I was born on October 21, 1944 in Paris, just before the end of the second world war and a few months after Paris had been liberated by the allies and the French army led by General Charles de Gaulle (August 19–25, 1944). My mother's name was Lydie Angèle Arcelin and her family came mostly from Normandy. She was born in 1920. My father was Camille André Sauvage and came from the northern part of France. Camille Sauvage was known as a successful jazz musician, both conductor and clarinettist on top of being a composer. Just after the war, he was a popular jazz player and, later on, he composed for French radio, television and movies. When I was a baby, my parents broke up. I stayed with my mother while my father departed to pursue an artist's life. While I was still a young child, my mother met an officer in the air force, Marcel Louis Grosse, and they founded a family. I was thus fortunate to have a stepfather who took care of me until I became an adult and whose role was truly that of my father. Thus, I always considered him as my real father and I still do. Since my stepfather was in the military and because my parents loved to travel from one place to another, I had a very mobile childhood. When I was three years old, we moved to North Africa, as Algeria and Tunisia were still French colonies at that time. I still have vivid memories of our time in Zarzouna, a small village close to Bizerte in Tunisia. I also spent some time near Oran, in Algeria. I went to school in Tunisia between the ages of 5 and 7. At that time, the French kids and the local Tunisian kids were together in the same classes and I do not believe there were any difficulties related to the fact that the French kids and the Tunisian ones were mingling.
My mother and my grandmother, Suzanne Arcelin, were very close to one another and my grandmother, who used to live in Paris, visited our family a few times. On one particular occasion, we went to southern Tunisia for sightseeing and the photo which is shown below is particularly representative. It was taken when I was about 4 years old.
Figure 1. In Tunisia with my mother and, on the left, my grandmother.
From 1951 to 1952, my family spent some time in the USA since my stepfather had to become a military engineer in the field of radar applications, a relatively new technology at the beginning of the 50s. We thus spent 6 months in Saint Louis, Missouri, followed by an additional period of 6 months in Denver, Colorado. I had no difficulty in adapting and, in Denver in particular, I used to play with the other children of our neighbourhood. In Saint Louis, we used to go to the movie theatre from time to time and it was of course a very enjoyable event for me. The picture shown below is interesting in the sense that one can see who were the most popular actors of the time.
Figure 2. After a movie in Saint Louis (USA) in 1951.
When we returned to France, we started a long period of itinerancy, spending a few months in a given place before moving to a new city. I thus went to 4 or 5 different schools in the western part of France and in the Paris area when I was 8 to 10 years old. My mother became ill when I was about 10, and it was a difficult moment for my family. She had contracted tuberculosis, which was a very serious disease in the 50s. I was thus mostly with my grandmother for about a year, in the family village of Pacy-sur-Eure in Normandy. After this period, I was again with my parents, who moved to the eastern part of France in the Lorraine region. When I was 15 years old we moved to a small village in the north of Alsace, Drachenbronn, because my stepfather had been transferred to the radar station located on the Maginot Line named "Base Aérienne 901 Drachenbronn." This move coincided with the beginning of my high school studies and I thus went to the high school in Haguenau, a middle-size city not far from air base 901.
I started to be very interested in chemistry when I was 15 or 16 years old and, in particular, I liked to play with natural molecules such as chlorophylls which I extracted from plants. I had a small and very primitive chemistry lab in the cellar where I was separating chlorophylls on paper or distilling various mixtures. At school, I was probably better in mathematics than in physics or chemistry but the interest of pupils for various topics is obviously very dependent on the personality of the teacher.
After my 'baccalauréat' (the French examination obtained at the age of 18 which enables one to begin university), I decided to enter a special and highly competitive structure named 'classes préparatoires' which was aimed at preparing the young people to compete for admission to engineering schools. Thus, after two years of a rigorous regime where leisure was limited to a strict minimum, I succeeded and I was admitted to the Chemical Engineering School of Strasbourg. This was exactly what I wanted since I could stay in my new but already beloved city.
I obtained my engineering diploma in 1967 and started my PhD thesis in 1967 under the guidance of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. Jean-Marie had founded his own research team a few years before I started to work with him. He was only 5 years older than I and his research team was developing rapidly in terms of size and breadth of his research interests. Being more a physical chemist up until 1967, he had become interested in making new molecules with novel properties when I started with him. At the time Bernard Dietrich, formally a technician, decided to start his studies so as to become a graduate student, hoping also to do a PhD thesis. Bernard rapidly became my best friend and we worked together in the friendliest atmosphere imaginable between 1968 and 1971. Under the guidance of Jean-Marie we were highly successful, since we made the first macrobicyclic compounds able to encapsulate various ions, including alkali and alkaline earth metal cations (cryptands and cryptates for the metal-free compounds and their complexes respectively). In Jean-Marie Lehn's research group, I was able to acquire a solid background in organic and physical chemistry, thanks to my own work and to various seminars and group meetings as well as to the many hours I used to spend in the library. Discussions with Professor Lehn and with other members of the group were also very fruitful. Equally important was the influence that Jean-Marie had on me in terms of the relationship between researchers within a group. In particular, I enjoyed his way of managing a research team. He was very direct, placing basically no barrier between him and the PhD students or postdocs he was working with. In other words, hierarchy was reduced at its minimum and this is something which I tried to preserve later on in my own group. Inspired by Jean-Marie's passion for science, I also became enthusiastic and determined to devote my life to research.
I met my wife Carmen in 1967 and we got married in February 1971. Carmen was a student in History of Art and Archaeology. She was particularly interested in ancient ceramics and had participated in several excavation campaigns on the Anatolian plateau, in Turkey. Although we were not especially religious, we had a religious wedding mostly to respect family traditions (Figure 3). The wedding took place in Thierenbach, a village in the south of Alsace which used to be a place of pilgrimage and which is nowadays famous for its basilica.
Figure 3. The wedding ceremony in Thierenbach, February 8, 1971.
We were very happy to become parents of a baby boy, Julien Clément Sauvage, on July 13, 1975. It was a great joy for us. Since Julien's early childhood we have been very close to him. In 2011 Julien married Diana, originally from Colombia, and since 2012 they settled down in San Francisco. They had a baby on April 9, 2016 so that Carmen and I became the happiest grandparents in the world.
At the end of my PhD thesis work, I obtained a CNRS position as 'chargé de recherche' (research assistant) in Jean-Marie Lehn's group, which corresponded exactly to what I was so eager to get.
After my PhD thesis, I obtained a postdoctoral fellowship in Oxford (UK) where I spent a year in the research group of a very visible organometallic chemist, Dr Malcolm L. H. Green. Malcolm was considered as one of the most brilliant former students of Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry with Professor Ernst Otto Fischer). He was a very influential person in expanding my interests to transition metal chemistry and organometallic chemistry. He was also a friendly person who used to do experimental work by himself from time to time. Life in Oxford was particularly pleasant and we used to enjoy the city, its colleges and its parks. We easily adopted the way of life of the other members of the Oxford community.
After my postdoctoral stay in Oxford, I came back to Strasbourg and more precisely to the Lehn laboratory as a permanent researcher. After some work in the field of chiral crown-ethers, Jean-Marie and I initiated a research project in a new field, at least in Strasbourg. It was related to photochemistry and solar energy. The first oil crisis took place in 1973 and it was a clear signal that alternative energies had to be found and that sustainable energies were crucially needed. Solar energy was an obvious and especially attractive option. A particularly appealing project was that of splitting the water molecule to H2 and ½ O2 in order to generate a non-polluting fuel, H2, using photonic energy. Such a big project had already been explored for many years by several groups and there were already discussions and research works published on this general topic in the 50s and later on. More or less at the same time, the ruthenium complex Ru(bipy) 32+ (bipy : 2,2′-bipyridine) was shown to display promising electronic properties in its ground or excited states, in particular in relation to electron transfer and potentially photochemical water splitting. In 1977 we published one of the very first systems leading to photochemical water reduction to H2 based on a combination of species such as in particular Ru(bipy)32+ as a photoactive species and Rh(bipy)33+ as an electron relay leading to H2 formation. After two years of studies on this original system (with Jean-Marie Lehn and Michele Kirch) and related ones as well as on the development of a light-driven oxygen generating system from water (with Jean-Marie Lehn and Raymond Ziessel), I was lucky enough to be promoted to the position of CNRS Research Director, the equivalent of University Professor. I thus founded my own research group in 1980, at first with two highly motivated PhD students, Pascal Marnot and Romain Ruppert. After one or two years, Jean-Paul Collin, a CNRS fellow, and Marc Beley, an Associate Professor, joined our small team. Simultaneously a good friend of mine, Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker, also joined.
As it is often the case for young research teams, we tackled several research projects in parallel in relatively remote areas. Electrochemical reduction of CO2 using [Ni cyclam]2+ as an electrocatalyst led to remarkable data since CO2 could be reduced very selectively to CO in water. This was somewhat surprising since H22 was expected to be obtained as a major reduction product. We also did work in homogeneous catalysis and inorganic photochemistry. In this latter field, our projects were mostly triggered by a collaboration with David R. M. McMillin, who was on sabbatical leave in Strasbourg. David was an already well established photochemist and photophysicist. He was a professor at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) and his main field of research was photochemistry of copper(I) complexes. This collaboration between our group, with its skill in organic synthesis, and David led to a series of particularly interesting photoactive copper complexes. Perhaps even more importantly, it led to a copper(I) complex containing two intertwined organic ligands which appeared to be the ideal precursors to a compound comprising two interlocking rings. It was thus very tempting to jump from inorganic photochemistry to interlocking ring compounds which, at the beginning of the 80s, seemed to be practically inaccessible molecules. This jump was made possible due to the expertise of Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker, who was a great organic chemist. After a few discussions within our team, we decided to take the risk and to embark on a totally new project concerned with the synthesis of catenanes (i.e. interlocking ring compounds). Within a few months, Christiane was able to develop an efficient preparative procedure for making our first catenane (containing 2 interlocking rings). Respectable quantities could be obtained: batches of 0.5g could be prepared, in particular by Jean Weiss, a PhD student also supervised by Christiane, and the first compound was fully characterised using a variety of techniques. 1NMR provided the first convincing evidence that a catenane was indeed produced. These experiments were carried out by Jean-Pierre Kintzinger, a friend of mine and the brother-in-law of Christiane, who was at the same time an NMR expert. We published our first paper in this field in 1983 in an acceptable but not high-impact journal (Tetrahedron Letter). For us it was the beginning of a new era, mostly but not exclusively devoted to interlocking rings compounds and knotted molecules. The field has often been referred to as "Chemical Topology" due to the fact that the compounds have non-planar molecular graphs. In other words, contrary to almost all the molecules known, it is impossible to draw them in a plane (i.e. a sheet of paper) without crossings, regardless of the deformation the molecule can be subjected to.
Besides chemical topology and molecular machines, our group has been active in various relatively remote fields. The principal alternative research area has been that of artificial photosynthesis, with a particular emphasis on photoinduced charge separation, one of the key processes of natural or artificial photosynthesis. In order to elaborate efficient models of the natural photosynthetic systems, and in view of realising the complete water splitting cycle in the future, our group synthesised numerous multicomponent complexes, either incorporating metal-complexed porphyrins or second or third row transition metal complexes (Ru, Os, Rh and Ir) able to undergo light-induced charge separation. Following the synthetic work, the photochemical and photophysical properties of most of the compounds were investigated in various places by more physical chemistryoriented research teams than ours. In particular a long-term collaboration with renowned photochemists located in Bologna turned out to be especially pleasant and fruitful (Balzani and his co-workers, University of Bologna, or Flamigni and Barigelletti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna). Some of the charge separated states were shown to be remarkably long-lived, thus paving the way to real artificial photosynthetic devices reminiscent of the photosynthetic apparatus of green plants or photosynthetic bacteria.
I would like to stress that encounters with various people played a very important role in my professional life. Two teachers were particularly influential when I was a student: Raymond Weiss, who was a very rigorous physical and inorganic chemist, and Guy Ourisson, an exceptional organic chemist who was able to convince all the students he was teaching to that organic chemistry is exciting and can even be fun. Jean-Marie Lehn also had a great impact on my enthusiasm for science and to me he was the perfect model, although this model was totally out of reach. One of the most important encounters was that with Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker, a wonderful person and a great organic chemist whose contribution to the scientific production of our group turned out to be determinant. Finally, it may appear as surprising that Fraser Stoddart and I never looked at each other as competitors. Even more, we both tried to avoid any overlapping with the activities of the other research team. This is mostly because we became friends at the end of the 70s and this was the beginning of a faithful friendship which allowed us to work in a more serene atmosphere than if we had tried to overtake each other. Between 2010 and 2013, I was appointed as visiting professor at Northwestern University, where I collaborated primarily with Fraser and his team. I also enjoyed interacting with other colleagues at this great university. I am particularly grateful to Fraser for arranging for me to get such a position.
Figure 4. One of the ceremonies held in Strasbourg (1988) to honour Jean-Marie Lehn's Nobel Prize (1987). On this special occasion, the chemist community gathered in a friendly atmosphere (as testified by the number of smiley people on the picture). From left to right, the four persons at the front row are Jean-Marie Lehn, Jean-François Biellman, myself and Guy Ourisson. My very good friend Bernard Dietrich (1940–2004), who was also one of the main contributors to the early work on cryptands and cryptates, is at the second row just behind J.-F. Biellman.
I would like to conclude with two pictures separated by approximately 29 years. The first one, Figure 4, was taken at the ceremony to honour Jean-Marie Lehn's Nobel Prize in 1987. This ceremony took place in the Great Lecture Hall of the Chemistry Department of our university. The second picture, Figure 5, is much more recent since it was taken in Stockholm just after the December 10, 2016 ceremony.
Figure 5. Picture taken on the stage aer the Nobel Ceremony with the Royal Family. From le to right: Annelie Almkvist, our Attachée; Diana Sistiva, our daughter in law; Julien Sauvage, our son; Carmen Sauvage, my wife; myself and Jean-Marie Lehn.


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This study examined the effectiveness of whole-foods, plant-based diet (WFPB) in the alleviation of symptoms in osteoarthritis patients. Researchers fed 19 osteoarthritis patients (the intervention) with whole-foods, plant-based diets while 18 patients (the control group) were allowed to continue with their current diets for six weeks. The pulse, body temperature, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and relevant physical variables were measured in all the subjects.
At the end of the feeding period, members of the intervention group reported significant improvement in symptoms compared to the control group. The findings of this study support the hypothesis that whole-foods, plant-based diets may mitigate the symptoms of osteoarthritis.
This research was financially supported by a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan.


Each night over the last three evenings I watched a movie, and this blog post contains my reviews of 'The Dark Knight Rises', 'Brave' and 'Looper'.
The trailers for each movie have been embedded in this blog post, to help give you a feel for each movie, rather than me writing a synopsis.
As a child I watched Michael Keaton's Batman take on Jack Nicholson's Joker. I've watched the Batman animations, read the comics and played some of the computer games during yesteryear. Recently I sat down and rewatched Christopher Nolan's first two Dark Knight movies, and a few days back it was time to watch the final movie in the trilogy, 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
Tom Hardy played one of the lead baddies, and his 'Bane' is enjoyable to watch, especially if you had previously read the 'Knightfall' comic book series. Anne Hathaway as 'Catwoman', brought much needing grounding to her character.
Whilst on the whole the movie was enjoyable, it was undoubtedly too long, and the ending whilst good for the final part of a trilogy, didn't resonant in my humble opinion with the Batman from the comics. If you've watched the first two movies in the trilogy and enjoyed them, then you should enjoy 'The Dark Knight Rises' as well.
The trailers for Pixar's 'Brave' looked good, so the following evening I sat down to watch the animation. Twenty minutes later I find myself hating the lead character, and frankly not particularly interested in how it was going to end.
This movie isn't in the same league as Pixar's 'The Incredibles', Wall-e' or 'Up'. Whilst visually the animation looked stunning, the storyline felt weak and insulting to endure at times.
I'm a time travel nut! When Hollywood does a time travel movie, I will often watch it. When I saw the trailers to 'Looper', I knew it wasn't if, but when I watched this movie.
With Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt in some of the lead roles, this movie was reasonably good. It was the strength of the acting talent on hand that carried me through to the end. Don't get me wrong, this movie is superior to much of what Hollywood regurgitates, and it does an excellent job of showing the talent of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was also enjoyable to see Bruce Willis play a darker character, one whose moral compass doesn't reflect many of his usual characters.
There are many non-acting reasons to enjoy Looper, but the storyline didn't quite satisfy me, but I'm glad the movie was made. One of the lead characters was played by Jeff Daniels, and if you want to watch a better time travel movie, I recommend the movie 'Timescape' from 1992, which Jeff was the lead character in, and in my humble opinion is superior to Looper.
Do I want to own any of these movies?
The answer is no, and I'm glad I rented them rather than brought them. Brave was a big disappointment, and Looper's storyline didn't feel solid. I feel that the recent Dark Knight trilogy is very good, but for me Batman is always better either in comic form or animation.
About the Author: You can find out more about Andrew at his blog, where he blogs about all sorts.


Saint John. In 1860 the Diocese was divided in two, with the newly established Diocese of Chatham occupying the north, and the Diocese of Saint John, the south.
1 Retreat House (Villa Madonna Retreat House) and 1 Catholic University (St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick).


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06/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Annalise Basso, August 2018, Certificate: 15, Horror, Javier Botet, Jaz Sinclair, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Rating: Poop, Slender Man, Sylvain White
UK Release Date: 24th August 2018
Director: Sylvain White
Writer: David Birke
Starring: Julia Goldani Telles, Joey King, Javier Botet, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso
Synopsis: A group of teens manage to summon the online demon Slender Man during a sleepover for a bit of fun, but soon realise they have released something very dangerous into the world.
There isn't a millenial alive who hasn't, at some point, been freaked out by the Slender Man. Born from the mind of online forum user Eric Knudsen way back in 2009, the Slender Man has been one of the most dominant examples of 'creepypasta' fiction, passing from user to user like a modern version of campfire tales and urban legends. The character has been at the centre of various web series, online stories, documentaries and gigabytes worth of fan art, but he has never been the star of a major studio movie. With that in mind comes Slender Man – a movie made by people who have chosen to ignore everything that ever made Slender Man scary.
In fairness to Sylvain White's movie, it has hit at a time when the Slender Man mythos is on the wane. In 2014, two 12-year-old girls stabbed a friend 19 times, almost killing her, and claimed they did it to appease Slender Man. They were each sentenced last year to several decades in mental hospitals, but the incident opened up a major debate about the effects of the internet on children. This is not the sort of climate into which a throwaway teen horror movie can thrive.
But that doesn't excuse how shoddy Slender Man turns out to be. It's an exhibition of frankly shocking cinematic incompetence that bears all of the hallmarks of a rush job, which is severely compromised by a studio-mandated PG-13 certificate and hasty edits made in the aftermath of the trailer's release. Unsurprisingly, relatives of those involved in the stabbing incident were unhappy about that trailer, which panicked the studio and it was shopped to different distributors. It has now been dumped into cinemas, presumably in the hope that nobody ever stumbles upon it. Certainly no one will want to.
On the face of it, the movie simply resembles a standard jump scare fest. There's a selection of teenage girls who summon the Slender Man during a sleepover by watching a spooky video, only for it all to get very real when one of them goes missing the next day. The protagonist is named Hallie – possibly after the comet I so desperately wanted to slam into the cinema – and her pleasantly intelligent buddy is called Wren, played by Joey King – the only person who seems to be expending any effort to make this sorry affair work. Even the creature himself, realised by immensely talented and prolific creature performer Javier Botet, comes across as decidedly unscary, like a Dementor en route to a wedding reception.
But even the shoddy acting is pushed into a distant second place in the atrocity stakes by the way the movie looks. Every frame has a sludgy, grey palette that is only intensified whenever the film decides it's time to be scary. Occasionally, a blast of score will suggest the existence of a jump scare, despite the fact it's impossible to make out where the beastie is lurking in the frame. The film, in fact, seems precision-tooled to rid the Slender Man mythos of any scare value. Like any urban legend, it thrives from ambiguity and from everyone having their own interpretation of the character. The film has none of that ambiguity and instead turns the internet's most notorious bogeyman into a generic thing that goes bump in the night – if you can spot him in the frame, that is. It's half horror movie, half Where's Wally? book.
Pop or Poop?
In one of the first scenes of this disastrous Slender Man movie, a character delivers the worst fake sneeze in movie history. If that doesn't tell you that you're watching something truly and disgracefully incompetent, I don't know what will.
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I fear that the herald of autumn is dead. The small maple in the park – the smallest of all the trees – always turns first. Its leaves are bronze and gold while the others are still clothed in green. It tells me – even if I hadn't felt that nip in the air, that soaking of early morning dew – it tells me that autumn is here. But this year its boughs are bare. There was no unfurling of bud, no burst into green. Its trunk is spattered with buttery lichen, its branches tipped with desiccated flowers, but there is nothing to suggest it lives. The park is littered with boughs and branches. They say that in drought, trees give up parts of themselves, making themselves smaller against the stress. I wonder if the long winter and bruising summer were just too much for the little maple. I wonder if somehow it has made itself dormant, and that it will sigh back into being next spring.
A crackle of geese honks in a corn field. A twitter of swallows echoes over the cliffs. As we move towards the earth's gilding there is the sound of leaving in the air. The winds sweep in, carrying the scent of far-flung shores. The horizon yawns with promise and I wonder what a bird feels as it gazes on that expanse. When does the leaving begin? Perhaps its starts with a faint humming in the blood, a tremble of expectation. Perhaps it begins with a twitch in the wing, a distance in the eye. Until the urge can't be contained any longer and the bird must stretch its wings. So many birds feeling that longing, that pull of invisible threads across the planet, becoming ever tauter until they can't be resisted. Maybe these autumn wind storms aren't wind at all, maybe they are the flutter of thousands of wings, churning the air with excitement.
I hear my first blackbird sing after the silence of August and I wonder what the blackbird feels. Does it sense the urge to movement and feel loss that it is staying behind? Does this vibration of leaving account for the expectancy I feel in autumn too? Perhaps my body yearns for a journey while scarcely knowing it. As a species we have wandered for so much longer than we have stayed still. Following the herds, following the weather, following the tides. When those early people settled in one place, they may have felt relief, but also sadness that they would no longer roam. Maybe we have lost something in our safer, more stationary lives.
But we still have cause to roam. 3% of the world's people are migrants, moving not at the urging of the seasons, but for a better life, for escape, for survival. We have roamed for centuries and there are those of us for whom the journey is not over. Some of us are the blackbird, destined to stay in one place. Some of us are the swallow, with no choice but to move. September has always meant change. For a third of my life it meant moving on – another year at school, college, university – with all the promise and apprehension that held. Now I stay still but the urge to movement is still there, somewhere deep inside.
Of course September is not only a time of leaving, but also a time of arrival. Just as those threads pull our summer visitors away, they reel in others who will accompany us into the depths of winter. Each season brings its own gifts, and there is a sweetness in the inevitability of each wave of coming and going. The herald of autumn may be dead, but the old poplar is strewing its leaves on the grass like offerings of gold. Life is all arrivals and departures. People move into our lives and are gone. Things alter unexpectedly. The world of my childhood is no longer the world I live in now. We watch and feel the joy and sorrow of each change. It gives us our sense of history, of having lived. But even if we stay in one place, we are never really still. We are coming and going too. We are the bird soaring into the horizon and the bird arriving home. And someone, somewhere, rejoices at our passage.
What poignant musings Andrea. I love your writing and how well you describe the changes in season, life, and the instinctual calls to wander.
I did not know that about trees … I wonder if we should try that and make ourselves smaller under stress?
Lovely lovely descriptions of birds and travelling. We are currently on a lake in Canada and there are constant humming birds. Amazing!
What a gem this post is.
The little maple might revive for next year…..I am quite sure it needs time to recover from the shock of extreme cold and heat.
I love to hear the geese. I don't hear them in London in the way I do in the countryside and when I lived in the States it was such a wonderful sound, heralding the autumn.
Thanks Janet, I'm hoping so. I love geese too, we hear them flying over as we're close to the coast and it's a joyful sound.
If dried out, white, or the bark layer won't come off easily it's dead, or at least that branch is. If the cambium is brown, your tree may have verticillium wilt. You'd know if it was the latter because individual branches die at different times.
Anyway, check out this quote from 'The Secret Garden' regarding "wick".
'When it looks a bit greenish, and juicy, like that, it's wick," he [Dickon] explained.
Thanks Catherine, that's fascinating and I love the word origin. I did actually try scaping a little of the trunk with my nail (I can't reach the branches) as I'd heard about looking for the green but wasn't sure if I was doing it right. I may have another try, but I guess one way or another spring will tell!
You write beautifully. I love your imagery and your photos. Thank you for a lift I needed.
Thanks Chuck, I appreciate the visit and your comment.
I always think of the blackbird – especially in late afternoons – as not so much singing a song as making a proclamation! Now I know what the proclamation is about. And as one who has moved house 13 times in the last 18 years, I thought this piece was wonderful, Andrea.
Yes, they aren't shy about their song! Glad you enjoyed it Bruce.
Your prose is like poetry, a pure pleasure to read on a rainy morning.
So beautiful, Andrea. Yes, we are always in movement, even if very quietly within. My heart goes out to the little maple. I, like you, hope that maybe it's re-building its resources and will join you next spring. How well you write about the birds feeling compelled to leave. It's not quite that cold here yet, but the hummingbirds have already disappeared. Others will soon follow, I'm sure. Tx for a lovely post.
Thanks Jeanne, yes I really hope so.
Beautiful words, Andrea. I often feel sad for the trees that suffer through the elements and shed their bloom. September has always triggered memories of heading back to school and seeing old friends again.
Yes, it is a shame and hopefully summer will be kinder to them next year.
Such beautiful words about the sweet melancholy of autumn's impending arrival. So sad about that little tree. I hope it's just dormant.
« But even if we stay in one place, we are never really still. » As someone who has recently moved back to my origins after spending much of my life moving around the planet, I can so understand this. It's just a different kind of movement.
Thank you, I hope it is too. I greatly enjoyed reading about your arrival after so much movement.
Thanks Dale, I guess if you have that many you wouldn't notice each little one!
Another pleasurable post, Andrea. You capture the feeling of change of season so well and the stirrings within they bring. In late fall, when the strings of geese call overhead, I feel such longing to follow them. I think the migrant DNA in me is still very much present!
Sometimes trees take a few years to die, so if there is better weather in following years, they can recover. However, the fact that it has turned first for many years indicates it has been under stress for a while. Time to find another indicator tree, perhaps.
Such hope in your final line, Andrea. A wonderful evocative post.
RIP small maple in the park.
I love the notion of arriving and leaving simultaneously. It might explain the restlessness I feel at this time of year. Definitely more energetic, but content to sit for hours to get things done. I described it somewhere as "nesting" as I'm a hibernator come winter. Beautiful post!
It definitely has that restless feeling, probably more than any other time of year.
Another inspiring, poetic piece, Andrea – a joy to read. We love the beautiful drama of our changing seasons. I see in it all the 'poiema' (New Testament Greek word) of a Creator who is always creating and delighting to express himself through bringing in the new.
Thank you Richard, yes, there is definitely a sense of creation and delight in the changes we witness.
Thanks Kerry, the maples always put on a great show.
You paint the inner landscape upon the world outside with fierce passion and rare beauty. So many threads have been spun in the musings, such meanings and purports transmuted from the instincts of swallows and blackbirds, onset and passing of seasons, spores of pain and happiness of humans.
It is amazing how you let yourself be absorbed by the natural world and pour out wondrous words. Magnificent poetry. Thanks, Andrea.
Gorgeous prose. Happy my worst fears were not confirmed that you were moving on from your blog. Happy Fall. Hope it bring you renewal, refreshing opportunities, and superb weather.
I'm feeling morose, nostalgic, hopeful, wondering, and dreamy as I read your post. Yup, all of the above. I'm sorry about "your" maple tree. We had a similar thing happen here in NE a few years ago when we had a summer drought. The amazing vibrant fall wasn't as amazing or vibrant as usual. I worried about what those trees/perennials would show us the following spring: death? more dismay? destitution? Instead, the following spring brought vibrant colors, leaves, flowers, new growth and JOY. Quite amazing, death to life and death and life again. September makes me think of all the plants/trees slowly preparing to die for the winter quiet time. If I hadn't lived through many springs, I'd cry.
Beautiful writing. I love September. It's by far my favourite month. With the chill of the air comes hope and possibility and this year words which after a bit of an arid patch is a great relief!
Thanks Vicky, mine too, September and October. Glad that your words have come back to you!
I hope your maples survive Sarah. I heard geese late last night flying over – I couldn't see them, it was too dark, though next door's dog did start barking at them – they were making quite a racket – fabulous!!
Beautifully written as always, Andrea. You had me feeling and hearing every flap of a wing, each dry crackle of a leaf. I hope it turns out to be a beautiful autumn for you. Hugs on the wing!
Thanks Teagan, and for you too!
The urge to move. Those of us in tune with our intuition feel it sometimes, even when we pray it won't come:).
Hello Andrea, the Blackbird won't be alone for long, very soon it will have to share its larder with flocks of Winter guests. A few Swallows remain here, they return each evening to roost. Their playful return always makes me smile (joy), but very soon they will remain absent for longer than a few hours.
Orion fills the southern sky, and Sirius twinkles above the Oaks, reminding us to prepare for the seasons change.
Wrap up and keep warm and safe Andrea. Thank you for a lovely read.
Thanks for your visit Mick, you describe your end of summer beautifully.
'Across the purple sky all the birds are leaving, but how do they know it's time for them to go?' Sandy Denny of course, which your beautiful imagery brought to mind Andrea.
Thanks Roy, I had to look it up, beautiful song.
Even remaining stationary can be dizzying as everything else changes. Instagram gives some people the urge to roam but I think its actually the filters that encourages that.
A gorgeous and moving tribute to the changing of the seasons, Andrea. I used to think September was the start of the year, especially when my kids were in school and my television series returned for the new season. And yes, that maple may well return next spring – it may even be mid-spring before it puts out leaves. Keep hope alive!
Thanks Cynthia, I'll definitely be hoping.
I'm a bit late ( as usual). So very poignant Andrea. I also have that urge to fly, to roam and the thought that someone , somewhere rejoices when I return home is beautiful and a comfort!
Thanks Cybele, I'm very sure that they do!
This is a lovely and thought provoking post. I hope the little maple makes it. I am pleased to meet you through Teagan's Under the Sea, Art Gallery.
Thanks for your visit Roberta and I hope so too!
I feel what you're saying, Andrea. There is a subtle change that autumn brings and I sense the shifts and changes. More so than ever this year, in my neighborhood, not only with the season but with the hustle and bustle of neighbors moving in and out. I have an undercurrent longing to go, too, and explore with them but find myself planted. I'm content in watching, at least for now.
A beautifully seamless sliding into the implications of leaving for us, Andrea. I marvel at the ways our distinct journeys cross paths and share the passage. I like the celebratory note in closing. I'll take that over the mourning.
Thanks Diana, yes, there's always a celebration to be had!
I am astonished at a bronze and gold maple. In Michigan our maples turned red! LEAVING my Michigan trees behind when we left was so hard. It's now been 28 years, and I've never really gotten over the loss.
I can imagine how you miss them Luanne!
Luanne and Andrea – We are here in Washington, and it is amazing how the trees turn colors here at this time of year. We have been taking walks every day in between managing some major changes in the lives of my folks. The yellow and red leaves are stunning! Beautiful post, Andrea. I have always loved September, perhaps because it was the start of the academic year for most of my life, but also for the possibilities and hope it seems to bring.
Thanks Carla, it is a hopeful time of year I always feel.
Ah Andrea, how I love your writings and your subjects 🙂 So many mysteries are there in the Nature – birds migrating; trees responding to the drought. May be the little tree has sacrificed itself so that the bigger trees could live? Who knows.
Oh, I just replied under the wrong comment. Sorry. Meant to say , thank you!
That's lovely of you to say so, I hope that you enjoy the discovery of all those things you still have to say!


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Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Vs Xsplit Broadcaster
Computer Articles / By Duke Taber
When it comes to live-stream software apps, you certainly have a lot of them to choose from, but does that mean they're all alike? Software such as Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS, and Xsplit are alike in many ways, mainly because they are both excellent apps that many people love. Gamers, for one, utilize this type of software when they want to do a live stream on YouTube or Twitch. Regardless of what you'll be using the app for, you'll need to know a little bit about each of them to decide which one is right for you, and that's what this article is here to help you do.
OBS Vs. Xsplit
Audio/Video Quality
When it comes to local recording, especially x264 and x265 video codecs, Xsplit has a lot more options than OBS does. This is especially convenient when you want to upload videos on YouTube, for instance. It's actually a feature they must've thought long and hard about, and it allows for great audio and video optimization for sites such as YouTube and others. OBS's features to optimize audio and video aren't that great, although it does offer more file format options than Xsplit, one of them being VLC.
Still, in the end, Xsplit is deemed better than OBS when it comes to the quality of their videos and audio files, thanks to excellent audio/video support.
How Are They at Customizations?
Regarding customizations, Xsplit has a proprietary interface, while OBS offers a lot more support for its third-party plugins at its website. This is super convenient and one of the reasons why OBS is often preferred over Xsplit when it comes to gaming. OBS is an open-source app and therefore, it has much better support for extra plugins, which in turn provides you with a much more customized experience.
When it comes to performance, the OBS app sometimes has heavy CPU demands if you're using a game that is very graphic-intense. Despite this, it is easy to record when being used for gaming purposes. Some users find that it freezes up a bit once it's installed, but a quick restart usually takes care of that, and the system can be set at 30 FPS for 1280 x 720 for great results. When setting up OBS, you can find all of the tutorials you need on their website, which is a good idea since setting up the app doesn't always feel intuitive. One example is if you want to identify a game correctly. In this instance, you have to "capture a specific window" beforehand, which is a little confusing to some people.
When using Xsplit, choosing your game feels a little more natural and seems more logical. Even when you use the free version of Xsplit, there are no frozen scenes or any type of delays. Overall, Xsplit feels more intuitive at each and every stage than OBS does. It even allows you to "drag and drop" when you want to customize webcam videos or resize your windows, and it is very convenient when you want to add any commentaries.
When it comes to frames per second, both OBS and Xsplit can accommodate up to 60 FPS, so when you're playing a game that moves fast, both programs allow you to recreate your experiences and enjoy the game much more. When it comes to overall performance, therefore, Xsplit seems to offer better stability, more intuitive features, and greater precision over OBS, even though both apps will suffice when it comes to your video games.
Features and Price
As a general rule, Xsplit has many more features than OBS does. This includes direct uploading of streams to sites such as YouTube, Skype, and Twitch. This is super convenient when you're playing a game that requires massive multiplayer role-player (MMORPG) capabilities. In addition, Xsplit lets you edit videos on the go, and even though this particular feature is a paid feature, it is still a very nice feature to have.
Of course, OBS's main advantage is that in addition to it is a community-driven project, it remains completely free to use. It doesn't offer a free version with limited features and capabilities – it offers all of these and other advantages in a version that is free to everyone all of the time.
With Xsplit, you can make private recordings easily, but unfortunately, their best features can only be used if you pay extra for one of their premium options, which costs you money every single month. So, regarding features and price, you have to take two things into consideration:
You have nothing to lose with OBS since it is free, especially if you agree to use it properly.
Xsplit, while a paid-for app, has tons of advanced features and a finish that overall is a lot more professional.
Conclusion – Which Is Better? OBS or Xsplit?
When it comes to comparing Xsplit and OBS, most users think that Xsplit has a slight advantage over OBS. This is mostly because Xsplit has features and performance that are very advanced. With Xsplit, the learning curve is also very low compared to OBS. In fact, with Xsplit, you can use the app almost immediately, which is a big plus because let's face it, most of us want to use these apps right away and not wait a long time to learn to use them properly first.
The opinions associated with OBS are not all bad, however. While OBS can accommodate Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, Xsplit can only be used with Windows, which might be considered a drawback to some.
Xsplit offers 3D positioning, some useful built-in transitioning tools, and streaming that can be done to multiple services at the same time. OBS's perks include its fast speed, the fact that it is a free and open-source, and its ability to record to many different formats. When you're comparing these two apps, therefore, you have to consider which features you need so that you can determine which one to choose in the end. You may choose one app because gaming is important to you, while the other app may be more useful if you have a YouTube channel or website that you're trying to promote.
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From left are Sevinj Principe, Parker Drilling; Allison Strong, BP; Nargiz Nasrullayeva, State Oil Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Azerbaijan; and Leyla Novruzova, BP.
The standard metrics will be used to create a balanced scorecard that drillers can share with suppliers so they understand the driller's priorities and expectations. The committee will be working closely with drillers and suppliers throughout 2018 to ensure a smooth implementation.
The IADC Caspian Chapter hosted a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, in February focused on women in the oil and gas industry. The panel included four women in prominent positions in the region. The discussion focused on workplace diversity and ways to support the advancement of women in the oil and gas industry.
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Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen
This combo of two photos shows, at left, an Associated Press photo taken Jan. 3, 2013 of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi posing with female House members on Capitol Hill in Washington, and at right, a screen grab from Pelosi's Flickr page of an altered photo of Pelosi with female House members on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Pelosi is defending the altered picture that was posted on her Flickr social media site. The group photo shows four House members, in the back row, who arrived too late to pose on the Capitol steps. A computer program was used to add them to the image later posted on Flickr. (AP Photo)
PUBLISHED: January 4, 2013 at 7:25 p.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 11:07 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) – For House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the swearing-in of a record number of Democratic women was a historic moment worth a photograph. And, she decided, history needed a little digital help.
After only 57 of the 61 congresswomen showed up in time for the photo scheduled Thursday on the Capitol's steps, Pelosi's aides digitally inserted images of the four absent members into the photograph. She then had the altered image posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site.
Journalists and historians frown on such altered views of history. On Friday, Pelosi defended the photo.
'It was an accurate historical record of who the Democratic women of Congress are,' Pelosi said at a news conference. 'It also is an accurate record that it was freezing cold and our members had been waiting a long time for everyone to arrive and … had to get back into the building to greet constituents, family members, to get ready to go to the floor. It wasn't like they had the rest of the day to stand there.'
Pelosi said the photo reflected the nation's diversity because it included women from every community and religious faith.
'So we were pretty excited about it,' she said. 'We got a lot of response back from the country, and one I loved was when they said, `Can the women in Congress hear the people cheering across the country?"
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Romolini Immobiliare offers a selection of villas and chalets located in the historic center of Liezen or in the surrounding mountains, dotted with ski facilities and resorts.


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V&V OUTREACH PROGRAM V&V's Outreach Program is designed to bring the services usually found in the studio program to individuals who are unable to attend the studio program. Visionaries and Voices provides these services because it's who we are. V&V reaches out to provide what only the few will do, to promote creative growth and inclusion for all individuals through the vehicle of art! No situation is so isolating that individuals should be forced to exclude themselves from the very thing that links them to the world. It is through the sustained commitment to this program that V&V sets itself apart from other arts organizations, day habilitation programs, and support systems for individuals with disabilities. An artist receiving Outreach Services also participates in V&V exhibitions and receives the marketing services for their works and, as such, is integrated into the studio and gallery experience of V&V.
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Ronaldo Continues Remarkable Run Of Form
by David on September 24, 2014
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 25th hat-trick for Real Madrid as he grabbed four goals in a 5-1 home win over Elche.
Three days after netting three in an 8-2 victory away to Deportivo La Coruna, the Ballon d'Or winner remarkably went one better at the Bernabeu for Carlo Ancelotti's team. Edu Albacar had briefly put Elche in front, with a 15th-minute penalty after Ronaldo fouled Pedro Mosquera, but that only stirred Real and their early offender into action.
Gareth Bale scored Real's equaliser after 20 minutes before Ronaldo took over, burying penalties for his first and third goals, either side of heading home a Marcelo cross from the left for his second. A measured pass from Bale gave Ronaldo shooting space for his fourth in second-half stoppage time, with the ragged Elche defence parting to allow the Portuguese forward an absurd level of freedom.
What is most impressive about Ronalso's 25 hat-tricks is that they have came in little over five years, and with 21 trebles in the Primera Division alone he stands just one behind club record holder Alfredo Di Stefano.
Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti believes Ronaldo's three-week break at the start of the season to ease knee and hamstring injuries is the reason for his sensational form.
"It is clear that has helped because he needed a period of time to work with the seriousness and professionalism he has," said Ancelotti. "At the moment he is physically in very good shape, he is very motivated and he is scoring a lot."
After their punishing win at the hands of Ronaldo and team-mates on Saturday, Deportivo La Coruna could not find a winning response. They suffered a 2-1 defeat away to unbeaten Celta Vigo, missing the chance to take a draw when Haris Medunjanin missed an 88th-minute penalty.
Celta went ahead after three minutes when Nolito cut in from the left and after a mazy run fired home with power. Isaac Cuenca levelled in the 55th minute after some smart footwork and a sharp finish to the bottom left corner, but a powerful 72nd-minute header from Joaquin Larrivey, who met Nolito's corner six yards out, proved to be the winner. Sergio got down smartly to his left to keep out the late spot-kick.


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Two from Samuel Eto'o lead Chelsea past Schalke, to top of Champions League group
By Richard FarleyNov 6, 2013, 6:17 PM EST
Schalke seemed to be taking a chapter from Newcastle's book, and approach that backfired with Timo Hildebrand's 30th minute mistake. Although Chelsea had controlled the game's first half hour, they had yet to create a clear chance before Hildebrand, hurried after putting the ball down ahead of a kick, saw his attempted clearance go off Samuel Eto'o and into his own net from the edge of his penalty area. Absolved of the need to pursue the match, Chelsea would go on to win the teams' UEFA Champions League match, 3-0.
Thanks to second half goals from Eto'o and Demba Ba, Chelsea takes their first solo lead in their Champions League group, having lost on match day one at home to Basel. Winning their third group match in a row, Chelsea take a three-point lead on Schalke, whose lead over third-place Basel is down to one after the Swiss champions drew at home with Steaua Bucharest.
Schalke had started the match with a series of half-chances before ceding control to their hosts, who eventually started patiently using the possession they were given. Yet through the first 30 minutes, their only shot on goal came from a dead ball situation, a long free kick from Andre Schurrle forcing a diving if easy stop from Hildebrand.
Minutes later, Schalke were behind, a moment's lapse from their goalkeeper conceding an embarrassing goal. Having put the ball down after his defense had pushed up, Hildenbrand took his time lining up a kick out of his own box. In the interim, Samuel Eto'o closed in seemingly unnoticed from the keeper's right. By the time he was on Hildebrand's radar, the Chelsea striker was able to get his leg in front of the ball, the resulting ricochet sending the block into Schalke's net.
Eto'o second was more conventional, the Cameroonian international put behind the defense to the right of goal by fellow Anzhi Makhachkala escapee Willian. A precise far post finish doubled Chelsea's lead nine minutes after half time.
Late, a ball lobbed into the penalty area by Frank Lampard saw Demba Ba get on the scoresheet, an athletic turn on his right leg allowing the Senegalese to hit a left-footed volley inside the left post, leaving Hildebrand helpless to defend the match's final goal.
Coming off weekend disappointment against Newcastle, this was exactly the type of result José Mourinho would have wanted, though it's difficult to ignore the nature of the opening goal. Eto'o deserves credit for the play, but it wasn't one Chelsea would have expected from their game plan – a gift from Schalke more than a well-earned score.
If that goal doesn't go in, does the game play out as it did over the first 30 minutes? With a lot of Blues possession leading to little on Schalke's goal?
In that sense, the questions from this weekend may not be answered. Now, however, Chelsea gets to pursue solutions from a winning spot, and the top of their Champions League group.
Chelsea: 31′, 54′ Samuel Eto'o, 83′ Demba Ba
Chelsea: Petr Cech; Branislav Ivanovic, Gary Cahill, John Terry, Cesar Azpilicueta; Ramires, John Obi Mikel; Willian, Oscar (81′ Frank Lampard), Andre Schurrle (78′ Kevin De Bruyne); Samuel Eto'o (77′ Demba Ba)
Unused subs: David Luiz, Ashley Cole, Mark Schwarzer, Juan Mata
Schalke: Timo Hildebrand; Atsuto Uchida, Benedikt Höwedes, Joel Matip, Denni Aogo; Jermaine Jones, Roman Neustädter; Julian Draxler (62′ Christian Clemens), Kevin Prince Boateng (77′ Sead Kolasinac), Christian Fuchs (67′ Max Meyer); Adám Szalai
Unused subs: Ralf Fährmann, Felipe Santana, Tim Hoogland, Kaan Ayhan


A self-proclaimed Living Buddha who "ordained" Chinese actor Zhang Tielin has issued an apology and resigned from all posts after a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery denied certifying him as a Living Buddha.
Baima Aose said on his Sina Weibo account on Tuesday that he will resign from all posts, give up all titles, honors and certificates, and devote himself to religious practice.
He called himself a yoga practitioner, rather than a Living Buddha, in the online statement.
"Issues involving my ordination and reincarnation have caused resentment and doubts from Buddhist monks and practitioners as well as the public … It has also caused misunderstanding from the public about Buddhism itself. I deeply regret that," he said.
Before the resignation, he was the chairman of the World Trade United Foundation and co-founder of the Hong Kong Buddhist Culture Estate.
However, he insisted that the video footage featuring Baima Aose and actor Zhang Tielin dressed like Buddhist monks was not a Living Buddha enthronement ceremony.
The video went viral on the Internet in late November, and Baima Aose has since come under mounting fire from Internet users as well as Buddhist practitioners for violating Tibetan Buddhist practice. Many also doubted the authenticity of his status as a Living Buddha.
In response, Baima Aose posted a video on his Weibo account on Nov 28 which he claimed to be of an enthronement ceremony hosted by Mozha Rinpoche, a Living Buddha from the Katuo Monastery in Sichuan province's Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture.
However, the Katuo Monastery said in a statement on Sunday that it has never ordained Baima Aose as a Living Buddha, and will relieve him of posts he held in the monasteries' Hong Kong branches.
Baima Aose, 39, whose original name was Wu Darong, is from Quanzhou, Fujian province, the Beijing News reported. His family moved to Hong Kong when he was 8 years old.
Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a Living Buddha is reincarnated in a child on his death. The reincarnation procedure is strict and lengthy, and a candidate must obtain government approval before the enthronement ceremony.


This week, we are featuring "Reflections on Dietrich Bonhoeffer" by John Swinton.
John Swinton, Ph.D, holds the chair in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. He worked for over a decade as a registered nurse in psychiatric and intellectual disability settings before becoming an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and then a Ph.D and professor. Writings include Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems, and Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Essays on Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology New York: Haworth Press (2005). In 2004 he founded the Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability at the University of Aberdeen.
You can visit John Swinton's Amazon Author Page here.
You can also download Bill Gaventa's notes on this session here: "Reflections on Dietrich Bonhoeffer".


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Weibo is now the first public-listed Chinese social media company, after making its debut on Nasdaq on Thursday but at a lower shares offering than originally planned.
Operated by Sina, in which Alibaba also has a stake, the microblogging service priced its shares at US$17 each, falling on the bottom of its planned range of US$17 to US$19 in preparation for the Initial Public Offering (IPO), reported China Daily.
Beijing-based Weibo had initially targeted to sell 20 million Class-A American depositary shares, but slashed the number to 16.8 million due to concerns over slowing user growth and selloff in tech shares. As of March, Weibo has a monthly active user base of 144 million and more than 600 million registered users worldwide.
Company CEO and Chairman of Sina's board Charles Chao said IPO prices were typically determined based on demand and supply in the stock market. "Because of the recent downturn of the IPO market in the U.S., we are happy that we can still set Weibo's IPO price at the bottom of our initial targeted range," Chao said during a local media briefing Thursday night.
Trading under the ticker WB, the Chinese company will raise some US$328.44 million in capital from the IPO, which puts its value at around US$3.46 billion.
It reported its first profit of US$44.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2013 on revenue of US$197 million, up 42 percent from the year before, while advertising revenue increased 45 percent year-on-year to US$160.1 million.
In the first quarter of 2014, however, it recorded a net loss of US$47.4 million, which was more than double the US$19.2 million loss in the same quarter 2013, China Daily reported. Revenues for the quarter clocked at US$67.5 million, more than double year-on-year, but 5.5 percent below the previous quarter. Weibo said the lower revenue was due to seasonal effects of the Chinese Lunar New Year and that performance was in line with its expectations.
Alibaba, which is prepping its own U.S. IPO, last year purchased 19 percent stake in Weibo for US$586 million and is expected to exercise an option to raise that stake to 32 percent.


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Why I Go Back and Forth On Issues of Forced Psychiatric Institutionalization
A few months ago I wrote:
I was among those who has opposed forced institutionalization. The practice used to be rife with abuse, and when it was really being challenged in the 1970's it was with recent knowledge of how institutionalization for supposed mental health issues had been used in the Soviet Union as a tool against dissent. And in a world where political partisans still routinely assign negative mental health diagnoses to their political enemies and have even suggested using mental health diagnosis-from-a-distance to unseat the current President, there is still a lot of possibility for abuse. But seeing that most of those who would have been in state mental hospitals are now in prison or living (and dying) on the streets, I am open to having made a mistake. I am still not sure, though, who advocates for such people who are without friends and family and would help guard against their abuse.
I understand that the general media explanation of homelessness is to blame it on the cold heart of whoever was the last Republican President in office, but it is hard for me to correlate national policy with trends in homelessness. I am maybe 70% convinced that the closing of mental health facilities in the 70's and 80's across most cities and states was the main cause, a hypothesis born out by the high rates of mental illness recorded in most homeless populations. This is why I think so much government spending for the homeless is wasted -- it all focuses on creating homes, I guess just because of our word choice of "homeless". If we called them the mentally ill, or perhaps "helpless" rather than "homeless" we might investigate other approaches.
I see a number of sources nowadays trying to pin these closures entirely on tight-fisted Republican governors, and I am sure this is partly true. But this misses an important element -- that civil libertarians had real issues with both the conduct of these institutions (e.g. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) and the fairness of the forced-institutionalization process. Also tied up in all this were Cold War stories of Soviet Russia using institutionalization in mental hospitals as a way to dispose of dissidents. After all, it is a short step from the totalitarian view of ideology (ie that everyone must believe, not just comply) to declaring that any deviation from the official orthodoxy constitutes mental illness.
Which leads me to this story, which got me started thinking about this again:
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far right has been left shocked and furious after a court ordered her to be examined by a psychiatrist to determine if she "is capable of understanding remarks and answering questions".
Le Pen, who is head of the former National Front party - now National Rally (Rassemblement National) revealed on Twitter her shock and anger at being ordered to undertake a psychiatric assessment.
The unusual summoning is in relation to Le Pen having tweeted out gruesome propaganda images from terror group Isis that showed the bodies of people having been executed by the so-called Islamic State.
In March Le Pen was charged with circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity" and that can be viewed by a minor.
And as part of their investigation it appears magistrates in Nanterre near Paris have ordered Le Pen to visit a psychiatrist for an expert assessment.
"I thought I had been through it all: well, no! For denouncing the horrors of Daesh (Isis) by tweets the "justice system" has referred me for a psychiatric assessment. How far will they go?!" she said on Thursday.
Ms. Le Pen is not really my cup of tea, but this strikes me as a creepily totalitarian action, oddly similar to certain groups in the US that want to take on Trump with mental health claims. If you are imitating strategies used by Soviet Russia to suppress dissidents, you are probably doing Democracy wrong.
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New York primary brings campaign tension to a boil
April 14, 2016 at 8:53p.m.
NEW YORK (AP)
As Democrats readied for their first debate-stage clash in a month, Florida officials declared Thursday they would not prosecute Donald Trump's campaign manager for misdemeanor battery, the latest extraordinary development in a turbulent presidential primary season now focused on New York.
Trump joined other presidential contenders from both parties who hustled into New York City ahead of the state's Tuesday presidential primaries, a critical test as both parties' front-runners fight to beat back surging challengers. New conflicts flared between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hours before the evening debate in Brooklyn as protesters clogged the Manhattan sidewalk outside a state GOP dinner where all three Republican White House hopefuls were scheduled to appear.
Trump was the target of rowdy protesters who hung an effigy of the billionaire businessman and chanted, "How do you spell racist? T-R-U-M-P."
The raucous scene came shortly after Florida prosecutors dismissed a criminal complaint against Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, two weeks after local police charged him with grabbing a reporter.
Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg declared police were right to charge Lewandowski, yet the burden on prosecutors to prove the case was higher.
"Although there was probable cause to make an arrest, the evidence cannot prove all legally required elements of the crime alleged and is insufficient to support a criminal prosecution," Aronberg said during an afternoon news conference.
Lewandowski initially denied grabbing the reporter before video surveillance surfaced of the early March incident. Trump accused the reporter of exaggerating and changing her story.
Prosecutors said Thursday that a simple apology might have avoided the criminal complaint. Lewandowski was "gratified" by the prosecutor's decision, the campaign said in a brief statement declaring, "The matter is now concluded."
On the Democratic side, Sanders jabbed Clinton while courting black leaders before the debate as he outlined policy prescriptions for jobs, education and criminal justice.
"If you believe that those issues can be addressed by establishment politics and establishment economics, you've got a very good candidate to vote for but it's not Bernie Sanders," the Vermont senator declared.
The Democratic race has become increasingly heated in New York — including Sanders first questioning Clinton's qualifications to be president and then reversing himself — and the tensions were likely to spill onto the debate stage.
Early Thursday, Sanders distanced himself from comments made by a surrogate the day before that voters shouldn't "continue to elect corporate Democratic whores." Sanders said on Twitter that the comment "was inappropriate and insensitive." ''There's no room for language like that in our political discourse," he wrote.
Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign's communications director, responded on Twitter that it was "very distressing language to say the least."
Front-runners Clinton and Trump hope New York's April 19 primaries can propel them past stubborn challengers and into the general election. Preference polls show Clinton and Trump leading their respective contests.
Sanders, a Vermont senator who was born in Brooklyn, has been touting his local roots as he seeks to upset Clinton in New York. While he is on a winning streak in primaries and caucuses, he needs a big victory in the state to cut into Clinton's delegate lead and slow her march to the nomination.
Sanders broadened his attack on his party's front-runner in a new ad unveiled Thursday.
"Nothing will change until we elect candidates who reject Wall Street money," the narrator says.
Trump, meanwhile, hopes New York marks an end to the worst period of his candidacy, a stretch that raised new questions about his policy abilities and revealed his campaign's lack of preparedness for a delegate fight if the GOP race heads to a contested convention. A big victory in New York could increase his chances of clinching the nomination before the convention.
He dispatched aides to Capitol Hill Thursday in the first of what the campaign says will be a series of regular gatherings with lawmakers.
Trump adviser Ed Brookover said after the meeting that the billionaire businessman was on a "glide path" to reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
At the same time, Cruz appeared to be courting the GOP's conservative base, a group that could hold great sway at the party's July national convention.
The Texas senator said he supports the ability of North Carolina lawmakers to pass a law restricting bathroom access for gay and transgender people. The state has faced a national backlash from critics who say the law unfairly targets gay and lesbian people.
Cruz said during taping of a MSNBC town hall in Buffalo that states can pass such laws because "men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls."
"That is a perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make," he said.
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Takeout produces a lot of trash. It doesn't have to
by Jamey Anderson
The single-use packaging that typically accompanies your takeout order can have a significant impact on the environment. (© Conservation International/photo by David Emmett)
The doorbell rings. It's takeout — and a small mountain of single-use packaging you don't need.
Ever wonder why our favorite food comes with so much stuff? If so, you're not alone.
Takeout creates a lot of trash, and that means a larger climate footprint for our pad thai and tikka masala. In total, about 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from the way we make, consume and dispose of stuff. But there are solutions to getting our favorite food without the waste.
In the latest installment of the Climate Lab video series — produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox Media — Conservation International CEO Dr. M. Sanjayan looks at what leading companies and universities are doing to stem the tide of single-use packages.
Making a change in your own life may be easier than you think.
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