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Nico Ferranti's study at The Dower House…
Since it's after the family dinner, Nico was relaxing in his study—a glass of Chianti at his elbow—as he talked via Face time to Gregorio Ancelotti, Tonio's uncle, in Italy.
"It sounds as if Tonio is doing well, Nico," Gregorio said.
Nico nodded, studied the man on the screen.
Although Gregorio was in his late thirties, tall, slim and wide shouldered, his genes had decreed he had more grey hair than black. Bronte called him a silver fox, much to Tonio's amusement. Like Nico, tonight the man wore a fitted T-shirt, black, and matching jeans.
"He enjoyed spending time with you at Christmas. Bronte says do not be a stranger. You are welcome any time to our home. You are la famiglia." Not exactly offended, Bronte had wanted Gregorio to stay at The Dower House over the festive season. Instead he'd stayed in one of the Ludlow Hall's stunning oak and stainless steel A frame cottages, perfectly happy to have his own space.
Gregorio's dark eyes narrowed as his firm mouth curved in reluctant smile.
He spoke in his usual deeply accented drawl. "Grazie, Nico. I appreciate the invitation. However, an old bachelor like me can stomach only so much domestic bliss at any one time. You are a lucky man. The Ferranti household only serves to remind me of my—domestic failings."
Nico had to laugh.
Domestic failings his ass.
Gregorio had his pick of women.
The man was rich, and according to Bronte hot.
Nico had heard a whisper that Gregorio had not spent some of his nights in his cottage alone during his Christmas visit.
None of his business, he reminded himself.
However, he decided that now might be the right time to make a point of an issue that was a cause for concern to his wife. "It is important to Bronte and I that Tonio spends time with what is left of his madre's family."
There was a silence as the two men regarded each other.
"Namely me," Gregorio said, nodding slowly.
Gregorio was about to respond, when Nico noticed the door to his study slowly open.
He lifted his head, suspecting the intruder might be the dog, Jimmy Chew, who had a habit of bellying into a room like a ninja. But it wasn't the dog, instead it was his baby daughter, Eve, who was motoring into the room at a fast crawl.
It seemed someone had escaped from her mama after her bath.
The baby was dressed in a pink sleep suit, her silky black curls dancing on her head.
When she started to pull herself up to her feet, using the heavy oak door as support, he noted little fingers were about to be caught in the door hinge.
Nico was on his feet and had her in his arms, a heartbeat away from disaster.
As he took his seat in front of his laptop, Gregorio leaned forward to study the scene.
His eyes, usually cynical, went all soft. "Ah, Eve, bella. She is a beautiful bambina, Nico."
Since the baby was busy dropping kisses to his cheek and jaw, it took Nico a while to respond.
"She has found her feet. You should find yourself a good woman and settle down," Nico advised, and laughed at the wide-eyed look of utter horror on Gregorio's face.
"I am content and happy and safe just as I am, and so is my money."
Before Nico could respond, Tonio flew into the room. "Aha. There you are," he sang to an Eve whose response was to bury her face in her papa's shoulder, her little arms wound tight around his neck.
"Ah, Tonio," Nico said, his voice deep and his Italian accent deep. "Here's Gregorio. Spend some time with him, while I put Eve to bed."
He strolled out the room and left uncle and nephew to it.
Tonio slipped into the ergonomic chair, the black leather still warm, and gave his uncle Gregorio a shy wave. "Hi."
Gregorio cleared his throat. "How are you? How is school?"
Tonio wondered why every single adult he knew was totally obsessed with school?
"I've received an A* in English and Math and science."
Gregorio nodded, as if he'd expect nothing less.
"And I am captain of the soccer team," Tonio added into a silence that had gone for, as far as he was concerned, far too long.
Again his uncle nodded, so Tonio decided to mix it up a little. "And I have two girlfriends."
Aha, that got a ghost of a smile. "I think you may be a little young to dally with girls."
Dally?
Tonio made a mental note to look the word up.
He leaned forward and went eye-to-eye with his uncle. "When did you have your first girlfriend?"
Gregorio blinked. "Unlike you, I was unfortunate enough to attend an all boys school, so it took some time for me to feel comfortable with the opposite sex. I think I was fourteen."
"Was she pretty?"
The smile was swift, like a lightning strike, and then gone. "Si. But of course she was pretty."
"Did you kiss her?"
His uncle's inhale made Tonio grin. "I believe I did, eventually. I seem to remember it took me a long time to work up to it."
"I kiss girls all the time," Tonio informed him, his chest puffed out with pride.
Gregorio nodded, not looking in the least bit surprised. "I suppose a man is never too young to get into the swing of things."
"Auntie Rosie says I must take my time choosing the best chocolate in the box and not gorge myself on too much sweetness or they will rot my teeth along with my respect for women."
At these words of wisdom, Gregorio's eyes grew round. "Did she? I am sure Auntie Rosie is a wise women, but I would take her recommendation with a large pinch of salt."
Tonio nodded. "Si. Papa says I don't want to catch germs, and I must treat girls as equals."
Gregorio cleared his throat again. "Si. When a man is an expert in a subject, you must listen well to his advice."
"When are you coming to visit with us?" Tonio asked the question burning in his belly. There was something about his Uncle Gregorio, the way he held himself apart from others, that bothered Tonio.
"I was about to suggest that you and the family come to visit with me here, at Lake Como. Would you like that?"
"Do you still have the jet ski?"
"Si. I purchased a Laser Pico sailing dingy for you and the twins to learn to sail."
Tonio's jaw dropped. "Wow! Grazie!"
When Nico entered, Tonio turned a beaming face to him.
"Papa, when can we visit with Uncle Gregorio?"
After he'd settled Tonio on his knee, Nico sent wide eyes to a grinning Gregorio on the screen.
Before Gregorio could open his mouth, Tonio jumped in, "He's bought a sailing dingy for us to learn to sail. Can we go, papa? Can we?"
Nico nodded. "Good idea, Gregorio. It is never too early for children to learn to respect water."
"I thought during the May school break. Speak to Bronte. I will make the arrangements," Gregorio said.
"Wow! I can't wait to tell Luca and Sophia. Grazie, Uncle Gregorio!"
And with that Tonio raced from the room.
"You have made his day," Nico drawled, more than delighted boy and man were bonding.
"Hmm. The boy is highly intelligent with lots of energy. Learning a new physical skill is smart. It will keep his mind occupied with wind speed and direction, current and buoyancy rather than concerned with kissing girls and the wisdom of Auntie Rosie."
Nico had to laugh, and then groan. "Do not tell me."
"Tonio needs exposure to our culture. I will invite your brother Gabriel and his family, too. The boy is wealthy. He will be a target for any unscrupulous huntress who will use beauty and sex to entrap him. Between us we will educate him in our ways and prepare him for the choppy waters of life ahead."
Nico understood the underlying message loud and clear.
"Si. We are Italian."
Oooooh, I see trouble ahead……
And I have news of the Sneak Peek book – LUDLOW HALL After HAPPY EVER AFTER:
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VIRGINIA: NOT GAY AND PROUD
By Orson Nov 15, 2007, 3:00pm EST
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Not gay, and that needs to be said if you're gonna wear that outfit.
Virginia's fight song is played to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" and has the following lyrics:
We come from old Virginia,
Where all is bright and gay.
Let's all join hands and give a yell
For dear old UVa.
Antiquated verbiage is common enough in fight songs, but UVA students have gotten around singing the word "gay" by hollering "NOT GAY!" over the lyric when sung. This counter has drawn the ire of gay and lesbian student groups, who claim the "NOT GAY!" cheer...
"...marginalizes the gay community by creating an environment in which certain people who may or may not identify as gay do not feel welcome.""
So there's heated student editorials ("Not gay and proud of it," by a freshman at UVA), a lot of hooting and poop-tossing going back and forth, and flyers being handed out urging people not to sing the "NOT GAY" cheer when the song is sung. The whole thing reeks of tempest-in-teapot, especially when you consider some of the other hidden antiquated or potentially offensive language in fight songs and alma maters.
1. Advocacy of murder of outsiders.
Once two strangers climbed on rocky top,
Lookin for a moonshine still.
Strangers aint come back from rocky top,
Guess they never will.
2. Bizarre pagan bear worship, as in Cal's "Fight for California:"
Our sturdy Golden Bear,
Is watching from the skies,
Looks down upon our colors fair,
And guards us from his lair.
2. Um...intrastate mass homicide, as in Georgia Tech's "White and Gold:"
So then it's up with the White and Gold
Down with the Red and the Black
Georgia Tech is out for a victory
We'll drop our battle axe on Georgia's head, CHOP!
So, a bit of a tiff about being gay or chanting "not gay" might be the least of a university's worries, really, what with every other fight song on the planet openly and giddily pushing for the murder of an opponent. (HT: Fesser.)

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Want to transfer videos from iPhone to computer? Check the following article and see how to transfer videos from iPhone to computer in two methods.
Most of you save videos on iPhone because you are able to carry and enjoy your favorite videos anywhere, anytime. However, as more videos are added, they will run out of storage capacity. Especially for 16GB iPhone users, it's urgent to take the adequate measures to free up more storage for iPhone.
Transfer videos from iPhone to computer is a perfect way that you can free more iPhone storage space, and also keep and save videos to PC for backup. In this way, it's also convenient for you to rebuild iTunes Library and enrich your new iPhone. Now let's see how to transfer videos from iPhone to computer in two methods.
Actually, there are multiple tools can help you make it. In this article, we only introduce the easiest and the most effective iPhone manager - IOTransfer for you.
IOTransfer is one of the best iTunes alternatives and iPhone management tool that enables you to transfer videos, contacts, photos, music, and much more between iOS devices and computer. Besides, you can use it to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, etc. and convert it to the compatible formats. And now you are able to use it to create CIFs without watermark.
To easily transfer videos from iPhone to computer, free download and install IOTransfer to your Windows 7/8/8.1/10. It works in iOS 8 or later. If you've updated to iOS 12, you can also use it to transfer videos. Now follow the steps.
Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer with a USB cable. What would you do if you don't have a USB in hand or your lightning cable does not work well? Try to wirelessly transfer iPhone videos to computer.
Step 2. Launch IOTransfer and you will see Photos, Videos, Music and Contacts are checked by default in its home page. If you want to transfer all of them to computer, simply click "Transfer to PC". If you only want to transfer some videos, go to "MANAGE" > "Videos" > select the videos you want to transfer > "Export".
As iPhone can be recognized as a storage device by computer, you can also transfer videos from iPhone to computer via Windows Explorer (called File Explorer in Windows 10). Follow the guide.
Step 1. Connect your iPhone to PC with a USB cable. If asked, type in your iPhone password to unlock it and tap on "Trust" on your iPhone.
Step 2. Open "This PC", find your iPhone and right-click your device name. Then choose "Import pictures and videos".
Step 3. Choose "Review, organize, and group items to import" or "Import all new items now". Tap on "Next" to continue. Then select the videos you want to transfer and click "Import" to begin.
Or you can go to "This PC" > "your iPhone name" > "Internal Storage" > "DCIM" > "100APPLE" and copy videos from iPhone to computer.
The article lists two methods to transfer videos from iPhone to computer. Choose one you like. Personally, I prefer to use IOTransfer beacuse I can use it to transfer contacts to PC for backup. Also, in the second way, I can't wirelessly transfer files.


With Christopher width and depth in both sport psychology and his managerial baseball experience, he is available to guide all Pierrefonds coaches at any level on many aspects on the game of baseball. Christopher is available to all baseball coaches as a valuable resource to plan practices, drills to improve player's performance and managerial tips on how to handle difficult situations, which may arise during the baseball season.
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In 2013, He coached Bantam A for Pierrefonds and helped coach the team to the regional finals and won the Pierrefonds Coaching Staff of the Year. He then coached Junior AA for Lac St. Louis, in which he won the Lac St. Louis Coach of the Year for a major team.
In 2016, Christopher then coached Bantam AA for Lac St. Louis and thoroughly enjoyed teaching and developing his athletes. Christopher's is an accredited level 3 umpire for Lac St.Louis, a provincially certified coach and a certified developer for coaches.
Christopher's strength in coaching and playing is his attentiveness to detail, desire for perfection and knowledge of the game. He brings passion, enjoyment and fun every time he steps on the field.
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Q: Converting ImageMagick command to GraphicsMagick In order to increase speed of a conversion, and avoid bugs, I'd like to convert the following ImageMagick command to a GraphicsMagick command.
This upcasts a PDF of any size to 300 DPI, then converts that PDF to a high quality 8.5x11 PDF in ImageMagick.
convert -density 300 ~/Desktop/10x11.pdf -density 300 -resize 2550x3300 -gravity center -extent 2550x3300 -colorspace Gray ~/Desktop/8.5x11.pdf

Running the same command in GraphicsMagick yields a PDF that is 35x45 inches. This is because the interpreted density of the final PDF is 72 (rather than 300) for some reason.
gm convert -density 300 ~/Desktop/10x11.pdf -density 300 -resize 2550x3300 -gravity center -extent 2550x3300 -colorspace Gray ~/Desktop/35x45.pdf

The following yields a (blurry) 8.5x11inch PDF.
gm convert -density 300 ~/Desktop/10x11.pdf -density 300 -resize 612x792 -gravity center -extent 612x792 -colorspace Gray ~/Desktop/8.5x11.pdf

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here? The aim to generate crisp 8.5x11 inch PDFs using GraphicsMagick.

A: I realize you asked for a graphicsmagick solution, but if you're open to other libraries, libvips is usually faster at tasks like this.
Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick use Ghostscript for PDF rendering. libvips uses poppler instead: this library can generate high-quality anti-aliased bitmaps from PDFs at any size. You don't need to render at high resolution and then downsize.
On this laptop, I see:
$ /usr/bin/time -f %M:%e convert -density 300 ISO_12233-reschart.pdf -density 300 -resize 2550x3300 -gravity center -extent 2550x3300 -colorspace Gray x.pdf
250460:2.51

So 250MB of memory and 2.5s to generate your PDF.
The libvips equivalent would be:
#!/bin/bash

vips thumbnail $1 t1.v 2550 --height 3300
vips colourspace t1.v t2.v b-w
# drop any alpha channels
if [ $(vipsheader -f bands t2.v) -gt 1 ]; then
        vips extract_band t2.v t3.v 0
        mv t3.v t2.v
fi
vips gravity t2.v t3.v centre 2550 3300 --extend white
vips magicksave t3.v $2

I see:
$ /usr/bin/time -f %M:%e ./process.sh ISO_12233-reschart.pdf x.pdf
110168:1.05

110MB of memory and 1.05s.
Are you sure you need PDF output? The PDFs you are generating are not "real" PDFs, they are bitmaps with a PDF wrapper. I would use PNG instead:
#!/bin/bash

vips thumbnail $1 t1.v 2550 --height 3300
vips colourspace t1.v t2.v b-w
# drop any alpha channels
if [ $(vipsheader -f bands t2.v) -gt 1 ]; then
        vips extract_band t2.v t3.v 0
        mv t3.v t2.v
fi
vips gravity t2.v $2 centre 2550 3300 --extend white

I now see:
$ /usr/bin/time -f %M:%e ./process.sh ~/pics/ISO_12233-reschart.pdf x.png
58324:0.59

60MB of memory and 0.6s.
If you're able to use something like Python instead of bash, you can get it a bit quicker still.
#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
import pyvips

x = pyvips.Image.thumbnail(sys.argv[1], 2550, height=3300)
x = x.colourspace("b-w")
if x.bands > 1:
    x = x.extract_band(0)
x = x.gravity("centre", 2550, 3300, extend="white")
x.write_to_file(sys.argv[2])

Now 0.5s because there are no temporary files.

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Age-Adjusted Waist Circumference Among Adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2012a
Age adjustment was performed using the direct method using the projected year 2000 US population aged 20 years or older. P < .001 for linear trend for all groups except non-Hispanic whites (P ≤ .01 for trend) and non-Hispanic white men (P = .01 for trend).
During 2011-2012, the age-adjusted mean waist circumference was 87.4 cm (95% CI, 86.4-88.4 cm) for all Asian participants, 90.2 cm (95% CI, 89.0-91.3 cm) for Asian men, and 84.9 cm (95% CI, 83.6-86.1 cm) for Asian women.
Race and ethnicity were self-reported (fixed categories were presented to participants).
Age-Adjusted Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity Among Adults Using National Institutes of Health Criteria and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2012a
Age adjustment was performed using the direct method using the projected year 2000 US population aged 20 years or older. P ≤ .01 for linear trend for all groups.
During 2011-2012, the age-adjusted prevalence of abdominal obesity was 24.8% (95% CI, 22.0%-27.7%) for all Asian participants, 14.0% (95% CI, 10.8%-17.9%) for Asian men, and 34.0% (95% CI, 30.7%-37.4%) for Asian women.
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Trends in Mean Waist Circumference and Abdominal Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2012
Earl S. Ford, MD, MPH1; Leah M. Maynard, PhD1; Chaoyang Li, MD, PhD1
1US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Waist circumference is a simple and valuable anthropometric measure of total and intra-abdominal body fat.1 The clinical guidelines from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults recommend that clinicians assess waist circumference of their patients.2 Although the prevalence of abdominal obesity has increased in the United States through 2008,3 its trend in recent years is unknown. Therefore, our objective was to provide recent information about the trends in mean waist circumference and prevalence of abdominal obesity among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2012.
We used data from seven 2-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) starting with 1999-2000 and concluding with 2011-2012.4 NHANES is a national health survey of the civilian noninstitutionalized US population in which a sample is selected by using a complex, multistage, probability sampling design. The examination response rates across the survey cycles ranged from 69.5% to 79.6%. The surveys received institutional review board approval and participants provided written informed consent.
In the mobile examination center, the waist circumference of participants was measured just above the iliac crest to the nearest 1 mm using a steel measuring tape. Abdominal obesity was defined as a waist circumference greater than 102 cm in men and greater than 88 cm in women.2
Because the unadjusted and age-adjusted results were similar, we report only the latter. Tests for linear trend were conducted using orthogonal polynomial coefficients. Analyses, which take into account the complex sampling design of the surveys, were conducted using SAS version 9.3 (SAS Institute Inc) and SUDAAN version 11.0.0 (Research Triangle Institute) software. Two-sided P < .05 was considered statistically significant.
Data from 32 816 men and nonpregnant women aged 20 years or older were analyzed. The overall age-adjusted mean waist circumference increased progressively and significantly from 95.5 cm (95% CI, 94.2-96.8 cm) in 1999-2000 to 98.5 cm (95% CI, 97.5-99.4 cm) in 2011-2012 (Table 1). Significant increases occurred in men, women, non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans.
Particularly large increases between the first and last surveys were observed in non-Hispanic white women aged 40 to 49 years (6.6 cm), non-Hispanic black men aged 30 to 39 years (8.1 cm), Mexican American men aged 20 to 29 years (8.7 cm), Mexican American women aged 70 years or older (11.2 cm), and non-Hispanic black women aged 30 to 39 years (11.6 cm). When limited to the period from 2003 to 2012, during which levels of general obesity plateaued, significant increases in mean waist circumference were still noted among all adults (P = .02 for linear trend), women (P ≤ .01 for linear trend), non-Hispanic blacks (P = .02 for linear trend), and Mexican Americans (P = .01 for linear trend).
The overall age-adjusted prevalence of abdominal obesity increased significantly from 46.4% (95% CI, 42.1%-50.8%) in 1999-2000 to 54.2% (95% CI, 51.3%-57.0%) in 2011-2012 (Table 2). Significant increases were present in men, women, non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans.
Previous analyses of data from NHANES show that the prevalence of obesity calculated from body mass index (BMI) did not change significantly from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012.5 Positive developments in energy expenditure and intake have given hope that the decades-long increase in the prevalence of obesity in the United States may have crested.
In contrast, our analyses using data from the same surveys indicate that the prevalence of abdominal obesity is still increasing. The reasons for increases in waist circumference in excess of what would be expected from changes in BMI remain speculative, but several factors, including sleep deprivation, endocrine disruptors, and certain medications, have been proposed as potential explanations.6
Limitations to this analysis include the absence of data for Asians prior to 2011-2012, specific Asian populations, and specific Hispanic populations. Because of the nature of the sampling design, institutionalized adults were not included in the surveys.
At a time when the prevalence of obesity may have reached a plateau, the waistlines of US adults continue to expand. Our results support the routine measurement of waist circumference in clinical care consistent with current recommendations as a key step in initiating the prevention, control, and management of obesity among patients.2
Section Editor: Jody W. Zylke, MD, Senior Editor.
Corresponding Author: Earl S. Ford, MD, MPH, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 (eford@cdc.gov).
Author Contributions: Dr Ford had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Ford, Maynard.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: Ford.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Ford.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Maynard.
Study supervision: Ford.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported.
Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions reported in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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How to get your car up to show standard
We head to Fen End to find the secret behind a spotless finish
You'd never tell from the weather we've had so far, but the summer is here and when the sunshine finally breaks through you'll no doubt want your motor to be looking its best.
With that in mind we thought who's better to ask than the people who prepare our vehicles to the highest standards for product launch events and international motor shows? So, I bagged myself an invite down to Fen End, home of Event Vehicle Operations (EVO) to find out more.
EVO are responsible for all things within JLR that requires vehicle support. Whether that's providing assistance for far-flung media drives or doing logistics for the employee vehicle displays that you see here at Castle Brom.
When I arrived at the JLR facility, based at the former RAF Honiley airfield they invited me into the specialist workshop where cars destined for the big events and VIP customers are prepared.
The team working in here are like the elite special forces of the operation, they've got the most exacting standards and can spot an imperfection that most people wouldn't even notice.
I'd definitely come to the right place.
Walking down to the end of the room I find two rotating car turntables and a full lighting rig that together simulate the conditions you'll find at events, it was there that I was introduced to Scott Oatridge.
Scott is one of our vehicle detailers who'd agreed to share what they do and pass on a few pointers on the perfect valet. They'd kindly put a Jaguar XF Sportbrake into position so he could demonstrate exactly what goes into prepping these cars.
"A launch car or one going to a show has to be absolutely perfect," says Scott. "The combination of the bright lighting and the amount of close attention these vehicles receive means that imperfections have nowhere to hide.
"Every part of these cars need to be immaculate inside and out, the detailing, the alloys, the paintwork and every inch of the interior needs to be in top condition. That means, no paint imperfections, no scratches, no blemishes and no blushing."
One car that had recently come through this workshop was the Firenze red 20 model year XE that starred in the launch films, photoshoots and at the London media reveal of Castle Brom's latest XE offering.
Coming in straight from the factory there isn't much grime on it to begin with. However it will be cleaned to make sure any dirt or residue that it may have picked up in transit is removed.
If required the car is handed to their paint repair team who can deal with any chips in the paint work, then all of the shut lines are double checked so they're absolutely perfect. It's then passed back to Scott's team to begin the final clean.
"It's all about identifying every swirl, light scratch or blemish," Scott says as he uses his clay pencil to mark a blemish that if I'm honest I was still struggling to see even when he pointed it out to me.
"The areas requiring most attention is the detailing," he continues. "The piano blacks tend to show the most marks so we have to give them a lot of attention."
Once all the marks have been identified it's all about the buffing. Scott's got his preferred route around the car that helps him to ensure he doesn't miss anything.
Depending on the type of issue he's looking to remove he'll select one of the different colour coded 3M compounds and use the air buffer tool and work through using a progressively finer compound until he's got the result he's after. Each compound has a specialised buffer pad that is designed to work specifically with it so he makes sure to switch them around as he's going.
After you've used the compound and got the mark out you'll then need to use the anti-hologram polish to avoid getting blushing, which is when the buffing process leaves a slightly cloudy finish on the paintwork.
Finally comes the application of the Autoglym fast shine lube that Scott swears by. He uses it for multiple jobs and surfaces inside and out of the car it and applies it using a fresh microfiber cloth as the last thing you want to do is reintroduce any marks at this stage of the game.
The final clean process can typically take over two days with Scott and his teammate on the afternoon shift working non-stop on a car to get it event ready.
Before it can go anywhere the car must be checked over meticulously and then signed off by a Senior Quality Manager before it can be transported to the event where it will be seen by thousands or even millions of people.
I couldn't help but ask Scott if his own car was this spotless. He said, "I like to keep it tidy but after spending all day cleaning them at work it is the last thing you want to do when you get home.
"I am a car salesman's worst nightmare though, if I ever go to look at a car I can't help myself picking up on every detail."
Top tips for a spotless finish
Before we left we asked Scott for any words of wisdom or advice for getting our own cars looking spotless. Here's what he said...
1. Start contactless - Always start by getting as much dirt off as possible using a pressure jet wash before going anywhere near it with a sponge. That way you'll avoid scratches that come from dragging grit and grime all over your paintwork.
2. Never use washing up liquid - it may be great for getting those burnt on stains off your pots and pans but don't even think about using it to wash your car as it strips all the wax straight off it.
3. Clean water is a must - keep the water in your bucket nice and fresh and keep changing it if you can. Some people use the two bucket method were you use one 'dirty' bucket just for rinsing the sponge.
4. Avoid direct sunlight - not just a good tip for vampires, also useful for car cleaning too. Scott tells us that in the heat any wax applied dries on far too quickly, looks streaky and is a right pain to get off too.
5. Don't drag the hose all over the car - you'd be supprised but he's seen people do it. If you are making the effort to get you bodywork sparkling this is a massive own goal.
6. Wax on dirt off - a properly waxed car will repel dirt and make it harder for grime to stay attached in the first place. Making it much easier for you to clean.
7. Buy a silver car - sounds like an expensive option but they really are by far the easiest to clean. White ones tend to get dirty too quickly and swirls and imperfections tend to show up more with darker colours.
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Iraq Aims to Retake Key Shiite Town in Hours
Iraq aims to complete the "liberation" of the strategic northern Shiite town of Tal Afar from militants in a matter of hours, a security spokesman said on Wednesday.
Security forces plan to accomplish "the liberation of the entire town by dawn on Thursday," the spokesman said, after which they will head for militant-held areas in the city of Mosul, to its east.
Iraqi forces pushed into new areas of Tal Afar on Wednesday during heavy fighting with militants, a provincial councilor said. […]
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Units From 24 Countries Join Together for Largest Annual Exercise in the Mideast
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Macmain replied the topic: DIY Nitrate filter --- Solved????
Pretty much yes.. i think having a seperate container for plants.. would be much better.. i feel were / how i have the plant now is restricting flow in my bio media section.. as its only tempory .. ill probably find that were it is now is the optimum place ..
but only time will tell..
toom replied the topic: DIY Nitrate filter --- Solved????
I also use subemers Plants like Monstera or Efeutute in all my tanks.
Here my right now biggest one i ever had.
This pond plants are nearly the best you could add to reduce Nitrate. This Bad Boy was feeded my one of my outdoor Project, the guppy barrel. I start in late April with about 10 to 15 fish from the last season and end of starting October with mostly around 200 + subadult Guppys.
But for inside Monstera is the better alternative.
For my Oscar tank i use both an real Nitratefilter Aqua Medic NR 1000, Monstera and Efeutute together and even after my last trip to Japan last year where my tank was without maintaince for about 2 weeks with only pre pepared 4 feeding of my neighbor Nitrat was between 0 to 5 ppm.
Here i think would plants not bring that impressive result until you would have 8 to 10 feet of plants.
The Nitratfilter does as example put any amount of NO3 in my Oscar tank down to 0 ppm i ever head with 2 adult Os but of corse its an very slow filter that only does 20 to 23 Gallons per day.


Breath is the gift of life. It carries your vital life force or energy (prana) and is the link between the physical body and the mind. Breath is the foundation of any yoga practice.
During a yoga class you will be invited to develop an awareness of your breathing in a variety of ways. Simply being aware of the breath helps us become calmer, more mindful and to live in the present moment. And awareness of breath combined with making certain physical shapes improves lung efficiency and positively impacts all the body's systems, most notably the nervous system, which has a positive effect on the mind.
Specific breathing techniques (pranayama) are practiced either during the class or after relaxation and affect the energy in different ways. Some breathing techniques are stimulating, some are calming and others are balancing. There are many different ways of controlling the breath to enhance your energy.


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Q: ASP.NET how to access public properties? I have two pages page1.aspx and page2.aspx, both have code behind with partial classes.
How do i access public property message on page1.aspx from page2.aspx ?
public string message { get; set; }

A: Update
I just read that the one is MasterPage and the other is the client to masterpage ?
then its diferent way.
Page to Page
If you have 2 simple diferent pages.
I have done it this way.
Its a post value, by using asp.net tricks :)
On Page2.aspx add this on top.
<%@ PreviousPageType VirtualPath="Page1.aspx" %>

and how I read from Page1.aspx on code behind
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!Page.IsPostBack)
    {
        if (Page.PreviousPage != null)
        {
            if(Page.PreviousPage.IsCrossPagePostBack == true)
            {
                txtGetItFromPreviusPage.Text = PreviousPage.SomeString;
            }
        }
    }
}

On Page1.aspx
the button that send me to Page2.aspx
<asp:Button ID="btnEna" runat="server"  Text="Send Some variables to other page"
    PostBackUrl="Page2.aspx"
    onclick="btnMoveSelection_Click" />

and the code that I use for Page1 calculations or other thinks
public string SomeString
{
    set
    {
        ViewState["txtSomeString"] = value;
    }
    get
    {
        if (ViewState["txtSomeString"] != null)
            return ViewState["txtSomeString"].ToString();
        else
            return string.Empty;
    }
}

protected void btnMoveSelection_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // some final calculations

}

A: If the one is the Master page, and the other is the page that use the master.
The Master Page

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

        <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="txtOnMaster"></asp:Literal>

        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

    </form>

and the code behind
public partial class Dokimes_StackOverFlow_MasterPage : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
{
    public string TextToMaster
    {
        get { return txtOnMaster.Text; }
        set { txtOnMaster.Text = value; }
    }

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // here I find the control in the client page
        Control FindMe = ContentPlaceHolder1.FindControl("txtOut");

        // and if exist I set the text to client from the master
        if (FindMe != null)
        {
            ((Literal)FindMe).Text = "Get from Master Page";
        }
    }
}

and now the Page1.aspx that have the previus master page
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">
    <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="txtOut"></asp:Literal>
</asp:Content>

and the code
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // here I set the text on master page from client
    ((Dokimes_StackOverFlow_MasterPage)Master).TextToMaster = "Set from Client";
}

A: If you are NOT in a sessionless environment, then in the transmitter page, push your string (or your object - e.g., a Dictionary ) into session:
Session("MyVar") = "WhatEver"

In the receiver page, you can get it back with:
MyPreviousVar = Session("MyVar")

A: You shouldn't really be doing this, pages should be standalone entities.  If you need to pass this data from one form to another, consider using the querystring, or posting your form to the second page.

OK.  Have you tried then Page.Master.Property?

A: If you want a message property on every page.  You could implement your own BasePage and define the message property in your base page.  Then derive subsequent pages from your custom base page.  That way all of your pages will always have a message property.
However, this isn't going to keep the message property constant through out each page.  If you are trying to pass values between pages then you should use either session state or a querystring
This MSDN page may be of use to you.


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The Hostos Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development Awarded $100,000 from the New York State Department of Labor
The Hostos Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development (CEWD) has been awarded a $100,000 grant for the Unemployed Worker Training Program through the Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) process created by Governor Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Councils (REDC). This grant will be overseen and supported by the New York State Department of Labor, a financial contributor to the CFA process.
The REDC and CFA process, launched by Governor Cuomo in 2011, was created with the purpose of providing regions in New York State with the tools to create and implement their own roadmap for economic prosperity and job creation.
With this award, CEWD will provide unemployed workers in New York City, primarily in the Bronx, with access to Allied Health certificate trainings. CEWD will train 86 unemployed workers as certified nursing assistants (CNAs), phlebotomy technicians, electrocardiogram (EKG) technicians, patient care technicians, or Medical Records and Health Information Technicians. Participants will be placed in internships to help them gain exposure to the industry in their field. In addition, CEWD will assist participants with finding employment.
"We are honored that the Regional Economic Development Council and the New York State Department of Labor recognize the work Hostos is doing to advance local economic growth here in the Bronx. This grant award will allow us to help unemployed workers in our community achieve socioeconomic mobility. It is our goal to provide participants with access to cutting edge skills for in-demand occupations that help support professional and local economic growth," said Dr. Carlos Molina, vice president of the Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development at Hostos Community College.
"We are grateful that the Regional Economic Development Council and the New York State Department of Labor are investing in trainings that support our community—the Bronx. CEWD is a longstanding provider of trainings that help community residents become viable members of the workforce. Our trainings will help participants earn income that will be spent locally thus supporting the revitalization of the Bronx," said Ms. Dana Lennon, program director of the Allied Health Career Pipeline Program at Hostos Community College.
Eugenio María de Hostos Community College is an educational agent for change that has been transforming and improving the quality of life in the South Bronx and neighboring communities since 1968. It serves as a gateway to intellectual growth and socioeconomic mobility, as well as a point of departure for lifelong learning, success in professional careers, and transfer to advanced higher education programs. The College's unique "Student Success Coaching Unit" provides students with individualized guidance and exemplifies its emphasis on student support services.
Recently named one of the top 10 finalists for the 2015 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, Hostos offers 27 associate degree programs and two certificate programs that facilitate easy transfer to The City University of New York's (CUNY) four-year colleges or baccalaureate studies at other institutions. The College has an award-winning Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development that offers professional development courses and certificate-bearing workforce training programs. Hostos is part of CUNY, the nation's leading urban public university, which serves more than 500,000 students at 24 colleges.


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Between Tradition and Renewal
Interview with Polish composer Pawel Szymanski
Anders Beyer: The term that is used in connection with both your own music and that of Stanisław Krupowicz is 'surconventionalism'. We're familiar with the word 'surrealism', does the word 'surconventionalism' cover something comparable?
Pawel Szymanski: Krupowicz and I invented the word about ten years ago. Our object was to find a word that describes the essence of our music in the same way that the word 'surrealism' is an apt expression with regard to visual art. In music you can't use the work 'realism'; it is absurd to speak about the presence of something 'real', or therefore 'surreal', in music. But speak of musical convention does make sense: baroque and classical style are, for instance, concepts that I understand and perceive as musical conventions.
In visual art one of the principles of surrealism is to use real elements, but in a broken syntax, for example, in the form of a dream-like representation. It is the same in my music: I use some traditional basic forms and structures, but I break the rules consciously. 'Surconventionalism'—at least for Krupowicz and me—applies to music that relates to tradition, but at the same time breaks with it.
AB: So, the relationship between tradition and renewal creates tension in your music. That's a description that can be applied to just about all music, except for those composers who claim to create something absolutely new each time. Can you elaborate further?
PS: The traditional elements in my music are not difficult to see even though I often try to hide them, like, for example, in 'Two Pieces for String Quartet'. I admit that baroque music generally influences my music. My hope is that my musical reconstructions, transformations, or deformations, if you like, are audible in the sense that the historically-conscious listener, so to speak, can listen backwards and forwards in history at the same time.
AB: It seems that a number of recent works by the older generation of composers sound a bit old-fashioned, to put it bluntly. I'm thinking of a composer like Kotonski, and also the latest works of Penderecki and Lutosławski that bask in the warmth of tradition. Is there a neo-romantic wave on the way? What explains this mild breeze that currently blows through Polish music?
PS: I think there is a trend to rely on what's over and done with, and in fact the later works by Penderecki and Lutosławski are not particularly strong or uncompromising. The latter hasn't renewed his technique for a long time. Perhaps you are right that his latest works have become more consonant, and something similar is happening in the middle generation: Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Włodzimierz Kotoński. It's going too far to say that they have become old-fashioned, but they have turned back to tonal music. In my generation— Stanisław Krupowicz, Rafał Augustyn, Eugieniusz Knapik and myself—we are all interested in discovering our own attitudes to tonality and to tradition. We have never been interested in avant-garde ideology. At the conservatory we learned the twelve-tone technique and all the other new ways to compose. We listened to the music of the 'Darmstadt' composers, but for us this avant-garde was already an academic issue. We tried, in other words, to free ourselves from the musical strait-jacket of the 1950s.
AB: If we look at a festival like the ISCM World Music Days, where we are at the moment (Warszawa, May 1992, ed.), with music from nearly forty different countries, you can't fail to notice that melody and tonality have made a comeback, albeit in many different guises. The Americans are here with their contribution: repetition seems to have developed into a collective neurotic obsession with them. More and more composers are turning their backs on what is usually termed modernism: Schoenberg and his school, and further on to Boulez and Stockhausen.
PS: That is also my impression and not just on the basis of the works at this festival—and not only here in Poland. There is a new trend in which the best works are not only an expression of a simple turning-back, but a musical freedom and a wealth of ideas seen against the background of the 1950s avantgarde terrorism. This freedom relies on the notion that each composer can write music as he himself thinks fit and each is free to collect historical elements and insert them into the music. Now, late in the 20th century, we can hear music from the last ten centuries, both live and recorded. It is an amazing situation because it is the first time in history that this is possible. The whole tradition is a part of our consciousness. That doesn't mean that one should compose in the style of Mozart, but it is possible to go back to Mozart and find out one's own relative position. This basic attitude has something to do with pluralism, some call it 'postmodernism'.
AB: When you speak about compositional freedom now, you almost sound like a spokesman for the view that everything is now possible. You don't mean that, do you?
PS: No. The past should not become all-important. I want my music to be taken in and understood on a higher level, so that the transformations and deformations of the past become only a small part of the experience. Naturally everything isn't possible now, nor will it become so in the future. We can still talk about a good and a bad work. The aesthetic criteria are still valid, even though the aesthetic judgements have to be based on new premises. Yes, we come with preconceived ideas: this is beautiful, or this is ugly, and so forth. It is not my role to state what is good or less good, but what we can conclude is that a great deal more is possible and acceptable now than a few decades ago.
AB: When you use the phrase 'it is beautiful or it is ugly', does this also relate to something in your own music? Do you think in conceptual pairs like pretty/ugly?
PS: It is very difficult to define what lies in the word 'beauty'. What is beautiful and what is ugly? Not every single detail in a painting by Rembrandt is beautiful but the paintings as a whole are. I can say that it has never been my intention to write ugly music. On the other hand, it is my intention to make more than 'pretty' sounds.
AB: As individuals we are all interested in what is happening outside of music, in society. You have lived and continue to live in a country where social events have had a political impact on your role as a composer. You live in a country where enormous changes are taking place. Warsaw three years ago was completely different from Warsaw today. It's not only a matter of external changes as represented by the Mercedes Benzes, Coca Cola and fast food outlets. It is the whole mentality, the way of thinking, and the political system that are undergoing drastic changes. That must have consequences for you as a composer. Does your music reflect these events directly or indirectly?
PS: The answer has to be no. My music reflects no 'reality' in any way, for I don't think that it is possible for music to reflect anything outside itself. Music is abstract by nature. But of course, I know that not everyone agrees with that viewpoint. It does happen that people who have listened to my music come and tell me about stories that they have heard in my pieces, about something that I never dreamed of expressing. But I cannot say that people cannot experience this or that. My role is simply to set black dots on a piece of paper.
AB: Let us approach the subject from another angle: the last sentence of President Lech Walesa's opening address in the festival programme book, says that we should bring music to the people, to a much wider audience. What do you say to this idea?
PS: I don't want to say anything derogatory about Lech Walesa, but all the same I want to emphasize that people who work in politics ought to be very careful about indicating where art should go, what it should contain, and to whom it should be directed. I know that the development of art is tied to sociological processes, but personally that issue does not particularly interest me. Audiences, musicologists and critics should address that one. As an artist I think that it lies outside my concern; I must create, not explain.
AB: How does the current situation for composers in Poland compare with the situation before the political shift? It looks as though the gangsters have, to a large extent, free play, even in your own small musical world.
PS: The changes in society have had serious implications for Szymanski the person, but hopefully not for Szymanski the artist. Formerly the state supported artists, but the significance of this support should not be exaggerated. It was small change. Now the state is very poor, the economy in general is not doing well, so they are cutting back everywhere. The money available for culture is steadily decreasing. We are in a very sad, and in reality, a dangerous situation just now because they are contemplating substantial cuts to the Philharmonic Orchestra. If that happens, it will be particularly difficult to rebuild the organization.
We are freer people now, but paradoxically it is harder for me to live in the new capitalist society. The key word is 'commissions'. It used to be that when I received a commission from a country in the West, I could live off it for several years! Now I can only live off such a commission for a few months because of the economic situation. In other words, there has been an equalization in many areas between the East and the West.
I try to make a living as a freelance composer; it was easier before. Nonetheless I want to emphasize how very pleased I am with the general changes that have taken place in my country in the last five years, even though my situation has become more difficult. I would rather have less money than less personal freedom.
AB: Has it become more and more important to get commissions from abroad?
PS: Yes, it has become very important. And if the commissions fail to materialize, then you have to teach or try to collaborate with theatre people or film makers. You find ways to survive, but the alternatives are limited because the crisis is felt everywhere. I know that artists have broad support in Scandinavian countries in the form of stipends and grants. It is really peculiar because these state systems are much more socialist than the free market system we have in Poland now. We receive virtually nothing from the state here.
AB: Have you ever thought of moving to the West as many artists from the East are doing these days? It could be combined with a position as a teacher.
PS: I wouldn't mind travelling abroad for several years. I am free and can travel wherever I want, but I have never been interested in teaching. If I received an attractive invitation for a position in a foreign country, I would consider it, no doubt about that. Under the communist regime it was difficult to travel to concerts and festivals in the West. I always had to send requests to the police in order to get permission to travel. I was furious about this and felt as though I was in prison. Now I am free—I have my passport in my pocket and can leave the country whenever I want. It is a wonderful situation.
The interview was published in Danish: 'Mellem tradition og fornyelse: Interview med den polske komponist Pawel Szymanski'. Dansk Musik Tidsskrift vol. 67, no. 3 (1992/93): page 97-99. The interview was also published in Anders Beyer, The Voice of Music. Conversations with composers of our time, Ashgate Publishing, London 2000.
Pawel Szymanski work list (selection)
CM – Chester Music
PWM – PWM Edition, Krakow
AA – Author's Agency,
Warszawa Moeck – Moeck Verlag, Celle
K. (1972) 1222/2222/2 perc/pf/ 8 4 4 2. (8′). PWM.
Partita I (1976) 332/4431/5 perc/hp/pf/min 12 10 8 8 6. (11′). CM.
Partita II (1977-78) 333/4331/5 perc/hp/pf, prep pf/mandolin/l2 12 8 8 6. (25′). CM.
Partita III (1986) Cembalo solo (forstærket)3030/sop. sax/2alt sax/0331/ perc/el-guit/12 12 O 12 6. (14′). CM.
Partita IV (1986) 2222/4231/T/2perc/ 11 9664. (13′). CM.
A Study of Shade (1989)2232/22202/ 2 vib/pi/86442. (l l'-14′). CM.
60 Odd Pages (1991) 1111/1110/2 perc/str. (66644). CM.
Vocal/instrumental works
Kyrie (1977) for orchestra and boy's choir. SSS (min. 21 vlices) AAA (min. 21 voices). 2222/4321/4 perc/ str., min. 12 10 8 8 4. (12′). CM.
Gloria (1979) for woman's choir (min. 30 voices) and instrumental ensemble. (8′). PWM.
Four Liturgial Pieces (1980-81) solo sopran. 1200/0010/3 perc/pf/9 0060. (22′). CM.
Villanelle (1981) Tekst af James Joyce. Alt, tenor, 2bratsch, cembalo. (10′). CM.
Lux Aeterna (1984). SATB kor (24 voices)/^ vlc, 2 perc/2 pi/2 hp. (9′). CM.
Chamber works
Suite (1969). fl, pf, 2 vi, via, vlc. (13′). PWM.
Epitaph (1974) for 2 pno. (14′). CM.
Limericks (1975) for violin and harpsichord.(6′). CM.
Limericks (second version) (1979), for fl, vi, vlc. (6′). AA
String Quartet (1975). (11′). CM.
Intermezzo (1977), for 2 fl, perc, 4 vi,3vla, 2 vlc, eb. (8′). PWM.
Ten Pieces (1979) for str.trio. (13′). AA.
Sonata (1982) for 9 (or 27) vi, l (eller 3) eb, 2 perc. (12′). Moeck.
Two Pieces (1982) for str.4. (13′). CM.
Two Illusory Constructions (1984) for cl, vlc, pf. (13′). CM.
Through the Looking Glass I (1987). 1110/1000/ce]/pno/5 perc/cembalo/hp/ 3 mandolin/guit/1 1111. (13′). CM.
A Kaleidoscope for MCE (1989) for solo cello. (8′). CM.
Quasi una sinfonietta (1990). l(picc.) 111/1110/perc/pno/l 1111. (20′). CM.
Piano works
Trope (1986). (4'30"W). PWM. Two Studies (1986). (11′). CM.
Works for tape
La Folia (1979) produced in eksperimental-studie, Warszawa. (9'20"). PWM.
Under the Plane Tree (1980) produced in eksperimental-studie, Warszawa. (12'40"). PWM.
Crux Fidelis (1983) sound scape for the exhibition The Sign of the Cross in Art, Warszawa. PWM.
Through the Looking Glass II (1988) produceret på elektronstudiet i Berlin. (8'40"). CM.


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Monthly market update October '19
Willis Towers Watson 15 Nov 2019
October started off on a negative note, with concerns over slowing global growth, the US/China trade war, Brexit and, later in the month, the calling of a UK general election. Despite the negative start to the month, global equity markets ended the month on a positive note, primarily due to reduced concerns of a global economic recession occurring, supported by broadly stable economic data over the month, and hope of easing geopolitical tensions. The MSCI World ex Australia Index rose by 0.4% (on an unhedged basis) in October, whilst the equivalent hedged AUD index rose by 1.8%, higher due to the appreciation of the Australian dollar. Over the month geopolitical issues continued to dominate the news, however this month it was largely positive; the US and China appear to have reached a mini-trade deal, which is expected to be the first phase of a broader deal, and the UK and the EU have reached a new agreement on a Brexit deal, with Brexit now having been delayed until 31 January 2020 (or potentially earlier if the UK Parliament agrees).
US equity market returns were positive in October, with the S&P 500 Composite returning 2.1% (in local currency terms) driven partly by the new mini-trade deal. The mini-trade deal includes China agreeing to purchase more US agricultural goods, the US suspending the 15 October 2019 tariff hike, but more importantly China making commitments around intellectual property protection. Whether this agreement works will provide a good indicator moving forward regarding the broader arc of the US/China trade war. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) rose to 71 in October, from 68 in September, whilst the Markit US Manufacturing PMI slightly rose over the month, with the index reaching 51.3, from 51.1 in September.
In Europe, Brexit continues to dominate the news in both the UK and EU, with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the EU reaching an agreement on Brexit over the month, which will keep Northern Ireland within the EU single market. However, it is unclear if the deal will pass the UK parliament, as the UK has called a general election, with the outcome of the Brexit deal highly dependent on the make-up of Parliament following the election. As expected, Prime Minister Johnson also reluctantly requested a delay for Brexit (alongside a letter outlining his own objection to an extension) allowing time for the election to take place, which was approved by the EU. The European equity market, as measured by the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, returned 1.0% over the month (in local currency terms). The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI rose to 45.9 in October from 45.7 in September, whilst the Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index also slightly rose to 50.2, from 50.1 in September.
Chinese equities performed positively in October, with the Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.8% for the month (in local currency terms). The Chinese manufacturing PMI, as measured by the Caixin Manufacturing PMI, improved in October to 51.7, from 51.4 in September. The CNY appreciated against the USD over the month increasing by 1.6%, with the latter buying 7.04 CNY.
The Australian equity market ended the month in negative territory, underperforming global equities, as the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index returned -0.4% for October. This was largely due to soft economic data released during the month, with the AIG Australian manufacturing PMI falling to 51.6, from 54.7 in September, and the NAB business confidence index falling to 0 from 1, as well as falls in the banks as ANZ announced disappointing results late in the month. Individual sector performance was mixed for the month with Healthcare (7.3%), Industrials (2.9%) and Utilities (1.2%) the best performing sectors, whilst Consumer Staples (-2.2%), Financials (-2.9%) and Information Technology (-3.2%) were the worst performers. After lowering rates by 0.25% in October, the RBA met at the beginning of November and left the cash rate unchanged at 0.75%, as expected. The Australian listed property market performed positively over the month and rose by 1.4%, as measured by the S&P/ASX 300 AREIT Accumulation Index, outperforming the broader market for the month by 1.7%.
Major global bond yields rose in October, with the US 10-year Government bond yield rising 3bps to finish at 1.69%, whilst the Australian 10-year Government bond yield rose by 12bps to end October at 1.14%, and the 10-year German Government bond yield increased by 16bps to end the month at -0.41%. The UK 10-year Government bond yield rose, by 14bp, to finish at 0.63%, whilst the Italian 10-year Government bond yield rose by 10bps, ending October at 0.92%.
The Australian dollar appreciated by 2.1% against the USD over the month, finishing at 68.94 US cents, up from 67.50 US cents. The Trade Weighted Index closed at 60.0, up from 59.2 at the end of September, reflecting an appreciation of the AUD against the currencies of its major trading partners.
Note: This investment commentary does not constitute advice. All investment figures quoted relate to before-tax performance of the relevant industry benchmark. © 2020 Willis Towers Watson.
Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth www.willistowerswatson.com
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Founder & Director, Kaivalya Education Foundation
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Founder CEO, The Education Alliance
Philanthropist & Founder, Central Square Foundation
Debasish Mitter
Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation India LLP
Gaurav Shah
Founder, ISDM
Luis Miranda
Chairman, Centre for Civil Society & CORO
Moomal Mehta
Founder, Crossover Catalyst
Pritha Venkatachalam
Partner, The Bridgespan Group
Ravi Sreedharan
Founder – ISDM
Safeena Husain
Founder & Executive Director, Educate Girls
Global CEO, English Helper
Shankar Maruwada
Co-Founder & CEO, EkStep Foundation
Shaveta Sharma Kukreja
Director, ILSS and Managing Director, Central Square Foundation
Srikanth Viswanathan
CEO, Janaagraha
Sudheesh Venkatesh
Chief People Officer, Azim Premji Foundation
Surabhi Bikhchandani
Partner - Executive Search, Quadrangle
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Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations, Ashoka University
Aditya Natraj is the founder and director of Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF), a Piramal Initiative. KEF is change management organization that supports leadership development of State leaders, District leaders and School leaders to improve student learning outcomes. KEF works with 1300 school leaders, 450 district leaders and 1200 state leaders across 12 states to effect systemic change. It also runs the Gandhi Fellowship programme – a 2 year full-time programme to train young people in leading social change. Previously, Aditya was the Director of Pratham in Gujarat for 5 years, Vice-President of Business Development at ProXchange for 2 years and a Consultant at KPMG for 5 years. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Masters in Economics and has an MBA from INSEAD. Aditya has been awarded various fellowship and awards, namely the Ashoka Fellowship, Echoing Green Fellowship, Aspen India Fellowship and the Times Now Amazing Indian award in the Education category.
Amit Chandra joined Bain Capital as a Managing Director in early 2008, and is a part of the firm's leadership team in Asia. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University, post which he worked at India's leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. He then received his MBA from Boston College and was awarded the school's Distinguished Alumni in 2007. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Amit spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, a leading investment bank in India. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 as its Board Member & Managing Director, to move to Private Equity. Mr. Chandra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and was named in Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list by Forbes in 2016, along with his wife Archana. He is currently or in the past has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of a number of leading companies, like Tata Sons, Genpact, L&T Finance, Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Piramal Enterprises, and Tata Investment Corporation. He is also active in India's not for profit space, and is or has been associated as a Trustee of the Tata Trusts, as a Founder/Board Member of Ashoka University, a Board Member of Give India and The Akanksha Foundation. He also a Member of the Advisory Boards of Bridgespan in India, the Centre for Social Impact & Philanthropy, and Swades Foundation.
Amitav Virmani, Founder CEO, The Education Alliance. The Education Alliance aims to help governments in India provide a quality education to every child, by facilitating effective partnerships between state and non-state actors. The vision of TEA is to empower government schools to create the next generation of leaders. They work to catalyze quality transformation in India's education system by nurturing the Government-Partnership School model. Prior to this Amitav was Country Director, ARK India, a UK based NGO. As their CD, Amitav was responsible for launching several programmes around school leadership, english literacy, school vouchers and school quality assessments. Amitav worked as a General Manager in the office of the CEO & MD at Ranbaxy Laboratories prior to his switch to the development sector. Amitav began his post MBA career in the USA working for Bristol Myers Squibb & Co. based in Princeton. Amitav is an alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University. He got his MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked in the US for 4 years before returning home. Amitav is an Aspen India Leadership Initiative 3 Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow 2016.
Ashish Dhawan is Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation (CSF) and a Founding Member of Ashoka University. Prior to this, he worked for twenty years in the investment management business and ran one of India's leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. In June 2012, he left his full-time role at Chrys Capital to start CSF to pursue evidence driven and innovation led system reform in school education. Ashoka University is a not for profit university that aims to offer an Ivy League-quality undergraduate programme in India, based on the US liberal education system. Ashish is also the founder of two new organisations to address the talent gap in the social sector –
ISDM: A development management institute and ILSS: A program to transition experienced corporate talent into the development sector. More recently, Ashish has also created the Foundation for Economic Development (FED) to focus on policy reform in the agriculture sector. He also serves on the board of several non-profits including 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Bharti Foundation and India School Leadership Institute, Network for Quality Education, Khan Academy India, and Social Finance India. He is an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual bachelor's (BS/BA) holder with Magna Cum Laude honours from Yale University. He is on the Chair of India Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and a member of Yale's Development Council.
Debasish Mitter serves as Director, India, at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and leads the foundation's strategy and operations in India to improve quality of education, employability skills, family economic stability, and health. In his role, Debasish helps to manage and develop the India-based portfolio to drive large-scale systemic transformations in public education and to incubate start-ups to bring innovative products and services to the market. Prior to joining the foundation, he spent 13 years with American Express in various leadership positions in their Delhi, Miami and New York offices. During his career with American Express, he led a variety of operational, transaction-related, finance and strategic responsibilities. Prior to that, Debasish spent a number of years with Dowell Schlumberger, an oilfield services leader, in senior finance roles in the Middle East and the Far East. Debasish is a chartered accountant.
Gaurav has over 13 years of experience working both in private sector as well as in the development space (microfinance, health, impact investment, education) largely as a management consultant (P&G, American Express, Azim Premji Foundation, Lok Capital etc.). His areas of experience include program management and implementation, strategic and business planning, organization restructuring and design and sales & distribution management.
Luis is Chairman of CORO and Centre for Civil Society. He is also actively involved with other non-profits including SNEHA, CARE India, Educate Girls, and Take Charge. He spends his time these days connecting the dots for amazing social entrepreneurs, using his network to help the organisations he is connected with. Luis is also Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure and Advisor to the Nadathur Group. Prior to this, he was involved with setting up two highly successful companies – HDFC Bank and IDFC Private Equity. He is on Chicago Booth's Global Advisory Board and Social Enterprise Initiative's Advisory Board and writes a blog for Forbes India. Luis received an MBA from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Moomal has 16 years of experience with Citibank in leadership roles across Delhi, Chicago and Bombay. After Citi, she was the Deputy Director at Asia Society India Centre for 5 years, responsible for programming, fundraising and key stakeholder relationships. Moomal has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. Crossover Catalyst is a search firm for the social sector. It is rooted in the belief that non-profits and social enterprises play a critical role in solving some of India's most pressing problems, and attracting high quality, leadership-level talent from the outside the sector could be an important enabler in creating scale and enhancing impact for many of these organizations. They currently serve over 75 impact sector organizations for their senior people needs and have transitioned 23 individuals into leadership roles in the sector. Crossover Catalyst is founded by Moomal Mehta.
Pritha is a Partner in Bridgespan's Mumbai office. Pritha has been a Research Scholar at the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining Bridgespan, Pritha established and led the New Delhi office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, where she co-led the Global Health and Nutrition practice area. Previously, Pritha was a Director at Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) UK, where she worked for almost a decade. She set up CEPA's first international office in New Delhi and directed development mandates in Asia and Africa across public health, agriculture and infrastructure sectors. Pritha's earlier responsibilities include being a financial specialist at the World Bank on urban infrastructure projects, and a Senior Consultant at Accenture in London and New Delhi. Pritha holds a Masters in Development Management from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore including an exchange program at Melbourne Business School. She is a recipient of the Citibank Leadership Award.
Ravi Sreedharan has worked for 24 years in the Corporate Sector most of which was at HSBC. At HSBC, Ravi has worked as the Regional Marketing Head for the Middle East and Africa, Head of Consumer Products for Asia Pacific, Consumer Banking Head of Indonesia, CEO and President Director of Bank Ekonomi (a local bank in Indonesia that was acquired by HSBC). He quit his corporate career and switched to the social sector in 2011 and joined Azim Premji Foundation where he was the Head of Education Leadership & Management. He is an alumnus of IIM- Ahmedabad and IIT-BHU. He co-founded the Indian School of Development Management, Noida in 2016 to develop and impart the discipline of development management.
Safeena Husain is the Founder and Executive Director of Educate Girls – a non-profit organisation that aims at tackling issues at the root cause of gender inequality in India's education system. After graduating from the London School of Economics, Safeena spent over a decade working with grassroots projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Educate Girls presently works in 21,000 government-run primary schools spread across 15 districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. There are over 4.9 million total beneficiaries of its programmatic interventions. Under Safeena's leadership, Educate Girls has initiated the world's first Development Impact Bond (DIB) in education. She has been conferred with 2017 NITI Aayog's Women Transforming India Award and has in the past received the British Asian Trust's Special Recognition Award from HRH Prince Charles for outstanding contribution in education.
Sanjay Gupta commenced his professional journey in Finance in the early 1980s working across a range of reputed companies in India including the Tata Group, Eicher – Mitsubishi, Pepsi and Motorola. Sanjay joined American Express in 1996 and held a number of business leadership roles based in New Delhi, New York and Singapore. In 2010, decided to pursue a new career to build a social enterprise for giving back in a sustainable way. Sanjay assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer at English Helper Inc. The company is committed to providing innovative and affordable technology enabled English learning to people across all age groups and income segments. Most recently, the company has initiated 'RightToRead' with a view to enable English literacy in public schools across the world and has launched 'EnglishBolo' in India designed to help youth from low income backgrounds to improve English speaking skill. In addition, Sanjay is engaged with the cause of children and youth as an active Board Member at Udayan Care, and School of Inspired Leadership. He is guest faculty at Duke University's Executive Education Program and delivers programs on doing business across cultures, customer and brand, leadership during change. Sanjay also coaches senior executives/ business leaders with special focus on developing personal excellence. Sanjay is on the Boards of BOI AXA Asset Management Company and Skills Training Assessment Management Partners. He is Advisor, Acumen India.
Shankar Maruwada is the CEO and Co-founder of EkStep. Shankar is passionate about addressing social problems at scale through technology based tools. He is an entrepreneur and marketing professional with a wide range of experience working on large scale projects such as the AADHAAR, India's national identification program, where he was the Head of Demand Generation and Marketing. Shankar pioneered data analytics in India through, Marketics, a company he co-founded. He is an investor in startups and a mentor to entrepreneurs. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur.
Shaveta leads Central Square Foundation's efforts to improve capacity building and development of educators- teachers, principals and administrators. She also oversees CSF's organisational development. She brings to the team more than a decade of professional experience in management and education. Her corporate background includes work at The Boston Consulting Group, Global Vantedge (a business process outsourcing start-up) and Citibank. She has also been a visiting faculty member in the Human Resources and Organisational Behavior disciplines at various business schools in Delhi NCR. Her primary areas of interest are teaching and research of organisational behaviour and leadership styles. Shaveta earned her bachelor's degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi and holds an MBA in Management from IIM, Bangalore. She is also certified in the psychometric tools MBTI, FIRO-B and FIRO-Business.
Srikanth is Chief Executive Officer of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy. Janaagraha is a Bengaluru based non- profit working with the mission of transforming quality of life in India's cities and towns. Janaagraha works with citizens to catalyse active citizenship in city neighbourhoods and with governments to institute reforms to city governance. Srikanth's focus area in the urban sector has been "city-systems" reforms spanning Janaagraha's flagship report the Annual Survey of India's City- Systems (ASICS) and municipal finance reforms. Srikanth has been an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for fifteen years and prior to joining Janaagraha worked in banking and audit.
Sudheesh Venkatesh is the Chief People Officer at the Azim Premji Foundation and a member of the Board of Management of Azim Premji University. After a degree in Engineering and a post-graduate degree in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, Sudheesh worked for close to a decade each with Asian Paints and Tesco, two large, global organisations. He has been with the Azim Premji Foundation since 2010 and his role is to attract, develop and retain good people who can help the Foundation realise its vision. He was President of the National HRD Network, Bangalore (2013-15), served on the National Board of the HRD Network (2013-17) and has co-edited the most recent issue of the HRD Journal on 'Education, Employability and Employment landscape in India'. He is often invited to speak and write on matters relating to people & organisations.
Surabhi is a multifaceted professional with an experience of over 20 years, across Advertising, FMCG and Recruitment Consulting industries. She is leading the Executive Search practice at Quadrangle, focusing on CXO positions with organisations across consumer internet and service industries; with more recent experience in the non-profit sector as well. She is well networked and has successfully closed many leadership positions for her clients that include several start-ups. She believes in detailed assessments of candidates to get the right organisation culture fit! Surabhi began her career in media planning with Ulka Advertising Pvt. Ltd. in 1986 and then moved on to Nestle India Ltd. where she handled diverse responsibilities in marketing, brand management, sales, distribution, merchandising, advertising & market research. She has, in the past, trained management students in Communication Skills and has conducted courses on Written Analysis & Communication, Oral Communication Skills, Group Discussions & Interviews as a visiting Faculty at IMT, Ghaziabad and IMS, Mumbai. She has also co-authored a book for MBA and job aspirants called 'Tackling Group Discussions'. Surabhi is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad (1987-89) and an Economics graduate from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1986).
Venkat is Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations at Ashoka University. He has been with Ashoka since its inception and works closely with it's Founders, Board of Trustees and Governing Body. Venkat's responsibilities include fundraising, developing and implementing strategy, providing leadership and heading alumni relations at the institution. He formed and led the team that has raised the largest collective philanthropic fundraise in India. Venkat also ideated and helped create the Ashoka Archives for Contemporary India, which now possesses a formidable collection of documents and papers from eminent people across the world. Prior to joining Ashoka, he spent 21 years in building and growing start-ups in financial services and related sectors. Ashoka is his fifth association with a start-up and early stage venture. His core strengths lie in building, growing and managing geographically diverse operations. Venkat is an alumnus of St. Xaviers College, Calcutta and is fluent in four languages. He has a deep and abiding interest in wide-ranging musical genres and writes a blog on fundraising, organisation building and strategy.
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