From Experience" campaign showed real, unbelievable claims Farmers Insurance has experienced. We brought 30 different claims to life, and gave caution-minded customers a reason to trust that Farmers could help cover them. The position stood out, with the Experience campaign bringing people to Farmers.
Brand: Farmers Insurance
Client: Farmers Insurance
Agency: RPA
Through mother's eyes.
When facing shrinking category and TG's resistance to insurance, we changed the strategy. We resigned TV, focusing on potentially more effective digital. Our challenge was to interested Poles in insurance, maintaining sales and market shares from 2016. Goal was particularly ambitious, considering budget being 4 times smaller. Thanks to emotional communication and precise targeting, we got out of category's blinds. During campaign, we sold nearly half of the policies more comparing to previous year. 46% jump in GWP in Q4 translated into 24% increase y/y, 10 times higher than categories'.
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L&D and LSC women's bowling clubs
L&D: Even though we are winding down for 2018, 22 players enjoyed a game of social bowls last Thursday. The drawn winners were Janet Bell, Esttela Errey and Enid Tuckett.
There were no resting touchers and Patti Wakeman won the lucky draw.
We are now currently making plans for the CRDWBA opening day and the district open and senior fours championships. If you wish to play in our ladies' triple tournament, to be held April 6, start getting your teams together now so you won't be disappointed.
LSC: Results Wednesday, November 28. The last three weeks have seen it rain of a Tuesday night carrying into the Wednesday morning but come 9.30am the sky has cleared and as luck would have it there has been no further interference from the rain on any of the days.
Winners on the day were Shirley Ramponi, Joan Dale and Betty Howard.
Runner up were Lee Noble and Marie Stiller.
Joining us for lunch after the game were Joan Watson, Barbara Gullotta and Julie Lynch all bowling members who for some reason or another have been unable to join us out on the green for sometime.
Plently of chatter took place.
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Grappling to get a rich haul
India are set to continue their brilliant record in Commonwealth Games wrestling despite the recent dope scandal.india Updated: Sep 07, 2010 01:42 IST
Wrestling has always remained India's strongpoint in the Commonwealth Games. And like in the earlier editions of the Games, this time too the country is expecting a good haul of medals from the sport. Guide to wrestling
Men's freestyle wrestling, which was dropped for the previous edition of the Games in Melbourne, has been included this time around along with the men's Greco-Roman and women's wrestling. The three events give India a fair chance of making a solid claim on the 21 medals at stake. Know the team members
"We are going to be the biggest medal contributors to the country's overall tally. We are equally strong in all three sections.
"If everything goes well, we will win 18 to 20 medals," said former wrestling great, Kartar Singh, who is also the secretary-general of Wrestling Federation of India.
The doping disgrace that saw three CWG squad members testing positive, could have an impact on the medals haul, but Kartar feels the second ranked players are equally good. "For sure, it (doping) has brought a bad name to the sport. But as far as medals are concerned, the replacements for the three wrestlers are equally good. It is not going to have much affect on the medals haul," added Kartar.
Men's freestyle wrestling
India have always been a dominant force in men's freestyle wrestling among Commonwealth countries. In the 2009 Commonwealth Championships, India won gold in the all seven categories.
"India is a powerhouse of the sport among Commonwealth countries and this time too, we will not disappoint anybody," said Beijing Olympian Yogeshwar Dutt. "As the Games are going to be held in India, we will surely get a home advantage and try to win maximum number of gold," he added.
Olympic bronze-medallist, Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Yadav are also competing in the World Championship in Moscow next week.
For the last two years, India's core group preparing for the Games is camped at the Sports Authority of India's Northern Centre, Sonepat. "We are getting each and every facility, including AC rooms and hall for practice and now it's our duty to give off our best," said Sushil.
Greco-Roman Wrestling
India are expected to make a clean sweep in this category as well.
During last year's Commonwealth Championship in Jalandhar, India won six gold out of the seven at stake. There is no specific country in the Commonwealth that can be considered a threat to the hosts in the event.
Women's Freestyle
Women's freestyle is making its debut in the CWG. "We are having some good girls in all the weight categories and are expecting medals from each one of them," said national coach PR Sondhi. Canada and Nigeria will be our main opponents in this category.
"For the last couple of years, we have been preparing hard and if all goes well, we will make the podium in all seven categories," said Alka Tomar (59kg), who along with Geeta (55kg) and Babita (51kg) will be competing in the World Championship just before the Games.


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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Jessica Jones is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and journey will continue after the Netflix's the Defenders Season 1.
After joining the defenders to protect the city against the hand, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as well as a career as a private investigator after murdering her tormenter, Kilgrave. Known to be superhuman killer as a threat, a new case makes her reluctantly confront who she really is while digging deeper into her past to explore the reason why.
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Imagine for a moment you are a studio administrator, managing the editing suites for a major film. Pretty exciting, right?
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Fellow co-op'ers in Kensington engage in a fall member-owner campaign
Our friends at the Kensington Community Food Co-op are using this fall to conduct a member-owner campaign. Their goal: 60 new member-owners in 60 days ending on December 1. As part of the effort, they've organized a number of activities in and around their neighborhood to continue spreading the word about their effort to open a food co-op in Kensington.
Below is the text of a press release they sent around. We encourage all of our members and followers to check out what they've got going on and to spread the word to any of your friends and family who live in Kensington, Fishtown, Northern Liberties and the surrounding neighborhoods so they might consider joining up.Read more
UPDATE: Five Great Reasons (and One Amazing Reason) to Attend the Fall 2013 General Membership Meeting
UPDATE: Be sure to arrive early at 6 p.m. for the "amazing reason" to attend the Fall General Membership Meeting (see below).
ORIGINAL: If you're a member of the South Philly Food Co-op (or an observer pondering membership, and if so, why not join now?), you know that the co-op is about getting together.
We have little get-togethers to swap soup, swap beer and even brew beer; and we have bigger get-togethers to marvel at the amazing gardens of South Philly and play food quizzo.
But twice a year we ALL get together for our big general membership meetings.
There are five great reasons (and one really amazing reason) to attend the Fall General Membership Meeting on Thursday, October 17th, at 6:30 p.m., at the Pep Community Room at 1200 South Broad Street.Read more
The Soup Thickens
Fall is in the air… or perhaps Indian summer. But whatever the season, there's great produce to turn into delicious soup. Rich butternut squash, savory spinach and hearty tomatoes are just a few of the flavors that we're hoping to see at our upcoming Soup Swap on Thursday, October 24 at 6:30 pm.
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World Food Day 2013: Global Perspectives on Food Justice - 10/16
Word of this event came to us from Co-op member-owner Maria who wanted to pass it along and invite other member-owners and Co-op supporters to attend. See below the fold for the list and bios of the speakers. Feel free to email email@example.com if you have any food-related events you think the rest of the membership would be interested in.
Wed Oct 16th 4:30-6:30
Rutgers Camden Campus
Student Center South
ABC Conference Room
The World Food Day theme for 2013 is "sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition." Speakers will shed light on perspectives and strategies for food justice outside of the US. This event is part of the Rutgers Global Health Biennial Theme Year and Global Philly 2013.Read more
We All Scream for an Ice Cream Social on SUNDAY at 7pm
Come to the home of Co-op member Martin Brown, co-owner and ice cream maker for Little Baby's Ice Cream.
Only $5 for Co-Op members, $10 for non members, collected at the door.
Enjoy all you can eat ice cream and a special off-the-menu item: WATER ICE! Probably the most authentic you've ever had. Local, organic blueberries, sour cherries and strawberries (water, sugar, fruit - that's it). Taste what small batch water ice from the juice from $200 worth of hand pitted cherries actually tastes like.
Date: Sunday, September 22, 2013
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: 1145 Mercy Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148
An end of summer experience not to be missed!
(BYO whatever you want - beer, wine, snacks)
No need to RSVP but let everyone know you're coming at our Facebook Event Page.
Garden Tour Recap: Numbers Don't Lie
Photo by Michael Holmes
Ladies and gentlemen, the Third Annual South Philly Garden Tour numbers have been crunched, and we've got a whole lot of exciting news to share. We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:
- $9,605 raised
- 171 tickets sold
- 26 sponsors
- 16 gardens
- 8 new member-households (welcome, Jon; Abbe and Steve; Greg and Tami; Paul and Kathy; Francesca, Stephen and Josie; Kimiko; Maggie and David; and Lindsay and Seth!)
- and, last but not least, 1 incredible day in the sunshine with our neighbors, friends and community members, moving swiftly toward our goal of opening our member-owned grocery store in South Philly!
The money we raised on Saturday will go toward ongoing costs, site analysis and keeping our equity costs in reserve for the store itself. To see for yourself how much fun we had, check out our Garden Tour photo album on Flickr, courtesy of marketing/communications committee volunteer Michael Holmes.
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this year's Garden Tour such an incredible success
Garden Tour Countdown: The (press) hits just keep on comin'!
Aw, shucks. We'd like to give a special shout-out to the Philadelphia media outlets that've taken notice of our Garden Tour! Do us a favor and give these folks some clicks:
KYW-Newsradio: Lauren Lipton interviewed our own Programs & Events Committee mastermind Leigh Goldenberg about why folks looking for garden inspiration should attend the tour for her segment "Positively Philadelphia." Leigh says: "[Participants will] go behind people's backyards and see a little concrete space that might look a lot like their concrete space, but somebody has been creative and really turned it into something beautiful."
Passyunk Post: Our go-to neighborhood news outlet is one of this year's Garden Tour sponsors. In exchange for spending a few minutes answering a survey, the Post will enter your name in a free-ticket drawing. Sweet!
Hidden City Philadelphia: We like this take on the tour as voyeurism-without-the-creepy-factor: "Now in its third year, the garden tour offers a legit excuse for you to snoop around people's front and back yards, silently critiquing their garden skills, but more importantly, breathing in a little fresh air in the mini soft green spaces in the big hard gray section of town."
Uwishunu: Ever thoughtful and comprehensive, Uwishunu focuses on the perks of attending as well as where the money's going.
Daily Candy Philadelphia: We're blushing! So exciting to be part of Daily Candy's keenly curated Weekend Guide.
Grid Philly: Another one of our excellent sponsors, Grid gave us a shout on its sustainability-minded blog.
- Plus great coverage from PlanPhilly, Property, Generocity, Curbed Philly, the South Philly Review's event listings, the Inquirer's Garden Scoop and more!
Garden Tour Countdown: Window Box Workshop
Photo by Jeff Fusco. Courtesy of EPX.
In case you haven't heard, this Saturday, the South Philly Food Co-op hosts the third annual South Philly Garden Tour. And from 2 to 3:30pm, the East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association (EPX) is offering a FREE Fall Window Box Workshop led by our friends at Urban Jungle. They'll lead a demonstration of techniques and tricks to putting together the perfect fall window box — all leading up to an exciting Window Box Contest (September 20 – October 5). Pick up your entry form during the Tour and you just might win a $75 gift card to a local restaurant!
Urban Jungle and EPX will be on site at the Community Garden housed at Neuman-Goretti High School (1736 S 10th St.) throughout the afternoon with continuous workshops being held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. No registration is required — just show up with your questions and enthusiasm.
For more details on the window box contest, please visit the East Passyunk Crossing website.
This Window Box Workshop makes the perfect pitstop on your Garden Tour. And even more good news: There's still time to get your discounted tickets. Buy now and get them for $20 each ($25 on the day of). Tickets can be purchased online or at Breezy's Cafe, Ultimo Coffee Newbold, Urban Jungle and The Wishing Well.
Garden Tour Countdown: Hardly the Last Straw
What do you see when you open your back door? For me, it's a brick wall, a recycling bin, and a whole lot of concrete. In other words, no dirt and certainly not the luscious loam that would feed the production of tasty tomatoes, cool cucumbers, or zippy zucchini. This has become one of my main excuses for not gardening. Where would I do it? You, too? Well, we're both in trouble. Apparently some creative folks have invented a way to garden without dirt: straw bales.
Straw bale garden in action.
Yup, according to the august New York Times, gardeners are using straw bales, treated with a little fertilizer and water, to create insta-gardens that are cheap and, bonus!, require no stooping to pluck the few weeds that may pop up. Pretty ingenious, right? But now you've probably got more questions than one article or even a Facebook page could answer. Lucky for you, one of the stops on the Garden Tour on September 7, will feature straw bales. A couple of enterprising local gardeners have decked out half of their plot with a dozen straw bales growing organic veggies from seed and will be able to help you with your questions on how to get started. The rest of their garden, too, is a mini-paradise with fig trees and fragrant climbing jasmine, and well worth the visit.
Buy your tickets today! Buy now and get them for $20 each. They will be $25 on the day of the tour. Tickets can be purchased online or at Breezy's Cafe, Ultimo Coffee Newbold, Urban Jungle, and The Wishing Well.
Garden Tour Countdown: After the Party is the After-Party
Tom Culton of Culton Organics. Photo by Brian Howard.
We already bragged a bit on the Garden Tour's most excellent after-party at the South Philadelphia Tap Room, but we've got a couple of exciting new details to share:
1) Chef/Twitter king Scott Schroeder will be providing some Garden Tour attendee-exclusive small bites, and local drafts will be half-off for all ticket-holders. (Check out the SPTR's full menu, which will also be available, by clicking here.)
2) Culton Organics mastermind/Headhouse Farmers Market king Tom Culton will hook us up with beautiful tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and other produce (hence those above small bites). Culton provides produce to restaurants across the city, including Fork and Farm & Fisherman, and we can't wait to celebrate the Garden Tour in a truly farm-to-table way. (More info on Culton Organics over at Philly Homegrown; or check out this 2009 City Paper story penned by none other than Co-op marketing committee member Brian Howard.)
Big thanks to our two after-party sponsors, Culton Organics and the SPTR!


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Enrique Tirado visits Asia to promote the 2014 vintage of Don Melchor
The winemaker toured Asia from August 30 to September 7, promoting Don Melchor 2014.
Winemaker Enrique Tirado visited Korea, Taiwan, China, and Singapore on his Asia tour. Tirado set out to promote the 2014 vintage of Don Melchor, starting in Seoul on August 30 where he met with some VIP clients of Korea's Concha y Toro distributor, Lotte, and top local experts to unveil the latest release and also taste some other vintages of Chile's most highly celebrated Cabernet Sauvignon.
The following day he gave a masterclass alongside top sommelier Yang Yoon Ju, the brand ambassador for the region. Attendees – mainly wine writers and sommeliers – had the chance to taste Don Melchor vintages from 1988, 1990, 2013, and 2014.
The winemaker then moved on to Taiwan, where on September 1 and 2 he ran a masterclass and a food pairing dinner for distributors, VIP clients, sommeliers, and wine journalists, featuring the 1987, 1990, 2005, 2010, 2013, and 2014 vintages.
From there Tirado traveled to China, where he gave masterclasses for sommeliers, clients, and the press in the cities of Guangzhou and Shanghai.
He was joined by Rodrigo Jackson, Concha y Toro's Central Asia Managing Director – for activities that included a tasting at the Shanghai Waldorf Astoria that featured the component wines that go into the final blend of Don Melchor.
The tour ended in Singapore, where the Tirado granted interviews to local journalists and held a masterclass and vertical tasting at the Artemis Grill for leading figures in the trade, sommeliers, VIP clients, and the press.


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When the rain starts, it's simply an annoyance. But then it doesn't stop.
Seventeen-year-old sci-fi geek Simon Myers doesn't know if the rumours of a global flood are true, but he does know that he's not gay. He just happens to spend a lot of time studying the muscles of his childhood friend, star quarterback Jay Griffon. Unfortunately, things have been weird with his friend ever since Simon stumbled upon Jay's heartbreaking secret. Now Simon is forced to grapple with his new feelings for Jay and watch from the sidelines as Jay starts dating the sharp-tongued beauty, Trish O'Brian.
The daughter of a heroin addict, Trish has never had an easy life. With her mother practically comatose and her father never home, Trish is the sole caregiver for her baby sister and often must resort to stealing to keep them fed. But Trish has a plan. She's shimmied her way into Jay's life in her tightest jeans and skimpiest top, and come hell or high water she's going to use him and his rich-kid privilege to escape her chaotic home life and circling social worker.
As tensions between Trish, Simon and Jay escalate, so does the persistent ferocity of the rain. The complaints and jokes about the weather begin to morph into whispers of fear and acts of violence. Schools are closed. Shops are broken into. The electricity goes out. The water gets higher.
And a kiss changes everything.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Hong Kong woman became the third coronavirus patient who died in the Chinese-ruled city, the Hospital Authority said on Sunday.
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Stalker's Top Ten 2008: Dave Morrow
Next up on the Stalker's Top Ten lists of 2008 we have Dave Morrow. Dave is an old friend of mine and is responsible for getting me into Asian horror well before it was considered trendy and before Hollywood had even given it a second thought.
His tastes in film, and gaming, are rather different, one might say eccentric, but he does watch mainstream films when he can, being an accomplished photographer (check out his fantastic site) and family man means little time for cinema. However here are his top films of the year, including the mediocre and plain terrible. He has some surprises in store for us.
If you'd like to submit your own Stalker's Top Ten for 2008 then head to the bottom of Dave's Top Ten list for details, it's dead easy and you can make up a list of absolutely anything - relating to film that is, even if the list topic has already been done.
In the meantime, read on for Dave's Top Ten and see if you agree or disagree. Here's his favourite films of the year.
My top ten consists of seven movies. That is because I've only seen seven movies which were released in 2008. In fact, not all seven made the "top seven" so I'll stop all the confusion right now and subdivide into categories - the good, the meh and the plain ugly.
The Good:
Burn After Reading
Surely I'm not the only one that was disappointed that this wasn't set in the UK town of Reading when the projector started? Anyways, I was dragged to see this by the missus and ended up gaving a great time. Very enjoyable performances by Pitt and Clooney. Typical Coen dark humour and a menacing soundtrack. Probably my favourite 2008 movie. 5/5
The Dark Knight
I hated Batman Begins. I honestly thought it was drivel so I sat down to watch this with very low expectations. This is probably why I enjoyed it so much although Ledger was exceptional as the Joker. I know a lot of folk might argue that his performance was too hyped after his death but I reckon he carried the film. Plot wasn't bad for a superhero movie. However Christian Bale's deep deep voice as Batman was so ridiculously ridiculous that I couldn't help but laugh each time he opened his gob (probably not what the director's intention). Even so, I've watched the movie twice now so that is always a good sign. 4/5
Madagascar 2
The kids are massive Madagascar fans. They watch it more than Shrek. And I find it rather chucklesome as well. So we were all looking forward to our THIRTY FRICKIN QUID family outing and it did not disappoint. Some nice humour for the adults (I especially appreciated the Twilight Zone Gremlin nod) and plenty for the kids to gawk at. As an adult viewer I'd probably give it 3.5/5 and as a kid 5/5. So I'll give it 5/5.
The Meh:
This should have been kick ass. I liked the premise. I liked the shaky cam. I liked the monster. So why did I want everyone to die quickly so that the movie would end? Dunno. I'll not be watching again. To be a little fair I'd give it 3/5.
Nice graphics but I couldn't really click with it! Neither did the kids, although they have clicked with the merchandise....sigh. 3/5.
Kung Fu Panda
Just OK. Some good laughs from Jack Black but had a Channel 5 script! 3/5 (although 4/5 if you include the nice Pizza Hut we had before it)
The Plain Ugly:
Iron Man
People I respect liked this. Some liked it a lot. I didn't. In fact, this angered me so much that I want to build an Iron Man myself and kick the ***k out of anyone involved with the movie. I know that you are supposed to suspend your disbelief at the door when it comes to superhero flicks but this made me want to hulk smash (see what I did there). Don't get me started on how to poor cannon fodder Arab guy could build a mini generator and install it in Mr Stark's heart IN A FRICKIN CAVE. My screams of anger woke the kids up -mind you, I was quire drunk at the time. Luckily I did not have the co-ordination to stick my boot through the LCD. To be fair through, Robert Downey Jr. was superb in the role....therefore I'll give it a generous 2/5.
Of course I've seen other non-2008 movies this year (my favourite being The Station Agent which was exceptional).
So that's Dave's list, a big thanks to him and please do visit his excellent photography site. What did you think of his choices? I suspect there will be a few people ready to disagree with his thoughts on Iron Man, and perhaps putting Burn After Reading over The Dark Knight.
Fancy having your own Top Ten list up here? Well it's easy, and it doesn't have to be of your favourite films or even of your worst films of the year, it can be anything. We're getting some unusual and very interesting lists in already. Just write it up and send it through to me at Filmstalker.
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Well this season has been a total waste of time for my son watching Leicester City play live football at the King Power Stadium. We've only four home games left until the end of the season of which none are on a Saturday. The problem is my son lives in Bournemouth and I arrange with his mother weekends when the City is at home on a Saturday, so he can catch a match. Well thanks to pay TV companies, he's only seen one game in 2013 and won't be able to see anymore! Yes they get extra money for the game being televised but they're doing long-term damage for those young kids who can only attend a Saturday and some Sunday matches at 3pm kick off. We've only had one game left at a 3pm kick off on a Saturday at home since 22 December 2012, and that was against Sheffield Wednesday. That also was the highest attended game during that period too.
You can already see attendances falling at many stadiums around the country. Speaking with fellow parents who sit in the family stand with my son and I, many like me won't be renewing their children's season tickets. That has to be detrimental to the long-term future of football clubs as the kids will find something else to occupy their time instead. The season ticket for my son hasn't been a good return as he will have seen just 5 games all season out of 22. Clubs should be limited to how many games per season they can have on television to say 5 maximum at home. It's a bout time clubs got together and forced the TV companies to keep games on a Saturday or at least change the kick off's to either 12.15pm or 5.20pm. Not to midweek days where kids either go to bed or like my son can't physically get to the match. We don't want empty stadiums in the future.


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- excalibur101Asked on March 27, 2015 at 06:50 PM
- excalibur101Answered on March 28, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Thanks for your response. I didn't go any further than testing the link you supplied. When that calculation is done....it's wrong. For instance, if you input an eight hour period on a single date, the calculation says it's 7.92 hrs. It's even off if you input a total of 30 minutes.
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- AlanJordanAnswered on March 28, 2015 at 12:13 PM
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It's that time of year again: Christmas time, with all its activity and celebration, to be followed by New Years, when we all make resolutions. Let's be honest, we all know that most of the time, these resolutions only last a short while. Much has been said about how to actually keep your New Year's resolutions, and this article is not intended to simply be a repeat of those words of wisdom.
As a matter of fact, I'm not particularly interested in New Years resolutions at all. I'm more interested in New Years plans. Instead of simply making a list of things you want to begin doing (or stop doing) in 2019, why not instead sit down and plan out your entire year?
The idea for this article came from the Staff Planner that my pastor has all of us staff members make every December for the following calendar year. These planners are basically our personal, visual, hard-copy way of reviewing the past year and planning out details of the year ahead.
As I was working on this for the first time this week, I began to realize how valuable of a tool this is. This goes beyond the simple New Years resolution because it goes much deeper. It is not a resolution; it is a plan. Perhaps the reason why so many resolutions aren't kept is that we don't formulate a plan of action. Instead, we just come up with an idea that sounds like something we want to do or should do, so we say, "I'm going to do this." The intentions are pure, but the execution is lacking.
I'd like to offer a model of how to plan out your new year. There's no rulebook that says you must do it this way. If you don't, I certainly won't be offended – this format didn't even originate with me! It's simply my restatement of the Staff Planner idea that we as staff members already do at my church. I believe this will be a help for ministry workers everywhere as we look toward a new calendar year in which to serve in the local church.
There are three sections that I have included in my planner:
Review section
Review the current ending calendar year. Break this down into your spiritual life, your personal/family life, and your church/ministry life. What were some of the highlights in each of these sections? What were some struggles? What were some failures? Get them down on paper so you can see how God worked last year and what might need to change in the new year.
Goal section
Set goals in each of these three areas as well: spiritual, family/personal, and ministry. Be specific. What specifically do you plan on changing in your spiritual walk this year? What personal habits will you change? What will you institute in your family life that has not been there before? What new ministry might you be involved in? What new approach might you take to a current ministry that needs revitalizing? Be as specific as you can and know the actions you plan to take.
Calendar section
Detail your upcoming year from a personal and church perspective. Include the dates of all your major Sundays, conferences, and activities. Plan out sermon series. Organize your Bible reading plan. Try to nail down your family vacation dates. Insert dates as deadlines to meet for upcoming events. Look at your goal section and put specific dates/deadlines to the actions that need to be taken to accomplish those goals.
For my Staff Planner for 2019, I began with my review section, containing major personal events in my life this year, good and bad. It contained major events and new opportunities I had in ministry this year, as well as a summary of my devotional life this year.
I then outlined specific goals in each of the three areas, including setting family goals, detailing personal reading goals, naming a new ministry I'd like to be involved in, projecting a different timeline for a big annual project, and explaining my plan to renew my spiritual walk.
I then had my calendar section. I list each month as a heading, and underneath that, I have a spot for general goals. I also list the book I plan to read that month, the Bible section I plan to study that month, specific dates for personal and ministry events that month, and specific dates as deadlines to have "prep work" done for upcoming events.
Hopefully this is a help as you approach the new year. Resolutions are great, but detailed plans are actionable and give you specific reference points to track your progress.
My final word of advice: share your plan with someone close who'll keep you accountable. We as staff turn in our planners for the following year to our pastor each December, which helps keep us accountable. You may not be as detailed with some of the personal matters on this shared copy, but you should be as specific as you feel you can be.
May God bless your new year of ministry as you strive to serve him more than you did this last year!


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Plaintiffs say president has served eight years in office
In what might be a signal of President Goodluck Jonathan's readiness to declare his ambition for the 2015 presidential elections anytime soon, the president on Monday asked a Federal High Court in Kaduna to strike out a suit seeking to stop him from contesting the election.
The suit was filed before the court by the duo of Richard Mneaga and Shuaibu Lilli, who are chieftains of the president's party, the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP.
The plaintiffs, among other prayers in the suit filed on October 7, sought an order of the court to disqualify Mr. Jonathan from presenting himself as the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2015 election. They insisted that Mr. Jonathan had completed eight years in office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, calculated from May 29, 2007.
Mr. Jonathan was sworn in as Vice-President to President Umaru Yar'Adua in 2007. After Mr. Yar'Adua's death in 2010, Mr. Jonathan was sworn in as President.
Messrs. Mneaga and Lilli also want the court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to restrain the PDP from accepting the nomination of Mr. Jonathan as a presidential candidate in the 2015 election.
However, the president through his counsel, Fabian Ajoku, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, told the court to dismiss the petition as the plaintiffs lacked the locus standi to bring the matter before the court. But, counsel to the petitioners, Abiodun Owonikoko, also a SAN, asked the court to treat the case based on its merit.
Justice Evelyn Anyadike adjourned the case to February 12 for further hearing.


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• Khama gets P650 348 responsibility allowance
President Ian Khama will walk away with close to P1 million annually as responsibility allowance, according to ammendments approved by parliament on Thursday to increase salaries and allowances of national assembly and Ntlo ya Dikgosi members by six per cent.
The six percent salary increase is for the 2015/16 financial year. The amendment will see the president, the attorney general, the auditor general, the secretary to the independent electoral commission and the director of public prosecutions being once again among the highest earners in the public service. The president will get a responsibility allowance of P651 348 per annum or P54 279 monthly. The Vice President will get P501 216 per annum, while a minister, other than an assistant Minister, will get P439 656 per annum.
The Speaker will get P439 656 per annum or P36 638 monthly while her deputy will get P370 692 or a monthly remuneration of P30 891. The leader of opposition will also get P370 692 per annum while the government whip will get P294 180 per annum while the opposition whip will get P282 756 per annum.
Meanwhile any other member will get P266 460 per annum or P23 563 monthly. In addition the amendment prescribes that every member who attends a meeting of the national assembly or a committee of the assembly shall receive an allowance at the rate of P339.90 for every day on which she/he attends such a meeting. Their transport allowances differ according to constituency.
Other allowances include hospitality allowance at the rate of P7 581.12 per annum, further more every member other the VP, a minister, the Speaker, an assistant minister, a deputy speaker and the leader of opposition shall when necessary absent from Botswana attending of official engagements receive a hospitality allowance of P284.29 together with a subsistence allowance at the rate payable to public officers for every day.
Members of the national assembly will also get a communication allowance at the rate of P33 428.16 per annum.
Meanwhile the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of Ntlo ya Dikgosi shall be paid a salary at the rate of P35 119.92 and P31 736.40 respectively per annum. Other members of Ntlo ya Dikgosi shall be paid P26 533.92 per annum. They too shall be paid P339.89 for attendance of Ntlo ya Dikgosi meetings.
Other allowances include a hospitality allowance of P284.29 when necessary absent from Botswana attending of official engagements receive a hospitality allowance of P284.29 together with a subsistence allowance at the rate payable to public officers for every day or part and an accommodation allowance of P50 256.72 per annum.


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Last Updated: Dec 17, 2007, 01:08:41 pm
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Dec. 17: Updated. I changed the shaders, fixed the blueness of the falchion, and added a couple of the mod files. Included are the module.ini file with the added lines, item_kinds1.txt, with all the models added, and module_items.py. In the last file, you can find all my models in the James Weapons or James Shields sections.
EDIT: fixed some file names, and added hard edges to some models.
Everyone keeps asking me for these weapons, which feature prominently in the Sea Raider Expansion (which never was released). I thought I would make it easy for people to get these weapons.
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- many axes (bearded, Dane, Mammen)
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Paul Farrell is in fine form today, doing a fusion of Gary Schilling's less than rosy newsletter, voiced over by Julie Roberts of "Eat Pray Love" (which gets appropriately mangled, courtesy of the LA Times to "Buy, Sell, Hope." Farrell asks logically: "Hope? What's that? Good news about markets? You buy, you sell, you hope? Is "hope" America's last market strategy?" - read the full post for some good comedy on the issue).
Regardless, here is Paul Farrell's logic behind the "mashability" of the 17 recommendations (6 buys, 11 sells), and the final outcome, for the second half of 2010.
Let's blend the two. See if we can brighten some of Shilling's gloomier forecasts and recommendations for 2010-2011 with some of Gilbert's upbeat advice ... imagining "Pretty Woman" Julia, the Eat-Pray-Love lead, doing a voice-over for Gilbert. So here we go: First, Shilling's 6 "buys," then the 11 "sells," 17 strategies for 2010. He admits some mixed results, but he's "sticking with them for the second half" and on into the coming dark days of 2011. I'm sticking with Julia:
1. Buy Treasury Bonds: Stay with this big winner. Stockholders hate them, but this is a safe haven in the coming deflation storm on into 2011. Long maturities. Zero-coupons. Lower commissions. That's "Insight." Now imagine Eat-Pray-Love's Julia's voiceover: "There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey and the Book of Common Prayer." Okay, guys would prefer an NFL game with his buddies and a Bud. Winners all around.
2. Buy Income-Producing Securities: Still viable. Stock market's gone nowhere for 12 years, says Shilling. Pick selective income-producers: utilities, drugs, telecoms, hi-grade munis, preferreds, etc. Buy direct or ETFs. Then Julia reminds us: "God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies."
3. Buy Consumer Staples and Foods: Less volatility than S&P 500. Hey, you gotta eat, brush teeth, wash your clothes. Good bet in good and bad times. Julia agrees: "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes ... the meal is the only currency that is real."
4. Buy Small Luxuries: Stay aboard. Yes, discounts, house brands, frugality's in. But still, we all want the best of the little things, "cheap chic," say Gary and Fred. Not Julia's Girl-Scout cookies, treat yourself with favorite chocolates, wine, cigars.
5. Buy The Dollar: Should continue to rise. Bet on futures, puts, ETFs on the dollar index. Julia is patriotic and spiritual: "Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."
6. Buy Eurodollar Futures: Unbelievable winner, and more to go. And if you're traveling, Julia tempts with this mouth-waterer: "Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did." Yes, it's all in your head.
Okay folks, that's it, only six Insight "buys." Here's what our Eat-Pray-Love guru might add when you buy-sell-hope: "You have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light." Yes, even with these 11 "sells."
7. Sell U.S. Stocks in General: Declines likely to continue. In May, Insight warned the recovery was "Four Cylinders, One Firing." Only inventory was firing. Missing? Jobs. Consumers. Housing. Slow growth. All in "secular bear that started in 2000 and has years to run." Yes, years. Can you still be happy? Yes, says Julia's guru: "People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it." Harder in a recession, but you just do it.
8. Sell Homebuilder & Selected Related Stocks: More weakness ahead. And it will get worse. Millions mortgage-holders under water, can't sell, can't refi. Families in stress. Solution: Eat-Pray-Love and listen: "Real, sane, mature love--the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school--is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect."
9. Sell Selected Big-Ticket Consumer Discretionary Equities: Still vulnerable: Autos, appliances, hospitality. Rebates gone. Postponing purchases. Save, get frugal, flow with reality. Julia: "Every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices ... our modern world has become a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order." Stop, make time to eat, to pray, to love.
10. Sell Banks and Other Financial Institutions: Remain vulnerable. Including Fannie, Freddie, regionals, small banks. More regulations. By 2014 bank portfolios have $800 billion mortgages coming due, two-thirds underwater. Huge impact on capital. Sell. What would Julia say: Eat in moderation, love, pray a lot.
11. Sell Consumer Lenders' Stocks: More declines in credit cards, etc. Americans save more, cut their borrow'n'spend binge. Reduce stress says Julia: "The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go." You too.
12. Sell Low & Old Tech Capital Equipment Producers: Falling trend. Mega excess capacity. Capital spending dropping says Insight. Julia worries that you're holding onto the past: "You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition." Your passion "must come from another place."
13. If You Plan to Sell Your House, Second Home or Investment Houses Any Time Soon, Do So Yesterday: Too much inventory, and fear. Warning: Down another 20%. Julia says you will survive because "somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace." That's your true home.
14. Sell Junk Bonds: Rally's overdone, warns Gary. Slow growth recovery, deflation fears, "lethal for many junk bonds." The "New Normal" cuts returns in half. We chase junk. Bigger risks. Julia: "That's your problem. You're wishing too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be." Accept the New Normal. Stop chasing deals like a teenager in heat.
15. Sell Commercial Real Estate: Got ahead of itself. Hotel occupancies down. Office vacancies up. Refinancing trouble looms. Maybe short REITs and ETFs. Julia knows our "world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses." Are you trusting Wall Street? Or your own life experiences?
16. Sell Most Commodities: Soft economy, soft commodities. Insight warns of "unattractive investments in coming years of weak demand, excessive capacity and soft prices." China's a big importer, aggressively tying up global supplies. Risky bets. So imagine you're lost and listen to your Eat-Pray-Love guru: "When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path ... Then night falls again ... you still have no idea where you are ... you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore." Are commodities taking you off your path?
17. Sell Developing Country Stocks, Bonds: They depend on exports, are vulnerable to global weakness. China overheating. Risks in India, Brazil, Vietnam, etc. Wall Street pushes overseas investing, they love the commissions. Warning, go slow cautions Julia: "Time, when pursued like a bandit, will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you." The only real winner investing overseas is your Wall Street broker collecting all commissions you pay.
And lest Paul be accused of being far too fatalistic, here is his conclusion:
What a combo: Warnings from Gary Shilling's "Buy-Sell-Hope" Insights newsletter. Plus Girl Scout Cookie advice from our Eat-Pray-Love guru, with "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts' voice-over. Let's top it off with one more of her jewels: "The Bhagavad Gita, that ancient Indian Yogic text, says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly." Get it? The market, the economy, the whole world may crash ... but will you crash with it? Or will you still be the "best you?" Will you fulfill your destiny?


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EW on Saul ATX Panel; Vince Gilligan Teases Season 4 to Independent
This week, Entertainment Weekly reports that the ATX Television Festival will include a Better Call Saul panel, while Vince Gilligan teases Season 4 to The Independent. Plus, Bryan Cranston discusses the show with the Guardian. Read on for more:
• Entertainment Weekly reports that June's ATX Television Festival will feature a Better Call Saul panel, where Vince Gilligan and Bob Odenkirk will "explore the origins of the slippery lawyer" and Breaking Bad's Season 2, Episode 8, "Better Call Saul," will be screened.
• Looking ahead, Vince Gilligan tells The Independent, "If you think of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in terms of a Venn diagram, the overlap is getting bigger and bigger, and therefore Better Call Saul is getting darker in Season 4."
• Speaking with the Guardian, Bryan Cranston asks and answers a question: "would I entertain being on Better Call Saul? Yes. It's a fresh story, tonally different and I love it."
• Variety reports that Better Call Saul has received a trio of Saturn Award nominations, for Best Action/Thriller Television Series, Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series (Michael McKean) and Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series (Rhea Seehorn).
• Speaking about Jesse, Vince Gilligan hints to Digital Spy, "You never know if that character may get revisited in the future. Anything's possible."
• AMC President Charlie Collier tells Adweek that, in crafting Season 4, Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are "very aware of looking at the entirety of the seasons of Saul, all of the seasons of Breaking Bad, and making sure that they're A, creating references for the fans that are beautiful gifts and B, they're telling the story they want to tell."
• Netflix Life reports that Season 3 is now available for streaming on Netflix.
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The public relations and advertising Capstone class (JMC 4460) is hosting an African American hair care drive for Youth Emergency Services (YES), a local nonprofit working to eradicate youth homelessness.
YES is in dire need of African American hair care products such as sulfate-free products, detanglers, control gels, moisturizing products, hair combs, hair brushes, hair scarves and hair oils, according to a press release from the Capstone team behind the project.
The drive started March 4 and will continue to March 29.
"This drive will provide products to African American youth in the Omaha area," senior Kathryn Nizzi said. "Oftentimes, they cannot find donated hair products that work for their hair type, and we never want a child to feel like their hair is not important."
Aside from donations like those collected by the Capstone class, YES provides a variety of resources for homeless youth in Omaha. This includes an emergency shelter, a transitional living program, a maternity home, a resource pantry, street outreach, mentoring and more.
Hundreds of youth in the Omaha area deal with homelessness each night; their living conditions often caused or exacerbated by physical, emotional and sexual abuse, mental and physical health issues, and substance abuse issues, making it difficult for them to return home or access resources they need, according to the YES website.
Nizzi, the lead contact for the project, said the class voted on a couple nonprofits around town to complete a service project as a part of their course. After selecting YES as their organization, the team learned of the urgent need for African American hair care products and put their project to good use.
A donation drive this specific in nature goes to show that certain groups of youth are not finding or receiving necessary resources when they seek help. While independent organizations will often donate a variety of personal care items, food and monetary gifts to YES, items like African American hair products often go forgotten.
The YES 2018 Annual Report states: "Youth Emergency Services is proud to serve all area youth regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or school district, and provide an environment that is free from hatred, violence, abuse, neglect exploitation and fear. Our youth need this now more than ever."
Nizzi said she believes the African American youth is "totally underserved," meaning donors do not always take into consideration the needs of those they are helping.
"I often think we just donate whatever and never think about the population it is actually going to," Nizzi said. "We need to make the effort to give nonprofits and the youth they serve products they can actually use, products that will benefit them and make them feel confident."
Kimberly Cushing, another student working on the project, shared the sentiment.
"Some people probably mean well when they donate products to local nonprofits but I don't think they always take into consideration the diversity of those in need," Cushing said. "But hopefully this drive will make others think twice when they donate hair care products to nonprofits. It would also be great to see if this sparks some similar drives on campus or in the community in the future."
Donations can be placed in bins at the following locations:
-Arts and Sciences Hall Room 107
-Community Engagement Center Atrium
-MAVigtaion Station
-Health and Kinesiology Front Desk
To find resources for homeless youth, visit yesomaha.org.


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Mon 22 Sep 2008
Endowment Return: -5%
Posted by Ronit under Collette Chilton, Endowment, Finance at 5:44 pm
Curious how the Williams endowment is doing? David asked about this earlier, and even came up with a forecast, but now we have some actual numbers. The Record reports, in an annoyingly vague fashion, that the total value of the endowment dropped 5% between June, 2007 and June, 2008. There is no information at all as to how much of this loss can be attributed to increased expenditure, a slowdown in donations, or market losses.
The Record reporter throws in references to general market events that may or may not have had a direct impact on endowment performance. It would be nice to see a little more transparency regarding the actual asset classes the endowment is invested in, and how each segment of the portfolio performed. Also, it would be interesting to see what Collete Chilton might have to say about the College's investment strategy, lessons learned in the last year, or ongoing hiring/firing of money managers.
Such transparency would be far more helpful than the kind of vague comments we get from Ms. Chilton. I suppose it's too much to ask reporters to actually dig for answers as opposed to merely taking down dictation from administrators. I mean, yes, I realize that Record writers are basically unpaid volunteers working on tight deadlines, but this article betrays an unbelievable lack of curiosity on the part of the Williams Record. The endowment is incredibly important to the functioning and growth of the college, and yet I have seen press releases that are more incisive than this write up.
That being said, this must rank among the most valuable internship opportunities available to any Williams student – kudos to the investment office for putting it together:
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This summer marked the inaugural year of the investment office's summer internship program. Beginning with a structured training program in June, the interns – Rick Devlin '09 and Caitlin McGugan '09 – spent about nine weeks working full-time with the investment office, after which they "spent the summer learning all aspects of endowment investment management," Chilton said. "The interns had the opportunity to see all parts of the investment program for the College."
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7 Responses to "Endowment Return: -5%"
hwc says:
Endowment spending at a college like Williams is held to a very tight percentage of total endowment funds with little or no year to year fluctuation. The decline of the endowment value for a college such as Williams is exclusively a function of market returns.
Ronit says:
The decline of the endowment value for a college such as Williams is exclusively a function of market returns.
hwc says:
More precisely:
The decline of the endowment value for a college such as Williams is exclusively a function of market returns in a given year below the targeted 4% to 5% spending range.
David Kane says:
Have you called the investment office to ask for that data? Maybe they are willing to be transparent.
hwc says:
All of the information asked about (and much more) is available in the College's annual Financial Statements and the excellent annual report on endowment performance prepared by the head of the Trustees Investment Committee.
Both reports, going back several years, are available right now on the Williams website. I just looked and the reports for the year ending June 30, 2008 have not yet been posted. I haven't seen them yet for any of the colleges I follow. It takes a while to assemble the reports, get auditor's statements, etc. Both reports for year-end June 2007 are available in PDF format.
David Kane says:
Do those reports tell us how different categories of the endowment have performed? Not that I can see. For example, Harvard tells us:
Harvard said that its domestic equity holdings, which account for 12 percent of the portfolio, lost money but outperformed its benchmark, while its foreign equity holdings also fell, declining 12.1 percent, a percentage point more than the benchmark.
Where is similar data from Williams?
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Anchor emerged as 6th most trusted brand in India in the oral care segment as per a national brand survey conducted in 2017. Anchor re-launched its premium Dyna beauty soap very successfully in the second quarter of last year, with Shraddha Kapoor as the brand ambassador.
Mr Sanjay Shah, MD of Anchor Health and Beauty Care speaking on the re-stage said "This development is yet another innovation from the house of Anchor, which has always offered great quality products at value for money price to consumers. We have a strong oral care portfolio with Anchor toothpastes, and now with a range of new toothbrushes we are further strengthening Anchor's credentials as a complete oral care brand."
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