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A painter with talent, cheekiness and an eventful life… Francis Picabia marked the 20th century with the eclecticism of his painting and his significant contribution to French and American intellectual life. And what does the market make of him?
Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia was born on 22 January 1879 in Paris. A single child born to parents representing Spanish aristocracy and French bourgeoisie, he grew up in a certain material comfort but was not spared from emotional affliction. He was seven when his mother died of tuberculosis, and he found himself stuck with his father, Juan Martinez Picabia, the Cuban consul in Paris, his bachelor uncle Maurice Davanne, a curator at the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, and his grandfather Alphonse Davanne, a wealthy businessman and enthusiastic amateur photographer who at one time was president of the Société Française de Photographie. In this universe that was possibly a little too virile, Francis escaped boredom by painting.
In 1895, after school, he signed up at the École des Arts Décoratifs with Braque and Marie Laurencin as his teachers. In 1899, Francis Picabia joined the Salon des Artistes Français thanks to his painting Une Rue aux Martigues. At the start of the 20th century, his painting owed a great deal to impressionism. He showed at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants, but also in galleries such as that of Berthe Weill or at the Galerie Haussmann. His paintings sold well.
In 1908, Francis Picabia met Gabrielle Buffet, a young avant-garde musician who encouraged him to continue his research. Supported by his personal fortune, he gradually shook off his ties with his synthetic style and his dealers to trace a path through the 20th century's "isms": fauvism, futurism, cubism and orphism. His style stretched in all directions and adapted itself to every constraint, every manifesto. Some of his paintings deliberately tended towards abstraction.
Between 1910 and 1911, Picabia joined Parisian avant-garde circles after he met Marcel Duchamp and Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1913, during the notorious Armory Show in which Marcel Duchamp's Nu descendant un escalier was shown, Francis Picabia was present as an exhibitor, but above all, as an ambassador and spokesman for European avant-garde. He was impressed by the host city, a paragon of modernity, and declared: "New York is the only cubist city in the world… a futurist city. It expresses modern thought in its architecture, its life, its spirit." When the war broke out, he managed to return to New York; here, he took part in Alfred Steiglitz's Revue 291 and started his so-called "mecanomorphic" period, focusing on cogs and machines, not without conferring them with an erotic tension and accompanying them with poetic titles. He would continue to radicalise mechanical devices towards a quasi-abstract geometricity, and would show these works in 1922 at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona – an exhibition which, despite André Breton's preface, was a resounding failure.
The excesses of life in New York plunged Picabia into deep anguish. He left the city to travel, namely to Barcelona, while taking care to avoid the war. He also set about writing poetry and published his first collection in 1917 (Cinquante-deux miroirs).
His decidedly Dadaist stance enabled him to easily adhere to the movement, and he was in contact with Tristan Tzara. During this period, Francis Picabia separated from his first wife and started a new relationship with Germaine Everling. His Dada period was rich. Francis Picabia continued to paint, even if his work was subject to debate; he owned his own journal, 391; he also contributed to many other publications including the journal Littérature which turned up between the end of the Dada movement and the birth of surrealism. André Breton was its head editor, and his editorial line was the following: "Send me whatever you like and above all, don't back down from violence: the path has never been so free." Picabia produced the journal's covers, and published many texts in it. But this idyll with André Breton would only last a certain time, for Picabia subsequently turned against surrealism, one day declaring that "artificial eggs don't make chickens".
At the start of the 1920s, he moved to the French Riviera where he would live for twenty or so years. There, he led a worldly life, still connected to Paris via his editorials and texts in journals – this is how he struck a fatal blow to Dada – and it was also in the south of France that he found a new muse, Olga Mohler, following Germaine Everling's exit in 1935. Next to his new partner, his art took a new turn with his neo-romantic transparencies that he showed regularly at Léonce Rosenberg's gallery.
His final years were marked by a great diversity in style: realistic, falsely academic works which rehashed the codes of American advertising, popular imagery, but also erotic magazines; he also painted new superimpositions and landscapes which recalled his impressionist period; finally, he made a few distinct forays into geometric abstraction. He also began writing again – Thalassa dans le désert would be published in 1945.
Consumed by an overly great passion for cars and gambling, Francis Picabia finished in financial ruin. By the end of 1951, he had a crippling case of arteriosclerosis which prevented him from painting. He would die two years later, on 30 November 1953.
In over 40 institutions in about 20 countries
Currently on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, but also, more modestly, at the Galerie Nathalie Seroussi (Paris) as part of the group show "La femme visible" (until 14 January), Francis Picabia remains a major figure of modernity, still widely talked about and exhibited. His nihilism, nurtured by the fallout of two world wars, his pictorial and creative eclecticism, and his decisive contribution to Dada explain this ongoing popularity.
Since 1928, his works have been shown more than 430 times, fairly often in solo exhibitions – 16 % of his total showings. The pace of his exhibitions quickened significantly when the 2000s began, jumping up from an average of 3.5 exhibitions per year between 1980 and 1999, to over fifteen or so ever since.
Francis Picabia has often been shown in galleries, 38 % of the time. Until the 1990s, he was above all exhibited by dealers and gallerists, before institutions took up the torch – there have been roughly 150 museum exhibitions since 2000, and around one hundred gallery appearances. Today, around twenty dealers – mainly in France, Switzerland, the United States and Great Britain – carry on his legacy.
Recent years have incidentally been punctuated by a few notable exhibitions. First, "Francis Picabia – A Retrospective", presented at the Kunsthaus in Zurich in 2016, today hanging on the walls of the MoMA. In 2014, the MNAM – Centre Pompidou showed a set of drawings produced by Francis Picabia for the journal Littérature, after the institution acquired them thanks to sponsorship by Sanofi; these drawings were accompanied by photographs by Man Ray ("Man Ray, Picabia et la revue Littérature"). In 2012, it was the Kunsthalle in Krems, Austria, which would hold a retrospective on the artist.
In group shows, Picabia is most often exhibited beside Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Joan Miró.
The United States and France, the painter's two adopted countries, have hosted 44 % of his exhibitions, followed by Germany (16 %). While the three countries represent six out of ten exhibitions in which the painter's works are found, Picabia still has an undeniably international stature. Over 40 institutions scattered in around 20 countries own his works in their collections while exhibitions on the artist have been hosted by some 30 countries.
The artist's catalogue raisonné is currently being prepared by the Comité Picabia, which has already published two volumes (1898-1914 and 1915-1927) in collaboration with the Fonds Mercator.
While being widely exhibited, Francis Picabia' media coverage is not so rich, even if it is on the rise: he has inspired an average of 230 articles since 2010, compared with 160 in the 2000s and 25 in the 1990s. One-fifth of these articles has been published in France, 13 % in the United States, 12 % in Spain. The journalists who have written the most on him are Kenneth Baker (The Telegraph), Bernd Noack (Fürther Nachrichten), Carol Vogel (The New York Times), Judith Benhamou-Huet (Les Échos), and Christoph Heim (Basler Zeitung).
Petite Udnie, a record Picabia from the Bourdon collection
At auctions, the painter's ratings remain restrained. His business volume only rarely goes over ten million dollars: this was only the case between 2006 and 2008, in 2012, and in 2013. Since 1985, his business volume has totalled $117.4 million. The artist's market was very stable between 1985 and 2005, reaping an average of $1.5 million per year. It was nonetheless during these years that a record was set, never bettered since: in 1990, auction house Loudmer sold the oil-on-canvas Petite Udnie (1913-1914) for 24 million francs ($4.1 million) during the sale of the Bourdon collection.
A total of 27 works by the artist have gone over the million-dollar mark, 24 since 2005. With the boom in the prices of his most prestigious lots, the market for Francis Picabia's works has become more volatile. Recently, during the sale of the Leslie Waddington collection at Christie's on 4 October 2016, Lampe (1923), estimated at between £800,000 and 1.2 million, finally went for £3.6 million ($4.6 million). The work, formerly owned by Jacques Doucet, and still presented in its original frame by Pierre Legrain, was sold to an Asian telephone bidder for a record sum for a work on paper by the artist. At the same sale, Chariot, a watercolour depicting a pink man surrounded by black and white stripes, painted at the start of the 1920s, sold for £1.6 million ($2 million).
France remains the artist's leading market: over one half of lots featuring Picabia (56 %) are sold here, accounting for one-third of his business volume. However, works sell at lower prices in France than in English-speaking countries – at an average of $56,000 compared to $165,000 in the United States and $168,000 in Great Britain. The United States, by selling 14 % of the artist's lots, produces one-quarter of his business volume, while Great Britain, selling one fifth of his lots, scores 39 % of his business volume. Picabia's works reveal an unsold rate of 22 % – a rate which has been relatively stable for about a decade.
Today, one of the artist's works on paper will set you back by between $5,000 and 20,000, with the best works sometimes exceeding one million dollars. Expect to spend around $1,000 for rare multiples on sale – mainly lithographs and etchings. Count on between $50,000 and 300,000 for his paintings. We should note that Picabia's works on paper remain a substantial market: they represent 53 % of lots sold and 26 % of his business volume. In 2016, 25 of these works on paper totalled $9.2 million. Less positively, 21 found no takers.
Wariness seems to prevail, with some commentators reproaching the existence of fakes on the market. It was an article written by Judith Benhamou-Huet which set alight the gunpowder in July 2016, backed up with quotes from Catherine Hug (one of the curators of the Picabia retrospective in Zurich and New York) and Alan Tarica.
Picabia, a New York star
It's one of the blockbuster exhibitions in New York for Francis Picabia hasn't featured in any retrospective in the United States for nearly 50 years. Since 21 November and until 19 March, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is welcoming "Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction", a New York version of the exhibition held at the Kunsthaus in Zurich in 2016. Nearly 50 years of creation are revealed, from his impressionist debut to his last illustrations for Pierre André Benoit in 1952, when he was already suffering from arteriosclerosis.
"Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction", until 19 March. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, United States. www.moma.org


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WHAT IS THIS? bitbucket.org/pmetzger/growl is an unofficial patched version of the Growl 1.2.x sources taken from the last available public source tree. It is maintained by Perry Metzger (perry at piermont dot com). The branch builds cleanly under XCode 4.1. As provided, it constructs binaries that run only under Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", though people running Snow Leopard are probably better off using the official 1.2.x binaries anyway. This branch also incorporates a patch for HardwareGrowler.app, which otherwise crashes on Lion if your WiFi adapter changes state. None of this work is official, it is not endorsed by the growl.info folks, it is not guaranteed to work at all. (The tip of this tree is the "fork-1.2" branch, which was branched from the "maintenance-1.2" branch. The "default" branch seems to be old and unused.) BINARIES: Binaries, version numbered "1.2.2f" to distinguish them from 1.2.2, are available in "Downloads" on my bitbucket.org page. They were built using the "HOW TO BUILD" directions below. The only one of real interest is probably the patched HardwareGrowler which doesn't crash under Lion. On my own machines, I am running the growl prefpane itself, HardwareGrowler and GrowlTunes, but I wouldn't call that "extensive testing", and I haven't properly tested the other Extras -- you have been warned! HOW TO BUILD: 0) You need be running Lion and have XCode 4.1 installed 1) Clone the repository. 2) Run "make" in the "Release" directory. This will build the entire system and generate .dmg files for the release that can be found as Release/build/Growl-*.dmg It is probably a good idea to do something like "make >/tmp/log 2>&1" and make sure when it is done that /tmp/log contains no "BUILD FAILED" lines. BRIEF HACKING GUIDE: 0) Build output is located in "building" directories that are scattered in the various XCode projects in the tree. The main project builds the Growl prefpane and framework. "Extras" contains the sources and projects for the various plugins like GrowlTunes. 1) The "./build.sh" script in the top directory may be of some small use, if only for reading. After it runs, a zip file of the growl preferences will be left in build/Release/Growl.prefPane.zip To install it by hand for experiments a) Make sure you have no other version of growl installed or running. b) cd to ~/Library/PreferencePanes and unzip the thing there. 2) .app files for HardwareGrowler, GrowlTunes, etc, are in Extras/<extraname>/build/Release for each of the extras. WHY DID I FORK THIS? [UPDATE: As of Tuesday, October 11th, I have been banned by Christopher Forsythe from the growl mailing lists, apparently for telling people that I'd forked the code and where to find it. Sadly, this does not seem like a promising development.] I forked the Growl sources largely because Growl 1.3, available only on the Mac App Store, seemed to fail very badly for most of the people who installed it (including me), and the growl developers seemed fairly unsympathetic to people's complaints, claiming that there was no way they could have known of the various installer bugs it has, and that the failure of applications using old frameworks to talk to the new growl is the fault of the app developers. The 1.3 distribution also lacks working versions of the various "extras" that were in the past distributed with Growl. I think the developers should have withdrawn 1.3 until the problems were fixed, but they felt otherwise. Unfortunately, the Growl 1.3 sources are not currently available to the public, so it is not possible for me to simply fix those sources for myself and submit patches back to the developers. I would simply have continued using Growl 1.2.2, but the old HardwareGrowler was failing pretty badly for me under Lion, and I both wanted that fixed and to know that, if I needed to continue supporting Growl just for myself, that I could. Hopefully the Growl 1.3 branch from the official Growl maintainers will eventually become open source again and get straightened out so that it works for most users, but if it doesn't, a fork of the project will be able to provide a working Growl to Mac users.


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Mulches -- plant responsesQuestion:
What is the best type of mulch to use as a top layer over soil?Answer:
This week the answer continues from last week when we discussed the characteristics of various mulches. This week we will focus on the characteristics of plants as they relate to selecting the appropriate mulch. This is somewhat less complicated, but also the characteristics of specific plants are sometimes less well known.
Many plants grown in New Mexico landscapes are not native to New Mexico. The majority of these are from regions which are cooler, moister, and have less alkaline soils. The appropriate mulch for these plants should help alter the environment and soil to simulate that from which the plants are found naturally. Some plants will adapt to a wide range of conditions - these are the easiest to grow under our conditions. Other plants have a very narrow range of environmental adaptability - these plants are much more difficult to grow under New Mexico environmental conditions. Proper choice of mulch material is especially important with those plants with less environmental adaptability.
Organic mulches maintain a lower temperature around plants and are best for plants from cooler locations, whether from cool locations outside New Mexico or high elevations within our state. These organic mulches will decompose, and in the process neutralize some of the alkalinity of the soil. The carbon dioxide from the decomposition of these mulches dissolves in the soil water, lowering the pH of this soil water.
If it is desirable to use inorganic mulches around plants native to cooler climates, it is important to provide shade. Inorganic mulch may be used around plants requiring cooler conditions if the plants are in the shade of buildings or other structures. It may also be possible to plant other, larger plants to provide the necessary shade and cooling.
Plants native to New Mexico soils, especially those from sandy and gravelly soils such as are found in arroyos, are often dependent on the porosity of the soil to provide high levels of aeration and high oxygen levels around the roots. The carbon dioxide from decomposing organic mulch is often harmful to these plants. Such plants benefit from an inorganic mulch of cobbles, gravel, or crusher fines, a byproduct of the crushing of rocks, to make gravel. Plants native to arroyo environments are often adapted to the higher temperatures present above the inorganic mulch.


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If some people would help me, we could set up a holding company that would ultimately be listed on international stock exchanges. This holding company would buy up vegan companies, buying out vertically and laterally, accumulating cost savings, which would allow me to meet my objective of proving a vegan lifestyle that is at least as satisfying, and CHEAPER than a lifestyle based on animal suffering. It would also become a blue chip investment that would yield market returns to investors.
Most big companies are ultimately holding companies. They invest in, and take over, a range of companies that they consider can offer synergies to their other business holdings. They can cut out the middle-men and thus massively increase productivity and profitability.
We need to compile a list of companies listed on the various international stock exchanges whose behaviour promotes a vegan world, so that Vegan investors can invest with the certainty that any benefits they receive do not come at the expense of animal suffering.
However, as most vegan companies are not listed on any stock exchanges, we need to compile lists of all the unlisted vegan companies in the world that are privately owned, rather than publicly owned.
We then need to form a Vegan fund, to act as fund managers for vegan investors. Most funds exist for the profit of their managers. Thus they charge excessive management fees, and other hidden fees. Take a look. The average of transparent fees is around 2%, with many other´hidden´charges in addition to this. Imagine what 2% of a large fund would amount to. If PETA got only 0.25% of this fund, imagine what good it could do with it. And investors would benefit from 1.75% accumulating over 20 or 40 years.
Thus if we set up a Vegan fund not motivated by greed, but by our desire to make the world a better (Vegan) place, we can offer the traditional services of fund managers at a massively lower cost to investors. Thus we would have an immediate competitive advantage. We would be able to attract millions of investors without any marketing costs. Word-of-mouth would be enough. We would be the only Vegan fund in the world. We would be the cheapest fund in the world. This would attract institutional investors such as retirement funds and other pooled funds.
We could lobby workers to insist that their retirement funds invest in animal-suffering free businesses.
We could offer a number of different strategies to appeal to the different demands of investors. It has been proven that, in the longer-run, monkeys make just as profitable decisions as the highest payed stock-brokers. Fund managers are mostly misrepresenting themselves and their ´expertise´.
Fund managers, in reality, have very little to contribute. However they have an ´authority´as ´financial specialists´which allows them to accumulate massive personal wealth whether or not they provide any real value. Whether their investors lose money or make money, the managers make around 2% of the entire pooled funds of their investors each year.
No fund has acheived above index returns consistently over several consequtive quarters. No matter how much they spend on marketing their services, no matter how hard they try to convince us that they have special talents for ´reading´and ´timing´markets, in selecting quality shares that will outperform the indexes as a whole, they simply never have, and can not, as a rule, provide returns in excess of the indexes they use as benchmarks, in the long run. In fact most do worse than their benchmarks. the few who do better are the exceptions. And they are not exceptions due to their particular skills, talents, or expertise. They are exceptions due to pure ´hit and miss´luck.
Of course the lucky take credit for this luck, attributing it to some special , and reliable, quality they posess. However it is a fact that their performance is not reliable. Sometimes they do well, and other times they do badly. Thus any claims to special talents are disproved as false advertising, or at best, hubris. And so we can do without such highly paid ´professionals´ a.k.a charlottans.
All we really need is people with the legal skills required in setting up the fund, and meeting all the regulatory requirements. Simple strategies can be adopted, and explained to investors. This would allow for complete transparency. The actual trading of shares, the buying and selling, is a simple technical matter than most people can easily master. In fact many private individuals with no training work from home as ´day traders´, buying and selling shares using the same online brokerage services the fund managers use. Thus they save on fund fees, and where their ´turnover´is high, even pay the same brokerage fees as the fund managers.
Only criminals like JFK´s grandfather, who made the Kennedy fortune manipulating the stock markets and pulling out just before the crash in the 1920 ś , are capable of ´timing ´the market. You can only ´time´the market if you are manipulating it, as Kennedy did, in cahoots with some of the biggest banks of his day. Banks that still operate. No-one ever called them to account. The finance industry is corrupt by nature. It is governed mostly by greed. However greed is not good. It is one of the cardinal sins, even for the most non-theistic non-godists among us.
The key to investors is to set investment goals, and to stick to them. They need to realise their gains once they have attained these. If they become greedy, they risk losing what they have gained. Very Daoist. ´Know when to quit´.
A quick look at the market performance over the decades shows that most booms are followed by busts, both of which are unpredictable.
Another key factor is risk managment. Key to this is diversification. Investing in around 20 to 25 different companies in different market sectors, will provide an adequate level of diversification. This means that the shares that do especially well will make up for those that do less well.
Do not believe those charlottans on t.v who pretend to ´comprehend´the markets. If they knew any more than we did, they would be rich, and not need to work in t.v. They know little more than any of us. They pretend to know more than they do. They mislead their viewers in the way they express themselves. They are charlottans. They are the equivalent of ´snake-charm´travelling fraudsters.
They confidently ´explain´ things in hindsight, attributing changes in share prices to particular things.
Often these attributions are pure post modernist narrative construction, i.e, pure fabrications, fictions, and fairytales. The real reasons for the share movements often have nothing to do with the reasons attributed to them.
But the presenters, ´market analysts´, and ´finance gurus´have to appear to know more than we do. And so they construct their clever ´spiel´, to appear more knowledgeable, more competent, more wise, more informed, more capable, and thus more worthy of their massive salaries and bonuses than they in fact are.
Where they are accurate, they are only stating the obvious, what any average person could do. However they present it in such a way as to impress the audience with the presenter´s authority. Anyone can say what happened after the event, in hindsight.
Check the buy and sell recommendations of the highest ´authorities´in the investment industry, and see how often they get it wrong, as compared to how often they get it right. In reality the outcomes are pure correspondence, like the random ´hit and miss´ of evolution.
A key point is that people need to take their money out of higher risk investments as they approach retirement age. They cannot afford to ´weather out´any market crashes at that time. They cannot wait another decade to realise their investment goals. Younger people can do this, waiting another decade to realise their long term financial goals, as the volatile markets bounce back, sooner or later.
You only really lose when you cannot wait until later,after the rebound, and have to realise your losses now. Remember that until you actually sell your shares, any gains or losses are only on paper. You can only lose, in most cases, if you have to sell.
As our Vegan investment fund would have the lowest management and other fees, whilst providing at least comparable long term returns, it would automatically attract major retirement funds, and other pooled funds, independant of any committment to Vegan values.
In addition it would attract investors who are committed to Vegan values, and more broader environmental values. These people must lobby their retirement funds to ensure they are not unwillingly contributing to animal suffering by virtue of their participation in the retirement fund. As many of these are required by law, it is essential to address this issue.
Portfolios could be structured upon various lines, focussing on Vegan companies, and then companies that, while not explicitly vegan, do not behave in ways that contradict the vegan philosophy.
There are many listed companies that meet the later criteria. There are fewer listed companies that are actually vegan. Thus part of our strategy would be to get more vegan companies listed.
The profits from such an enterprise could be directed towards eliminating animal suffering and lobbying politicians for the introduction of laws reflecting Vegan values. The could bre re-invested in Vegan Co-operative enterprises. They could be invested in promoting Vegan values in the popular culture, the mass media, in the entertainment, film, literature, and music industries. This is how organisations like PETA are likely to have their greatest positive impact on changing public opinion.
Ideally PETA and all the other animal welfare lobby groups would pool their resources and produce a Vegan Co-operative with the explicit mission of seeking to ensure that for any non-vegan product or service, there is a Vegan one that is both cheaper, of better quality, and just as easily accessible-available, any place in the world. Our aim must be to make non-vegan companies redundant. Only then will be enjoy a truly vegan lifestyle.
Please make comments in the box after this blog entry. Please lobby your PETA or other animal rights organisation members to become active in this. There must be Vegans out there with the requisite skills to realising this vision. We need to centralise our efforts. So help me find people to develop these ideas further, to facilitate the compilation of the information and expertise required.


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The other day a friend was asking how they can invest Sh5,000-10,000 aside from business. When I suggested shares I could actually picture how she winced and contorted her face.
"Those things are so complicated, I want something simple. How about lending someone money in exchange for a certain interest when refunding?"
I don't know what's more complicated than having to incessantly call someone reminding them to pay back. Somehow, even when you call them thirty times, they just seem to be far away from their phone.
Probably what people with debts do most of the time aside from picking their phones is staring at it ring till the last beep wishing it didn't ring.
But are shares as complicated as some of us think? Or is it just the trauma that took over our minds after many years of listening to business jargon?
Some of us actually sit through the whole of business news just to see if we'll catch a bit more of information on shares than how "they rose and fell" like waves on Peruvian waves
But somehow everything happens so fast, vocabularies are thrown around, charts, graphs and numbers are shown and used. By the time you're blinking, we're already "on to other news".
So where exactly do I begin?
1. first select the company you want to invest in
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2. okay, after picking the companies you now have to make sure your choice is profitable by heading to company website or the NSE website and doing the following research:
- Study the history of the company, how has it been fairing so far?
- Note if the profit margins between different years is stable and increasing (could be five or more)
- Have they been making sales?
- How competitive is the company?
- What does their dividend policy state?
- What are their future plans? could they be expanding, selling the company etc
- What is the history of the share price in that company
3. You have narrowed your interests, what now?
You can visit the organization you've decided on. and ask how to go ahead on purchasing their company shares. Or you can opt to visit a stockbroker.
Tip: most banks are stockbrokers but aside from that a list can be found on the NSE website or if you Google 'list of Kenyan stockbrokers' you will have endless options.
4. So now I have a portal, how does it work?
It works like other online sites with buttons for different purposes. So if you want to sell your shares you select the sell button and the sale is done. This is also the same with buying.
5. Sounds smooth, but can I delegate the whole work to someone and receive my cash after the sales?
Yes you can. There are actually agents who do that kind of work with a commission charged for any transaction made. But from my explanation you can actually tell the process is simple you just need to dedicate some time per day to learn the ropes. You could divide the time you use on social media for this.Trading normally begins from 9:00am to 3:00pm
6. So, in summary, how does this stock market work?
A buyer places a bid then investors decide whether the price is good for them. If it's too low they hold the shares. When this happens normally there's a short supply of shares. Like the laws of the demand curve state a low supply leads to a high demand and a high price for shares
On the other hand, if investors start offering shares there will be a high supply resulting to over supply thus a low price
7. What normally influences this demand and supply or rather "the rise & fall" of shares?
High demand of shares (rise) is influenced by high profits made by company, new products or innovations that increase sales, expansion into a new market etc. High supply of shares (fall) is influenced by losses, bad publicity or anything that affects the company negatively.
8. What's the catch in investing in shares?
First, at the end of every financial year all shareholders are given dividends. That's what I can call company gifts for the loyalty shown. So a dividend is given as per every share you own. The dividend price ranges from as low sh5 for every share you own as a shareholder to as high as sh20 but this dividend price varies from company to company.
Second, sometimes companies give bonus shares.
Third, obviously, when you sell shares at a higher price than you bought them, you make money.
9. Can you estimate the price of a share?
For new comers sakes, different companies have different price variations. Some can be sh5, sh10, sh100 or more. But what you should note is there is a minimum amount of shares you can buy as per company rules. Though for most, the minimum ranges from 100 shares.
10. What are the requirements? Can students become investors? Do I need a bank statement to qualify?
Most of the time you require an ID , passport photo and a few other documentations but no income or bank statement is required.
All this sounds really good but just like any other investment there are lows .
People have lost lots of money through the stock market. Some people even go ahead to get loans only for them to get terrible losses. You can seek professional guidance because it can be pretty ugly but with research, always been updated with current news, patience and determination you can learn the ropes and make money.
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In Outlook 2000 and Outlook 97, we could browse in the Folder List to a public folder, right-click the folder, and choose Add to Outlook Bar to add a shortcut to the Outlook Bar. How do we do that with the navigation pane in Microsoft Outlook 2003?
Outlook 2003 de-emphasizes the Outlook Bar, renaming it the Shortcuts pane. To add a public folder to the Shortcuts pane, click Add New Shortcut in the pane.
You might find adding a public folder to the appropriate subject area pane (Contacts, Calendar, and so on) more productive. To accomplish that task, you must first add the folder to your Public Folder\Favorites hierarchy: Display the Folder List in the navigation pane, right-click the folder, then choose Add to Favorites. Outlook will automatically add the folder--for example, a Contacts folder--to the Public Folders\Favorites hierarchy and to the list of Other Folders on the Contacts navigation pane. If you're working in Cached Exchange mode, Outlook will automatically download the items from that folder to your local cache.
Note that the procedure is a little different for message and post folders. After you add the folder to Public Folder\Favorites, in the Folder List navigation pane, right-click the copy of the folder under Favorites and choose Add to Favorite Folders. This command will add the public folder to the Favorite Folders display in the Mail navigation pane.


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This week, I'd like to offer advice about the common need to "munge a lot of data." To help set the stage, here's a question a colleague recently asked:
"I'm having trouble updating a large number of rows in a table that contains 35 million rows. For example, say that the table, MyTable, has a column called UserId. A typical value for UserId looks like '374771&something,' and I need to trim everything to the right of the & symbol. The UPDATE query I'm running looks like this:
UPDATE MyTable SET UserID = SUBSTRING(UserID, 1, charindex('&', UserID)-1) WHERE UserID LIKE '%&%'
However, the query has been running for several hours, the transaction log is currently 10GB and growing, and I wonder if there's a more efficient way to tackle this problem."
The need to update large amounts of data is common in the real world, but many SQL Server professionals don't know how to tackle the problem efficiently. Fully addressing all the scenarios and solutions that this question raises could fill an issue of SQL Server Magazine, and I don't have that much space. However, the basic rule of thumb I follow in data-modification cases is similar to a rule of thumb you should follow when eating a nice juicy steak: You might choke and die if you try to swallow the entire steak in one bite, so don't do it. Eating the steak in multiple, smaller bites is much easier, safer, and tastier. The same advice holds true when modifying massive amounts of data.
My colleague was trying to update 35 million rows. Conceptually, you can update the row through a single UPDATE statement, or you can do it in multiple UPDATE statements, updating smaller "bites" of data with each statement. Chunking the data—for example, issuing 70 statements that each update 500,000 rows instead of one statement that updates all 35 million—is beneficial for many reasons, including the following (I'm assuming you don't have a business requirement to perform the update in a single all-or-nothing transaction):
- You can manage the size of the transaction log.
- You won't experience a horrible roll-back situation if the UPDATE fails 99 percent of the way through updating 35 million rows.
- The server won't be as sluggish for other people working with the database at the same time.
- You probably won't lock the entire table, so you'll greatly improve concurrency, which allows other actions against the database during the update process.
- You'll have a much more predictable way to gauge how long the update process will take.
I could go on and on. In fact, I will when I address the same question in my SQL Server Savvy Q&A column in an upcoming issue of SQL Server Magazine. Trust me, your mom was right when she told you to take smaller bites. Taking smaller bites when updating your data might just prevent a great big SQL tummyache.


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Hi guys! Another bubble bar review today! This time, it's Snowie, a bubble bar dedicated to the late and great David Bowie, who passed away 10th January 2016. As soon as I saw this product online, I knew I had to own it. It's a cute little "snowman", with the iconic Ziggy Stardust lightning bolt across it. It's super cute and it's full of gorgeous lustre. When I opened mine on Christmas Day, it was a little crumbled, some of the lightning bolt was missing and so was the blue eye. However, this didn't really matter to me – I was just so excited to have it!
The fact that the main component of the bubble bar is white made me a little dubious about how it would perform in the bath, but I was very surprised! It turned my water a gorgeous milky white, with plenty of lustre. It instantly reminded me of the Christmas period. It produced huge amounts of bubbles as well – my bath was completely overwhelmed! You definitely could get at least two uses out of it, but I couldn't bring myself to chop it in half.
It smells super fresh and uplifting, with key ingredients of Neroli and Grapefruit oil. It stayed on my skin/hair for hours afterwards and I woke up the next day still smelling great!
Sadly, this bubble bar was part of the Christmas range, but I'm hoping they'll bring it back for next year, as an ongoing tribute to Bowie. This was such a nice way for Lush to honour him and the design is absolutely perfect! If this product returns for Christmas 2017, I'd 100% recommend getting one, for a warm, uplifting bath!
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it's 1:26am, and i really should be asleep. especially considering the sleep i didn't get last night. the dude had some crazy wild hair up his butt & got up at 4am & got himself dressed for school & then came in & asked me some question, to which i'm certain my reply was 'go to bed, it's 4am.' he of course informed me he was dressed & i vaguely remember telling him 'to get into bed dressed then!' then 4:45 rolled around & i felt a tug on my hand & when i opened my eyes i nearly screamed at his face 6 inches from mine. i can't quite remember if i was having a dream, but i know it's not a good idea for anyone to be that close to you when you wake up, especially if you've been having dreams, like me, of killer bees swarming my babes, and of people robbing & burning them in walmart parking lots. (no one can accuse me of a lack of vivid dreams... terrifying, but vivid)
but like i was saying, the second wake up call came at 4:45 when he wanted to know if he could open up one of the collector's hess trucks tucked away at the top of his closet. i'm pretty sure i got my point across the second time about someone needing to be injured, or close to death for him to come back in my room & to get his dang butt back in bed, clothes & all.
and that was when the snoring started.. i tell ya.. the hubs sleep apnea machine has been a blessing. at first it was a little odd as i got used to sleeping next to darth vader (ya know.. shhh...sppppaaaa... hisssss.. that whole thing..) but once i was used to the hiss & whirr of it.. i was MORE than grateful to be rid of the obnoxious snoring. not to mention the fact that it pretty much nipped those nights that i would wake up on his boisterous inhale & hold my breath while listening to see if he would exhale. not fun times, i assure you. sorta like watching your sleeping newborn & getting right down near their sweet little faces to make sure they are actually breathing... except he is typically sporting a beard & that gives off more of a 'i've snuck into a bear den while they're hibernating, dear God don't let them wake up' type of feeling.
so there i am at 5am now, wondering why in the heck he's snoring with his machine going, and contemplating a move to the couch for the remainder of the night. at some point he finally rolled over, and the snoring quieted, and i drifted off to sleep. only to wake this time, 30 minutes later, to the sounds of the babe crying in the monitor. i suspect it was just a nightmare, but his runny nose & constant whacking at his ear may see me in the pediatricians office tomorrow, and prove it something more.
even with all that activity in the wee hours of the morning... i'm still here, waaay past my bedtime tonight, with thoughts just running through my mind like they got nowhere else to go. and i know, i just know it's this quote i stumbled upon on pinterest, coupled with the book i just finished, that has my brain playing as a racetrack with my thoughts as the cars, chasing after one another.
i couldn't tell you how long ago it was. i can only tell you that my brother was single & in college.. and mason was an only child. but i remember this conversation we had. it keeps playing over & over in my head... a conversation where i sort of half defended myself, and sort of speculated at something that has just now begun to burrow into my heart & dig out emotions i seemed to have tucked away long ago & since forgot. and i can't wrap my head around the idea that's lurking just beneath the surface, but i know it's there... and it feels like it's taunting me these days.
he was in college, of that i'm sure, because i can vaguely remember the conversation starting out as one about his schooling & the road he hoped to take... and somehow it turned to a discussion about me & why i never finished school. which is odd, in retrospect, because my brother doesn't ask much about me. it's not that he doesn't care, to be clear.. it's just. well, he's kinda like my dad in that respect i guess... figures if you want him to know something, you'll tell him.. otherwise he's not prying. (whereas i on the other hand often find myself asking more questions that i probably should out of sheer curiosity.) and i remember telling him then, as i can honestly tell you now.. i didn't finish school because i didn't know what i wanted to go to school for. i wasn't one of those kids who grew up knowing they were destined to be a doctor, or a rock star, or anything for that matter. and i remember thinking while i was talking to him, that he was so smart, and somewhere along the line he might make a difference, that he would do great things, that people would respect him, like they respected my dad. and i told him 'ya know rick, i don't know.. i don't think everyone is destined to do miraculous things with their lives... some people just have to be the parents of people who do miraculous things' now.. don't get me wrong.. i love my kids just like any mama does but right now i'm thinking the only miraculous thing the dude is capable of is doing something the first time he's told, and learning to think of others first... and as for the babe.. well i'd just be happy if he'd say something more than 'bubby', 'bahye' or 'dadda', so that little fear that's creeping up in the back of my mind of why he's not talking at 18 months would go away.
i suffer from no delusions that my kids are going to save the planet, run for president, or invent the next iwhatever.... but they might.
what i am saying is that feeling, bubbling up beneath the surface is one of acceptance. one of forgiveness, for myself because i have let society spoon feed me this garbage that a career & accomplishments that come with monetary gain or notoriety are more important than my goal of becoming a truly enlightened human being, and somehow trying to pass that onto the world through my kids.
i know you're probably thinking, geez get on with the crafts already, and i will i promise. but this is where my heart is right now. my thoughts are a jumbled mess, and all of this likely explains the lack of blogging. i sit down to write posts, and somehow all of them seemed forced, because what i really want to be writing about is this stuff here. the stuff in my heart. but somehow when i sit down to type i can't translate my emotions into words that make sentences and paragraphs. so i ended up deleting what i write or walking away feeling frustrated that i can't get it out of my head.
so i just need to sit with my heart & my head a little while longer. i need to take pictures and live and listen to my heart. i need to make things that speak to me, and maybe look a little scary to the outside viewer. but i know it's there.. that something lurking underneath the surface.. and i just got to give it time to get out. all while you are sitting there saying.. what the heck does she mean by enlightened?!


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Goiania, Brazil: Brazil turned on an impressive second half performance in their drubbing of Panama on Tuesday but have a ways to go before they are ready for their World Cup opener, according to manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Brazil struggled in the early minutes of their penultimate friendly until a goal from Neymar in the 27th minute and another from Dani Alves 13 minutes set them on their way.
Hulk scored his team`s third within seconds of the re-start and substitute Willian concluded the scoring during a 4-0 win that Brazil dominated.
"We still have a week and a half left," Scolari, referring to Brazil`s World Cup opener, told reporters after the match. "There`s a good way to go. But keep calm, we`ll get there. Today was reasonably better but I am still demanding more.
"We had problems with the transition," Scolari added. "It was off in the first 20 minutes of the match and things could have been different against a better team.
"If I had to choose one half it would be the second in which we showed more movement, better possession and more agility. I liked the end of the first half and the whole of the second."
Scolari praised Neymar, one of the day`s outstanding performers. In addition to scoring the game`s first goal, the 22-year-old Barcelona striker had a hand in two more and was at the fulcrum of Brazil`s play all afternoon.
"Neymar is an athlete who does something different every day," said Scolari. "He improvises well, he is quick, agile and any coach is going to talk him up."
Neymar was injured twice this season, his first in Europe, and Scolari said he would play him in Friday`s friendly against Serbia to get him back into form.
The Panamanian players sought out Neymar after the finalwhistle for souvenir photographs but when the ball was in play they did not spare him and Scolari warned his young star he cannot get caught up in incidents.
"We're working on that aspect," he said. "If the oppositionprovokes him he can't react, the one that has to take action is the referee."
Neymar brushed off the provocations and said he was ready to lead Brazil and deal with the weight of expectations.
"I've been under pressure since I was a kid," he said. "I am ready for it."
Brazil open the World Cup, the first to be played in Brazilsince 1950, against Croatia in Sao Paulo on June 12.


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If the roof is in good condition and only has two layers of shingles in place, the new shingles can go over the existing roofing. If three layers are already in place, they need to be removed first. A layer of felt goes down over the plywood sheathing when shingles are installed on a bare roof.
The installer starts by snapping a vertical chalk line at the center of the roof to serve as a guide for installation. A starter row of shingles with the tabs cut off goes along the bottom edge of the roof with a 1/2-inch hangover.
Additional chalk lines help install the shingles in straight rows. The shingles should overlap so only the tabs of the previous shingle show. Each row should be offset by about 6 inches from the previous row so the tabs don't line up.
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If you're into sports you know how important it is for our health, not to mention the social and learning aspects involved in working as a group. That's why many parents stimulate their kids to do some sport quite early.
Parents who are gym freaks are more likely to put their kids to work out too. But in that case you'd better be extra careful there and get some info on the right age to enroll your kid in a gym. "Just like any physical activity, weight training can be unhealthy if the child pushes themselves too hard, which could overload the structures of their bodies", explains Mauro Olívio Martinelli, a specialist in sports medicine and an orthopedist at Centro de Qualidade de Vida, in São Paulo.
About 90% of our skeleton is made up of collagen fibers which provide the bone tissue with resistance against deformation forces. The developing skeleton of a young athlete is made up of bone and cartilage tissues.
"Repeated trauma or excessive strain, when applied to the cartilage skeleton may lead to a decrease in the vascularization, injury to the growth plate of the bone and consequent alteration to the shape of the final bone", says Joaquim Grava, an orthopedist and sports doctor at Hospital São Luiz (SP).
In other words, the growth platers may close prematurely or in an uneven way, leading to alterations of its natural shape.
The Right Age
In general, most professionals recommend the practice of weight training for teenagers around 16 years old, when their osteomuscular condition is maturing and almost complete. "This maturation occurs in girls after their first period and in boys after their growth spurt, when they grow from 8 to 10 centimeters in a very short period of time", Grava tells me.
There are, though, special cases in which doctors authorize the practice of weight training at 14, under extreme supervision of a professional only. But in that case it depends on the objectives for such an early practice. "Before this age, only in specific cases of small athletes that can benefit from weight training", he adds.
The Practice Before 16
So if your child is already this age, before enrolling them in the gym it's imperative that they see a doctor and perform a full checkup (yes, my friend, the little ones also need to go through this in order to start working out).
During the clinical procedure, aspects like bone maturation, muscular condition, balance and motor coordination, factors that can influence physical activity, are evaluated. "Plus, we should not forget that a young athlete is not a miniature of an adult one. There are metabolic differences involved that must be respected", points Joaquim Grava.
The fact is that the anaerobic capacity of a child is largely inferior to an adult's, for example. However, the younger athletes are capable of recovering from any exercise much faster. Not only that but the teenager, when under physical strain, has their metabolism and caloric production worn out. On the other hand, the cooling of the body is not as efficient as an adult's. "Which means that their diet and hydration routine has to be different from an older person's", points the doctor.
Future Benefits
But if you follow all these guidelines and seek a good professional to supervise your child, I am certain they will become healthier adults. According to Mauro Martinelli, the benefits of weight training, as well as other physical activities are:
– better socialization;
– better school performance;
– it increases self-esteem – through the release of hormones (endorphins) and aesthetic evolution;
– better health in general (metabolic, physical and mental);
– prevention of diseases;
– reduced sedentariness in the adult by starting a physical activity early on.
Weight training or other physical activities can improve bone health (strengthening bones, maintaining calcium levels) and prevent the onset of osteoporosis in the future. "It can also improve metabolic control and lessen insulin resistance, which, in turn, reduces the risk of diabetes and hypertension in the future", states Martinelli.
Additionally, the practice of physical activities affects hormone production in several ways. The activities increase endorphin levels (as we said) and reduce cortisol levels, contributing to psychological well-being.
"The levels of anabolic hormones like sexual steroids, growth hormone and its transporter proteins also increase, mainly with resisted exercises", explains Joaquim Grava.
The sports doctor also adds that the benefits of the physical activity become evident in several organs and systems: cardiovascular (higher oxygen consumption, maintenance of a good heart rate), respiratory (increase of functional ventilatory parameters), muscular (increase of mass, strength and resistance), skeletal (increase of calcium contents and bone mineralization), cartilaginous (increase of cartilage thickness, providing higher protection of joints) and endocrinological (higher insulin sensitivity and improvement of the lipid profile).
So, ready?
I have talked to Cacá Ferreira, a corporate technical manager at Cia Athletica, a gym center in São Paulo, and asked for a workout program for children. Of course your kid will need professional help (don't even think of letting them work out alone). But you can suggest these to their instructor. Take a look:
- Ball throwing
Using a ball, raise it above your head and throw it as far as you can.
- Jumping
Here you'll teach your kid how to keep their back straight when jumping. If you've got a trampoline it's even more fun.
- Resistance running
Tie a rope to a tire (of just a few kilos), fasten the rope to the kid's shoulders (as if it was a vest) and make them run dragging the tire.
- Squatting
Standing up, teach them to squat as if they were to sit down. Watch their posture.
- Pushing
This is just like doing push ups: lying on your stomach, keep your elbows aligned to your body, keep your hands on the floor and push your body up. Go back to start position.
- Pulling
This exercise can be better performed if you gather several kids and play tug of war, in which each team remains on one side of the rope, pulling it. Whoever gets to pull all the rope to their side wins.
I've also asked André de Andrade, a physical educator at Bodytech, in São Paulo, for another program. He showed me the machines the teenagers can use in the gym. Check them out:
- Bench press
Ask the child to sit correctly, combining shoulders, scapulas and elbows into a joint movement of extension and flexion of the elbows only.
- Adductor machine
Sitting straight, place your hips in the right position and align your back. Next, do the movement of adduction and abduction of the legs.
- Lateral Raise
Standing up, flex your knees slightly, align your back and raise your arms.
- Leg curl machine
Sitting straight, align your back and hips and do the movement of flexion and extension of the knees.
- Seated row machine
Start by sitting on the machine, align your back and keep your knees slightly bent. Do the movement of adduction and abduction of your scapulas and flexion and extension of your elbows.
- Calf machine
Standing up, keep your back straight, moving only your ankle joint, doing only a plantar flexion.
- Dumbbell bicep curls
Sitting on a bench, keep your back straight, knees bent and feet on the floor. Using a pair of dumbbells, bend and extend your elbows.
- Triceps press
Sitting down, keep your back against the seat and feet flat on the floor. Do the movement of extension and flexion of your elbows.
- Floor sit ups
Lying on the floor on your back, knees slightly bent and feet flat on the floor, flex your trunk forward enough so you can just feel your scapulas come up off the floor.
Get your Kid Ready
Now all you have to do is see a doctor and find a good gym to enroll them.
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The first Saturday of the New Year
was FA Cup Third Round day, with Spurs travelling to
Craven Cottage to take on Malcolm Macdonald's Second
Division Fulham. Having started the match with an
unfamiliar looking back four, which included Mark Bowen
and Gary O'Reilly, both making rare first team
appearances, our defence then lost Graham Roberts with
half an hour to go as he took over in goal from the
injured Ray Clemence. Our England international
goalkeeper had suffered a shoulder injury early on but
had battled on well into the second half before being
unable to continue. A fine performance between the sticks
by Roberts helped keep Spurs in the competition as the
game ended 0-0. In those days replays were usually
scheduled for the week following the first game, not
10-11 days after as is the norm nowadays, so four days
later Fulham travelled to White Hart Lane. Despite his
heroics between the sticks in the first game, Roberts was
no doubt pleased to be back in his usual defensive role.
Tony Parks took over in goal, making his first appearance
of the season and he kept a clean sheet as we won 2-0,
Roberts again making himself unpopular with Fulham by
scoring. Steve Archibald got the other goal as Spurs
ended a run of seven games without a victory.
Roberts was again on the
score-sheet three days later, together with Mark Falco, as
we returned to league action with a 2-0 home win over
Ipswich Town at The Lane. Hopes of a third successive
victory were dashed the following week at struggling
Everton, where Spurs succumbed to a late Adrian Heath
goal. The crowd at Goodison Park for this meeting of two
of the "Big Five" was only 18,003. The result
meant that Everton had done the double over Spurs and
left us in twelfth position in the Division One table.
The draw for the Fourth
Round of the FA Cup gave Tottenham a tough home draw
against Norwich City. The Canaries stood two places above
Spurs in the Division One table and we were unable to
break down the visitors defence. A tight game ended in a
goalless draw. The replay took place the following
Wednesday and for Spurs fans it was a case of déjà vu as
we slipped to our second 2-1 defeat at Carrow Road in
less than two months, Mark Falco notching our solitary
goal. Tottenham recovered from the Cup knock-out with an
excellent 2-2 draw at second placed Nottingham Forest
three days later, which was the start of a four-match
unbeaten run in the League.
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Feb. 8, 1923-Aug. 16, 2012
Anna Belle Tutching, age 89, of Woodhaven, formerly of Rockwood, passed away Thursday August 16, 2012 at Applewood Nursing Center in Woodhaven, where she had been a resident for the last year and a half.
Anna was born on February 8, 1923 in Haggerstown, Maryland to Harlan and Ruth Irene (Ridenaour) Smith. She met and married LeGrande (Lee) Tutching at the end of WWII at a USO Club. They were married on August 29, 1946 in Maryland.
Anna was employed as an office manager at Chrysler Corporation where she retired after 24 years of faithful service. She was a member of Rockwood First Congregational Church and belonged to the Nomad?s Travel Club.
Anna is survived by one niece and 3 nephews who all live in Maryland. She was preceded in death by her parents, spouse and siblings, Ralph and Robert Smith.
Visitation will be from 4-8pm Sunday at Ford Chapel-Allore Martenson Family of Funeral Homes Rockwood, where services will be held at 11am Monday. The Rev. Charles Packer of Rockwood First Congregational Church will officiate; interment will follow at Riverside Cemetery S.Rockwood, MI.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing to make a memorial donation in Anna?s name are asked to please consider Rockwood First Congregational Church 2260 Mather Rockwood, MI. 48173. Online condolences may be made at www.martenson.com


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Orlando hires Rob Keefe as head coach
December 24, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Predators have named Rob Keefe the team's new head coach for the upcoming season.
Keefe has coached in the Arena Football League for five seasons, most recently as the defensive coordinator for the Utah Blaze. He was also the head coach of the Spokane Shock in 2010 when they won the AFL title.
Keefe said in a statement Tuesday that he's "excited to begin a new chapter and a renewed commitment to excellence that all Predator fans deserve."
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Amazon is currently offering a deal to see Seth MacFarlane's Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, in theaters for free when you pre-order the hilarious film on Blu-ray.
Unlike the Prometheus pre-order deal, the Ted pre-order coupon is not limited to a certain number of copies sold, and runs until September 30, 2012. Here's a breakdown of the how to get your free ticket:
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I really don't understand how it happened. I am always anticipating the next Gap ad, discussing it with my peers, and I stop channel surfing to watch the commercials. As far as I can see, Gap has its demographic (me) right where it wants it.
Gap used to mean upper middle-class white kids. Now Abercrombie & Fitch, by putting its name so obviously on every garment it makes, has taken Gap's place as the way to proclaim wealth if you're 15, while Gap has become fashion for those who don't particularly know what their style is-and that is a lot of kids.
Although Gap has something for everyone, it hasn't become faceless. Gap has the ability to give the audience what it wants: something new, interesting and attractive with every commercial.
Gap gets it, and others don't. There is just so much wrong with most teen-aimed advertising today. The flattery with the big vocabulary fad inspired by Kevin Williamson scripts ["Dawson's Creek" and "Scream"] is just another way to say, "We're on your side"-which is something I can guarantee we don't want to hear. In fact, it's insulting. We don't like advertisers trying to appeal to our rebellious adolescent sensibilities by pretending to go against the grain. These attempts by advertisers to show they understand us are misguided.
Last year, J.C. Penney Co.'s Arizona jeans used an off-the-mark ad showing a bunch of teens of various ethnicities and images walking along the street criticizing TV commercials (one says: "And what about those ones where they just scream at you?").
The obvious point was to show teens that Arizona jeans knows what it's really like to be a kid, and that all those other companies just don't understand. The consensus of the kids in the ad, and the tag line for the spot, was, "Just show us the jeans."
Unfortunately, Arizona didn't take its own advice. Gap did. Gap showed us the jeans, the khakis, the leather, the corduroy or the vests.
In the Gap ads, pleasing visual effects were paired with pleasing music. First to air were Gap khakis on attractive people dancing to several music genres against a white background. Then, Gap vests, corduroy pants, and leather on attractive people sitting on white steps and singing songs we vaguely knew. Then, Gap winter clothes on people dancing to holiday music. It seems that someone would have pinpointed this formula before. If sight plus sound equals TV, then pleasing sight plus pleasing sound equals pleasing television.
These Gap ads, by creating a new niche, didn't have to conform to any set ones. Gap adopted a style that was unique, but didn't alienate anyone.
Clothes can help someone to define who he or she is. If this is true anywhere, it's true in school. Teens don't need ads to tell us that. We can see through advertising, so advertisers should never try to spin the issue. Advertisers trying too hard to impress the teen demographic is just as pathetic as a boy trying to impress a girl. It's simple: Be attractive, and we'll want you really badly.
Gap ads are clearly selling clothing, but they leave something to the imagination with their simplicity. I trust the company will continue to bring us successful ads. Although I can hardly handle the loss of my favorite commercials, I console myself with the hope that Gap has something even better up its sleeve.
Katie Garfield is an 18-year-old high school senior and daughter of Ad Age's Ad Review columnist, Bob Garfield.


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Before reading ahead, I would strongly suggest to read about bitwise operations here, otherwise it will be very hard to understand the logic of the example.
So lets declare our bitwise flag enum:
[Flags] private enum DeliveryDays { NONE = 0, // 0000000 MON = 1, // 0000001 TUE = 2, // 0000010 WED = 4, // 0000100 THU = 8, // 0001000 FRI = 16, // 0010000 SAT = 32, // 0100000 SUN = 64, // 1000000 WORKDAYS = MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI, //0011111 WEEKENDS = SAT | SUN //1100000 }The [Flags] attribute indicates that an enumeration can be treated as a bit field. Do use powers of two for a enumeration's values so they can be freely combined using the bitwise OR operation. As you can see for workdays and weekends we have combined the relevant days.
Now lets write down the methods which set these flags on or off.
private DeliveryDays _selectedDays = DeliveryDays.None; public void AddDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays days) { _selectedDays |= days; } public void RemoveDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays days) { _selectedDays &= ~days; } public void testDaysBitEnum() { //lets select monday and tuesday AddDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays.MON | DeliveryDays.TUE); //lets change it all the work days AddDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays.WorkDays); //now lets remove monday and tuesday and add weekends RemoveDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays.MON | DeliveryDays.TUE); AddDeliveryDays(DeliveryDays.WEEKENDS); }As shown above we can quickly toggle multiple flags. But we also need some functionality to find which flags have been selected. In .NET framework 4.0 the enum has a method called HasFlag which does this for you. For older frameworks you can use the following method.
public bool HasFlag(DeliveryDays day) { return ((_selectedDays & day) == day); }If you are using .NET 3.5 Framework it will be handy to add the above method as an Extension Method.


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PERTH, 11 July 2014<\/strong> – After outlaying AUD126.5 million on three east coast transactions in quick succession, Singapore-based company Fragrance Group Limited, through its subsidiary Fragrance WA-Perth Pty Ltd, has entered the Perth market, today announcing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) the purchase of a Perth CBD site in a deal exclusively managed by JLL.<\/div>

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JLL's Manager of Sales and Investments – WA Sean Flynn negotiated the transaction on behalf of the Assignor Westbridge Property Group, and has confirmed that Fragrance WA-Perth Pty Ltd has assigned and executed an option to purchase the development site at 374-396 Murray Street for a total acquisition price of AUD40 million.<\/div>

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Westbridge Property Group is a strategic joint venture partnership bringing together the development and capital management expertise of the core management team of private equity firm Sirona Capital and leading developer Saracen Properties.<\/div>

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Chaired by Luke Saraceni, Westbridge has conducted several successful recent transactions in addition to the Murray Street site, including the future Quest site on Kings Park Road which is currently under construction. <\/div>

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Sirona finalised the purchase of a site in Packenham Street Fremantle from Westbridge for development as serviced apartments to be leased by Quest and this will also commence construction later this year.<\/div>

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Mr Flynn said the 4,926sqm Murray Street site is strategically located at the northern end of popular Shafto Lane, in close proximity to the Perth City Link redevelopment site and the now iconic King Street retail precinct. <\/div>

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According to Mr Flynn, the site is currently utilised predominantly as 'at grade' car parking.<\/div>

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The purchase includes intellectual property rights and development approval for 286 apartments over 31 levels, a ground floor retail and or food and beverage offering, and approximately 14,000sqm of office accommodation.<\/div>

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"We are thrilled to have enticed Fragrance to Perth after having been in close discussion with founder and CEO Koh Wee Meng for some time.<\/div>

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"Fragrance is a very exciting group to work with given their strong development pedigree in Singapore.  <\/div>

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"At last count they have built, own and operate 23 hotels in Singapore, and are also very active in other modes, with reportedly over 100 completed developments to their name.<\/div>

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"We understand they will look to convert the office component of the Murray Street DA into a substantial hotel offering in the near future," said Mr Flynn.<\/div>

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JLL's WA Managing Director, John Williams said he was not at all surprised by the group's strong interest in the Murray Street site.<\/div>

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"This is a high-quality site that represents a valuable addition to the Fragrance Group's inner city development portfolio.<\/div>

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"Their east coast transactions in June alone included the purchases of the Savoy Tavern site at 134-160 Spencer Street for AU 44.5 million and the 24-storey, 555 Collins Street building for AU 78 million.<\/div>

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"Both of these Melbourne sites are flagged for high rise, mixed use developments of potentially up to 100 storeys, indicative of the calibre of the Fragrance Group's impressive pipeline of inner city apartment stock," said Mr Williams.<\/div>


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Gerry Scullion
Founder & Podcast Host
Gerry Scullion is a service design consultant with 15-years professional experience. Before founding Humana he held design leadership positions at Myspace.com, IGN, Cochlear, MYOB, and CBA.
He's spoken at UX Australia, UX Scotland, Vivid Sydney, Product Camp Dublin, General Assembly, Product Tank, XXUX and Product Talks. He's a long-serving volunteer mentor for iXDA in Australia and is a Fellow and NSW Convenor for theRSA.org.
Most recently he contributed to the service design book 'This is Service Design Doing' (O'Reilly Media, 2017) on chapters relating to 'Embedding service design into organisations' and 'Effective prototyping for businesses'.
His interests lie heavily in using design methods to improve social outcomes. He lives and breathes design, is an ex-singer songwriter, amateur barista, football fanatic, and tech gadget geek.
Adrienne Tan
Podcast Host (Sydney)
Adrienne has more than 20 years building and managing Products, starting her career developing Australia's Internet network. She is a global thought leader in the world of product management.
She co-founded Brainmates, a product management practice supporting Product teams in startup companies like AirTasker to global organisations such as Lendlease.
She co-founded Leading the Product conference, Australia's largest and most established product focussed conference. Adrienne is passionate about enabling organisations to deliver value for their customers.
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Mark is a designer specialising in user experience and product design. Based in Sydney, he is the co-founder of the experience start-up loqules.com and has recently helped brands like RØDE, William Hill and Telstra transform their digital offerings.