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Rijeka: Nepomniachtchi, Cramling European champions
by Albert Silver
3/18/2010 – The European Championship ended with a bang, not a whimper, with great games on the top boards. Open section leader nineteen-year-old Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was victorious against Armenian GM Vladimir Akopian. He took the title alone and with a 2868 performance. Swedish GM Pia Cramling defeated IM Viktorija Cmilyte to become Women's champion. Final report.
This event took place from March 6th to 18th 2010 in Rijeka, Croatia. The championship was an eleven round Swiss tournament with a playing rate of 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 minutes for the rest of the game, and an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Round eleven report (final)
If the men's section had seemed anticlimactic in the tenth round, chess aficionados were treated to great games on the three top boards in the eleventh – and this time a single, undisputed champion came forth, as opposed to last year's crowd.
The trophies for the 11th European Chess Championship in Rijeka
The largest first-place trophy
Board one was the obvious focus of attention, with Russian hopeful, nineteen-year-old Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead with 8.0/10, playing with white against Armenian GM Vladimir Akopian, a half-point behind on 7.5/9. Akopian's task was unenviable, as not only was he in a must win situation due to his opponents lead, but to make things worse, if he drew he wasn't even guaranteed to be in the top three, since four more players had 7.5 and a win would place them ahead. Nepomniachtchi didn't let this scenario become an issue, as he outplayed his opponent in a Ruy Lopez sideline that Akopian is an expert in. Though Ian had shown unquestionable brilliance in his route to the top, especially with glitzy wins in rounds eight and nine, his nerve and powerplay in the last game must have been particularly gratifying after his heart-breaking last round loss in the Aeroflot Open a month earlier.
Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2656) - Akopian,Vladimir (2688) [C77]
11th European Individual Men Chess Cham Rijeka/Croatia (11), 17.03.2010
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.Nbd2 Bg7
This line is gaining adepts especially after world number one Carlsen played it against Caruana in Wijk Aan Zee this year. Nevertheless, Akopian is an expert in it, having played it as both White and Black. 8.0-0. Though hardly a novelty, the most common plan played by the elite is to delay castling with 8.Nf1 0-0 9.Ng3 (or 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 Ne7 11.Ne3) 9...b5 10.Bc2] 8...0-0 9.Re1 h6 Akopian played this postion as White against Ivanchuk last year, who chose instead [9...Re8 10.Nf1 h6 11.Ng3 b5 12.Bc2 d5 13.Qe2 Be6. 10.Nf1 b5 11.Bc2 d5N 12.Bd2 Be6 13.a4 Qd6 14.b4 Nd7 15.Bb3 dxe4 16.dxe4 Nb6 17.a5 Nc4 18.Ne3 Rfd8 19.Nxc4 Bxc4 20.Bxc4 bxc4 21.Be3
21...Qe6. Black cannot exchange queens as the pawn weaknesses in the endgame would be fatal. 22.Qa4 Rd3 23.Rec1 Bf8. This turns out to be a fatal mistake as Ian will choke Akopian with his a-pawn, as will be seen. Necessary was the immediate 23...f5 24.Ne1 (24.b5 axb5 25.Qxb5) 24...Rdd8. 24.b5 axb5 25.Qxb5 Rb8 26.Qa4 Ra8
27.a6! It was once commented that Tal's passed pawns seemed to advance a lot faster than those of his colleagues. It is quite possible that Armenian GM felt the same in this game. 27...Rd6 28.Qb5 Qc8 29.a7! Qd8 30.Qxc4 Qd7 31.Qb5 Rd3 32.Qb7 Qe8 33.Ra6 Rxe3 34.fxe3 Bc5 35.Rca1 Bxe3+ 36.Kh1 Bb6 37.h3 Kg7 38.Nd2 Nxa7 39.Rxb6 cxb6 40.Rxa7 Rc8 41.c4 1-0. A magnificent feather in the cap of Ian, with a 2868 Elo performance, making him the undisputed 2010 European Champion. [Click to replay]
Congratulations: European Champion 2010: nineteen-year-old Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi
On board two Baadur Jobava played against Russian GM Denis Khismatullin, both on 7.5/9. The Georgian GM had led the tournament the entire way, before colliding into the brick wall called Ian, and despite making a herculean effort to regain his position in round 10, had suffered a great deal, and had been lucky to escape with a draw. This time his efforts were rewarded as he played an excellent game, and overcame his opponent to tie for second-third.
Jobava,Baadur (2695) - Khismatullin,Denis (2657) [D41]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 0-0 11.Bc4 Nd7 12.0-0 b6 13.Rad1 Bb7 14.Rfe1 Rc8 15.Bb3 Qf6 16.a4 Rfd8 17.a5 Qg6 18.axb6 Bxe4?
19.Ng5! This wins material by force. 19...Bc2. 19...Bf5 20.b7 The reason for this instead of bxa7 is that it forces 20...Rb8 gaining time to play 21.d5! e5 (21...Rxb7? 22.dxe6) 22.d6 Rf8 23.Bd5; 19...Bb7? 20.Rxe6!! fxe6 21.Bxe6+ Kh8 (21...Kf8 22.Qb4+) 22.Nf7+ Kg8 23.Nxd8+. 20.b7 Bxb3 21.bxc8Q Rxc8 22.Rc1 Ra8 23.Nh3 a5 24.Rc7 Nf8 25.Nf4 Qg5 26.Qe3 a4 27.Qf3 Re8
28.g3? There can be no doubt, Jobava saw 28.Rxf7 . Unfortunately, if he didn't play it, it can only be because after 28...Kxf7 29.Nxe6+ Kg8 he missed 30.Qf7+!! (and only saw 30.Qxf8+? Rxf8 31.Nxg5 a3 32.Ra1 where Black is much better.) 30...Kxf7 31.Nxg5+ Kg6 32.Rxe8. 28...Qf6 29.Qb7 Ng6 30.Rc8 Rxc8 31.Qxc8+ Nf8 32.Re5 h6 33.h4 Bd1 34.h5 Qe7 35.Rb5 Bf3 36.Qc3 Qe8 37.Rc5 Bb7 38.Kh2 Qd7 39.Rc7 Qb5 40.Qc5 Qb2 41.d5 a3
42.Re7. Missing 42.Nd3! which would win the piece by force since e.g. 42...Qb1 43.Qe7! leads to mate. 42...Bxd5 43.Nxd5 a2 44.Re8 Kh7 45.Kg2 a1Q 46.Qxf8 Qxf2+ 47.Kxf2 Qa2+ 48.Ke1 Qa1+ 49.Kd2 Qd4+ 50.Kc2 Qe4+ 51.Kb2 Qe2+ 52.Kb3 Qd1+ 53.Kb4 Qd4+ 54.Kb5 Qxd5+ 55.Qc5 Qb3+ 56.Ka5 Qa2+ 57.Kb6 Qb3+ 58.Kc7 Qxg3+ 59.Kd7 Qg2 60.Rb8 Qe2 61.Ke7 Qf3 62.Qc2+ f5 63.Qc8 Qxh5 64.Qg8+ Kg6 65.Qf7+ 1-0. [Click to replay]
In round ten, Timofeev had made the odd decision of agreeing to a quick draw in 16 moves, particularly dubious considering the tournament leader had made an even shorter one on board one, opening the way for trouble. In round eleven, the Russian GM faced Azerbaidjani GM Rauf Mamedov, and redeemed himself with his most inspired game of the event, in which he not only seemed to have all the answers, but where an effort was required to not put too many exclamation marks. The game itself is a gem, but many of the deciding variations are no less beautiful.
Timofeev,Artyom (2655) - Mamedov,Rauf (2639) [B38]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Be2 0-0 9.0-0 Bd7 10.Nc2 Rc8 11.Rc1 Be6 12.Qd2 Nd7 13.Rfd1 Nc5 14.b4 Nd7 15.Nd5. Though Timofeev's advantage is obvious, his exploitation of it is spectacular. 15...Nce5 16.Nd4 Bxd5 17.cxd5 Nb6 18.Rxc8 Qxc8 19.Rc1 Qb8 20.Nb5 Ned7
21.a4! a6 [21...Nxa4 22.Bxa7 Qa8 23.Rc7] 22.a5 Na8 23.Na7 f5. 23...Nc7 24.Qc2 Ne8 25.Nc8 Bf6 26.Qa4 Ne5 27.Nb6 Ng7 (27...g5 28.Rc8 Qa7 29.Ra8! It isn't often one sees a queen captured this way.; 27...Nc7 28.f4 and the knight is lost) 28.f4 and the knight has no squares. 24.exf5 gxf5
25.Nc6! Timofeev finds a spectacular solution to the position. 25...bxc6 26.dxc6 Ne5 27.Bxa6. With three passed pawns, backed up by two bishops, a rook, and a queen, do you really have any doubts? 27...Nc7 28.Be2 Kh8 29.Bb6 f4 30.Bxc7 Qxc7
Remember the Rawhide theme song also sung by the Blues Brothers? 31.b5. "/portals/all/_for_legal_reasons.jpg" 31...f3 32.Bf1 fxg2 33.Bxg2 Qc8 34.c7 "...though the streams are swollen..." 34...Nf3+ 35.Bxf3 Rxf3 36.b6 "...keep them dogies rollin..." 36...Rf8 37.Qd5 Be5 38.b7 Qf5 39.Qg2 Bxh2+ 40.Kxh2 Qf4+ 41.Qg3 1-0. [Click to replay]
With this victory, GM Artyom Timofeev joins Jobava for a tie for second and 3rd. Tomorrow tie-breaks will be played to determine their exact rankings.
In the women's section, the game all eyes were watching was board one, between GM Pia Cramling and IM Viktorija Cmilyte. The Lithuanian Cmilyte entered the last round in sole lead with 8.5/10, after three successive victories, including two impressive wins over then tournament leader, Polish GM Monika Socko, and Slovenian IM Anna Muzychuk. Veteran Swedish GM Pia Cramling, had been coming from behind most of the event after suffering a nasty setback in round five against GM Arakhamia-Grant, but was alone with 8.0/10 in the final round. Though the Swede was slightly worse after the transition to the middlegame, her opponent's multiple imprecisions quickly added up to a decisive tally in her favor.
Viktorija Cmilyte (left) vs Pia Cramling in the final round of the EICC
Cramling,Pia (2523) - Cmilyte,Viktorija (2485) [A37]
11th European Individual Women Chess Ch Rijeka/Croatia (11), 17.03.2010
1.Nf3 g6 2.c4 c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nc3 e6 6.a3 Nge7 7.Rb1 d5 8.0-0 0-0 9.cxd5 exd5 10.d3 b6 11.Bg5 Be6 12.Na4 h6 13.Bd2 c4 14.dxc4 dxc4 15.Bc3 Qxd1 16.Rfxd1 Rad8 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.Nc3 a6 19.h3 b5 20.Kf1 Bf5 21.Rbc1 f6 22.Ke1 Kf7 23.Nh4 Be6 24.Ne4 Bd5 25.Nc5 Bxg2 26.Nxg2 a5 27.Ne3 a4 28.Nd7 Rh8 29.Rd6 Nb8 30.Rcd1 Nxd7 31.Rxd7 Rxd7 32.Rxd7 Ke6? 33.Rb7 Rc8 34.Rxb5 c3 35.Rb6+ Kf7 36.bxc3 Rxc3 37.Rb7 Rc5 38.Ra7 g5 39.Rxa4 Rc1+ 40.Kd2 Rh1 41.Ra7 Kf8 42.h4 gxh4 43.gxh4 Rh2 44.Ng4 Rxh4 45.Nxf6 Kf7 46.Nd7 Rd4+ 47.Kc3 Rd1 48.Ne5+ Ke6 49.Nd3 Nd5+ 50.Kc2 Rh1 51.Ra6+ Ke7 52.e4 Nf6 53.e5 Ng4 54.f3 Ne3+ 55.Kd2 Nd5 56.Nb4 Nf4 57.Ke3 Ne6 58.Nd5+ Kf7 59.Ra7+ Kg6 60.Nf4+ Kf5 61.Nxe6 Kxe6 62.f4 Re1+ 63.Kf3 Rf1+ 64.Kg3 Rg1+ 65.Kf2 Ra1 66.Kg3 Rg1+ 67.Kh4 Rh1+ 68.Kg4 h5+ 69.Kg5 h4 70.Ra6+ Kd5 71.Rd6+ Kc5 72.Rh6 h3 73.Kf6 h2 74.f5 1-0. [Click to replay]
European Women's Champion GM Pia Cramling, Sweden
With her last round win, punctuating a 5.5/6 sprint in the second half of the tournament, Pia Cramling is once again the Women's European Champion, her second title after 2003, when she also edged Cmilyte on the podium. As to the Lithuanian IM, this is Viktorija's 3rd second-place finish, the other two being in 2003, and 2008, and though deserving of the heartiest congratulations, her success is no doubt a bittersweet one nonetheless.
Top scorers in the men's section (after eleven rounds)
# Ti. Name FED RtgI Pts. TB2 TB3 Perf
1 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian RUS 2656 9.0 63.5 77.5 2868
2 GM Jobava Baadur GEO 2695 8.5 64.5 79.0 2839
3 GM Timofeev Artyom RUS 2655 8.5 61.5 75.0 2801
4 GM Efimenko Zahar UKR 2640 8.0 64.5 78.0 2791
5 GM Lysyj Igor RUS 2615 8.0 60.5 73.0 2752
6 GM Almasi Zoltan HUN 2720 8.0 60.0 73.0 2719
7 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2701 8.0 58.5 71.5 2746
8 GM Rodshtein Maxim ISR 2609 8.0 56.0 67.0 2728
9 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan ESP 2592 8.0 53.0 65.0 2685
10 GM Pashikian Arman ARM 2652 8.0 51.0 62.0 2683
11 GM Mamedov Rauf AZE 2639 7.5 64.5 78.0 2728
12 GM Movsesian Sergei SVK 2709 7.5 63.5 77.5 2726
13 GM Sokolov Ivan BIH 2638 7.5 62.5 76.0 2754
14 GM Maiorov Nikita BLR 2510 7.5 61.5 74.0 2715
15 GM Tregubov Pavel V RUS 2625 7.5 60.5 74.0 2694
16 GM Akopian Vladimir ARM 2688 7.5 60.0 74.0 2725
GM Khismatullin Denis RUS 2657 7.5 60.0 74.0 2695
18 GM Alekseev Evgeny RUS 2700 7.5 60.0 73.5 2722
19 GM Sutovsky Emil ISR 2650 7.5 60.0 73.0 2718
20 GM Kurnosov Igor RUS 2674 7.5 60.0 72.5 2721
21 GM Halkias Stelios GRE 2580 7.5 60.0 72.0 2711
22 IM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2498 7.5 60.0 70.5 2670
23 GM Berkes Ferenc HUN 2659 7.5 58.5 72.0 2705
24 GM Vuckovic Bojan SRB 2630 7.5 58.5 71.5 2689
25 GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2606 7.5 58.5 71.5 2749
26 GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios GRE 2511 7.5 58.5 70.5 2698
27 GM Grachev Boris RUS 2667 7.5 58.0 70.5 2705
28 GM Socko Bartosz POL 2637 7.5 58.0 70.0 2668
29 GM Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2667 7.5 57.5 72.0 2712
30 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter ROU 2661 7.5 57.0 70.0 2705
31 GM Zvjaginsev Vadim RUS 2643 7.5 57.0 69.5 2719
GM Vorobiov Evgeny E RUS 2616 7.5 57.0 69.5 2675
33 GM Hracek Zbynek CZE 2615 7.5 57.0 69.0 2681
34 GM Belov Vladimir RUS 2619 7.5 57.0 68.5 2651
35 GM Navara David CZE 2708 7.5 56.5 69.5 2708
36 GM Sargissian Gabriel ARM 2675 7.5 56.0 69.5 2687
37 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2612 7.5 54.5 67.5 2653
38 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 7.5 53.5 65.5 2642
39 GM Drozdovskij Yuri UKR 2627 7.5 52.5 63.0 2632
40 GM Babula Vlastimil CZE 2554 7.5 52.0 63.0 2650
All standings from the men's section
Top scorers in the women's section (after eleven rounds)
# Ti. Name FED RtgI Pts. TB2 TB3 Rp
1 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2523 9.0 61.5 74.5 2677
2 IM Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2485 8.5 59.5 73.5 2622
3 GM Socko Monika POL 2465 8.0 63.5 77.5 2595
4 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2524 8.0 63.0 76.0 2595
5 GM Sebag Marie FRA 2506 8.0 60.5 73.5 2555
6 WGM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2492 8.0 60.5 72.5 2556
7 IM Dembo Yelena GRE 2457 8.0 57.0 69.5 2545
8 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2555 7.5 65.5 80.5 2552
9 IM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2533 7.5 63.5 77.0 2550
10 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2554 7.5 61.0 74.5 2540
11 IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2444 7.5 61.0 74.5 2550
12 IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2434 7.5 60.5 74.0 2526
13 IM Skripchenko Almira FRA 2456 7.5 60.0 73.5 2514
14 IM Ushenina Anna UKR 2452 7.5 58.0 70.5 2511
15 IM Rajlich Iweta POL 2459 7.5 56.5 70.0 2477
16 WFM Ziaziulkina Nastassia BLR 2188 7.5 56.5 69.0 2543
17 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina RUS 2438 7.5 53.0 66.0 2457
18 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta POL 2404 7.0 64.5 77.5 2478
19 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2487 7.0 61.5 74.5 2442
20 IM Moser Eva AUT 2437 7.0 60.5 73.5 2517
21 IM Romanko Marina RUS 2409 7.0 59.5 72.0 2488
22 IM Gvetadze Sopio GEO 2342 7.0 57.5 69.5 2485
23 WGM Savina Anastasia RUS 2391 7.0 56.5 69.5 2484
24 WFM Gunina Valentina RUS 2457 7.0 56.5 69.0 2415
25 GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2479 7.0 55.5 67.0 2472
26 WGM Bodnaruk Anastasia RUS 2384 7.0 55.5 65.0 2351
27 IM Gaponenko Inna UKR 2472 7.0 54.5 66.5 2415
28 IM Paehtz Elisabeth GER 2486 7.0 53.5 64.5 2397
All standings from the women's section
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Olympian Tommie Smith Revisits Protest Legacy in New Film and Exhibition this Fall at San José Museum of Art
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Our second predictions piece for 2022 features forecasts for the travel sector, podcasting and what role the channel might play in the adoption of super apps.
If you missed our first five predictions for the affiliate marketing industry in 2022, you can read them here.
6. Pent up demand will lead to a travel ad investment boom
With so many people unable to enjoy holidays abroad for the best part of two years now, if Covid does begin to settle down in the new year we're likely to see high demand from both consumers and the brands competing for their spend. That competition will likely lead to intense activity in the affiliate channel and some much-needed investment for travel affiliates.
The travel landscape they operate in in 2022 may look a little different though. Domestic travel will take on a renewed importance for brands as international travel is still beset by local restrictions, high prices, and anxieties over its climate impact. And business travel may never return to anything like its previous state – the normalisation of video conferencing via Zoom, Teams and other platforms replacing the need for many in-person meetings abroad.
Nonetheless, airline discounts, increased vaccine distribution, and general consumer restlessness are already contributing to a travel rebound. The Adobe Digital Economy Index revealed that 2021 U.S. Christmas flight bookings were up 17% compared to last year, as non-essential travel resumed once more.
Looking ahead, we may even begin to see tourism boards finally enter the channel in a meaningful way, as destinations desperate to ignite inbound tourism compete for consumer awareness online. With the affiliate channel's expanding scope beyond last-click sales attribution, the non-sales-based activity that Destination Marketing Organisaitons specialise in can still be coordinated via affiliate partnerships.
Booking flexibility will be the new watchword for travellers in this new climate, keen to ensure their planned escape is not thwarted by a rapid change in Covid circumstances as we've seen over the holiday period so far.
In this new travel environment, affiliate partners can offer a wide range of reliable marketing options for advertisers right across the online purchase funnel; from YouTube vloggers and Insta influencers promoting individual destinations, to price comparison and discount partners who can help travellers find the perfect package for their holiday booking budget.
If nations around the world manage to keep a lid on the impact of the Omicron variant in 2022 and the travel industry begins to recoup its pandemic-related losses, affiliate partners stand to gain from the inevitable increase in investment from brands in the travel sector looking for strong returns.
7. Brand-to-brand partnerships will power a new loyalty landscape
Developing at the same time as the explosion in retail media networks, the rising adoption of complementary brand partnerships in the channel is driving a new frenzy in loyalty offerings to consumers. Exclusive deals with complementary brands provide a way of inciting consumer loyalty and new customer acquisition for a host of advertisers.
Among these companies is tastecard, an advertiser that found itself floundering once Covid hit and its discounted hotel, cinema, and dining offerings were suspended indefinitely. With the help of Awin, tastecard pivoted to a publishing role more suited to the new normal — its new mantra read as 'In In is the new Out Out', reflecting the profound transformation the business had undertaken with this new strategy.
They were by no means alone though. Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, a Premier League football team, saw the opportunity to use Awin's platform to enhance its own loyalty offering for its fans and teamed up with a series of Awin brands to offer them discounted deals from relevant retailers such as Beerwulf, BT Sports and Travelodge.
In 2021, Awin helped facilitate more than 140 of these brand-to-brand partnerships, generating over 750,000 sales via them. It's a burgeoning niche within the channel as more and brands recognise the advantages of working with complementary brands to make their proposition even more compelling for their customers by offering exclusive discounts from relevant businesses to them.
In 2022, this growth will continue apace as brand-to-band partnerships become an essential component for many affiliate programmes.
8. Affiliate's integrated ad model will distinguish it from other channels
People hate advertising. That much has become clear over the last few years as more and more of them have adopted ad blockers or taken up subscription models to enjoy ad-free entertainment. Ad models that disrupt the flow of the experience are generally seen as a hurdle to overcome, not one to simply tolerate.
In the U.S. alone, the percentage of Americans who watch television via cable or satellite has plunged drastically, from 76% in 2015 to 56% in 2021. This cable cord-cutting phenomenon is happening at the same time as the number of paid Netflix subscribers in the U.S. and Canada surpasses 74 million at the end of 2021. Consumers are simply logging off of traditional advertising channels left and right.
So, how can brands still continue to reach consumers online? Luckily, affiliate's model involves a delicately balanced circle of trust between publisher, brand, and consumer that benefits all three. The user gains free access to content they value. The brand reaches an audience interested in their product and pays only for those that convert. And the publisher is rewarded in a direct fashion from their owned traffic. This circular model is a pure distillation of online trust from all three parties and it makes clear the value exchange between them.
Operating in the context of an ad tech industry firestorm involving violations of personal privacy, ad fraud, surveillance capitalism, misinformation, and monopolisation, the sanctuary of the affiliate channel will increasingly be seen as just that by advertisers in 2022.
9. Podcast partnerships will become a thing
This year, U.S. advertisers alone spent over $1.3 billion on podcast ads, which represents a 38.7% year-over-year increase. 2021 also saw a popularity surge for music streaming service Spotify, which overtook tech giant Apple in October to become the top podcasting platform in the U.S. Spotify's sudden uptick in ad revenue growth was largely built off the back of the success of its podcasts. As the podcast landscape continues to evolve, a general rise in podcast popularity will lead to an increased exploration of it via affiliate partnerships.
There's no dispute that investment in the podcast advertising sector is currently growing rapidly, but many of these investment opportunities are centred around programmatic ad serving by some of the biggest players, including the likes of Spotify and Acast. However, some brands are more keen to coordinate direct campaigns with individual podcasters to promote products in a way that is characteristic of affiliate's model: relevant, contextual, and useful.
That's exactly what Awin managed through a podcast campaign with Lookfantastic. The beauty retailer's partnership in the Nordics region with local comedy podcast Ärligt Talat resulted in an estimated $8,500 in sales revenue from more than 1,900 clicks as listeners swooped to take advantage of the unique coupon code being offered as part of the campaign.
Whilst measurement and attribution are potential hurdles to this type of activity, Awin's coupon attribution technology allows partners to share vanity codes with listeners easily, thereby tying sales back to an individual podcast campaign when a purchase is made via it.
Although affiliate marketing is still working through its early days in the podcasting game, the model represents another valuable form of diversity for any programme. The industry is still relatively young, and opportunities abound to work directly with influential podcasters and shows. But demand is high, and the promise of reaching younger, more affluent audiences is enticing. Keep an eye on this new, contextually-relevant, intimate format of podcast affiliate advertising — we could just see an explosion in investment in this area in the new year.
10. Dawn of the super apps
The idea of users having one app to rule them all, akin to how WeChat has dominated China's app landscape over the last decade, has never really taken off in the West. Despite many companies' attempts to emulate the model, super apps have run up against Western market oligopolies, smartphones that can support dozens of apps, and different consumer behavioural patterns.
However, with the recent explosion in fintech and intense competition occurring in this space, there are signs that we could be on the verge of seeing our first super apps that tie a host of different online activities together in one app-based environment. Fintech has already begun to bridge the gap between a number of financial services, including banking, investment, and insurance. Advertisers who work with fintech affiliates are also seeing increased access to more detailed consumer insights, strengthening their ability to cater to consumer needs across industries.
The competition between PayPal and Klarna is just one example of this. The latter's current rapid acquisition strategy is quickly turning what was once a relatively one-dimensional BNPL provider into a multi-dimensional shopping app that incorporates everything from price comparison and payments to loyalty schemes and even in-store activity. Affiliate has been a major growth lever for Klarna in recent months with the channel often used as an entry point for some of its brand partnerships, and affiliate may come to be seen by some of these competing super apps as a way of distinguishing their offering to entice users – providing them with exclusive deals they can't access in competitors' apps.
With fintech enjoying a 'moment' in the affiliate world right now, it's possible we may see other super app competitors entering the space to continue to scale up their own ecommerce offerings. Only time will tell, but affiliate may have a crucial role to play in influencing which app earns its 'super' status.
If you're an advertiser and want to explore how Awin can help accelerate your ecommerce activity in the new year, please get in touch.
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Atom is a 8 year old male Cross-Breed. Atom is a large Cross-Breed dog. Atom is a large crossbreed dog. He looks like he has some kind of mountain dog in him. His passport states him to be eight years old but we feel he could be a little younger and estimate closer to six. Atom – fostered in Erdington, Birmingham (FR070).
Atom has wasted the last couple of years waiting to be saved from the Radauti shelter in Romania. He has emerged miraculously unaffected by this ordeal and is just delighted at recent dramatic changes in his life.
Atom is a super friendly boy who appears totally unaware of how big he is. Efforts are being taken in his foster home to teach him not to not jump up but he certainly is not suitable for anyone in any way fragile! He just loves other dogs and lives happily in a multi dog household. He is very food orientated so training is made that bit easier. Lead training is also ongoing, he pulls like a train with slip lead but starting to tolerate the halti in addition. He is an adorable big bear, very loving and cuddly.
You cannot help but live this overgrown fool, what he lacks in intelligence he more than makes up for in love and enthusiasm!


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Humour in the Arts
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Milkman: humour in a traumatised society
Critics have frequently commended the humour of Anna Burns's Milkman (2018), but beyond descriptions of the novel as 'charmingly wry' (New Yorker) or 'darkly comic' (The Telegraph), there has been little real insight into the part humour plays. This critical disinterest in humour – particularly in literature- is widespread, partly because comedy has long been seen as a mere add-on or a sweetener, and not in any way fundamental. However, Burns herself has suggested that humour is in fact both a crucial part of the book, and a crucial part of the experience of the Troubles. In interview she disagrees with the contention that levity wasn't 'something often associated with the Troubles', saying that humour can be "a way of coping…[t]hat sounds very cliched and stereotypical, but I do think that is so." Others have suggested the same: comedy producer Philip Morrow observed in an interview on the Moral Maze that 'at the height of the Troubles we had the most ferocious and vicious jokes – humour was really necessary..[it gave the] pleasure of the release of saying the unsayable [and] it felt like the release of pressure valve.' The processes by which humour can facilitate coping are of course complex, but we should take seriously the stress-moderating effect of humour within a traumatised society.
We might suggest that Burns models such effects within the novel. In the passage below, after an encounter with her stalker, the sinister Milkman, the narrator is left suddenly alone:
'I was now alone and had started to walk the opposite way out of this ten-minute area, my thoughts on tacit no-running threats, tacit no-walking threats and especially that tacit carbomb murder threat. Plus there was that cat's head I was holding in my hands' (138).
Quoted out of context, the cat's head loses some of its impact as an in-joke, or a comedy call-back, but we can still see how its incongruity after the list of escalating threats works as a punchline and offers a release of tension. '[M]y thoughts on' and the intial 'tacit' promises a formal, sombre register – which accords with our expectation of a serious response to a deeply unpleasant encounter: the sombre processing of negative emotion. An expectation which is then upended by the absurdity of the subsequent repetitions, and the gaucheness of 'especially'. Reverence towards emotion – especially negative emotion – tends to be the norm, but here we can see the cognitive distancing offered by humour. Psychological orthodoxy has emphasized the importance of working through emotional pain, and has generally viewed the expression of humour 'as an indication of denial and as an impediment to grief resolution' (Keltner 689), but humorous dissociation from the experience of distress might, in fact, be a valid answer to traumatic circumstances.
Keltner, D ; Bonanno, G. 'A study of laughter and dissociation: Distinct correlates of laughter and smiling during bereavement'
Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology, 73.4, 1997, pp.687-702
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"Holiday 'Due"?? Yes, fondue! A silly play on words, but DO consider giving this a try. If you've read "Home (Staging) for the Holidays ", you may think that this staging idea doesn't fit with our best practices for holiday décor. But think about this … the week after Christmas is often vacation time and a chance for off-season buyers to do some house hunting. Let's kick our staging up a notch with this "holiday 'due".
Why? Home staging is all about creating emotional connection points so that buyers get that special feeling about your home. So, how the heck does a fondue pot make a buyer want to buy your house??
Well, a fondue pot alone isn't going to do it, but when a buyer thinks "oh, what a great space to throw a party", you've elicited a positive feeling and created something memorable for your buyer. It would be nice if your buyer remembered your home by some fabulous architectural feature, but we don't all live in million dollar homes. Sometimes we have to help them form a memory. After viewing multiple homes in one day, your buyer is going to remember the fondue pot and how they felt in your house. That's a memory that could be just enough to lead that buyer to making an offer.
Let's get to it. Get out the fondue pot and create a vignette. No fondue pot? A beautiful ceramic chafing dish will do the trick. Stack a few cocktail plates, maybe an ornament or two, and some napkins. Vignettes ALWAYS look best with something "live" in them. Tuck a few sprigs of rosemary in to give your vignette an organic pop.
Now … where to put it. Think logically or you'll lose the impact of the vignette. Setting your creation on a TV tray in the living room is going to get you more jeers than cheers. Is your kitchen island or peninsula perfect for entertaining? Put your fondue vignette there. You'll be highlighting a great feature of your home. Is your kitchen too small or just shaped wrong for hosting soirees? No worries … set up your fondue vignette in the dining room/area on a sideboard or console table. By connecting with the emotional side of your buyer, they will begin to feel that YOUR HOUSE could be THEIR HOME.
If your house is still on the market after the holidays, you may want to remove the vignette and go back to something less flamboyant; perhaps a tray with a pitcher and glasses or a beautiful beverage dispenser filled with lemons. But until then, here's to hoping buyers will be saying "remember that house with fondue pot".
I just read Create a Memory with a "Holiday 'Due". Check it out at Suite Effects.com!


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The Chevrolet Vivant is a compact MPV produced by South Korean manufacturer Daewoo since 2000. Developed under the U100 code name, it was designed by Pininfarina and is based on the original Daewoo Nubira J100, a compact car. Following the phasing out of Daewoo as a brand in most export markets, the car was rebadged as Chevrolet, retaining either model name depending on the market. Additionally, the Chevrolet Vivant nameplate was introduced for the South African and South American markets. The Vivant comes with 1.6 L Family 1 or 2.0 L Family II straight-4 engines. 1.8 L engine was offered until 2005. It is available with a five-speed manual transmission or a four-speed automatic. Standard Vivants have a seating capacity of five, but a seven-seater version was also introduced for the South Korean market. Maximum luggage capacity of the Vivant is 1425 L. In Korea, it is called Rezzo. It comes with 2.0 L Family II straight-4 engines and 2.0L E-TEC SOHC Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) engines. Most Rezzo's come fitted with an LPG powered engine because gasoline is very expensive in Korea.


Cruzbike Silvio frameset ships in a small box. Shown here dwarfed by a 26″ Schwalbe Marathon Plus tire.
Silvio frameset just arrived. I'm used to receiving big boxes with bikes and frames. Compared to other recumbents, this box is miniscule.
Box size: 31″ x 5 1/2″ x 19 1/2″.
Smallest recumbent I've ever received. There are interesting possibilities here.


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Gander Builders is no stranger to the Chicago Tribune. Many of the custom homes in Chicago that Steve Lecas built have been featured and from time to time they call to ask us a question.
This time, they called about mailboxes? Your heard right… mailboxes. The fact is that mailboxes, street lights, street signs and cornerstones play a huge role in establishing the identity of the subdivision. Something as simple as a mailbox makes a big impression on the neighborhood. Many luxury home builders don't think about these aspects of the design.
The article quotes our very own Steve Lecas. He helps paint the picture that mailboxes, of all things, are essential to establishing the branding of the neighborhood.
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Trojournal
Editor finds faults in our response to the coronavirus
Drew Hanson, Co-editor
For the first half of spring break, I, along with most of the other teenagers in Kansas, was enjoying my time off and being completely carefree. The Coronavirus was something in the back of my mind, but it wasn't that serious to me.
Then, all in the span of a few days, the entire NBA season, March Madness, and even a few days of school were canceled.
The worst was yet to come.
Just 4-5 days later, I was watching an address with my mom in the Jerry Ivey Park parking lot, and school was canceled for the rest of the year. This hit like a truck.
The novel coronavirus had now spread to all 50 states. Globally, thousands were dying every day.
Flash forward almost a month, and the United States has 852,000 confirmed cases and almost 50,000 deaths, leading world countries in both measures by far.
This raises many questions. Was governor Laura Kelly's response too severe too early? How well did the federal government respond? How could something like this happen in the most powerful country in the world?
My initial response to these questions was emotion-filled and highly inaccurate. I thought this was an overreaction to a disease that isn't that serious. When we look at the facts, however, the reality of the issue is that America has taken a disastrous reactive approach, has a failing healthcare system, and exhibits a painful ignorance of global affairs.
In the middle of a pandemic, we are lucky to live in Kansas.
On March 30, after the state's fifth reported death, governor Laura Kelly issued a stay-at-home order; and a week before that, she called off school for the remainder of the year.
Compared to the rest of the country, this is a fairly proactive approach. This means taking the initiative to make changes to everyday life before things get too bad.
Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist and physician at Yale, said this about proactive school closures: "Proactive school closures (closing schools before there's a case there) have been shown to be one of the most powerful non-pharmacological interventions that we can deploy."
Although proactiveness has been handled well in some states, the federal government was far too reactive and took too long to respond.
The first measure the United States took was banning travel from China on January 31. A month later, thousands of Americans were infected, the first reported deaths were trickling in, and the U.S. government responded by banning travel from Iran and Italy.
These measures were reactive. They only banned travel when conditions in those respective countries were dreadful. Little action was taken to prevent the spread in the U.S.
As we all know, the next month did not treat us well.
The high rate of infections also proved another aspect of the American defense system vulnerable–the healthcare system.
The US healthcare system has a massive shortage of masks, gowns, gloves, and ventilators. This lack is causing many workers to create DIY gear that is not nearly as effective.
Jeffrey Levi, a professor of health policy and management of George Washington University said this about the situation: "The US government failed to adequately maintain the stockpile of supplies necessary to deal with a pandemic like this – and then moved too slowly when the nature of the current crisis became apparent."
Remember that month of February when the government did essentially nothing to prepare itself? Levi said we should have been using that time to get prepared.
"We lost many weeks in terms of ramping up the production capacity around personal protection equipment and never fully utilizing government authority to make sure that production took place," he said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, agreed.
"If we started earlier, we could have saved lives," he said.
The last main issue we have is ignorance of global events.
As far as mid-March, beaches in Florida were flocked with college students looking to have a good time because they thought the virus wasn't a big deal. In New York, people flocked to Central Park to enjoy the weather. In California, Huntington Beach was alive and well.
All of these places are now coronavirus hot spots.
Had these people paid attention to the events unfolding in Italy, France, China, and South Korea, they may have been able to foresee the consequences of these mistakes.
There is nothing wrong with being proud and confident that our country can overcome this. However, we must get rid of this notion that America is invincible. Once we do that, we are able to get a clearer look at the government's failure to react in a timely fashion, failing healthcare preparedness, and ignorance of the severity of global events.
Drew Hanson, Lead Editor
Drew Hanson is a Lead Editor for the Trojournal. He is also involved in Speech and Drama, Lincoln-Douglass Debate, NHS, CIEE CBYX, and Cross Country. He...
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Noel Stephenson	• Jun 6, 2020 at 7:04 pm
I want to thank this young man. It is the most complete reading on the subject that i have seen from the age group that he is in. Again it shows the great learning that i have again seen from the Southeast of Saline from over the years and that goes back a good many years. Good job
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Richest Singers in the World 2023-2024(Top 10) with their Net Worth
The music industry has seen many popular singers years over years but there are some who have a long lasting impression on the hearts and minds of people. Owing to their talent, these singers have garnered name and game in every corner of the world. In terms of wealth, some singers have accumulated as much as millions of dollars, thanks to their amazing career and in some cases good business ventures. Rihanna and Paul McCartney are the only two singers to have wealth in terms of billions. For Rihanna it's mainly from her business but for Paul McCartney it is purely from music. Check out this list of top 10 richest singers in the world 2023-2024.
Top 10 Richest Singers in the World 2023
The table provides the list of the top 10 richest singers in the world along with their net worth in 2023 and their nationality.
Name Net worth (2023) Nationality
Rihanna $1.7 billion Barbados
Paul McCartney $1.2 billion United Kingdom
Herb Alpert $900 million United States
Madonna $850 million United States
Celine Dion $800 million Canada
Bono $800 million Ireland
Bruce Springsteen $650 million United States
Julio Iglesias $600 million Spain
Jimmy Buffett $600 million United States
Kanye West $400 million United States
World's 10 Richest Singers in 2023
Now that you know the world's richest singers, their net worth, nationality, etc, let us learn a little bit more about them in detail.
1. Rihanna
Rihanna is the richest female singer of 2023 thanks to her hit music and successful business ventures. She has founded cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH. Rihanna is also a philanthropist and has established the nonprofit organization Clara Lionel Foundation.
Paul McCartney was a member of one of the world's most famous rock bands The Beatles for which he was singer, songwriter and bass guitar player. Winner of numerous awards and accolades, McCartney is a great humanitarian and promotes international charities related to poverty, animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, etc.
3. Herb Alpert
The only musician with number 1 ranking on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as vocalist and instrumentalist is none other than Herb Alpert. He has won a Tony Award, eight Grammy Awards and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. With net worth of $900 million, he is among counted the top 10 richest singers in the world 2023.
4. Madonna
The Queen of Pop Madonna is among the wealthiest singers, the best-selling female recording artist of all time and the most successful solo artist. She was mentioned by Forbes as the top-earning female musician for a total of 11 times. Madonna holds many records in her name given by various prestigious magazines.
Celine Dion is a versatile singer who has recorded songs in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese and Chinese and specializes in pop, rock, R&B, gospel and classical music. One of the best-selling music artists of all time Celine is also one of the most successful vocalists in pop music.
6. Bono (Paul Hewson)
Paul Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is the lead vocalist of the well-known rock band U2. He is one of the richest singers whose wealth comes from both music and his business ventures. He has received an honorary knighthood and many other awards for his service to music.
7. Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is a singer, songwriter, and musician and the member of E Street Band. He is known for his successful experiment in the music industry, his socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances. Bruce has been included in the Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Artists of All Time.
The most successful Spanish singer in the world, Julio Iglesias is also among the top 10 richest singers in the world as in 2023. His son Enrique is also a successful singer and songwriter. Julio has won many awards during his career and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1985.
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9. Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett is not only a successful singer-songwriter but also a bestselling author and owner of two restaurant chains. A major philanthropist Buffett has been involved in many charitable works. His successful music career and business ventures have made him one of the richest singers in the world 2023.
10. Kanye West
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It is said that once you dream in a foreign language, you are really starting to internalize it. Well, last night I dreamt in Drupal. I saw blocks and nodes aligning and snippets of php to accomplish my tasks. I felt as though my subconscious was building a new website all night long, tinkering with shiny new tools in the stillness of the dead of night.
I have just wrapped up four days of non-stop Drupal with the awesome Lullabot folks. I really do see how it works and how much you can really do with it now. Wow. I feel like one of those giddy, born-again types who has seen the light and feels energized to spread the word.
People that talk about Drupal always talk about how it is very powerful and extensible. Understanding how all the bits of code are related and how that system was intended to be used was really the core thing for me to "get it". The Lullabot team took us on a reality-based tour using projects they have built with Drupal as their examples. We used our own installs to practice some of the different techniques and tools we saw in action in those sites. The themeing part was very cool as we took an un-Drupal-looking theme and applied it to our own sites in a matter of hours.
The workshops were great not just for learning Drupal but it was a great opportunity to just chat, make connections and be entertained by the five different personalities of the Lullabot team (there was a lot of laughing). It was a really open format that lent itself to discussion and allowed for questions that were outside of the defined course descriptions while keeping on topic and making sure the core goals of the class were completed. The Lullabots truly are experts at what they do but they don't have strange pretensions that they know it all nor that Drupal is a perfect system. It was refreshing to have real people just being, well, real. The workshops felt like having a group of friendly colleagues get together to problem solve and show you tips and cool things that you hadn't figured out on your own yet.
Drupal is powerful and extensible and the community supporting it is vibrant and hard-working. Poking at it on my own I got the engine going but now I feel that I understand how to put it in gear to actually go somewhere with it. And the road is wide open.


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Restore the Mississippi River Delta Launches "Restore the Coast" Community Engagement Campaign
08.14.2015 | In Community & Events, Press Releases
Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation, 225.253.9781, schatzele@nwf.org
Jacques Hebert, National Audubon Society, 504.264.6849, jhebert@audubon.org
Elizabeth Van Cleve, Environmental Defense Fund, 202.553.2543, evancleve@edf.org
Jimmy Frederick, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, 225.317.2046, jimmy.frederick@crcl.org
Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition Launches "Restore the Coast" Community Engagement Campaign
Campaign Highlights Important Role Louisiana Leaders Play in Coastal Restoration
(August 14, 2015 – NEW ORLEANS) This weekend, the Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition is launching the "Restore the Coast" community engagement campaign to highlight the important role Louisiana's elected officials play in coastal restoration. This multifaceted, nonpartisan education campaign will begin by asking voters to sign a pledge urging leaders to: be a voice for coastal restoration, protect existing and secure future coastal restoration funding, and support Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan.
The Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition – made up of national and local organizations working on coastal Louisiana restoration, including Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation – released the following statement announcing the new campaign:
"The 'Restore the Coast' campaign's goal is to demonstrate the importance of coastal restoration as a central issue for all candidates. Its initial step will be to encourage Louisiana residents to do two things – pledge to vote, and urge elected officials to be a voice for coastal restoration, so our communities are better protected from hurricanes, floodwaters and other disasters. We believe that Louisiana needs leaders who protect existing and secure future coastal restoration funding and support the state's Coastal Master Plan, so our future can be safeguarded through long-lasting, science-based coastal restoration projects.
"Our hope is to send a clear message to our public officials: Louisianians want leaders who will prioritize coastal restoration, by keeping restoration dollars for restoration and continuing the forward progress made through the coastal master planning process. Together, we can protect our communities and coast for generations to come."
The "Restore the Coast" campaign includes television and radio commercials, billboards, print ads, tabling at local community events, as well as interactive street activities to engage the public and encourage social sharing of this important issue facing Louisiana. Learn more about the "Restore the Coast" campaign and pledge by visiting RestoreTheCoast.org.
Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition is a joint effort of non-profit organizations made up of science, public policy, economics and outreach experts working collaboratively to raise awareness and build support for science-based solutions to restore Louisiana's coast. The coalition is comprised of staff experts from Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Together, they are working to restore Louisiana's coast through long-lasting, science-based restoration solutions, as identified in the state's Coastal Master Plan. Of the projects included in the Coastal Master Plan, they have identified a suite of 19 priority restoration projects that will collectively and drastically reduce wetland loss and help protect New Orleans and other coastal communities from the effects of tropical storms and hurricanes. Learn more at MississippiRiverDelta.org and RestoreTheCoast.org.


You've always wanted to be a chess master! But you aren't one, are you? Now you can at least look like one! Pretend you're playing chess! Make moves! Act like you feel things! Smirk! Frown! Weep! Chess!
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Most of us use them at one point or another. They are a familiar sight in car parks across Shropshire. They are not particularly pretty. But they are useful and they help boost recycling. They are the 120 recycling bring banks around the county. We have five in Ludlow. But not for much longer.
With its thirst for saving money and disinterest in recycling, the council is planning to take away all the bring banks to save £237,000 a year. The cabinet meets to discuss the withdrawal next Wednesday. I'll bet my last empty recyclable baked bean can on the proposal being approved.
The move will lead to a reduction in recycling and an increase in fly-tipping.
This is absolutely the wrong move. Recycling rates in Shropshire have stalled, even fallen. The proposal to remove bring banks will only increase this decline.
The council doesn't recognise that many people live in apartments with little storage for any type of waste. That's certainly the case in Ludlow town centre. That's why the bring banks are often full to the hilt. Many of the people using bring banks don't have kerbsides.
Some of the fly-tipping the council reports is simply bottles and cans left because the bins have overflowed. That's about effective management. It complains about mixed materials in the recycling bins. That does occur. But there is not a single sign in Ludlow telling people why bins should not be contaminated. And why people should not put cardboard in the paper bins. The council has let the bring banks decline because recycling is not a priority for it.
Shropshire Council is suggesting that residents without storage space should take their recycling to the Craven Arms household recycling centre. That's nine miles from Ludlow. That's hardly good for the environment and for many people the journey is impractical. That means that more recyclables will go in the black bin and will be incinerated, pumping the greenhouse gas CO2 into the atmosphere. Incinerators push more CO2 into the atmosphere than gas fired power stations.
The council says that kerbside collection is the answer. It argues that items like clothing can go to charities. Those that work in charity shops might be able to comment on whether that will be a bonus or burden.
The reality is that more fly-tipping will occur. But Shropshire Council need not worry about this. Most fly-tipping doesn't occur on the highway or public land where the council must clear it up. It happens on private land, mostly farmland. It's the landowners and tenants that must pay for a licenced waste contractor to clear it up. Most don't even bother to report it to the council. What's the point?
Shropshire Council has the misfortune to be locked into a very long contract with Veolia. There is nothing wrong with Veolia but the public finance initiative is not very flexible. If the cabinet approves removal of the bring banks, it will need to renegotiate its Public Finance Initiative contract with the company. Good luck to it in that negotiation. When I pressed for the recycling boxes to be replaced with a single wheelie bin to stop litter blow the reply from Shropshire Council was that would cost an extra £600,000 a year. That's £600k for emptying one bin rather than a couple of boxes at each household. Perhaps the council doesn't know that Veolia tips the contents of the boxes into a wheelie bin before loading into the back of the truck. The technology is there but the will to use it is not.
The council should be driving recycling rates up not taking measures that will reduce them. It is cutting back at the very time the government is putting a stronger emphasis on recycling. Shropshire Council is going in the opposite direction. It only cares about making cuts. It only plays lip service to the environment and the future of our planet.
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Clothing etc left out to be picked up by charities,ok. However what happens when the wind blows ,it rains,etc., clogged up streets? accidental fly tipping on the streets.! The more waste is not. taken away the risk of rats can be increased Beware of unexpected consequences .Short sightedness in their arrogance.
I strongly suggest that people take their rubbish to the Tenbury recycling site, just out of town by the light industrial units. It is not as far as Craven Arms, the site is new, very well organised with helpful staff and takes just about everything. It also sells recycled compost.
It also means that Herefordshire gets the 'accounting' kudos for amounts re-reycled and any financial benefit, rather than SC/Veolia, who don't deserve it. Take your business elsewhere.
Funding for waste collection should be the same base for all within the Council area, how much per head do Shrewsbury and Oswestry have allocated for collection?? Then Ludlow should/must have the same.


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Wang Ťüan (; * 5. března 1982 Su-čou) je bývalá čínská zápasnice – judistka.

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S judem začínal ve Wuťingu na předměstí Su-čou. Připravovala se pod vedením Liou Ťia-linga. V čínské ženské reprezentaci se pohybovala od roku 2003 ve střední váze do 70 kg. V roce 2007 převzala pozici reprezentační jedničky po Čchin Tung-ji, ale na její úspěchy nenavázala. Na domácích olympijských hrách v Pekingu v roce 2008 vypadla v úvodním kole. V dalších letech se na mezinárodních turnajích neobjevovala.

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It had been a hectic couple of days in Sydney, beginning with an inflight emergency (rapid decompression) followed by a busy weekend with interstate friends and ending with an action filled Development Course in Sydney for the 2018 Promotions Team.
My colleague Travis and I checking out the Service Training Cabins!
The Promotions Team is comprised of staff from all areas, states and countries of the business. We are staff who volunteer ourselves to represent Qantas at a variety of stakeholder events. The role itself could be anything from hosting guests, registering them for an event, posing for photos or simply standing, smiling and giving assistance/ directions as required. Much like my role in the Lounges now! We spent most of the morning getting to know one another, dining on sumptuous snacks, including breakfast (an omelette for me) and having grooming touch ups to ensure we were "Style on Q" ready for our photoshoot. The photo shoot was slightly daunting, because it's not every day that you get dressed up in your uniform to have your photos taken- but this is and will continue to be part and parcel of being a member of the Promotions Team. The two day event was full of listening, learning, networking and polishing- polishing of grooming, polishing of shoes and of course- brushing up on polices and product knowledge!
We have learnt lots about the different agencies the Promo Team is involved with, events that we support and the key stakeholders. This even includes at a corporate Group Management Level and getting to know who we will interact with. It has been such an interesting and eye opening experience, which I not only feel lucky to be here in Sydney for (given our inflight scare), but actually part of a company that supports and encourages its people to be involved! It is a testament to Qantas, to have a team of nearly 200 strong to volunteer be in uniform, and represent the company that they love to work for, in their own time.
Day 1: After a few grooming finishing touches (hair spray akin to a weather proof helmet), we had our official Promotion Team photos taken. These are essentially head shots and a full body shot to show who we are and what we look like, in order to make it easy for clients to choose the members from the Team that they would like to have at the event (e.g. many events are aimed at a certain age group!).
After networking and getting to know one another, it was then time for lunch (gourmet-and gluten free for me!) and then made ourselves comfortable for a busy afternoon of networking and absorbing knowledge.
For me personally, I missed out on being a Business Promotions team member with Emirates (for being too short- don't ask!), and I have always liked to take (and be in) photos. When I was little, I went to modelling/deportment classes which were great because I was so shy! They really helped me to come out of my shell 🙂 Also this is a great opportunity. I know this post sounds like a cover letter, but this role is also a great career building block, and adds to the depth of my resume, as well as being a fun and new experience, a great way to gain exposure for Qantas and compliments my own personal "brand" too!
I was stoked to receive a goody bag at the end of the course, filled with Qantas themed gifts, but most exciting of all….FIRST CLASS IN FLIGHT PYJAMAS!


David Brown Eagle, whose mother was a Spokane, was one of the participants at Native American's Earth. He grew up on the Blackfoot and Colville reservations, and he remembered childhood trips to Spokane. "We'd come here to shop, say, for Christmas, and down by the water, where Expo was, I remember we'd park under the train trestle. We'd walk through the Skid Road area. It was really, really ugly."
"There's going to be a time," she told her grandson, "they're going to come, and they're going to take your horse, they're going to take your land, and they're going to take your home. But Grandson, whatever you want to give from here (indicating her heart), they can't take that away. You can only give it up."
In an interview at his Gonzaga University office, Brown Eagle explained what native dances meant to him. When he was six years old, his father began taking him to powwows. "One day he asked me if I wanted to dance. I said sure, and I figured, well, I don't have anything to wear, so I probably won't have to dance. So that evening he came into my grandmother's teepee, and he had all these bits and pieces of different outfits that the relatives offered him so I could dance. And it was really a touching experience for me. There was my father; he was talking about the dance; he was talking about the importance of it, and the different relatives had loaned him the bells and gave him this and gave him that, and pretty soon I had this outfit. Okay, I went out and danced for the first time."
When he was in high school, Brown Eagle and several friends liked to attend powwows. Accompanied by drums, they would dance "until the sun was coming up." Dancing was a spiritual experience. Each object in the regalia had meaning. As Brown Eagle put on bits and pieces of his costume, each would bring back memories. "It's kind of like a story time within your own head." Whenever he began to dance he was prepared, just as a good runner is ready for a race.
You don't sit around all week and then run on a weekend. You train for it. I don't sit around all week and dance on Friday. No, what I do, I train during the week, not for the dance but for my body so when I go to a powwow, and I dance, it's like, wow, man, it feels good!
The whole process is to offer prayers through the songs, through the dance and to recharge, reenergize and get rid of a lot of excess baggage or garbage we may pick up during the year. Early morning of that last night before the sunlight, it's an exciting time because everybody knows the sacrifice, if you will, is complete. The songs were sung, the dances were danced, the words were spoken, the prayers were offered. It's really a beautiful, strong spiritual experience.
As an example of the spiritual content of the dance, he described the Sneak Up, a dance that probably originated in Oklahoma. Accompanied by a drum beat, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, the dancers would imitate warriors. In the middle of their circle would be a prone warrior whom they would try to rescue.
"Then they lift this man up. They retrieve the wounded warrior from the battlefield; then, when they pick him up, that's when everybody goes crazy. I mean, in a good sense, because they see what they've done. The first time we did it, this friend of mine from the Nez Perce reservation-he was wounded in Vietnam, and he was a prisoner of war-he relived that situation where he was wounded and relived that experience of being a prisoner of war, but also he relived the belief that as a Nez Perce warrior his strength as an individual within his tribe and as a veteran and as a warrior veteran was very significant."
This dance was meaningful to Brown Eagle and other participants because they too were veterans, and their sense of brotherhood added to the meaning of the ceremony. "In other words, you get energized, you call upon your spirits, you call upon your brothers who are dancing with you, you call on the significance of a song and how it lifts you up. How would you say in the white man's terms a pep rally! But probably more so because there was more of a spiritual base in it. So it was a good feeling, and it still is, to connect, and I believe a lot of dancers still have that. They have that excitement of going out there to dance. I mean, it's really a rush."
Brown Eagle, and many other Indians at Expo '74, were encouraged by the fact that Native American's Earth was their festival. They were calling attention to their presence in the modem world. In that way, it reflected the spirit of the American Indian Movement.
"All of a sudden the status quo was changing. 'Hey, I ain't sitting in the back of the bus any more. Hey wait now, either stop the bus or put me in front or let me drive.''' It was an important lesson. "How many people here in Spokane," he said, "don't even realize there's a Spokane Tribe, don't even realize there's a Spokane Indian Reservation within a forty-minute drive from here, don't even realize there are even Spokane Indians other than the baseball team?" Native American's Earth provided a vehicle for educating fair visitors to Indian cultures. No longer was the Indian "out of sight, out of mind." The Indian participation at Expo was a way of saying, "Hey, we're alive and well."
For the most part, the Native American presence at Expo '74 was as hospitable as any other aspect of the fair. David Brown Eagle recalled the Spokanes performing the Round Dance and the Owl Dance, "social dances" where the audience was invited to take part. He described his own method for encouraging participation. "If you're out there in the audience gawking and then somebody says, 'Come on up and join us,' you know, one of two things will happen. One, you'll get afraid and become less of a gawker. And then you get the ones that are excited and want to be part of it and experience it, and they're the risk takers; they're going to jump up and take part. And those that are willing to take part are going to experience part of that hospitality and that good feeling. And so when they leave, they're gonna think 'Wow, Spokane Indians are nice people.'"


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EAD socket
An EAD socket was a network connection socket used in the early 1990s. They are now considered obsolete.
Ethernet networking of this period (mid 1980s to mid 1990s) used "thin coax" or 10BASE2. All devices on a network segment connected to the same electrical section of RG-58 coaxial cable. Intermediate devices were connected via a T piece. The two ends of the segment were terminated with a resistive network terminator. Although these networks were reliable when connected, they were prone to accidental misconnection by non-technical office staff. This was particularly an issue when devices, such as desktop computers, were being added or removed from the network. Although a rare need at this time, the situation was even worse for portable laptops.
To avoid some of the drawbacks with 10BASE2 over BNC connectors, the EAD socket was one of several alternatives developed to give an "office friendly" network connector that could easily be connected and disconnected, and avoided the risk of making misconnections.
With the obsolescence of 10BASE2 networks, from the mid 1990s, in favour of Ethernet over twisted pair, EAD-sockets have become obsolete.
EAD is an abbreviation for German Ethernet-Anschlussdose. The EAD standard defines wall mounted Ethernet connection outlets that are more reliable than standard BNC T-connectors.
EAD outlets have been developed from TAE connectors for telephony applications but they are intended for connecting coaxial network cables like 10BASE2. A different mechanical encoding (Type E) prevents mix-up with phone plugs.
EAD cables are duplex connections replacing two thin-wire cables, the T-connector is integrated into the BNC end. The contacts of an EAD outlet are closed if no connector is plugged in. When a cable is plugged in, the normally closed contacts in the socket are opened so that signals pass through the loop cable. Worn out connectors or outlets can cause the same problems that haunted the simpler connectors but user errors are largely reduced.
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A woman was fatally shot Saturday near a Taco Bell in the vicinity of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — A woman was fatally shot Saturday near a Taco Bell in the vicinity of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Kansas City, Kansas, police responding to a shooting shortly after 5 p.m. near 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard found a black female in her 20s with a gunshot wound.
Emergency responders from the KCK Fire Department transported the victim, whose identification is being withheld pending notification of her family, to a local hospital.
Officers working a minor shooting at 39th & Rainbow. Suspect is not in custody at this time.
Things keep getting worse, the shooting victim from 39th & Rainbow has died. We have identified a suspect and are attempting to locate.
The Criminal Investigations Division requests anyone with information about the incident call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (8477).


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OBIO's Early Adopter Health Network advances technologies to address pressing challenges in the healthcare system
Bruyère Hospital partners with Able Innovations to advance an innovative patient bed transfer platform with support from OBIO
October 25, 2021 08:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Canada's healthcare system continues to be impacted by the added burden of COVID-19, the Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO®), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing health technology innovation and commercialization, is prioritizing the evaluation of new technologies through their Early Adopter Health Network (EAHN™) to provide solutions. Through the EAHN, OBIO facilitated a partnership between Bruyère, an EAHN member located in Ottawa, and Able Innovations Inc., a Canadian medical technology company, to evaluate Able's automated patient transfer system – the ALTA Platform™.
"OBIO recognizes the urgency of addressing challenges that the healthcare system is currently facing, and the need for advancing technology evaluations to provide meaningful solutions," says Gail Garland, President and CEO of OBIO. "The EAHN was developed to evaluate and scale cutting-edge technologies that improve patient care while providing solutions to issues in the healthcare system that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, such as busy hospitals, staff burnout and shortages."
The ALTA Platform solves what is a highly labor-intensive and repetitive task for hospital staff by enabling a single operator to perform patient lateral bed transfers, which will eliminate the source of numerous injuries, while creating a more dignified care experience for patients and care providers.
"The pandemic has really impacted hospitals and the entire healthcare system, and we see that technological advancements such as the ALTA Platform can help to address some of the increasing challenges we're facing," says Paula Doering, Senior Vice-President, Clinical Programs, Chief Nursing Executive and Allied Health Professionals. "We are happy to partner with Able Innovations to evaluate the ALTA Platform. We believe that with this type of technology we can improve the patient experience, reduce injury for our teams, and create more time in the day for our staff to focus on other aspects of patient care."
The successful evaluation at Bruyère Hospital of the ALTA Platform will help accelerate technology uptake in healthcare settings – that's why OBIO is expediting an EAHN Committee to review the evaluation findings and determine the value of innovative patient bed transfer technologies for all stakeholders, as well as to advance system-wide adoption and dissemination.
"It is our mission to make care-giving sustainable through technology. In Bruyère and OBIO we have found partners that share our values," says Jayiesh Singh, CEO of Able Innovations. "We are excited for our partnership with Bruyère hospital and OBIO to serve as a launchpad for making our technology available to providers and patients across Canada and globally at a time it is needed the most."
For more information about OBIO's EAHN, or if you are interested in being part of the EAHN network, please contact Dr. Jeff Aramini at jeffaramini@obio.ca.
About OBIO
OBIO®, founded in 2009, is a not-for-profit, membership-based innovation organization engaged in strategy, programming, policy development and advocacy to further the commercialization of human health technologies positioning Canada as a leader in the international marketplace. OBIO advances this goal through collaborative partnerships with industry, the investment community, academia, the health system and government.
About Able Innovations Inc.
Able Innovations Inc. is solving the painful and labor-intensive process of patient transfers by developing technology that enables effortless, hands-free, safe and dignified transfers. Their ALTA Platform™, is capable of automated transfers of supine individuals who need to be moved laterally (ex. Bed to stretcher, imaging table) in healthcare facilities.
About Bruyère Hospital
Through the people it serves, the specialized care it provides and the research it conducts, Bruyère plays a critical role in the Ottawa region's health care system. It offers a wide range of services in the community, from hospital programs to long term and primary care, and supportive and independent living for seniors and vulnerable populations. In addition, Bruyère is transforming care through strengths in research, education, collaboration, and innovation.
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Release Summary
Bruyère Hospital partners with Able Innovations to advance an innovative patient bed transfer platform with support from OBIO's EAHN.


A series of public service announcements (psa) produced for Canadian radio stations involving members of the Montreal Alouettes in a program dedicated to saving lives along Canada's railways was a finalist in this year's International Radio Competition in New York City in June.
It was the third year in a row that the Direction 2006/Operation Lifesaver psa's made the competition's short list. There were 1,202 entries in the overall competition from 37 countries. The Direction 2006/Operation Lifesaver psa series, Football and Rail Safety, were delivered by Internet and satellite to approximately 500 radio stations across Canada.
The public service announcements, directed at children but have a strong secondary audience appeal with their moms and dads, included tapes featuring Als' star running back Mike Pringle, receiver Jock Climie, fullback Bruno Heppell and guard Pierre Vercheval.
"It's a team effort involving the railways, volunteers and communities, said OL National Director Dan Di Tota. Operation Lifesaver is a national public safety program that has successfully reduced crossing collisions and trespasser incidents by more than 60 per cent over the past two decades.
Gary Drouin of Transport Canada's rail safety directorate and co-chair of the Direction 2006 executive committee described the 2006 initiative as a special effort by industry, volunteers and communities to drive those results down further and faster - by another 50 per cent by the end of the year 2006.
"And we knew, from a consumer survey, that sports coverage has a powerful draw. We were able to bring it all together. This year, the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Stampeders are getting on board too," said Mr. Cameron.
The psa's were produced by Alec Stewart of Dynamix Productions in Toronto for Direction 2006 as part of a public information and education blitz last summer. Program partners include Operation Lifesaver, a Railway Association of Canada program co-sponsored by the RAC and Transport Canada, provincial safety councils, police forces, railway unions, and public interest groups to bring the safety message to the public.