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The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful female journalist in the town
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A new film based on the adventures of the classic sitcom characters of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard.
The story is set in 1944, when World War II is reaching its climax with the Allies poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army.
In a town on the southern coast of England, Walmington-on-Sea, morale amongst the ageing army reserve force, the Home Guard, is low. Their new mission - to patrol the Dover army base - is a chance to revive spirits and reputation... that is until glamorous journalist Rose Winters arrives to write about their exploits.
MI5 discover a radio signal sent direct to Berlin from Walmington-on-Sea, sparking rumours of a spy and - with the outcome of the war suddenly at stake - it falls to the veteran servicemen to step up to the plate.
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Solar booms: 2.4 GW installed during Q2 in the United States (w/ charts)
The United States saw another strong quarter of solar market growth during Q2. However, the residential market declined year-over year, and the Section 201 trade case does not bode well for the future.
September 11, 2017 Christian Roselund
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The second quarter of 2017 was another strong quarter for the U.S. solar market, as revealed in GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) U.S. Solar Market Insight report, which reports that the market grew 8% year-over-year with 2.4 GW-DC installed.
This was led by the utility-scale sector, which represented 58% of new capacity, and where GTM Research reports that contractors were still building projects originally slated to come online by the end of 2016, in time for a step-down of the Investment Tax Credit which never came due to an extension.
The nation's commercial and industrial (C&I) sector also showed strong growth, with GTM Research estimating a 31% increase over a year prior in the "non-residential" sector, a catch-all that includes government and non-profit installations with C&I.
As these two sectors are growing, the geography of solar is also shifting and broadening across the nation. While the national market was once dominated by California, the Southwest and the Northeast, during Q2 Texas began to deliver on its long-awaited promise, and showed up as the second-largest state market with 378 MW installed.
New regions such as the Midwest and the Deep South are also opening up. During Q2 Minnesota came in as the 5th-largest market on the back of a community solar boom, and the unlikely states of Mississippi and Michigan placed in #9 and #11 respectively.
Trouble in residential solar
However, all was not roses in this quarter's report. The residential solar market fell 8% from levels in the second quarter of 2016, as the second quarter of year-over-year decline. And while in Q1 some of the blame could be put on the very heavy rains in California, Q2 numbers verify that there are deeper problems.
GTM Research notes the difficulties that installers are having with customers acquisition with the exhaustion of first-adopter demographics in leading states, as well as the pull-back of national installers Tesla and Vivint. The bankruptcy of Sungevity, the nation's fourth-largest installer, certainly did not help either.
However, there are also policy issues, as the Net Metering 2.0 policy adopted in California and subsequent mandatory time of use rates make for more complicated calculations of payback times.
The year-over-year decline in residential solar is particularly troubling given that the market is becoming ever more geographically diverse, with states like Utah and Florida joining the top residential solar markets.
But by far the biggest concern facing the U.S. solar market is the Section 201 investigation currently underway at the U.S. International Trade Commission. While the impact on installation volumes will likely not be felt for several quarters, GTM Research and Bloomberg New Energy Finance both note a delay in signing of new contracts until the case is concluded, and both have warned that if trade action is imposed many deals will fall through.
Already the impact can be seen in module prices, which rose slightly during Q2 to $0.39 per watt, the first increase in nearly three years. And while overall system costs still fell during Q2, this may not be the case in Q3. Module prices have increased further since July, as contractors and installers hoard imported modules to avoid potential tariffs.
If the trade remedies proposed by Suniva are approved, this could increase prices much more. And while the full effects are hard to predict, in June GTM Research forecast that the proposed remedies would cut the overall U.S. market in half over the next five years, with utility-scale solar being particularly hard hit.
But despite all of these challenges, the U.S. solar market is still roaring ahead, at least for the next few quarters. GTM Research reports that over 5 GW of utility-scale solar is currently under construction, with another 16.9 GW of projects holding contracts.
Christian Roselund
Christian Roselund served as US editor at pv magazine from 2014 to 2019. Prior to this he covered global solar policy, markets and technology for Solar Server, and has written about renewable energy for CleanTechnica, German Energy Transition, Truthout, The Guardian (UK), and IEEE Spectrum.
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Welcome to our collection of insight, guidance and other useful resources for charities supporting communities in Scotland.
WHAT ARE THE SCOTTISH CHARITY AWARDS?
An annual awards ceremony recognising and celebrating exceptional charities in Scotland.
The Scottish Charity Awards took place this year on 14 June in a glittering ceremony hosted at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC).
See below the list of the 2018 winners.
It was inspirational to see the exceptional work of so many charities in Scotland. With a stellar bunch of finalists, our judges had the difficult task of choosing this year's winners.
The public have spoken and have chosen Blood Bikes Scotland as the winners of the People's Choice Award 2018.
Blood Bikes Scotland are a dedicated team of volunteer motorcyclists who dedicate their time to offering a free courier service to NHS Lothian, Fife and Borders. Blood Bikes Scotland deliver a range of urgent items, including blood samples, donor baby milk and medical equipment.
Congratulations to Blood Bikes Scotland, a very worthy winner!
Stuart, our Scotland-based Business Development Manager, presents the People's Choice Award to the 2017 winner, Gordon's Fightback - MND Scotland.
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Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop: An exec exodus, complaints of low salaries, and pandemic burnout
Madeline Berg and JP Mangalindan
Goop CEO and founder Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Paltrow's Goop was the "it girl" of celebrity brands and valued at $400 million a few years ago.
But the company has had an exec exodus, with at least 140 employees leaving since September 2019.
Some former Goop employees said they felt underpaid and burned out.
See more stories on Insider's business page.
Less than three years ago, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop was the "it girl" of celebrity brands.
In its fifth funding round in early 2019, Goop raised another $53 million, for a funding total of nearly $135 million and a valuation of more than $430 million.
Sure, Goop had become a punchline for some, with its jade vaginal eggs, bee-sting therapy, and high price points (tickets for the annual In Goop Health summit went for as much as $4,500).
But there was no denying the power of its brand, balance sheet, and magnetic founder. Goop — founded in 2008 as a newsletter out of Paltrow's kitchen — was ascendant and had attracted an impressive set of talent from places like Condé Nast and Meredith.
"It's obviously cool to work for a celebrity" and see the inner workings of such a hot company, one former employee told Insider.
But over the past two years, the lifestyle blog turned e-commerce shop has seen high turnover, even for the startup world. And a large percentage of its top-tier talent has either left the company or been forced out.
At least 140 Goop staffers appear to have exited since September 2019, including a number of vice presidents and directors, according to a review of LinkedIn data.
The Condé Nast veteran Elise Loehnen as chief content officer.
One Kings Lane's former vice president Erica Moore as chief financial officer.
Connexity's Juan Paul Ramirez as chief technology officer.
InStyle's former ad director Kimberly Kreuzberger as chief revenue officer.
The veteran C-suite member Virginia Llewellyn as general counsel.
Allure's former executive editor Danielle Pergament as editor in chief.
The company, which declined to comment, numbered about 250 people in 2019, though three people said its head count had come down substantially during the pandemic.
Some of the departures were pandemic-related furloughs. But some Goop insiders said that masked a retention problem that had begun well before then. They said they believed this problem was fueled by the company's pay — which they said they felt was low by industry standards — and what they said was a tendency of Paltrow's to sour on leaders who had previously been her "favorites."
Insider spoke with four Goop employees who left within the past two years, who all agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from the company. They said they experienced a taxing culture that had been made worse by the pandemic pressures on the business, as well as a lack of transparency around why various senior execs left the company.
"Leadership training is where I'd be spending all my time," a second former employee said of how they'd change Goop if they were in charge. "Honesty, openness — people avoid conflict because they don't want to hurt people's feelings."
Paltrow at the now closed Goop location in London.
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The executive exodus
As COVID-19 swept across the US, Goop's retail stores were hit hard. In 2020, the company temporarily shuttered all seven of its stores, and two closed for good. Its lucrative events business went virtual, and its content division suffered from the same falling ad rates that affected the entire media industry.
The company furloughed dozens of people in March and April 2020, a number of whom ended up getting laid off or leaving.
But Goop insiders said that it had been losing talent for months before the pandemic hit and that it wasn't all related to furloughs. They said a number of top employees, including the chief financial officer, chief revenue officer, chief technology officer, and chief content officer — some of whom former employees referred to as Paltrow's "favorites" — had left the company (or been forced out) since the start of 2019.
"She definitely had her favorites," the first former employee said. But that didn't mean that status would last. Multiple Goop leaders who were seen internally as Paltrow's favorites were forced out in a manner the former employees said felt abrupt.
Three former employees pointed to Ramirez, the company's well-regarded former chief technology officer, as a prime example of a former favorite. After joining Goop in January 2018, Ramirez helped lead the company's continued transformation to a digital-media and e-commerce brand. Under his leadership, which two former employees complimented, Goop's tech team grew from eight to 45.
But in May, Ramirez left with little explanation to the staff or his team, three former employees said. Two of them said he was pushed out. When the team asked about his departure, looking for guidance, Paltrow was vague and didn't give many further details, a third employee said.
Ramirez said in a statement to Insider that his departure was "amicable and well-communicated."
But two former employees said there was a mystery around Ramirez's exit that was emblematic of other senior leaders' departures, including that of Loehnen, Goop's ex-chief content officer.
"Sometimes, when you have founders who are also CEOs, that passion can be a blind spot," the second employee said, adding that Paltrow was hardly the only founder to feel that kind of emotional connection to their company. "Sometimes their ideas fill the room."
Former employees felt overworked and underpaid
Not all the Goop employees who have recently left the company were forced out.
Three former employees who left said they did so simply because they felt underappreciated, particularly when it came to compensation, which they felt was below industry standard.
Goop management acknowledged the company's relatively low pay in at least one company all-hands meeting, according to two former employees. In the meeting, senior leaders said they would make up for it, promising pay raises, one of the employees said. The company also offered equity to all employees, as well as perks, like free products and discounts to Goop's sites.
That apparently wasn't persuasive for some employees. The first former Goop employee said they felt they were underpaid by at least 40% when they began to interview for similar positions at other companies.
As a result of departures and pandemic furloughs, three of the former employees said they picked up additional work for the company that stretched them thin.
There was also a sense of anxiety for some that they could be the next person laid off, two former employees said. One said that with every Slack message, they feared they were going to get cut.
The sense of being overworked and anxious was certainly not unique to Goop during the height of the pandemic, but some said they felt the company's approach contradicted its image as a brand centered on "wellness, health, mindfulness , and fitness."
"There were points, like, I got burned out every single week," the first former employee said. "I was super depressed and anxious, and I know a lot of people felt the same way. And I think with COVID, it was like, 'Well, at least I have a job.'" But that wasn't enough to quell unease for long, as the employee said they considered, "No, this is a wellness company."
The second former employee pushed back on the notion that management handled the pandemic poorly, saying it provided legal advice and "treated people with dignity and respect."
But the first former employee said they felt the company's attitude toward people who complained seemed to be, "You can leave."
"More than once, people during our stand-up would ask, 'How would you deal with an employee that's unhappy?' and someone in leadership would just say, 'Well, maybe this just isn't the right company for them,'" this person said.
Goop was one of many companies to see turnover increase over the past year — an unprecedented period now dubbed "The Great Resignation." But several former employees indicated they felt something bigger was going on at the startup beyond talent simply succumbing to pandemic-induced restlessness or moving on to seize new opportunities.
"They keep trying to blame 'The Great Resignation.' I call bullshit," the third former employee said. "No one wanted to change jobs in the middle of the pandemic. I felt like I had to."
Do you have insight to share on Goop or other celebrity-founded brands? Contact reporter Madeline Berg at mberg@insider.com using a nonwork device.
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