Sales and business strategist Dave Brock explains how developing a more specific, personalized approach can lead to truly impactful insight selling.
There are hierarchies of insight, however, and it is critical to understand these and their varying degrees of impact in engaging the customer.
Functional levels of insight: "Manufacturing/Engineering/Finance/HR/Sales/Marketing (pick one) executives are seeing these issues as critical to the performance of their organizations in the next 18 months.
These sales insights can range from general to increasingly specific. The very general may provoke the customer to respond, "ho-hum, tell me something new." The more specific, the more likely you will provoke interest and, hopefully, engage in further conversations.
Personalized, specific, unique — these are the types of insights that immediately get virtually every executive to sit up and take notice, engaging you in specific discussions about their business. But how do we generate these insights?
The answers are actually simpler than you might think.
If you really understand your customer's business, their competitors, and their industries, there is a huge wealth of financial information and other data you can analyze — trends in performance, their performance against competition, their performance against the markets, etc. Looking at this will start giving you more specific insight.
If you really understand the problems you solve — and how they may impact these financial and market indicators, you can deduce a very specific impact that you might have.
For example, if you sell financial systems that impact DSO (if you have to ask what DSO is, you need to do your homework), and you know with other customers you have been able to reduce DSO by 10-12%, you can look at your prospect's DSO and do a couple of quick financial calculations showing the specific financial impact you can have.
"We see DSO is becoming a bigger problem. We can show you how to reduce DSO from X to Y, generating and improved cash flow of Z." Now that's insight! It's not just a teaching pitch, it's specific and actionable.
I'm constantly amazed by the amount of very specific insight we as salespeople can generate based on publically or easily obtainable information, knowing what key metrics we impact, and connecting the dots with a proforma impact statement. It just takes a little sleuth work, as well as deep knowledge of key metrics and drivers you can impact.
I had the privilege of sitting with a team earlier this week who did just that. They were preparing for a prospecting call on a key executive. They had done a deep analysis, just using some simple financial data from the customer's 10K. They had done a deep dive into some comparative industry data, and before they even talked to the customer they could identify specific areas they could impact and offer a projected savings improvement.
When they conducted the call, I got to listen in. They told the customer, "We've noticed some things in your business and we think you have an opportunity to save $27 million in the next 15 months." The customer immediately responded, "That's very interesting, how did you come up with that number?" The customer was engaged — he wanted to talk, and he wanted to learn!
The team walked him through the numbers, "This is how we arrived at $27 Million. We saw this data in your financial reports. We assumed your average labor rate was this…. Is that a fair assumption?" They engaged the customer in interacting and providing new information.
"Well, right now it's actually trending about 3.5% higher than that — it's a real problem," he responded.
They still had a long way to go, but they had an interested and engaged customer who wanted to discover more.
There are other ways to get specific about the insights you might provide. Spend time in the customer's world — observe, listen, analyze things. Ask questions of the people you can get access to. Put this information into a compelling specific set of insights about the customer's business.
Insight is important. Customer want ideas, they want to learn and grow. Any insight is better than no insight at all, but truly impactful insight that leads to results is specific and unique to them. If you can meet those two criteria you're guaranteed to have a discussion that absolutely engages them. And the funny thing is, if you know where and how to look for it, it's not that difficult to determine.
As you prepare for your next calls, stop and consider whether you are providing "insight" or true, personalized sales insight.
Editor's note: This guest post from sales and business strategist Dave Brock has been adapted from a post titled "There's Insight, Then There's INSIGHT" that originally appeared on his Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog.
How do you develop specific, personalized sales insights? Do you have any successful examples of insight selling in action you can share?


We should not minimize threats to the First Amendment, either from a demagogic president or from young Americans insufficiently schooled in free speech's essential role in a democratic society. That said, in a time of animosity between two polarized political parties, the First Amendment is holding up.
Commentators on the right and left have generally portrayed this as the glass half-empty, but getting 90 percent or even 70 percent of Americans to agree on anything is no easy feat. Moreover, these questions, as is the case in many surveys, do not ask the central question about who is restricting free speech. In preferring inclusion over free speech, students, for example, may think they personally should favor the latter or that social media platforms should not permit racial epithets or bullying. It is not a statement about government regulation of speech.
This position is strongest among younger Americans. At least six-in-ten adults ages 18 to 29 (65%) and 30 to 49 (62%) prefer no government restrictions on information flow compared with 53% of those 50 to 64 and 48% of those 65 and older.
In short, when it comes to the key First Amendment question ("Should government interfere with free speech, even false and damaging speech?") Americans — especially young Americans — support free speech.
Technology companies have a lot of power, but they are not the government. Like a TV station or a newspaper, Facebook or Twitter could, for example, decide that it wanted only cute animal stories and sports news. That might be unwise, but it's not a First Amendment issue. The government telling them to allow only cute animal stories and sports news would be a First Amendment problem.
When it comes to tech companies, "More U.S. adults (56%) favor technology companies taking steps to restrict false information, even if it limits the public's freedom to access and publish information. By comparison, 42% prefer to protect those freedoms rather than have tech companies take action, even if it means the presence of some misinformation online." In other words, a majority of Americans want tech companies to be a whole lot more responsible, but they don't want government deciding what's dangerous and what's not. That's a sound view of the First Amendment.
We should not underplay the danger from a president who views the press as the enemy of the people or who wants to eviscerate the concept of objective truth. We rightly worry that many of President Trump's supporters show an appalling lack of concern for the American creed, including First Amendment rights. Hysteria and demoralization about the state of free speech are unwarranted; better to turn to the business of nurturing democracy — including core civil liberties — to withstand challenges from illiberal forces, which sadly include the president.


Windows has two modes of talking to IDE devices, PIO mode and DMA mode. DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode is far faster and more CPU efficient, however it automatically gets disabled after a certain number of errors as a fallback position to take on a drive that can't do DMA or a bad cable. The problem is CD drives often encounter errors simply due to the nature of the medium, and if you are anything like me and buy packs of 150 DVD's for $25 off ebay then you will know probably have experienced this pain.
To find out what mode they are using go to Start->Control Panel->System->Device Manager. Look for IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and expand that then look at the Properties for Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel. If any devices are listed as PIO mode then you are suffering from this problem.
To fix it download the script from this page which should fix you right up.


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Jane Gingrich
Department of Politics and International Relations
BAH, Queen's University
PhD, University of California (Berkeley)
Jane Gingrich is an associate professor of political economy at the University of Oxford and tutorial fellow at Magdalen College.
Her research focuses broadly on structural reforms to welfare and education systems. Her first book examined marketization in health and education. Her more recent work has looked at policy feedbacks in welfare and education reform, and the structuring power of institutions on political behavior and voting. She is currently working on two large projects. The first examines the changing fates of Social Democratic political parties, with a particular focus on the policy and political effects of attention to education as a political strategy. The second is a project is funded by a European Research Council starting grant, which looks at the development of education systems in 22 countries in the post-war period. One of the underlying questions in this research is how political coalitions emerge around particular packages of economic and social policy that allow more inclusive forms of innovation and growth.
European Research Council Starting Grant, 2017
Making Markets in the Welfare State. Cambridge University Press. 2011
2019. Jane Gingrich. 'Schools and Economic Attitudes.' Policy Studies Journal.
2019. Jane Gingrich. 'Did State Responses to Automation Matter for Voters?.' Research and Politics.
2018. Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich. 'Skills in Demand? Higher Education and Social Investment in Europe. in Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Capitalism. Editors: Philip Manow, Bruno Palier, Hanna Schwander. Oxford University Press.: 225-256.
2015. Jane Gingrich and Silja Häusermann. 'The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state.' Journal of European Social Policy. 25: 50-75.
2014. Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich. 'Sorting for schools: housing, education and inequality.' Socio-Economic Review. 12, 2: 329-351.

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Caption: This is not what I meant by "huddled masses."
Caption: 1 (degree). Would you stop reminding us how cold it is?
Caption: What BOWL'S on today? The New Era Pinstripe Belk Russell Athletic Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. CHOPPED.
Caption: Marshall, Maryland, Syracuse, Minnesota, BYU and Washington … -Walk into a bar? I wish. That's todays BOWLD TEAM lineup … Too bad. Those are all good punchlines.
Caption: I don't think breaking up into small "focus huddles" is helping.
Caption: I have first draft in the fantasy dog-catcher league this season. Really? Who are you going for? Doug, the Dog-catcher. Why him? He had 130 catches in 200 yards last year. Whoa, great stats.
Caption: Look! Up in the sky! It's absurd! It's inane! It's "Malaprop Man"! Malaprop man! Where are you going? To a processional footbrawl game! The Tampa Bay Bucketeers and New York Jest are playing. Are you a serious fan? Yeah, I've a sneezin' ticket holder for years! Isn't it early to go to the stadium? We nave a snailgate party in the barking lot. I drill chicken winks and square ribs! Do you get nervous watching your team play? Yes, I'm very dense during the games! And before and after, too!
Caption: Look, another girl made it on the cover of the Wheaties box last month. The girls are almost catching up with you guys! Oh yeah? 744 months in a row and he's still on the cover! Frosted Flakes.


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is a central idea in Japanese culture, meaning to acknowledge one's own mistake and to pledge improvement. This is similar to the German proverb Selbsterkenntnis ist der erste Schritt zur Besserung, where the closest translation to English would be "Insight into oneself is the first step to improvement".

Cultural meaning
In the hansei process, the emphasis is on what went wrong and on creating clear plans for ensuring that it does not reoccur; this is done constantly and consistently. At Toyota, even if one completes a project successfully, there is still a hansei-kai (reflection meeting) to review what went wrong. If a manager or engineer claims that there were not any problems with the project, they will be reminded that "no problem is a problem" – meaning that one has not objectively and critically evaluated the project to find opportunities for improvement. No problems indicate that one did not stretch to meet (or exceed) their expected capacity.

Cultural examples
An example would be the actions of Japanese politicians involved in corruption. They apologize publicly for the inappropriate action, then remove themselves from public politics for a few years. They resume their career after a culturally accepted period of time where they learned their lesson.

In Japanese companies it is common practice for a manager to expect hansei from his subordinates in case of mistakes. The manager will publicly take the blame, while the department works on solving the problem.

Other use
Hansei also incorporates the concept of greeting success with modesty and humility. To stop hansei means to stop learning. With hansei, one never becomes convinced of one's own superiority, and feels that there is always more room, or need, for further improvement.

See also
Self-criticism

References

External links
 Summary at Superfactory
 Hansei at Toyota

Japanese words and phrases
Japanese culture
Society of Japan
Japanese values

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The NHS health careers website is aimed at all UK medical students and postgraduate doctors in training and is free to use.
The site has dedicated sections for medical, midwifery and nursing students which will help you to plan your future career in a structured and well-considered way using a four-stage career planning model. The site contains approximately 1,500 pages which contain information, interactive self-evaluation tools, materials, videos and other resources. There are comprehensive overviews on over 60 medical specialties with links to competition ratios to guide you in your career decision. An early awareness of how to manage your career and the options available should aid your choice into foundation school and beyond.


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Tracking and Promoting Trade By Female Entrepreneurs and Women-Owned Businesses
Categories Economic growth, Exporting, Featured, Gender challenges, Global trade, global women entrepreneurs, Research, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
Funded by the UK and called "SheTrades Outlook , a new tool is available that tracks the types and prevalence of trade policies designed to promote more trade by women-owned businesses.
The index initially covers 25 countries as wide-ranging as Australia and Canada to Mauritius, South Africa, Rwanda, and Samoa, applying quantitative and qualitative data to rank them across 83 indicators and six policy areas. Analysts interviewed more than 460 institutions and organizations in these countries, evaluating factors including women's access to opportunities for skills development, finance, and global markets, and networks.
The question becomes are we doing enough to support female entrepreneurs and women business owners, especially from our governments and national organizations? We know at our nonprofit organization, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® – that's our mission and we focus on it every single day: To educate, inspire, and nurture women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide on how to go global so they can run healthier businesses and create a new future for themselves, their families and their community.
We also know at wegg® and the article below reinforces: "Women are critical drivers of productivity and economic growth worldwide."
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Work begins on restoring rare Mussolini-owned Alfa Romeo
By Inside Recent
Classic and vintage car restoration specialist Thornley Kelham is undertaking its most challenging project yet – a complete nut-and-bolt concours-standard restoration of a rare Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS with an even more extraordinary history.
This particular Alfa Romeo comes complete with records showing the car was delivered to its first owner, "II Duce" Benito Mussolini, on the 13 January 1930, for Lire 60,000.
The Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS was one of the most popular and successful sports-racing cars of its day, as demonstrated by the fact that no fewer than 13 competed in the 1929 Mille Miglia, of which eight finished, seven among the first 10, including overall winner and third place. Cars were built up as rolling chassis, which were then bodied by coachbuilders including Carrozzerie touring and Zagato and Stabilimenti Farina.
Extensive research by Thornley Kelham tracked down period black and white images of the exact car in Archivio Luce (the main archive for Cinecitta) in Italy, taken on 29 April 1931, showing Mussolini driving the car, as well as footage of Mussolini driving the car whilst leading II Radio Auto-Raduno on a section of the rally from Roma to Ostia. It is these early images and film footage that help fie the clearest indication of the Alfa Romeo's original appearance.
By enlarging one of the period photos, Thornley Kelham was finally able to establish that the Alfa Romeo was originally bodied by Stabilimenti Farina, thanks to the period carrozzeria badge at the base of the body near the rear wheel. At some point later in its life the body was modified into a stripped won, racing-focused body that it wears today. On 21 March, 1937, the car was sold to a Renato Tigillo and then recorded as having been shipped to Asmara in August. Since no change of ownership is to be found, it's likely Tigillo took the car with him as he moved to Eritrea.
It is clear that the body changes took place while the 6C 1750 SS was in Eritrea, where it was adapted for racing. Images sourced of the car in Asmara reveal much of the bodywork had been removed to create a stripped-out racing car, bearing only a passing resemblance to the beautiful Farina creation it was born with. At the time, Eritrea was an Italian colony and many young Italians would take their cars to Asmara to live and race on hill climbs and street circuit races like the Coppa di Natale or the Coppa Governatore.
When this car was eventually inspected in the USA by Thornley Kelham, the bodywork had been fitted with an unoriginal grille and retained very little in the way of original panels. The chassis, rear axle and gearbox are, however, original to the car. With in-house paint, engine and body shops, Thornley Kelham is widely regarded for the quality of its award-winning restorations of historically significant, often unique vehicles across a variety of marques. The team have now been tasked by the car's new owner with recreating the car's original 1930 appearance which will involve several thousand hours of fabrication, engineering and assembly by its highly skilled workshop technicians.
Simon Thornley, co-founder of Thornley Kelham, said: "We've undertaken many challenging restorations here at Thornley Kelham but this Alfa Romeo presents us with perhaps our greatest test to date. Over the course of its extraordinary life it has been graced with a beautiful hand-crafted body from Stabilimenti Farina, owned and piloted by one of the world's most (in)famous dictators, and stripped out for motorsport and raced on the streets of North Africa. Our challenge now is to restore it to the condition it first left Stabilimenti Farina's carrozzeria, based on further painstaking research and thousands of hours of expert craftsmanship. Automotive history like this has to be preserved, and we are delighted to be involved in the latest page in its amazing story."
Founded in 2009, Thornley Kelham Ltd is a specialist in concours restoration, maintenance, servicing, rally preparation and support of iconic vintage and classic cars. From its Cotswold headquarters in the United Kingdom, the team of 36 manage, restore and prepare examples of collector cars for global concours and motorsport events from a state-of-the-art 32,000 sq/ft facility.
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I owe this stock to Bruce Sherman, the chef of North Pond in Chicago. Not necessarily the recipe, but the technique. He was classically trained by the French, and thus a total stickler for "by-the-book" cooking. He really made me appreciate how the most miniscule of details can affect how a dish tastes in the end. When It comes to making a good stock you really have to pay attention to the details, after all you are working with a limited amount of ingredients.
•	With a heavy knife, or the aid of your butcher, chop the chicken backs or wings into ½ inch pieces.
•	Heat a 4 quart pot over high heat. Add the oil and begin browning the chopped up chicken bones. Be sure not to crowd the pan. Allow each piece to brown completely. Stir occasionally. The more dark brown you allow them to become the darker your stock will be in the end.
•	Remove the bones as they brown and more room is needed in the pan.
•	After all the bones are browned and removed add the onion, celery, and carrots. Stir occasionally, allowing the vegetables to caramelize.
•	Add the garlic and stir for about a minute.
•	Deglaze the pan with the white wine. Be sure to scrape all of the pan drippings off the bottom of the pan. Reduce the wine until pan is dry.
•	Add the peppercorns and herbs and reserved bones. Cover the bones with water. Add enough liquid to cover the bones by an inch.
•	Bring the pot to a boil and skim the fat from the surface. Turn the heat down to a simmer and occasionally skim the impurities from the surface as they collect at the top.
•	Simmer the stock for 1 hour, being sure not to let the level of the liquid drop below the bones. If it does, just add a bit more water.
•	After the simmering is done, strain the stock through a mesh sieve and allow the excess fat to rise to the top. Skim the fat and use the stock in your favorite recipe or freeze for up to 6 months.


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package org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.ingest;

//OODT imports
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.metadata.CoreMetKeys;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.Product;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.ProductType;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.exceptions.CatalogException;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.exceptions.ConnectionException;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.exceptions.IngestException;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.structs.exceptions.RepositoryManagerException;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.system.XmlRpcFileManagerClient;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.util.GenericFileManagerObjectFactory;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.versioning.VersioningUtils;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.MetExtractor;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.exceptions.MetExtractionException;

//JDK imports
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * @author mattmann
 * @author bfoster
 * @version $Revision$
 *
 *

 * An implementation of the {@link Ingster} interface that uses the following
 * pieces of {@link Metadata} information to determine how to ingest a
 * {@link Product}:
 *
 *

 *
Filename - The name of the Product file to ingest.

 *
ProductType - The type of the Product to ingest.

 *
FileLocation - A full path pointer to directory containing the Product
 * file to ingest.

 *

 *
 * The {@link Ingester} supports overriding certain {@link Product} properties,
 * including:
 *
 *

 *
Specification of ProductStructure parameter that will
 * tell the {@link Ingester} whether or not the {@link Product} is a directory
 * or a regular file.

 *
Specification of ProductName parameter that will tell the
 * {@link Ingester} a name for the {@link Product} to use (default is using the
 * specified {@link Metadata} field, Filename.

 *

 *
.
 */
public class StdIngester implements Ingester, CoreMetKeys {

    /* our log stream */
    private final static Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(StdIngester.class
            .getName());

    /* our file manager client */
    private XmlRpcFileManagerClient fmClient = null;

    /* client transfer service factory */
    private String clientTransferServiceFactory = null;

    public StdIngester(String transferService) {
        this.clientTransferServiceFactory = transferService;
    }

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     *
     * @see org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.ingest.Ingester#ingest(java.net.URL,
     *      java.io.File, org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.MetExtractor,
     *      java.io.File)
     */
    public String ingest(URL fmUrl, File prodFile, MetExtractor extractor,
            File metConfFile) throws IngestException {
        Metadata met = null;
        try {
            met = extractor.extractMetadata(prodFile, metConfFile);
        } catch (MetExtractionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new IngestException("Met extraction exception on product: ["
                    + prodFile + "]: Message: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }

        return ingest(fmUrl, prodFile, met);
    }

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 *
	 * @see org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.ingest.Ingester#ingest(java.net.URL,
	 * java.util.List, org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.MetExtractor, java.io.File)
	 */
	public void ingest(URL fmUrl, List<String> prodFiles,
			MetExtractor extractor, File metConfFile) throws IngestException {
		if (prodFiles != null && prodFiles.size() > 0) {
			for (Iterator<String> i = prodFiles.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
				String prodFilePath = i.next();
				String productID = null;

				try {
					productID = ingest(fmUrl, new File(prodFilePath),
							extractor, metConfFile);
					LOG.log(Level.INFO, "Product: [" + prodFilePath
							+ "] ingested successfully! ID: [" + productID
							+ "]");
				} catch (IngestException e) {
					LOG.log(Level.WARNING,
							"IngestException handling product: ["
									+ prodFilePath
									+ "]: Exception: ["
									+ e.getMessage()
									+ "]: Continuing ingest of remainder of products.");
				}

			}
		}

	}

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     *
     * @see org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.ingest.Ingester#ingest(java.net.URL,
     *      java.io.File, org.apache.oodt.cas.metadata.Metadata)
     */
    public String ingest(URL fmUrl, File prodFile, Metadata met)
            throws IngestException {
        checkOrSetFileManager(fmUrl);
        String productType = met.getMetadata(PRODUCT_TYPE);
        String fileLocation = met.getMetadata(FILE_LOCATION);
        String fileName = met.getMetadata(FILENAME);

        if (!check(productType, PRODUCT_TYPE)
                || !check(fileLocation, FILE_LOCATION)
                || !check(fileName, FILENAME)) {
            throw new IngestException("Must specify: " + PRODUCT_TYPE + " and "
                    + FILENAME + " and " + FILE_LOCATION
                    + " within metadata file. Cannot ingest product: ["
                    + prodFile.getAbsolutePath() + "]");
        }

        // allow user to override default product name (Filename)
        String productName = met.getMetadata(PRODUCT_NAME) != null ? met
                .getMetadata(PRODUCT_NAME) : fileName;

        // check to see if product structure was specified
        String productStructure = met.getMetadata(PRODUCT_STRUCTURE);
        if (productStructure == null) {
            // try and guess the structure
            if (prodFile.isDirectory()) {
                productStructure = Product.STRUCTURE_HIERARCHICAL;
            } else
                productStructure = Product.STRUCTURE_FLAT;
        }

        // create the product
        Product product = new Product();
        product.setProductName(productName);
        product.setProductStructure(productStructure);
        product.setProductType(getProductType(productType));

        List<String> references = new Vector<String>();
        if (!fileLocation.endsWith("/")) {
            fileLocation += "/";
        }

        String fullFilePath = fileLocation + fileName;

        references.add(new File(fullFilePath).toURI().toString());

        if (productStructure.equals(Product.STRUCTURE_HIERARCHICAL)) {
            references.addAll(VersioningUtils.getURIsFromDir(new File(
                    fullFilePath)));
        }

        // build refs and attach to product
        VersioningUtils.addRefsFromUris(product, references);

        LOG.log(Level.INFO, "StdIngester: ingesting product: " + PRODUCT_NAME
                + ": [" + productName + "]: " + PRODUCT_TYPE + ": ["
                + productType + "]: " + FILE_LOCATION + ": [" + fileLocation
                + "]");

        String productID = null;

        try {
            productID = fmClient.ingestProduct(product, met, true);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "exception ingesting product: ["
                    + productName + "]: Message: " + e.getMessage());
            throw new IngestException("exception ingesting product: ["
                    + productName + "]: Message: " + e.getMessage());
        }

        return productID;

    }

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     *
     * @see org.apache.oodt.cas.filemgr.ingest.Ingester#hasProduct(java.net.URL,
     *      java.io.File)
     */
    public boolean hasProduct(URL fmUrl, File prodFile) throws CatalogException{
        return hasProduct(fmUrl, prodFile.getName());
    }

    private boolean check(String property, String propName) {
        if (property == null) {
            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Property: [" + propName
                    + "] is not provided");
            return false;
        } else
            return true;
    }

    private void checkOrSetFileManager(URL url) {
        if (this.fmClient != null && this.fmClient.getFileManagerUrl() != null) {

            if (!this.fmClient.getFileManagerUrl().equals(url)) {
                setFileManager(url);
            }
        } else {
            setFileManager(url);
        }
    }

    private void setFileManager(URL url) {
        try {
            fmClient = new XmlRpcFileManagerClient(url);
            LOG.log(Level.INFO, "StdIngester: connected to file manager: ["
                    + url + "]");
            // instantiate the client transfer object
            // the crawler will have the client perform the transfer
            fmClient
                    .setDataTransfer(GenericFileManagerObjectFactory
                            .getDataTransferServiceFromFactory(this.clientTransferServiceFactory));
        } catch (ConnectionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Unable to connect to file manager: [" + url
                    + "]: message: " + e.getMessage());
        }

    }

    private ProductType getProductType(String productTypeName) {
        ProductType type = null;

        try {
            type = fmClient.getProductTypeByName(productTypeName);
        } catch (RepositoryManagerException e) {
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Ewha Mate: Club activity for international and exchange students
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Ha Ji-ou is group-calling her EwhaMate mentees from China via Zoom.
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Ewha Mate, a program conducted by the Office of International Student Affairs, helps international students at Ewha to adapt to school life in Korea. Taking dormitory tours and participating in school events, the students spend more than 20 hours together each semester. Unlike mentees of the Ewha PEACE Buddy (Professional Ewhaians at Cultural Exchange) program who are exchange students, mentees of the Ewha Mate program are international students staying in Korea for four school years.
Tan Hooi Wem, a senior majoring in Korean Language & Literature, is a mentor in the Ewha Mate program. She used to be a mentee when she first left her hometown in Malaysia to pursue her dreams in Korea. After receiving help from mentors to adapt to campus life, she was inspired to further share her experience and provide study guides to new foreign students. The charm of Ewha Mate is the friendly interaction between the mentor and the mentee. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, she has not been able to meet her mentee in person yet.
"My mentee is currently in China, so we use Zoom to connect with each other," Wem said. "As we cannot talk face to face, our activities are relatively limited, but we try to spend meaningful time sharing information about designated topics."
She further explained that an advantage of doing activities individually is that the mentor and mentee can create rapport after helping each other and sharing interests.
"This program helped me gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture," Wem noted. "My fellow mentors and I are most satisfied when seeing our mentees do well in their first semester. It feels most rewarding when I get back in touch with the mentees the next semester."
Another participant of the Ewha Mate program, Lee Ji-eun, a senior from the Department of Korean Music, was a mentor to various foreign students. Ha Ji-ou, a junior majoring in geography education, was a mentor to two Chinese students last year for one semester. Lee and Ha joined the program to be mentors because they wanted to become culturally open-minded by communicating with people from different countries. More importantly, they wanted to help them adapt to a new lifestyle because they understood the fear and difficulties that foreign students might experience.
Although their mentees were not able to come and experience the university life in Korea first hand due to the pandemic, they gave a virtual reality tour of the school campus. In addition, their mentees were able to exchange cultural ideas with them and learn more about Korea.
"I tried to inform my mentees as much as possible given the current circumstances," Lee said. "I used street view maps to introduce the streets around Ewha, informed them of school festivals, watched videos about school clubs together, helped them participate in exhibitions, and much more."
"Because Ewha Mate mentees spend more time in Korea than exchange students, they took great interest in the Korean lifestyle and culture," Ha said. "Since they stayed at Ewha for four years, I was able to establish a deeper relationship with them. I still keep in contact with them even though I am no longer part of the program anymore. I still remember the moment of happiness of sending the school hoodies via delivery service to my mentees. It made me happy to see pictures of them wearing the school hoodies."
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Home / News / Axel Jonsson-Fjallby on his 'weird' seven-day stint with the Buffalo Sabres: 'It was a roller coaster for sure'
Axel Jonsson-Fjallby on his 'weird' seven-day stint with the Buffalo Sabres: 'It was a roller coaster for sure'
During the preseason, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby was on the fast-track to the NHL after being claimed by the Buffalo Sabres. Then, a week later, it was over and as if nothing happened.
Now, the Swedish forward, with the sickest of flows, will make his NHL debut for the Washington Capitals against… you guessed it… the Buffalo Sabres.
Will it be a revenge game?
"I mean, not really," Jonsson-Fjallby said to reporters laughing. "They treated me well."
Following a path paved by Seattle Kraken legend Vitek Vanecek, Axel began his unplanned, pseudo-vacation away from the Capitals on October 4. GM Brian MacLellan put the forward on waivers, with the intent of sending him to Hershey as the Capitals trimmed their Training Camp roster to 34. The Sabres, however, had a different idea and claimed Jonsson-Fjallby in what seemed to be a huge moment in the prospect's career.
"I was happy at first," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "I felt like, of course, they believe in me because they claim me."
But Jonsson-Fjallby never had a chance to show off his skills to his new team. Jonsson-Fjallby experienced a delay in acquiring a new visa. The procedural issue kept Jonsson-Fjallby out of the Sabres' final two games of the preseason against the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 5 and the Detroit Red Wings on October 9. AJF even took warmups with his new Sabres teammates ahead of the Detroit game but was a late scratch due to the red tape.
The Buffalo News' Mike Harrington explained Jonsson-Fjallby's nuanced predicament:
When a player is traded, his visa carries over to his new club. However, a player must reapply for a visa if he is claimed via waivers.
"That was weird," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "I got two practices that week since I couldn't play in the games."
So on October 10, the Buffalo Sabres, who were no more informed on what they had in the player, put Jonsson-Fjallby back on waivers to try and send him to their own AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
The Capitals pounced and claimed AJF back the next day, ending his tenure with the Sabres after seven days.
"I was in a moving car about to pick up my furniture for the apartment when I got the call that I had been claimed," Jonsson-Fjallby said.
He added, "It was a roller coaster for sure. I wasn't upset about coming back either. Washington is the team that drafted me."
Nearly a month later, the Capitals, who are without injured top-six forwards Nicklas Backstrom (hip), TJ Oshie (foot), and Anthony Mantha (shoulder), are giving Jonsson-Fjallby his first opportunity to play in the NHL with the team's all-rookie line, consisting of Connor McMichael and Brett Leason. While McMichael and Leason have both recently scored their first NHL goals, Jonsson-Fjallby is more intrigued by another part of the game.
"I'm not going to change the way I play," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "If they let me play (the) penalty kill, that'd be nice, you know. Down there, I play a lot of PK so that's the type of player I am."
When asked if he wanted to be a PK specialist like fellow Swede Carl Hagelin, AJF nodded his head.
"Yeah, exactly," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "I really looked up to Carl when I was younger and even now. That's the type of player I'm trying to be."
Jonsson-Fjallby was notified of his impending callup presumably before the Bears' game on Sunday.
"I was getting ready for a game in Hershey actually and I got the call from Chris Patrick and he told me I'm going up," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "It was fun."
Despite seeing himself as more of a defensive forward, the 23-year-old winger has had a lot of offensive success lately, notching the second-most points on the team, seven (3g, 4a) in nine games. The season before, he finished with the third-most goals on the team (10).
"I'm really happy about [making my NHL debut], of course," Jonsson-Fjallby said. "I feel like my game has been good this year. Finally getting a chance is really fun."
Headline photo: Cara Bahniuk/RMNB
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Explore Makes Major Investment in Community; Buys Clarion's Haskell Building
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 @ 11:06 PM
Posted by Ron Wilshire
CLARION BOROUGH, Pa. (EYT) – One of Clarion Borough's oldest Main Street fixtures – the Haskell Building – will soon become home to one of the newest media companies in Clarion County.
(PHOTO – L to R: Lisa Auerbeck, Aly Delp, Tyler Ochs, Caleb Gilliland, Joanne Bauer, Jake Bauer, Brent Saylor, Chris Rossetti, Ron Wilshire, and Dave Cyphert. Photos by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.)
Jake Bauer, president of Explore Your Town, Inc., the parent company of exploreClarion.com, exploreVenango.com, exploreJeffersonpa.com, D9Sports.com, and CookForest.com, today confirmed the purchase of the building on the corner of Main Street and Fifth Avenue from Cornerstone Development.
Bauer sees it as a big investment in the community, with major renovations planned for the landmark building.
"We're putting an additional $300,000.00 to $400,000.00 into the restoration of this building, whereas its fate might have eventually been a parking lot, and that would not have been good for the community," said Bauer.
The building's history stretches back to 1870's, and over the years, it has housed Arnold's Big Store, Haskell's Furniture, and County Probation. Traffic count studies have labeled the corner of Main Street and Fifth Avenue as the busiest corner in Clarion County and the location is ideal for any business looking for high visibility.
The start of Cornerstone Development was a direct result of Clarion County Commissioners in the 1990's requesting proposals for office space and some of the bidders offered new buildings, but Cornerstone was selected, and both floors of the former store were converted and rented as office space.
Bauer said the second floor will remain office space; however, major changes are planned for the first floor.
"Our plans are to gut the entire first floor," said Bauer. "It will be a large, open space used to host various Explore events and possibly used for other purposes down the road."
"When renovations are complete, you'll be able to see the original tin ceilings and exposed interior brick walls," said Bauer. "The original wooden pillars will also remain."
The changes won't happen overnight.
"One of the issues with the building is a bowed exterior brick wall on the eastern side of the building," said Bauer. "We'll be addressing that soon along with a minor foundation issue in the basement."
Bauer estimates his staff will be able to move into the building within six months. Explore's current office in Shippenville will likely be converted into an apartment.
Incorporated in 2012, Explore has grown and needs additional space.
"The move-in date will be dependent upon how quickly renovations are completed," Bauer continued. "We've contracted an Erie-based restoration firm to do the tuckpointing and other brick work. We'll likely use a local company for the interior renovations."
Other planned renovations include replacing the roof and windows, new carpet, new trim, and a fresh coat of paint on both the exterior and interior.
"All of the staff will be on the second floor, and with over 10,000 square feet, this building gives us plenty of room to grow," said Bauer.
Joanne Bauer, vice president of Explore, echoed the same sentiments.
"We plan to expand our staff as we continue to grow," said Bauer. "Our new location not only gives us room to grow, but it gives us visibility that we've never had before."
The open area of the first floor will be used to host political forums and events that are live-stream broadcast such as the popular annual Battle of the Burgers event.
Jake Bauer said there are also plans for multiple audio and video studios in the building.
"We plan to modernize the building in terms of technology," said Bauer. "Our newsroom on the second floor will have multiple video displays and state-of-the-art computer equipment that will help give us a leg up on the competition."
"In the past couple of years anytime that we've needed a big space for something we're scrambling trying to find a spot for things like our political forums. The new location will give us space to host our own events and room to grow for the future."
It's a hefty investment for a young company, but Bauer thinks it is worth the investment and the building also has some good bones.
"I can't think of a better location for our headquarters than Main Street, Clarion," said Bauer. "As an anchor building of Main Street, the location is second to none, and the sky is the limit."
"This is more than just a new building for us. This is an opportunity to help save a piece of Clarion's history and, at the same time, make some history of our own."
Reflective of the changing times, Explore Your Town, Inc., will be the only media company located in Clarion Borough.


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I KNOW that's the case. Because he's been pointing people on TMA to Ike and similar links for ages saying the answer is there. His bluff has been called - about explaining the maths or giving a Google Scholar reference - so he's retreated behind the "I've had a magical message" and "it's all in my poetry" smokescreen. Sorry Mike, but they seem to have trussed you up over here rather better than was managed on TMA. Obviously a smarter lot than megalithomaniacs!
Is it time to tell them they're all closed minded and pathetic, like you did to us?


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Традиційні китайські свята мають багатовікову історію та багатий культурний зміст. Багато з них беруть своє коріння із давньої китайської міфології, інші ж мають цілком реалістичні витоки, перш за все, пов'язані з сільськогосподарською діяльністю китайського народу. Практично всі вони за деякими винятками прив'язані до певної дати китайського календаря .

Праобрази здебільшого традиційних китайських свят виникли в епоху династії Цинь (221—206 рр. до н. е.). З плином часу деякі стародавні ритуали перетворилися в колоритні масові святкування, а деякі зникли з ужитку. Нижче наведені найбільш значущі свята, які відзначаються населенням з давніх часів і до наших днів.

Список традиційних свят Китаю

Китайський Новий рік
У перший день китайського календаря (Свято Весни) відзначається початок року. На думку китайців, в цей день розпочинається весна, відбувається пробудження природи, оживають земля і збережені нею паростки життя. У тісному сімейному колі запалюють пахощі і феєрверки, які покликані відлякати злих духів. Святкування китайського Нового року припадає на наступні дні григоріанського календаря:

Свято ліхтарів
Вважається закінченням Свята Весни (китайського Нового року) і відзначається 15-го числа 1-го місяця за місячним календарем. За звичаєм, люди розвішують на вулицях та у парках багатобарвні ліхтарі різних розмірів. Свято ліхтарів припадає на наступні дні григоріанського календаря:

День зимового сонцестояння
День зимового сонцестояння відзначається 22 або 23 грудня. У стародавньому Китаї вважали, що з цього часу, коли дні стають довшими, а ночі коротшими, чоловіча сила природи пробуджувалася і давала початок новому циклу.

День поминання покійних
Також іменується Святом чистого світла або Днем душ. У цей день прийнято відвідувати могили предків або національних героїв, приводити надгробки в порядок, покладати квіти і палити «жертовні гроші» з паперу в знак вшанування пам'яті покійних. На даний час замість відвідування кладовищ більш поширені заміські весняні прогулянки, тому Цінмін має й іншу назву — День прогулянки по першій траві. Відзначається на 104-й день після зимового сонцестояння, що найчастіше припадає на 4 або 5 квітня.

Свято драконних лодок

Припадає на 6-й день 6-го місяця за місячним календарем, тому також називається Святом двох п'ятірок. У народі є кілька переказів про походження цього свята. Одні вважають, що воно має відношення до стародавніх обрядів поклоніння жителів долини річки Янцзи Дракону. Але більш вірогідною вважається версія, пов'язана з китайським поетом-патріотом Цюй Юаном. Він був вельможею у царстві Чу в період воюючих царств. Кілька разів звертаючись до правителя про необхідність проведення адміністративних реформ, він звернув на себе обурення інших сановників, які змусили Цюй Юаня покинути столицю. Коли ж війська сусіднього царства увірвалися в місто, поет дізнався про це і, не перенісши національної ганьби, наклав на себе руки, кинувшись в річку. Після його смерті 5-го дня 5-го місяця одноплемінники довго шукали тіло за допомогою човнів. З тих пір в цей день в Китаї влаштовуються річкові гонки на національних човнах.

Свято припадає на наступні дні григоріанського календаря:

Свято закоханих
Припадає на 7-й день 7-го місяця за місячним календарем, тому також називається Святом двох сімок. Святкування пов'язане зі старим зворушливим переказом про кохання пастуха до небомешканки, у зв'язку з чим Цісіцзе часто називають китайським Днем Святого Валентина. Свято припадає на наступні дні григоріанського календаря:

Свято середини осені
Його називають також Святом врожаю, так як за часом він збігається із закінченням збиральних робіт. Крім того, його називають Святом богині місяця. Стародавні народи, що жили в районах із жарким кліматом, особливо шанували місяць. Після виснажливого дня, коли жар палючого сонця виснажував людей і тварин до межі, ніч з її прохолодою була блаженним часом відпочинку. Повний місяць вважається символом благополуччя і достатку. В цей день, який припадає на повний місяць, збираються всі члени родини і влаштовують вечерю. Обов'язковою стравою застілля є «місячні пряники» з пшеничного борошна із різною начинкою.

Це свято, що знаменує собою середину річного циклу в уявленні китайців, за своєю значимістю поступається лише Новому року. Він відзначається 15-го дня 8-го місяця за місячним календарем. Свято середини осені припадає на наступні дні григоріанського календаря:

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Today, frontiers are simultaneously a condition, both tangible and imaginary, of our globalised world. Frontiers, however, can be volatile, and even fragile. While frontiers can delimit territories, they can also disintegrate. Kafka's short story "The Great Wall of China" is helpful here. Kafka's narrator describes the construction process: workers were divided into teams, and each team assigned a section of wall. Once the section was completed, the team would commence work again, in an altogether different location. Kafka's point was that far from embodying a singular, continuous architectural structure, China's Great Wall was actually an assemblage of heterogeneous gaps and fragments.
If the frontier is critically important for postcolonial and globalised discourses, so to is its inevitable dissolution, reimagining and revisioning. The multi-site exhibition Frontier Imaginaries, takes up Kafka's parable of the partially completed structure. Straddling two venues, No Longer at Ease at the Institute of Modern Art and The Life of Lines at QUT Art Museum, the frontier is understood here as a fluid boundary that can be reinscribed and redrawn. With over twenty artists, collectives and architects, the exhibition advances curator Vivian Ziherl's commitment to the notion of the frontier as a productive mode of contemporary critique.
Frontiers jostle and collide, creating new territories, spaces and lines of enquiry. Local and international artists are carefully juxtaposed, bringing the frontier to the fore, albeit in its Kafkaesque state of fragmentation. What emerges are rich new conversations as Ziherl neatly sidesteps well-rehearsed arguments concerning the margin and periphery. With an array of new commissions, combined with archival material drawn from the John Oxley Library and the North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum, Frontier Imaginaries is deeply invested in local history, while simultaneously exploring broader geopolitical fault lines.
Consider, for example, Melbourne based artist Tom Nicholson's multi-part work, which sits at the intersection of documentary, process-based archival research and sculpture. Indonesia's historical struggle for independence is combined with the unfolding contemporary tragedy of displaced peoples seeking asylum. The first part, created with Grace Samboh, Towards figures of dedication, and a flood (2015), prompts the spectator to consider the construction of Indonesia's national identity in the wake of independence. Nicholson and Samboh worked directly with Indonesian state sculptor, Edhi Sunarso, who in the 1950s and 1960s was commissioned to create many of the new national monuments. The work serves as an extraordinary reminder of history's elasticity and plasticity as narratives are made and remade. The second part, Scenes for an archipelago (2015–16), turns the lens back on Australia's own borders, from the perspective of asylum seekers. Nicholson worked with groups of Hazara refugees stranded in a Javanese town. Geographical isolation, combined with a lack of transparent media access has created a representational void overseen by the Australian Government. Against this, Nicholson gently seeks to return agency to the refugees by recording individual stories.
Rich in documentary and archival material, the exhibition creates uneasy relationships by clustering similarly themed works. Geological frontier exploration and the mining of natural resources are explored with the deft juxtaposition of Megan Cope's new commission Re Formation (2016) and Helmut Newton's photographic series documenting the construction of the Geelong Shell oil refinery in the 1950s. Across from Newton's photographs is a 1970 documentary created by Shell's film unit. The documentary reinforces the significance of mineral exploration, extraction and export in Australia's economic history. Cope's installation consists of twin middens and revisits the early settlement practice of mining middens for lime necessary for the construction of the new colony. The first midden is made from cast concrete and oyster shells. The second consists of concrete and pressed beer cans, reminding the spectator of the forced cultural displacement of Indigenous peoples in southeast Queensland. If Newton's images celebrate the heroism of the white male worker engaged in nation building, Cope's middens are mournful elegies to the devastating loss of local tradition and sacred sites.
The IMA site No Longer at Ease continues exploring the frontier theme, with a psychological inflection. Australia's negotiation of its colonial history continues with Juan Davila and Martin Munz's extraordinary video work, Ned Kelly (1983) and is a rare example of Davila's collaborative experiments with film. Davila and Munz created a montage of found footage, early digital graphics, and family portrait photographs to create a poignant critique of Australia's failed attempts to become a Republic. From the vantage point of 2016, Davila's film appears as urgent and relevant as when it was first created.
The theoretical scope of Frontier Imaginaries is broad and ambitious. Without being too heavy handed, Ziherl successfully creates a series of nuanced and unexpected linkages. With echoes reverberating throughout the exhibition back to Dutch colonial history, the experience is akin to Kafka's intervals in the Great Wall: proliferating segments behaving like dynamic assemblages as opposed to conforming to single overarching linear structure. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to Jerusalem and the Netherlands, and will no doubt metamorphose into a new set of conversations.
QUT Art Museum (14 May – 14 August 2016).
Chari Larsson has recently completed her PhD examining the work of French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman.


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The set-up: The Predators now sit only 1.5 games back of the "free falling" Jets for the Central division lead and with a chance to narrow the gap, I look for the home side to deliver the goods here. Note that this is an immediate "revenge" game as well for the Preds, are they were upset 3-2 by the Blues on Friday night. From a situational stand point, there's no question that this one sets up great for the home side.
The pick: Take it for what you will as well, but Nashville is 15-6 in its last 21 in the fourth game of a 4-in-6 situation and 42-17 in its last 59 home games vs. a team with a winning road record, while St. Louis is just 1-10 in its last 11 in the third game in a 3-in-4 situation. This one has blowout written all over it. Lay the price.


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I drove a $52,000 Alfa Romeo Giulia sport sedan to see if it could combine Italian style with BMW-beating performance — here's the verdict
Matthew DeBord, Business Insider US
An Italian in New York.
The Alfa Romeo Giulia that I tested is a four-cylinder version of the more powerful V6 Quadrifoglio trim I sampled last year.
The Giulia is Alfa Romeo's bid to compete in the US luxury sport-sedan market, taking on the likes of BMW, Audi, and Mercedes.
The Giulia offers a distinctive, stylish, and appealing take on the luxury four-door – and it's really quick!
The name "Giulia" means "youth" in Italian, but the legendary vehicles from Alfa Romeo that carry it are anything but: The moniker dates to the early 1960s and was born by some of the loveliest, peppiest little rides this side of Turin.
It, therefore, made perfect sense that when Alfa commenced its return to the US market a few years back, it returned to the Giulia's heritage for a sedan to take on the best from BMW, Mercedes, and Audi.
In 2017, the high-performance version of the Giulia, the Quadrifoglio, was a Business Insider Car of the Year finalist. But it was also nearly $80,000 (worth every lira, if you ask me).
Read more: I drove a $50,000 Ford Mustang GT and a $52,000 Chevy Camaro SS to see which is the better muscle car – here's the verdict
It isn't the only Giulia in town, of course. I recently sampled a 2018 Giulia Ti Lusso, stickering at $52,090 (base is about $41,000). It did not come with the Giulia Quad's 2.9-liter, 505-horsepower twin-turbo V6 engine, effectively a Ferrari V8 with two cylinders lopped off. Instead, it was powered by a 2.0-liter, 280-horsepower inline four, with but a single turbocharger.
In my experience, it can be tricky to move down to reviewing a less ambitious trim level of a car intended to fire the enthusiast's senses after hitting the road in the brawnier spec. In the case of the Giulia, however, I went into the process with a thematic expectation: The Quadrifoglio was power, but I assumed the four-banger would be finesse.
Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! I was correct! So much so that driving the four-cylinder Giulia after the Quadrifoglio amounted to piloting a completely different car. Good different, ultimately. But different, all the same.
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The 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Lusso is just a darn-pretty set of wheels. The prettiest of all sport sedans, if you ask me. As with the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles stablemate Maserati, the Alfa simply oozes style.
The entire car flows smoothly rearward, as a great car should, without a lot of needless exterior filigree spoiling the lines.
The proportions are ever-so-slightly skewed toward the hood, evocative of a time when larger engines made for longer front ends.
I had issues with the Giulia Quadrifoglio's back end, but I can't argue with this Giulia's refreshing lack of over-pumped haunches above the stern wheels.
The more you look at it, the more you like it. The subtle details add up. But the design isn't overdone. It's like comfortable, elegant Neapolitan tailoring. The "Montecarlo Blue Metallic" paint job is exquisite.
So, less is more — except where the bold, inverted triangle of the classic Alfa Romeo grille is concerned. You could argue that the entire design is governed by the need to feature this single, prominent element.
The badge is simply gorgeous.
I continue to think the rear end is a bit dull, but I can live with it.
The 18-inch aluminum wheels are part of $2,500 Lusso package of extras. Again, these aren't the biggest wheels you could stick on the car, but they just look right.
It doesn't have a huge trunk, by any stretch. But it's large enough to handle a weekend's worth of luggage or a week of groceries.
Complaint time! See that yellow bit of plastic at the front of the engine bay? That's the hood release, and I'll bet you a Campari and soda that it's going to fail within a year. But what about the motor?
The Giulia's 2.0-liter, 280-horsepower inline four sends power to the all-wheel-drive system via an eight-speed automatic transmission. With 306 pound-feet of snappy torque, the Giulia sprints to 60 mph in about five seconds.
You'd think I'd have encountered a big letdown after the Quadrifoglio's stonking 505-horsepower mill, but while Quad feels as if it's chewing up and spitting out the pavement, the four-cylinder Giulia is quick and light.
Velocity comes in various flavors.
The Alfa Romeo script makes even the homely engine cover look suave.
Cream — in this case, "Crema" — interiors aren't for everyone. But in the Giulia, it works for me!
There's a moonroof up front …
… And in the back. A good thing, because …
The rear seats aren't roomy and don't have a lot of adult legroom.
Let's take a closer look at the driver's position.
Analog and digital gauges and a flat-bottomed, leather-wrapped steering wheel combine with the airy interior to join performance prowess with premium-ness. Note the stop-start button on the wheel, a la Ferrari.
Walnut accents are well worth the $350 extra. Beautiful wood!
The joystick shifter takes some getting used to, and it shares space with the Giulia's "DNA" drive selector and the puck-like infotainment system controller.
The 8.8-inch infotainment screen is interesting. The slope of the dash gives it an insouciant, angled aspect.
Overall, it's pretty good. Bluetooth device pairing is easy, navigation reliable, and there are USB and AUX ports. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are also available.
The Giulia comes with a one-year SiriusXM satellite-radio subscription. The Harman Kardon audio system is an additional $900 — and it sounds extremely good.
I have to say that the Giulia's interior is one of my favorites — and I've driven close to 40 vehicles in 2018.
So, what's the verdict?
The big differentiator for the Giulia when it comes to the competition from BMW and Audi is that the Alfa is Italian, and not a boring German choice in luxury four-doors. But Alfas are also supposed to be fun to drive. The Giulia Quadrifoglio certainly was. How about the less powerful version?
With, say, a BMW, I typically encounter a rising curve of impressiveness behind the wheel. The 3-Series is the Giulia's natural foe, and from the base machines all the way up to the mighty M3, you're rewarded with more of everything behind the wheel.
The four-cylinder Giulia offers something different. The car feels feathery, light, and quick on its feet. And it is quick, with that 5-secondish 0-60 mph time. The "Dynamic" DNA setting gives you good snap from the throttle and tight inputs from the steering. Find some curves and hurl the Giulia into them. But use the suspension and the crisp traction to sling yourself out, rather than hammering through as you might with the Quadrifoglio.
In "Normal" mode, you can tool around town in quiet, stylish comfort. The "Adaptive" mode makes the best use of the all-wheel-drive system – and I did, in a freak pre-Thanksgiving blizzard on the East Coast! The Giulia was very, very reassuring in some nasty conditions.
Safety and driver-assist features are what you'd expect from a modern luxury sedan, from blind-spot detection to lane-departure and forward-collision warnings (all in all, about $2,000 extra for everything).
The bottom line is that I actively fantasized about owning the Giulia while I was driving it. It suited my moods. And at $52,000, my well-equipped tester offers a lot for the price, and who knows, you might be able to talk up some deals, given Alfa's newness in the US market.
The big caveat is that Alfa hasn't exactly minted a sterling reputation for quality, thus far. However, the Giulia comes with a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty covering car and powertrain, so you can expect the company to fix any immediate problems.
The Alfa Romeo non-Quadrifoglio Giulia is appealing because it offers something appealing that isn't German, while matching and, in some ways, surpassing Mercedes, BMW, and Audi. It's worth a look.
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Warren Buffett Doesn't Believe in Bitcoin — Should You?
By Search Crypto News On Jun 6, 2022
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In 2018, billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm "will never have a position" in cryptocurrency. Four years later, the Oracle of Omaha is as sour on crypto as he was back then — maybe even more so.
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No matter how certain the crypto bulls are about the future of digital tokens, it must be at least a little disheartening to hear one of history's most successful investors heap so much scorn on a bet they've wagered on so heavily.
Here's a look at Warren Buffet's Bitcoin beliefs, and what you might have to learn from the world's most famous crypto naysayer if you think you can't go wrong by betting on blockchain.
'It Doesn't Produce Anything'
According to a new study from GOBankingRates, most Americans who don't invest in crypto are sitting on the sideline because they don't understand it. Others are turned off by its volatility, its perceived lack of security or the fact that it's under-regulated. Others said thanks, but no thanks, because they simply don't think cryptocurrency has a future.
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Warren Buffett, however, has an entirely different reason for writing off crypto: He doesn't consider it to be a productive asset.
"Whether it goes up or down in the next year or five years or 10 years, I don't know," Buffett said at his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting on April 30, as reported by CNBC. "But one thing I'm sure of is that it doesn't multiply, it doesn't produce anything."
The Real Estate Comparison
In 2019, the Associated Press reported that Buffett's real estate company had become the biggest in the nation, so it stands to reason that property is an asset class he would go to for a crypto comparison.
In a video from the conference, Buffett said he would write a check for $25 billion on the spot if the meeting's attendees owned all the farmland or all the apartment buildings in America and they offered him a 1% stake in either.
But what about Bitcoin's $700 billion-plus market cap?
"If you … owned all of the Bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn't take it," Buffett said.
His logic was that "the apartments are going to produce rent and the farms are going to produce food." But with the world's entire supply of Bitcoin, Buffett pondered, "What would I do with it? I'll have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn't going to do anything."
The difference between real estate and crypto, in Buffett's words, is "the difference between productive assets and something that depends on the next guy paying you more than the last guy got."
Berkshire Really Doesn't Like Bitcoin
In a testament to the Oracle's continued clout, Forbes reported that Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped about 5% in the wake of Buffett's statements at the shareholder meeting, and that the former was at least in part attributable to the latter. But it wasn't just Buffett.
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, according to Forbes, said at last year's shareholder meeting that crypto is "disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization" — a heavy indictment indeed. Not to be outdone, Buffett called cryptocurrency "probably rat poison squared" with "no unique value."
Buffett Is Bearish on the Future of Cryptocurrency
About one in five of the respondents to the GOBankingRates study who don't invest in crypto avoid it because they don't believe it has a future. They're in good company with the world's most famous investor, who thinks Bitcoin will be a bust as long as green money is in circulation.
According to Buffett, "Assets, to have value, have to deliver something to somebody. And there's only one currency that's accepted.
"You can come up with all kinds of things — we can put up Berkshire coins … but in the end, this is money," Buffett said while holding up a $20 bill to illustrate his point. "And there's no reason in the world why the United States government … is going to let Berkshire money replace theirs."
In the end, Buffett seems to think Bitcoin is just another fleeting shiny thing that won't be able to deliver on its promises — but that it will succeed in leaving a whole lot of broke believers in its wake.
"It's got a magic to it and people have attached magic to lots of things," Buffett said.
Buffet Never Bets on What He Doesn't Know
About 60% of the respondents in the GOBankingRates study who don't dabble in crypto avoid it because they don't understand it. They should be proud to have so much in common with a man who built a 12-figure fortune by picking the right horses.
Buffett — who has long advised people to invest only in things they understand — said in a 2018 crypto-themed interview with CNBC, "I get into enough trouble with the things I think I know something about. Why in the world should I take a long or short position in something I don't know about?"
Andrew Lisa has been writing professionally since 2001. An award-winning writer, Andrew was formerly one of the youngest nationally distributed columnists for the largest newspaper syndicate in the country, the Gannett News Service. He worked as the business section editor for amNewYork, the most widely distributed newspaper in Manhattan, and worked as a copy editor for TheStreet.com, a financial publication in the heart of Wall Street's investment community in New York City.
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Princess Jeanna has been kidnapped… to no one's suprise. But it's now not only up to Gary and Elliot to bring her back, but they'll have to work together will the Royal Guard team of female warriors for this special mission. The main problem is, they really can't stand each other.


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Rohrwacher and Rohrwacher: Cinema's Wonder Women
"We do not feel the need to create a border. Our relationship is natural."
Alba and Alice Rohrwacher on the set of "Happy as Lazzaro." Photo: Netflix.
Not since Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland has cinema thrived with the brilliance of sister power as with Alice and Alba Rohrwacher. Except — unlike the classic Hollywood siblings — the Rohrwacher sisters actually love working together, having collaborated on numerous films and now are being celebrated by both the Museum of Modern Art and Istituto Luce Cinecittà with a retrospective called, appropriately, The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher.
Since 2011, Alice has made three feature-length films in which she draws from her own experiences to craft dreamlike parables that highlight social issues without losing sight of the magic of cinema. They all premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where they were met with critical acclaim and accolades, including the Grand Prix for The Wonders, and a Best Screenplay award for Happy as Lazzaro.
Alba's acting career, meantime, spans more than 20 films, working under filmmakers like Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Garrone and Luca Guadagnino. Like her sister, Alba has earned numerous awards, from David di Donatello awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress to the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, for Hungry Hearts. Her versatility, going from comedy to melodrama, makes her one of the most exciting actors in contemporary cinema. In The Wonders, based on the sisters' real-life experience growing up in a honey farm in the Italian countryside, Alba plays a version of her mother, while in the neorealism-meets-magical-realism Happy as Lazzaro, she stars as a robber who helps the title character (an ethereal Adriano Tardiolo) find a home.
The retrospective, running through Dec. 23, includes all of Alice's directorial efforts, including her short films and De Djess, a project commissioned by Italian fashion house Miu Miu. Alba's work without Alice will be highlighted by I Am Love, Sworn Virgin, Sleeping Beauty and Come Undone, among others.
Leading up to the retrospective, I had an email exchange with Alice and Alba. They shared their insights with me on working together, family anecdotes, and which projects they may work on next. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they often answered my questions together.
Jose Solís: You grew up in a world far away from film — what was the first film that captured your imagination?
Alba Rohrwacher: For me it was Bernardo Bertolucci's film Novecento. I saw it on a VHS tape with my dad. I was too young to understand the deep meaning of it, but those images are still on us as the first impact with the force and magic of cinema. And then ET by Steven Spielberg. It is the movie that I have seen most times in my life as a child and as an adult and that I always love.
Alice Rohrwacher: For me, too, Bertolucci's Novecento was something dense, difficult to describe, that remained stuck on us for so long, like a wonder and a mysterious fear. And then, surely Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, which we have always seen on TV. Even now, on my dining room table, there is a photograph of a scene from that movie hanging.
JS: How would you entertain yourselves traveling with your parents?
Alba: Life in the countryside is full of events! The animals, the plants — there's a lot of work to do! We read and drew. I had a passion for artistic gymnastics that I studied in a small dance school and I dreamt of becoming an acrobat.
Alice: I remember talking sometimes with a big stone in a field, leaning my ear on the stone and it seemed to me to hear voices, noises. I imagined that one day I would lift that stone and find a ladder that would lead to another world. We had a lot of imagination.
JS: Although The Wonders has autobiographical elements the film is remarkable for its sense of the surreal. What are some things that you saw or remember from your childhood that still feel like magic today?
Alba: Nature. It is something that I miss in city life, and towards which I have a feeling of trust and wonder.
Alice: I agree with Alba. Nature, above all. Sometimes also human beings, when they sing together. It still seems magical to me!
JS: I listened to that Ambra song for weeks in a row after The Wonders. What other music did the two of you listen to as kids?
Both: We listened to Lucio Battisti, Lucio Dalla, The Beatles. We weren't very expert in music, and we had few tapes, but we played in a small jazz orchestra. Ambra Angiolini's "T'appartengo" was music that came from another world, from TV and not from tapes.
JS: Alice, your work often explores the spiritual. What was your relationship to religion growing up? Does making films make spirituality more tangible for you?
Alice: I love images that are able to connect what experience separates, and I believe that this is their strong spiritual and symbolic power. The etymology of the word "symbol" means "to put together," and while we make a film this happens — we bring together distant imaginations and realities, different people, natural and human phenomena, lights and shadows. And the fact that all these things can live together is a great example of peace.
JS: Alba, in The Wonders you play a version of your mother. What was her reaction to watching the film?
Alba: I remember the screening in Cannes with my mom and dad. I remember the lights turned on and I saw them behind us clapping and crying, incredulous, excited. I don't play our mother, exactly, but certainly the imagination that Alice had in creating the character, her idea of Mother, corresponds to my imagination, and it is similar to the gestures of our mother. Even if the story is not ours, she recognized the soul of the gestures that tell it.
JS: I know I wouldn't want to spend more than a couple of hours with my siblings these days. How do the two of you establish boundaries when you're working together?
Both: We do not feel the need to create a border. Our relationship is natural. Of course, we each have our own secret space, and of course we enter one into the life of the other.
JS: Making films together, you're creating a parallel history of your biographies. There is your personal lives as members of the Rohrwacher family, but also the memories you share as artists. Is it ever like living in two worlds at once?
Both: We have the privilege of creating an intimate and artistic memory together. The two things have found a balance without looking for it and thinking about these days at the MOMA it seems to us the most incredible gift that this sharing has given us.
JS: Alice, your work often touches on class disparity, something US audiences are reluctant to acknowledge or even discuss. What have you learned about the way in which European audiences and American audiences react to class in your films?
Alice: When I was writing my first film, a great producer, Karl Baumgartner, told me: "Never think of pleasing a certain audience, but try to make a film that you and your friends like. You are not such a rare and special person, there are millions of people who feel your same pain, your own joy, your own melancholy and your own desire to change the world, and it doesn't matter where they come from." I have always followed this principle. We say: pessimism of reason, optimism of the will.
JS: What qualities do you admire the most about each other as artists?
Both: Consistency and visionary aspects in both of us.
JS: What project are you looking forward to working together on next?
Both: We have many ideas…we'll see! It is too early to talk about it
JS: What is the Rohrwacher family signature dish for the holidays?
Both: For the holidays we still go to the house of our parents, who are practically self-sufficient, therefore, we will eat what the garden and the season offer.
JS: Can you comment on what it feels like to have MoMA do a retrospective of your work so far?
Alba: It is an incredible, wonderful gift. A great honor. The first time I was in NYC I was 14 and I still remember my visit to MOMA. So every time I came back to NYC I always went to see movie shows at MOMA. Thinking that now there will be a tribute to our work excites me deeply.
Alice: Even more the fact of being together. It cannot be described in words.
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Jose Solís has been writing about film and theater since 2003. His work has appeared in major publications including The New York Times, American Theatre, TDF Stages, TimeOut, and Backstage. He is the co-host of Token Theatre Friends and a producer/host on the Maxamoo podcast. He is a member of the Drama Desk, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and the Online Film Critics Society. When he's not at a show, a screening, or writing about all the art he loves, you can find him singing along to any cast recording featuring Kelli O'Hara.


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