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Hour of the Furnaces: Imperial Finance and the Colonization of Daily Life
Morgan Adamson February 1, 2018
Image Credit: John Gemmill, 1968/69.
Perhaps one of the most memorable moments from 1960s militant cinema is the slaughterhouse scene in Hora de los hornos (Hour of the Furnaces, Argentina, 1968). 1 Midway through the essay film's first section, "Neo-colonialism and Violence," soft female vocals play over an extended montage of sheep and cattle being delivered to a slaughterhouse, hung upside down, their throats slit or the back of their necks pummeled with a sledge hammer, skinned and bled out as their carcasses move along an assembly line. Often discussed as a citation of Sergei Eisenstein's Strike (USSR, 1925), the footage of industrial agribusiness, one of Argentina's most lucrative industries, is paired with popular advertisements and intertitles that speak of Argentina's national debt. An exposition of dependency theory, this section of Hora de los hornos offers a complex critique of the relationship between finance, imperialism, and violence.
Returning to post-war theories of dependency through Hora de los hornos, I contend that critiques of finance leveled by Third Worldist struggles for national liberation in the late 1960s bring us back to crucial questions about the relationship between imperialism and so-called "cultures of finance" that have been too-often neglected in recent years. In particular, the state of bankruptcy under imperial rule interrogated by Hora de los hornos allows us to consider what Randy Martin diagnosed as the "financialization of daily life" together with what the Situationists called the "colonization of everyday life" within capitalism. The perspective of Hora de los hornos, however, is one that surpasses each of these theses by insisting that quotidian violence is inseparable from imperialism as a historical and cultural process.
To understand the critique of finance put forward by Hora de los hornos, we first have to acknowledge that financial systems have their origins in colonial and imperial violence. Take the 1781 Zong slave ship massacre, for example, in which the crew cast 133 captives into the Atlantic, allowing their "owners" in Liverpool to file insurance claims for the drowned "cargo." For Ian Baucom, this massacre and its aftermath inaugurate what he calls the "speculative discourse" of modernity, connecting the violence of the middle passage to the birth of insurance and other forms of financial speculation. 2 K-Sue Park similarly argues that the practice of foreclosure has its origins in the expropriation of indigenous lands in the early colonial period of North America. 3 Contemporary scholars are not the first to notice that key financial technologies were developed in the course of colonial expropriation during the brutal passage from mercantile to industrial capitalism. In the chapters on primitive accumulation in Capital, volume 1, Marx himself tells the interpenetrating story of the rise of the modern banking system, national debt, and the "idyllic proceedings" of colonial plunder across the globe, concluding that capital comes into the world "dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt." 4
Picking up this thread, Marxists in the early part of the 20th century developed a critique of finance in order to reckon with imperialism, or the intensification and systemization of practices of capital accumulation on a global scale. Drawing on the work of Austrian economist Rudolf Hilferding, Lenin argued in 1917 that
imperialism, or the domination of finance capital, is that highest stage of capitalism in which this separation [of money capital from productive capital] reaches vast proportions. The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially "powerful" states stand out among all the rest. 5
In Lenin's assessment, the predominance of finance enabled imperialism's central features: monopoly capitalism and the growing export of capital from financial centers. With regards to the latter aspect, the export of capital, Lenin was pulling from the work of Rosa Luxemburg who demonstrated several years earlier that capital exports, particularly in the form of international loans, were the foundation of imperialist accumulation. Initiating a permanent cycle of indebtedness in order to realize profits in industrial centers, international loans were responsible for the immiseration of local populations and the continuous outbreak of financial crises across the global south. In her blistering account of imperialism in Egypt, Luxemburg demonstrates how loans initially given to build the Suez Canal and modernize agriculture set into motion a permanent crisis, leading to the proletarianization of the peasant population and eventual foreign occupation: "The case of Egypt, just as that of China, and more recently, Morocco, shows militarism as the executor of the accumulation of capital, lurking behind international loans, railroad building, irrigation systems, and similar works of civilization." 6 Finance is the lever of what David Harvey calls "accumulation by dispossession," a means for capital to penetrate its "outside" and to bring evermore territories and people into its fold.
By the post-war era, Marxist critiques of imperialism flourished in the early post-colonial theories of dependency advanced by Latin American structuralists such as Raúl Prebisch and Juan Noyola, later popularized in the world-systems theory of Immanuel Wallerstein. Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, dependency theory took hold in Latin America and elsewhere as a rebuttal to the modernization theory of development, which posited successive stages through which nations pass on the path to industrial wealth. Introducing terms that have become indispensable to analyzing global inequality among nation states, dependency theory argued that the wealth of the first world – "core" countries in the global capitalist system – was generated through the systematic underdevelopment of countries on the "periphery" of the global system. Brazilian social scientist Theotonio Dos Santos wrote prolifically on dependency theory while in exile in Chile from 1965–1973 before being exiled again to Mexico after Pinochet's coup, arguing that the "new dependency" characteristic of global imperialism is predicated on systematic industrial and technical underdevelopment of peripheral countries, primarily through the mechanisms of financial control by way of foreign debts. The model of dependency, a mode of production characterized by the continuous reproduction of "backwardness, misery, and social marginalization" within peripheral countries, perpetuates and expands debt, and is thus "superexploitation." 7 With close affinity to Lenin and Luxemburg, as well as contemporaneous analyses like Kwame Nkrumah's theory of "neo-colonialism," dependency theory foregrounded the asymmetrical power relations in finance that drive the imperialist production of global inequality. It offered a structural analysis of global inequality that bolstered, while also being fed by, the wave of anti-imperialist revolutionary activity sweeping the continent.
The slaughterhouse scene discussed above comes from the chapter of Hora de los hornos entitled "Dependency," and it is the film's attempt to render dependency theory's critique of imperial finance, particularly capital exports and national debt, in cinematic form. However, the film significantly expands earlier critiques of imperial finance by placing them within a broader politics of cultural decolonization. Produced clandestinely under the military dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía, installed in 1966 amidst growing student and worker unrest, Hora de los hornos promoted a left-Peronist agenda, although the film's political project was more expansive than its stated allegiance to the exiled Perón. A year after making Hora de los hornos, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino published their landmark essay "Towards a Third Cinema" in Tricontinental, a journal produced by the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). In it, they argue that cinema, one of the most effective means of mass communication, must be seized and employed in the struggle against imperialism as a crucial weapon in the "decolonization of culture." 8 Beyond the economism of most dependency theorists who saw culture as little more than "perfume," 9 the practice of Third Cinema reflected in Hora de los hornos (with a significant debt to Frantz Fanon) takes culture to be inextricable from any discussion of dependency: "The culture, including cinema, of a neocolonized country is just the expression of an overall dependence that generates models and values born from the needs of imperialist expansion." 10 Modeling cinematic production on guerrilla warfare, Solanas, Getino, and the "Cine-Liberación" group to which they belonged sought to use the medium as a means to build national and international solidarities among anti-imperialist movements. They did so by constructing a militant cinematic form and infrastructure to advance collective authorship and production, engaging workers, students, peasants, intellectuals, and revolutionaries as collaborators.
Advancing a pan-Latin-American political project within the context of a Tricontinental perspective, the opening sequence of Hora de los hornos is composed of footage of police brutality and protest, inter-cut with quotations on colonial liberation and violence from Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Fidel Castro, and others. The film develops its critique of neo-colonialism through an examination of the everyday violence of life in Latin America, layering moving and still images, found footage, text, and sound to imbricate all facets of life into a total system of domination and subjugation. The first section, "Neo-colonialism and Violence," presents the overarching thesis that "Latin America is a continent at war," and is composed of twelve chapters with titles such as "History," "Culture," "Ideological Warfare," and "The System." Each of these chapters addresses a different aspect of the thesis, expanding the definition of war and its frontiers to incorporate the unspoken forms of imperial violence running through collective life and daily experiences. For example, in the section "Daily Violence," the sound of the siren grows louder and more ominous as the sequence cuts to footage of people running through the city, with what sounds like gunfire enveloping the scene, giving us the impression that we are viewing a war zone. It soon becomes apparent, however, that these shots are of people running through the rain (perhaps on their way to work). At the same time, what sounded like gunfire is revealed in the next sequence to be the sound of workers punching a time clock. Through the juxtaposition of sound and image, this sequence takes quotidian experiences and produces what appears to be a scene of war. Wage-labor is a form of daily violence visited upon the people, and the punctuation of time by work imposes a visceral terror on those who endure it. Throughout Hora de los hornos, the aural environment is a political space, as the sounds of popular music, a plane landing, and the punch of the time clock become emblems of violence and calls to revolutionary action. These calls would have been all the more urgent to viewers seeing the film in covert screenings, at their own risk, in the context of a repressive military regime. In these spaces, Hora de los hornos sought to reshape the concept of cinephilia by inducing, rather than stifling, political participation through spectatorship; the film was intended as provocation to its viewers, who were, in turn, interpellated as participants in its revolutionary project. 11
Hora de los hornos engages in nothing less than a total critique of the bankruptcy of life under the neo-colonial regime, portraying a society whose accumulated debts to imperial powers have outstripped its capacity to function, producing a permanent condition of indebtedness. In the "History" chapter, a voiceover contends that the oligarchies of Argentina were the product of three factors: "English gold, Italian hands, and French books." This claim is reinforced with footage of the Argentine national railroad, one of the 19th-century infrastructure projects that Luxemburg saw as integral to British imperialist accumulation. The film illustrates how cultural and economic debts are two sides of the same crisis of national identity and attends to the violence of cultural imperialism, arguing, in the vein of the movements for national liberation across the globe, for the development of a national culture in a form and language indigenous to Argentina. While tracing Argentina's colonial legacy, Hora de los hornos also examines a shift away from this oligarchic system, illustrating that neo-colonial violence now trades in only one currency: "Yankee dollars." Cultural imperialism and global financial systems had been melded into one and the same substance, a mode of domination and control enveloping every aspect of social, economic, and political life.
Over a panning shot of the harbor of Buenos Aires, the "Dependence" chapter commences with a quotation from 1544 by Sebastián Caboto, an early Italian explorer: "Those who live in rural areas say there are mountains where they mine endless gold." The camera then slowly pans to reveal the immensity of the city accompanied by a voiceover that delivers a sharp critique of the debt economy imposed on Latin America:
Loans, Investments, have always been a part of the same political subjugation […] So-called imperialist aid is an aid that always cost he who receives it more than he who gives it. For every dollar invested in Latin America, imperialism gets back four.
And so begins the carnage of the slaughterhouse, which is interspersed with advertisements, all displaying smiling, white models extolling the virtues of consumer society. Inserted within this montage are also stark intertitles explaining the basic theses of dependency theory: "everyday we export more and get back less," "Argentina's foreign debt is six billion dollars," and "the foreign monopolies and their local allies control almost all the national economy," and listing the industries that are under foreign control. Paired with footage from the slaughterhouse, these figures of debt illustrate a body politic that is literally bleeding out its capacities. Juxtaposed with advertisements promising a better life through consumption, these figures indicate that culture, like the national economy, is bankrupt. Hora de los hornos offers a critique of the spectacle and finance capitalism as dual mechanisms mining human (and nonhuman) resources for the promise of infinite riches, the endless gold in the mountains of which Caboto speaks.
Contradicting the linear and teleological temporal framework of modernization theory, Hora de los hornos's portrayal of dependency testifies to a different kind of temporal experience: that of debt and indebtedness. The mechanisms of social reproduction that constantly reinforce social hierarchies predicated on a system of debt induce the experience of a collapsed futurity, one in which "development" – representing the potential for a different future – is foreclosed. Exploring this temporality, Hora de los hornos expands the theoretical framework of dependency theory to analyze the role of systems of social reproduction – art, language, education, media, folklore, etc. – as sites that propagate and reinforce dependency and underdevelopment. This sequence conveys the affective dimensions of the indebted position, the attachment and striving for a better life figured by the advertisements and experience of being bled dry that accompany such attachments, a kind of "cruel optimism" in the words of Lauren Berlant. 12 Rather than simply translating the concept of dependency into the cinema, Hora de los hornos expands an analysis of the violence of neo-colonialism, impressing upon the viewer complex arguments within an affective register.
Hora de los hornos later reinforces the affective character of this indebted position in the chapter on "Ideological Warfare," which opens with a mobile shot of a street scene that meanders through crowds as they enter movie theaters and shops. A voiceover contends that, "the war in Latin America is waged principally in the minds of men […] For neo-colonialism, mass communication is more powerful than Napalm." As a woman stops to watch several television screens in a shop window, the voiceover continues, "ideological frontiers have replaced conventional ones," with the ideological frontier appearing as an mobile and open boundary. Undiagetically, "I Don't Need No Doctor" by Ray Charles begins to envelop the scene as the camera wanders into a record shop where young people peruse the records as they tap their fingers and bob their heads. The sequence cuts between different angles of the scene, focusing on one man who is particularly taken with the music, the shot lingering on him as his body convulses as he shops. The non-diegetic music is edited with the footage in a way that does not exactly sync with the man's gestures, introducing an interstice between image and sound that turns his undulations into an almost repulsive expression of submission. As this sequence reveals, the ideological frontier in imperialism operates on an affective, pre-cognitive level, turning moments of consumption into moments of production – the production of neo-colonial subjectivity.
"Everyday life is a colonized sector." 13 Guy Debord made this argument in 1961 (drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre) with reference to the expansion of consumer culture in industrial societies. Amidst the Algerian war for independence, and a few months before the massacre of dozens of Algerians in Paris, Debord casts the struggle over daily life – and the struggle against the spectacle – within terms inspired by anti-colonial movements. Hora de los hornos, however, goes beyond Debord's analysis. For it, colonization is not a metaphor, but an active and ongoing process of historical domination that penetrates every aspect of life. Rather than representing a new, abstract mode of production that Debord identifies as "the spectacle," Hora de los hornos understands the colonization of daily life to be the ever-increasing expansion and intensification of imperialism. This daily violence, for Hora de los hornos, is inseparable from imperialist mechanisms of finance that feed the continuous cycle of dispossession and serve as a source of unending crisis. Hora de los hornos is less concerned with the alienation of the commodity that Debord decries than it is with a cultural imperialism that forms subjects through modes of expropriation that are inseparable from the violence of imperial finance.
In its foresight, Hora de los hornos anticipates the massive bleeding out that Argentina - along with a host of other underdeveloped nations - would be subjected to as neoliberal laboratories established during 1970s, leading to decades of foreign debt and structural adjustment culminating in the 2001 financial crisis and default. 14 At the same time, it analyzes the affective, economic, political, and historical dimensions of the experience of indebtedness prior to the apparent rise of forms of neoliberal governance, identifying the salient aspects of debt as a technology of power, the acknowledgement of which has become widespread in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. 15 In doing so, it combines its more robust cinematic theorization of the "colonization of everyday life" by capitalism with an early recognition of what Randy Martin called the "financialization of daily life" in reference to the expansion of consumer credit and the production of financialized subjectivities in the neoliberal era. 16 While conversations around the relationship between imperialism and finance have been ongoing in Latin America, these connections have been largely missing in discussions of "cultures of finance" in the United States since the financial crisis. What would it mean to recenter our critiques of finance and financialization around an anti-imperialist politics? To begin, we might ask if the so-called "financialization of daily life," beginning in the early-2000s in the United States, is really something new, or whether, as some have suggested, it signals the further extension of imperial finance within centers of capital accumulation. Here, the logic of the "internal colony," a term utilized by various activists in the 1960s to describe conditions of colonization in centers of capitalist command and which foregrounded alliances with struggles for national liberation abroad, might be useful to understand how victims of the subprime mortgage crisis, student loan crisis, and numerous other schemes of debt and indenture have been subject to something like the colonization of daily life by finance. An optic that privileges Marxist critiques of imperial finance might also help us to better articulate the links between, for example, the bankruptcies in Puerto Rico and Detroit, or the militarization of police violence in Ferguson and the debt peonage imposed on that city's inhabitants by civic government. 17 Hora de los hornos leaves us with the insight that to begin to approach the question of imperial finance and resistance to it, however, we must constantly foreground culture and the production of subjectivity, attending to the ways each is bound to legacies of colonial and imperial violence.
This piece is taken from my forthcoming book, Enduring Images: Towards a Future History of New Left Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
K-Sue Park, "Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America," Law & Social Inquiry 41, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 1006–35.
Karl Marx, Capital, trans. Ben Fowkes, vol. 1 (New York: Penguin, 1992), 926.
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline, in Lenin: Collected Works, trans. Yuri Sdobnikov, vol. 22 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974), 238–39.
Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital, trans. Agnes Schwarzschild (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951), 439.
Theotonio Dos Santos, "The Structure of Dependence," in Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology, ed. Iván Márquez (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008), 238.
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema," in Film and Theory: An Anthology, eds. Robert Stam and Toby Miller (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000), 268.
As Michael Denning argues, the Latin American dependency theorists consistently overlooked the importance of culture, understanding it to be little more than "perfume." Michael Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (London: Verso, 2004), 9.
Solanas and Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema," 268.
By troubling the conventions of spectatorship, the film complements simultaneous experiments in art and theater in Argentina, such as the Rosario Group's Ciclo de Art Experimental (Cycle of Experimental Art, 1968) and Augusto Boal's influential Theater of the Oppressed, that similarly sought to engage spectators as agents of resistance.
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).
Guy Debord, "Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life," in Situationist International Anthology, ed. and trans. Ken Knabb (Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1989), 70.
For a full account of the 2001 sovereign debt crisis and the legacy of dependence, see David Rock, "Racking Argentina," New Left Review II, no. 17 (2002): 55–86.
For example, Maurizio Lazzarato identifies debt as a social relation central to the production and reproduction of inequality in neoliberal capitalism. Like most theorists and historians of the topic, he signals the mid-1970s as the onset of the neoliberal era and thus debt's predominance as a technology of subjugation. Lazzarato describes the rise in consumer debt in the United States and Europe and the rise of neoliberal entrepreneurial subjectivity at the root of the 2008 subprime crisis, along with the sovereign debt crisis in Europe that persists in the present. However, his Eurocentric analysis does not account for the ways that debt was intrinsic to colonial and imperial projects preceding the neoliberal era. See Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition, trans. Joshua David Jordan (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2011).
Randy Martin, The Financialization of Daily Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002).
See Ben Kesling, "Lawsuit Alleges Ferguson, Mo., Legal System Violates Constitutional Protections: Suit Alleges St. Louis Suburbs Jain People Solely for the Inability to Pay Fines, Fees on Minor Offenses," Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2015. Also Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven have begun the important work of mapping the spaces of debt and resistance in relation to U.S. empire; see Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven, "The Debts of the American Empire - Real and Imagined," ROAR Magazine 3 (September 2016).
Morgan Adamson is a scholar-practitioner who works at the intersections of film and digital media, critical theory, and cultural studies. Her forthcoming book, A Future History of New Left Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), examines how cinema became a form of collective resistance within international New Left social movements during the 1960s and 1970s. She is assistant professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College.
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What Is Alex Semin Worth In Fantasy Hockey?
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"Is it October yet?" takes a back seat to "Is it Draft Day yet?" for us Fantasy Hockey poolies. We eagerly wait to draft Ovechkin or any other Capitals our forwards, defensemen and goaltenders and trash talk our way to victory! However, one player's value seems to be fairly uncertain: Alexander Semin. ESPN has him ranked as the 8th best player overall for your fantasy team, while Yahoo's Puck Daddy ranks him 33rd. We here at RMNB try to answer the most important question facing you on draft day: What is Semin worth in fantasy hockey?
Coming up with a draft list for a fantasy hockey league takes planning and some tempered expectations. If you give-in to impulses, you'll find yourself in trouble. And by the end of the draft, make sure you have drafted well enough to get quality players at each position. If not, you will be on the outside looking in come playoff time.
The league you are playing in will determine a large part of the value. For instance, most leagues count goals, assists and points – categories which Semin performs well in year after year. If your league also counts Power Play Points and/or shots on goal then Semin's value could increase depending on roster sizes and number of teams in the league. However, being ranked 8th or 33rd leaves a lot of room for error, so let's see if we can narrow that down a bit.
Semin comes out ahead of some other high profile skaters, such as Ilya Kovalchuk (who may be playing in the KHL) and reigning Hart Trophy Winner Henrik Sedin. He even ranks higher than Steven Stamkos and Zack Parise. Now you see why it is called fantasy hockey.
Whether he is taken 8th or 33rd in your draft one thing is for certain: With Ovechkin, Backstrom and Greenlife52 in the Top 10, expect Alex Semin to make a major impact to any fantasy squad in 2010-11. And maybe the Capitals too.


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A visit to Jageshwar is incomplete without an interaction with a local family accompanied with a local Kumaoni meal. Sit around the bonfire hearing the local folklore and haunting Kumaoni music and songs. Feel the warm-hearted welcome and make a friend for life. Let our staff know if you're interested and we will help put it together for you.
Treks that take you through awesome mountain country. Amazingly revitalizing the solitude walks (serene solitude to help you be one to one with your inner self) take you through quaint pathways on the beaten as well as the un-treaded tracks. The solitude treks are conducted through thick forests and quaint Kumauni villages. Mostly downhill they are easy for everyone.
The bonus is that we offer you the opportunity not only of magnificent nature at its best but the chance to stay in traditional Kumauni village homes with carved doors and windows. With all amenities, the houses yet retain their rustic ambiance.
Starting from Binsar the trek makes its way to Jageshwar. Overnight stay at these rustic homes gives our trekkers a taste of traditional Kumauni food. Your palate will be delighted by the simple yet delicious food.
One can take the option of an entire day trek with an overnight stay or break up the trek in two to three days.
The deodars forests at the lower altitude and the pine cover further up, are the perfect habitat for many rare bird species. Van Serai's in-house birding expert will be happy to initiate you into the world of bird watching. If you are already into birding, he would be an interesting source of information on species-specific to this region. You can also choose to explore the beautiful forests at your own pace, maybe carry a picnic hamper for a longer trek and make the most of the natural beauty around you.
A visit to the famous temples is almost mandatory. Reminding you of the stone balanced structures straight out of a Flintstones comic or Stonehenge, these temples have been here for centuries and are a wonder in themselves. The little legends and tales around the temples are part of the folklore and intrigues which our local guides would be happy to share with you.
Aarti is worship of the divinity of the Gods through the medium of the elements. Fire is revered in the Hindu religion. The flame is considered sacred as it represents light, warmth and fresh beginnings. A purifying force that can cleanse The fiery element is believed to be the bridge between God and man. During Aarti, the priest who conducts the prayers circulates the sacred thali on which the wick is placed. One exhibits reverence by cupping one's hand over the flame and lifting it to the forehead.
Interacting with other guests in the dining area and enjoying the beautiful views, you wouldn't miss room service.
If you like any particular dish or are keen to learn signature Kumaoni dishes, we can try and arrange a cooking lesson for you too. Feel free to exchange recipes with our cooks and make yourself feel at home.
For guests wanting to go on long nature walks, birding or to explore the local village, we are happy to provide a picnic hamper. Customized to your taste, it gives you the freedom to enjoy your excursion at your own pace without time constraints. Walking through the beautiful surroundings, enjoying the solitude, you can nibble to regain energy or enjoy a warm drink and snack at a perfect spot sitting by the gurgling stream.
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In this article, we will show you some of the best metal guitars that are available on the market today. We will also give you a detailed buying guide on how to choose an ideal electric guitar for metal. So what are we waiting for? Read on!
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With its body and bolt-on neck made from mahogany, you can guarantee that buying this one is never a waste of money. Moreover, its Tune-O-Matic bridge and fretboard are made from far superior materials.
One of the greatest metal guitarists of all time is Darrell Abbott. Even after he died, the legacy that he left still resonates in the entire community. You can see his influence on the shapes and styles of the guitars today.
Among this is the Dean Razorback. Among all the guitars here, only this one has the design that you can use for self-defense!
This one has neck and body made from mahogany. They optimize the overall sound that this guitar produces. Moreover, its 24-fret fingerboard is rosewood, so everything about the Razorback is quality.
It possesses hardware that is far superior compared to ordinary electric guitars. In fact, this is among the few guitars that are solely built for metal alone.
If you can spare some money, the Dean Razorback is an excellent choice. As long as you got this arsenal, you can tear any stages down!
Many guitarists rant about the excellent quality of the Schecter products. Their guitars are fascinating. Moreover, their price will never break your bank account. When you play this guitar, you will immediately realize that it should cost more than its original value.
However, only a few of Schecter guitars can be considered on this list of the best metal guitars. Specifically, their top candidate is the Hellraiser C-1. It can stand out from the competition because of versatility, performance, and overall sound quality.
This particular guitar features a body made from mahogany. Meanwhile, its 24-fret fingerboard is rosewood. Therefore, you can guarantee that it can create rich resonance.
When it comes to style, this Schecter Hellraiser C-1 is mesmerizing. Its body has an arch design, which makes its comfortable and appealing to any users. The primary intention of the C-1 is to produce the dark tones which are iconic in death and thrash metal.
However, it is quite flexible to some other genres as well. It has an active pickup (EMG81TW and EG89R) which come with a coil tap. With these pickups, the sound that the C-1 can create is virtually limitless.
As we mentioned earlier, getting the right electric guitar is essential if you want to improve your playing skills in the metal genre. Many think that those guitars have quirky and scary designs are must-haves for this kind of music.
However, most of the decent metal guitars have a bland and generic appearance. You won't discover their real power until you play on them already.
In selecting an electric guitar for the metal genre, you have to pay attention to the construction and not on the appearance. Specifically, you have to take a look at the type of materials used in the neck and body.
These components play a significant role on the quality on resonance, sustain, and the overall tone of the guitar. Moreover, you should not forget that electronics and hardware should be excellent as well.
Back in the days, the best guitars for metal were those that are producing sonic Strat sound. These guitars have ash bodies and maple necks. The sound they generate is usually bright, which are ideal for shredding (the iconic sound of metal).
Despite this, they can also perform well on the mid-range sounds and several variants of British overdrives.
Today, the world of metal went a huge leap already. Most of the metal pros out there typically prefer the combination of high-gain amps and detune guitars. With these two around, you can smash anyone's eardrums by just hitting a single chord.
Technically, the trademark sound of the modern metal is a dark, resonating tone. Therefore, the ideal tonewood that you should choose would be basswood and mahogany.
Meanwhile, you should not also ignore their capacity to send powerful signals to the amp. The construction should be rigid enough so that it can emulate the sustains and rhythmic harmony that your ears are craving.
There are a lot of electric guitars that you can see on the market today. However, you will never know their real quality until you test them.
If you want to improve your skills as a metal guitarist, getting the right weapon is necessary. It doesn't matter what kind of subgenre you want to play. As long as you got the best metal guitar, anything else can be taken care!
Regardless of your preferences, the best way to get the right guitar is research. Get all the necessary information you can. Of course, this should include reviews and testaments from other guitar owners. In this way, you can already gauge the initial quality of a particular unit.
Meanwhile, you should never forget to test the actual guitar you want to own. You can always go to any music stores near you so that you can test some brands. If the product you want to buy is online, you should watch and hear its performance from review videos.
Below is the detailed review of our top picks for the best guitar for metal. They have been among the most excellent electric guitars that we encountered during our stint in the music industry.
They got reputable brand names that you would certainly take into account. Of course, that is just one qualification. The real performance of these guitars will only be unleashed once you start shredding with them!
These are our selection of the best metal guitars. Each of them can produce ear-crushing tones and energetic resonance that are ideal for metal. The sustains they can create are far better compared to the standard electric guitar. Of course, having any of them will improve your playing skills in the metal genre.
Among them, we recommend anyone to go with the Les Paul electric guitar first. So far, this is the best choice that you have for metal guitars, considering its quality, performance, and price.
We are not saying that it is better than those high-end guitar units. Instead, we are saying that it can match them without tearing your pockets away.
Always get these recommended guitars if you want to pursue a shredding career. Who knows? These guitars may even take you on the pro scene!


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'The Orchid Whisperer'
Bruce Rogers offers insights on growing orchids Whether it is simply to enjoy having fresh flowers on the coffee table or preparing an elaborate arrangement for a special occasion, Bruce Rogers would prefer you use orchids. The San Francisco resident, who was born in Berkeley, has authored a book "The Orchid Whisperer" and is considered an expert on the subject. He has spent over three decades "growing, hybridizing and decorating with orchids" in the Bay Area, according to his website. "I was interested in plants in general since I can remember, repotted my first cymbidium (orchid) in my teens, and have been working with orchids exclusively for decades," Rogers explained. He also has been a guest speaker at local orchid groups, including the Tropical Plant Society of Modesto and the San Joaquin Orchid Society. "They are both great groups, I've spoken at both over the years and meetings are open to the public," Rogers shared. Orchids are often thought of as being a 'high class' flower but can be grown in a variety of areas and can be cultivated locally, by beginners as well as professionals. They are believed to have soothing qualities and this fact was played out in the "Nero Wolfe" series of detective novels by author Rex Stout. The main character, Wolfe, would often escape to the 'orchid room' at his New York City brownstone to collect his thoughts and form theories while working on a case, spending hours losing himself in tending to the plants. Rogers may not be solving any mysteries, but he does have a varied clientele and keeps up a hectic pace. "My 'typical' day begins early at the greenhouses, taking care of my Sobralia breeding stock, by midmorning I'm off to check and work at my private clients, where I'm both decorating with orchids and checking on their orchid collections," he explained. "Afternoons are spent attending to new consulting jobs and further greenhouse work, breeding, repotting, etc." His book includes valuable insights and information regarding how to grow your own orchids and keep them healthy, and is available at local bookstores, Home Depot, Walmart, through Amazon, Barnes&Noble; and ebook stores. "I love my work, I love to travel and look for orchids in nature," Rogers added. "They are found almost everywhere. The 209 area has lovely native species which are best seen in the spring, with even more types found to the west in the Redwood forests and east in the Sierras." For those who might think they can't successfully raise orchids, Rogers said nothing is further from the truth; it is a flower that can be grown by even a novice. "A lot of people grow orchids that can be grown outside, a sure choice is bletilla, as I've seen it grown in pots and in the ground in the 209," said Rogers. "Many people grow cymbidiums outside; some cover them up when extra cold, some don't. "The best course is to attend a local orchid society or tropical plant society and see what your neighbors have the best results with." Rogers has information, tips and photos available on his website, brucerogersorchids.com and also has a site devoted to the book, theorchidwhisperer.com as well as maintaining a site, Ozgardens, for the business he began in 2002 with Terry Root of The Orchid Zone. Ozgardens is a wholesale Sobralia business with seedlings, flats and specimen plants available for sale.
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WATERING:
One thorough watering every 7 days is usually adequate for most orchids. Most orchids prefer a slight drying period between watering. Let the water run freely through the pot for several moments. It takes a few moments for the root surface to begin absorbing moisture. This also flushes out any salt or mineral build up in the pots. Never let orchids stand in water for prolonged periods of time. It is the best way to send them to an early grave. More people kill orchids by over watering than any other means.
FERTILIZING:
For the majority of orchids, a good water soluble plant fertilizer is more than adequate. Even proportions are the best (10-10-10, 15-15-15, 20-20-20). Feed evenly throughout the year at least once a month, preferably weekly after each watering.
RE-POTTING:
Generally spring to late summer is the best time to re-pot, when new growth and roots are emerging. As a guide, orchids should be re-potted every two years or if they have over grown their pots. — Information courtesy of the Central California Orchid Society

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Google Cloud lands Lufthansa Group and Sabre as new customers
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EU and US regulators scrutinise Big Tech and digital 'monopoly'
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How social media services handle political ads
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- How can institutions balance the existing businesses that pay the bills today with creating the new technologies that will pay the bills tomorrow? That was the challenge facing this week's guest on Master in Business, Safi Bahcall, a member of President Barack Obama's council of science advisers, and author of the book, "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries."Bahcall said that soon after he was appointed he was told he should update Vannevar Bush's guidelines to innovation in government. The problem was, he had no idea of who Vannevar Bush was. He dove into his history and discovered that it was Bush who had persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to create the Office of Scientific Research and Development, which played a huge role in the war effort. The OSRD accelerated development of existing technologies and created new ones, including radar and the proximity fuse, which detonates munitions when they reach a predetermined distance from a target.Bahcall argues that too many institutions fail to transition to thinking about the future from operating in the present. The group that is making the money for the company today wants to stick with what is working and those projects that have a very high success rate. The group that is creating the game-changing products are taking chances on ideas with a very high failure rate. Bridging the two groups is the role of leadership, something that companies such as Apple and Pixar historically have done well.His favorite books can be seen here; a transcript of our conversation is here.You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras on Apple iTunes, Overcast, Spotify, Google, Bloomberg and Stitcher. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here.Next week, we speak with Barbara Tversky, professor of psychology at Stanford and Columbia, and author of "Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought." Tversky was married to the now-deceased Amos Tversky, and helped Michael Lewis research his book on Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, "The Undoing Project."To contact the author of this story: Barry Ritholtz at britholtz3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: James Greiff at jgreiff@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of "Bailout Nation."For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
The biggest question looming over tech: Is the cloud boom over?
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SAP Says Companies Will See Spread of Activism From Stakeholders
(Bloomberg) -- Sign up here to receive the Davos Diary, a special daily newsletter that will run from Jan. 20-24.SAP SE's co-chief executive officer said companies will continue to face activism not only from shareholders, but increasingly from employees and consumers."This will continue to be something that CEOs will have to understand and balance across the different stakeholders," Jennifer Morgan said in an interview with Bloomberg News's Stephanie Flanders on Tuesday at Davos.The Walldorf, Germany-based company attracted the interest of activists at Elliott Management Corp., which revealed a 1.2 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) stake when SAP announced a change in strategy in April.Read More: SAP's an Old Company With New TricksActivists have been broadening their scope of engagement with companies. Protesters have been pressing BlackRock Inc. to divest from fossil fuel companies and others that contribute to climate change, while employees at Google have protested over the conduct of executives.Morgan -- who became co-CEO in October alongside Christian Klein and is the first female chief executive of a DAX-listed company said -- said user experience is set to be the new battleground."If a company is not competing on experience its a race to the bottom", she said. "When you're in a consumer-led economy like the United States, for example, the disruption that we see happening for traditional industries is happening in the experience gap".Morgan used fitness company Peloton Interactive Inc. as a good example of tapping into someone else's experience "gap" saying they provide not just a better service but a real experience that people will pay more for.To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah Syed in London at ssyed35@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Giles Turner at gturner35@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Macron, Trump Agree To Hold Off Tit-For-Tat Tariffs
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Dow Jones Futures Fall As Asia Sells Off: Stock Market Rally Faces Next Test
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The Next $1 Trillion Stock After Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet Is ...
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Trump's French Trade Truce Only Puts Off the Battle
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Who said Davos doesn't make a difference? As world leaders, business executives and cheerleaders for the planet descended on the Swiss resort for the annual World Economic Forum, one diplomatic victory was being chalked up on the sidelines: A presidential truce between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron over France's plan to tax tech companies, which the U.S. says discriminates against its national champions.After threats of retaliatory trade tariffs on both sides, Macron took to Twitter to declare a "great" discussion with Trump that would lead to a "good agreement" on de-escalation. Trump retweeted that assessment, responding in the affirmative with "excellent!" But it's hard to see much worth celebrating yet.What this truce amounts to isn't exactly clear, for one thing, and it's certainly not being trumpeted in the way that Trump's "beautiful monster" of a phase-one deal with China was last week. Avoiding an escalation of tariffs is obviously a good thing. But Trump has already leveled so many trade threats at France and the European Union — driven by hatred of the trade surpluses they run with the U.S. — that it's hard to feel excited at the prospect of one less gun barrel. If Trump actually ends up retracting his specific threat to hit $2.4 billion of French products with tariffs, that still doesn't automatically guarantee protection for Airbus aircraft or German cars.It's also not clear what Macron has gifted Trump in order to get de-escalation onto the agenda. According to the Wall Street Journal, France may have simply offered to "pause" its tech tax until a worldwide solution is agreed upon by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — where support from the U.S. is obviously crucial. That's not as huge a climb down as it initially seems: Paris could feasibly suspend the collection of digital tax payments due in April without scrapping the principle or the structure of its tax, as my Bloomberg News colleagues write elsewhere. But it still looks like Trump's threats have paid off on one level.If the original sin is that today's tech giants — Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. — aren't paying their fair share in tax, we seem to be veering a long way from absolution. Things would be different if Europe could set aside its differences and agree on the fundamental good that a digital tax across its 28 members (soon to be 27) would bring. Brussels estimates global tech firms pay an average tax rate of 9.5%, compared with 23.2% for bricks-and-mortar peers. But the EU is divided on the need to overhaul the data economy, with low-tax jurisdictions like Ireland and the Netherlands resisting a common levy on digital firms.The Trump administration has shown itself adept at exploiting these divisions. France's move to go it alone with a digital tax was politically popular, but fiscally weak. It is only expected to bring in 500 million euros ($555 million) a year, a digital drop in the ocean of France's approximately 80 billion-euro deficit. Despite being fundamentally righteous, it allowed Trump to poke the soft underbelly of European unity by training his tariff weapon on Paris — and confronted the Macron administration with the prospect of pain for key exporters. The U.S. trade deficit with France was $16.2 billion in 2018.The pressure is now on to get consensus among more than 135 countries in the OECD-led push for an agreement on how to tax digital profits. It's a solution favored by the likes of Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook, which speaks to how companies prefer the predictability of global solutions over patchy national ones. But until such a solution is actually agreed, it will be hard to celebrate this latest Franco-American "truce." It has allowed France and Europe to save face by avoiding the reality of a new trade confrontation with Trump as he fights for re-election. It has offered tech firms a way to save money. But it hasn't really saved the world from the threat of more trade wars. Davos can't achieve everything.To contact the author of this story: Lionel Laurent at llaurent2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at mpozsgay@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Brussels. He previously worked at Reuters and Forbes.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Market Morning: Biden v Facebook, Idahoans Splurge in Oregon, BoJo Threatens the Axe,
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Macron, Trump May Have Tariff Truce in 2020 Digital Tax Spat
(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump agreed to a truce in their dispute over digital taxes that will mean neither France nor the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs this year.Macron said on Monday he had a "great discussion" with Trump on the issue, without giving details."We will work together on a good agreement to avoid tariff escalation," he said on Twitter."Excellent!" Trump said in a reply to Macron's post, without providing additional information. Trump is en route to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.A White House readout of the call was notably more muted, saying only that the "two leaders agreed it is important to complete successful negotiations on the digital services tax" and "discussed other bilateral issues." And neither a White House spokesman nor officials with the U.S. Trade Representative's office would confirm that the U.S. president had called off his announced tariffs.Still, the possible respite may defuse transatlantic tensions that had been building between Washington and Brussels along another potential trade war front. Last week, Trump signed a cease-fire with China in phase one of a broader deal aimed at balancing trade between the world's two largest economies.The European Union is an even bigger U.S. trading partner than China and supply chains between the two economies, particularly in automotive and financial services industries, are intertwined in ways that would make a tit-for-tat tariff dispute even more harmful to the world economy.Macron's government still hopes to find a solution that fits within discussions at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's work on the issue, according to a French official who asked not to be identified in line with government rules.European finance ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday will discuss progress of the OECD talks. While the OECD is still working on its proposal for taxing tech companies around the world, France pushed ahead with its own levy last year that hit U.S. internet giants like Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc."We now have an agreement between the two presidents to avoid any tariff escalation and avoid any trade war," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in Brussels before the meeting. "It's remains a difficult negotiation -- with digital tax, the devil is in the details and we need to resolve the details."Paris and Washington have discussed the possibility of France suspending the collection of the digital tax payments due in April as long as the U.S. refrains from imposing new tariffs, French officials said. But that wouldn't constitute a withdrawal of the levy, they added. For its part, the French government denies its national tax is discriminatory and warned that the EU would retaliate if the U.S. imposed additional levies.The U.S. has said that the French tax discriminates against American technology companies, citing Section 301 of a 1974 American law that Trump has thus far reserved to justify tariffs against China. That opened the door to the U.S.'s threat to hit $2.4 billion of French goods with tariffs in retaliation.Among the French products targeted with duties of as much as 100% were luxury items like wine, cheese and makeup. One American wine merchant called it the biggest threat to the industry since Prohibition a century ago.For its part, the French government had warned that the EU would retaliate if the U.S. imposed additional tariffs.The dispute was another headache for European trade officials scrambling to expand their policy arsenal as the U.S. takes aim at a rules-based system for global trade that Trump argues is outdated and tilted against America. It also coincided with a change in leadership at the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan visited Washington last week for the first time in the job, partly to plead for talks rather than tariffs in disagreements like the French digital tax. At stake, he said, was transatlantic trade in goods and services valued at more than $3 billion a day."Sounds like a fairly healthy relationship to me," Hogan said Thursday in the U.S. capital. "So why put tariffs on these EU products to make them more expensive for your people?"The truce follows weeks of discussions between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Le Maire, who were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, the alpine resort town where government officials and business leaders gather during the winter to discuss whatever is ailing the global economy.The dispute has ramifications outside France as other countries try to come up with ways to generate revenue from the digital economy. Mnuchin told the Wall Street Journal that the U.K. and Italy will face American tariffs if they proceed with similar levies on foreign tech firms.U.S. and EU trade relations started to sour in 2018 when the Trump administration invoked national-security considerations to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum from Europe. As a U.S. military ally, the EU was infuriated and promptly retaliated with levies on iconic American brands such as Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles and Levi Strauss & Co. jeans.A subsequent U.S. threat to wreak significantly more economic damage by targeting the European auto industry with duties on the same security grounds led to a hastily agreed truce and a pledge by both sides to work toward reducing industrial tariffs across the board.Since then, the Trump administration has refused to start the tariff-cutting negotiations unless Europe includes agriculture in them. Also, it imposed levies on EU products in retaliation over government aid to Airbus SE that was deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization, and disabled the WTO's appellate body,The EU, meanwhile, is pressing ahead with a plan for tariffs against the U.S. in a parallel WTO case over unlawful subsidies to Boeing Co.Trump, scheduled to speak Tuesday in Davos at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, on Sunday reiterated his frustration with Europe as a trading partner."Europe has had tremendous barriers to us doing business with them. All those barriers are coming down. They have to come down," he told a conference of farmers in Austin, Texas. "If they don't come down, we're going to have to do things that are very bad for them."He added, "Europe was, in many ways, more difficult -- and is more difficult -- than China."(Updates with possible French concession in the 11th paragraph)\--With assistance from Jonathan Stearns, Justin Sink and Chelsea Mes.To contact the reporters on this story: Ania Nussbaum in Paris at anianussbaum@bloomberg.net;William Horobin in Paris at whorobin@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Brendan Murray, Wendy BenjaminsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Why Apple CEO Tim Cook Invested in a Shower Head
(Bloomberg) -- Tim Cook rarely invests his time and money in products without the Apple Inc. logo. But when he tried a prototype shower head at his local gym about five years ago, he made an exception. Philip Winter, who helped create the Nebia shower head, recalls moving to San Francisco in 2014 to get his idea off the ground. The shower head sprays in a way that uses less water, but still keeps people warm. Crafted from materials including aluminum, the system looks like something Apple might design, if it made bathroom hardware. To develop the product, Winter persuaded gyms in Silicon Valley to run pilot tests. After installing the shower head early in the morning, he'd wait outside locker rooms to get feedback. That's when he met Cook, who happened to use an early version at the gym in Palo Alto, California, where the Apple chief executive officer worked out most mornings.Cook was drawn to the environmental aspect, according to Winter, who asked the Apple boss if he'd be willing to make an investment. Despite the first prototype being "crude," the Apple CEO was excited about the product because there hadn't been much recent innovation in the shower market. He also appreciated the design, Winter said. Cook backed Nebia Inc. about five years ago and contributed in later financing rounds, too. The startup has raised almost $8 million in total, according to Crunchbase. Winter wouldn't disclose how much Cook invested, but said it was "significant." The Nebia co-founder said Cook used his own money and stressed that the startup hasn't received any formal help from Apple, which declined to comment. Still, Cook shared some of the knowledge he's amassed leading the world's largest technology company, advising Nebia on suppliers and pushing the startup to prioritize user experience, design and sustainability."His emails are very long, well crafted and detailed," Winter said.Cook also told Winter to look for other investors who believe in the product, rather than venture capitalists simply looking to make a quick return. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is also a Nebia backer, through the Schmidt Family Foundation. Nebia unveiled a new version of its shower system on Tuesday that is smaller and cheaper. It will cost $199, down from $499 for the current version. Winter asked Cook about four potential partnerships while developing the new model. Cook wasn't keen about the first three, but supported a deal with faucet maker Moen because of its reputation, Winter said. To contact the author of this story: Mark Gurman in Los Angeles at mgurman1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Alistair Barr at abarr18@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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The Davos Bubble Swallows Anyone Who Tries to Pop It
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- "Davos is not one thing. There are many Davoses at Davos." This haiku-like meditation on the annual Swiss junket — which is known for preaching the gospel of touchy-feely stakeholder capitalism against a backdrop of $43 hot dogs, $10,000 hotel rooms, and several hundred trips by private plane — could have come from any number of its rich, powerful and blissfully un-self-aware attendees.That it comes from a co-founder of the anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street, Micah White, as part of a long explanation of why he is attending Davos this year, says a lot about why global capitalism's biggest tent is still standing even in an age of populist anger. The Davos bubble is turning out to be quite good at swallowing those who would like to pop it — however justified their cynicism.Davos was, let's face it, supposed to have been "canceled" by now. Last year's event resembled one long guilt trip: Billionaires awkwardly batting away ideas like higher taxes for the rich; Sir David Attenborough telling an audience packed with private-jet users that "the Garden of Eden is no more;" and historian Rutger Bregman going viral with his description of Davos as a hypocritical talking shop. "Stop talking about philanthropy, and start talking about taxes," he berated attendees.Well, this year, Davos is back — minus Bregman — and it's more Davos-y than ever. The private jets are still flying in, only now they're being asked to fill their tanks with " Sustainable Aviation Fuel." Davos organizer Klaus Schwab is still welcoming powerful CEOs, but has made sure to ask them to commit to a net-zero economy by 2050. The rooms will be painted with renewable sources like seaweed. The carpets will be made from end-of-life fishing nets and fluff. And lest anyone think the debates on offer have gotten more humble, there are 25 panels under the banner, "How To Save The Planet."Davos isn't just good at greenwashing the globalists. It's also good at co-opting the populists. The junket has shrewdly realized that offering a stage to an anti-Davos crowd can work in its favor. Micah White, for one, is excited to dip his toe into "the most powerful gathering in the world." He will be lecturing a money-and-politics crowd that he once wanted to smash apart on how to turn "protest into progress." There will be other incongruities: Greta Thunberg will tread the same boards as Donald Trump; France's Bruno Le Maire will promote a tax on tech firms in front of Google's Sundar Pichai.It's this veneer of exclusive neutrality that Davos clearly wants to promote as its value proposition, rather than just being a hyper-efficient version of LinkedIn. "We bring together people of influence, and we hope that they use their influence in a positive way," Schwab told the New York Times. Or, in other words: Everyone who matters is here — even if they disagree, Davos wins in the end. Like an Alpine version of Soho House, Davos is a (not-for-profit) club that lives and dies by its guest list. White's description of "many Davoses" includes secretive back-room meetings that don't get filmed — a Davos within Davos, in other words.This seems intuitively strange in an era of political activism and social media, when boycotts seem to spring up out of nowhere and cause serious brand damage. Couldn't Davos be simply replaced? Author Anand Giridharadas suggested that genuine do-gooders had no reason to be wandering into a billionaires' tent. Instead, they could work through the United Nations to create a new global conference. "We could create a new body. We could have it rotate among certain countries," he told Project Syndicate last year.It's an interesting point — we could. But national versions of Davos, such as those promoted by France or Saudi Arabia, have failed at being either as neutral or as exclusive as the original. Maybe coming up with a new Davos isn't as easy as it seems. Or maybe Davos is simply really good at protecting its brand. In 2018, the conference warned imitators that it would "use all means to protect the Davos brand against illicit appropriation." It has preserved its image as a truly global stage, even as incidents such as a ban on Russian businessmen targeted by sanctions (later lifted) show how it's not politics-free.White's final warning to Davos critics is a well-aimed one: "Rejecting Davos is easy when one has not been invited to attend." (This applies to yours truly.) Maybe the world's most exclusive tent will only fall when it extends its membership to all-comers. Until then, expect the private jets to keep flying in — on sustainable fuel.(A division of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, runs its own event, the New Economy Forum, which has been held in Singapore and Beijing.)To contact the author of this story: Lionel Laurent at llaurent2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at mpozsgay@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Brussels. He previously worked at Reuters and Forbes.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Key Levels for Alphabet Stock in the First Half of 2020
Alphabet stock keeps reaching new highs even though the internet content giant missed earnings estimates on Oct. 26.
The 'Best Job in America' Pays $105,000
"Because of the stiff competition to recruit and retain this talent, more companies are investing in their employees' experiences at work," says Amanda Stansell, senior economic research analyst at Glassdoor.


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An outreach component offering educational and scholarship programs that connect communities to increased higher learning opportunities through radio's rich and dynamic past.
Special events and an annual induction ceremony honoring and enshrining Radio Personalities who have contributed to Black radio in National.
In April of 2016 we began to branch out the structure of our entity and have changed the name of the organization to The National Black Radio Hall of Fame which anticipates serving thousands of participants as more are reached in targeted populations participating on an out-of-state basis.
This business plan leads the way of the organization by establishing our vision and strategic focus: promoting the historical perspective of African Americans in National Radio to our target market segments and providing opportunities to learn about the past performance and highest achievement in National Radio. It also provides the step-by-step plan for: developing ongoing fundraising, achieving organizational sustainability, and strengthening the organization's overall capacity.


Canadian Livestock Genetics Association - A not-for-profit trade association representing the market access and animal health interests.
Canadian Livestock Insurance - Canadian Livestock offers insurance coverage for all breeds of horses.
Canadian Satellite Livestock Auction - Offers livestock producers the advantage of North American buyer access combined with the local participating market.
International Genetics Ltd - A Canadian livestock exporting company specializing in the export of elite breeding genetics to worldwide markets.
Livestock Identification Services Ltd - Provides inspection services to livestock producers in Alberta.


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Self care is important, you deserve to take time for yourelf. In this fast paced world, it can be hard to stop and just embace the present moment. Self Care helps you to STOP and embrace the here and now, so you can better face the future

You can find Self Care Starter Kit thanks to the Blurt It Foundation, which focus on self care for mental health. It is a good starting point - of course there will be more on this site too!

It can seem weird or diffuicult to set time aside just for you, but you're worth it. Take it in small steps, and eventually you will find it easier to include it in your everyday practice and notice increased mindfulness and ability to be the best version of you that you can be!

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Self care is not only about considering our needs; it is rather about knowing what we need to do in order to take care of ourselves, being subsequently, able to take care of others as well. That is, if I don't take enough care of myself, I won't be in the place to give to my loved ones either.

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We invite you to be our guest and stop by booth #1273 at MD&M East on June 9-11, 2015.
You'll recognize us as we will be showcasing some of our 3D scanning services with a 9′ Faro Arm. Bring along your parts or prints! We would love to answer your specific Inspection and Engineering questions. We hope to see you there!


I am often asked about essential oils for the thyroid.
As you may know, your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland that produces and releases hormones to help regulate your metabolism, your emotions, your brain function, and almost all the other processes in your body.
Thyroid issues, including hypo-thyroid, hyper-thyroid and auto immune thyroid conditions like Hashimotos, are related to stress, gut and detoxification issues. Supporting these underlying issues often help balance the thyroid so that it can heal.
That said, I have found it to be most effective to start by supporting the liver and organs of detoxification. Here's why: when you start to heal the gut, you often kill off bad bacteria and bugs that then need to leave your body. When your liver is sluggish and not able to remove toxins as quickly, these toxins don't leave the body. Instead, they can recirculate in your system and create more problems. Similarly, when you reduce stress levels, you allow your body to drop into a healing state where it can release toxins. Those toxins then need to be eliminated from the body, and supporting the liver and other organs of detoxification as a first step ensures that the elimination pathways are open.
Your liver plays a critical role in balancing the hormones in your body, including your thyroid hormone. The liver develops and metabolizes the level of thyroid hormones. It is necessary for converting T4 to the active T3 hormone, and regulates their effect on the endocrine system.
The liver is also your primary organ of detoxification, helping to rid the system of excess thyroid hormones. If your liver is overwhelmed, overburdened or otherwise impaired, it can lead to toxic backlog and compromise the function of the thyroid. For example, if your liver is impaired, your body may be unable to convert T4 to the active T3 hormone correctly. Sufficient levels of active T3 are necessary for your body to grow hair, boost metabolism, and create more energy!
Essential oils can be topically applied to help return the liver, gall bladder and lymphatic system to balance so they can function optimally in supporting the thyroid.
Liver™ helps support optimal health and vitality of the liver. If you are sensitive to smells (smoke, perfume, etc.) and or chemicals or are easily intoxicated or hung over, your liver is likely in stress and would benefit from support. Apply Liver™ directly over the liver (right side beneath the breast) 2-3 times daily. You can also combine Liver™ blend with castor oil – just add 3 drops of Liver™ to 1 tsp of castor oil and rub it over the liver before bed. Castor oil is notoriously messy, so you can either: (1) cover it with a piece of flannel and plastic wrap and apply heat from a hot water bottle (avoid the electricity of heating pads) for 20-30 minutes, (2) wear a ratty t-shirt and let your body heat work it's magic (3) climb into an Epsom salt bath with the castor oil and Liver™ oil and benefit from layering 3 healing strategies at the same time.
Your Gall Bladder™ is responsible for storing, releasing, and concentrating bile, a fluid produced in the liver that helps our body break down fat as well as carry toxins and old hormones out of the body. When our bile becomes too viscous, it doesn't flow as well and toxins (like old hormones) don't move out of the system and often get reabsorbed.
This can be caused by a very low fat diet, too much toxicity in the body, estrogen dominance, or chronic stress. The gallbladder is also another organ that holds onto negative emotions like resentment, anger, bitterness, and hate. Some indicators that the Gall Bladder™ blend might be a helpful blend for you would be motion sickness, floating stools, avoiding fatty food like meat or if you do eating fatty food, needing to use the restroom shortly after, pain between shoulder blades, subtle headache above eyes. For more ways to support the gall bladder, read this article.
To help you move through and release anger and negative emotions from the cells of the liver, apply 2 -3 drops of Liver Support™ over the liver, the heart or around the earlobes. You can also gently inhale Liver Support™ for 3 – 7 breaths, breathing out any negative emotions on the exhale. Liver Support™ contains several oils like German Chamomile that help both detoxify the liver and dispel anger stuck in the liver. For more tips on how to detoxify emotions, read this article.


WooCommerce is a free plugin for WordPress that currently stands as the most popular method for adding an online store to a WordPress website. However, popularity doesn't necessarily mean it's the best solution for you, even if your existing website is WordPress-based.
There is no denying that starting a business is a challenging task, especially if you do it for the first time. After the creative process is done, every entrepreneur needs to assess the market, adjust the business concept to fit the market niche, hire the right staff and tackle legal issues that come together with establishing a company.
According to a Research & Markets report, vape products and e-cigarette industry will cross $43 billion with 15% of Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The rise of the vape industry is the product of adverse effects of tobacco and cigarette smoking. Every year, 7 million people face death due to tobacco and cigarette smoking, and vaping is an appropriate alternative for smokers who want to quit.
So you're thinking about starting your own business. Maybe you know exactly what it is you want to do, maybe you're still toying with a few ideas.
Either way, we've put together a checklist to help you get things down on paper and work out what needs doing. From deciding your idea to working out the legal requirements, this article will give you the perfect grounding to go out and make things happen.
You're seeing pop-up stores more and more as you stroll through the city. They're a unique way for ecommerce businesses to reach out to customers who would never really see in person what the company is like. They're a great way for both sides to build stronger relationships with each other, a gentle reminder that the company is run by people who do, in fact, care about their customers' opinions.


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