I'm on a boat with author Philip Hoare (and a hundred other punters) crossing Torbay. You might think his words for the oft-satirised resort hyperbolic. But I live nearby – shamefully, it's the first time I've crossed the bay on a boat – and I have to admit that from the sea, the palm-fronded curves, clay-coloured cliffs and undulating coastal hills do look very beautiful. If I squint a bit and ignore the bruise-coloured clouds rolling in from Dartmoor, I could be in Saint-Tropez or the Caribbean.
Hoare is in Torquay to put the final touches to the Tale, an "immersive" site-specific celebration of Devon's English Riviera produced over three years – and a dozen visits to the region – in collaboration with Bristol-based public art organisation Situations. It's inspired by his book, RisingTideFallingStar, part memoir, part meditation on life – human, animal and mineral – in the liminal zone between land and sea.
A central theme is childhood. Born in 1958 in Southampton – where he still lives – Hoare belongs to the generation of working-class families for whom Torbay (spanning the towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham) was an "approximation of a foreign resort", just as it was for the health tourists of centuries past.
During the late 1960s and early 70s, Hoare, his five siblings, housewife mother and factory-worker father spent two weeks every summer on a caravan site above Paignton, tripping down to the coves, strands, harbours and headlands of Torbay.
"Apart from the car, that holiday was the biggest single expenditure of the year. It bought freedom for the kids – and for our parents, who forgot about work for that one time in the year.
A cabinet of curiosities at Torquay Museum – where the Tale begins – will showcase Hoare's memories through photos and slides, fashion relics such as platform shoes, and the flotsam of family life. He also wants to take visitors beyond Torquay's oppressive literary cliche – Agatha Christie – and visit sites associated with Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who bathed here to treat spinal problems; Oscar Wilde, who fell for Lord Alfred ("Bosie") Douglas while holidaying at Babbacombe Cliff; and Amazon explorer Percival Fawcett, who was born in Torquay.
Philip Hoare on holiday in 1976.
But the Tale does not spring solely from Hoare's experiences. At tiny Beacon Cove, just south of Torquay centre, I meet local teenagers Jade Whatley and Robyn Evelyn, who are taking part in a project mentored by Australian theatre company One Step at a Time Like This.
An hour away on foot is Paignton, where the art deco Picture House cinema will be used as a backdrop for a piece by visual artist Britt Hatzius. Welsh artist Marc Rees is contributing a work inspired by the lives of two celebrated sisters nicknamed The Alphington Ponies, who promenaded around the resort in unusual clothes in the 1840s. The details of these, and works by renowned artists such as Ellen Gallagher, Jonathan Anderson and Ingri Fiksdal, are under wraps; Situations wants visitors to be surprised.
For the three consecutive weekends of the Tale (from 8-10 September), all transport will be included as part of the ticket. For my preview, Philip and I jump on the ferry across the bay to Brixham, Torbay's main fishing port. Its tiers of terraces remind me of Italian coastal towns, rougher round the edges perhaps, but lovely in the right light. The Hoares came here every Sunday to the town's Roman Catholic church – named, aptly, Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
At Brixham, the Tale will tap into Hoare's overriding passion: swimming. He swims off Southampton every day, no matter what the weather, no matter how busy he is. When he travels, he does his best to find water; he manages a quick dip while I'm talking to Jade and Robyn. At 6.30am on Saturdays and Sundays during the Tale's run, he will lead dawn swims from Meadfoot Beach Cafe in Torquay.
At Shoalstone Pool, a seawater lido 15 minutes' walk from Brixham, swimmers choreographed by dancer Claire Cunningham will give form to this deep feeling. A little further along, at Berry Head quarry, musician and sound recordist Chris Watson – formerly of influential Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire – will present a sound installation that takes listeners on to the waves, into the shallows and down to the seabed through recordings of underwater life.
Multi-sensory, genre-hopping, participative and provocative, the Tale is part of an Arts Council-backed project to put Torbay on the map for those seeking more than fish, chips, caravans and crab sandwiches.


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The Boy and the Dove () is a 1961 Soviet short film directed by Andrey Konchalovsky.

Plot
The film tells about a boy who dreams of acquiring a dove and depicting him on a wall. He can endlessly watch the birds flying in the sky. But the dove can't afford it. The guy decides to buy a dove for an album with stamps and sends a pigeon to the sky. But the dove returned to his former owner...

Cast
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1960s Russian-language films
Soviet short films

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What If The Car Of The Future Is A Giant, Rolling Piece Of Wearable Tech?
Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has a plan for a vehicle that operates as an extension of ourselves–making us excited as it goes faster, and hungrier as it needs gas.
"The ultimate version of this would be that the car becomes the driver's body, and the driver becomes the car's mind." [Photo: LACMA Art + Technology Lab]
By Eillie Anzilotti 5 minute Read
Autonomous vehicles are often discussed as a foregone conclusion–when we talk about "the car of the future," that is what we imagine. But Jonathon Keats, a conceptual artist and experimental philosopher who "often takes the contrarian position," as he tells Fast Company, thought: What if it's not? And then, if the car of the future is not driverless, what is it?
It might, Keats suggests in his newest concept artwork, be what he calls driverful. Keats has developed a vision for a car that's as integrated with our beings as our phones have become–a car that responds sensitively, in real time, to our own emotional and physical states, rather like a piece of wearable tech that encloses our whole being.
"In the case of transportation, it becomes less about the car and more about you wanting to get from point A to point B." [Photo: LACMA Art + Technology Lab]
The Roadable Synapse, as Keats has called his creation, was developed in collaboration with Hyundai Ventures and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art and Technology Lab, and will be on display at LACMA beginning August 17. (Keats previously worked with LACMA in 2015 to develop a fashion-wearable mashup that adjusted to the wearer's mood and self-perception.) Though technically a concept, the Synapse, built into a 2017 Hyundai Ioniq with the help of Hyundai engineer Ryan Ayler, is fully operational. Visitors to the exhibit will be able to sit in the driver's seat and experience the extent of the automotive universe Keats has imagined.
Keats, by trade, spends a lot of time in the realm of "what if?" His other concept artworks have centered around questions like: What if plants could watch movies and enjoy fine cuisine, in the form of, respectively, videos of bees pollinating and "gourmet sunlight"? What does watching another species undertake an experience we regularly participate in tell us about our own behaviors? Keats possesses a simultaneously curious and agnostic sensibility, and operates around the idea that "the absurd is a really powerful tool." His work pushes right up to the edge of our empathy and perception, and, he hopes, right through it. "I try experimentally to undertake philosophy by creating alternate, immersive environments that people can enter into and collectively sort out what the meaning might be, and see what sort of questions come up that might be even larger than the questions I had in the first place," he says.
"There's a degree to which the vehicle almost disappears from the equation." [Photo: LACMA Art + Technology Lab]
It was with that same sort of immersive curiosity that Keats began thinking about something that–at least for the time being–feels rather foreign and unknowable to most of us: the self-driving car. The way Keats sees the tension between driverless cars and his Roadable Synapse is incapsulated by a larger debate around the direction of technology itself. On the one hand, there's artificial intelligence, which is designed to function in such a way that the technology almost becomes invisible. "In the case of transportation, it becomes less about the car and more about you wanting to get from point A to point B," Keats says. "There's a degree to which the vehicle almost disappears from the equation."
And then there's the idea of a cyborg future, resuscitated from the tomes of 1960s science fiction and transmuted into smartphones and wearables. Easy access to the web, Keats says, augments memory in such a way that almost renders us cyborgs, though we do not yet look like we've wandered off the set of Bladerunner.
Cramming in more beats per minute, Keats says, mimics the effect of driving faster. [Photo: LACMA Art + Technology Lab]
If driverless cars are on the side of AI, Keats, in a 2015 meeting with John Suh, the director of Hyundai Ventures and an advisor to LACMA's Art and Technology Lab, expressed an interest in exploring cars' cyborg manifestation.
"What that would entail would be an increasingly interconnected relationship between the car and the driver, where the ultimate version of this would be that the car becomes the driver's body, and the driver becomes the car's mind," Keats says.
It's pretty straightforward, in theory at least, how to accomplish the latter: Brain-computer interfaces, Keats says, could be developed to translate a thought ("make a left!) into an action (the car turns left). But how to make the car into the driver's body was less clear.
The first step, Keats says, would be to manipulate the sound system to situate the driver in the physical experience of the car. To incorporate a fact culled from his research–that time seems to move more slowly when you're more stimulated–Keats and Ayler figured out a way to increase the tempo of the music along with the speed of the car. Cramming in more beats per minute, Keats says, mimics the effect of driving faster–you're passing by and processing more units of the world as the vehicle's speed increases. Anemometers located on either side of the car's exterior will adjust the music volume feeding into the left and right ears in accordance with outside activity, to give the driver a sense of how the car is moving through the world. Raw volume is correlated with the acceleration and deceleration of the car. In the Roadable Synapse, the driver supplies the music (any genre works), but the car manipulates those sound factors in accordance with how it's operating.
"There's some evidence in the literature that gastric motility–externally mimicking the effect of a rumbling stomach–and cooling the stomach make you feel hungrier." [Photo: Jonathon Keats]
Keats is also experimenting with a hardware that will be built into the seatbelt to make the driver feel hungrier as the car's fuel goes down. "There's some evidence in the literature that gastric motility–externally mimicking the effect of a rumbling stomach–and cooling the stomach make you feel hungrier," Keats says.
It's invasive, and it's meant to be. By demonstrating how tightly we can wind the screws between man and car, Keats wants to force a reckoning with where we draw the line between ourselves and our technology, and how tightly or loosely we circumscribe our agency. For the time being, the Synapse is a thought experiment, but it's one that allows us to test out our future relationship with technology before it arrives. "By prototyping and putting the cyborg approach out there as the alternate car of the future, it opens up the space for us to discuss the future of technology and transportation in a way that is speculative and nonbinding," Keats says.
Eillie Anzilotti is an assistant editor for Fast Company's Ideas section, covering sustainability, social good, and alternative economies. Previously, she wrote for CityLab.
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Scott's Genius LT, released in 2010, helped redefine the all-mountain category, closing the gap between big, heavy freeride trail bashers and hill-climbing mile-munchers. We felt the alloy version was a little heavy but the slick carbon fibre flagship really impressed our testers.
Well, the Genius LT is back for 2012 and it's one of just two bikes on the market (the other being the Trek Slash) to sport RockShox's new Reverb Stealth dropper seatpost. With this design there's no trailing hose or cable that requires creative use of zip-ties; instead, the hydraulic line exits the bottom of the post inside the frame and pops out in front of the bottom bracket, from where it's routed up the down tube to the handlebar remote.
The handlebar is a busy area, because as well as the seatpost line, gear cables and brakes hoses, there's also a cable for Scott's Twin Loc lever. One click switches the proprietary Equalizer3 rear shock, developed with DT Swiss, from its full 185mm travel setting to a 110mm traction mode. A second click locks out both the shock and the Fox 36 TALAS FIT fork up front. Now that's impressive.
The spec of the top-end LT 10 is completed with a SRAM X0 groupset, Avid 9RS brakes and DT Swiss AM 10 wheels. Clearly this level of performance doesn't come cheap – RRP is £5,699. Look out for a review in What Mountain Bike magazine in the new year.


The apartment was clean, modern, huge for one person, well appointed with tub/shower, bidet, kitchen appliances, dining table, good WiFi, and a nice view. I was able to do laundry with wash & dry in a locked room. Elevator for hauling luggage but stairs were also convenient. Breakfast buffet had many choices. I ended up adding a night to my reservation to enjoy it longer. Definitely the place to stay in Jaca. I did not eat at the restaurant so I cannot comment on it.
Big new renovated rooms. We are slightly higher up so nice view of the town and valley.
Great place with nice food, although if you wanted something special you need to drive into old town. Staff were englishfluent and very helpful. We used it as a base to visit the mountains.
Very friendly reception staff. Nice bright property with good access.
We enjoyed a good dinner in the hotel restaurant, very quick, friendly service and good food. The staff at reception were very helpful. I was very happy there were blankets on the bed, not an overweight duvet.
Lovely hotel very clean, lovely staff very helpful and restaurant brilliant staff in there very helpful food great.always stay here on our way back and to Spain.
Stayed here before. It's lovely and clean, really good hotel.
Used as stop over several times, good for late check in and early starts. Restaurant always good with friendly service. Worth doing the extra few miles to get out of France and have a better quality hotel at lower price.
Clean and spacious,it was our first time at this hotel, and were not disappointed. Lovely kitchenette, with all essential utensils with one exception - a kettle! fortunately we had our own so was not a problem ! would certainly return as is very convenient for the Carrefour supermarket , fuel station, and the through route from Spain to France via the Somport tunnel.
The staff at the reception was very usefull. We were recommended excellent hiling trails nearby. The kitchen is very well stocked.
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Each apartment has functional décor and includes air conditioning and heating. All apartments have a living-dining room, a private bathroom with a hairdryer and a kitchenette with a ceramic hob, microwave and fridge.
The Jacetania Apartahotel & Spa has a bar-restaurant with an outdoor seating area. There is also a 24-hour reception desk, ski storage facilities and on-site parking.
The aparthotel is located in a quiet area, just a 15-minute walk from the center of Jaca. Astún Ski Resort, the French border and the Pyrénées National Park are all less than 19 mi away.
Jaca Train Station is 2,800 feet from the apartments.
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This modern apartment has functional décor and includes free Wi-Fi, air conditioning and heating. It has 1 double or twin bedroom, a private bathroom with a hairdryer and a living-dining room with a double sofa bed. The kitchenette includes a ceramic hob, microwave and fridge.
This modern apartment has functional décor and includes free Wi-Fi, air conditioning and heating. It has 1 double bedroom, 1 twin bedroom, a private bathroom with a hairdryer and a living-dining room with a double sofa bed. The kitchenette includes a ceramic hob, microwave and fridge.
This apartment has free access to the Spa.
Please note that children older than 13 years old will be considered adults.
Aparthotel & SPA Jacetania,located in Jaca, surrounded by the Pyrenees, You will enjoy an attractive area full of spectacular and rich historical and cultural heritage natural sites.
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Sunday: 09:30 - 10:30; 17:00 - 18:00.
Please note that the spa is closed on Mondays. Spa sessions need to be booked in advance.
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Please note, a swimming suit, flip-flops and a cap are required to enter the spa.
Please note that cleaning fees are not included. A daily cleaning service can be requested from reception and carries a surcharge of EUR 10 per day (kitchen not included).
Please note that smoking is forbidden throughout the hotel.
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Please note that the bar-restaurant remains closed on Tuesdays after 12:00. Breakfast is served normally on Tuesdays.
We (being Scottish) like porridge or sugar free muesli for breakfast. The breakfast cereals didn't look very healthy, but there was lots of fresh fruit.
Hard to complain about anything really but it would have been nice to have a kettle and some instant coffee.
A kettle would have been nice but possible to boil water in a pan.
One surly receptionist made us feel we were bothering her.
Restaurant schedule not flexible enough...Rervation required for same day arrival...Not great if you arrive late. A bit further from downtown than we though..not much close by in term of services.+restaurants.
A bit bleak aparment with oldfashioned bathroom. Remote location, if needed to restaurant in Jaca. Just basic breakfast with extra cost.
Quite spacious room. Garage with extra cost. Swimming pool, suitable for kids.
Very well equipped apartment, clean and comfortable. Very convenient for Jaca, and easy to find.


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Everyday there are new developments in Brooklyn. Bedford-Stuyvesant, home to rappers including Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls, was once a different world to the Manhattan skyline we are so familiar with equating to NYC. In the last few years, this neighborhood has seen a complete revitalization with the building of high rises and cafes, charter schools and specialty meat purveyors. This neighborhood was once meant the end of the road, but with a thriving arts and youth culture, it's undoubtedly where New York progress begins.
This three bedroom apartment for rent is in a low-rise building on Herkimer Street and Albany Avenue, sitting near the border of Crown Heights. From here, you can access all the best of Brooklyn: east to west on the A/C subway line from Kingston-Throop Avenues / Fulton Street Station (0.1mi/230m) only one block away and trendy Williamsburg and Bushwick on the B43 bus line (0.1mi/170m).
The apartment is defined by its warm honey tones décor noted in the hardwood floors, oak cabinets, and gold walls. It is evident that the apartment is well maintained with careful updates which maintain the apartment's contemporary aesthetic. Each of the bedrooms has two windows which allow for substantial natural light to stream in. Bedroom one also has a private full bathroom.
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IP and Networking
The Question: To FEC or Not to FEC?
Or ARQ instead
Wes Simpson
In many broadcast television applications today, forward error correction allows recovery from errors that occur during transmission. However, new delivery systems that use HTTP streaming don't need FEC, and there is currently a debate within the broadcast community about whether FEC is beneficial for Ethernet video within the studio.
UNDERSTANDING FEC
The main goal of FEC is to correct errors that occur in digital transmission. This is accomplished by adding extra data to a bitstream that allows a receiving device to recover from bits that have become lost or scrambled in transmission.
Many FEC algorithms work on a fixedsized block of data such as a 188-byte MPEG Transport Stream (TS) packet, or a set of data packets arranged into a fixed quantity of rows and columns such as in SMPTE 2022 FEC transmissions.
FEC bytes (in the MPEG TS case) or packets (in the SMPTE 2022 case) are added to the original data stream using specialized mathematical techniques. Whenever errors are detected in the incoming stream, the receiver processes the FEC data along with the correctly received data to produce an overall valid output.
Determining the required amount of FEC data to add depends on the anticipated error rates. For example, MPEG TS packets commonly add 16 bytes of Reed-Solomon FEC data that allows up to 8 faulty bytes to be repaired. For ATSC transmission, 20 bytes of FEC are added to allow correction of up to 10 bytes. These values represent 8- and 10-percent FEC overhead, respectively.
FEC APPLICATIONS
Fig. 1: Comparison of FEC and ARQ systems for error correction In SMPTE 2022 FEC, the number of rows and columns in an FEC matrix are adjustable; if a transmission is made with a matrix sized at 10 rows with 50 columns, the amount of FEC overhead would be 60 packets for every 500, or 12 percent.
A surprising number of digital technologies use FEC codes (or their synonym, ECC—error correcting codes). Included in this list are hard disk drives of all types; CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs; flash memory and some types of system memory, including much of the RAM used inside Google's data centers.
FEC is frequently used in one-way delivery of video, audio or other signals that can't or don't use a reverse path to correct transmission errors. Point-to-multipoint transmissions such as satellite systems or over-the-air broadcasts commonly use FEC, because there is no practical way to retransmit lost data to one receiver in a network delivering content to thousands or millions of devices.
Another common application of FEC is in networks such as IPTV systems, where a single video stream is distributed to multiple viewers simultaneously by using multicasting protocols inside the network.
WHEN FEC ISN'T NEEDED
Adding FEC bytes or packets to a signal that uses retransmission to replace lost or corrupted data doesn't make much sense. This process, called Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) allows the receiver to ask the transmitter to re-send data that is missing or received with errors, and is used by transmission control protocol, the most widely used transmission protocol on the Internet.
Each TCP connection requires a one-to-one relationship that forces the transmitter to wait until the receiver has acknowledged successful data reception before more data can be sent. Data transmission speeds can drop rapidly as network delay increases between the transmitter and the receiver.
Data networks used inside a broadcast facility are typically maintained to have extremely low error rates, arguably making the extra processing and bandwidth consumed by FEC superfluous. It may even be possible to operate in-house networks without FEC or ARQ, as is commonly done with SDI signals.
Products that use MPEG-DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) also use TCP ARQ. Path1, a San Diego-based developer of encoding technology recently introduced its new PiXiE encoder-decoder, which, according to company founder and CTO Bart Schade, "is designed for contribution and primary distribution applications, which typically travel over high-quality, private IP networks already, but may also be delivered over the Internet. By avoiding FEC and using the ARQ that is built into DASH, our customers can pack more services into a given amount of bandwidth, while still getting a high-quality, real-time video delivery over any IP network, even the Internet."
CHOOSING FEC WISELY
In Fig. 1, the upper portion shows the bandwidth profile of a one-way FEC-based transmission that is simultaneously delivered to multiple destinations. The lower portion shows an ARQ-based transmission, including a packet that has been retransmitted due to a request from the receiver.
The choice of whether to use FEC or ARQ depends on the application. For oneway networks with long round-trip delays or point-to-multipoint architectures, FEC is a better solution. ARQ works best for systems that support bidirectional communications and that have low delays and error rates. For systems using MPEG-DASH or other forms of HTTP streaming, FEC doesn't provide any added benefit.
Wes Simpson is an industry consultant and author of "Video Over IP, Second Edition," from Focal Press. Your comments are welcome to wes.simpson@gmail.com.
The Advantages of Inverse Multiplexers
By combining several different signals into one stream, muxes are frequently deployed in satellite links, telecom circuits, and other applications
The Challenges of IPTV System Testing
Over-the-air DTV transmitters are relatively easy to test, at least with respect to the integrity of the outgoing video stream.
Improving WAN Throughput
All TCP transfers must be acknowledged by the receiver, to indicate that the correct number of bytes have been received without error.
SMPTE 2022 and the Future of Video Over IP
As broadcasters migrate towards IP networks for video transport, many systems are being phased out in favor of products that offer interoperability based on standards.
The Coming Demise Of the PVR?
As new services gain acceptance, the need for PVRs may slowly start to diminish for many consumers.
Scaling Up for Scalable Video Coding
What's needed is another way to construct a stream that can better withstand data losses and still produce a video output that is acceptable to viewers.
Why Wi-Fi Is Bad For Video
Works well for pre-recorded video files, but can create significant performance bottlenecks for live streaming video.
IP video broadcasting
In spite of the obvious appeal of IP networks for many video transport applications, some broadcasters are not completely comfortable with the technology.


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Interview: Carlo Coppola, Managing Director, James B. Beam Distilling Co.
Beam Suntory veteran Carlo Coppola was named managing director of the group's James B. Beam Distilling Co. in recent days. Coppola takes the helm of the Jim Beam brand stable amid a period of rapid growth for American whiskey, especially in the above-$25 tier, which is approaching 10 million cases in the U.S. after more than doubling in size over the past decade, according to Impact Databank. Beam Suntory is playing a significant role in the upscale segment's expansion, with three of its brands—Maker's Mark, Knob Creek, and Basil Hayden—ranking among the top five super-premium Bourbon labels in the U.S. SND senior editor Shane English caught up with Coppola to hear the latest.
SND: Where within the Beam family have you seen the most consumer interest lately?
Coppola: Jim Beam continues to be the No.-1 selling Bourbon in the world, and we're excited to see the strong consumer demand for Jim Beam flavors as consumers explore new ways to enjoy their Bourbon. We're certainly seeing a shift to higher-end whiskies, clearly benefitting our small batch portfolio, represented by Knob Creek, Basil Hayden, Booker's, and Baker's. Newer Bourbon drinkers are entering the category through brands like Basil Hayden as they reconsider what American whiskey is and can be. Gone are the days when a brand could exist solely on packaging and good liquid—our consumers today demand great flavors, unique experiences, a rich back story, and a reason to believe in all of that. These expectations go hand in hand with higher-end options, such as a brand like Legent, leveraging our East-meets-West advantage within the whiskey category. Limited releases also continue to be highly sought-after products. Outside of the James B. Beam portfolio, we're also seeing really strong growth across the Maker's Mark range.
SND: What's new in terms of recent innovations?
Coppola: The Bourbon category has been growing for a number of years, but even with that growth, volumes in the U.S. are still well short of their historical peak in the 1970s. If you look at the growth of Bourbon, as well as the trend of consumers trading up, the opportunity is clear, and that's where we're leaning in on our innovation. Some of our recent efforts have included Knob Creek's popular Single Barrel program, which continues to grow, new packaging for Basil Hayden that better reflects its premium nature, and several new expressions including Basil Hayden Toast and Subtle Smoke. As we look ahead, innovation within the James B. Beam Distilling Co. portfolio will continue with more small-batch, super-premium offerings.
SND: What can we expect to see from the smaller-scale Fred B. Noe distillery looking ahead?
Coppola: The Fred B. Noe Distillery, named after the 7th Generation of Jim Beam, is where we're crafting our future super-premium innovations. The distillery brings to life the rich stories of the first family of Bourbon and the legendary brands that chart the history of American whiskey. This is where you'll see our small-batch products being developed, such as Booker's and Little Book and new-to-world products as well. In fact, it's already starting: the recently launched Hardin's Creek—a new limited annual series of two to four releases per year—was created at the Fred B. Noe distillery. In the next two years we'll further expand the portfolio, pushing the American whiskey category forward with unique distillation and aging techniques, mash bills, styles, finishes, and other levers. There is plenty more to come in this category, and we're excited to lead the way in developing it.
SND: How has the on-premise recovery gone so far from your point of view?
Coppola: When it comes to the on-premise, we've seen a desire from consumers to return, and that's encouraging. It has been a great start to 2022 within this channel; in fact, it's growing even faster than 2021, and we're bullish that the on-premise will return to pre-covid sales value levels in short order. That said, it's not without headwinds—many of our restaurant and bar partners still face challenges related to staffing and supply chain shortages.
U.S. – Top Five Super-Premium Bourbon Brands1
(thousands of nine-liter case depletions)
Distiller
1 Maker's Mark3 Beam Suntory 1,988 2,304 15.9%
2 Bulleit Diageo 1,545 1,560 1.0%
3 Woodford Reserve4 Brown-Forman 977 1,119 14.5%
4 Knob Creek Beam Suntory 520 544 4.7%
5 Basil Hayden Beam Suntory 393 475 21.0%
Total Top Five5
5,422 6,003 10.7%
1 at least $25 a 750-ml. at retail
2 includes rye and other straight whiskies.
3 excludes Maker's 46
4 includes Double Oaked and rye
5 addition of columns may not agree due to rounding
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson filled two more seats on the state Board of Education today naming Dr. Sarah Burks Moore of Stuttgart to replace Joseph Black and Kathy McFetridge of Springdale to succeed Mireya Reith.
Both will serve seven-year terms.
The appointees replace Mike Beebe appointees who occasionally, particularly Reith, broke with the growing bent of the board in favor of the school "choice" agenda, particularly charter school growth, advanced by the Walton Family Foundation, other wealthy Arkansans and key Republicans such as Hutchinson.
McFetridge, co-owner of a film and video production company, resigned recently from the Springdale School Board after 27 years.
Hutchinson said the two provide a "well-rounded perspective" to the board.
Reith was the only Hispanic member of the board in a state with a significant Hispanic population, but McFetridge brings experience from a district with one of the largest populations of Hispanic students.
Black's replacement with Moore will reduce the number of black people on the nine-member board to two.


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Share this Story: Relax, Dammit: Timothy Caulfield uses science to tackle anxiety in new book
Relax, Dammit: Timothy Caulfield uses science to tackle anxiety in new book
"I've been fascinated with misinformation and the way science and research are twisted in pop culture. I wanted to get a sense of how those forces impacted our daily decisions."
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Edmonton author Timothy Caulfield is the author of Relax, Dammit: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety. Photo by supplied
We're often on autopilot when it comes to tens of thousands of decisions we make every day, from taking our vitamins, bingeing our TV, to that great debate over whether to leave the toilet seat up or down as we depart the throne.
Still, some of these decisions came from a certain place of stress: Have I washed my hands properly? Am I a monster mother if I let my child walk to school alone? Have I missed anything in the 15 seconds since I last checked my phone?
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And it's here that Edmonton's Timothy Caulfield — myth-busting host of Netflix's The User's Guide to Cheating Death — decided to step in and write his terrifically jaunty new book, Relax, Dammit: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety.
In the very clever format of walking us hour by hour through a typical day's choices — to step on that scale; to try for a better parking spot; to have that fifth coffee, and with raw milk or no — Caulfield considers each choice in the context of the most-thorough science available. Flossing, it turns out, is insignificant compared to fluoride. Most people who brag about multitasking skills? Totally wrong, when tested. And, even bingeing a TV series, that great pandemic respite, results in diminished recall of what actually happened in the show.
Speaking of COVID-19, as Caulfied wrote his book before it hit, he felt he had to revisit it to see if it still resonated — especially as he's been working with Canadian Institutes of Health Research to help counter misinformation and conspiracy theories. "We're actually doing research in this space," he explains, "and I went back and found, if anything, I think the themes have become more relevant. The impact of misinformation, fear-mongering, the chaotic information environment.
"And it's going to be very interesting to see what happens with shaking hands years from now," he says of another of the book's topics. "I think hugging as we knew it is gone, which I'm ok with."
Over a long and lively conversation with the author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? and The Vaccination Picture, the University of Alberta law professor explains what he was going for, and how the pandemic makes an understanding of how science works more crucial than ever.
Q: I think the title is actually really funny, you're sort of yelling to be calm …
A: You're like the only person who's noted that (laughs). It's a little bit of a Trojan horse. The goal is to use something provocative as an entry point to talk about something serious, like the impact of misinformation, which I think is one of the defining characteristics of our time. I hope it's a fun way to relate those bigger issues. These are things that impact all of us, hopefully it's not preachy. The other thing with the title: I'm ranting in the book, I'm not being relaxed, so I totally get it.
Timothy Caulfield's Relax, Dammit: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety. Photo by supplied
Q: What would be your hope for someone who reads it?
A: I've been fascinated with misinformation and the way science and research are twisted in pop culture. I wanted to get a sense of how those forces impacted our daily decisions. So I do hope the book offers people a way forward, through the noise. Look, I recognize everyone doesn't make every decision based on science — I don't order my coffee based on what the science says — but being aware of what forces are in play can be liberating.
Q: You open up about your childhood in the helicopter parents section, can you talk about the way you think independence helped forge you to be a go-getter?
A: I actually ran that section by my brothers: 'Are you ok with me talking about my childhood?' (Artist) Sean and I and my other brothers had a very unusual upbringing, very Lord of the Flies, very, very independent. My mom loved us and cared about us, but from about 14 on, barely any parental oversight. And when we're talking about kids having less parental oversight, we're not talking about neglect. But this extreme independence — and I'm not saying it's the best way — but people need to relax about the social pressures, parenting comparison, this idea of ideal parenting that is pushed on us. And I really hope I show that the evidence at worst is equivocal.
Q: What proves something is true, can you take us all the way down to an elementary school level and explain basic science?
A: People think it's this really difficult skillset and it's not. One thing is just to get a sense of what kind of evidence is being used to support something. Is this being based on a testimonial? That's not good evidence. Is this being supported using one study? A small study? An animal study? Is someone selling you something? Always ask yourself, 'What's the body of evidence?' What's happening with COVID, around the mask debate, we're seeing that happen. We're watching the evolution of science unfold — we're starting to get this rich body of evidence that tells us they're effective. We know how to stop this pandemic: physical distancing, masks, washing your hands, getting the vaccine when it comes. Almost everything else is noise. But there are all these cultural forces trying to create this fear and anxiety. I hope I give a few suggestions on how to navigate that noise.
Q: What do you think is a good way to try and get through to someone passionately protesting having to wear a mask — what would you say to them?
A: It is important to listen, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way, to get a sense of what their concerns are. Evidence tells us it presenting the science does matter, pointing out what the rhetorical tricks are that are used to push misinformation — that's an anecdote; that's a misrepresentation of risk; that's a conspiracy theory. And you want to frame it in a way that's relevant to them. But it's very hard to change the mind of a hard-core denier, especially in the moment. Don't waste your psychic energy trying to change the mind of a hard-core denier, it's become part of their identity, their personal brand. But I still think it's worth it. You can slow the spread of conspiratorial thinking, and you may have an impact on the broader community.
Q: What would you say is your most controversial assertion in the book?
A: When I was writing it, one of the topics that got the most anger was toilet seat up or down. But what's getting the most discussion is letting your kids walk to school. And the one I've gotten nasty hate mail, people telling me I'm murdering people, is the supplement haiku. People are just all in. It's a huge industry.
Q: Can you talk about how social media encourages us to see ourselves as brands, and how that might negatively affect the health choices we make in a sort of tribal sense? You get an endorphin rush if you pick a side and start fighting online.
A: You're right, and I just submitted a piece on how personal identity is becoming a bigger part of our decision making. And people who push this information are increasingly playing on it. So with raw milk, for example, they frame it as food freedom or choice. And we're starting to see that with anti-vaxxers — it's about consent or freedom or liberty, and that might appeal to your tribe. So that's your entry point, and all those cognitive biases come into play. You get on social media and the lack of science becomes more irrelevant. It's more about being part of this community. So to fight misinformation, you want to debunk it before it becomes an ideological flag.
Q: Talk about how the opinions of celebrities can cause harm.
A: Their megaphone is big. Oxford did a study, early days of the pandemic, that said 20% of the misinformation is spread online comes from prominent individuals. If they're sharing it, we're more likely to share it. We're also more likely to remember it. They're attractive and prominent and they're walking, talking anecdotes, and we know an anecdote can overwhelm scientific thinking. And they're telling compelling stories. And they're playing to our personal brand, which ties into what we were talking about earlier.
Q: You've obviously singled out Gwyneth Paltrow — this might seem a bit glib, but do you like her as an actress in any particular roles?
A: (Laughs.) It's hard for me to look at it objectively, because I'm so angry because she does real harm. But I used to think she was great. Se7en is awesome, and she really was great in Shakespeare in Love.
Tim Caulfield at his Edmonton home, where his new book begins. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia
Q: Can you, as an advocate of science, talk about how you might hope people apply the same scrutiny to anything you say is real, and how that's actually the basic deal with good science?
A: I hear this from audiences, 'Why shouldn't I be skeptical of you?' People should apply those scientific principles. In the book, you'll notice a lot of the conclusions are not, 'this works and this doesn't work.' A lot of the conclusions are that the evidence is way messier than portrayed in popular culture. Therefore, don't get too anxious about your decision, we're still trying to figure this out. And people don't like that. They want a complete, finished narrative with a definitive conclusion. But we have to embrace uncertainty.
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It's time for Hampden-Sydney students to provide their opinion for the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education 2020 college rankings.
Calling current Hampden-Sydney College students: Take 5 minutes to fill out a survey for the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education 2020 college rankings and be entered for a chance to win one of four $5,000 cash prizes, thanks to Times Higher Education.
H-SC placed 10th in the Wall Street Journal's 2018 college rankings list of "top schools for career preparation"—an accolade that made all Tigers proud. These rankings are based on many factors—including your opinion, so weigh in now!


Wax myrtle is an aromatic evergreen shrub, in the Myricaceae or bayberry family. Wax myrtle (Morella cerifera) can reach 25 feet in height at maturity. It commonly produces multiple trunks and sends out runners that produce new plants. It is clonal forming and produces thickets. The national champion is in Bradenton, Florida and has a 3 foot trunk circumference, is 28 feet in height and has a 33 foot spread.
Wax myrtle can be found growing in a wide variety of habitats throughout Florida including coastal areas, pine savannahs, cypress swamps, wet hammocks, bogs, upland hammocks, old fields, and fence rows.
Its flowers are in the form of catkins that are born in the leaf axils. The catkins are approximately 3/4 inch long and appear in early spring. Male and female flowers are found on separate plants (dioecious). The flowers appear in great profusion and attract many insects which in turn attract many birds, especially winter warblers.
The fruit is a small, round, waxy berry (actually a drupe) that is approximately 1/8 of an inch in size. The berries are eaten by a wide variety of birds. Early colonists used the berries to make scented candles. The berries were boiled in water and the wax skimmed from the surface. Another common name that may be familiar is bayberry.
Its ability to thrive in an array of habitats makes it an excellent landscape plant. It will tolerate wet to dry soils and salt spray. Depending upon how it is pruned it can be either a hedge plant or specimen. The trunks can be pruned of lower branches creating a multi trunked tree, or you can pruned it back each year to produce more abundant lower foliage for a dense hedge. When grown in too much shade it can get very leggy and leaning..
Propagation is achieved through cuttings or seeds. Soaking the seeds in hot water or rubbing them on a rough surface helps to scarify the seed and remove the waxy coating. Stratification, or exposure to cold temperatures, is not required. Cuttings should be taken from semi-hardwood in the early summer. Rooting hormone can be used, but the time of year for collecting the cuttings seems to be most important. Root cuttings or removal of runners can be done throughout the year. Keep an eye out for seedlings coming up in your yard compliments of the fruit eating birds.
There are two other species in Florida, Myrica inodora, which is found in the panhandle, and M. heterophylla, which is found in the northern half of the state. A dwarf form is often seen at landscape nurseries, but there is some controversy as to whether or not the dwarf wax myrtle, M. cerifera var. pumila, is truly a distinct and separate species.


The Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs welcomed Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross to discuss new financing models for humanitarian settings this past Monday at the House of Microfinance in Luxembourg.
The Microinsurance Network, represented by Executive Director, Katharine Pulvermacher was present on the panel, along with other local stakeholders, Luxembourg for Finance, LuxFLAG, as well as Bamboo Capital Partner and Lombard Odier.
Read the full summary of the discussion here.


Even though most of the Real Housewives of Atlanta cast has turned against Kim Zolciak after her behavior this past season and her post-reunion rant, the same can't be said for Real Housewives of different cities.
NeNe Leakes may want nothing to do with Kim, but Beverly Hills Housewife Kyle Richards would welcome the OG Atlanta cast member to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Of course Kim's mortal enemy NeNe Leakes had nothing but shade and insults in response to Kim's appearance on the last reunion episode. Even the eternally sweet Cynthia Bailey had no issue hating on Kim.


Epic games recently announced that patch version 8.11 is rolling out across all platforms. Among the bug fixes, there are couple of gameplay changes, one limited time mode, new events and a brand new gun called Flint-Knock.
For the full changelog and all the events introduced in this patch, tap here.
Unfortunately Fortnite is still not available on the Google Play Store. To install it visit fortnite.com/android on your Android phone or tablet.


In the "Germany Monitor" series we address political and structural issues which have great significance for Germany. These include commentaries on elections and political decisions, as well as technology and industry issues, and macro-economic topics which go beyond the business cycle matters addressed in "Focus Germany".
Cash, electronic or online: How do Germans pay?


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Princeton Army ROTC
In the Nation's Service and the Service of Humanity
Princeton Center for International Security Studies
Princeton Student Veterans Association, undergraduate chapter
Princeton Student Veterans Organization, graduate chapter
Combat Water Survival Training
Field Training Exercises (FTX)
Leadership Labs
Military Science Courses
Physical Training (PT)
Ranger Challenge
Summer Training Opportunities
GEN Milley and President Eisgruber join Princeton ROTC Cadre from the Army, Navy and Air Force and its newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenants and Ensigns after Princeton's first tri-service commissioning ceremony in decades
General Mark A. Milley '80 explains the significance of the Oath of Office
General Mark A. Milley '80 gets prepared to cut the commissioning cake with the newest 2nd Lieutenants and Ensigns.
2019 Tiger Battalion Awards Banquet took place on April 25th at the Trenton Country Club
Tiger Battalion
Princeton Army ROTC embodies Princeton's motto, "In the Nation's Service, and the Service of Humanity". Since the birth of the United States Army, Princetonians have answered the nation's call. In 1919, Princeton ROTC began training officers to lead the nation's sons and daughters, and preparing Princetonians for distinguished careers in many diverse fields. The program now also includes cadets from The College of New Jersey, Rider University and Rowan University. TCNJ and Rider cadets belong to the Lion Company, and Rowan cadets belong to the Devil Company of Tiger Battalion.
The objective of the Officer Education Program at Princeton is simple: "We Train to Lead." Princeton Army ROTC develops leadership skills that will last a lifetime. Princeton Army ROTC cadets are your peers; extraordinary students who embody the ROTC model of Scholar, Athlete, and Leader. ROTC Alumni span the globe and include leaders in every profession; all bonded by the unique experience of Army ROTC at Princeton, TCNJ, Rider and Rowan Universities.
Regardless of your career plans, discover military service and the Army through Princeton Army ROTC. This opportunity is commitment-free.
If you are interested in learning more about the program, email armyrotc@princeton.edu or call (609) 258-6177.
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Save the Date | 100th Anniversary Celebration of ROTC at Princeton
Princeton is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of ROTC with a dinner and reception on November 11, 2019.
Commissioning 2019
Princeton held its first tri-service (Army, Navy, Air Force) ROTC Commissioning ceremony in decades on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 3:30 p.m. in the...
2019 Tiger Battalion Awards Banquet
The 2019 Tiger Battalion Awards Banquet was held on April 25, 2019 at the Trenton Country Club.
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Google Earth 5.0 is now available as a free download for both Mac and PC users. The update includes several significant and impressive features including the addition of the Earth's oceans and Mars in 3D. There are hundreds of new features, too many to list here, but highlights include new water effects, as you fly from one continent to the next you'll notice that the surface of the water is now textured and, for those of you with newer graphics cards, is also animated.
As you zoom into the water, you can now submerge below the surface and if you're near section of land you'll see the underwater terrain and can now explore it much like a submarine would. The oceans have been given more than twenty layers of interactive features including listings of dive spots and wrecks plus video clips from National Geographic and Arkive among others. You can now view the GPS tracking data from tagged Great White sharks and other animals and even view solutions for sustainable fishing.
A new timeline feature allows you to view locations in transition using satellite data over a period of time, such as the shrinking of the polar ice caps or the construction of Olympic stadiums, And finally, a new Mars view has been added that shows the red planet with 3D imagery. Click on the planet icon at the top to move between Earth, Sky, and Mars modes. I've just dived into it myself, I'll post more details and screenshots soon.
Download And More details are here.
And I want to be the first third-party developer to announce we're already shipping support for authoring Google Earth 5 Guided tours in our Visual Nature Studio/Scene Express tools.


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Thank you for your thoughts and work, I appreciate the opportunities for thought and conversation that you inspire.
I am interested in your take on the word "ally," and what you see as a better alternative. I can see your point that white people are also losing out because of racism and that, therefore, they should see themselves as combatants in this battle, and not simply as allies.
However, "ally" is also a word used to describe a country who is on the same side of a conflict at yours (as in the UK and US being allies in WWII), so I don't know that the term necessarily implies that an "ally" considers themselves a bystander. In fact, I know several Caucasian males who refer to themselves as allies who do more actual work than I, as a Hispanic female, do.
They choose to use the word "ally" at least partially as a nod toward the fact that, though they may suffer from racism, the consequences of racism they face will never be as dire as they are for the actual minorities. If white men were to start declaring, "We must fight racism because it's hurting me, too!" I think that we would collectively sneer at them.
What is an appropriate way for someone who is not necessarily experiencing the same oppression as someone else to state that they are aligned with them and support them in their fight? I am not transgender, and though I recognize that many of the issues that transgender individuals face stem from the same systematic issues as many gender-related issues, I find it disrespectful to indicate in any way that my suffering is the same as theirs. But I write letters and make phone calls and attend marches in solidarity, and though I don't tend to use the word myself, if someone were to ask if I am an ally to transgender people I would likely say yes. Because, though I do not belong to that group, I am fighting with it. So, if I'm not an ally, what am I?


Will Christians be allowed into Jannah?
Christianity is actually a divine religion that was revealed upon Isa (Jesus) alaihassalam by Allah (swt) and like all other divine religions, it conveys the message of tawhid, oneness of God. For three years, Prophet Jesus preached the message of Christianity till he was ascended to the heaven. Within 80 years after his ascension, his disciples dispersed around and spread his religion. However, after a while, the Bible was changed and three different opinions emerged which contrast with the initial faith of Christianity. They are "Jesus is God", "Jesus is the son of God." and trinity; the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead; which do not fit into the message of tawheed, oneness of God.
However, after Islam was revealed and Allah sent Muhammad as the Last and Final Prophet and Messenger to all of the Children of Adam, the mankind was required to believe in him, obey him and refrain from what he prohibited them; those who do this are true believers. Because today, the deen which resumes, conveys and preaches the original and accurate message of Christianity and Judaism which is tawheed is Islam only. Since the other divine religions are distorted, the true message of God is conveyed by Islam only. In other beliefs, there is "associating partners to the Creator" which is not accepted by God.
The statement by Ibn `Abbas indicates that Allah does not accept any deed or work from anyone, unless it conforms to the Law of Muhammad that is, after Allah sent Muhammad. Kaynak: https://askaquestionto.us - Will Christians enter Jannah?


Multibrand Media International > Blog > broadcast + new media > Is Content Still King?
In the interest of transparency, MultiBrand Media represents and sells two exceptional sources for radio content; COVERmedia and Premiere Networks.
COVERmedia is one of the top sources in the world for online lifestyle, entertainment, beauty and fashion news and high-resolution photos. MBMI represents the product throughout North America and in many parts of the world.
Premiere Networks is the Rolls Royce of syndicators, featuring name brand services, from production aids to content superstars, like Ryan Seacrest and Nikki Sixx. MBMI represents Premiere Networks in nine European countries.
To what extent does your audience care about what you offer? There are different levels of engagement by your audience. Does your content touch them in a personal way? Does it relate to their basic human needs, like love, warmth, shelter, and sustenance? Do you take care to be sure that you target your content to their preferences? Do you KNOW their preferences?
Is your content logically curated for the audience? You probably would not order tomato soup after angel food cake, so be sure that what you offer is presented in a logical way for consumption? A bad curator can destroy great content. Choose carefully.
Does your content tell a story or is it comprised of boring facts? Content, regardless of targeting, should tell a complete story. Presenters and writers must braid together the beginning, middle and end of any story dialogue. The pay-off to the audience must be, at minimum, an even trade for the time invested by the audience that consumes the content. Too often, our consultants see , hear and read rambling content that simply serves no purpose in the end. That is one sure way of forcing turnover.
Is the storyline easy to follow and continuous? It should be. Everyone likes a soap opera that carries over from one episode to the next. When possible, your content should be a reliable point of return for the members of your "club," but accessible to someone who has never before consumed the content.
Is your content memorable? Whether recorded or in writing, the consumer should be able to paraphrase and repeat to friends. The litmus test is whether you can hardly wait to consume the next piece of content that you offer.
Does the story evoke a strong personal relationship with the author or storyteller? Do consumers of your content feel closer to you after the content is finished? Do they feel like you might be a good person as a neighbor? Do they feel that your written content is true and trustworthy, or do they at least understand that it isn't meant to be either?
Is the content so good, that you would PAY FOR IT? That should be the goal you have in mind every time. In fact, maybe this should have been the only checkpoint on the list. Your audience is comprised of busy people who offer you their time willingly. They expect that you will compensate them with a true experience that they can enjoy over and over.
Last week, many of our team attended a memorial service for a real showman. He was known for his philanthropy, his cutting edge ability to discern the needs of his audience, and he was able to get them to bond with his presenters.
It wasn't surprising, then, to note that his memorial service was an orchestrated production that included a wide array of fabulous musical performances by a member of The Backstreet Boys and the Von Trapp children, a eulogy by Wayne Newton, a video message from Sharon Stone, and even some interesting stories from animal expert Jack Hanna. A tiny grandchild delivered a moving tribute to her grandfather. This was targeted content at its finest, and our friend's last opportunity to entertain us while celebrating his life.
My friend understood and lived by the premise that Content Is King. Will your friends and colleagues say the same about you when your career comes to an end?
The next time you need noteworthy content, call us at MBMI for a free consultation. We'll be glad to provide more landmarks for your journey into today's hottest content products and offer some advice on how to make it good programming and top content pay for itself while building your audience.
Bill Pasha is President/CEO of The MBMI Companies, LLC., the parent firm of MultiBrand Media International, Maximized Brand Marketing International and Valoriant Safety. Before joining the entrepreneurial world, Bill was recognized as one of the top Program Directors in America and as an authority on consumer consumption of media. He continues to consult broadcasters around the world.


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Owens LA-bound for Bowl
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Winston-Salem State University senior defensive lineman Donnie Owens has been selected to play in the Third Annual National Football League Players Association Collegiate Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 18 in Los Angeles.
Owens finished his WSSU career playing in 41 games over three seasons, with 153 total tackles to go with 34 tackles for losses, 19.5 sacks, 14 quarterback hurries, three pass breakups, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m., and the game will be televised live on ESPN2. ESPNU will also air live broadcasts from practices on Wednesday, Jan. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 16.
The event is a weeklong, all expenses paid trip to the Greater Los Angeles area, where those selected will practice and play with some of the best players in the country. It all culminates in the game at the Stub Hub Center.
During the week preceding the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, which is presented by Panini, participants will receive an in-depth introduction to the union – the primary resource for information on the business of football and how to succeed in the NFL and in post-football careers.
Pro-football players and coaching legends will work with the game's future stars, giving them firsthand insight on what it takes to win on and off of the field. Dennis Green and Dick Vermeil will serve as the head coaches for the American and National Teams.
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Determined by the size of your job, you might need a small or large dumpster that can hold all the debris and remaining stuff.
The most ordinary dumpsters comprise 10-yard, 20-yard, 30-yard, and 40-yard versions. If you are in possession of a tiny job, including clearing out a garage or basement, you can likely benefit from a 10-yard or 20-yard dumpster. If you have a larger job, including a complete remodel or constructing a brand new home, then you will probably need a 30-yard or 40-yard dumpster.
A lot of folks choose to rent a larger dumpster than they believe they are going to need. Although renting a larger dumpster prices more cash, it's more economical than having to an additional dumpster after a small one gets total.
In case you're seeking to rent a dumpster in Stow, one of your primary considerations is going to be cost. There are generally two pricing options available when renting a dumpster in Stow. Flat rate is pricing dependent on the size of the dumpster, not the quantity of material you place in it. Per ton pricing will charge you based on the weight you need hauled.
One kind of pricing structure is not always more expensive than the other. Knowing exactly how much material you need to throw away, you might get a better deal with per ton pricing. On the other hand, flat rate pricing can assist you to keep a limitation on prices when you're dealing with unknown weights. Whether you regularly rent dumpsters for work or just desire a one-time rental for a job throughout the home, you want to search around to find the best rental prices based on your needs.
The period of time that you will need to rent a dumpster in Stow usually depends on the kind of job you are working on. A small job, such as a basement clean out, will probably take a few days to complete while larger projects, like constructing a brand new house, could take several months.
Most firms in Stow are happy to adjust their programs to suit your needs. Keep in your mind, nevertheless, that the longer you keep the dumpster, the more you'll have to cover it.
When you contact firms in Stow, ask them how long their terms are. Many will give you options such as several days or one week, but there are generally longer periods available, also.
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UBA Recruits 4000 New Staff, Promotes Over 5,000 Staff members; increases Salaries Up to 170%.
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Lagos, Nigeria, January 06, 2020: Over 5,000 staff of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, started the new year with a lot of cheer…
Promotions, lay-offs as UBA effects corporate right sizing
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Story Behind the Song: Lee Greenwood, 'God Bless the USA'
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As far as patriotic songs go, "God Bless the USA" is right up there with the best and most well-known of them all. As Lee Greenwood tells The Boot, he'd wanted to write such a song for quite some time -- and he finally did in the early 1980s.
When "God Bless the USA" was released as a single for the first time, in 1984, it went to No. 7 on the country charts. That same year, the song was played at the Republican National Convention with then-president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in attendance -- and as the years have gone on, the tune has become a rallying cry during various times of crisis in America: after the launch of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War in 1991, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and more.
Below, Greenwood tells The Boot about his reasons for writing the enduring hit.
I wanted to write it my whole life. When I got to that point, we were doing 300 days a year on the road, and we were on our fourth or fifth album on MCA. I called my producer, and I said, "I have a need to do this." I've always wanted to write a song about America, and I said, "We just need to be more united."
I'm from California, and I don't know anybody from Virginia or New York, so when I wrote it -- and my producer and I had talked about it -- [we] talked about the four cities I wanted to mention, the four corners of the United States. It could have been Seattle or Miami, but we chose New York and LA, and he suggested Detroit and Houston because they both were economically part of the basis of our economy -- Motown and the oil industry -- so I just poetically wrote that in the bridge.
When I put it onstage ... I think it was the fall of '83, I put it in the middle of the show, just as a brand-new song. Wow, it was like the audience jumped up, and they were applauding ... I did it for about two weeks like that, and then I had to put it at the end of the show as an encore; I couldn't follow it.
It keeps having a different kind of life. I mean, during the Gulf War, it was a song of the war for [U.S. Army] Gen. [Norman] Schwarzkopf. After Hurricane Katrina, it was a song for life and hope, and then after 9/11, it was a song of unity and rebuilding. It just makes me really proud that I've done something for the country and for my family. It's my family's heritage.
I recorded the American Patriot album [in 1992] -- that album was a way to embrace "God Bless the USA" with all other American songs, including "God Bless America," "America the Beautiful," the National Anthem ... even the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The American Patriot album really was the one that solidified "God Bless the USA" in a time capsule, if you will, for all time.
This story was originally written by Pat Gallagher, and revised by Angela Stefano.
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Trophy Brewing's Morgan Street Monsters
Trophy Brewing's Morgan Street Monsters
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Baseball cap-wearing basketballs and fedora-clad pyramids intermingle with wide-eyed, fuzzy-edged monsters on a colorful new mural on the wall of Trophy on Morgan.
The monsters, creations of the Brooklyn-based artist, illustrator and graphic designer Kevin Lyons, are painted in regional colors: Duke and Tarheel blues, Wolfpack red, even Shaw University's distinctive burgundy. In place of teeth inside some of the monsters' mouths, painted in white block letters, are the names of several of North Carolina's legendary jazz and hip-hop artists: Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk, Betty Davis, John Coltrane, Rapsody, King Mez, J. Cole, Ninth Wonder.
It's a curated list of the greats, retro and modern, whose music Lyons keeps in his personal collection.
Images from Trophy Brewing's new mural by Kevin Lyons decorate their beer cans.
"There are a lot of references to my interpretation of Raleigh, or Carolina in general," Lyons says of the new mural. "So the Triangle is represented, and all of North Carolina is represented in terms of the musicians."
Three years ago, Lyons came to Raleigh to paint a different mural on Trophy's wall for the Truth Initiative, a national anti-smoking organization. The playful, black-and-white original was a little sun-worn and weathered, so Lyons, in partnership with Jed Gant and the Raleigh Murals Project, returned last month to paint a mural on the same east-facing wall—only this one's bigger, brighter and a bit more personal.
"This was done purely for love, no commercial gain," Lyons says. "It was purely because Jed and his team are really dedicated to beautifying Raleigh, to putting more murals here, to bringing in artists from outside and giving people content and things to enjoy."
The original mural proved a popular spot for Raleighites and travelers to visit and capture on Instagram, providing local color and no doubt driving traffic to Trophy.
"It's amazing for us," says David Meeker, one of the popular brewery's co-owners, of Lyons's Raleigh return. "We got an international mural artist at a reasonable price—for free, basically—to redo the mural, just because he wants to."
To celebrate, Trophy launched the Morgan Monsters New England IPA, a citrusy, hop-forward brew that Meeker describes as "beautiful," and perfect to enjoy during the warm summer months. Look for cans of the limited-release beer with Lyons's signature monsters on their labels.
Lyons, who has painted murals all over the world and worked with brands including Nike, Vans, DC and Urban Outfitters, recently completed a similar homage to local jazz musicians in Detroit. He says Raleigh's mural is the second run in what could become a national mural miniseries, combining music and touches of local flair. For Raleigh and Trophy, that means music with a side of pizza, beer and college sports.
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Henry Schein Cares Foundation Launches the 'Wearing Is Caring' Campaign Supported by The UPS Foundation
Home > >Henry Schein Cares Foundation Launches the 'Wearing Is Caring' Campaign Supported by The UPS Foundation
Public Health Awareness Campaign to Promote Access to Health Among Underserved Communities, and Help Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 in Hot Spots
MELVILLE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 20, 2020– The Henry Schein Cares Foundation (HSCF), in partnership with The UPS Foundation, recently launched 'Wearing is Caring,' a public health awareness campaign designed to raise awareness of health care disparities in underserved communities, the need for social distancing, and the importance of wearing face coverings to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The campaign is aligned with guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that encourages the use of cotton or cloth face coverings in public spaces to reduce community spread.
To help promote access to health care, HSCF and The UPS Foundation will provide financial support to long-time partners – the National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA), the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC), the CDC Foundation, National Urban League, and others. Funds will provide support to critically important health care programs in communities most in need. In addition, Henry Schein, Inc. also will donate and distribute cloth face coverings to NNOHA and NAFC. The organizations will select community health clinics within COVID-19 hot spots as the recipients, helping to improve public health safety.
To help address the health disparities that have impacted communities of color, Henry Schein, Inc. will also donate face coverings to local safety-net health systems and other local partners in support of CDC Foundation's Crush COVID initiative, of which support of health equity and investing in communities disproportionately impacted by coronavirus is a key pillar.
"The 'Wearing is Caring' campaign is another demonstration of Henry Schein Cares Foundation's commitment to help advocate for public health, health equity, and wellness," said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Schein, Inc. "Together with non-profit organizations and valued supplier partners, the Foundation can further its efforts to help support local safety net health systems, which provide essential care for those most in need."
The face coverings will come in a variety of styles, with messages that include: Let's Face It, Mask Up; Superheroes Wear Masks; Wearing is Caring; Mask Me About My Smile; Just Keep Smiling; and I'm Still Smiling.
"As we continue to support pandemic relief efforts, we're bringing our understanding of the people who are most impacted into action," said Eduardo Martinez, President of The UPS Foundation and UPS Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. "We're honored to collaborate with the Henry Schein Cares Foundation on their 'Wearing is Caring' campaign, as our collective efforts will help expand access to care in communities where help is urgently needed."
"Philanthropic and private sector support is critical for use alongside government funding to meet needs that arise in rapidly evolving situations where speed and flexibility are paramount to saving and protecting lives," said Dr. Judith Monroe, President and CEO, CDC Foundation. "Henry Schein Cares Foundation's 'Wearing is Caring' campaign showcases the supportive role that corporations can enhance health equity and help protect diverse communities during the COVID-19 pandemic."
"When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S., the National Urban League sounded the alarm on racial disparities in terms of public health and economic consequences," said Marc Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League. "Public-private partnerships like this are urgently needed to bring support where it is most needed. Thanks to the foundations within Henry Schein, UPS and the CDC, that support is being delivered."
In addition to HSCF, the following organizations contributed financial support to the 'Wearing is Caring' campaign thus far: Bedford HealthCare, Claire Friedlander Family Foundation, Kuraray, Medicom, Crest+Oral-B, Pac-Dent, Inc., Richmond Medical & Dental, SDI, Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund, Inc., Shofu Dental, UPS and The UPS Foundation, VISTA Dental Products, and Verena Solutions. As the campaign continues, Henry Schein and its partners will identify and work with additional organizations to further expand public awareness around health care disparities in underserved communities, the importance of oral health care, and the need for social distancing and wearing of face coverings.
The donated face coverings are for personal use only and are washable and reusable. The face coverings are not FDA-approved or cleared medical devices or personal protective equipment (PPE). The face masks are for use in covering the user's nose and mouth to help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 from the user to others during the pandemic. They are not for use in surgical settings or where significant exposure to liquid, bodily, or other hazardous fluids may be expected; clinical settings where the infection risk level through inhalation exposure is high; or the presence of a high intensity heat source or flammable gas. To learn more, please visit www.hscaresfoundation.org.
About Henry Schein Cares Foundation Inc.
Established in 2008, the Henry Schein Cares Foundation works to foster, support, and promote dental and medical health by helping to increase access to care in communities around the world. The Henry Schein Cares Foundation carries out its mission through financial and health care product donations to non-profit organizations supporting health care professionals and community-based programs focused on prevention, wellness, and treatment; disaster preparedness and relief; and capacity building of health institutions that provide training and care.
The Foundation is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible as provided by law.
About  Henry Schein, Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With approximately 19,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that improve operational success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology, and Supply Chain solutions help office-based dental and medical practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more effectively. These solutions also support dental laboratories, government and institutional healthcare clinics, as well as other alternate care sites.
Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated distribution network, with a selection of more than 120,000 branded products and Henry Schein private-brand products in stock, as well as more than 180,000 additional products available as special-order items.
A FORTUNE 500 Company and a member of the S&P 500® index, Henry Schein is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., and has operations or affiliates in 31 countries. The Company's sales from continuing operations reached $10.0 billion in 2019, and have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 13 percent since Henry Schein became a public company in 1995.
For more information, visit Henry Schein at www.henryschein.com, Facebook.com/HenrySchein, and @HenrySchein on Twitter.
Ann Marie Gothard, Vice President, Corporate Media Relations, Annmarie.gothard@henryschein.com, (631) 390 – 8169
Source: Henry Schein Cares Foundation