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De Grand Prix-wegrace der Naties 1988 was de vijfde Grand Prix van wereldkampioenschap wegrace voor motorfietsen in het seizoen 1988. De races werden verreden op 21- en 22 mei 1988 op het Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola (Italië). In Imola reden alle soloklassen (80 cc, 125 cc, 250 cc en 500 cc).

Algemeen
De GP des Nations werd de Grand Prix van Jorge Martínez, die niet alleen twee races won, maar ook in twee klasse poleposition en de snelste ronde realiseerde. De 125cc-klasse moest al op zaterdag 21 mei rijden, de overige klassen reden op zondag 22 mei. De trainingen werden bijna allemaal op een nat circuit afgerond, pas op zaterdag werd er op een droge baan gereden. In geen enkele race was de strijd om de eerste plaats echt spannend, door de overmacht van Eddie Lawson, Dominique Sarron en Jorge Martínez.

500cc-klasse

De training
Wayne Gardner was goed te spreken over de verbeteringen aan zijn Honda NSR 500, maar nog niet helemaal tevreden. Gardner was de snelste, maar de tijden lagen dicht bij elkaar met de eerste zeven binnen een seconde. Didier de Radiguès had inmiddels genoeg vertrouwen in de Yamaha YZR 500 om zijn eigen afstelling te zoeken (in plaats van die van Eddie Lawson te volgen) en reed de tweede trainingstijd. Randy Mamola reed eindelijk weer eens op de Cagiva, waarvan hij zei dat vooral de Pirelli-banden sterk verbeterd waren.

Trainingstijden

De race
Vanaf de tweede startrij was Eddie Lawson toch als snelste weg en na enkele ronden had hij al een kleine voorsprong op Wayne Gardner, Didier de Radiguès, Kevin Schwantz en Wayne Rainey. Gardner probeerde een tijdje te volgen, maar zijn machine was nog te instabiel en hij moest genoegen nemen met de tweede plaats. Veel spanning was er niet in de race, pas vanaf de zevende plaats was er strijd tussen Randy Mamola, Shunji Yatsushiro, Raymond Roche en Tadahiko Taira. Deze laatste twee maakten een lelijke valpartij mee, maar pas na de finish. Roche brak daarbij een enkel en Taira een hand.

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250cc-klasse

De training
De Yamaha 250cc-rijders hadden nieuwe uitlaten gekregen, maar dat kon niet verhinderen dat Christian Sarron met zijn Honda NSR 250 de snelste tijd reed. De tijd van regerend wereldkampioen Toni Mang viel weer tegen: hij was slechts veertiende. Reinhold Roth kreeg steeds minder last van de herhaalde operaties aan zijn been en reed de vijfde tijd.

Trainingstijden

De race
Afgezien van een valpartij meteen na de start van de 250cc-race, waarbij Alberto Puig onderuit ging en John Kocinski, Bruno Casanova, Alain Bronec, Jean-François Baldé, Andreas Preining en Donnie McLeod in zijn val meenam, was er niet veel spanning. Dominique Sarron startte als snelste en bleef tot aan de finish aan de leiding. Sito Pons achterhaalde hem weliswaar, maar kon hem niet passeren en moest hem uiteindelijk laten gaan. Toni Mang (slechte startplaats) en Reinhold Roth (mislukte start) reden een inhaalrace, waarbij Roth nog zesde werd, maar Mang werd slechts tiende, voor Donnie McLeod, die zoals gezegd gevallen was.

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125cc-klasse

De training
De 125cc-klasse kon op zaterdagochtend nog een droge training afwikkelen, maar de tijden lagen ver uit elkaar. Tussen Jorge Martínez en Ezio Gianola zat slechts een halve seconde, maar derde man Fausto Gresini was al meer dan twee seconden langzamer en tiende man Lucio Pietroniro kwam bijna vier seconden tekort.

Trainingstijden

De race
Ezio Gianola had kopstart, maar zat al snel in een kleine kopgroep met de Derbi-rijders Jorge Martínez en Manuel Herreros. Gedrieën leken ze een fel gevecht om de kop te leveren, maar nadat Gianola en Herreros elkaar een keer geraakt hadden koos Martínez eieren voor zijn geld. Zeven ronden voor het einde ging hij ineens 2,5 seconde per ronde sneller rijden. Gianola raakte in de laatste ronde een keer in het gras, maar kon de achtervolgende groep met Pier Paolo Bianchi, Hans Spaan, Luis Miguel Reyes en Gastone Grassetti nog net voorblijven.

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80cc-klasse

De training
In de 125cc-training waren de verschillen al groot, maar in de 80cc-klasse was het nog veel erger. Jorge Martínez was bijna twee seconden sneller dan Stefan Dörflinger, die op zijn beurt bijna drie seconden sneller was dan Àlex Crivillé. Reiner Koster reed naar de tiende startplaats maar was ruim acht seconden langzamer dan Martínez.

Trainingstijden

De race
Net als een dag eerder in de 125cc-race deed Jorge Martínez er alles aan om de 80cc-race spannend te laten lijken. Nadat Károly Juhász de kopstart had, verzamelde Martínez zijn team (Manuel Herreros en Àlex Crivillé) om zich heen om de achtervolging in te zetten. Zo leek het erop dat de Derbi ploeg volledig op het podium zou komen, want Stefan Dörflinger had zijn start verknoeid. Na tien ronden sloot Dörflinger echter aan en dat was het moment voor Martínez om geen risico's meer te nemen en er vandoor te gaan. Dörflinger had tijdens zijn inhaalrace de snelste ronde gereden, maar Martínez verbeterde die weer en won met ruim vijf seconden voorsprong.

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Trivia

Extra trainingen
Zowel HRC als Yamaha hadden in de weken voor de Grand Prix getraind op het circuit van Rijeka. De fabrieks-Honda's waren zelfs eerst naar Japan geweest om wijzigingen aan de remmen door te voeren, de positie van het motorblok te wijzigen en een andere swingarm te monteren. Ze kwamen naar Italië met een duidelijk beter frame, volgens geruchten dat uit 1987. John Kocinksy testte in Rijeka zijn nieuwe Yamaha YZR 250 met een carbonfiber frame, die hij ook in deze race gebruikte.

Matig circuit
Voor het eerst sinds het seizoen 1983 werd het circuit goed genoeg bevonden voor een Grand Prix, maar qua veiligheid hield het niet over. De vangrails stonden te dicht op de baan, er waren niet genoeg strobalen, het asfalt was van wisselende kwaliteit (oud en nieuw asfalt) en er lag nog veel rubber van de drie weken eerder gereden Formule 1-race, wat vooral in de natte trainingsdagen een probleem was. Tijdens de trainingen vielen Kees Besseling, Paolo Casoli, Pierfrancesco Chili, Àlex Crivillé, Jos van Dongen, Stefan Dörflinger, Ron Haslam, Eddie Lawson, Niall Mackenzie, Ian McConnachie, Peter Öttl, Didier de Radiguès (2x), Jean-Philippe Ruggia, Dominique Sarron en Hisashi Unemoto.

Bruno Casanova
Bruno Casanova was het seizoen begonnen met het "oude" Rotax-blok, een paralleltwin, maar werd nu volwaardig fabrieksrijder voor Aprilia met de nieuwe Rotax-V-twin.

Wayne Gardner en dokter Costa
Wayne Gardner had zich bij de wedstrijdarts gemeld met een wat gezwollen voet na een trainingsongeval in Rijeka, waarvoor een extra verstevigde laars was gemaakt. Als de dokter had geweten wat er werkelijk aan de hand was had hij waarschijnlijk geen toestemming gegeven om te starten. Dr. Costa had al eerder vijf botbreuken in Gardner's voet geconstateerd, maar begeleidde hem het hele weekend. Ook had Gardner zich ervan verzekerd dat er geen blijvende schade aan zijn voet zou optreden. Claudio Costa's nieuwe Clinica mobile werd in Imola geopend. Aanvankelijk was de mobiele kliniek opgezet met geld van helmenfabrikant AGV, maar nu had Costa een derde hypotheek op zijn huis moeten nemen om de zaak te bekostigen. Wayne Gardner bracht in elk geval zijn prijzengeld van omgerekend ongeveer 7.500 Euro na de race naar de kliniek.

Uitgeschakeld voor de volgende race
Achteraf bleken er een flink aantal coureurs voor kortere of langere tijd te zijn uitgeschakeld door hun opgelopen blessures. Dat gold voor Loris Reggiani, Raymond Roche, Fausto Gresini en Tadahiko Taira.

1988
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When President Donald Trump nominated federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death last year of Justice Antonin Scalia, he chose a candidate whose professional background is very much in line with previous and current justices.
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Hartland Sweet Snyder (* 1913 in Salt Lake City; † 1962) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker.

Snyder war Doktorand von Robert Oppenheimer in Berkeley, mit dem er 1939 eine frühe Beschreibung des Gravitationskollapses zu Schwarzen Löchern in der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie entwickelte.

Der Begriff Schwarzes Loch wurde zwar erst 1967 durch John Archibald Wheeler geprägt, steckt aber schon in der Arbeit von Oppenheimer und  Snyder von 1939. Wörtlich schreiben sie in der Zusammenfassung ihrer Arbeit, dass genügend schwere Sterne nach dem Aufbrauchen ihrer Fusionsenergie-Ressourcen kollabieren, und dass dieser Kollaps unbegrenzt anhält.

Snyder entwickelte mit M. Stanley Livingston und Ernest Courant 1952 das starke Fokussierungsprinzip für Synchrotrone, das es ermöglichte, die Teilchenstrahlen zusammenzuhalten und eine wichtige Voraussetzung für Teilchenbeschleuniger immer höherer Energie war. Unabhängig von ihnen wurde das Konzept schon 1949 von Nicholas Christofilos entdeckt.

1940 bis 1947 war er an der Northwestern University und 1947 bis zu seinem Tod 1962 am Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Roberto Martinez faces left back dilemma
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With Everton's Mr Consistent Leighton Baines set to return to the first team fold after the international break Roberto Martinez will be having several sleepness nights over is left back selection.
Where as in the past Leighton Baines would automatically be named in the starting 11, no matter how long he'd been missing for, this time around he may not find getting his left back spot back so easily. It's massive credit to Everton's deputy left back Brenden Galloway for raising the question-should Baines have to fight his way back into the team.
Galloway, a centre back turned left back, has been in impressive form this season while filling in for the injured Baines and turned the heads of many this season with his eye catching displays. Galloway's inclusion in the Everton squad at this start of this season was mainly due to a crisis in the left back position with Bryan Oviedo and Leighton Baines injured on the eve before the first game of the season. With Luke Garbutt on loan at Fulham Galloway retained the left back position, which he held for the last two games of last season also due to injury. However Galloway's performances this season have kept the returning Oviedo on the bench and a large majority of fans believe Leighton Baines should join him there.
Roberto Martinez will surely have a selection headache. Choosing whether to stick with 19-year-old Galloway based on his excellent form and matureness way above his years. Or bring back the experienced Baines who offers consistency and unrivalled dead ball ability.
Perhaps the dilemma is a blessing in disguse for Martinez. The gaffer has long been keen on moving Baines into the midfield and has experimented with this in the past, with Baines operating as a holding midfielder last season against away to Newcastle United and Hull City. Leighton Baines could be moved into central midfield while Galloway retains his place at left back. From central or even left midfield Baines' passing ability, calmness of the ball and crossing ability would be perfectly effective in Everton's possession football. Such a move has been seen in recent season with Philip Lahm moving from right back to holding midfield with positive results.
Similar to this Roberto Martinez has expressed his desire to move Galloway into the centre of the defence in the future and the youngster could well feature there for Everton when Baines returns. However this season Galloway has received praise due to his marauding runs forward and goal getting nature. Against Arsenal he was one of Everton's most attacking players, operating almost as a winger in the second half and almost scoring the winning goal late on. In Everton's last match against West Ham it was Galloway's forward run and pass to Lukaku which almost one the game. Galloway has pace, skill and the ability to put a accurate ball into the box. The latter was demonstrated for Everton's opening goal against Chelsea, a perfect cross met by Steven Naismith.
Alternatively make Baines fight for his place at left back. The competition will only benefit the team and boost the performances of both Galloway and Baines. Galloway is not without his faults. His positional play is questionable at times and his effectiveness is lessened considerably when playing against a pacey winger.
Whether he returns on the bench or is put straight into the starting 11 Everton fans will welcome the return of talismanic Leighton Baines. His set piece delivery and assists will only boost Everton's performances and also add experience to a relatively young back for. The decision of who plays is ultimately Martinez's to make, I'm sure its one he's not looking forward to make.
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As I mentioned in my last post, I recently lost two of my favorite Musical Memories clients last week. They were both fun and lovely women who allowed me into their lives during what turned out to be their final days on earth, for which I'll be forever grateful.
If you haven't already, please read Call Me Eve! to learn about dear Evelyn. But now let me tell you about June. I'll warn you, though. This one gets a little spooky!
June was a bright and brilliant person with a genuinely charismatic personality. I'm sure that came in handy because, as she told me, she and her husband had been very involved in local, state and national politics. Since it's important to me to protect the privacy of my clients and their families, I won't be specific, but I was impressed to learn that her husband had been elected to a high state office and was later subject to a presidential appointment on the national level. And June herself worked in state government in various capacities.
She was also a proud Baylor University graduate, who taught me the Baylor Alma Mater – That Good Old Baylor Line – which is sung to the tune of In the Good Old Summertime, and which we sang at the end of every visit, complete with the "Sic 'em, Bears!" sign at the end.
Like Eve, June's favorite songs were traditional hymns. She loved Amazing Grace, Into the Garden and Blessed Assurance, which I sang for her frequently. But one song I didn't know – and she requested several times – was The Old Rugged Cross. So I was excited the day I had finally learned it and planned to sing it for her. But alas, she was in the hospital that day. For the next few weeks, I looked forward to surprising her with it when she got out. I was heartbroken when I got the call that she had passed away unexpectedly. She would never hear me sing her favorite hymn.
This is where it gets spooky. A couple of days later I was singing to Alice who lived a few rooms down from June. Alice also loves hymns and was happy to sing along with me to The Old Rugged Cross. I try to be very present with my elder friends, but at that moment I have to admit that I couldn't stop thinking about June.
Now, Alice tends to have what some people would call "hallucinations". She "sees" her departed family members often. In fact, I wrote about her family "visits" last year in A Family Reunion. But I wanted to be sure she wasn't feeling frightened, so I checked with her and she assured me that the person behind me seemed nice. And then she was gone.
As I've said before, I don't know how any of this life, death, and after-life stuff works, so I won't swear that June was there, listening to The Old Rugged Cross. All I do know is that I will never sing or hear that song without thinking of her, and that makes me happy.


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A: ForEach will only loop through an array, while the map will return you a new array with a modified value.
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A: You need to use map instead forEach because map returns an array.
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Welcoming you back to the stadium!
By hgfcadmin Wednesday, 7 July, 2021 Wednesday, 14 July, 2021 Uncategorized
As announced by the Singapore Premier League (SPL) this afternoon, fans will be able to attend AIA Singapore Premier League (SPL) matches once again when the 2021 season resumes later this month.
In order to gain entry, fans will have to produce proof of a negative test result – either of a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test or Antigen Rapid Test (ART) – or certification of having received the full two doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The PCR test or the ART must be taken within 24 hours prior to end of the event. Individuals who have been vaccinated will only be admitted if the date of the match falls at least 14 days after their second dose. More details on the requirements for Pre-Event Testing can be found via the Ministry of Health's advisory.
Eligible fans then need to purchase a physical ticket at a dedicated booth at each match venue, which will commence operations two hours prior to kick-off.
Tickets pricing as follow:
Concession: $5
A wrist tag will be issued per ticket-holder at the point of the entry to the match; both will allow the fan access to the venue, starting 60 minutes before kick-off.
Things to note during bag checks at entry point:
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Under 18 U.S.C. §§ 111 and 1114, the defendant does not have to have knowledge of the jurisdictional element. See United States v. Feola, 420 U.S. 671 (1975). Of course, the government must prove the official capacity of the victim as a jurisdictional element. When the defendant is charged with assaulting a federal officer "on account of the performance of official duties," the government must prove that the defendant's act was done with such purpose, but it is not necessary to prove that the accused had knowledge that the victim was a "Federal" officer.


Samantha joined the team at Bridge McFarland in 2015 as a Legal Assistant in the Medical Negligence department at the firm's Grimsby office, servicing her own cases and supporting Senior Solicitor Chris Gresswell-Green.
Samantha obtained a law degree from the University of Lincoln in 2014, before going on to study for her Masters degree at Nottingham University in 2015.
She completed her Legal Practice Course at BPP University Law School in 2018 and attained a training contract with Bridge McFarland in September the same year.
Samantha volunteers for Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) which is a UK charity for patient safety & justice who provide free independent advice and support to people affected by medical accidents through their specialist helpline.


Banger Time on the West Coast.
While we were with Jason Pall on the Central Coast, he took us a few miles down the road to San Luis Obispo, to see some cool guys he hangs out with, all of which share Jason's enthusiasm for banger motors, that is, the early pre-war, four cylinder flathead motors that were standard in Model A' and B' Fords. These guys all belong to a nationwide group called F.A.S.T. which stands for Ford A Speed Technology, and they're all dedicated to hopping up, tuning, and racing these motors in various events. Jason himself runs this Washington blue A Roadster which when photographed already had a built four banger, though it was recently re-done again in time to show at the 2015 GNRS.
We met up with Mac Mclain, who may be well into his '80's, but along with his friend Phil Farber, can both be usually found in their shared workshop messing with old Ford's. Mac built his stunning black A Roadster himself and also put together the wild four- banger 'B' motor, which features a rare Australian Jenkins head, three carb's, and a home brewed inlet manifold. All polished and finished to show quality.
The guys don't only work on four cylinder cars of course, as demonstrated by the neat A-V8 that was taking shape in the shop, and by the stock but cool '41 Convertible that was in for a little fettling when we visited. Also, Phil's ride for the day was his sweet Model A Roadster Pick-up rolling on steelie's and with a neat line in nerf bars front and rear. The cool RPU is powered by a 59a Flattie, a '39 tran s and a '39 Columbia 2-speed rear axle.
After a good look round, we headed out across town following the Model A's, round a maze of industrial back streets until we got to another centre for Banger goodness, the 'museum' of Jack Dewar.
Jack Dewar has built himself a cool collection of Model A's, most powered by hopped up four-bangers, and all housed in a purpose built workshop packed full of vintage memorabilia and neat old stuff. (He also owns the green '41 Convertible). Under the various hoods of his cars were all the 'names' of vintage hot rodding, Navarro, Cragar, Evans, Riley, the li st went on and on, and it was all fascinating stuff.
The two A's in the header pic are also Jack's, Phil kindly firing them up and pulling them out into the California sunshine for a few pictures. The green highboy and the blue roadster pickup are both actually Brookville bodied cars, and both have highly modified motor's featuring a neat home brewed piece of equipment known as a four- in-one accessory front cover developed by Pat Garry, another local F.A.S.T member. This clever piece of kit bolts to the front of the block and uses the cam to drive the re-located distributor, plus a small water pump sourced from NASCAR circles. It is also possible to run a Hilborn mechanical fuel pump from it and provide an alternator mount at the same time.
Having spent time with these four-banger powered cars we can definitely see the appeal, even if they are even more expensive to build than the venerable Flathead V8's, and they're certainly not cheap to put together. Very cool though to see a bunch of guys keeping these old motor's alive and continuing to develop the technology that really started hot rodding way back when.
Our thanks to Jason, Mac, Phil and Jack Dewar for showing us their great collection of cars.
Note: Another version of this article has been published in the May '15 issue of Ol' Skool Rodz, and also the Spring '15 issue of Raydar Magazine.


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Micmac au Montana (Stay Away, Joe) est un film américain réalisé par Peter Tewksbury, sorti en 1968.

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Titre original : Stay Away, Joe
 Titre français : Micmac au Montana
 Réalisation : Peter Tewksbury
 Scénario : Michael A. Hoey d'après le roman Stay away, Joe !, publié en 1953 par Dan Cushman (1909-2001)
 Photographie : Fred J. Koenekamp
 Musique : Jack Marshall
 Société de production : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Format : Couleurs - 2,35:1 - Mono
 Genre : Comédie romantique et film musical
 Date de sortie : 1968

Distribution
 Elvis Presley : Joe Lightcloud
 Burgess Meredith : Charlie Lightcloud
 Joan Blondell : Glenda Callahan
 Katy Jurado : Annie Lightcloud
 Thomas Gomez : Grandpa
 Henry Jones : Hy Slager
 L.Q. Jones : Bronc Hoverty
 Quentin Dean : Mamie Callahan
 Anne Seymour :  Hawkins

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Film américain sorti en 1968
Comédie romantique américaine
Film musical américain de comédie
Film musical romantique américain
Film de Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Adaptation d'un roman américain au cinéma
Film musical américain des années 1960


Fetching those American tourist visas could be a lot easier and relieving process, if the viability of the use of video conferencing technology, indeed, proves to be effective in facilitating travelers in reducing their waiting period.
According to the report, a provision could be in the offing in which a person does not have to travel to the main centers of consulates for the purpose of visa interview. Instead, the officials are determining the viability of conference calls in allowing people to go through their visa interviews which could help in cutting down the number of trips to the five US consulates situated in India.
California is one of the largest and most populated states of US. California commands a market share of almost 1/3rd of the total tourists visiting America.
The US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer recently inaugurated the US Embassy's new Consular section in New Delhi to provide faster and better services to tourists from India. More recently, the waiting period for a visa appointment has come down to 2 weeks.
According to a report, the demand for consular services in India has surged to new levels, mirroring the deepening strategic partnership. Over the past five years, the issuance of U.S. non-immigrant visas in India have more than doubled from approximately 275,000 in 2003 to approximately 560,000 in 2008.
With the likely embracement of newer technologies in the time-consuming process at visa issuing authorities, the process of tourism to the US will become less cumbersome and hassle-free, while application of a visa and its interview.


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Apps are going to get a lot smarter with help from Microsoft Office
This article excerpt, by Business Insider author Matt Weinberger, originally appeared here: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-graph-goes-into-general-availability-2015-11
Today, Microsoft officially released the Microsoft Graph, a nerdy solution that opens the doors wide for developers to do a lot more with Microsoft Office.
The critical idea here is the "application programming interface," or API. Programs use APIs to talk to each other — popular fitness app Runtastic, for example, uses the Google Maps API to display a real-time map on the app.
The Microsoft Graph, first announced in beta back in April, is a set of APIs that blow open theMicrosoft Office 365 productivity cloud to developers, letting them build apps that take a user's data and put it to use in cool, new ways.
Basically, it means that any developer can build an app that taps straight into the data that lives inside Office 365, making their wares smarter and faster.
"It's not just all about Microsoft," says Rob Lefferts, Microsoft general manager of Office exentensibility. "It's a huge starting set of information."
And just like Facebook's famous social graph, the Microsoft Graph lets developers ask questions of the data like, "Who does my customer work closely with?" The intelligence is handled by Microsoft on the back end. (And no, it's not as creepy as it might sound — like any other app, you'd have to give it permission to access data.)
For instance, Lefferts says, over 850 million meetings per month get booked via Microsoft Outlook for Office 365. That means that there's tons of data there for an enterprising app developer to build a predictive calendar based on how users spend their time.
At launch, the Microsoft Graph supports data from sources like e-mail, the address book, and calendars. Later, it'll be able to support data taken from OneDrive storage, OneNote cloud notes, and other Microsoft data.
The Office Graph also goes both ways. For example, security startup Skyhigh Networks is already using the Microsoft Graph to enforce enterprise policies on customers' Office 365 installations, scanning and quarantining files that live in the cloud.
For developers, the first taste of Microsoft Graph is free, Lefferts says. But if they're using Microsoft Office data at volume in their own apps via Microsoft Graph, the company will collect a fee.
It will be a while before most developers figure out how to best access all that data, since the Microsoft Graph is new.
But it has the potential to make apps much smarter, in a behind-the-scenes kind of way. And it's good for Microsoft, because it means that customers can get more out of the money they're sinking into Office 365.
"The demand of customers is to say, 'make it seamless, make it great," says Lefferts.
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J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2003;41(6):821-9. doi: 10.1081/clt-120025347.
Alan R Clough 1 , Ross S Bailie, Bart Currie
1 Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT, Australia. alan.clough@nt.gov.au
DOI: 10.1081/clt-120025347
Introduction: Hepatic toxicity from manufactured herbal remedies that contain kava lactones has been reported in Europe, North America, and Australia. There is no evidence for serious liver damage in kava-using populations in Pacific Island societies or in Indigenous Australians who have used aqueous kava extracts. This article presents evidence that liver function changes in users of aqueous kava extracts appear to be reversible. Data from one Arnhem Land community [Northern Territory (NT), Australia] with 340 indigenous people older than 15 years of age in 2000 are used.
Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study with 98 participants, 36 of whom had never used kava. Among 62 kava users, 23 had discontinued kava at least 1 year before the study. Continuing users had not used kava for 1 to 2 months (n = 10) or 1 to 2 weeks previously (n = 15). Some (n = 14) had used kava within the previous 24 hr. Liver function tests were compared across these groups, taking into account differences due to age, sex, alcohol, and other substance use.
Results: The average quantity of kava powder consumed was 118 g/week, and median duration of use was 12 years (range, 1-18 years). Kava usage levels were less than one-half of those found in previous studies. More recent kava use was independently associated with higher levels of liver enzymes gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) (p < 0.001) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (p < 0.001), but not with alanine aminotransferase or bilirubin, which were not elevated. In those who were not heavy alcohol users, only those who used kava within the previous 24 hr showed GGT levels higher than nonusers (p < 0.001), whereas higher ALP levels occurred only in those who last used kava 1 to 2 weeks (p = 0.015) and 24 hr previously (p = 0.005).
Discussion: Liver function changes in users of aqueous kava extracts at these moderate levels of consumption appear to be reversible and begin to return to baseline after 1 to 2 weeks abstinence from kava. No evidence for irreversible liver damage has been found.
Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / epidemiology
Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / physiopathology*
Kava / poisoning*
Plant Extracts / toxicity


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ASME 2003 International Solar Energy Conference
Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA
Solar Energy Division
Development and Modification of a Cassegrainian Solar Concentrator for Utilization of Solar Thermal Power
L. A. Stoynov,
L. A. Stoynov
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Prasad K. D. V. Yarlagadda
Paper No: ISEC2003-44071, pp. 601-609; 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1115/ISEC2003-44071
Published Online: January 5, 2009
Stoynov, LA, & Yarlagadda, PKDV. "Development and Modification of a Cassegrainian Solar Concentrator for Utilization of Solar Thermal Power." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 International Solar Energy Conference. Solar Energy. Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA. March 15–18, 2003. pp. 601-609. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ISEC2003-44071
Almost all life on Earth has been using solar energy in many ways, but when high temperatures are desired, concentration of the incident solar radiation (insolation) becomes necessary. The present work is an attempt to improve and experimentally compare alternative beam delivering and focusing energy systems of a small solar concentrator. The researched solar energy concentrator (SEC) facility consists of modified two mirror Cassegrainian solar concentrator, two-speed sun-tracking manual and automatic control, concentrated insolation transmitting and continuous beam focusing systems. A number of system modifications during the development of the two stage, point focusing type solar concentrator arrangement for solar thermal power utilization have also been explored and are reported in this paper. Some of the experimental testing results obtained using single polymer fiber 14 mm in diameter, a truncated conical concentrator, and auxiliary lens system alternatives, have been compared. In addition, some details about various improvements of the sun-tracking sensor and automatics, beam transmission and continuous focusing capabilities of the SEC facility have been described.
insolation, concentrator, Cassegrainian
Solar energy concentrators, Solar thermal power, Automatic control, Energy / power systems, High temperature, Lenses (Optics), Mirrors, Polymer fibers, Sensors, Solar energy, Solar radiation, Testing
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Design of a Concentrator With a Rectangular Flat Focus and Operation With a Suspension Reactor for Experiments in the Field of Photocatalytic Water Splitting
Solar Concentrator Shape Characterisation Using Composite Light-Field Imaging
Study on a New Solar Thermal Energy Complementary Power Generation System Based on Gas-Steam Combined Cycle
Design and Evaluation of the Fresnel-Lens Based Solar Concentrator System Through a Statistical-Algorithmic Approach
A New Troughlike Nonimaging Solar Concentrator
Three-Dimensional Analysis of a Concentrated Solar Flux
Low-Cost Inflatable Heliostat for Solar Thermal Powerplants
J. Sol. Energy Eng (August,2002)
Development of a Two-Stage Solar Concentrator Using Fresnel Lens and Dish Reflector
Inaugural US-EU-China Thermophysics Conference-Renewable Energy 2009 (UECTC 2009 Proceedings)
The Marketing Research of DSC Viewfinder Technology
International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering, 4th (ICACTE 2011)
A High Temperature Tubular Solar Receiver for Production of Hydrogen and Carbon Nanoparticles from Methane Cracking


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NCCC-PSC Partner in Women's Hockey
A group of North Country Community College student athletes are helping to make the inaugural season of women's hockey at Paul Smith's College a reality.
Nine young women who are attending NCCC have laced up skates and hit the ice for the Bobcats this season through an agreement between the two colleges. » Continue Reading.
CanAm Pond Hockey Weekend in Lake Placid
by Diane Chase
The recent cold snap made plenty of ice around the Adirondacks and there is no better place to lace up the skates than at the annual CanAm Pond Hockey tournament in Lake Placid, with its more than 20 rinks cleared across Mirror Lake.
A pond hockey game brings back the simplicity of the winter sport and no better place resonates with fans of the game like the hometown of the 1980 Miracle on Ice. The CanAm Hockey Tournament celebrates the spirit of hockey this weekend January 25-27, 2019 with age divisions as well as women's open and co-ed open divisions.
This annual pond hockey tournament is only open to adults, but spectators of all ages can have fun watching the games. With the addition of a plowed skating loop, spectators can walk or skate around the rinks to see the action up close and personal.
International Children's Games Set for Lake Placid
Lake Placid is preparing to host the 8th International Children's Games (ICG) in its Adirondack village, January 6-11, 2019.
Welcoming athletes from over 40 cities and 15 countries to the Olympic region, participants will compete in nordic and alpine skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, ice hockey and figure skating. » Continue Reading.
Paul Smith's College Hires Head Hockey Coach
Casey Gerrish, an experienced hockey player, referee and area league commissioner, has been brought on as head hockey coach at Paul Smith's College.
Gerrish has played at the Junior A level in the US, as well as Juniors in Canada, and has assisted in coaching since he was 16. He also brings 21 years of refereeing experience and three more as commissioner for the Northern Adult Hockey League, the top non-professional league in northern New York. » Continue Reading.
Winter Sports: Upcoming Whiteface Lake Placid Events
Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has announced the list of events on the Whiteface Lake Placid fall/winter 2018-2019 calendar. Dates and schedules are subject to change.
The list of events as follows: » Continue Reading.
Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp Opens Sunday
Fifteen of the 19 remaining 1980 USA Hockey Team players will be back in Lake Placid, Sunday through Wednesday, March 25-28, to participate in the fourth annual Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp.
Sixty-five attendees will enjoy lodging at the High Peaks Resort, tournament games, a bobsled ride, home and away replica 1980 USA Hockey game jerseys, a highlight video and "inside" stories from each of the 1980 USA Hockey players as they remember their Olympic experiences 38 years ago. » Continue Reading.
ECAC Hockey Men's Championship in Placid
The pairings for the 2018 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship weekend have been set for Friday and Saturday, March 16-17, at the 1980 Rink-Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. » Continue Reading.
March Hockey Madness in Lake Placid
March hockey is set to return to Lake Placid, in the form of the ECAC Hockey Men's Championship, and the fourth annual Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp.
The ECAC Hockey Men's Championship in back in Lake Placid for a 5th straight postseason March 16-17. The conference's top four post-season teams come to the Olympic Center, competing for an automatic bid to play in the NCAA Championship Tournament. » Continue Reading.
Upcoming Lake Placid Sporting Events
The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has announced a list of events planned for the 2018 Whiteface/Lake Placid winter season.
Dates and schedules are subject to change. » Continue Reading.
Upcoming Lake Placid Winter Sports Events
Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has announced their Whiteface Lake Placid winter 2017-'18 events' calendar. Dates and schedules are subject to change.
Events are scheduled as follows: » Continue Reading.
1980 Lake Placid Olympics Scoreboard Being Replaced
The scoreboard that chronicled historical moments and the United States' improbable run to the 1980 Olympic Winter Games gold medal will be lit one more time on February 6th at 1 pm, before being taken down to make way for a new Daktronics video board.
The scoreboard has hung high from the center ice rafters of the Olympic 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid for the last 37 years. In addition to its duties during the 1980 Olympics, the scoreboard has registered NHL, minor, junior, collegiate, high school and tournament scores. » Continue Reading.
Hockeyfest, Snow Sculpting Championship Getting Underway
Helicopter rides, ice bowling, snow sculpting and pond hockey will highlight the first Hockeyfest Weekend from January 26 to 29 in Lake Placid, coinciding with the New York State 2017 Snow Sculpting Championship, which began Tuesday.
Hockeyfest has been introduced as a way to enhance the annual CAN/AM Adult Pond Hockey tournament that occurs on a series of groomed rinks lined up on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid each year.
The action on Mirror Lake will include helicopter rides on Friday and Saturday, and family-friendly pickup games of broomball, ice bowling, Shinny and public skating on the lake loop ice track, along with public skating at the speed skating oval throughout the weekend. » Continue Reading.
CanAm Pond Hockey On Mirror Lake This Weekend
A pond hockey game brings back the simplicity of winter sport and what better place to enjoy one than the home of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice."
For the 11th year, the CanAm Hockey Tournament has come to Lake Placid to celebrate the spirit of hockey under the backdrop of the Adirondack High Peaks. Currently 74 teams are waiting to take to the 20 ice rinks on Mirror Lake this weekend, January 28-31, 2016.
According to Tournament Director Eric Chapman this weekend's pond hockey match-ups are only open to adults, but spectators have just as much fun watching the players hit the rinks. » Continue Reading.
'Miracle on Ice' Anniversary Event Planned
The gold medal winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, who achieved what Sports Illustrated proclaimed, "the greatest sports moment of the 20th century" with their "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union, will participate in a special event using video, audio and photos to relive the game, through their perspective, in Lake Placid. Todd Walsh, who has worked with FOX Sports Arizona since 2001 and works with the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Diamondbacks, will narrate.
The1980 Rink- Herb Brooks Arena will open its doors to fans on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm for an exclusive event with the players. This February marks the 35th anniversary of their historic achievement. » Continue Reading.
Lake Placid Film Forum Series Continues with 'Red Army'
It is poignant that the Adirondack Film Society and Lake Placid Film Forum have chosen "Red Army" as part of its inaugural monthly film series. Directed by Gabe Polsky, "Red Army" goes behind the Iron Curtain and tracks the Soviet Union's hockey team domination to its unraveling at the Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympic Games to its ultimate demise.
Executive Producers Werner Herzog and Jerry Weintraub helped bring Polsky's vision to life in this documentary that has received rave reviews from the Cannes, New York, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals. In "Red Army," Polsky tracks the Russian hockey dynasty through the eyes of its captain Slava Fetisov. The film reveals how Fetisov fell from the pedestal of Russian national hero to national enemy during the Cold War when hockey wasn't just a game, but political propaganda and its players were pawns. » Continue Reading.


She explained that one reason for the acquisition was that many contact centers around the world have relatively few seats and that Verint's product is best suited to larger centers with several hundred or thousands of seats, but Uptivity's is a better fit for smaller centers. My contact center benchmark research projects confirm the prevalence of smaller centers. For example, in my recent research into next-generation workforce optimization more than two-thirds of participating organizations' contact centers have fewer than 250 seats. My research also shows that smaller centers invest in contact center systems only half as often as larger ones, relying instead on their agents' initiative to deliver good experiences and leaving managers to use spreadsheets as their main analysis and reporting tool.
Another one of my research projects, into the contact center in the cloud, finds that to improve interaction-handling many companies are planning to invest in contact center applications such as workforce optimization in the cloud and, to a lesser extent, communication technologies in the cloud. More detailed examination of the results shows that smaller centers are more likely to make these investments if cloud-based systems are available. This hasn't gone unnoticed by inContact, hence its focus on cloud-based systems and the investment in Uptivity.
I have covered Uptivity (formally known as CallCopy) for several years and recently wrote that it had added analytics and gamification to its workforce optimization suite. That suite consists of call recording, quality management, workforce management, coaching and training, and performance management, which aligns with the top five systems companies in my next-generation workforce optimization research most commonly said they use. In addition inContact has products that support compliance, desktop analytics, desktop recording, speech analytics and survey management. These are widely used products that enable companies to understand customer sentiment during and after interactions and to manage the people who are charged with improving those experiences. In combination these applications provide an integrated set of products that allow companies to manage their contact centers better. My research shows that most companies want products that meet these fundamental needs and they want them integrated so they are easy to use and manage. Availability in the cloud also enables companies, especially those with smaller centers, to manage costs and requires fewer skilled resources to operate.
My research into next-generation customer engagement shows that customer experience management requires a combination of integrated multichannel interaction management, business applications and analytics. Integrated multichannel interaction management provides customers with a choice of channels but ensures that the experience is the same on whichever channel the customer uses. Our research finds the benefits to be clear on improving the customer experience which is top benefit in almost three quarters (74%) of organizations. Workforce optimization addresses the people side of interaction-handling, and analytics provides an understanding of what is going on, which helps companies optimize the use of agents and channels. Kristyn explained that after the Uptivity acquisition, inContact has two options to meet these needs, which are similar but aimed at different sizes of centers. When I asked, where the boundary is between them, she said that there is no hard and fast rule based on the number of seats and that consultation with individual customers will determine which is more suited to their needs. Furthermore, customers need not upgrade from one option to the other if a center grows beyond a certain size. In the short term this situation is complicated further because although inContact has a roadmap to produce a fully integrated, cloud-based based option based on the Uptivity product, the final version won't be ready soon. For companies considering inContact, I recommend they be very specific about which product and which version of it they select to meet their needs. I also expect some tension between inContact and Verint until they agree how to handle these situations.
In my experience acquisitions always create issues. They impact current and future customers in product support and roadmaps. Product functionality often overlaps, and integration can be problematic between two what are probably very different products sets. The acquiring company has to integrate two workforces, and in cases like this, the purchase can impact existing partnerships. I was assured that inContact is aware of and working on all of these issues, but it will be some time before the situation begins to resolve and customers can assess the level of success.
Few vendors offer the combination of channel management, workforce optimization and analytics that inContact has, so if it succeeds in handling the challenges, it should be in a strong position to support companies seeking to improve the customer experience. I will keep tracking developments, but in the meantime inContact is one of the vendors I recommend evaluating, while keeping the issues discussed here in mind.
In the second keynote, Matt Dixon spoke on "The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty." He is connected with the contact center industry and is best known for defying conventional wisdom in proclaiming that it is not necessary for companies to delight customers. At the time he said this, probably like many others, I was skeptical. After listening to his talk at the conference, I now get his point, and on reflection I agree with the insights from his research. The customer experience is about feelings, and people take actions because of the way they feel. When we buy a product that works as advertised, we are likely to go back to the same company for other products. Most of us are not inclined to proclaim how happy we feel about a successful experience – it is what we expect. We are more likely to express our feelings if something goes wrong, and to do so more intensely each time the company fails to fix the problem or makes it hard to engage. Eventually we may express our unhappiness by looking for an alternate supplier and/or expressing those feelings on social media. So I see two key messages here. First, meet customers' basic needs, and all should be well. Second, if customers need to engage with you, make it easy, and that is a challenge in today's multichannel world.
In the expo hall I counted more than 80 vendors showing products supposed to help make it easy. It was obvious which two vendors wanted to impress most. NewVoiceMedia and salesforce.com placed their booths to dominate the entrance to the expo hall and probably spent the most for those spots. NewVoiceMedia demonstrated its contact center infrastructure in the cloud, and salesforce focused on its Service Cloud. Perhaps not obvious was the partnership between the two: NewVoiceMedia demonstrated for the first time the integration of the two products to provide seamless multichannel customer interaction-handling.
Overall I spotted some significant trends. Although they don't all offer exactly the same capabilities, there were 16 vendors showing contact center in the cloud products and services, or more precisely multichannel communications infrastructure products that run in the cloud. The list includes 3CLogic, 8X8, Avaya, Connect First, Five9, Genesys, inContact, Interactive Intelligence, LiveOps, Mitel, NewVoiceMedia, Presence Technology, USAN, Vocalcom, VoltDelta and Voxox. My research into the contact center in the cloud found 44 percent of companies planning to deploy such systems to improve interaction-handling, and this turnout shows plenty of competition for their business. Going forward, companies should carefully examine these products and vendors to determine which best support their multichannel contact center requirements.
Another densely populated category was workforce optimization. I counted four vendors that specialize in such systems: Dolphin Software, Pipkins, Verint and VPI. In addition four of the contact center in the cloud vendors provide integrated channel management and workforce optimization: Genesys, inContact, Interactive Intelligence and LiveOps, which partners with Verint. I expect that combining the two categories will be essential to support enterprise-wide customer experience management, because it allows customers to engage through the channel of their choice while helping companies plan to have the right number of skilled resources available to handle such interactions.
There was a lot of buzz throughout the conference about customer experience management, and ICMI was calling for a revolution in contact centers to provide better customer experiences. Achieving this goal is not easy as it involves connecting communication channels, business applications such as workforce optimization and customer feedback, and customer interaction analytics. The vendors in the expo hall showed that they have the technology; what is needed is a new way of thinking. My benchmark research into customer relationship management shows that very customer-focused companies use processes and technology such as customer journey maps that show customers' use of channels, personas that show customers' preferences in detail and customer analytics to deliver superior customer experiences. Other less mature companies should heed this message and grab the opportunity before it is too late.
I enjoyed the ICMI conference and San Diego is a cool city, but its expo center is not so cool – it was hard to find anywhere to eat or drink outside the main event, and the charges for Internet use were exorbitant. That said, it was a great event, with lots of attendees, lots of vendors in the expo hall – congratulations to Interactive Intelligence on being voted best stand at the conference – and lots of great speakers.


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((*^*))RELEASE WEEK BLITZ((*^*))EASY CHARM BY KRISTEN PROBY
We are so excited to bring you the Release Week Blitz for Kristen Proby's EASY CHARM! EASY CHARM is a Contemporary Erotic Romance novel and is the 2nd book in The Boudreaux Series. It is due to be released on July 7, 2015!
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Gabrielle Boudreaux, the youngest of the Boudreaux clan, is a single mother of her young son, Sam. Running a Bed and Breakfast at the family plantation house at the edge of the Mississippi River, Gabby loves her inn, her boy and her family. She meets new people every day, and takes pride in the house and land that has been in her family for more than five generations. Blessed beyond measure, she's also lonely, although she would never admit that to anyone. Until Rhys O'Shaughnessy walks through her door, brooding and wounded and the sexiest thing she's ever laid eyes on. Rhys has been at the top of his game as a major league pitcher for the Chicago Cubs for more than ten years. Baseball is in his blood. But when he tears his rotator cuff and has to sit a season out, he retreats to Inn Boudreaux at the recommendation of his cousin, Kate, to heal and work toward building his shoulder back to perfect shape with only one goal in mind: to return to the game he loves. But he didn't plan on being utterly charmed by a devastatingly beautiful woman and her baseball-loving son. When Rhys' shoulder has healed and he's given the chance to return to his team, will he leave the family he's come to love behind, or will he stay with Gabby and Sam?
"Good, but you should have called me," Eli says, then sighs when Rhys kisses my hand. "Are you going to continue to touch my sister for all of us to see?"
"Yes," Rhys replies simply, making Kate grin.
"I'm not sure how I feel about this," Eli says.
"You don't have to feel any way about it," I reply in frustration. "I'm a grown-ass woman."
"It's my job to protect you," Eli says, as if I'm being difficult.
"But it's not your job to be an ass," Kate says, but softens the blow by kissing his cheek. "It's Rhys. You know him. And they're cute together."
"Hurt her, and—"
"Seriously," I interrupt, not wanting to hear the hurt her and I'll kill you speech. "We're fine."
"I get it," Rhys says to Eli. "I feel the same about Kate; you know that. We've had that conversation. I almost decked you when you showed up in Denver."
Eli sits back in his chair, and his eyes calm a bit, but he looks no less foreboding.
"Don't make me regret trusting you," Eli says calmly, just as our meals are delivered.
"Back at you," Rhys replies with a cold smile. Kate catches my eye, and we both sigh, and shrug as if to say, what can you do? They love us. They're worried about us.
Damn it, sometimes they're idiots.
But lunch is delicious.
"Beau said this morning that you need a new dishwasher," Eli says.
"I do. I'll find time to pick one out in the next few days."
"Just come to the office with me after lunch and sign off on one, and I'll have it delivered. It's your inn, but damn it, we can help with that shit. You're busy enough."
"Too busy," Kate agrees.
"I think I'm going to hire some help," I reply. "Rhys might have talked me into it."
Eli's eyebrow shoots up in surprise. "We've been trying to talk you into it for over a year."
"I didn't need it a year ago." I shrug and twirl a long string of cheese around my fork. "But I'm much busier now, and Sam is getting more involved in things, so it's time to have some help."
"I'll take care of it," Eli says, as if there is no room for argument, and I simply laugh at him.
"No, you won't."
"Gabby, I have a whole HR staff that can easily find someone qualified to help you."
"I'm perfectly capable of finding someone to help me," I reply. "You run your business, and I'll run mine, big brother."
He sits back in his hair and tilts his handsome head, watching me. "Okay. You handle it."
"I will." I nod once and sip my Coke. "I wonder if I should specify in the ad that felons aren't welcome to apply."
"Gabby, let me handle this!" Eli exclaims, and I can't help but dissolve in a fit of giggles.
"I'm teasing. It sure is fun to get you all riled up."
"Most wouldn't dare," Kate says good-naturedly. "I wonder what people would say if they knew that he's nothing but a big softie."
"I will take you over my knee, Kate," he murmurs to her, and Rhys tenses up beside me, but Kate just laughs and leans her head on Eli's shoulder.
"Right. Except you have this thing against spanking me, so I don't think that'll happen."
Eli's lips twitch as he buries them in Kate's hair and kisses her head.
"I don't mind being spanked," I add and eat a chip loaded with cheese and beans, just as Eli's eyes go cold again, pinned on Rhys, who simply laughs beside me.
"I don't need to know this," Eli growls.
"It's not like he leaves marks. Well, they don't stay for long."
Kate is laughing like a loon into her hand, Rhys is smiling widely, and Eli looks like he's about to spit nails.
Or spank me himself.
And don't forget to grab the first book in the Boudreaux Series!
About KRISTEN PROBY
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby is the author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps. Visit her at KristenProby.com.
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~*~COVER REVAL~*~ BOOTYCALL by J.D. Hawkins
Title: Bootycall
Series: Bootycall #1
Author: J.D. Hawkins
Red carpet. Backstage. VIP all the way, baby.
When you're the prince of Hollywood, and everyone wants a piece of the action. I've got paparazzi stalking my every move, and supermodels lined up to spread their legs for a shot at fame. But this girl is different. She's been hired by the studio to keep me in line. One wrong move, and my comeback is going up in smoke.
I should keep my distance, but I've never played by the rules.
I'm going to show her just how good a bad boy can be.
Title: Bootycall: Part Two
I'm going to show her just how good a bad boy can be...
Everything's riding on my comeback, but suddenly, Hollywood is the last thing on my mind.
Gemma Clark was supposed to keep me out of trouble, but now I'm in way over my head. What we have is real — too real. It's just a matter of time before it all comes crashing down.
I need to face my demons, but what happens when she discovers the truth?
I'm a new erotic author from LA. I grew up in Southern California and now live with my wife in Venice. I've also lived in NYC, India and Thailand. I love to travel and have been to Central America, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. I have a boring corporate day job where I cover people's asses for a living and am hoping to leave this world soon and make a living doing the thing I love - writing. I enjoy surfing and I'm also a martial artist, my other main passion, which I have practiced since the age of 5.
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:*:BOOK TOUR & REVIEW:*:FIGHTING SHADOWS BY ALY MARTINEZ
Flint's highly anticipated emotional story is FINALLY here!
**Each book in the series can be read as a standalone**
I come from a family of fighters. I always thought I'd follow in their shadows, becoming unstoppable in the ring. That changed the day I saved the life of a woman I loved, but could never have.
My brother hailed me as a hero, and my reward was a wheelchair.
Paralyzed, my life became an inescapable nightmare.
Until I met her.
Ash Mabie had a heart-stopping smile and a laugh that numbed the rage and resentment brewing inside of me. She showed me that even the darkest night still had stars, and it didn't matter one bit that you had to lie in the weeds to see them.
I was a jaded asshole who fell for a girl with a knack for running away. I couldn't even walk but I would have spent a lifetime chasing her.
Now, I'm on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting the shadows of our past.
Fighting to reclaim my future.
Fighting for her.
I remembered it all.
I heard the gun.
I felt the bullet.
I saw her fall.
In less than a second, my life as I knew it was over.
But, unquestionably, I would do it all over again.
For her.
"Flint!" Eliza cried from underneath me.
It wasn't the way I had dreamed of at least a million times over the years. Her voice hadn't broken in ecstasy. She hadn't called my name as I'd been claiming her as my own, nor was it followed by confessions of love and declarations of forever. Instead, there was a sharp ringing in my ears and a tsunami of tears welling in her deep-blue eyes.
My heart was already pounding, but the earth-shattering pain on her face spiked my pulse even higher. I knew I had been hit, but that wasn't what scared me.
"Are you hurt?" I rushed out.
"I'm fine," she choked around a sob. As much as I hated to see her cry, the weight of my world disappeared with only two words.
"Are you sure?" I studied her, but she was focused on something else completely.
Peering over my shoulder, she lifted her hand off my back. Blood dripped from her fingertips to the floor.
"Oh God!" she exploded, scrambling from under me.
"I'm okay," I tried to reassure her, but as I attempted to push up off the floor, I knew my words were in vain. I was nowhere near fine. "I'm…" I started, but the thought was stolen from my tongue. Pain overtook me, causing me to collapse face first to the ground where Eliza had just been lying.
I desperately tried to keep myself from passing out, but it was a battle I was quickly losing.
"Flint. Stay with me. Just hang on, please," she said calmly, kneeling beside me. But as soon as she sat up, her true emotions were revealed. "Help him!" she cried. "Please, God, someone help him!"
My mind was drifting, rendering me unable to focus, but even amongst the chaos of Eliza pleading for help and security rushing into the room, I somehow homed in on the announcer's voice on the television blaring in the background.
"I really expected more from Till Page in the ring tonight," he said.
It was then that I was reminded of a pain far worse than any bullet could inflict.
Till.
The father of her unborn child.
My brother.
He deserved her, but damn it, so did I.
My eyes never left hers as her screams drifted into silence.
I awoke to a searing pain in my back, and panic immediately flooded my thoughts.
"Eliza!" I screamed as loudly as I could, but it came out as nothing more than a gurgle.
"I'm right here." She appeared at my side. "Oh God, Flint. Don't do that again. You have to stay awake." She began smoothing my hair down.
"Eliza," I repeated when further coherent thoughts failed me. I was terrified—I knew that much. But my mind fought to catch up and answer the why. "Are…are you hurt?"
"No. I'm fine," she assured me, leaning down and kissing my temple—a gesture I would have killed to be able to return.
Instead, I blindly reached out to the side, searching for her hand. "Stay with me."
Firmly grasping my palm, she vowed, "I won't leave you, Flint. I swear."
If only she'd meant those words in the way I would have liked. However, right then, as I lay facedown, bleeding on the carpet of an upscale Vegas hotel floor with a bullet in my back, I would take it.
It wasn't enough.
But it would have to be.
She isn't mine.
She never was.
As she whispered soothing words into my ear, I went willingly into the darkness.
I slowly roused back to consciousness. I couldn't quite figure out where I was or why my throat felt like I had swallowed a truckload full of burning embers. Even through my grogginess, I could feel an ache in my back. It wasn't until I spoke that I realized how fucked I truly was.
"Ewliz." What the hell? "Elyz."
"Oh thank God!" Eliza cried, suddenly appearing at my side.
Breathing a sigh of relief, I tried to pry my eyes open, needing nothing more than a glimpse of her dark blues. They held no superpowers, but I still believed they could heal me with a single glance. Hell, just knowing she was there with me worked miracles.
I tried to fight, but I couldn't seem to convince my eyelids that light wasn't the source of all evil.
"Shh. It's okay. Just relax," she whispered, reading my struggle. "Are you hurting? Do you need more pain medicine?"
"Nup. Juz you," I said drunkenly.
"What's wrong with him? Why can't he talk?" Quarry whimpered from somewhere nearby.
I'd never forget how he sounded in that moment. His voice shook like that of the frightened child he never got to be. He might have only been thirteen, but he hadn't been a boy in a long time. Just like Till and me, he'd been forced to grow up too soon. Hearing the inflection of fear in his voice cleared my groggy mind.
"Em good, Q," I slurred on a laugh, even though nothing was remotely humorous about the situation.
I was lying facedown on a hospital bed, drugged out of my fucking mind, and pining over my brother's pregnant wife. The same woman who was the closest thing to a real mother I'd ever known. The levels of fucked-up could not even be described.
On second thought, maybe laughing really was the right response.
My brother, Till, was quite possibly the best man I had ever met. He was only six years older than I was, but as far as I was concerned, he had always been a father to me. Lord knows that the man's DNA I carried was not. My mother was a work of art, but my father was in a category all of his own. Clay Page was the reason I was lying in that bed and recovering from a bullet in the back, the reason Till had almost lost his wife and unborn daughter, and the reason Quarry had almost been kidnapped.
All I had left in life were my brothers, and in turn, I had Eliza.
If I could have been half the man Till was, I would've been better than ninety-nine percent of the male population walking the planet. God, I wanted to be as selfless as he was. But I wasn't even close. Instead, over the years, I'd become increasingly jealous of his life and the way Eliza loved him. Sure, they had their fair share of problems, but they always weathered the storm together, never wavering in their devotion to each other. Only a year earlier, my older brother had suddenly lost his hearing—something that would have easily sent a lesser woman running for the hills. But not Eliza. She gave him unconditional love, and it stung so fucking much to watch her give it to him.
The older I became, the more I found myself consumed by guilt and anger. Guilt because no two people had ever deserved each other more. And anger because, despite knowing that, I wanted to shove my brother out of the picture completely. I wanted to own Eliza Reynolds Page in every possible way, but especially in the way where she never left me and loved me forever.
I wanted the comfort and security only she could offer me.
"Eliza?" I called as I went back to battle against my eyelids and was finally victorious. I was greeted by the sight of Till holding her tight, his arms folded around her swollen stomach.
"Hey, bud," he cooed, visible relief washing over his face.
But I didn't have eyes for him. Eliza stood in his arms with tears flowing in a steady stream down her cheeks.
My lips twitched in the most unlikely of smiles.
She always cries.
"You 'kay?" I mumbled.
"I am. Thanks to you." She took a step forward, joining our hands.
I laughed, using our linked knuckles to rub her belly. "How's ma baby?"
"What'd he say?" Till asked.
Eliza removed her hands from mine long enough to translate for him through sign language.
I attempted to roll over so I could have the use of my hands to communicate with him, but I was stilled by the sudden shouts.
"No!" they yelled as I tried to push up on the bed.
"You can't move… I, um, I mean you shouldn't move." Eliza squatted down in front of me.
I lifted a hand to wipe her tears away. Her eyes were red and puffy, but as she brushed my short hair off my forehead, she'd never looked more beautiful. Her fingertips trailed over my skin, soothing my aches from the outside in.
"Let's get you some more pain medicine." She grabbed a red button off the corner of my bed and pressed it repeatedly.
I wasn't in any real pain, but within seconds, my entire body relaxed even further.
She remained squatting in front of me, and her tears began to dry while she whispered soothing words I couldn't quite make out among the myriad of beeping monitors. It didn't matter what she was saying though.
She was there.
My vision was blurry, but time stood still as I stared into her eyes and slurred the words I had absolutely no business saying.
I had been harboring them for years. But no matter how I tried, no amount of time made them right.
"I love you, Eliza. Soooooo. Fuuucking. Mush."
Even drugged out of my mind, I knew that my admission was going to do more harm than good, but that didn't slow the words—or the pain.
Maybe, if I just told her how I felt, I could let it go. Move on to a day when I wasn't teased by the unattainable. It was a grand idea, but fruition was a different story.
She replied, "I love you too," but I knew she didn't understand.
In that second though, I needed her to understand. It wasn't a choice.
Or me.
"No. I loooove you." I exaggerated the word but not the truth.
"Shh," she whispered, resting her hand on my cheek. "I love you too, Flint. We all do. Just go to sleep."
We all do.
They wouldn't after I was done. I was sober enough to realize that.
"No. Lizen to me. I…love you. Like Till loves you. Like…I-want-to-have-sex-with-you love you. Really. Gud. Sex." I laughed.
"Oh fuck," Quarry groaned.
"And marry you, and…" I stopped to lick my dry lips before spewing the ultimate slap to my brother's deaf ears. "That should be my baby, not his."
"Oh fuck," Quarry repeated.
"Uhh…um…" Eliza stuttered, looking up at Till, who was standing only a few feet away.
"What? What'd he say?" Till asked, stepping forward.
"I said I'm in love with your wife!" I yelled for some unexplainable reason.
Well, maybe only unexplainable to them; I understood my frustrations completely.
Till needed the chance to hate me. He had given me everything in life and provided for me even when he'd had to sacrifice himself. I owed him the truth about the way I felt about his wife. Regardless that it proved what a dirt bag I truly was.
I lifted my one free hand in the air and began to sign out the letters, but Quarry stepped between Eliza and me and forced my hand against the bed.
"Yep. That's enough. Go to sleep, asshole."
"He needs ta know. Tell him fur me."
Quarry lifted his hands and signed to Till without words. He said he loves us all, and then he got all weepy and called Eliza mommy. I'm just trying to keep him from embarrassing himself. That's all.
"Dat's bullshit," I replied when he finished.
"We love you too, Flint. Get some rest," Till said, folding his arms across his chest, not buying into Quarry's explanation.
"No! I said, 'I love her.' Eliza." I began to point in her direction, but Quarry once again slapped my hand down.
Turning his back on Till, he leaned into my face. "Shut your goddamn mouth. I'm trying to help you here."
"I love her," I repeated for the umpteenth time.
Eliza wedged her way back to my side. "No, you don't. You're just drugged up right now, Flint."
"Bullshit," I declared adamantly.
Drugs didn't cause the way I felt any more than they could fix it. I'd have been a junkie long ago if there were something that could've quelled the burning in my chest every time I saw her with Till.
"This isn't somethin' new, Eliza. I think about you when—" I'd started to spill all of my embarrassing secrets when Quarry's hand slammed over my mouth.
"I said, 'Shut the fuck up,'" he seethed.
"Stop cussing," I mumbled from behind his hand.
He looked to Eliza. "Can you press that button again? Maybe see if he'll pass out."
"What the hell is going on?" Till snapped from behind us, losing his cool with being in the dark.
Nothing. He's acting like a bitch. Just doing my job as his little brother to protect his manhood… or something like that, Quarry signed then flashed Till a tight grin.
"No, I—" I started, and his hand once again landed over my mouth.
Quarry gave Eliza an impatient glare.
"He has a few more minutes before the pain pump will give him any more meds," she answered, frazzled by my confession.
And just that small reaction to my admission hurt more than whatever the hell was happening on my back.
"Well, I'll just keep my hand right here until it's time," Quarry hissed at Eliza.
"Um, I'm gonna step out and get some water," she announced uncomfortably.
"Eliza, wait," I tried to shout, but Quarry wasn't lying about not removing his hand. "Get off me." I weakly swatted it away.
Glancing back at Till, he lifted a finger in the air to signal one second. Then he turned back to me. "Shut up. Shut up. Shut. Up. You're in love with her, fine. Now, shut up."
"Not until he knows," I replied.
"Go to sleep, Flint. If you still want to make this mistake when you wake up, I'll sign it out to him myself." He urged me with a hard stare.
I was tired. Sleep didn't exactly sound like torture. I'd been sitting on my feelings for Eliza since I was twelve. What was one more night?
"I would take her from him," I declared as my lids began to droop.
Quarry busted out laughing. "Then, when you wake up, I'll sign out your warning. Oh, look! Time's up." He grabbed the red button and gave it a push.
I moaned as the glorious burn of the medication hit my vein.
"Thank God," he breathed as I drifted off to sleep.
When I awoke some hours later, my determination to tell Till had fortunately disappeared.
Unfortunately, so had my desire for Eliza to know.
But the truth was out.
As the embarrassment set in, I tried to convince myself that maybe it was for the best that she knew how I felt.
It was a hell of a lot worse.
There's something about these Page men that I can't get enough of! Continuing the Page family saga, Fighting Shadows is Flint's story. Three brothers who grew up in the boxing world, who use that world as their own. The middle Page brother, Flint, who has done the one selfless act that has possibly rewritten the Page brothers' destiny forever, and in the process put himself on a path he was not expecting.
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Fighting Shadows makes you smile through the pain of Flint Page while being completely content with how the story ends; only to give the segue into the youngest brother, Quarry Page's story. I for one can't wait for his story in Fighting Solitude.
Thank you for giving me an advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest experience and I continue to look forward to more from Aly Martinez and would definitely recommend everyone to read her.
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Josef Hauer's Eternal, Atonal Universe
Posted by larkfall in Arcana, Music and Theory
Josef Matthias Hauer
Over the last few weeks, I've become increasingly preoccupied with the atonal mysticism of the Viennese composer Josef Matthias Hauer (1883-1959), a marginalised figure in 20th century music. If he is mentioned at all it is usually as a footnote to the work of Arnold Schoenberg, for Hauer himself developed a method of composing with all twelve tones shortly before Schoenberg's 'emancipation of dissonance.'
Although both composers corresponded and planned to co-author a work on atonal composition, differences in their respective musical philosophies soon led to animosity between the pair, leading Hauer to stamp his correspondence:
The spiritual father and
(in spite of many imitators!)
still the only
master and connoisseur
of twelve-note music.
Hauer's own theories of atonal music, underpinned by mystical hypotheses, stand in opposition to the type of strict statistical unity that Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones' ensured (- in which all tones will be represented an equal number of times in the piece). Such a disconcertingly 'modern' conception of 'unity' is absent from Hauer's approach, which scholar and composer Dominik Šedivý has called 'anti-expressionistic.'
While Schoenberg's pupil Webern was lionised after the second world war by a new generation of composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hauer seemed to lapse into outmoded obscurity, although there are aspects of his all-but-forgotten work that would resurface later in the 20th century. For example, there are particular resonances with the philosophy of John Cage (indeed, apparently the only book he possessed on his death was the I-Ching) and later developments in algorithmic composition.
Hauer manuscript.
Of particular interest in respect of the latter is Hauer's mode of semi-automated composition called the zwölftonspiel, or twelve-tone game. Hauer composed hundreds of zwölftonspiel, using an idiosyncratic method of notation on an eight line staff (zwölfton-notenschrift), an illustrative page of which is shown here. A zwölftonspiel typically starts with a twelve-tone row, taken from Hauer's system of 44 tropes (in which all 479,001,600 combinations of twelve tones can be expressed). Schoenberg's technique is to realise the tone row as a matrix of 48 possible transpositions, inversions, retrogrades and retrograde-inversions. Hauer, however, does something different: he harmonises the series with itself to build up a series of tetrachords, which form a harmonic continuum for the piece, the basics of which are illustrated in this example from Dominik Šedivý's Serial Composition and Tonality, probably the most detailed explanation of Hauer's various 12-tone techniques in English:
Harmonising a 12-tone row into a harmonic continuum. The original 12-tone row is shown as white note heads (Sedivy, 2011).
To expand this into a continuum of 12 tetrachords, the harmonisation 'wraps round' – so the 'eb', 'b' and 'g#' in the twelfth tetrachord will be repeated in the first. In a typical zwölftonspiel, the continuum repeats throughout the piece and is distributed through four voices, instruments or registers by the use of a sort of magic square indicating the melodic structure (melischer entwurf), as illustrated in the above manuscript.
The results are very different from those of Schoenberg's methods, as in this particularly funky, toe-tapping harpsichord piece in which the continuum provides the chords, and the left-hand part is created by breaking apart the tetrachords into melodic figures:
And here's a zwölftonspiel consisting solely of melody:
For Hauer, the zwölftonspiel was a kind of philosophical or mystical game, played not by a composer, but by a 'hearer' – each piece of music a window into the particular twelve-tone universe within a 'trope' or 'constellation' in his system. As with Cage, Hauer used chance to a philosophical end in his zwölftonspiel compositions. This ensured a direct relation between the zwölftonspiel and the transpersonal order of musical and spiritual reality was free from the emotive influences of the composer and could be contemplated on its own terms. Hauer underlines this in his 1937 manifesto:
Twelve-note music is the revelation of world order, religion in its truest sense, the only one there is and the only one there can be.
Twelve-note music offers the deepest insight into cosmic order.
Twelve-note music cannot deceive, cannot lie.
Twelve-note music is the unchangeable sacred scripture, the eternal language of the universe.
Twelve-note music is the spiritual reality.
It is interesting that the equal tempered scale is vital to Hauer's musical philosophy. Earlier speculative theorists such as Fabre d'Oliviet often proposed that equal temperament had destroyed something miraculous (and intimately connected to nature) that was possessed by earlier modes of tuning: that which embodied a power by which Orpheus and Amphion were able to perform miracles. For Hauer, however, equality of temperament is vital (hence his use of a mandala-like motif on his publications, shown at the end of this article). He even declared that "the tempered system having twelve equal steps is the mouth of God, which proclaims life's commandments which, in turn, provide order to the world and plot the course of the planets." (Gustafson, 1979)
As a way to begin exploring certain aspects of Hauer's technique (in preparation for working on some new musical ideas), I composed some 'tropic' reinterpretations of the first three preludes in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed writing them!
For those interested in exploring or developing Hauer's theories, I have created two types of manuscript paper:
Zwölfton-notenschriften only [pdf]
Zwölfton-notenschriften & conventional staves [pdf]
There hasn't been much written on Hauer in English, but the following have been useful to me:
John R. Covach. 'The Zwölftonspiel of Josef Matthias Hauer' in The Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 149-184.
Roger S. Gustafson. 'Josef Matthias Hauer (1883-1959)' in Tempo, New Series, No. 130 (Sep., 1979), pp. 20-25.
Lauriejean Reinhardt. Josef Matthias Hauer's Melischer Entwurf. [pdf]
Dominik Šedivý. Serial Composition and Tonality: An Introduction to the Music of Hauer and Steinbauer. 2011. Society for Klangreihenmusik. (Šedivý also presented a paper on Hauer's mysticism at the recent Enchanted Modernities conference.)
Additionally, there are many interesting Hauer resources at AEIOU Musik-Kolleg and the Wellesz Company have new recordings of 36 Hauer compositions on YouTube.
There is also an LP of zwölftonspiel compositions released by Philips in 1973, some of which are played by one of Hauer's students Viktor Sokolowski (1911-82).
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richard said:
I was having coffee and dredged something out of my formidable computer archive to listen to. It was a very spare and gorgeous piano piece by a composer I'd never heard of before—Josef Matthias Hauer. I'm American but my father is Viennese, so I was delighted (though not entirely surprised) to learn Hauer was Austrian. Next, I stumbled on your wonderful site. Many thanks for all of this work—I intend to read and listen to all of it!
larkfall said:
Thank you, Richard – it's that kind of comment that makes it all worthwhile! 🙂 I hope you enjoy exploring Hauer's take on twelve-tone music – it has enriched my life over the last six months since I began seriously studying it. Hopefully I will do another Hauer post soon – possibly called something like "How I stopped worrying about Pythagorean tuning and just intonation, and learned to love equal temperament (finally)!"
Hope you enjoy the rest of the site!
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soundincolor said:
Thank you so much!! I've been very curious about Hauer's theories, but there are very few writings on it… Yours was very detailed and clear…
And I also love your Tropic Preludes!!
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If the global financial system can be brought to the brink of collapse over worries about the valuation of mortgage-backed securities, where does that leave prospects for the development of markets based on other kinds of intangible, such as IP? …
The 2008 inductees into the IP Hall of Fame are revealed
The five inductees into the IP Hall of Fame have been officially announced. They are: • Jane Ginsburg - A highly influential academic and teacher who has written some of the most important IP-related books of modern times. • Francis Gurry -…
Gurry confirmed as new WIPO chief
Francis Gurry has been formally endorsed as the new director general of WIPO on the opening day of the UN agency's General Assembly, which is taking place in Geneva. Gurry was nominated for the post back in May following an election process in which…
Community trademark fees set to tumble
A deal done over the weekend means that Community trademark fees are likely to fall substantially in the near future. OHIM, the body that administers the trademark from its offices in Alicante, has been pressing for this reduction for quite a while…
Reputation as risk: a lesson from the financial markets
Anyone paying attention to the business headlines these days will readily appreciate the extent to which the strength of a financial services company is tied to its reputation. Banks that are perceived as having implemented appropriate risk controls…
Brand values collapse in the face of global financial turmoil
Brand values are in steep decline in most sectors, as the full scale of the financial and economic turmoil facing the global economy becomes more apparent. So says a press release put out by consulting company Brand Finance this morning. Earlier…