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How the spirit of Felix Dennis lives on
- Colin Morrison - 10 July 2017
Digital disruption is full of contradictions for legacy media. Condé Nast splashed more than $100m on its trumpeted but short-lived plan to become an online fashion retailer. Less expensively, Hearst came to a similar conclusion. But, as magazines everywhere wonder whether e-commerce can ever fill the advertising gap, one UK publisher is quietly selling more than 250 cars every month to its readers.
This is Dennis Publishing which doubled total revenues in the last nine years, has 15% profit margins and keeps growing. The £100m, 430-person company reaches over 50m unique users and (still) sells some 2.5m magazines every month. It has made millions from 'news' during a decade when newspapers have lost their grip, and makes 10% of its revenue from international licensing deals with 50 companies in 40 countries.
Going digital at speed
What is the UK's sixth largest magazine-centric company has 40 print and digital brands across four sectors: Technology (Alphr, PC Pro and ComputerActive), Automotive (Buyacar, AutoExpress, Evo), Lifestyle (Cyclist, Men's Fitness, Viz), and Current Affairs (The Week). Significantly, for a media company shedding its traditional print bias, it has fast-growing digital-only brands in every sector. Dennis is fast becoming a digital media company, although it still publishes 25 magazines.
It is three years since founder Felix Dennis died from cancer, age 67. It was the tragic end of a truly amazing career which began 50
years ago when he quit his London art college to be a not-so-hot drummer in rock bands. It was the end of the 1960s and Dennis moved from job to job, dressing shop windows, cutting grass and hustling his way from street seller to becoming co-editor of the edgy, satirical magazine Oz. He was momentarily jailed in 1971 after an infamous obscenity trial.
Two years later, Dennis launched Kung Fu Monthly. Bruce Lee was hot but the new poster-magazine (pin it on the wall after reading) had a budget of just £50. He need not have worried: profits reached £60,000 within six months as the fledgling Dennis Publishing racked up 14 international licenses.
The search for more durable magazines led to the acquisition and launch of young men's hobby magazines in bikes, cars, music, computer games and gadgets. In 1978, he struck gold with Personal Computer World, the UK's first 'microcomputer' magazine, bought for a total of £680k from the news vendor who had launched it. A year later, Dennis sold the booming magazine to Dutch publisher VNU for a cool £3m. He was on his way.
That was the start of a pattern for Felix Dennis of being early into markets, forming long-term partnerships, focusing on what readers most wanted – and never being slow to sell a much-loved asset if the price was right. Another part of the pattern was his relentless enthusiasm for the American market, graveyard of many another UK company. His transatlantic success began with Kung Fu Monthly. In 1985, he launched Mac User – just 21 months after the world was introduced to the Apple Macintosh computer. Within three years, Dennis had sold the magazine's US and worldwide rights to Ziff Davis for a cool $23m.
In 1987, he launched the US-based MicroWarehouse which rapidly became the world's leading direct mail catalogue retailer of IT products and services to business. At the height of its dominance in a pre-internet, computerising world, the company had 3,500 employees in 13 countries. By 2000, when it had worldwide sales of $2.6bn, Dennis cashed in on a successful Nasdaq flotation. It made him at least $100m richer.
Global triumph
Meanwhile, he continued his audacious Anglo-American strategy by launching the UK Computer Shopper in 1988 (a clone of Ziff Davis's winning US monthly). By the 1990s, the magazine was selling over 120,000 copies and regularly publishing 500-page issues.
For his next trick, Dennis jumped into the 'new' men's magazine market which had been created in the UK by IPC (now Time Inc). Its boisterous Loaded roared into life in 1994 and leapt to sales of 450,000. Hot on its heels came EMAP's relaunch of FHM whose UK sales were almost 50% higher and then added 31 editions around the world. And, in 1995, Dennis's Maxim was no.3 in the UK but became America's most successful young men's lifestyle magazine. Within 10 years, Maxim's 19 international editions had a total circulation of 3.8m.
By 2007, when "lads mags" were spiralling downwards, Felix Dennis sold his US magazines (Maxim, Blender and Stuff) to private equity for a reputed $300m. By then, he was already on his way to a new publishing fortune, courtesy of The Week magazine. The brilliant news digest ("All You Need to Know About Everything That Matters") had been launched in 1995 by a former UK newspaper editor Jolyon Connell. Dennis helped rescue the venture after early losses and became a major investor. Years later, he bought the magazine outright. Under his ownership, The Week enjoyed more than 15 years of continuous copy sales growth before, inevitably, becoming becalmed at 200k circulation (with 20% of free copies) and an impressively growing online audience of 27,000 subscribers. It out-sells The Economist in the UK.
Few could have guessed just how successful The Week would become, least of all the former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan
The Week: success against the odds
Rusbridger, who turned down the opportunity to invest, and called it "parasitical". Twenty-two years later, the upstart magazine has so far racked up some £50m of profits. But it did not always look like a winner.
When he became sole owner in 2006, Felix started investing heavily in it. Total staffing was increased by 28%, mainly in subscription sales. It paid off handsomely – and quickly – pushing up subs and total revenue by almost 20% in the first year. The Week's revenues trebled in the following 10 years. It had become a typical Dennis deal. The US edition (now owned and managed separately from the UK company) has also grown strongly, with a current circulation of 500k.
Even with slowing growth, The Week still accounts for almost 20% of the UK company revenues, boosted by the 2015 launch of The Week Junior. The much-acclaimed "weekly magazine for curious, smart 8-14 year olds" has a circulation of 38k. Its success is underlined by the fact that most of these copies are mailed subscriptions, not merely casual sales. It's the same also for the 46k-circulation Money Week which was re-purchased by Dennis last week, 15 years after being sold as a failure.
The subscriptions strategy has been a hallmark of the company whose founder had long derided UK publishers for refusing to see beyond the newsstand. During the 1980s and 1990s, most UK magazine publishers were blissfully hooked on booming retail sales, not least in the country's then fast-growing supermarket chains. But not Felix Dennis. Influenced by his US experiences, he always wanted subscriptions. He understood the value of readership data and also the cashflow benefits of subscribers who paid for their magazines months or years in advance. Even today, magazines like Auto Express, Computer Active, Computer Shopper and PC Pro get the majority of their readers through subscriptions, unlike their envious UK competitors.
This core skill has given the company stability at a time when magazine-centric revenues elsewhere are in free-fall. But, then, Felix Dennis built a fortune by being unconventional. He flipped media business backwards and forwards across the Atlantic when publishers as diverse as Richard Desmond, Future, The Guardian and EMAP could warn you of the perils of even trying to be that clever. He took on projects that initially seemed dubious (Auto Express had failed in the UK when he bought the licence from Axel Springer; The Week had been on the edge of collapse). And Felix, forever the ageing hippy, succeeded in motivating ever-younger recruits even while looking after long-term partners, friends and employees.
In 2013, a British Media Awards citation praised his "uncanny knack of being around at the start of every new trend in publishing." But magazine publishing is only part of the story. In 2006, he wrote a bestseller "How to Get Rich" which, among much else, described his crack cocaine addiction (and abrupt ending of it) and an admission that he had spent over $100m on
Dennis: great at making money + spending it (The Week)
drink, drugs and women. In the book, he also argued that "having a great idea is overrated. You need great execution." Part of his "secret" was a blunt negotiating style. He said people with whom he was negotiating instinctively recognised his willingness simply to walk away. "They know, in their heart of hearts, that I don't care," he told the Daily Mail.
Like many another noisy, blustering entrepreneur, Felix Dennis only pretended not to care what people thought about him. He was described as having "a cackling laugh, roistering humour, ribald in appetite, loyal and immensely generous". But the insecurities of an impoverished single-parent childhood never left him. It fed his left-leaning politics and, perhaps also, his boastful profligacy, flamboyance and a generosity spelled out in a lengthy will of bequests to individuals and charities. He died leaving a fortune of some £400m including a garage of swanky cars (despite never having owned a driving licence), a 16th century English manor house on an estate near historic Stratford-upon-Avon, an apartment in Manhattan and houses in London, Connecticut, and on Mustique. He was as good at spending money as making it.
He also wrote some evocative poetry which he performed with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, throughout the UK and coast-to-coast in the US. Author Tom Wolfe, who once read the poems publicly, likened them to Rudyard Kipling. Dennis's own readings were exceptionally well-attended, not least because his tours were (factually) titled "Did I Mention the Free Wine?" He penned more than 1,500 poems, including one about his amazing charity, The Heart of England Forest, which he had established in order to create the largest native forest in England. That was his Really Big Idea.
Felix began planting trees in the late 1990s, and sealed his passion for British forestry by setting up a charity dedicated to planting a substantial native broadleaf forest (mostly oak and ash trees) around his home in the English midlands. Over 1,874 acres of woodland have so far been planted, and continues at the rate of 300 acres per year. The target is to see 30,000 acres of land turned back into one huge forest, teeming with wildlife and open to the public. Some legacy.
But Felix Dennis was a man of many passions and media deal-making was always one of them. He would certainly have approved of the company's first deal after his death. In November 2014, CEO James Tye acquired the BuyaCar site. It now looks like a game-changer.
The diversification is especially interesting because Dennis itself sells the new and used cars and also arranges the finance for buyers. It manages the whole customer relationship rather than delegating it to the kind of affiliate arrangement common to most media company e-commerce. With the first profits expected this year from an estimated 3,000 car sales (the majority of them "nearly new"), this is neat integration for Dennis which now generates more than 50% of its revenues from its family of Automotive brands.
BuyaCar employs 25 people in a fragmented market where buyers of cars (average price: £10k) are drawn to trusted media brands rather than through social media and search. This is where a publisher can win. Dennis's Auto Express, Evo and Car Buyer brands have more than 5m monthly users so they can push a lot of traffic to BuyaCar. "We already had an audience of in-market car buyers and relationships with the car brands," says Tye. "We saw a change in consumer habit and felt there was an e-commerce potential. The margin is sizeable and we're leveraging a really important audience through our websites. We are not going to try to compete with Amazon. It just feels like a very hard game. We can either do a small amount of high-value transactions or loads and loads of low value ones – we are definitely doing the former. We've got a big audience of in-market car buyers. We worked out that if someone is buying a car in the UK, two-thirds will visit one of our brands. That's really significant because we can monetise that at a higher rate."
Dennis takes a commission on each car sold, but the bulk of the profit comes from extras like the finance deals that dominate car buying in the UK. BuyaCar will this year account for more than 25% of Dennis's £100m revenues – almost double that in 2016. It is by far the company's fastest growing source of revenue, so Tye will soon be searching for more sectors in which to apply his new e-commerce skills. Presumably, he need go no further than the financial and insurance services for which Dennis is now accredited by the UK regulator.
It seems an appropriate post-Felix direction for Tye who became CEO in 2006, 14 years after joining the company as a computer journalist. In his first 10 years as CEO, he increased revenues by 50% by blending Felix Dennis's gutsy "why not?"
CEO Tye: solidly 'media neutral'
strategies and left-field ideas with his own cool analysis of markets and opportunities, and his thoughtful motivation of the team. It's all a long way from the young journo who met the owner all of four years after he joined the company. He reportedly found himself summoned into the boardroom where Dennis started shouting, telling his editors that all their covers were "crap". Tye was not the first or last person to see through the bluster and be enchanted by the infectious enthusiasm of a man who laughed as loudly (and as often) as he swore, and had unrivalled business instincts. Working for Dennis was never dull.
When he interviewed for the CEO's job, Tye told the founder: "I'll transform the company, taking it from a print-based publisher to a multi-platform publisher. But that doesn't mean I'm going to throw everything I do in print out of the window." Felix liked what he heard and enjoyed even more the way his new CEO proceeded to grow profits at a time when so many of their peers were struggling to stay afloat. But that was then.
The CEO clearly misses the noisy interventions and quiet counselling of his mentor. But he is reinventing the company with a conviction and style the founder would admire. Tellingly, Tye likes to quote a TED talk: "Great leaders are not head-down. They see around corners, shaping their future, not just reacting to it. They have diverse personal and professional stakeholder networks, and are courageous enough to abandon a practice that has made them successful in the past." It guides the management style of the quiet enthusiast who has inherited one of the UK's most exciting media businesses which aims to be "Brilliantly Different".
It helps that Tye and many of his people have grown-up professionally immersed in technology. They really do exhibit a hunger for change and innovation that most established companies struggle to create. That readiness to ditch the traditions of a successful past arguably helped Dennis to beat many of its UK peers in the race to become truly 'media neutral': "This whole debate, print, digital, it just feels like ancient history. We just don't talk about it any more. [Instead] I think there's a celebration of skills. If you haven't moved on from that you really do need to now, because your consumers don't think like that, do they?"
The CEO warms to his theme: "You start with the customer and then try to fit the product into how they want to consume it. Plenty of magazines thrive as online brands. We're not set on having a website for each of our magazines and not every site has to have a print product behind it driving content. I think that approach is what separates us from other publishers. We're a 21st Century company and we give people the content how and where they want to consume it. I'd much rather focus on activities where we know our readers want to consume content."
The new product development of some of the smartest companies involves testing parallel products with reverse characteristics. They prepare the logical business model, and then consider the seemingly illogical and unthinkable and try to make that work also. The combination of both approaches is usually the winner. That is more or less how Tye's team looked into the future of car sales: "Certainly ten years ago, I don't think anyone would have bought a car online, spent £15,000 and expected it to turn up delivered to their door. I think people are
Profitable after just 12 months
OK with that now, it's learned behaviour."
Then there is the way that researchers said young people were not interested in print and that parents were unlikely to subscribe to it on their behalf. Fast forward a few months and Dennis's The Week Junior is set to become the UK's most successful children's magazine. It's bankrolled by parent subscribers and became profitable just one year after launch. But good ideas don't always work. The 300k circulation free fitness weekly Coach closed last year after 14 months, due to poor advertising revenues. However, you can't find anyone who blames anyone for the failure of what most felt was a good launch and a brave initiative.
At the same time, Dennis is that elusive hard-soft combination of an efficient business as well as a creative one. The systems work well, morale is good and nobody complains about bureaucracy.
The company (some 25% of whose people are engineers/techies) has been quick to share content efficiently between brands, which has benefitted from the roll-out of the Slack cloud-based messaging and archiving system. The four-year-old Slack (originally an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversations and Knowledge") has been described by Dennis CTO Paul Lomax as "an internal Facebook with instant messaging. But what's interesting to us is how you can plug it into lots of different systems. So we have one channel where, when anyone closes an ad sale, it says that deal's been closed. It allows information to radiate without you explicitly having to go and tell people as you would using email."
But, for a publisher whose print magazines still account for 50% of revenue, there are plenty of challenges ahead. The walking wounded of legendary companies are a reminder of how today's winners can become tomorrow's casualties. Companies need to be testing, trying and turning over all stones in order to find the clues to the unimaginable Next Big Thing. More than anything else, they need to be versatile, agile and ambitious. That means having the "spare" bandwidth of people and resources in order to undertake large-scale new product development. It is significant that Dennis can demonstrate this muscle while having a higher revenue per head than all but one of its five larger UK competitors. This is a hard-working media company which is – to say the least – feeling pretty confident about its future.
Bookazines boom
The significance of online retailing is obvious, and the company which has made long-term profits by licensing its magazine content across the world will surely also find ways to market these e-commerce skills internationally.
But, perhaps, there are other less obvious clues to future growth. For the past 13 years, Dennis (along with many other magazine companies in the UK and US) has been publishing "bookazines". These are hybrid publications offering high-quality illustrations and typically running to 180 or more pages. They are often said to combine the accessibility and entertainment of a magazine with the authority of a book. It may all have begun with Dennis's Evo Supercars which, in 2004, rapidly sold-out 12,000 copies at £9.99. Trust Felix Dennis to get in early.
These relatively high-priced publications (with little or no advertising) are sweet and sour for many magazine companies whose bookazines have been padding copy sales and profits but also diverting both consumers and retailers from regular
Bookazines are big money
magazines. In the US, Folio has warned they were "a frightening development" which was cannibalising magazine sales. But, in so many ways, these high-priced packages of content (that were trail-blazed globally by colourful magazine-format recipe books) seem like a perfect response to the decline in magazine advertising and copy sales. In the US mass market, Hearst recently announced that its Dr. Oz The Good Life magazine would become a quarterly bookazine – priced $12. And Meredith is planning to relaunch Condé Nast's closed House & Garden magazine as a $9.99 bookazine.
But bookazines have been strongest in the tech-lifestyle areas traditionally served by specialist consumer magazines, for which they are much more than ancillary publications. At Dennis, what are marketed as "MagBooks" may now account for some 5% of all revenues (well down from their peak). Although the tech sector may be getting saturated in the UK, the publications are the logical successors to the Dummies series, one-time product manuals, and Teach Yourself books. In the US, it is estimated that bookazines of all kinds are 8% of magazine units sold at retail but 14% of revenues. The UK market – dominated by Dennis and Future – is said to be worth £45m in retail sales. It increased by 18% in 2016.
Dennis has a portfolio of some 200 bookazines across all its sectors including: "10-minute Yoga Cures", "The Ultimate Guide to Marathon Running", "Porsche Classics", and "How To Be a Hit On YouTube". The strong emphasis on fitness, self-improvement and technology implies that this publishing activity could morph into online "courses", problem solving, "remote learning" modules, and even tech qualifications. It is fertile ground for a subscriptions-based media company to find future growth in online services.
For all the continuing success of his company, Felix Dennis has left a giant hole. He had fickle views, for example, on
Sweet success (source: FIPP Congress 2017)
whether print was finished or would go on forever. But he never lost the competitive appetite that, arguably, made him the world's best magazine publisher during the decades when that really meant something. Perversely, that was how he created what sometimes seemed like an autocratic company but which has continued to thrive without him. He planned his exit well.
Charity as owner
Dennis Publishing is now owned by the Heart of England Forest charity and is, therefore, generating profits in order to plant trees. James Tye says it gives the company a higher purpose: "As a company we are part of this plan, diverting a share of our profits to create this wonderful and generous woodland. I am often asked if being owned by a charity will somehow blunt our commercial edge? My response is that it will do quite the opposite. The ability to shape the future and create such an epic legacy is a far more exciting purpose than fattening up an investment house, feeding private equity or making an already rich individual, richer. Everyone who works at Dennis has the opportunity to be involved as much or as little as they like, from tree planting days in Warwickshire to just being part of a company that is making the money to help build the forest. This compelling purpose is our secret weapon in a media world dominated by drab institutions, who measure financial success in months rather than years. The Heart of England Forest is the only organisation I know with a 100-year business plan. And we're part of it."
The charity, in some ways, helps Tye to replicate the atmosphere of a well-funded digital start-up. Silicon Valley is full of creative companies searching for ways to motivate employees and customers with community projects, but Dennis has it ready-made. Even the towering legend of Felix Dennis and the celebration of his anniversaries create Steve Jobs-like excitement in the company's zappy new London headquarters where images of trees are never far away.
But increasing digital revenues at the same time as slowing-down the decline of print are only parts of the challenge that may face the sparky management team. On a governance level, there is the change from the founder approving major investments with a wave of his hand, to a board of charity trustees which requires written proposals and formal discussion. Further, UK law dictates that trustees must make decisions solely in the interests of the charity. Some day, this might mean that they (or their successors) decide that the long-term funding of the forest necessitates the spreading of their investments. They may even decide to divest all or part of the media company. While charity ownership might seem easier for executives than, say, private equity, it can certainly be much less straightforward than working for a sole proprietor.
But other challenges may be more certain. For all Tye's insistence that BuyaCar is not in the mass market, recent reports that Amazon (which has already trialled car sales in Italy) is ready to move into the UK market might bring some shocks. Few retailers of any kind are pleased when Jeff Bezos enters their market. After all, Vogue publisher Condé Nast was scared away from fashion e-commerce by – among others – Amazon.
Those can be the challenging times when James Tye will miss the founder's phone calls. But he is well prepared.♦
15 October 2017 UPDATE: Quicker than we thought…Dennis Publishing is for sale, The Mail on Sunday reports. A trust set up by the late publisher Felix Dennis has appointed advisers from Livingstone to find a buyer for Dennis Publishing, which is likely to fetch about £150m. The proceeds will go to the Heart of England Forest charity, which was the brainchild of the media mogul who died of cancer three years ago. Dennis Publishing, which has a group turnover of £115m, declined to comment. (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-4980564/Viz-publisher-sale-150m.html#ixzz4vfkUEY1L
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Hendersonville's Daly Cull is a blue-collar Commando
Senior lineman makes transition to center on a veteran offensive line, all while keeping his brother's spirit alive
cbrooks@tennessean.com
Every time a Hendersonville player touches the football on offense, senior Daly Cull has a hand in it – literally.
Cull moved to center from tackle to begin the new season and is embracing the role.
It's also allowed him to keep honoring another member of the Commando family – his late brother, D.J., who passed away in a car accident in 2013.
Cull said his older brother has always been – and continues to be – an inspiration and a role model to him. It's quickly evident in seeing him on the field, as he wears the same number D.J. wore during his time in a Commando uniform.
"His freshman year, he wore number 50 because of Coach (Kris) Bundy – Coach Bundy is really kind of like our second dad," Cull said. "When he moved up to varsity, someone already had the number 50, so he got 54 because of (former Chicago Bears linebacker) Brian Urlacher. D.J. was almost 10 years older than me, so when he got that number, I was playing in the little leagues and I got 54."
Cull almost didn't get the same number, however.
"Since I was seven, I wore number 54," Cull said. "My freshman year, I was worried about not getting (the number) after he passed away, because Deven Kincaid wore 54, but he was moving to tight end, so he changed numbers to 86 and it worked out fine."
Cull said his game is a little different than his brother's was, if only because they weren't exactly the same size.
"I'm about five inches taller and about 100 pounds heavier than he was," Cull said. "He was a linebacker and a guard, and he was quick at linebacker – and he could hit. All of his friends said if you saw him coming, you needed to get out of his way at practice."
Commando head coach Bruce Hatfield said Cull takes a lot of the same traits as his brother.
"D.J. was awesome," Hatfield said. "He was cut from the same mold as Daly. D.J. was so proud of Daly, and I know that's why (Daly) wants to do well this year."
Cull started almost right away for the Commandos in 2014 as a sophomore, and made the transition from tackle to center during this past offseason.
"I've been doing a lot of offseason stuff, so that's really helped my transition," Cull said. "Moving from tackle to center – they're two totally different positions – but I like it."
Cull expects to play center in college, thus making his transition to the position that much more important. He's received some help from another former Commando – Joe Townsend – who started at center for three years at Vanderbilt University.
"He's been a role model to me in many different ways," Cull said of Townsend.
As the Commandos prepare to host Siegel in Hendersonville's home opener on Friday, Cull is one of the leaders of a squad that many consider to be a state contender in Class 5A.
And he still expects to have a butterfly or two before taking the field.
"I've been coming here ever since I can remember," Cull said. "It was always packed. You can always hear cowbells or air horns. I don't get nervous much, but that first home opener is something different. Many kids don't get to experience something like this, especially with the student section we have."
Hatfield said he knows what kind of effort he'll get from his starting center, who also starts at defensive tackle.
"You know you can count on him," Hatfield said. "He's going to play his best and his hardest for his high school and his community."
Several FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) schools have already shown interest, and Cull recently received a call from Memphis as well.
Even with the interest, Cull said it wasn't all about football.
"I just want to get my school paid for," Cull said.
It's that kind of blue-collar attitude that defines not only Cull, but his family and the Commando program, Hatfield added.
"The whole family has meant something to the community and the program," Hatfield said. "Not only Daly, but the whole family. They're hard-working, blue-collar – what we want to represent Commando football."
Reach Chris Brooks at cbrooks@tennessean.com or at 615-575-7118. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @CB_SumnerSports, and on Snapchat @cbrooksgne.


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Concert 3 – 09/22/19
Featuring guest composer James Paul Sain
Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 7:30p in the Concert Hall
Beltà, poi che t'assenti (1611)
Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613) [arr. Gompper]
Musica segreta (2006)
David GOMPPER (b.1954)
Luciana Hontila, violin
Donghee Han, viola
Sarah Hansen, violoncello
David Gompper, piano
Zach Stanton, conductor
Palimpseste (third version) (2002)
Marc-Andre DALBAVIE (b.1961)
Alexis Letourneau, flute
Ana Maria Locke, clarinet
Karina Glasinovic, piano
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Polestar (2017)
I. Calmly
II. Angular
III. Freely
James Paul SAIN (b.1959)
Kim Cassisa, clarinet
Endopsychosis (2019) premiere
I. Schizophrenia (attacca)
II. Delusional Disorder (attacca)
III. Paraphrenia-Coda
Alexis Letourneau, flute (picc)
Jenna Sehmann, oboe
Ana Maria Locke, clarinet (A)
Shawn Seguin, bassoon
Irene Tang, horn
Ciarra Krist, trumpet (C)
Tom Kelley, trombone
Peter Naughton, percussion
Matt Anderson, percussion
Luciana Hontila, violin I
Joshua Palazzolo, violin II
Will Yager, double bass
Carlo Gesualdo
Tristis est anima mea
The secular madrigal Beltà, poi che t'assenti is published in the sixth book of Madrigals (1611) by Carlo Gesualdo.
Beltà poi che t'assenti
Come ne porti il cor
Porta i tormenti.
Ché tormentato cor
può ben sentire
La doglia del morire,
E un alma senza core,
Non può sentir dolore.
Beauty, since you depart,
as you take my heart,
take also my torments.
For a tormented heart
can surely feel
the pain of death,
but a soul without a heart
can feel no sorrow.
(translated James Gibb)
Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza, (born March 30, 1566, Venosa [Italy]—died September 8, 1613, Gesualdo), Italian composer and lutenist. Until the late 20th century his fame rested chiefly on his dramatic, unhappy, and often bizarre life. Since the late 20th century, however, his reputation as a musician has grown, based on his highly individual and richly chromatic madrigals…. He is especially noted for what music scholar Glenn Watkins called the "dazzling harmonic style" of his last two books of madrigals ….
Gesualdo was much interested in the widespread musical reputation of the Este court in Ferrara. In 1594 he traveled there as a composer and musician and … found the atmosphere of the Este court and his proximity to several of the leading composers of the day quite stimulating. His first two books of madrigals were published by the Ferrarese ducal press in 1594. His third book of madrigals was first published by the ducal press in 1595 and the fourth in 1596, both apparently written largely during his time in Ferrara and both showing signs of the development of his personal vision ….
In 1603 Gesualdo published two sacred motet collections. Gesualdo's last two books of madrigals (as well as a Holy Week Responsoria) were published in 1611. Although these last two books of madrigals were long considered "late" works because of their dramatic exclamations, linearly driven chromaticism, discontinuous texture, and harmonic license—that is, their generally unusual and experimental nature—Gesualdo himself claimed that they had in fact been written in the mid-to-late 1590s, near the time of his other published madrigals, and that he had been forced to publish accurate copies because inaccurate copies had been printed and some work plagiarized. —Encyclopædia Britannica, Kathleen Kuiper
Musica Segreta
Musica Segreta, composed in 2006, is a revision of Quartet originally composed in 1996. The work makes use of a hexachord, extracted from the seven-note set found in Boulez's '...explosante-fixe...' which was written to the memory of Igor Stravinsky. This symmetrical hexachord defines two tonal regions: A proceeding to E-flat. In order to help myself expand the tonal possibilities for the work, I created a three-dimensional cube. On each surface I wrote out three sets of pairings of the hexachord starting on A, C, and C-sharp. The eight corners of the cube suggested a collection eight principal sonorities, heard in the piano at the beginning. By rotating the cube, I was able to create many of the linear and vertical pitch collections. The idea of Stravinsky's rotations is very much evident.
Finally, I take Gesualdo's Beltà, poi che t'assenti from his collection of Madrigals, Book VI (which, incidentally, appears as the third movement of Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo, 1960), re-voice the first phrase and place it in the strings at the coda, above a piano ostinato. This phrase also moves from A to E-flat, creating a connection with the Boulez hexachord.
This work was written for a concert in honor of Glenn Watkins upon his retirement from the University of Michigan in 1996 (revised in 2006), and dedicated to him. He is the author of Gesualdo: The man and his music, for which Stravinsky wrote the preface. Hence the quartet of characters: Boulez, Stravinsky, Gesualdo, and Watkins.
David Gompper has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, a conductor, and a composer in New York, San Diego, London, Nigeria, Michigan, Texas and Iowa. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Humphrey Searle. After teaching in Nigeria, he received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Texas, Arlington. Since 1991, he has been Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa. In 2002-2003 Gompper was in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching, performing and conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. In 2009 he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, and a Fromm Commission in 2013.
Gompper's compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Merkin Halls (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Konzerthaus (Vienna) and the Bolshoi and Rachmaninoff Halls (Moscow Conservatory). For the Naxos label, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recorded his Violin Concerto with Wolfgang David, and two new discs of works that include four concerti (Double, Clarinet, Cello and Double Bass), as well as three orchestral works.
Marc-Andre Dalbavie
It was after reading E T A Hoffman's unfinished novel, Murr the Tom-Cat's Philosophy of Life, together with a Fragmentary Biography of Kappellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Odd Sheets of Waste Paper (1820-22), that I had the idea for Palimpseste. The cat belonging to the musician Kreisler decides to write his memoirs but, as he has no paper to write on, he uses the pages from an already existing book. The book that these pages belong to is a biography of Kreisler. Hoffman's novel oscillates between the two texts about the same person.
Palimpseste (a word which describes the method of writing on used parchment but where the original text has been erased) is built upon a work by Gesualdo (16th century): the 11th madrigal from the 6th book Beltà, poiche t'assenti. The two pieces superimpose themselves upon each other and transform each other.
The two spaces occupied by the strings and the wind instruments in Palimpseste represent the two texts in Hoffman's novel. And just as the 'life of Kreisler' is derived from Hoffman's earlier Kreisleriana which would later inspire Robert Schumann, so the Gesualdo madrigal has inspired another work: the third movement of Stravinsky's Monumentum. —Marc-André Dalbavie
Composer Marc-André Dalbavie was born in 1961. After studying at the Paris Conservatory (1980-86) where he received several first prizes, he spent five years as part of the musical research department at IRCAM from 1987 to 1988, he studied conducting with Pierre Boulez. He is currently professor of orchestration at the Paris Conservatory, and composer in residence with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Starting in 1982, he and other composers of his generation became interested in the potentials of spectral music, particularly those offered by timbre and processing. He enhanced these techniques with polyphonic and rhythmic techniques (speed, metrics...), also developing formal principles of recurrence, integrating heterogeneous and spatial phenomena through his usage of electronics, as well as employing music and acoustic computer programs.
If, for him, the eighties were devoted to timbre and color (Miroirs transparents, Diadèmes...), the nineties would be devoted to space and location. The composer feels strongly about applying the concept of work in situ to musical creation, thus demonstrating the possibilities offered by the spacialization generated by orchestral composition. In Seuils, the electronic equipment is installed around the audience and the poetic text that is used makes reference to the space in which it intervenes. The use of baroque instruments links the Concertino with a 17th century piece (Curtain Tune by M. Locke). L'Offertoire for men's choir and symphony orchestra suggests virtual spaces simulated by the choral writing. In Concerto pour violon, one section of the orchestra is installed around the audience, breaking down the standard frontal concert orientation, thus redefining the very idea of a concerto. Lastly, in Non-Lieu composed with writer Guy Lelong, the stage is completely empty and the 4 women's choirs, as well as the instrumental ensemble, are distributed in the hall around the audience.
The music of Marc-André Dalbavie is published by Editions Jobert.
James Paul Sain
Polestar is another name for the star Polaris. It is also a principle that attracts someone or something to another. This duo for clarinet and piano has been a while in the making, acting as an attractor for the composer to return to his roots as a classically trained composer of acoustic music. Polestar is dedicated to my colleague and friend, renowned clarinetist Mitchell Estrin.
Endopsychosis
Endopsychosis is the "spiritual" state in which psychoses are exhibited without the traditional symptoms of the disorder.
The single movement work encompasses three sections: Schizophrenia, Delusional Disorder, and Paraphrenia, followed by a codetta. The three sections of the work are each based on four different hexachords comprised substantially of cluster triads presented in various contexts and orchestrations. The codetta presents the previous musical material reconciled in the final diverging 12 hexacordal chorale.
During the past year the composer has journeyed with two of his extended family members as they proceeded along the Alzheimer's progression. Their struggles with memory and perception of reality informs the musical journey of Endopyschosis. This work is dedicated to loved ones struggling with physical and/or mental disease.
James Paul Sain is Professor of Music at the University of Florida where he has taught acoustic and electroacoustic music composition, theory, and technology for 28 years. He founded and directed the internationally acclaimed Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival for 17 years. Sain is responsible for programming over 1700 works of contemporary art music. His compositional oeuvre spans all major acoustic ensembles, instrumental and vocal soloists, and has embraced electroacoustic music. His works have been featured at major national and international societal events. He has presented his music in concert and given lectures in Asia, Europe, South America and North America. Dr. Sain is President Emeritus of the Society of Composers Inc. He previously served for several terms on American Composers Alliance Board of Governors. His music is available in print from Brazinmusikanta and American Composers Editions and on CD on the Capstone, Electronic Music Foundation, Innova, University of Lanús, Mark Masters, Albany and NACUSA labels.


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Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons II: Painscape
Once upon a game, Rick, Morty and the Smith family went on magical D&D adventures…now, magical D&D adventures are coming to Earth, and no one will survive the Painscape! The world's greatest role-playing game returns to plague the world's most dysfunctional animated family! Fan-favorite dice dependent Jim Zub (Samurai Jack, Savage Sword of Conan) re-teams up with Eisner-nominated cartoonist +5 Troy Little (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Powerpuff Girls) to destroy Adult Swim's pop culture juggernaut and the best-selling role-playing game that once used the term "THAC0."
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in real world we mix cold and hot to actually use it .
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Our family rooms have a double bed and a single bed, normally for three occupants; it would depend on the age of your children and for how many nights you wish to stay. Please contact the hotel directly with your request.
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Q: Hindrance in TSQL SVF Call I have a simply Products data table with 100k records (just generates some random data):
set nocount on

create table dbo.temp_Products
(
    [ProductID] int,
    [Type] tinyint,
    [Price] float,
    [Weight] float
)

declare @rowcnt int = 0
while (@rowcnt <= 100000)
begin
    insert into dbo.temp_Products
    select @rowcnt, 1+rand()*4, 1+rand()*100, 1+rand()*10

    set @rowcnt = @rowcnt + 1
end

And a scalar value function which does a simple logical calculation:
create function dbo.usvf_CalculateShipping
(
    @PricePerKG float = 1,
    @Type tinyint,
    @WeightInKG float = 1
)
returns float
as
begin

    return  /*get the appropriate factor to apply*/
            case
                when @Type = 1 then 0.1
                when @Type = 2 then 0.2
                when @Type = 3 then 0.35
                when @Type = 4 then 0.43
            end * @PricePerKG * @WeightInKG

end

However, when I run a query to call the SVF the resulting performance is impaired relative to the query calling the logic inline.  The executed SQL statements and results are as follows:
SQL:
select ProductID, case
                when [Type] = 1 then 0.1
                when [Type] = 2 then 0.2
                when [Type] = 3 then 0.35
                when [Type] = 4 then 0.43
            end *Price*[Weight] from temp_Products
where [Weight] between 2 and 8

select ProductID, dbo.usvf_CalculateShipping(Price, [Type], [Weight]) from temp_Products
where [Weight] between 2 and 8

Results:
Table 'temp_Products'. Scan count 1, logical reads 390, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.

(1 row(s) affected)

 SQL Server Execution Times:
   CPU time = 109 ms,  elapsed time = 103 ms.

(59938 row(s) affected)
Table 'temp_Products'. Scan count 1, logical reads 390, physical reads 0, read-    ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads     0.

(1 row(s) affected)

 SQL Server Execution Times:
   CPU time = 609 ms,  elapsed time = 629 ms.

But if I get the execution plan of running both queries at once, the relative cost of each query is 50%, even though the inline SVF is considerably slower.

*

*Why does SQL server run ths inline SVF query slower - both in CPU and elapsed time?

*By centralising some simple logic it appears I impede performance through code reuse.  My problem is I need to call this SVF in numerous places without duplicating logic. If SQL server always impedes performance when using SVF why would I ever use them and is there a different solution?

A: SQL Server is atrocious when it comes to the performance of scalar functions as well as the reporting of its impact.
(a very useful article with details as to why: T-SQL User-Defined Functions: the good, the bad, and the ugly (part 1))
You are correct that the Query plan (actual) does not reflect the true performance of the two different approaches, this is because the query plan does not include inline scalar function calls in it's results.
A good* example of SQL Server doing this is if you reference a table in your scalar function, ie:
create function dbo.usvf_CalculateShipping2
(
    @Type tinyint,
    @ProductID int
)
returns float
as
begin
    declare @result float

    select @result =
            /*get the appropriate factor to apply*/
            case
                when @Type = 1 then 0.1
                when @Type = 2 then 0.2
                when @Type = 3 then 0.35
                when @Type = 4 then 0.43
            end * t.PricePerKG * t.WeightInKG
    from ProductTable
    where ProductID = @ProductID

    return @result
end

Now if you call this usvf in your test query and show the query plan, you will not see the retrieval of records from ProductTable (even though it is actually hitting the table).
To see the true impact you will need to run a trace (open SQL Profiler and monitor your calls)..  What you will see is that for every record you return you will see the same number of executions of the scalar function.
The same is true for Table value functions when used with CROSS APPLY calls.
As a rule we state:

*

*do NOT use scalar functions inside queries

*they are ONLY to be used to set local variables

`* good in the sense that this is an example of SQL Server showing bad behaviour

A:
Why does SQL server run ths inline SVF query slower - both in CPU and
  elapsed time?

Scalar valued functions are executed in a different context than the main query and setting that up for each call takes time.

By centralising some simple logic it appears I impede performance
  through code reuse.

Yes, for scalar valued functions that is true.

If SQL server always impedes performance when using SVF why would I
  ever use them

Good question, not sure if I can provide a use case where a scalar valued function would be the obvious answer.

is there a different solution?

Yes, you can use an inline table valued function instead.
create function dbo.usvf_CalculateShipping2
(
    @PricePerKG float = 1,
    @Type tinyint,
    @WeightInKG float = 1
)
returns table as return
select case
         when @Type = 1 then 0.1
         when @Type = 2 then 0.2
         when @Type = 3 then 0.35
         when @Type = 4 then 0.43
       end * @PricePerKG * @WeightInKG as Shipping

You also have to change the way you call the function.
select ProductID,
       (
       select Shipping
       from dbo.usvf_CalculateShipping2(Price, [Type], [Weight])
       )
from temp_Products
where [Weight] between 2 and 8

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In Couchsurfing in Iran, award-winning author Stephan Orth spends sixty-two days on the road in this mysterious Islamic republic to provide a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at life in one of the world's most closed societies. Through the unsurpassed hospitality of twenty-two hosts, he skips the guidebooks and tourist attractions and travels from Persian carpet to bed to cot, covering more than 8,400 kilometres to recount "this world's hidden doings." Experiencing daily what he calls the "two Irans" that coexist side by side―the "theocracy, where people mourn their martyrs" in mausoleums, and the "hide-and-seek-ocracy, where people hold secret parties and seek worldly thrills instead of spiritual bliss"―he learns that Iranians have become experts in navigating around their country's strict laws. Though couchsurfing is officially prohibited in Iran―the state fears spies would be able to travel undetected through the country―more than a hundred thousand Iranians are registered with online couchsurfing portals. And thanks to these hospitable, English-speaking strangers, Orth gets up close and personal with locals, peering behind closed doors and blank windows to uncover the inner workings of a country where public show and private reality are strikingly opposed. Orth, Stephen, 1979- -- Travel -- Iran. | Iran -- Description and travel. | Iran -- Social life and customs -- 21st century. | Australian.


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<?php

use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
use Timegridio\Concierge\Models\Service;
use Timegridio\Concierge\Models\Vacancy;

class VacancyTest extends TestCaseDB
{
    use DatabaseTransactions;
    use CreateUser, CreateBusiness, CreateService, CreateVacancy, CreateContact, CreateAppointment;

    protected $business;

    protected $contact;

    protected $vacancy;

    protected $issuer;

    protected $service;

    protected $appointment;

    /**
     * @covers  Timegridio\Concierge\Models\Vacancy::scopeFuture
     * @test
     */
    public function it_scopes_future()
    {
        $this->arrangeFixture();

        $this->vacancy = $this->createVacancy([
            'business_id'  => $this->business->id,
            'date'         => Carbon::parse('tomorrow')->toDateString(),
            'start_at'     => Carbon::parse('tomorrow'),
            ]);

        $this->vacancy = $this->createVacancy([
            'business_id'  => $this->business->id,
            'date'         => Carbon::parse('tomorrow +1 day')->toDateString(),
            'start_at'     => Carbon::parse('tomorrow +1 day'),
            ]);

        $vacancies = Vacancy::future()->get();

        /* Perform Test */
        $this->assertCount(2, $vacancies);
    }

    /**
     * @covers  Timegridio\Concierge\Models\Vacancy::isHoldingAnyFor
     * @test
     */
    public function it_verifies_a_vacancy_holds_appointment_for_a_user()
    {
        $this->arrangeFixture();

        $this->contact = $this->createContact();
        $this->contact->user()->associate($this->issuer);
        $this->contact->save();
        $this->business->contacts()->save($this->contact);

        $this->appointment = $this->makeAppointment($this->business, $this->issuer, $this->contact);
        $this->appointment->service()->associate($this->service);
        $this->appointment->vacancy()->associate($this->vacancy);
        $this->appointment->save();

        /* Perform Test */
        $this->assertTrue($this->vacancy->isHoldingAnyFor($this->issuer->id));
    }

    /**
     * @covers  Timegridio\Concierge\Models\Vacancy::isHoldingAnyFor
     * @test
     */
    public function it_verifies_a_vacancy_doesnt_hold_appointment_for_a_user()
    {
        $this->arrangeFixture();

        $this->contact = $this->createContact();
        $this->business->contacts()->save($this->contact);

        $this->appointment = $this->makeAppointment($this->business, $this->issuer, $this->contact);
        $this->appointment->service()->associate($this->service);
        $this->appointment->vacancy()->associate($this->vacancy);
        $this->appointment->save();

        /* Perform Test */
        $this->assertFalse($this->vacancy->isHoldingAnyFor($this->issuer->id));
    }

    protected function arrangeFixture()
    {
        /* Setup Stubs */
        $this->issuer = $this->createUser();

        $this->business = $this->createBusiness();
        $this->business->owners()->save($this->issuer);

        $this->service = $this->makeService();
        $this->business->services()->save($this->service);

        $this->vacancy = $this->makeVacancy();
        $this->vacancy->service()->associate($this->service);
        $this->business->vacancies()->save($this->vacancy);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Вальтер Гаель Сандоваль Контрерас (;  5 листопада 1995, Гвадалахара) — мексиканський футболіст, нападник клубу «Гвадалахара».

Клубна кар'єра
Випускник футбольної академії «Естудіантес Текос». У 2013 році він перейшов в «Сантос Лагуна». У новій команді теж здебільшого грав за молодіжну команду і брав участь у італійському турнірі Віареджо 2013 та 2014 років.

У 2015 році для отримання ігрової практики Гаель на правах оренди перейшов в «Хуарес». 26 липня в матчі проти Лобос БУАП він дебютував у Лізі Ассенсо, другому за рівнем дивізіоні країни.

По закінченні оренди Сандоваль повернувся в «Сантос Лагуна». 18 липня 2016 року в матчі проти УАНЛ Тигрес він дебютував в мексиканській Прімері, замінивши у другому таймі Браяна Рабельйо. 7 листопада в поєдинку проти «Чьяпас» Гаель забив свій перший гол за «Сантос Лагуна».

На початку 2018 року Сандоваль перейшов в «Гвадалахару».

Титули та досягнення
 Чемпіон Мексики (1): 2017 (К)
 Володар Кубка Мексики (2): 2014 (А)
 Володар Суперкубка Мексики (1): 2015
 Володар кубка чемпіонів КОНКАКАФ (1): 2018

Примітки

Посилання

 Статистика на LIGAMX.net

 Статистика на futbol360

Футболісти «Хуареса»
Футболісти «Сантос Лагуни»
Футболісти «Гвадалахараи»
Мексиканські футболісти
Вікіпедія:Статті з іншим значенням на Вікіданих
Статті з джерелами з Вікіданих
Народились 1995
Народились 5 листопада

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Pantry storage – What can you store in a pantry in the kitchen? What you want, of course: jam jars, cucumbers, pickles, pasta, sauces, cookbooks, wine bottles and many other foods not to be stored in the fridge or freezers. You can even put a washing machine, iron and ironing board there if you don't have a dedicated laundry room. There are many different ways to arrange a pantry.
For example, if this is a single room, it may have matching doors that make your pantry look like a built-in wardrobe. On the other hand, they can be easily separated by curtains. The pantry can also be part of the kitchen. The pantry is one of the best ways to organize your kitchen. Such a cabinet can save space and open storage possibilities upwards.
However, you cannot imagine your grandmother's old sideboard as there are plenty of modern pantry ideas that combine elegance and efficiency. As a bonus, such a well-organized room is a great motivation for culinary exploits and facilitates work in the kitchen. On the other hand, by adding copper cookware and braided storage baskets, the pantry would seem ideal for a beautiful country room. Here are a few good food components for your kitchen that can help you with your kitchen organization.


text:
8 things to know about the novel coronavirus, wipes and 'Dr. Germ'
By Jamie Landers/Cronkite News
TUCSON – Microbiologist Charles Gerba, a battle-scarred virus veteran, earned the sobriquet "Dr. Germ" based on his experience and expertise in researching and eradicating germs.
He comes to the novel coronavirus crisis steeped in fighting such deadly viruses as Ebola and SARs, and he's now using his microscope and petri dishes for a new challenge. While other scientists look for cures, vaccines and rapid-fire tests, he and colleagues at the University of Arizona are turning their attention elsewhere – the use of disinfectants to battle COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
As the virus has upended life around the world – closing schools and restaurants and emptying grocery store shelves – Gerba discussed how cultural differences can spread the virus, how some disinfectants work better than others, the magic of microfiber and whether an Arizona summer could slow or kill the coronavirus. This March 9 interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
iPhones, tabletops and school desks harbor dangerous germs
A study by the University of Arizona found that the typical employee office desk has hundreds of times more bacteria per square inch than a toilet seat in the same building.
"From our studies, believe it not – tabletops, children's desks at school, tables in a coffee break room … why? Because that's where your hands are moving around, so that's where we see the greatest exposure," Gerba said.
Smartphones are not any better. Studies have found streptococcus and E. coli lurking on screens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 80% of all infections are transmitted by hands.
On average, Americans check their phone once every 12 minutes, meaning you come in contact with your phone screen at least 80 times a day, according to global tech protection company Asurion, giving microorganisms plenty of time to move from your fingers to your phone.
"Phones become germ mobile devices because you touch a surface, touch your phone, put it on your phone, put it in your pocket, you'll take it back home, take the phone home and do it again," Gerba said. "Basically, you've moved the virus from your phone to your home."
Gerba recommends using an alcohol-based disinfecting wipe to clean both your case and phone at least once a day. Personally, he cleans his twice daily. To make it easier to remember and to complete, he suggests having cleaning supplies in the walkway of your home so you don't spread the germs you brought home any further than the door.
Novel coronavirus is tenacious compared with Ebola and SARs
"I think this coronavirus appears to spread more easily than the MERS agent or the SARS agent, so it probably survives better in the environment," Gerba said. "One thing we learned with the SARS agent was that it didn't survive very well in the environment. This virus either survives much better in the environment, or it takes fewer organisms to cause an infection."
A study conducted by experts from the CDC, National Institutes of Health, UCLA and Princeton University investigated how long the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains infectious on a variety of surfaces: in droplets for as long as three hours, on copper as long as four hours, on cardboard as long as 24 hours and on plastic and stainless steel as long as three days.
According to the CDC, the Ebola virus "can survive on dry surfaces, like doorknobs and countertops, for several hours; in body fluids like blood, the virus can survive up to several days at room temperature."
The CDC says proper cleaning and disinfecting is key to stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
Disinfectant wipes are better than disinfectant sprays
"When you wipe a surface," Gerba said, "people tend to let it dry and you have to have a certain amount of contact time to kill the viruses and bacteria."
Gerba prefers pre-moistened disinfectant wipes because the disinfectant stays on the surface as it air dries, killing more germs and bacteria in the process. What's so different about spraying and wiping? Gerba said spraying is close to doing nothing at all, if you don't use the correct technique.
"The disinfectant can absorb into the cleaning cloth rather than the table," he said. Even when the disinfectant is sprayed directly on the surface, wiping with a dry cloth dries the surface instantly, leaving the disinfectant with nearly zero contact time to kill germs.
"Where there's a will, there's a way," Gerba said. If someone only has access to a spray disinfectant, Gerba recommends letting it air dry to give the surface more contact time to kill germs. "If all else fails," he said, washing the surface with plain soap and hot water can pick up and move the germs. However, the technique is not guaranteed to kill them, so when you're done, either throw the rags away or wash them for 45 minutes in hot water.
Turn to microfiber when sanitizer and disinfectant wipes are sold out
A study from the University of California's Davis Medical Center determined microfiber is better than other synthetic cloths and cotton cloths in terms of capturing bacteria. In a demonstration using a cotton mop and a microfiber mop, the cotton-loop mop reduced bacteria on the floors by 30%, while the microfiber mop reduced bacteria by 99%.
Also, microfiber, unlike cotton, dries fast, making it hard for bacteria to grow and survive.
"Use a microfiber cloth if you can get them because they are better at attracting microorganisms from surfaces," Gerba said. "But make sure if you do that, you wash your hands afterwards and take these cloths and put them in a washing machine with hot water. Dry them for at least 45 minutes because usually cloths are thick and they need those kinds of treatment to kill any microorganisms that might be in them."
If cared for properly, the University of California's study states, microfiber can be washed a thousand times before losing its effectiveness.
Scientific breakthroughs on COVID-19 will go beyond vaccines and tests
Scientists are rushing into battle to come up with tests, vaccines and, possibly, a cure. Gerba said disinfectants also are a powerful research weapon.
"These innovative technologies are really designed to cover large surfaces and to act over long periods of times, from hours, to days to weeks," Gerba said, "and that's a benefit because when you disinfect a surface, it can become recontaminated almost immediately, so you want some kind of barrier that continuously disinfects surfaces."
According to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, an evaluation of continuous disinfectants in a clinical setting had lasting positive effects. The study tested the effects of disinfectants on bioburden, or the number of bacteria living on a surface that has not been sterilized, living on the rails of hospital patient's beds.
"The persistent agent was found superior in its ability to limit the establishment of bioburden," according to the study, which found that a continuous stream of disinfectants was key to controlling the spread of bacteria on surfaces.
Cultural mores, like kissing cheeks as a greeting, can spread the virus
According to the CDC, the coronavirus is mainly spread through respiratory droplets like from a cough, sneeze or any "close contact."
"The coronavirus spreads mainly by sneezing and coughing and then getting to your nose someway; either inhaling it or it contaminates surfaces either with respiratory secretion or feces, potentially," Gerba said. "Then, you touch a surface, you get it on your fingers, you bring your fingers to your mouth, nose or eyes."
Because the virus is spread from person-to-person, the close contact that Italians have with one another accelerated the spread of the illness. According to the CDC, the practice of social distancing helps curb the person-to-person contact. The CDC recommends such tactics as increasing physical distance from other people, staggering work schedules to reduce contact and limiting any non-essential work travel and social gatherings of more than 10 people.
Microbiologist Charles Gerba calls smartphones "germ mobile devices because you touch a surface, touch your phone, put it on your phone, put it in your pocket, you'll take it back home, take the phone home and do it again. Basically, you've moved the virus from your phone to your home." (Photo by Jamie Landers/Cronkite News)
The virus may – or may not – be able to survive an Arizona summer
How fluctuating temperatures directly affect the novel coronavirus isn't known yet.
"Usually coronavirus season, if it's like the common cold, ends in May, but we will see," Gerba said.
The idea was supported by President Donald Trump, who, in a Feb. 10 White House meeting with state governors, said, "It looks like by April, you know in theory, when it gets a little warmer, (the novel coronavirus) miraculously goes away – I hope that's true." Some scientists have said that the novel coronavirus is acting in lethal and unknown ways, so counting on warm weather to stop it is based on hope rather than hard data.
According to a Harvard University study, influenza and similar viruses survive longer in regions with winter seasons because such factors as cold and dry air give it longevity – increasing the chances of infecting more people. However, according to the World Health Organization, the novel coronavirus doesn't die until it reaches 132 degrees Fahrenheit.
Although Arizona summer temperatures in the low 100s won't kill the virus, a new study published by researchers in Beijing found that the heat inhibited its ability to infect people.
Flushing toilets led to the 'Dr. Germ' handle nearly 50 years ago
Gerba launched his understanding of how germs work and how best to avoid them decades ago.
The idea to study toilets originated in 1974. Gerba was working at Baylor College of Medicine where he would spend two years repeating one cycle: contaminate a toilet bowl with E. coli, cover it with gauze, then flush and squeeze the gauze to remove the organisms for further testing.
"Believe or not, I used to put viruses in a toilet and flush it and I looked at where they settled out in the restroom," Gerba said. "You don't want to keep your toothbrush any closer than three feet, otherwise you're going to brush your teeth with what was in the toilet."
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Faith O'Brien, 3, suffers from hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause kidneys to stop working. Her father, John O'Brien, has come to his daughter's rescue by donating a kidney.
Three-year-old Faith O'Brien of Plympton sat in her bed in the Children's Hospital on Tuesday wearing a medical gown covered in drawings of clowns.
Her father, John O'Brien, clutched the back of her head and kissed her cheek. He was about to give her one of his kidneys.
Faith contracted a bad case of pneumonia that contaminated her bloodstream when she was a baby.
She was diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause kidneys to stop working, especially in young children.
When doctors told John O'Brien and his wife, Ellen, last year that Faith needed a kidney transplant, the two decided one of them would be the donor because immediate family members are typically the best matches.
"Whoever was the more compatible person was going to give her the kidney, but we came up 50-50," said John O'Brien, who owns a contracting company.
He ended up donating the kidney, and his wife volunteered to care for both.
As of Thursday afternoon, Faith was staying in a Children's Hospital room down the hall from her father's. Both were in stable condition.
Faith's brother Brosnan, 6, is happy his sister is healthy but has told his father he will miss the truck that delivered Faith's dialysis supplies.
Young siblings who are close in age do not always get along, but John O'Brien said Brosnan has been very kind to Faith.
"He's grown to appreciate his sister more, it's given him a different outlook," he said.
Patriot Ledger writer Gal Tziperman Lotan may be reached at glotan@ledger.com.
- Also known as Hamburger Disease, hemolytic uremic syndrome is usually contracted after acute food-borne illness.
- Most cases are caused when a certain strain of E. coli, O157:H7, enters the bloodstream and infects it.
- Symptoms include diarrhea, anemia, and a low platelet count. The disease can lead to kidney failure.
- Preventative measures include thoroughly cooking meat, washing fruits and vegetables before eating them and washing hands regularly, especially after changing a child's diaper or cleaning a toilet.


text:
namespace cutehmi {
namespace modbus {
namespace internal {

template <typename DERIVED>
class QtServerMixin
{
	protected:
		bool setMap(const QModbusDataUnitMap & map);

		bool readData(QModbusDataUnit * newData) const;

		bool writeData(const QModbusDataUnit & newData);

	private:
		const DERIVED & derived() const;

		DERIVED & derived();
};

template <typename DERIVED>
bool QtServerMixin<DERIVED>::setMap(const QModbusDataUnitMap & map)
{
	Q_UNUSED(map)

	// Data containers cover whole address range.

	return true;
}

template<typename DERIVED>
bool QtServerMixin<DERIVED>::readData(QModbusDataUnit * newData) const
{
	//<CuteHMI.Modbus-6.unsolved target="Qt" cause="design">
	// QModbusDataUnit::startAddress() returns `int` value. On systems, where `int` is 16 bit wide it will fail to cover whole
	// Modbus address range (0 - 65535).
	static_assert(std::numeric_limits<quint16>::max() <= static_cast<quint16>(std::numeric_limits<int>::max()), "can not safely use startAddress() function on this system");

	switch (newData->registerType()) {
		case QModbusDataUnit::Coils:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData->startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData->valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::setValue() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to
				// cast `quint16` to `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				newData->setValue(static_cast<int>(index), derived().m->coilData->value(address)->value());
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::DiscreteInputs:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData->startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData->valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::setValue() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to
				// cast `quint16` to `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				newData->setValue(static_cast<int>(index), derived().m->discreteInputData->value(address)->value());
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::HoldingRegisters:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData->startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData->valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::setValue() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to
				// cast `quint16` to `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				newData->setValue(static_cast<int>(index), derived().m->holdingRegisterData->value(address)->value());
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::InputRegisters:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData->startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData->valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::setValue() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to
				// cast `quint16` to `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				newData->setValue(static_cast<int>(index), derived().m->inputRegisterData->value(address)->value());
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-7.workaround>
			}
			break;
		default:
			CUTEHMI_WARNING("Unrecognized register type '" << newData->registerType() << "'.");
	}
	return true;

	//</CuteHMI.Modbus-6.unsolved>
}

template<typename DERIVED>
bool QtServerMixin<DERIVED>::writeData(const QModbusDataUnit & newData)
{
	//<CuteHMI.Modbus-6.unsolved target="Qt" cause="design">
	// QModbusDataUnit::startAddress() returns `int` value. On systems, where `int` is 16 bit wide it will fail to cover
	// whole Modbus address range (0 - 65535).
	static_assert(std::numeric_limits<quint16>::max() <= static_cast<quint16>(std::numeric_limits<int>::max()), "can not safely use startAddress() function on this system");

	switch (newData.registerType()) {
		case QModbusDataUnit::Coils:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData.startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData.valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::value() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to cast `quint16` to
				// `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				derived().m->coilData->value(address)->setValue(static_cast<bool>(newData.value(static_cast<int>(index))));
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::DiscreteInputs:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData.startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData.valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::value() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to cast `quint16` to
				// `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				derived().m->discreteInputData->value(address)->setValue(static_cast<bool>(newData.value(static_cast<int>(index))));
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::HoldingRegisters:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData.startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData.valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::value() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to cast `quint16` to
				// `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				derived().m->holdingRegisterData->value(address)->setValue(newData.value(static_cast<int>(index)));
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround>
			}
			break;
		case QModbusDataUnit::InputRegisters:
			for (quint16 index = 0, address = static_cast<quint16>(newData.startAddress()); index < static_cast<quint16>(newData.valueCount()); index++, address++)	{ // Note: `uint` returned by valueCount() is guaranteed to be at least 16 bit wide.
				//<CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
				// QModbusDataUnit::value() function accepts `int` type as its `index` parameter. It should be however safe to cast `quint16` to
				// `int` here, even if `int` is 16 bit wide, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
				derived().m->inputRegisterData->value(address)->setValue(newData.value(static_cast<int>(index)));
				//</CuteHMI.Modbus-3.workaround>
			}
			break;
		default:
			CUTEHMI_WARNING("Unrecognized register type '" << newData.registerType() << "'.");
	}

	//</CuteHMI.Modbus-6.unsolved>

	//<CuteHMI.Modbus-5.unsolved target="Qt" cause="design">
	// Signal QModbusServer::dataWritten() uses `int` for `address` type. On systems, where `int` is 16 bit wide it will fail to
	// cover whole Modbus address range (0-65535).
	static_assert(std::numeric_limits<quint16>::max() <= static_cast<quint16>(std::numeric_limits<int>::max()), "can not safely use dataWritten() signal on this system");

	//<CuteHMI.Modbus-9.workaround target="Qt" cause="design">
	// QModbusDataUnit::dataWritten() signal accepts `int` type as its `size` parameter, while QModbusDataUnit::valueCount() uses
	// `uint` as return type. As such it is incompatible with `size` parameter, which might not be able to represent all returned
	// values. It should be safe however to cas it to `int`, because of @ref cutehmi-modbus-AbstractDevice-query_limits.
	emit derived().dataWritten(newData.registerType(), newData.startAddress(), static_cast<int>(newData.valueCount()));
	//</CuteHMI.Modbus-9.workaround>

	//</CuteHMI.Modbus-5.unsolved>

	return true;
}

template <typename DERIVED>
const DERIVED & QtServerMixin<DERIVED>::derived() const
{
	return static_cast<const DERIVED &>(*this);
}

template <typename DERIVED>
DERIVED & QtServerMixin<DERIVED>::derived()
{
	return static_cast<DERIVED &>(*this);
}

}
}
}

#endif

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Pancakes are a breakfast time favorite with my boys. I make them quite often and they sometimes eat it even for dinner! Pancakes are usually made on a griddle or pan. Ugnspannkaka is a Swedish style pancake that's baked in the oven. Baking it gives it a crisp exterior and soft interior. It's served with Lingonberry jam which is a staple in Sweden.
I was planning on making 3 separate layers so I could stack them like the pancake stack we are accustomed to seeing. Well this is where the 'plan' ended. I used 3 small Wilton 4" pans. I figured the batter would rise and at the most overflow, which was fine. I also had a larger sheet pan to catch the overflow just in case.
What happened in the oven sent me into panic mode.. almost! :D The batter rose and rose.. and formed a pancake 'bowl' .. haha! I thought it was going to collapse immediately since there was no pan to hold it up on the sides. Thankfully it kept its shape so we have pancake 'bowls' instead of a flat pancake. So no stack, I present to you Ugnspannkaka bowl!! :) This is probably the first Swedish pancake bowl ever!
Combine the flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl. Lightly beat the egg, milk and vanilla extract in another bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mix and whisk until smooth and lump free. Melt the butter. Add half of it to the batter and combine. Pour the remaining butter into a pan (or pans like I did) Pour the prepared batter and bake for 14-16 minutes. I went a few minutes over and it browned up but was still delicious.
Now filling these bowls is like topping a pancake.. get creative and let your tastebuds guide you.
I filled up these bowls with chopped strawberries and blueberries tossed in a tablespoon of powdered sugar. Topped it with some whipped cream and drizzled honey all over the bowl and fruit. A light shower of powdered sugar on the top made it completely festive and special. It was not too sweet and just perfect. I'm glad the pancakes decided to rise and create something I didn't plan to.
I agree with sowmya.. Love the pancake bowl... these are cute.
Can guess the panic while baking, however this pancake bowls looks so cute and pretty as well. I love the way you have presented this beauty.
Such unexpected treats are welcome anytime :) Good that you used them up sinfully !
ha ha..love that pancake bowl, new invention came up, looks sinful with the way you have jazzed it up.
hhahah..you are hilarious!..I love your pancake bowls and you have decorated it so well, I won't mind having it right now..
Tongue twister name for these pancake 'bowls'. They look similar to Dutch baby pancakes.
The pancake bowls looks so cute.
hahaha!!! very hillarious. Loved the pancake bowls..
Pan cake bowls sounds delicious and the filling is ultimate..