'You're an artist?' I ask, the lights inside my head blinking like they're from an episode of Stranger Things.
'Yeah, I can do some cool logos and stuff,' the Artist replies.
I was really lucky with finding a cover artist. Well, I think so. No doubt there are ridiculously talented people that can write amazing novels AND do the cover art. But I am not one of them. As a matter of fact, my stick figure drawings border on Pre-Primary levels of skill. Sure, I probably would have still sold a few copies, but I think it would have been more out of pity than anything else.
Before I found the destined artist for my cover, I had to put together some ideas for what I wanted. So I did a bit of market research. There are tonnes of websites that will do the cover art. But more than 90% of these will use stock photos layered on top of other stock photos. During my research, I found a heap of self-published authors that had gone this route. Now I'm not saying its the wrong route to take, but let's face it, the cover is the sweet suit you wear to that formal event everyone remembers. It has to catch the eye, start a conversation and sell your book against a million others. These stock covers just weren't doin' it for me.
Much like everything else involved with self-publishing, there's going to be a hefty cost. The stock photo option is probably your cheapest, or if you have some flair with Photoshop then you could do it for free. But if you have an idea or grand vision for how you want your book to look, then you better keep researching.
If there's one thing I've learnt on this journey, its that you always have a friend who can do what you're looking for. The wonders of networking never cease to amaze. I'm often pleasantly surprised when I find out that a friend of a friend has some crazy skill that I've spent months searching for. In the case of my cover, the final artist turned out to be my girlfriend's cousin. Don't get the wrong idea here, I didn't just walk up, slap some cash in his hand and walk away with a cover. It is much more complicated than that.
Step 1 – Come up with a rough sketch of what you want your cover to look like. Regardless of your artistic prowess, the chosen artist will have such gratitude for this rough sketch that you might think they're insane. For the first few weeks, this draft, this scrap of a used napkin with crayon on it will become their holy grail. You're probably wondering why you'd ever have to show anyone your art. I did, so don't worry. The thing is, like writing a book, you need some inspiration to get the creative process going. So when you do find your artist, they need some kind of reference to pick up what you're putting down.
Step 2 – Sell it, sell it like an infomercial about that vacuum no one bought, but better! This is a hard part. You see, selling something only you know about and rarely talk about is hard. Where do you start? Do you tell them the plot? Do you tell them the ending? They're an artist making a cover for you, do they need to know all the details? Ok, slow down there Road Runner. First things first, you don't have to go crazy here. There's really only three things you need to ask, the rest are details which will come later. These questions are as follows, Are you interested in making money? Would you like to create a book cover? How much will it cost? If the answer to the first 2 questions is yes, then the cost will probably make you cry a little. After you dry the tears, its time to share your grand vision. This is a really fun part. Think about it like this. You're a writer, you've built this world and story through words. Now when you tell the artist they start visualising your world, and if you're lucky they'll bring it to life in a whole other dimension. Arron Leishman gave Catalyst atmosphere and suspense with just one image and you know the best part? He enjoyed doing it, and when it was all done, made sure I knew it. It's the first of many amazing feelings you get when sharing your work for the first time.
Step 3 – Be patient and be honest. No one will get it right the first time, and if they do then its safe to assume the artist is a mutant able to read your mind. The colours will be off, the font will be too large or too small or there'll be some small detail that irks you everytime you look at the cover. You need to let them know, then once you do, you need to sit quietly and wait for them to change it. It won't be overnight, it might not even be that week. Like any creative profession, these things can take time. I engaged my cover artist roughly 6 months before selecting a publisher, even well before I found my editor. Mostly because the cover isn't just that. It's also an amazing marketing tool. It's literally the face of your novel and if its good enough, it will get everyone's attention. The bottom line here is humans are superficial creatures with short attention spans. Therefore your cover should be able to grip someone's curiosity in a split second.
Step 4 – Formatting. This might not be too big a deal if you know what size you want right off the bat. If you don't, like me, then the best bet would be to get the cover in a format that can be adjusted. Some publishers will actually contact your artist directly to get this on your behalf, but if your cover is done and you don't have a publisher yet, then just ask for the original files from the artist. Most Photoshop files can be adjusted to whatever size you want quite easily. Unless you don't have photoshop because like me you're a poor author who doesn't need image editing software.
Step 5 – Ownership, is it yours because you paid for it? Not always, some artists own their art and will take your money then charge you more to give you ownership. From my understanding, this is a very small group. The best way to sort this is by asking about it up front. My recent artwork from Daniel Kamarudin is owned completely by me and was agreed on it as a part of our initial transaction. Some print companies and publishers might ask for a 'letter of approval' (it might also go by other names) from the artist. This cheeky little certificate is more or less proof of purchase. Giving you the power to print, distribute and make money from someone else's art. It should also be free. If you're feeling generous, you can let your artist also print, distribute and make money from the art you purchased. I don't mind doing this as they may have a large online following (Instagram, artstation etc) which they share it to turning into free advertising for you.
Step 6 – Blurb time! This can be tough. How do you summarise your novel in the space of a few short sentences? Or create intrigue and suspense to persuade a reader into making the purchase. I struggled with this. Compression is difficult, being vague is also hard. So I stepped back from the whole thing asked and someone else to do it. The best people to ask are your beta readers. They didn't give me the final product but they did help. I asked for a short rundown of the narrative via email. Using their breakdowns I put together a catchy, suspenseful and semi-vague blurb. SUCCESS! This probably won't work every time, but reading blurbs from professional authors who have marketing and publicity teams gave me anxiety. So I figured if they can get someone else to do it, why can't I?
Step 7 – Celebrate the hell out of it! You now have a cover for your book! It's not just a cover though. Remember that. Its a powerful tool for marketing and advertising. It's also an easy way to show people what you're doing. Especially your family or people who might not understand authors (I'm looking at you, Dad!). You've got an awesome blurb put together by your 'Marketing and PR team' and a sweet cover image, with your name on it. Now go show everyone! Do a cover reveal on social media, tease the heck out of your friends and fans and make sure you give the artist some love!
Next week I think I'll touch on writing. Its an important subject, and I feel bad for talking about all this 'after writing' crap first. In the meantime, check out my Facebook and Instagram (I actually posted on Insta this week, WOO go me!).


Lorenzo moved into an early lead at Mugello ahead of polesitter Valentino Rossi as Marquez surging up the order to third place on the first lap from sixth made an ambitious pass on Danilo Petrucci who felt he should have been penalised.
Marc Marquez picked off Rossi's Yamaha at the beginning of the third lap at the opening corner before pressurising leading Lorenzo. However, on the fifth lap, Marquez lost the front end and slid into the gravel trap.
After that, Lorenzo led Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso who moved up to on lap seven. Lorenzo held a slim advantage of seven tenths of a second but he maintained his pace and pulled out a lead of 1.5s by lap 13.
He managed to stay ahead of the rest of the laps and took his first win on a Ducati and 45th premier class career victory by a 6.3s margin. Dovizioso was able to hold off Rossi by just 0.259s and completed a Ducati 1-2.
Marquez surged up from sixth on the grid to second by fifth lap and was running very close behind Grand Prix leader Lorenzo before sliding off into the gravel trap at the Scarperia. Despite remounting his Honda, Marquez could only finish 16th while Lorenzo took a dominant win.
When asked whether he thought he had the pace to deny him off a win if not crashed, he responded saying that podium was possible but the bike was "not perfect" and he was not on same pace as podium guys.
The Spaniard admitted earlier in the weekend of having a strange front tyre allocation available in Mugello and said his crash was down to racing on hard front compound.
Having tucked the front, he slid off the track slowly and unsuccessfully picked the bike back up before finally falling over. Marquez confessed that he found it very hard to avoid crashing during second time.


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Nashville, TN – The Nashville Sounds Baseball Club returns to First Tennessee Park for a seven-game homestand on Monday, August 13th, 2018. The week-long stay at First Tennessee Park is the penultimate homestand of the 2018 season.
The Sounds welcome the Round Rock Express, the Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, for a four-game series from August 13th-16th before hosting the New Orleans Baby Cakes, the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins, for a three-game series from August 17th-19th.
Kroger Plus Monday – Buy a "Family 4-Pack" that includes 4 Select section tickets, 4 hot dogs & 4 fountain sodas for $44.00 when fans show their Kroger Plus card at the Sounds Ticket Office.
7:05pm | Gates open at 6:00pm.
Taco Tuesday Night presented by Estrella Jalisco – For the first and only time in 2018, it's taco night at First Tennessee Park. Fans can enjoy a pre-game all-you-can-eat, build-your-own taco bar in the Pepsi Pavilion. The $40.00 package includes a Reserved section ticket, taco buffet access and unlimited Estrella Jalisco and Bud Light draft beer. Advanced Purchase Required.
Takeover Tuesday with the Nashville Predators presented by Pepsi.
Wear It Wednesday Sounds, Hounds and Rounds T-Shirt Giveaway to the first 2,000 fans (21 & older) presented by Tito's Handmade Vodka.
Bark in the Park Night #2 presented by Tito's Handmade Vodka – tickets start at $14.00 ($9.00 for human, $5.00 for dog). All dog ticket proceeds benefit New Leash on Life. All dogs and owners must enter through the right field entrance at First Tennessee Park. Advanced Purchase Required.
College Football Night – Fans can buy a ticket and receive a free Sounds hat with their school's colors. The ticket and hat bundle start at $18.00 and includes the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University, University of Alabama, University of Kentucky, University of Florida, Louisiana State University, University of Arkansas, Mississippi State University and Texas A&M University. Advanced Purchase Required.
Throwback Thursday presented by Budweiser – the Sounds will wear throwback uniforms to commemorate the team's original uniform style from 1978. Fans can purchase Pepsi fountain soda and Budweiser products at a discounted rate.
FOX 17 News post-game fireworks presented by Koorsen Fire & Security.
Enjoy Saturday at the Park with visits to The Band Box and our Family Fun Zone in the right field corner.
Yoga on the Diamond presented by Lululemon Nashville, Small World Yoga, and Nashville Fit Magazine. Tickets cover both yoga and the game, with a portion of the ticket being donated to Small World Yoga. Yoga registration begins at 8:30am with the yoga class following from 9:00am-10:00am.
Hyundai pre-game autograph session with select Sounds players from 5:15pm to 5:30pm.
Military Sunday Family Fun Day – The Sounds extend their military appreciation by wearing special military jerseys on the field and offering discounted reserved section tickets for active and veteran men, women and families – subject to availability.
Post-Game Kids Run the Bases (12 & under) presented by First Tennessee.
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Chase and Noah couldn't be more different. Noah who has his life together, his future is clearly laid out. Chase who is trying to find his ground after tragedy changed this plans. Their meeting was beyond unconventional but holy hotness these two had my cheeks red. Call it a stroke of luck, fate whatever you will but when these two come face to face again after their steamy encounter it was just what they needed. They want each other, there is no denying it but they both have their doubts about how it will work.
There was a lot of back and forth between Chase and Noah. Guilt, doubt, fear- it was overwhelming at times and caused them to lash out. Add Benny, Chase's younger brother, into the mix and things get even more complicated. They're lives are challenging individually but together, somehow, they just seem to make sense. They calm each other.
I will admit that As I Am is the first thing I've read from Melissa Collins in a while. What is also true is that I love how she writes, especially her MM romance. Yes, it's two men but at it's core it is a love story. Chase and Noah's journey was full of feeling. It was falling and putting yourself out there and learning to see yourself as enough.


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"What is the place of prayer in your life? What prominence does it have in our lives? It is a question that I address to all. It is as necessary that it should reach the man who is well versed in the Scripture, and who has a knowledge of its doctrine and its theology, as that it should reach anyone else. What part does prayer play in our lives and how essential is it to us? Do we realize that without it we faint? Our ultimate position as Christians is tested by the character of our prayer life.
"It is more important than knowledge and understanding. Do not imagine that I am detracting from the importance of knowledge. I spend most of my life trying to show the importance of having a knowledge of truth and an understanding of it. That is vitally important. There is only one thing that is more important, and that is prayer. The ultimate test of my understanding of the Scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him, but to know Him. The whole object of salvation is to bring me to a knowledge of God. I may talk learnedly about regeneration, but what is eternal life? It is that they might know Thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom God has sent.


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Immokalee man, 19, was shot fatally during drug deal, Collier detectives say
Stephen Perez Jr., 22, also of Immokalee, faces charges of murder, possession of a weapon in the commission of murder and distribution of marijuana.
Immokalee man, 19, was shot fatally during drug deal, Collier detectives say Stephen Perez Jr., 22, also of Immokalee, faces charges of murder, possession of a weapon in the commission of murder and distribution of marijuana. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/18/immokalee-man-killed-drug-deal-gone-bad/623889002/
Alexi C. Cardona, alexi.cardona@naplesnews.com; 239-403-6153 Published 4:47 p.m. ET May 18, 2018 | Updated 6:08 p.m. ET May 18, 2018
Stephen Perez Jr.(Photo: Lee County Sheriff's Office)
An Immokalee man who was killed this month died of a gunshot wound to the chest during a drug deal, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office report.
Stephen Perez Jr., 22, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 5 death of Juan Herrera Jr., 19.
Perez, also of Immokalee, faces charges of murder, possession of a weapon in the commission of murder and distribution of marijuana.
An arrest report filed with the Collier County Clerk of Court sheds some more light on the killing.
Herrera met Perez on Eggplant Lane in the Farm Workers Village off State Road 29 to buy marijuana, according to an arrest report.
The two men were in Perez's truck when he shot Herrera, the report states.
A witness who was with Herrera told detectives the 19-year-old got out of Perez's truck with a bag of marijuana in one hand, a handgun in the other and said, "The guy shot me in the chest," according to the report.
The witness carried Herrera to a nearby pedestrian bridge, where authorities found him dead.
Herrera had gone into cardiac arrest before first responders arrived.
The witness described the man who shot Herrera as a "small young Hispanic male with long hair," the report states. The witness also described his truck as a dark-colored Ford with an extended cab.
Investigators identified Perez as a suspect, according to the report, and learned he had a dark blue 20004 Ford F150 with an extended cab registered in his name. Detectives said a relative of Perez confirmed the man owned and drove the truck, the report states.
The relative also told detectives Perez had asked him to "get rid of the truck for him" the day after the killing, according to the arrest report.
Detectives found the truck at a home belonging to Perez's mother in Labelle, the report states. During a search of the truck, detectives found blood stains on the interior passenger door panel and on the passenger seat where Herrera sat, according to the report.
Investigators reviewed video that showed the drug buy, as well as video that showed Perez leave his truck at the Labelle home, the report states.
Detectives reviewed text messages between Perez and Herrera confirming the drug deal, according to the report.
The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force on Wednesday arrested Perez in Lee County. He was wanted in connection with the killing but initially was arrested on an outstanding warrant alleging a probation violation. The other charges were added after his arrest.
Previously: CCSO: Immokalee man arrested in connection with May 5 killing of teenager
More news: Teenager accused of shooting friend in Immokalee
From 2017: CCSO: Accused drug dealer leads deputies on chase, causes 3-car crash
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3 jailed, 4th man sought in shooting death of a teenager
Posted on May 6, 2009. Filed under: Georgia, robbery |
Rome, Georgia – Three people have been arrested in connection with a brutal robbery Wednesday on East 19th Street that led to the death of a Cedartown teenager, but police were still searching late Thursday for the alleged gunman.
A warrant for murder was issued Thursday for Bryan Edward Williams, 39, of Rome, aka David Jones, who is considered armed and dangerous, said Lt. Gary Clayton of the Rome Police Department.
Police suspect he was the triggerman in the death of 19-year-old Jeffrey Pledger of Cedartown during a violent robbery attempt on East 19th Street in Rome around 5 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Trenton Tyrice Williamson, 18, of 406 Brown St., and Chiresco Rodriquez Montgomery, 28, of Cedartown, were also arrested and charged with plotting to rob Pledger. Police did not elaborate on their roles in the robbery. More on Rome News-Tribune
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Local man arrested in College Park shooting death
Posted on May 3, 2009. Filed under: Georgia, self defense |
College Park, Georgia – Cordele Police Department arrested Jamal Hill on a warrant from College Park.
Hill is accused of participating in a home invasion that ended in the death of his alleged accomplice and injury to a female victim, according to http://www.wsbtv.com.
Hill and 23-year old Calvin Lavant of College Park allegedly burst into an apartment located in the Southern Lakes apartments on Lakemont Drive in College Park around 3 a.m. Sunday.
The resident of the apartment, Charles Bailey, told police that he thought it was the end of his life. He and ten other people were in his apartment celebrating at a birthday party when two masked gunmen burst through the patio door.
"They just came in and separated the men from the women and demanded wallets and cell phones," said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.
Bailey further informed authorities that the suspects counted their bullets. Apparently Hill was guarding the men when one of the victims retrieved a gun from a backpack and turned the tables on the situation. Hill reportedly fled the scene.
The victim with the gun then proceeded to the next room where Lavant had watch over the females at the party. The guy with the gun called for the girls to get down and he started shooting. The suspect just jumped out of the window."
Lavant's body was found later just outside his apartment building which was near the scene of the crime. More on Cordele Dispatch
3 dead, 2 hurt in Georgia shooting
Posted on April 25, 2009. Filed under: Georgia, mass murder |
ATHENS, Ga. – A University of Georgia professor who police suspect in the fatal shootings of his ex-wife and two men outside a theater near campus Saturday disappeared in his Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbor, authorities said.
A nationwide manhunt was on for 57-year-old George Zinkhan, whom neighbors and others described as a quiet, introverted and respected marketing professor at the university in Athens.
Members of a local theater group had gathered midday at the Athens Community Theater when Zinkhan left his children in his car and fired at them, said Athens-Clarke County Police Capt. Clarence Holeman. Killed were Zinkhan's ex-wife Marie Bruce, 47, Tom Tanner, 40, and Ben Teague, 63, Holeman said. Two others were injured by flying shrapnel. More on Yahoo! News
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Seventh-grader fatally shot while playing with gun
Posted on April 11, 2009. Filed under: accident, Georgia |
Atlanta, Georgia – Tyquavious, 13, a seventh-grader at Crawford Long Middle School in southeast Atlanta, was fatally shot when he and two others were playing with a gun that discharged and hit him, police spokesman Eric Schwartz said. Steven Gentry, 20, was arrested on a murder charge.
Police recovered the gun in the apartment. It wasn't immediately clear who owned the weapon.
Those who knew Tyquavious struggled with his death Friday.
"He had his whole life ahead of him," said 14-year-old Richard Nash, a friend and former classmate.
Tyquavious spent part of his last evening alive playing a game similar to baseball with a large group of neighborhood boys, Quentin said.
He once lived near Fisher Road, but had moved and transferred to a different middle school, friends said. He was one of eight siblings, friends said.
More on Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Man shot dead outside of his home
Posted on April 8, 2009. Filed under: Georgia, murder |
Bainbridge, GA- Two suspects have been charged with the April 8th murder of James Curtis Christian Jr.
Decatur County Sheriff's Investigators charged Marquez Taylor, 16, of 128 Black Jack Road, and Willie Earl McGriff, 25, of 115 Rosa Lee Lane in Attapulgus, with the murder of 29-year-old Christian.
Christian was found shot outside of his home at 137 Bruce Road shortly after 3 a.m. on April 8. His girlfriend said he walked into their bedroom and said, "Somebody shot me," according to investigators.
Christian was found outside of the home where he collapsed, apparently trying to get to his mother's home, 20 to 30 yards away.
"People in the community pointed us in the right direction, leading us to the suspects and other parties involved that had information," said Nix.
He said one of the witnesses said they saw Taylor with a gun and ski mask—similar to one found at the scene. Three other witnesses said McGriff had spoken about the shooting in their presence. More on The Post-searchlight
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The Contracts Manager will serve as a point of contact for internal and external customers regarding contract management, contract compliance, and general contract support, e.g. problem resolution. The Contracts Manager will be responsible for preparing, examining, analyzing, negotiating, and revising contracts that involve the purchase or sale of product and/or services in line with Fisher Scientific's core business practice(s). The Contracts Manager will formally report to the Director, Government Contracts and will functionally reside in the CCG legal department and will also support business development efforts, e.g. with Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Teaming Agreements (TAs) preparation and execution.
Review, draft, negotiate and administer contracts in accordance with organizational and departmental policies and procedures. As part of this, the Contracts Manager will perform a risk assessment of proposed terms and conditions to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations and work with the business leads to develop recommendations to minimize their potential risk to the business.
Extensive knowledge of all contract types (FFP, CPFF, CPAF, CPIF, Labor Hour, T&M, etc.) and vehicles (IDIQ, FSS (GSA &VA), BPA, BOA, GWAC, etc.).
Support business development efforts, e.g. with NDAs and TAs preparation and execution.
Review RFPs and RFQs and assist in preparing compliant proposals and quotations.
Prepare correspondence, letter agreements, and amendments.
Revise contract templates as required.
Ensure execution of contracts in accordance with standard operating procedures.
Create lean processes for Legal Department (e.g. for document processing and execution, file maintenance).
Assist sales in completion of vendor certification and representation forms.
Provide contract administration support as required by Director of Government Contracts.
Handle a wide variety of confidential and time sensitive matters and must be able to keep matters confidential.
BS/BA Degree and 10+ years managing commercial and government contracts. Or an equivalent combination of work experience and education.
Knowledge of/Experience with Department of Defense (DoD) (contracting) Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) compliance.
Excellent leadership skills with demonstrated ability to effectively lead in a changing environment.
Knowledge of organization policies, procedures, and systems.
Excellent verbal/written communication and problem-solving skills.
Skilled in planning and organizing.
Skilled in exercising initiative, judgment, problem-solving, decision-making.
Customer centric and focused approach in supporting both external and internal customers.
Working knowledge of Microsoft office applications in a Windows environment.


Queen Elizabeth II eclipses her predecessors today to become the longest serving British monarch in her country's history, beating the record currently held by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. After 63 years and 216 days on the throne, she is as important to the United Kingdom as ever — perhaps more so. Not only is her popularity at an all-time high – an Ipsos MORI poll in 2012 gave her an approval rating of 90% during her Diamond Jubilee year – but she has become an important influence for British business.
Not only does she play a large part in drawing in millions of foreign visitors to contribute to the UK's £500 million a year tourist industry, but she gives UK businesses a distinct advantage in the global marketplace.
The Queen is the most prominent symbol around the world of Britain's heritage and tradition, something that UK companies can amplify when marketing their goods and services to international markets. She is such a well-known face and instantly brings a sense of history, giving British brands an edge and distinctive advantage that can be utilised.
Her marketability contributes greatly to the UK's £160 billion annual exports, and nowhere is this seen more than in the luxury goods market.
When my colleagues and I surveyed Chinese consumers in 13 cities covering five regions of China – which now makes up 30% of the €230 billion global luxury goods industry – it was remarkable how prominent a role the Queen played in their purchasing decisions.
For instance, when Chinese consumers were asked what words they associate with Britain, top of the list was the Queen, with 25.1% instantly thinking of her. And when asked what are the most important factors influencing their purchase intention of luxuries, having a royal connection was in the top four with 17% alongside excellent quality, brand meaning, and status symbol.
Whatever the Queen wears, eats, visits or even holds on to instantly increases in value, and it is mostly British. When it is seen on or near the Queen then it is wanted by millions around the world; James Lock hats, Cornelia James gloves and Ettinger bags have all gained in prestige and sales by Her Majesty wearing them.
In luxury brand marketing, heritage is a critical resource and is perceived as a key attribute of brand authenticity and brand aura – the miasma of meaning surrounding a brand – plus it is a fundamental resource for retro-marketing and nostalgic branding. In addition, our research on the consumer's authenticity evaluation of luxury brands shows that luxury brands are characterised by a founding myth, history, craftsmanship and a link to the leisured class, something that the Queen certainly helps British products embody.
If a dress is worn by royalty, 46.7% of Chinese surveyed said it increases the chances of them buying it. Luxury goods are defined as those satisfying hedonic rather than functional needs and we found this is an area that Britain enjoys a distinct advantage in and the Queen is a significant reason for this.
A very important factor that makes Britain stand out in the global market is that it incorporates tradition and innovation seamlessly. Our survey of the Chinese showed that, particularly among millennials between 25 to 32 years old, British fashion is perceived as being "fearless" with a strong individual sense of style.
Put differently, Britain's advantage lies in its so-called soft power, which is defined as the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion, and the UK's royal heritage and Queen is a key part of that.
A recent ranking called The Soft Power 30 – by PR firm Portland and compiled using digital insights from Facebook and polling by ComRes – put the UK as the world leader. The extent of the Queen's impact on the country's soft power is hard to measure, but the way she or the royal family is used in diplomatic relations emphasizes the important role they play.
Prince William met Chinese President Xi Jinping in March, the first royal visit to China since the Queen flew there in 1986, and it coincided with the Great Festival of Creativity in Shanghai, put on by UK Trade & Investment, where many British companies were showcasing their products. As China promotes its own soft power, it has increasingly turned to Britain for inspiration, but it is proving hard to replicate with the biggest economy in the world at the bottom of The Soft Power 30.
The Royal Warrants handed by the Queen for goods and services used by her and her household are, thus, brand gold for any company that obtains. It is a symbol not only steeped in history – having been granted since the 15th century – but it is a stamp of high quality.
It is the sense of history and tradition that the crest garners a product or service that boosts its marketability. There are around 800 holders of a Royal Warrant, which allows companies to advertise that they supply the Queen with their goods, usually with the coat of arms, and they range from individual craftsmen to multi-national companies like Kellogg's and Unilever-owned Hellman's mayonnaise.
In our research of Chinese shoppers, 57% said the Royal Warrant is important or very important in increasing desirability of British lifestyle brands. We found that 27% of Chinese shoppers said they get their inspiration for fashion and home style from the Queen and the royal family.
This year Prada, Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo and Gucci have all reported declining or flat sales. Shares in luxury firms have dipped as a result, especially with China's economy showing signs of slowing down.
But British products and services, such as luxury fashion brand Burberry, which posted record annual profits of £461m in 2014, and premium clothing company Barbour, famed for its wax jackets, which saw sales jump 10% in 2014, have bucked the trend, and re-affirming their link to the Queen and the country's royalty has helped insulate them from this slump.
The link to the most important British heritage – royalty – reaffirms to consumers the brand's authenticity and reminds the public of the golden bygone age.
Qing Wang is a professor of marketing and innovation at the University of Warwaick Business School in the United Kingdom.


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The Last Ping
MH370: Geomar's Denial
January 9, 2022 by Mike Chillit
My efforts to locate MH370 were initially based on reverse drift models in which I assumed that the entire South Indian Ocean (SIO) moved water and passive objects somewhat uniformly. That isn't entirely how things work in the SIO basin, partly due to Madagascar and its geographic location, but that is the framework I used.
I examined the drift patterns of every satellite-tracked drift buoy monitored by NOAA for 30+ years, if the buoy had been deployed west of the final ping. One of the hazards with that approach is that weather and rainfall patterns change over time, sometimes on a large scale, and when they do drift patterns change as well.
That early effort tried to determine where the Flaperon recovered on Reunion Island in 2015 began its journey toward Africa. The method pointed to a crash site slightly east of Batavia Seamount within Perth Basin, 400 km south of the Zenith Abyss. That was also the same general area where China's Haixun-01 reported ULB pings in April 2014. I tentatively concluded there was a chance China located the plane.
A year or so later, when the plane still had not been located, I decided a more precise approach was to combine known ping ring locations with the same geometric principles New Zealand Astronomer Duncan Steel used to construct ping rings around Inmarsat's 3-F1 tracking satellite.
By early 2018-9 I had adopted a "mirrored ping" model in which the final ping was simply flipped and overlaid on the original ping. That approach also helped define the limits of final Arc. And with that new insight, the location was unmistakably at or near Zenith Plateau. But the fly in that approach was a satellite that wobbles. I insisted on an orthogonal model at that point, but eventually realized that strict orthogonal requirements only work with stationary satellites and 3-F1 wasn't stationary enough for that. But the difference was small.
It wasn't until late 2020 that I noticed "the object" on the seafloor at Zenith and determined there was enough agreement between predictions and available sonar to contact Geomar's Principal Investigator for the 2017 R/V Sonne Cruise, Dr. Reinhard Werner. My email to him follows (email addresses redacted).
Dr. Werner replied as follows.
Dr. Werner's denial that the Scripps imagery came from his 2017 cruise was a shock. First of all, I had already determined that no other bathymetric surveys of the Zenith Abyss had been recorded… in the history of the world, so to speak. Second, I was once again assured by Scripps' David Sandwell, Ph.D. that all of the data came from the R/V Sonne Cruise: including the object Dr. Werner claimed lay "just outside the area" in which I was interested. The visual graphic Dr. Werner included to support his claim seemed to have been edited and selectively erased. At least that was my tentative conclusion.
So, I shopped around for experts in Kongsberg EM-122 processing. Sure enough, I was told unequivocally that the R/V Sonne cruise captured that object on the abyssal seafloor. Geomar deleted it from the original file before posting it to the public-access internet. However, Geomar sent the full unredacted file to Scripps in California and GEBCO in UK. The specialist tracked them all down. And, Voila!, when all of that data was merged to recreate the original data set, the object was clearly there. It could not have come from any source but Geomar's 2017 Sonne cruise. Moreover, the object was even more obvious than it is in the Scripps version. (Scripps combines satellite LIDAR with multibeam data to enhance its visuals. So the LIDAR contribution in this instance made it slightly harder to figure out what we see in the Scripps data.) After processing, the technician sent me the following image, again confirming that it was obtained by the R/V Sonne in 2017. The technician speculated that the image may include a fuselage and wing, but concluded better imagery was needed. No disagreement, but expensive and hard to obtain.
Categories MH370 Post navigation
MH370 Update, 2022
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The third incarnation of Paul Hazelton & Tom Swift's DE-IN-STALL featured Simon Williams, Beth Anderson, Steve Graham, Steve McPherson, Emrys Plant, Helen Seymour & Dan Thompson.
Hazelton & Swift are both based in Margate. Prior to collaborating on DE-IN-STALL they were coincidentally showing their works back-to-back on separate adjoining gallery booths at London's Art 14. They decided to turn this around and to work together. A Fete Worse Than Death 2014 (co-curated by Alice Herrick) provided the ideal platform for them to subvert each other's practices and to challenge or comment on the roll of the commercial gallery or art fair booth.
For A Fete Worse Than Death Hazelton and Swift constructed a stall from their work and invited other artists creating a collaborative sculpture/installation, performance space and pseudo gallery. Joined by some new artists they then reinvented DE-IN-STALL in response to A Fete Worse Than Death for the Art Car Boot Fair in Folkestone creating artist motivational products. With artists going through the DE-IN-STALL programme it had moved on from being a pseudo gallery to a pseudo organization/cult. Taking over from Casper the art oracle, Helen Seymour, artist motivational poet became its new face for the day.
In the gallery, like a mythologized folk archive, Hazelton and Swift exhibited deinstalled parts from both events.


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CAUTION's new 5'5" and 6'0" Trespass surfboards are now available for purchase at the CAUTION STORE in your area. After a lengthy R&D process, these durable high performance kitesurfing directionals are available for shipping direct from the CAUTION STORE in your area. These shapes have been chosen for their ability to provide a smooth bottom turn at the bottom of every wave and a snappy yet solid slash off the top. The 5'5" Trespass is the perfect board for average sized riders in 9M conditions and the 6'0" is ideal for lighter spots, wave riding beginners, and larger riders looking for a little more volume. This shipment of Trespass boards will not last long so go straight to the CAUTION DEALERS STORE and complete your ultimate waveriding.


Haven't posted any Kevin updates lately.
He still eludes being held or touched.
The video makes him look huge, but he's really not as big as he may seem.
When I eat breakfast, he hangs on the side of his cage waiting for a taste. It's usually a bran flake from my Raisin Bran. He loves them.
Once I can find a larger table, I plan to connect another cage to his so he has more space to explore.


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package com.mozu.api.clients.commerce.checkouts;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.mozu.api.MozuClient;
import com.mozu.api.MozuClientFactory;
import com.mozu.api.MozuUrl;
import com.mozu.api.Headers;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import com.mozu.api.security.AuthTicket;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

/**
 * Use this resource to manage discounts on the Checkouts resource.
 *
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public class AppliedDiscountClient {

	/**
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	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient=ApplyCouponClient( checkoutId,  couponCode);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * Checkout checkout = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param checkoutId The unique identifier of the checkout.
	 * @param couponCode Code associated with the coupon to remove from the cart.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> applyCouponClient(String checkoutId, String couponCode) throws Exception
	{
		return applyCouponClient( checkoutId,  couponCode,  null);
	}

	/**
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	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient=ApplyCouponClient( checkoutId,  couponCode,  responseFields);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * Checkout checkout = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param checkoutId The unique identifier of the checkout.
	 * @param couponCode Code associated with the coupon to remove from the cart.
	 * @param responseFields Filtering syntax appended to an API call to increase or decrease the amount of data returned inside a JSON object. This parameter should only be used to retrieve data. Attempting to update data using this parameter may cause data loss.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> applyCouponClient(String checkoutId, String couponCode, String responseFields) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.checkouts.AppliedDiscountUrl.applyCouponUrl(checkoutId, couponCode, responseFields);
		String verb = "PUT";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
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	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient=RemoveCouponsClient( checkoutId);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * Checkout checkout = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param checkoutId The unique identifier of the checkout.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> removeCouponsClient(String checkoutId) throws Exception
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		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.checkouts.AppliedDiscountUrl.removeCouponsUrl(checkoutId);
		String verb = "DELETE";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient=RemoveCouponClient( checkoutId,  couponCode);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * Checkout checkout = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param checkoutId The unique identifier of the checkout.
	 * @param couponCode Code associated with the coupon to remove from the cart.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> removeCouponClient(String checkoutId, String couponCode) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.checkouts.AppliedDiscountUrl.removeCouponUrl(checkoutId, couponCode);
		String verb = "DELETE";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.commerceruntime.checkouts.Checkout>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

}


In a blow to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the organization announced on April 28 it has given up on regaining contact with crippled X-ray astronomy satellite ASTRO-H, also known as Hitomi. JAXA concluded that it is impossible to restore communications with Hitomi, which went dark about a month after launch, as it is highly likely that solar battery panels that served as power sources became detached from their bases.
"There were human errors. But a bigger problem lies with our entire system as we were not able to detect those errors," said Saku Tsuneta, director of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.
JAXA had planned to investigate black holes and other cosmic phenomenon with Hitomi. However, that research is likely to be delayed.
Hitomi, launched Feb. 17, lost communications with ground control at around 4:40 p.m. on March 26. It was later determined through observation that the satellite had broken up into several pieces and the main body was spinning in orbit.
JAXA investigated the causes and discovered that Hitomi began spinning due to incorrect programming for positional control. The satellite automatically tried to correct its positioning. However, signals that had been transmitted to the satellite in advance contained errors.
As a result of those miscalculations, the spinning accelerated, and centrifugal forces wrenched the solar battery panels and a long observational platform from their bases.
Initially, JAXA said that it continued to receive electric waves from Hitomi for a short time even after it became impossible to communicate with the satellite. It hoped that if the solar panels were turned toward the sun, it could restore the satellite's functions. However, JAXA later discovered that the waves were emanating from a different satellite.
"JAXA expresses the deepest regret for the fact that we had to discontinue the operations of ASTRO-H and extends our most sincere apologies to everyone who has supported ASTRO-H believing in the excellent results ASTRO-H would bring, to all overseas and domestic partners including NASA, and to all foreign and Japanese astrophysicists who were planning to use the observational results from ASTRO-H for their studies," JAXA said in a statement.
Japan is a world leader in X-ray astronomy, which researches the origins of the universe through X-ray observations.
Hitomi is a sixth-generation satellite of that kind for the country. Japan jointly developed the satellite with other nations including the United States. Japan shouldered about 31 billion yen ($290 million) for its development.
You can't test space stuff too much. At least they made a mistake more complex than when NASA mixed up the English and metric measurements. I think that one made a new crater on Mars. Then they got the positive and negative wires mixed up on one of them. I don't remember where that one ended up.


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Iowa Rock TV
The Escorts / The Do's & the Don'ts
Members: Dick Sherman, Zelda Sherman, Roger Booth, and Dick Burns
The Escorts, Eastern Iowa's Representative into IRRHOF in 1997, included Dick and Zelda Sherman, (Bass guitar and keyboards respectively), Roger Booth (drums) and Dick Burns (lead guitar), started in 1959.
They were one of the first full time rock groups to form in Eastern Iowa and the first one in the state to feature a female keyboard player in what was mostly an all male business.
The Escorts are probably the only group in the HOF's opening class that can lay claim to having their first official date as playing in the store window for the grand opening of a Montgomery Wards store.
They didn't stay long in the Ward's window as the Escorts quickly became Eastern Iowa's number 1 touring, and recording rock attraction.
In 1966 they were signed to New York's Red Bird Records and quickly came out with "I wonder" which entered Billboard's National charts in July of 1966. It was with the release of this disc that the group had a name change to the Do's and Don'ts at the urging of the record company.
Over the years they won many awards including in 1965 & 1966 Iowa's Best Dressed Band and appeared with such groups as Sam the Sham, The Four Seasons, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Everly Brothers, Dickie Lee, and Gary Lewis & The Playboys.
In all The Escorts/Do's & Don'ts released eleven records during their career, the most by any Iowa rock group during the 50's to 70's.
The group still performs, Dick Burns passed away in 1984.
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My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes that Toews' stance in the face of widespread criticism from the privacy community and opposition parties is likely to be accompanied by a series of shaky justifications for the legislation.
For example, the bill will mandate the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight – that is, without a warrant. Under current privacy laws, providers may voluntarily disclose customer information but are not required to do so. Toews has argued that the mandated information is akin to "phone book data" that is typically publicly available without restriction.
Yet the legislation extends far beyond phone book information by requiring the disclosure of eleven different items including customer name, address, phone number, email address, Internet protocol address, and a series of device identification numbers. Many Canadian courts have recognized the privacy interests associated with this data.


Amid the usual refrain of drug-pricing pressure and new technologies that push the envelope of what we're able to do with medicine, 2019 could have some surprises in store.
Those surprises could rock the biotech market, so analysts at Cowen worked to take them into account before they transpired.
"In an effort to stimulate discussion and aid out-of-the-box thinking, we have scanned our large-, mid-, and small-cap coverage universe for potential surprises," the Cowen biotechnology team wrote in a December note. The team includes senior analysts Ritu Baral, Phil Nadeau, Boris Peaker, and Chris Shibutani.
To be clear, the list below doesn't contain predictions, exactly. The Cowen team figures each case has a 40%-or-less chance of occurring. But if the events do occur, they could have big implications for investors.
Cowen ranked the surprises from most (No. 10) to least (No. 1) likely to happen.
Between 1999 and 2017, more than 200,000 people in the US died from overdoses related to prescription opioids. President Donald Trump in 2017 declared the opioid epidemic a public-health emergency, escalating the amount of attention and funding that could go toward addressing the issue.
While there are a number of strategies proposed to alleviate the opioid crisis, the pharmaceutical industry has championed the development of opioids specifically designed to discourage abuse, such as pills that can't be crushed and snorted.
"Abuse-deterrent" drugs, which aim to prevent users from manipulating pills and abusing them, are a busy development category right now. So far, the Food and Drug Administration has approved 14 versions.
But that could start to backfire as skepticism of abuse-deterrent formulations grows. The FDA has raised concerns about how the medications are perceived by patients. And in 2017, the FDA requested that one painkiller, an extended-release opioid painkiller called Opana ER, come off the market.
"After initial excitement regarding abuse-deterrent formulations, views of the drug class appear to have cooled at the FDA even as curbing opioid abuse has become a top priority," the analysts wrote.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which is known for its cystic-fibrosis treatments, is researching a drug for a rare disease called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The drug hasn't entered human trials yet, but the company might be able to show in an early-stage trial that it can influence a key protein found in the body that's impacted in the disease. That could set Vertex up for a late-stage trial by the end of 2019.
"We believe Vertex is particularly well positioned to use a biomarker-based endpoint in clinical development in AAT," the analysts wrote.
If it were to happen, it'd be in the last few months of 2019, the analysts wrote.
In 2015, the FDA approved the first oncolytic-virus therapy, a treatment called Imlygic that's for certain kinds of melanoma, a dangerous form of skin cancer. The basis of the drug is a modified herpes virus. It won't infect the person with herpes but will attack the cancerous cells directly after being injected into the tumor. That may stimulate an immune-system response to tumors, especially in combination with other cancer drugs.
So far, its use has been pretty limited, but it's currently being studied in combination with the blockbuster cancer-immunotherapy drug Keytruda in patients with metastatic melanoma. Should that trial be successful, it could broaden how the treatment is used.
"Approval in this setting would potentially broaden the scope of T-Vec [Imlygic] use and, we expect, unlock interest and boost efforts in overcoming the challenges to adoption in practice," the analysts wrote.
We're still beginning to understand how well drugs that target the immune system to treat cancer work and why some people respond while others don't. It's led to the creation of a class of drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors.
These drugs help take the brakes off the body's immune system so that it can attack cancer cells. Cowen projects the checkpoint inhibitors that have to do with the proteins PD-1 and PD-L1 will have $49 billion in sales by 2024. The catch: The majority of patients who get these drugs aren't showing any benefits.
Now, drugmakers are in search of something that will make those drugs more effective for those who aren't responding. 2018 had some setbacks after some trials came up short, but 2019 could be the year to reverse that. Results from companies including Nektar Therapeutics and Array BioPharma could lead to that change, the analysts said.
Under the Trump administration, it's been good to be a drugmaker. In 2018, 59 new drugs were approved, a record-breaking amount.
But that could change as the FDA goes through a period of reorganization that's throwing together centers that have a whole bunch of disease areas under their purview.
"The re-organization has resulted in certain 'franken-centers' that combine seemingly disparate therapeutic and disease areas," the analysts said.
For example, one center will house cardiology, hematology, endocrinology, and nephrology, while the Office of Immunology and Inflammation will cover everything from pulmonology, rheumatology, and hepatology to dermatology and dentistry. That could shake up the way drugs are reviewed, making it more difficult for a drugmaker to get approval than it might have been in the past.
The search for new treatments for Alzheimer's disease hasn't been going well. Alzheimer's affects more than 5.7 million Americans, a number that's expected to balloon to 14 million by 2050. There are only four drugs that have been approved to treat the symptoms of the disease, and the most recent drug approval happened in 2003.
Aducanumab is expected to have results in 2019 or early 2020, but the Cowen analysts said it's possible the trial could show success at slowing cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's at an interim stage, which could mean results come out sooner than expected.
Sage Therapeutics' depression treatment, Sage-217, acts on GABA, one of the neurotransmitters in the brain. The idea is that modulating GABA might help to treat depression by applying a brake to slow down parts of the brain that could be getting overexcited. Because it targets a different part of the brain than other depression treatments, the drug seems to work faster and last longer, meaning that instead of taking a pill daily it could be used episodically.
Read more: A fresh crop of promising drugs is poised to change the way depression is treated for the first time in decades. Here are the ones to watch in 2019.
But it's possible that the drug might not work in its next, later-stage trial, leading to a surprising failure. That could happen because of a response from participants who took the placebo medication. It could also not have as strong a response as the company observed in its smaller phase 2 trial, which looked at 89 patients.
"If there was any depression trial that was supposed to work cleanly, it was the '217 trials. Skepticism of depression trials in the investment community would run at an all-time high, and the indication would be more out of style than a pink velour hoodie, rivaling Alzheimer's as a black hole of value," the analysts wrote of the possibility that Sage-217 fails.
In 2018, a number of drugmakers, including the likes of drug giant Novartis, exited the antibiotic-drug-development business.
It's not an easy business. Bacteria have found ways to grow resistant to commonly used antibiotics and have started to resist newer antibiotics as well. It takes a long time to develop antibiotics, making it an expensive process, and even those that have made it through development face stumbling blocks.
But the Cowen analysts think that could start to change in 2019 thanks to new legislation that creates more economic incentives for drugmakers to develop the drugs, including options such as having hospitals license the antibiotics for the right to use them instead of paying based on how much of the potent antibiotics they use.
Big biotechs like Celgene have had a tough year, even amid doing big-ticket deals like the $9 billion acquisition of Juno Therapeutics and picking up Impact Biosciences in a $7 billion deal. In 2018, Celgene's stock fell about 40%, and the company faces competition for its blockbuster cancer treatment, Revlimid.
That could open up the smallest possibility that Celgene could stand to go private.
"The revenues of the biopharmaceutical industry are among the least correlated of any industry. So it would only make sense if private equity began looking to do deals in health care," the analysts wrote.
A virus called the Vesivirus contaminated biotech Genzyme's manufacturing plant in 2008 and 2009, and Cowen analysts think a decade later it could make a return. That could be a big issue for biotech companies.


The Indonesian Conservation Community - WARSI (KKI WARSI) was established in January 1992, Firstly, its name was WARSI Foundation or Yayasan Warsi (Conservation Information Centre) initiated by 20 NGOs in the Provinces of West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. These NGOs focus on natural resources conservation and community development. KKI WARSI was aimed to critically respond the policy of exploitative forest management, without considering its sustainability.
KKI Warsi and its alliances support each other to run the field activities program by reflecting each organization to consider internal and external condition. Warsi was placed in Jambi and moved to Bangko (capital city of Sarolangun Bangko) on April, 1994. Bangko was chosen as it is in the center and connects West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu and South Sumatra Provinces, moreover, it is near Bukit Barisan, particularly Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) which is the cynosure of all parties up to now.
Yayasan Warsi was amended to Indonesian Conservation Community (KKI) Warsi on July, 2002. Instead of an abbreviation, WARSI has been officially a name of organization. In December, 6th, 2002, the secretariat of Warsi was back to Jambi. It is aimed to connect the community empowerment and conservation programs to the policy makers at local and national level, in addition to the partnership built with other parties.


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Primary classrooms are designed specially for the child and the entire environment is created to facilitate the learning process. Maria Montessori observed that children learn by doing and wrote that the "hand is the instrument of the mind".
The Montessori curricula, techniques and materials satisfy the natural tendency for this age child to learn by doing. Independence, coordination, order, self-discipline and concentration are developed. Children work individually and cooperatively with materials that engage their curiosity.
The children are given lessons using the materials and then are free to explore and observe. An emphasis is placed on the process rather than the product of learning. The aim is to develop a love of work and a joy of learning.
The Montessori primary program includes activities for practical life, sensorial (refinement of the senses), language and mathematics. Geography, history, physical science, and life science are presented to the child through various language and manipulative activities. Movement, music and art form part of the day-to-day activities.
Language includes oral language development, written expression, reading, elements of grammar, and literature. Children in the primary program begin attending Spanish classes at age 4. Children continue taking foreign language classes in the Elementary program.
Mathematics makes use of manipulative materials to help the child gain an understanding of the concepts of number, symbol, sequence, operations, and memorization of basic facts.


Aurora Kitaj: so is there anything on people's minds that you would like to discuss?
Friend Oliva: Is dreams a good topic?
Aurora Kitaj: I don't know these can you say anything about them?
Zen Arado: about zen Aurora?
Friend Oliva: I'm open for all topics...but do you all like to talk abouts dreams?
Friend Oliva: Do you remember your dreams...I guess Zen you do?
Friend Oliva: Are dreams sort of real?
Zen Arado: why shoud that be depressing?
Friend Oliva: by dreams or by life?
Aurora Kitaj: but if it's not even real what's the point in going to work? Having children?
Zen Arado: do you feel bad if you have a bad dream for a long time?
Scathach Rhiadra: and the same for the waking dream?
Allan Whiteberry: is your "self" different from "you"?
Scathach Rhiadra: well, how would you define 'self' and 'you', allan?
Zen Arado: have you heard of lucid dreaming?
Friend Oliva: What are these?
Allan Whiteberry: Is lucid dreaming when you realize it is a dream?
Friend Oliva: Are your kids not sleeping yet?
Zen Arado: do any of you put importance on dreams?
Zen Arado: think they reveal things?
Friend Oliva: Yes, but I don't interpretate them.
Zen Arado: don't we often dream about things that are going on in our lives?
Zen Arado: don't analysts still use dreams ?
Zen Arado: in their practice?
Friend Oliva: Do you remember your dreams, Boone?
Boone Enoch: I did when I was younger, not so much now.
Boone Enoch: more fragmented now.
Zen Arado: anybody have recurrent dreams?
Scathach Rhiadra: does anyone think time seems to be different in dreams?
Zen Arado: now I can!
Zen Arado: some of them from 40 years ago!
Aurora Kitaj: when you were a baby?
Boone Enoch: I've had dreams about having exams in college and being unprepared for them.
Friend Oliva: ...and were you unprepared?
Boone Enoch: yes, in the dreams I hadn't been to class in weeks and didn't even know what the subject was.
Zen Arado: maybe we bury them and they need to be worked out?
Boone Enoch: given a context?
Boone Enoch: or they need to be put into a context?
Scathach Rhiadra: has anybody read or heard the chinese story of the butterfly's Dream?
Boone Enoch: butterfly dreamed it was a man?
Scathach Rhiadra: yes, Boone, a man had a dream one night, that he was a butterfly..
Zen Arado: yes how do we know this isn't a dream?
Zen Arado: we are immersed in our version of reality which is really just a dream?
Zen Arado: don't see where the depression comes in Aurora?
Zen Arado: it might be that everything is a waste of time if it is just a dream?
Friend Oliva: What else would we do, or should we do?
Zen Arado: if life is a dream it is pointless?
Aurora Kitaj: why would they do it if it is a waste of time?
Friend Oliva: What point? What aim?
Boone Enoch: that's what our biology programmed us to do.
Zen Arado: aren't there 2 tpes of dreams?
Aurora Kitaj: what role does it perform?
Zen Arado: no maybe dreams only occur in REM sleep?
Zen Arado: are daydreams god?
Boone Enoch: our minds have a need to put things into narratives.
Zen Arado: yes that is what we are all doing is it not?
Boone Enoch: and wind up feeling alienated.
Zen Arado: everyone is too busy!
Aurora Kitaj: Isn't it the sweat and grime, the shattered nerves, the twisted synew that keep us healthy and alive?
Scathach Rhiadra: but also the good things?
Aurora Kitaj: If we have too much time to sit around, we loose out?
Aurora Kitaj: Isn't this what we are designed for?
Zen Arado: there was a news story on Facebook yesterday.
Aurora Kitaj: But doing something worthwhile might result in sweat an stress and shattered nerves too?
Zen Arado: can I tell this story?
Samuel arrived at this point; it was his first time at PaB. Aurora supplied the wiki, explained the ground rules and sought agreement for Samuel's name to be recorded.
Zen Arado: and hardly anyone even noticed him!
Zen Arado: what does that say about the waking dream?
Friend Oliva: Zen, did you try to be in the here and now?
Friend Oliva: I need to think!
Zen Arado: but you do your thinking then come back to the present!
Friend Oliva: And what is so great about a clear mind, anyway?
Boone Enoch: the idea is not to achieve a blank slate.
Friend Oliva: Meditation is like walking out on life, or?
Friend Oliva: if I stop thinking?
Zen Arado: no you don't stop thinking!!!!!
Friend Oliva: if my mind is very quiet...how do you call it?
Friend Oliva: isn't meditation all about "no thoughts"?
Boone Enoch: no it's being aware or the coming and going of thoughts.
Boone Enoch: and learning not to be carried away by them.
Friend Oliva: For me life gets boring, when I'm not thinking.
Boone Enoch: you're somewhere else, not there.
Friend Oliva: ...in an underground, e.g., Zen?
Samuel Okelly: does anyone know if I am I right in thinking that the goal of Buddhist meditation is to "free the mind" of everything?
Friend Oliva: Isn't the opposite of what we are doing, Zen...seeking to reach goals?
Samuel Okelly: so such activity concedes that it is in itself not a logical pursuit?
Samuel Okelly: Isn't that a contradiction as "to practice" would seem to imply a conscious effort to do something eg think in a certain way?
Boone Enoch: practice in a sense of commitment to it.
Friend Oliva: ...had anyone seen things in a window that were not there`? Zen, you?
Samuel Okelly: yet such a commitment would by its very nature surely be a conscious commiment no?
Aurora Kitaj: is this like near death experiences?
Friend Oliva: Isn't life a dream, anyway?
Aurora Kitaj: can they tell us anything about the workings ofthe human mind?
Boone Enoch: it helps to discover what motivates us.
Friend Oliva: ...but what is behind life?
Friend Oliva: the 1 mio. question?
Boone Enoch: it just is.
Samuel Okelly: A similarly interesting question for me is how do we "know" anything? how do we justify even to ourselves what is true and valid belief?
Samuel Okelly: solispsism does really answer that though does it?
Friend Oliva: Maybe we are god...who is dreaming all this?
Samuel Okelly: by what process do each of us here judge our beliefs to be valid?
Scathach Rhiadra: ah, what is solispism?
Zen Arado: what are beliefs?
Samuel Okelly: it is the premis that all we can ever know is "the self"
Boone Enoch: the belief that you as a conscious being is the only thing that yu can be certain that exists.
Zen Arado: where is it?
Zen Arado: sory I am getting too zen!
Aurora Kitaj: One cannot get too Zen Zen!
Samuel Okelly: Zen, can you explain the purpose of such grammatical contradictions such as "i" don't believe in the "self"… and I don't believe in beliefs…..?
Samuel Okelly: you dont believe in you?
Friend Oliva: Yes, i believe in me...but what does it say?
Samuel Okelly: "just" a bunch of porocesses? implying no value or worth?
Samuel Okelly: that is precisely my point... why add "just" a bunch of processes?
Zen Arado: I do not see the connection?
Zen Arado: with the subconscious?
Aurora Kitaj: and posted on the PaB wiki, so if you want to stay anonymous, please let me know.
Samuel Okelly: isnt that simply a form of extreme nuhilism?
Samuel Okelly: Philosophy. a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth. b. nothingness or nonexistence.
Zen Arado: everything is meaningless?
Zen Arado: why does no self equate to that?
Samuel Okelly: no self" = "nothingness"
Boone Enoch: a self that is permanent and unchanging point of reference does not exits.
Scathach Rhiadra: is my 'self' the same self that existed five minutes ago?
Aurora Kitaj: Hello Bobby, please feel free to come and join us, come and take a seat..
Scathach Rhiadra: but if have an idea that our self is non-changing and think of it as such..
Zen Arado: there is no self TO change !
Boone Enoch: there is no "fixed" you.
Boone Enoch: everything is in flux.
Samuel Okelly: a similar argument has been applied the notion of "time" eg there is no "now"
Scathach Rhiadra: or no past or future , just 'now'?
Zen Arado: but thats ust our construction isn't it?
Zen Arado: doesn't relativity change that?
Boone Enoch: thanks for the discussion. very interesting but I have to log.
Boone Enoch: Good bye everyone.
Zen Arado: how long do these meetings last Aurora?
Friend Oliva: I have to leave soon, too.
Hello Aurora, I restored this from the autolog database after Scathach tipped me off to your comment about having had a scrambled log file on your computer.


Harry Kane joked that Christmas dinner could become a regular feature on the menu at Tottenham's training ground after a 5-0 Boxing Day demolition of Bournemouth.
Kane was among the scorers at Wembley as Spurs followed up their 6-2 win at Everton on Sunday with another convincing triumph that lifted them above Manchester City to second in the Premier League.
And the England captain believes roast turkey could hold the secret to his side's free-scoring form.
"We'll have to have turkey before every game," he tweeted after the match.
Kyle Walker-Peters put in a standout performance on his first Premier League start of the season, setting up all three of Spurs' first-half goals, as Christian Eriksen, Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura punished Bournemouth.
The full-back had only played 12 minutes of league football in 2018-19 prior to Wednesday and Pochettino believes the 21-year-old can become a key player at the club.
"Our confidence in him is so high and he only needs time to show his quality and match time to try to compete for a place in the starting XI," said Pochettino.


Excessive dietary intake of salt, saturated fat and cholesterol, coupled with a low intake of foods high in potassium and fiber, lead most people to develop high blood pressure and high blood levels of LDL-cholesterol. A typical modern Western diet promotes atherosclerosis and leads to coronary artery disease, which in turn leads to sudden cardiac deaths or fatal heart attacks. By contrast, a diet with lots of whole fruits and vegetables, mostly whole grains, and some nonfat dairy products (and seafood rich in omega-3s), with little added salt can prevent or even reverse the build-up of atherosclerotic plaques that lead to most fatal heart attacks, which are the #1 cause of death in both men and women in the United States. Throw in a few more cardiovascular disease risk factors like smoking, inactivity, and being overweight/obese (especially if accompanied by type 2 diabetes and increasing age) and you create the "perfect storm" for suddenly dropping dead of a heart attack.
Two recent large, long-term epidemiologic studies add to the growing data linking diet to increased risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. The first study followed over 12,000 US adults for an average of 14.8 years. During the follow-up period, there were 2,270 deaths, 825 of which were from cardiovascular disease. Over half (443) of those were from coronary artery disease. Both an increased salt intake and a lower potassium intake were associated independently with increased total mortality and cardiovascular disease deaths. However, the ratio of sodium to potassium in their diets was associated with the biggest increase in total and cardiovascular disease mortality (1). The study's lead author, Elena Kuklina, is quoted in a NY Times article (dated 1/26/2011), saying, "We controlled for all major cardiovascular disease risk factors and still found an association between the sodium-potassium ratio and deaths from heart disease." The sodium-potassium ratio goes up when highly processed foods loaded with refined carbohydrates and meats and cheeses displace fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in the diet.
The second study followed over 80,000 middle-aged nurses for an average of 26 years and looked at the association between various lifestyle factors and their risk of sudden cardiac death. Most sudden cardiac deaths are due to heart attacks. Lifestyle factors were assessed with questionnaires every 2-4 years. Diet was assessed via a food frequency questionnaire every 2-4 years. A diet low in fatty animal products and refined carbohydrates and higher in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans, and fish was viewed as low-risk. Researchers plowed through reams of data looking for factors that were associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death in these women. They identified four risk factors, which, when combined, dramatically increased the women's risk of sudden cardiac death. These 4 risk factors included a high-risk diet, inactivity, being overweight, and smoking. Those who had none of those risk factors cut their risk of dying suddenly from heart disease by 92% compared to those who smoked, were overweight, didn't get regular exercise, and ate a typical high-fat, low-fiber diet (2).
While men tend to die sooner (on average) from heart disease than women, more women die of heart attacks each year than men. Part of the reason for this is that women are less likely to be diagnosed with advanced coronary heart disease than men, and so are less likely to have their MDs focus on cardiovascular disease risk factors that can be reduced with drugs and/or lifestyle changes. Primary prevention of heart disease is, in some ways, even more important for women than men because women are less likely to survive a first heart attack. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease increase significantly as women move through menopause. Diet-related risk factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, and type 2 diabetes all worsen -- sometimes dramatically -- during and after menopause. Another problem is women are only half as likely as men to develop symptoms of severe heart disease before suffering a sudden, fatal heart attack, which makes it less likely that they know that they are running into trouble. Even worse, women are 66% less likely than men to have been diagnosed by their physicians with advanced coronary artery disease before suffering a sudden fatal cardiac event. The sad truth is that a healthier diet and lifestyle could eliminate over 90% of the deaths and disabilities now being caused by cardiovascular disease. The same healthful diet and lifestyle factors that could dramatically cut heart disease in women and men would also significantly reduce the risk of many types of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporotic fractures, and numerous other ills. Diet and lifestyle really do matter.
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As the seasons change from spring to winter, temperature fluctuates throughout the year. Some climates can vary from scorching summers to chilly winters; Mitchell included. Did you know there is a pretty constant temperature, regardless of climate or season, just below the ground?
The Earth's crust takes in 47% of the sun's heat (energy) and is maintained in the ground a few feet below the surface. Geothermal systems tap into this free heat source with an earth loop. This innovative technology reclaims the sun's heat supplying your home or office with central heating and cooling.
Using the earth loop, a geothermal heat pump takes the heat from the ground in the heating cycle. The geothermal system draws the heat from the loops and delivers this warmed air through a classic duct system. Additional choices include using that same heat to provide hot water and radiant floor heating are available.
The heating process is reversed in the cooling mode - creating cold, conditioned air all through the home. Instead of extracting heat from the ground, heat is taken from the air in your home and either moved back into the earth loop, or used to preheat the water in your hot water tank.
The fall season is a good reminder that it's time to begin thinking about the task of heating your home throughout the winter. According to the Department of Energy, the average family in the United States spends roughly $1,900 a year on utility bills. Unfortunately, a large portion of that energy is wasted. The secret to saving energy and money is to search for energy efficient improvements for your home.
A geothermal home comfort system uses the abundant source of free solar heat energy trapped in the earth. It uses a series of pipes (also known as an earth loop) buried in the ground to move that heat into a home during the winter. Most systems are easy to install in either new or retrofit situations. In addition to an open or closed loop well system, the air exchanger system also requires ductwork to dispense conditioned air through the home or business.
Although the original investment in a geothermal system may be greater than the investment in a standard system, the long-term return on that investment ensures it is one worth making. The energy source is both free and renewable, and the average system lifespan exceeds 24 years—compared to 15 years for a regular system.
For most homes, the payments connected with installing the new system will be completely covered by the monthly savings from having an energy-efficient geothermal system. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems geothermal one of the most proficient heating and cooling systems offered.
Installation of a geothermal system begins with an installation plan from your preferred HVAC contractor. He will measure your home, analyze your heating and cooling needs and review your property to suggest the best location for your loop system. If your house doesn't have a preexisting duct system, your geothermal dealer can easily retrofit your home and provide one.
Once installed, a geothermal system needs less maintenance than an original heating and cooling system and functions more efficiently, delivering an impressive five units of energy per one unit of electrical energy used. That converts to a 500 percent efficiency rating and savings up to 70 percent for utility expenses.
Another benefit -- geothermal systems use no fossil fuel and give off no carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or other greenhouse gases. Homeowners experience added comfort, improved indoor air quality and less noise as they minimize their carbon footprint.


This unit of study requires students to develop over the semester an original piece of research and provides a capstone experience for those wishing to go on to further postgraduate research. This practical project is based in a research group at the Brain and Mind Centre or affiliates which deal in areas of clinical, epidemiological and fundamental neuroscience research. The 12 credit points combined of BMRI5023/BMRI5024 carry the expectation of around 3 days per week availability towards the given research project. Students will learn a variety of skills for acquisition, anlysis and presentation of data. This is a capstone unit of study requiring a great deal of independence and the production of an original piece of research scholarship. Students can also expect ample support and guidance from their supervisors and research team and are expected to integrate into their research team's enviroment.
This is a capstone unit of study and requires departmental permission.


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filed: June 21, 2012 • England
Council leader asks Chancellor for 'deep cut' in wind farm subsidies
Credit: by Daniel Ionescu | The Lincolnite | thelincolnite.co.uk 21 June 2012 ~~
Councillor Martin Hill, the Conservative Leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has written to Chancellor George Osborne, asking for a "deep cut" in subsidies to wind farms.
This comes after the council voted earlier in June to halt to the spread of wind turbines across Lincolnshire because "enough is enough".
There are 75 wind turbines in the county, with dozens more in the pipeline.
The council leader then said he remains unconvinced by the "questionable science" behind the wind farms, besides "spoiling our beautiful countryside for future generations."
In his letter to the Chancellor, Councillor Hill detailed "the generous subsidy enjoyed by these developments is having a major impact on the UK economy.
"So, we are asking you to consider a deep cut in the support they receive."
He says: "Onshore wind in Lincolnshire alone is costing about £12 million a year, with the national bill running at more than £1.5 billion annually.
"If EU targets are to be met by 2020, this must rise to around £8 billion a year, and persist at that level for the foreseeable future.
"The result is likely to be long-term costs of up to £150 billion. We are unconvinced this represents value for money for bill payers."
He claims: "The only way to tackle this growing problem is to drastically reduce the current subsidy levels."
Source: by Daniel Ionescu | The Lincolnite | thelincolnite.co.uk 21 June 2012
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