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Can Canada build its own independent podcast industry in the True North strong and free?
Plus: Everybody's suddenly making podcasts for kids, a show reveals itself as part-fiction in its grand finale, and mixing podcasts and dating apps.
By Nicholas Quah Nov. 21, 2017, 9:48 a.m.
Editor's note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday.
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 141, published November 21, 2017.
Lock down that turkey, folks. And for you vegans, long live the Garsquashroom.
What a podcast needs to do to put on a good live show (and why so many are trying)
Notes from north of the border. When it comes to the Canadian podcast industry, there seems to be a lot to talk about. At least, that's what I found after writing up last month's report from Ulster Media and The Globe and Mail about the country's podcast listening statistics. That study, which you can find here, provided an independent sizing of the country's overall podcast listenership: 24 percent of Canadians over the age of 18, or 7 million people, report consuming podcasts at least once a month. (A straightforward comparison with American numbers is tricky; Edison Research's numbers place monthly podcast listenership in the U.S. at around 24 percent of the American population, or an estimated 67 million people, but its survey pool was of adults over the age of 12, not 18.)
My writeup of the study was meant to be a quick one: I saw the report, pulled the most salient data points, and ran it with some broad contextualizing details. But response to the item was considerable. Canadian readers and podcasters made themselves known in my inbox, and non-Canadian readers wrote in wanting to know more; the country's podcast industry, as one reader expressed, often feels "like a black box, more or less."
And so I spent some time over the past few weeks emailing around, trying to dig up information and additional insight into what's going on in the great white north — even if I'm well aware of the follies embedded in any attempt to adequately capture the complexities of a country's industry in newsletter dispatches. (Hell, I've been writing about the American podcast industry for three years now, and I'm still haunted by the acute sense that I only ever really see a fraction of what's truly going on.)
Over the next few newsletters, I'll be publishing a few stories that hopefully, as a collective, serves as a workable entry-point into the Canadian podcast industry. This week, I'll be kicking things off with the independent news organization Canadaland. Next Tuesday, I'll spend some ink on the Quebec region and on the machinations of an indigenous media company called Indian & Cowboys. Finally, in the week after that, I'll round things up with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, along with some more general observations.
So, why start with Canadaland? Simple: because it's interesting.
Scrappy. "There are no major players. There is no industry," said Jesse Brown, founder of Canadaland, the independent news organization and podcast network. "Canada is five years behind the U.S. with professional podcasting, at least."
Brown, of course, was one of the first people I wanted to trade emails with about Canadian podcasting, given his prominence as a media critic in the country and the fact that he's a close observer of local industry dynamics out of necessity. Further, Canadaland has consistently popped up across conversations I've had about the country, looked upon as both symbol and test case for a longstanding question: Can an independent news organization exist in Canada? Can an independent podcast network? (Those questions, as you could imagine, are equally deployable with respect to the United States.)
At this point in time, the case continues to be tested. "So, Canadaland sells our own ads to brands like Casper and Hello Fresh, and we work with Midroll to sell to Squarespace and other familiar podcast advertisers," Brown wrote, when asked about his adventures in podcast advertising. "Our founding sponsor was Freshbooks, a Canadian company. But one or two Canadian brands does not a industry or ecosystem make." Canada has unique problem with advertising, in Brown's formulation, as its smaller population means that advertising alone won't be enough to sustain podcasting at a professional level. Which is why Canadaland is structured as a hybrid business built on both ad sales and crowdfunding, with the latter engine being positioned as the primary driver of the business. At this writing, the company's Patreon account enjoys over 4,500 supporters and brings in over $22,000 a month.
Brown believes the crowdfunding model is replicable throughout the country — "nobody really knew who I was before Canadaland, so I don't think I had any special powers in that respect," he claimed — but he seems ultimately dubious on whether that opportunity will be capitalized upon anytime soon. "The usual Canadian dynamics are at work," he said. "It's far more attractive to young talent to try to break into American podcasting than to try to build our own industry from scratch. The Heart and Heavyweight are touch points, and people like Chris Berube and Drew Nelles have shown that they have marketable skills, if they are willing to move. Entrepreneurial efforts are sadly scarce. It's sad that Canada is a laggard in this, given that the CBC has an amazing history of pioneering audio storytelling."
Whether he's right on the crowdfunding model's replicability remains to be seen. Some observers I've spoken with are hopeful about the company's position, but hold some reservation about its emphasis on news, an editorial focus that's notoriously difficult to scale. They point to the fact that the company's biggest successes (and presumed bumps in direct support) have been fundamentally tethered to its ability to break news — as it did with its scoops on Jian Ghomeshi, Peter Mansbridge, and Rebel Media — and how that offers an extremely high bar to clear for growth and sustainability.
Still, I imagine this might be a contestable point, and that some might believe this to be a more direct alignment between mission and business model as far as a journalistic organization is concerned. Other sources have also insisted in pointing out Brown's recent attainment of wealth as the cofounder of Bitstrips, the maker of Bitmoji that sold to Snapchat for an estimated $100 million or so in March 2016, and how that development may render any external reading of Canadaland's financial health a little more complicated. (I can barely wrap my own head around it.)
But Brown's observation on the country's entrepreneurial chutzpah might prove to be the question that's more fundamental to whatever the future of podcasting in Canada looks like. And that's much more complicated to parse out; it has, I think, everything to do with factors like the availability of capital, being around potential partners and acquirers, and miscellaneous elements of social and cultural support.
More next week.
Additional material. The CBC's Lindsay Michael was kind enough to point me to two fantastic resources when researching the scene: this overview of the Canadian industry by Erica Ngao for the Ryerson Review of Journalism, and the Podcast Playlist's Canadian Podcast Database.
Swipe. So this is interesting: An independent podcast, Food 4 Thot, has formed a publishing relationship with Grindr, in which potential fans can now discover the show right off the latter's app. The partnership also sees the podcast featured on Grindr's recently launched digital magazine, INTO. Here's the announcement post on how the arrangement will work:
When you open your lovely Grindr app (we know you have it) the show will pop down with a quick summary of what this week has in store for you from topics to guests to tea — with sometimes even a quick audio preview of the episode if you ask nicely — before being brought to INTO where you can subscribe and listen. Cute, right?
With the placement, the podcast is in a position where it can potentially be exposed to Grindr's user base — roughly 3 million daily users, according to this AdExchanger report, though it's worth controlling the relevant number in your head for English-speakers — through what is essentially an in-app house ad. This setup also evokes the ouroboros-esque inquiry of: Just how big is the Venn overlap between being a "platform" and a "media entity" for such companies these days? Or is it more appropriate to think of these operations as one and the same? What is a publisher, anyway?
In case you're not in the know, Food 4 Thot is an energetic indie roundtable podcast featuring: Tommy Pico, a critically acclaimed indigenous American poet and author; Dennis Norris II, a writer and MacDowell Fellow; Joseph Osmundson, a scientist and memoirist, and Fran Tirado, the executive editor of Hello Mr.
"Right now, our audience is small for a podcast, but big for one that has been 100 percent independently funded and distributed up to this point," Tirado tells me. "Our eps get anywhere from 12,000 to 20,000 downloads." The show's current goal is to grow the listening base up to six figures.
When asked about dream guests, Tirado replied: "Tracee Ellis Ross. With Sasha Velour, Janet Mock, & Cardi B in close seconds."
Coloring book. "I'm super excited about this project — I've been wanting to do something like this for a while," said Matt Lieber, Gimlet's president and local dad.
Lieber's talking about Gimlet's latest show, a kids podcast, which it's launching hot on the heels of Panoply's Pinna initiative and NPR's Wow in the World. The move comes with an interesting angle: The podcast is a collaboration with Story Pirates, a kids-centric media company and arts-education advocacy group primarily known for letting kids be the ones that tell stories themselves — a commitment to the belief that kids are more original and wildly more creative than anything adults can ever impose on them.
Season 2 of the Story Pirates podcast debuted yesterday under the Gimlet brand, and upcoming episodes will feature appearances from prominent celebrity performers like Kristen Schaal, Billy Eichner, and Conan O'Brien, among others. To accompany the release, they're publishing a coloring book with stuff for kids to color alongside each episode that parents can download and print out for free. "It's part of an effort to create a social experience around the show," Lieber adds.
This marks Gimlet's latest creative partnership with an external organization, after producing Mogul with Loud Speakers Network. (One could theoretically make the argument that Crimetown also qualifies as a collaboration, given the involvement of The Jinx's Zac Stuart-Pontier and Marc Smerling. But I'm told it is considered more of an in-house affair.) Is this an increasing part of the company's strategy? "I wouldn't say that," said Lieber. "But our doors are open to partnership, especially if it's a story or category we haven't done before."
I inquired about the podcast's approach to ads, reflecting upon Panoply and Sparkle Stories' choice to bypass the advertising-to-kids conundrum altogether with a paid subscription model. Lieber notes that they're pretty sensitive about being exceedingly clear that the ads are targeted towards parents, and not the children. "We're working that out right now," he said, when I asked about the design choices to reflect that. "You won't be seeing ads for sugar or candy."
Gotcha. By the way, how was Gimlet's 2017?
"It's been a great year," Lieber said, flashing his trademark confidence. He tells me that business has doubled, and that the company is working on things that will blow people away in the coming months, and that Gimlet Creative, too, has had a strong year, growing into "the defining agency in the digital audio world."
He also points to what I think is the company's defining thread of 2017: its very loud success in building out an intellectual property pipeline into the lucrative film and television business. "This is a year where Homecoming went from an audio project to something that will become one of the tentpole projects for Amazon next year starring Julia Roberts," he said. (Also worth noting: Last week saw the announcement that Crimetown, too, will be heading to television with FX. No surprises there, frankly, given the creative team's television roots.)
"We've set the stage for next year," he concluded.
On a related note: Perhaps sensing something in the winds, a WNYC spokesperson reached out unannounced yesterday evening to remind me of the existence of their own upcoming forays into the kids podcasting space: This Podcast Has Fleas, which comes out of a partnership with Koyalee Chanda and Adam Peltzman, and Pickle, a co-production with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Both shows are set to launch sometime in December. The station has also produced a standalone website for its kids programming.
Hot Pod: How can news organizations better prepare the next generation of editors?
Binders full of editors. I've previously written about editor scarcity and its discontents in podcast-land, something that continues to plague a lot of teams even today. (If you missed it, here's the link to the column, which features a solid discussion with NPR's Alison MacAdam.) I haven't spotted much formal development on the matter in the intervening year, save for this one: Megan Tan, the host and creator of the now-retired Millennial, has assembled a spreadsheet of narratively-oriented audio editors who are available for work. She describes the type of editors that she's included into the document as follows:
People who act as a bird's eye over your house as you build it, by hand, from the ground up. They would provide feedback on drafts and maybe some written line suggestions here and there, but they don't touch the tape at all. They would provide feedback on structure, help you hone in on universal themes, driving questions, plot points, character development, get rid of shitty tape, and emphasize great tape, etc.
Or, in other words, "the people you call when you can't hear your piece anymore because you've heard it too many times."
Tan's impulse to create the speadsheet rose after her former editor on Millennial transitioned to work at a network full-time, putting her in the search for a suitable replacement. "All of a sudden, I had to find an editor who could speak the same story-structure language, who understood character development, archetypes, thresholds, and who I trusted to help me define the edges of my episodes and strip the fat off a piece when I was immersed in the weeds…AND who also fit my budget," she said.
The resulting process left her with some pressing takeaways. Among them: "More than anything, I wanted to find someone who 'got it,'" Tan explained. "When you're first starting out, you don't really understand the number of genres, styles, and approaches to radio that exist. Hiring 'an editor' doesn't mean that editor is the best fit for your show."
With a particular focus on that kind of matchmaking, she hopes the spreadsheet can set producers up with good pairings — and surface this species of editors often thought to be "hard to find," despite their high demand. "Ideally, this Google Sheet becomes the telephone book for those people," she said.
You can find the spreadsheet here.
Bait and switch. This is a tricky one, and it involves a mea culpa on my part. Last week saw the conclusion of the latest series in Radiotopia's Showcase initiative, called The Polybius Conspiracy, which saw the "audio documentary" reveal itself to be — spoiler alert, I guess — in large part fictional. This comes after a run in which the show mostly carried itself as a work of nonfiction, though it never said as much outright. (For what it's worth, the inverse was also true: The show never explicitly identified itself as a piece of fiction either.) Many reviewers, including myself, approached the show off its conduct (and initial press signaling) as a piece of nonfiction, and I would ultimately write a review for Vulture off the first three episodes to that effect. "A seven-part audio documentary," was how I described it, working from the press release and various assumptions I internally made about the Showcase initiative.
The podcast sought to explore an Oregonian urban legend and conspiracy theory of a mysterious arcade cabinet that started bubbling up around the '80s, one in which the myth describes a game so addictive that it caused weird things to happen to people when they stopped playing. Polybius, the podcast, was narratively structured around a main subject who claimed to have been the victim of a traumatic incident as a result of the arcade cabinet, and a good deal of the resulting drama falls from the tension about whether that the incident actually happened or not. The show essentially uses the narrative conceit as a way to explore the shape and textures of urban legends — and, to some extent, the way a person deals with trauma. Of course, by the end of the show's run, we learn that the central character was a fictional invention, and that much of the stakes involved weren't as high, or as meaningful, as one would initially think it was.
Slate's Jacob Brogan was the first, I believe, to raise the question about the show's claim to documentary, and he rightfully called me — along with other reviewers — out for taking the bait. And it seemed Radiotopia eventually received enough pushback to address the matter in a blog post. Here's the most relevant portion:
The Polybius Conspiracy itself takes on the form of the urban mythology it interrogates, wrapping layers of conjecture and invention around elements of truth and nostalgia. As a network, we value the overall ideas and cultural critique built into the series. We do apologize to listeners who were disappointed to discover that the story isn't completely true, and felt we intentionally misled them by not stating outright, from the beginning, that the story was a blend of fact and fiction.
Thinking through the whole situation a little more, I will say I've come to find myself pretty annoyed by the ordeal. Annoyed, partly for what felt like a completely unnecessary embellishment on the creative team's part, particularly these days when the notion of reality, digital and otherwise, seems especially politically fraught and sensitive. Maybe there's a version of this show, interrogating this idea, that earns this sleight of hand; this podcast, however, wasn't that.
But mostly, I'm annoyed by the fact that I let the ball fly right by me, that I was played a fool, that I wasn't skeptical of the show enough to double down on a double check. To some extent, perhaps I'm still operating with kid's gloves as an observer and critic of the space, working off an internal assumption that the space is still small and young and should still constantly be given the benefit of the doubt due to its youth. But at the end of day, I shouldn't be automatically taking things as face value, as there are potential negative ramifications to overlooking something like this on my part. So, I'll be taking the L on this one.
Over the weekend, a few readers wrote me inquiring as to whether this incident raises some larger questions about norms and ethics in the space — if we're seeing some editorial crisis in what appears to be a tendency among certain corners of the podcast ecosystem to aggressively flirt with evoking journalistic or documentary tropes to build fictional spaces. (One reader pointed to the constant use of the technique by another Radiotopia show, by way of example.) I'm not quite sure if we're in such a "crisis" just yet, though I'm tempted to agree with the broader critical focus on the community's norms: one thing that I do constantly find myself perturbed by is the relatively unchecked nature of certain true crime podcasts and their interaction with real, physical lives and communities, which is itself a direct extension of transgressions we're seeing elsewhere in digital media.
But I'll hold my tongue — and my pen — on that one for now, lest I succumb to hypocrisy. I did, after all, just fall for The Polybius Conspiracy's ruse.
Career Spotlight. I'm a casual fan of The Black Tapes and its associated "Pacific Northwest Stories" fiction podcasts — there's something about its public access feel that gets me — but I've long admired the team for just how far they've come. (Tanis, one of their projects, is currently being developed for television.) This week, I traded emails with Paul Bae, one of the show's creators who recently rolled out a new show called The Big Loop, to get a sense of where he is with himself these days.
Hot Pod: Tell me about your current situation.
Paul Bae: I live and work out of my home in Vancouver, B.C., writing and producing the audio drama anthology series The Big Loop. I also walk the dogs my girlfriend adopts. So far, we're sticking to an intake limit of three.
Hot Pod: How did you get to this point? What does your career arc thus far look like?
Bae: I used to be an evangelical youth pastor back in the early 90s. When I lost my faith in the mid-'90s, Jesus and my wife walked out the door. (Black Tapes fans: "Is that why Dr. Richard Strand is such a bitter atheist with a missing wife complex?" Hmmm.)
I then turned to teaching high school English for the next seven years. But my parents always hated the idea. They — my very Korean parents — initially wanted me to be a stand-up comedian. They were casual fans of Johnny Carson and David Letterman and they somehow got it into their heads that I could do that. (If you're wondering where I get the confidence to ditch everything to attempt to scratch out a living making podcasts, this is it.)
So I started doing stand-up comedy in 2000, and eventually landed a TV gig hosting a small, daily news-comedy show in Vancouver. When that folded a year later in 2010, I found myself tired of touring the standup circuit. So I returned to teaching.
That's when my friend Terry Miles approached me about making a podcast together. And that led to The Black Tapes, which was a lot of fun and a tremendous learning experience.
With The Big Loop, I have a chance to turn everything I've learned into a more intimate listening experience with stories that are more personal to me.
Hot Pod: What does a career mean to you, at this point?
Bae: I've been writing my whole adult life. That has been the one constant for me. The part I love most about this career is knowing that whatever I write is now going to have an audience almost immediately. If I can make a living out of this, that would mean the world to me. Since I've made this foray into podcasting, my girlfriend has had to do all the heavy lifting regarding our finances. I'm hoping I can take that over and let her have a turn resting at home with our dogs.
Hot Pod: When you started out, what did you think you wanted to do?
Bae: When Terry hit "publish" on the first two episodes of The Black Tapes in 2015, I had no idea what was going to happen. I don't think I even fully understood what podcasting was at the time. To me, it was This American Life and 99% Invisible. That's it. But I knew we had a potential hit. Personally, I had hoped to gain a good audience and open some doors for my fiction writing. Making a career of podcasting didn't even enter my mind.
Then, one day in early 2016, I listened to Love + Radio for the first time and it stopped me in my tracks. I thought, "This is what podcasting can do. It's way more than I thought it was." And it changed everything for me. And I hope people recognize that influence in The Big Loop.
Sarah Larson penned a great — and more importantly, holistic — snapshot piece on Third Coast Festival that came out over the weekend, and you shouldn't miss it. (The New Yorker) Feel free to pair that with my own notes from last week, which I've broken out into a separate post here.
High-level turmoil at NPR continues: Roger LaMay, NPR Board chairman and general manager of Philadelphia public radio music station WXPN, announced last week that he was stepping down at the end of his second one-year term. But NPR also reports that "LaMay is the subject of a complaint filed with NPR alleging past inappropriate behavior." (NPR)
Slate is launching a series about what it was like to live through the days of Watergate, called Slow Burn. It's hosted by Leon Neyfakh, produced with Andrew Parsons, and slated to launch on November 28. (Apple Podcasts)
Speaking of Slate, sister company Panoply worked off a news hook this week, repackaging You Must Remember This' stellar Charles Manson season into its own standalone podcast after news of Manson's passing hit the newsreels. This is the second Manson-related podcast to emerge in recent weeks; Wondery currently has its own take on the subject in the podcast charts as well. One day, we'll see such energy for something other than true crime and morbidity. But this is not that day.
"I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded." Celeste Katz writes up the latest Crooked Media podcast, Majority 54, that comes with a Q&A with host Jason Kander. (Newsweek)
The Death, Sex & Money team has rounded up some podcast recs from some famous friends for Turkey Day. (Medium)
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Xbox 360 vs. PS3 (Part 1 of 4)
by Major Nelson • May 20, 2005 @ 10:37pm
One of the great things about working at Xbox is that we have some of the smartest people in the world working on the Xbox 360. When Sony came announced the PS3, along with the product specs some of our team started looking at some of the numbers to see what they mean. Floating Point, shaders, bandwidth….what does it all mean. Clearly there are some numbers and stats that mean more to gaming then others, so the team cranked out some facts for everyone to absorb. Our world class technology team looked at the numbers and claims and decided to do what everyone else does: compare them to the PS3. The difference it that these guys are uniquely qualified to do so, and can cut through the smoke and mirrors to see what the real deal is. To that end, I present this summary, which I have broken up into four parts to make it more RSS Reader friendly.
Warning: Some of this stuff may make your head hurt, but these are the facts as they stand right now. Enjoy the read:
XBOX 360 / PLAYSTATION 3 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
Now that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 specifications have been announced, it is possible to do a real world performance comparison of the two systems.
There are three critical performance aspects of a console:
? Central Processing Unit (CPU) performance.
o The Xbox 360 CPU architecture has three times the general purpose processing power of the Cell.
? Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) performance
o The Xbox 360 GPU design is more flexible and it has more processing power than the PS3 GPU.
? Memory System Bandwidth
o The memory system bandwidth in Xbox 360 exceeds the PS3's by five times.
The Xbox 360's CPU has more general purpose processing power because it has three general purpose cores, and Cell has just one.
Cell's claimed advantage is on streaming floating point work which is done on its seven DSP processors.
The Xbox 360 GPU has more processing power than the PS3's. In addition, its innovated features contribute to overall rendering performance.
Xbox 360 has 278.4 GB/s of memory system bandwidth. The PS3 has less than one-fifth of Xbox 360's (48 GB/s) of total memory system bandwidth.
When you break down the numbers, Xbox 360 has provably more performance than PS3. Keep in mind that Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance. The truth is that both systems pack a lot of power for high definition games and entertainment.
However, hardware performance, while important, is only a third of the puzzle. Xbox 360 is a fusion of hardware, software and services. Without the software and services to power it, even the most powerful hardware becomes inconsequential. Xbox 360 games?"by leveraging cutting-edge hardware, software, and services?"will outperform the PlayStation 3.
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Carolyn Rodriguez is leading a five-year clinical trial that aims to follow 90 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder for as long as six months after a dose of ketamine or an alternative drug.
The first time psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez gave an infusion of ketamine to a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder, she was nervous. After all, while ketamine is approved by the Federal Drug Administration as an anesthetic, it is also an illicit party drug known as "Special K," with hallucinogenic effects and the potential for abuse.


On August 30, 2007, after debates dating to the 1980s, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, completed its third official reading of the draft Antimonopoly Law, and finally adopted it as the nation's first comprehensive Antimonopoly Law (Law). It will become effective on August 1, 2008. The Law targets four types of "monopolistic conduct:" monopoly agreements, abuse of dominance, administrative monopoly, and concentrations. This article discusses the differences in terms of concentrations under the Law and the existing antimonopoly-related rules.
Under the present system, China does not have comprehensive antimonopoly legislation. Rather, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) have adopted regulations concerning antimonopoly review in the Regulations on the Mergers & Acquisition of Domestic Enterprise by Foreign Investors (M&A Regs) and Guidelines on Antitrust Filings for Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (Filing Guidelines). These regulations and guidelines only focus on foreign acquisitions and do not provide a nationwide plan to combat monopolistic behavior.
As detailed below, the Law changes the antimonopoly enforcement mechanism as well as the antimonopoly review body.
Under Articles 20 and 21 of the M&A Regs, both MOFCOM and SAIC are permitted to conduct antimonopoly reviews of M&A transactions. The M&A Regs, however, are silent as to the extent of each agency's responsibilities and reviewing standards, methods and procedures. As a result, the two administrations have been wrangling over control of antimonopoly matters and issued their own procedural requirements. In practice, MOFCOM generally has been more active in reviewing reported transactions, while SAIC has assumed a more passive role because it is the traditional watchdog for foreign investment in China and usually centralizes the administration of foreign-related matters.
The AEA, as an executive institution, will be charged with specific enforcement responsibilities. For example, the AEA will have the authority to authorize local branches at the provincial level to perform antimonopoly work where necessary. Thus, parties to a reportable transaction should notify the AEA so that an antimonopoly review can begin.
The Law, however, does not specify in which institution-MOFCOM or SAIC-the AEA will exist. It only grants the State Council the power to establish the specific enforcement institution. Given that MOFCOM and SAIC are currently enforcing antimonopoly reviews under the M&A Regs, it is likely that one of the two agencies will become the AEA. At the very least, the current personnel of the two agencies who are conducting merger reviews are very likely to continue to perform similar functions.
In addition, the Law does not specify the legal relationship between the Antimonopoly Commission and the AEA. It simply provides that the Commission should cooperate with and supervise the AEA, but it does not specify what happens if there are conflicts between the two agencies. Also, the Law allows the AEA to authorize local government at the provincial level to perform antimonopoly work under the central guidance of the AEA. This would benefit the effectiveness of implementation. However, the Law does not clarify the specific role of the authorized local branches at the provincial level-and to what extent the local branches would be independent of the local government. This might open the door to local protectionism and impede the effectiveness of the Law. We expect that the Implementing Rules will clarify these issues to make the Law more practical and effective.
The Law identifies specific thresholds that trigger the requirement of an M&A transaction review. If an M&A transaction meets the review threshold, the acquiring party must submit notification to the review body, including the necessary supporting documents, before the transaction can proceed.
The M&A Regs only apply to M&A transactions involving a foreign party. They govern both transactions wherein a foreign party directly acquires a Chinese entity or the assets of a Chinese enterprise (onshore transactions), and transactions concluded entirely outside China if either the buyer or the seller has operations or subsidiaries in China (offshore transactions). The thresholds for antimonopoly review are different for these two types of transactions.
Will have a 25% or greater market share in China after the M&A transaction.
Discretionary review. Even if none of the foregoing tests is met, Article 51 provides for a discretionary review upon the request of domestic competitors, industry regulators, or industrial associations. MOFCOM and SAIC minght still review an onshore M&A transaction if they determine that the transaction involves "a significant market share," or there are other factors that will "seriously influence market competition." Article 3 further supports this by stating that foreign investors "must not disturb social and economic order or impair the social and public interests." These broad terms might provide substantial room for domestic competitors, industry regulators, or industrial associations to request review of onshore transactions, regardless of their competitive significance.
Review on national security grounds. In addition, the M&A Regs establish the foundation for review of onshore transactions on national security grounds. Article 12 requires parties to report to MOFCOM any onshore transaction that "results in actual control by a foreign investor and involves key industries, has factors imposing or possibly imposing material impact on the economic security of the State, or would result in transfer of actual control in a domestic enterprise which owns any well-known trademarks or Chinese historical brands." If the parties fail to report transactions with actual or potential "material impact" on the "economic security of the State," MOFCOM "together with other relevant departments" may act to block, modify, or unwind the transactions. Although this provision is not directly related to the antimonopoly review chapter of the M&A Regs, it provides noncompetitive elements such as national security and protection of domestic industry to be factored into the consideration of the antimonopoly review.
Will hold, directly or indirectly, an equity interest in more than fifteen FIEs in related industries in China as a result of the transaction.
Nevertheless, it would be rather impractical for Chinese authorities to reach out to global acquisitions wherein the acquirer is not a Chinese entity, or the target company does not sit in China.
The transaction improves the environment.
The Law applies to both foreign and domestic companies. Under Article 2, it covers both monopolistic conduct inside and outside China that eliminates or has a restrictive effect on competition in the Chinese domestic market. The antimonopoly review of an M&A transaction is governed by Chapter 4, Concentration of Undertaking, which prohibits concentrations that might lead to the elimination or restriction of effective competition.
An M&A transaction is included as a form of concentration under Article 20, which defines "concentration of undertakings" as "mergers; acquisition of control of other undertakings through means of acquisition of shares or assets; or acquisition of control or the capability of imposing decisive influence over other undertakings by contract or other means."
Under Article 21, a concentration of undertakings that "meets the relevant thresholds for report and filing as stipulated by the State Council" will be required to make a filing with the AEA; otherwise, the concentration shall not be carried out. For concentrations that "have or may have the effect of eliminating or restricting competition," the AEA can block a transaction or approve it, subject to restrictive conditions.
In earlier drafts of the Law, notification and review were required if the aggregate worldwide turnover of all parties to the transaction exceeded RMB 12 billion (approximate US $1.5 billion) and one of the parties had a PRC turnover exceeding RMB 800 million (approximately US $105 million). This threshold was widely criticized because many multinational companies doing business in China can easily satisfy it, meaning that whenever these companies plan to engage in M&A transactions anywhere in the world, they will have to notify the antimonopoly authority in China, no matter how remote the effect of the transaction on China's market.
The Law thus removes this threshold and instead expressly leaves the relevant notification thresholds to be specified in the Law's implementation regulations (Implementing Regs). It is expected that the State Council will publish the Implementing Regs before the Law becomes effective on August 1, 2008.
A non-party to the transaction owns more than 50% of the total voting shares or assets in the transaction.
These exemptions allow mergers between a parent company and its subsidiaries, or mergers among all subsidiaries of the same parent company, to be exempt from antimonopoly review.
The transaction is in harmony with the public interest.
In addition to an antimonopoly review, Article 31 provides that concentrations involving a foreign investor might have national security concerns that subject the transaction to national security review in accordance with relevant regulations. This article is perhaps the most controversial provision in the Law.
This is not the first time we have seen a national security check as part of Chinese legislation. As discussed above, the M&A Regs laid the foundation for review of onshore transactions on national security grounds, although the focus there was mainly on national economic security. In December 2006, the State Council released a list of strategic sectors in which the State would retain control, including military manufacturing, power production and grids, petroleum, gas and petrochemicals, telecom manufacturing, coal, civil aviation, and shipping. The national security review under the Law would no doubt apply to foreign acquisitions in such listed sectors. It is, however, unclear to what extent and how such national security reviews will be applied.
Many commentators are worried that China will abuse this provision by using national security concerns as an excuse to protect its companies and industries. Recent transactions indicate that these worries are not baseless. During the discussion on the second reading on the draft of the Law in June 2007, some legislators cited the acquisition of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (the largest Chinese construction machinery manufacturers) by Carlyle Group (a U.S. private equity firm) and the acquisition of Supor (a major Chinese cookware company) by SEB (a French cookware company) as examples of transactions concerning national security. Both transactions are unlikely to give rise to national security concerns in other jurisdictions, and yet both were subject to close scrutiny by the Chinese government with the belief that the takeover of national champions by foreign investors would be detrimental to national economic security. Thus, foreign investment might now face added hurdles under this new provision.
First, the current antimonopoly review scheme under the M&A Regs only applies to foreign investors, and is widely criticized as inconsistent with China's WTO commitments. The Law discards this practice and applies equally to the conduct of foreign and domestic enterprises. Thus, all M&A transactions, rather than only those transactions involving foreign parties, are potentially subject to antimonopoly review under the Law.
Second, the Law avoids adopting any specific notification and review thresholds and leaves them to be specified by State Council later in the Implementing Regs. This would allow the enforcement authority to adjust the thresholds from time to time. This flexibility, which is absent in the M&A Regs, would allow the thresholds to keep up with the ever-changing needs of Chinese economic development. Moreover, foreign companies may be able to provide their input on the development of a more reasonable notification threshold and potentially reduce compliance and transaction costs.
Third, the Law provides two exemptions that are absent in the M&A Regs. The exemptions under the Law would allow a parent company to merge with its subsidiaries or to let its subsidiaries merge with each other without being subject to antimonopoly review. The M&A Regs, however, allow the parties to the M&A transaction to apply for exemptions from review under certain circumstances. Under the Law, even if the transaction is qualified for the exception pursuant to the M&A Regs, it still has to file the notification with supporting documentation if the transaction meets the thresholds. This might impose unnecessary burdens on parties to transactions that present no actual competitive concerns.
Finally, the Law formalizes the national security review requirement. Although the M&A Regs lay the foundation for review of M&A transactions involving foreign parties on national security grounds, the parties are only required to notify MOFCOM if specific conditions are met. Under the Law, if the M&A transaction involving foreign parties has national security concerns, in addition to the regular antimonopoly review under the Law, the transaction will also be subject to national security review in accordance with the M&A Regs. It is still too early to predict the potential impact of the national security review on M&A transactions involving foreign parties, because the scope and standards for national security review are still unclear. Nonetheless, this potential additional review should raise foreign investors' awareness, because it may influence structuring decisions for any M&A transaction involving foreign parties.
What the scope and standards for national security review are, and how they will be applied.
Review procedures under the Law are more detailed than those in the M&A Regs, including the review process, factors for consideration, enforcement measures, administrative reconsideration, and judicial review.
The M&A Regs provide little direction on the specific procedures and filing materials needed for notification and antimonopoly review. The Filing Guidelines add more details in this regard.
Under the M&A Regs, if the thresholds for an onshore M&A transaction review are met, the acquiring party must notify MOFCOM and SAIC. However, the M&A Regs are silent on which party should file the notification for offshore transactions. Under the Filing Guidelines, the acquiring party is generally responsible for filing for both onshore and offshore transactions, but either party or both parties can independently or jointly file.
For onshore transactions, the M&A Regs do not specify when the parties should report the transaction. The Guidelines require that the filing must be made after the execution of the acquisition agreements but before the public announcement of the transaction. For offshore transactions, both the M&A Regs and the Guidelines require that the parties file before the plan is publicly announced or at the same time it is submitted to the regulatory authorities of the country in which the transaction will occur.
Other documents required by MOFCOM.
Other information requested by the authorities.
The Filing Guidelines add more details on this. They provide that the review will be conducted within 30 working days, starting from receipt of all filing materials. If the filing party does not receive notice of further review within this 30-working-day period, it obtains clearance and may continue with the transaction. If the filing party receives such notice, the time limit will be extended to 90 working days. During this 90-working-day period, MOFCOM will conduct a formal hearing, and the filing party must provide more materials and additional explanations.
The procedures and filing materials for antimonopoly review under the Law are similar to those under the Filing Guidelines, with some exceptions.
The Law does not specify who should do the filing if the transaction meets the notification threshold. This will likely be clarified in the Implementing Regs.
If the notification threshold is met, the parties must notify the AEA and get clearance before the transaction can be concluded. Still, this is rather ambiguous and requires further interpretation in the Implementing Regs.
Other information required by the AEA.
The relevant circumstances have significantly changed after notification by the parties.
Besides approval and disapproval, the Law also provides a new form of decision: approval with restrictive conditions. Under Article 29, where a concentration is approved, the AEA may impose restrictive conditions on the concentration to reduce the adverse impact on competition by the transaction. This gives the AEA discretion to attach restrictive conditions to any approved transactions.
Other factors that the AEA deems appropriate.
In addition to the above factors, the AEA has considerable discretion in performing antimonopoly reviews, such as consideration of national economic development, expected effect on consumers and market share, and so on.
The Law appears to provide the scope, clarity, and government power necessary to effectively monitor the competitive impact of M&A transactions. It avoids setting notification and review thresholds, and allows the State Council to specify them and later adjust them, if needed. Also, it applies to both foreign and domestic enterprises to avoid protectionism. In addition, it provides much more clarity to the antimonopoly review body and review procedures. Thus, foreign investors doing business in China will benefit from the greater transparency, predictability and accountability of the antimonopoly review of M&A transactions provided by the Law.
There are, however, still many issues to be clarified. Particularly, the Law adds one more potential hurdle for foreign investments: national security review. It is unclear to what extent and how the national security review will be applied. Like many other Chinese laws, the Law only establishes a general legal framework. Many specific issues such as merger notification thresholds, exact meaning of some key terms such as "control" and "decisive influence," and the allocation of responsibilities among the Antimonopoly Commission, AEA, and authorized local branches are likely to be addressed in the Implementing Regs, which are expected to be released soon.


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Limkatanyu S., Ponbunyanon P., Prachasaree W. Kuntiyawichai K., and Kwon M. (2014). "Correlation between beam on Winkler-Pasternak foundation and beam on elastic substrate medium with inclusion of microstructure and surface effects." J. Mech. Sci. Tech. 28(9):3653-3665.
Limkatanyu S., Damrongwiriyanupap N., Kwon M., and Ponbunyanon P. (2013). "Force-based derivation of exact stiffness matrix for beams on Winkler-Pasternak foundation." ZAMMZ. Angew. Math. Me. 95(2):140-155.


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Electronics assembled in Nigeria to be exported to Benin Republic
By NAN
24 July 2015 | 10:10 am
Nigeria Customs service. Photo; nairametrics
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, on Thursday said electronics being assembled in Nigeria could now be exported to Benin Republic.
Abdullahi disclosed this at the bilateral meeting between the Nigeria Customs Service and Republic of Benin Customs in Abuja.
"I think Nigerians are aware that Nigeria allows assemblers to bring in semi knocked down electronics to be coped in Nigeria. They are not regarded as imported electronics that cannot be exported.
"The electronics assembled in Nigeria are now allowed to be exported to Republic of Benin,'' Abdullahi said.
He said the two countries were working together to move cargo and facilitate trade forward within the borders.
Abdullahi announced the donation of five pick-ups van to Republic of Benin customs to enhance its operations in escorting cargo from the seaports to Nigeria border.
"We know the responsibility of escorting our cargo from your seaport to our border, I thereby, on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, donate five pick-ups van to Republic of Benin customs.
"I believe that the Federal Government will do more to assist our sister country in term of equipment and logistic,'' he said.
Earlier, The Director-General of Customs, Republic of Benin, Mr Charles Sezan, said he was in Nigeria to discuss matter of common interest.
Sezan said security issues were some of the challenges facing the two countries, adding that Ngeria and Republic of Benin should collaborate to tackle it.
He assured that the customs in the Republic of Benin would cooperate with Nigerian government, adding, "I promise that as soon as we get the import prohibition list from Nigeria, we will comply immediately and block all leakages."
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the issues discussed at the meeting include effective management of the import prohibition list, among others.


Royal Challengers Bangalore successfully defended 218 runs to stay alive in the competition.
IPL 2018, RCB vs SRH: Royal Challengers Bangalore successfully defended 218 on Thursday after Sunrisers Hyderabad failed to chase the target in Bengaluru. Chasing 219, SRH were off to a flying start before they lost openers Shikhar Dhawan and Alex Hales in quick succession. Later, captain Kane Williamson took on the onus on himself and hammered 81 runs before getting out in the last over. Manish Pandey too chipped in with an unbeaten half-century but in a losing cause. SRH needed 20 runs from the lat over but Siraj was clinical in the last over as he didn't leak runs. Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore posted 218/6 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Riding on an emphatic partnership between Moeen Ali and AB de Villiers and some power-hitting from Colin de Grandhomme in the death overs, RCB compiled a massive total against SRH. Sunrisers on the other side were sloppy in the field as they dropped catches and gave away few boundaries.
Royal Challengers beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs. "I think if we are honest, we missed the trick a little bit with the ball. RCB were fantastic in batting, put us under pressure from ball one and got a good total. When you're chasing, a lot needs to go your way and you need to make very good decisions. At key times towards the end, the runs didn't come. The boys fought hard, and we'll move forward from this. (Thoughts during the innings break) The surface here is tough generally; today was a good wicket obviously. It was important for us to not get carried away early on. The ball flies at this ground, so you can make up. We were close but not close enough. (On what he's done about his consistency) It's about playing your role for the team, as well as you can. We played on a number of tough wickets. We have to find that balance and get some momentum. Credit to RCB again; they deserve to win. They bowled nicely towards the end," Willaimson said after the match.
That's all from our side for this match.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli is the culprit here. It should have been taken and Hales would have been walking back in the hut but instead he is hammering RCB bowlers around the park.
That was fabulous entertainment. Every ball an event. Surely #RCB have enough. #MI and #KKR will be watching the #SRH response very closely!
Sunrisers Hyderabad will feel that they have something to prove after the loss against Chennai Super Kings in their previous encounter. The side will look to bank upon the form of the opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan and the skipper Kane Williamson, who both scored two back-to-back fifties, and have stitched 100 runs partnership twice in a row. If Royal Challengers Bangalore wish to keep themselves into the match, not only they would need to be smart against the feroicious SRH bowling line up featuring the likes of Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, but they would also have to find a way to dismiss Dhawan and Williamson. The longer the two stay in the middle, the more stronger SRH will get, and RCB cannot afford to slip up.
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Q: Insert in database the fields of 2 functions having the same combobox. Only the data of the first function is saved I have a database manager, made with tkinter, in which I insert and save the data. It works fine, everything correctly, it saves everything correctly. I tried adding a new insert, and this is where I have a problem. However, I cannot add a new insertion of a field from the same combobox, i.e. that the same combobox inserts 2 things. I have written 2 different functions with 2 different cursor.execute SELECT, but they save the data of only one function (combo_campionati).
I will insert only the parts of the code useful for solving the problem. How can I also save the data of the id_campionato function?
I would like to make sure that when I select the championship name from the combobox, I also get and save the ID number of the same selected championship. So: I select, for example, the name x in the combobox, then if it corresponds to the name x of Name_Campionate FROM ARCHIVE_CHAMPIONSHIP, then the ID of the championship will be taken and saved in another table
The two functions are these. The first works save correctly, the second mistakenly saves the same name as the first function combo_campionati.
def combo_campionati():
    campionato = combo_Campionato.get()
    cursor.execute('SELECT Nome_Campionato FROM ARCHIVIO_CAMPIONATI')
    result=[row[0] for row in cursor]
    return result

#Combobox Campionati
lbl_Campionato = Label(root, text="Campionato", font=("Calibri", 11), bg="#E95420", fg="white")
lbl_Campionato.place(x=6, y=60)
combo_Campionato = ttk.Combobox(root, font=("Calibri", 11), width=30, textvariable=campionato, state="readonly")
combo_Campionato.place(x=180, y=60)
combo_Campionato.set("Seleziona campionato")
combo_Campionato['values'] = combo_campionati(),
combo_Campionato.bind('<<ComboboxSelected>>', combo_squadre)

def id_campionati():
    campionato = combo_Campionato.get()
    cursor.execute('SELECT ID_Campionato FROM ARCHIVIO_Campionati WHERE Nome_Campionato=?',(campionato,))
    result=[row[0] for row in cursor]
    return result

The problem is that to save, I use the combobox name (campionato.get) inside the function def add_employee of the "Add" button (where db.insert is). The problem is ONLY the new function def id_campionati. The problem is, I don't know how to assign a textvariable (or something similar) to sampled_id. So the saved data is the same as the campionato.get and its relative textvariable = campionato. Text variable assignment problem (or something to differentiate the name to save league and id_campionato). The name "campionato" is assigned and then saved correctly through the combobox, while the name id_campionato is not assigned and is not saved through the combobox itself
def add_employee():
    if combo_Campionato.get() == "" or combo_Giornate.get() == "" or  de.get() == "" or combo_Orario_Ora.get() == "" or combo_Orario_Minuti.get() == "" or combo_NomeSquadra_Casa.get() == "" or combo_NomeSquadra_Fuori.get() == "" or combo_Risultato_Sq_A.get() == "" or combo_Risultato_Sq_B.get() == "":
        messagebox.showerror("Erorr in Input", "Please Fill All the Details")
        return
    db.insert(campionato.get(), giornata.get(), de.get(),combo_Orario_Ora.get(), combo_Orario_Minuti.get(), combo_NomeSquadra_Casa.get(), combo_NomeSquadra_Fuori.get(), combo_Risultato_Sq_A.get(), combo_Risultato_Sq_B.get(), campionato.get())
    messagebox.showinfo("Success", "Record Inserted")
    clearAll()
    dispalyAll()

# Insert Function
def insert(self, campionato, giornata, calendario, ore, minuti, squadra_casa, squadra_fuori, ris_sq_casa, ris_sq_fuori, id_campionato):
        self.cur.execute("insert into ARCHIVIO_Risultati values (NULL,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)",
                         (campionato, giornata, calendario, ore, minuti, squadra_casa, squadra_fuori, ris_sq_casa, ris_sq_fuori, id_campionato))
        self.con.commit()

How can I also save the data of the id_campionato function?
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A: I'll admit I have no idea what you're asking since you haven't produced an example we can run. You seem to have a function named insert that works, except that it needs to save an extra value. You claim to have a function that gets the value which should be saved. So, the solution seems to be to call the function, save the result, and then pass it to the function that writes it to the database.
def add_employee():
    ...
    id_campionati_value = id_campionati()
    db.insert(campionato.get(), ..., id_campionati_value)

I doubt it will work exactly like that since id_campionati() returns a list rather than a single value. You should probably rewrite id_campionati_value to return a single id.

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Q: data copied from one shee to other does replacement instead of append I wish to know what is wrong in this piece of code. My objective is to copy data from sheet2 to sheet1. the code is working but the record that is getting copied to shee1 is replaced with data in row1, it does not append. I want the data to get copied underneath every row.
    Set ws = Sheets("Sheet2")
    With ws
        Set rngsh1 = .UsedRange
    End With
    For Each cel1 In rngsh1
            With Sheets("Sheet1")
                Set rng = .Rows(1).Find(cel1, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole)
                If Not rng Is Nothing Then
                    cel1.Offset(, 1).Copy .Cells(rng.Row + 1, rng.Column)
                End If
            End With

    Next

A: This will append values from Sheet2 into new rows on Sheet1:
For Each cel1 In Worksheets("Sheet2").UsedRange

    With Worksheets("Sheet1")

        Set rng = .UsedRange.Rows(1).Find(cel1, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole)

        If Not rng Is Nothing Then
            .Cells(.UsedRange.Rows.Count + 1, rng.Column) = cel1.Offset(, 1)
        End If

    End With

Next

but your initial code only searches Row 1 on Sheet1. I you want to search all values:
For Each cel1 In Worksheets("Sheet2").UsedRange

    With Worksheets("Sheet1")

        Set rng = .UsedRange.Find(cel1, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole)

        If Not rng Is Nothing Then
            .Cells(.UsedRange.Rows.Count + 1, rng.Column) = cel1.Offset(, 1)
        End If

    End With

Next


While some marketers have clung to a focus on short-term gains and others have embraced a more creative and engaging strategy fueled by storytelling and branding, a new and more successful type of marketer is adopting a long-term-growth mind-set, the CMO Council found in a recent research initiative.
Conversely, this new "budding cohort" of marketers with a long-term-growth mind-set are taking responsibility for driving profitability. Key aspects of driving growth include architecting the customer experience and acting as revenue science practitioners.
In the study, a full 18 percent of respondents indicated they were "extremely poised to succeed" as the growth leaders their organizations expect them to be. These leaders prioritize, focus, and collaborate differently, it found.
Growth leaders commonly seek to shape the landscape ahead by identifying new product strategies, global market expansion, merger and acquisition viability, and other opportunities. They also seek to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency to better manage costs and maximize profitability. For the growth CMO, using data to gain a deep understanding of both customer and market can be critical. Storytelling remains an important vehicle, but customer insights can determine the plot.
Speak the language of the business.Generally, marketers should change the language in which they report results, shifting from limited conversations about campaign metrics to broader discussions about revenue, market share, customer lifetime value, and margin. This involves establishing and embracing business metrics—not just marketing metrics—to gain more solid footing with senior leadership. Many growth leaders also advocate a one-team approach, in which the business speaks, behaves, and engages with customers as one entity, not as a multitude of loosely connected parts.
Connect across functional silos.The report identifies silos as "a common constraint to success…blocking everything from the development of an organization-wide customer experience strategy to the integration of comprehensive customer data." Rather than simply trying to remove silo walls, growth leaders actively build connections, treating each group as a center of functional and tactical excellence that can be integrated and aligned into an overarching customer strategy.
Mobilize support for the growth agenda.Seventy-one percent of all marketers see top executives as their primary allies, followed by the heads of sales (56 percent) and line of business leadership (38 percent). However, growth drivers also see the board of directors as a key ally. Many growth-driving CMOs also rally corporate leadership around the customer.
Think like a CEO and prepare for the role.In the past, the career path for marketers typically started in digital, communications, or branding and ended at the CMO role. Today, as CMOs play the part of customer champion, experience strategist, and growth leader, marketers can move all the way up to the CEO role. McDonald's, Chipotle, Taco Bell, Campbell Soup, Mercedes Benz, Gilt Group, Royal Dutch Shell, and H&R Block have all brought on CMOs to fill the CEO post. The hallmark of these executives is that while they were passionate about their brands, they led by understanding and embracing the business as a whole.
As evidence, she pointed out that in the research, 76 percent of CMOs believe their jobs will be on the line if customer experience strategies fail to deliver growth. "There is a 100 percent likelihood that if the CMO fails to deliver growth, they will not be a CMO soon," she says.


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Home » ★★★☆☆ » Bored at Bar Boulud.
I've heard C bang on for years about Boulud in New York and how brilliant it is but I'm always a bit wary of the Ramsay-esque spread of sleb-chefs and so I hadn't rushed to try it.
You get there through a side entrance for the Mandarin Hotel, which is a good thing as it feels like a separate restaurant, not a hotel dining-room sort of place, at least it does when you first walk in.
We were doing the 6.15 pensioner special. I was delighted to see that between the hours of 5 and 7pm there was a 3 course menu for £23 but having satisfied myself that there was a good value option, I obviously then chose to ignore it. As you do.
Kir was. I hadn't had my mouth full or taken my teeth out or anything. Really. There is no excuse.
And then, when she came back with the menu, after a minute, she asked if we needed any help with it. I said no, thanks, we're just looking, so obviously ;she proceeded to entirely ignore that and go through the specials in laborious detail. I didn't have the heart to tell her to stop and I wondered whether, in fact, ;she had a hearing defect.
Lots of choice on the menu. Big on shellfish and steaks and lots of daily specials. One vegetarian option amongst all the animal protein, which was a bit poor given the length of the menu in other respects. And I think that perhaps the menu is a tad over ambitious and that there is simply too much choice. ;I always worry about that.
And we ordered. Shellfish aioli for me at £13. Other thn it took 40 minutes to arrive, which is just unacceptable for an assembled plate and a half-empty restaurant, it was very pretty but a little too cold, so the flavour of the vegetables was lost. More to the point, quite a lot of the shellfish consisted of big fat sea snails. Maybe it's me and I'm a fussy old bag but I think that they are a bit of a minority interest and I would have liked a warning.
No one asked me why I'd left most of the plate. I'd have said.
Maybe they never get eaten and move from plate to plate.
And then C had the Boulud Burger. He said it was the best he'd had in London. I'm glad he was so happy. I chose a sea bass, on a bed of green beans, with roasted fennel and fennel salad. ;The fish was fine as was the roasted fennel. The fresh fennel with orange was not dressed and looked like it had been thrown on the plate. I mean, don't get me wrong; it all tasted fine but it just lacked a bit of finesse in the finish. And for £24 without service I feel it should be plated up with a bit more care.
The desserts all looked quite elaborate. I nearly ordered a souffle but C reminded me that I was trying to cut back, which was indeed ;a most welcome reminder and one for which he received much thanks.
How did a bottle of mineral water, 2 beers, a Kir a starter, two main courses- one priced at £11 or thereabouts (-fries extra) turn into a few pennies under £90? That will remain one of life's great mysteries. However lovely the burger, I can't see myself going back. I was entirely underwhelmed. I didn't feel the restaurant had any real identity. No-one seemed to care very much and it seemed to be populated by tourists and Kensington women in skinny jeans and Chanel jackets, who didn't seem that interested in the food. I just didn't get the impression it was a happy place, just your average hotel brasserie. If you want that, go to Koffman's across the road. That's how to do it.
Couldn't agree more; was also entirely underwhelmed with Bar Boulud and until now thought I was the only one!


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100 new hotels for Dublin: Is that too many – or too few?
Ronald Quinlan
IN THE MIDST OF A HOUSING CRISIS, SCORES OF HOTELS ARE BEING BUILT IN OR PLANNED FOR THE CAPITAL. ARE THEY RUINING OR ENHANCING THE CITY?
"Another hotel. Just what Dublin needs." It's a common refrain these days whenever there's news of a new hotel being planned, built, or opened in the capital. It's an understandable reaction to the apparent contradiction of developers focused on building accommodation for tourists and other visitors, during such a severe shortage of affordable housing.
The housing crisis is locking prospective buyers out of home ownership, driving up rents, and, in a particularly cruel irony, has seen hundreds of families forced to live in some of the city's existing hotels. The current concentration by sections of the construction industry on the delivery of new hotel stock has also prompted concerns that Dublin's identity are being sacrificed to serve the tourist market.
Data analysis seen by The Irish Times shows that there are some 100 new hotels or guest accommodation developments under construction or in the planning process in the capital. A further 49 extensions to existing hotels are in process. There are already more than 250 hotels in Dublin.
Though some of these new builds are at the proposal stage only, and a proportion of these will not materialise, they could collectively amount to more than 15,000 new hotel rooms over the next three to five years, on top of an existing stock of 18,000.
Are they all needed? Those who support the development of new hotels point to a decade in which the capital saw no meaningful increase in the number of new hotel rooms, even as visitor numbers continued to grow exponentially.
In September 2019, Fáilte Ireland pointed to the shortfall of 1,100 rooms it said the capital would experience in 2020, notwithstanding the "strong pipeline" of new accommodation which is now in the process of being delivered.
The tourism representative body was responding to a call by some members of Dublin City Council to limit the development of hotels, to "urgently protect and promote nightlife and creative culture".
The hotel room deficit is even more pronounced if one accepts the estimated 845,815 "conference nights" Fáilte Ireland says Dublin lost between 2016 and 2019. The tourism authority believes another 193,992 conference nights will be lost this year as a result of a continuing shortfall in supply. It's a valid consideration. Some €109 million is expected to flow from the 76,000 delegates set to attend the 150 events in Dublin in 2020.
So does Dublin have too few or too many hotels? It's a complex question, and one for which the answer differs depending on any number of variables, only some of which are predictable.
New hotel: the Mayson, on North Wall Quay, in Dublin 1. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
IF YOU'RE LOOKING for a useful barometer of the strength or otherwise of the Dublin hotel sector and the number of rooms required to service it, it's instructive to track the fortunes of publicly-listed hotel company Dalata.
Given its obligation to keep its shareholders informed of its activities and financial performance, Dalata's annual reports and trading updates arguably offer the most timely and accurate snapshots of the hotel market.
In its most recent trading update, on December 18th, Dalata highlighted what it described as "tougher than anticipated market conditions" in Dublin in the second half of 2019, which resulted in a 3.2 per cent fall in RevPAR (revenue per available room) at its hotels in the 11-month period to the end of November.
Explaining that decline, the company noted that "the Dublin market continued to be impacted by the VAT increase, the additional supply of [1,000] hotel rooms and a reduction in the number of events in October and November".
The drop in Dalata's RevPAR is pretty much in line with the 3 per cent decline Dan O'Connor, vice-president at JLL's hotels division estimates took place across the wider hotel market in 2019. In explaining this drop in revenues, O'Connor cites the combination of the Government's reintroduction of the 13.5 per cent VAT rate for hotels, Brexit uncertainty, sterling weakness and an increase of hotel room supply.
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While those challenges will continue, and potentially be exacerbated by an increase of 15 per cent in the current supply of 24,000 hotel rooms by the end of this year, O'Connor says there are "genuine reasons to be optimistic" for the sector.
Asked for his response to claims that Dublin is being swamped by the development of new hotels, he says: "No. New supply is needed. To support this view, at the end of this decade, despite tens of new hotels opening in the past three years [1,500 new rooms opened in 2019 alone], Dublin still boasted a higher occupancy rate than any other European capital.
"The issue is not the amount of new supply. It's the volatile timing of its delivery to the market. Having built no new hotel rooms in Ireland in the first half of the 2010s, we then raced to catch up, with significant delivery in recent years.
"We at JLL expect this trend to be reversed in the 2020s, with the highest levels of new hotel supply expected to come on stream in the early part of the decade [2020-2022] and more muted new supply delivery thereafter."
Leaving aside the present and anticipated buoyancy in visitor numbers, however, Dublin's hotel sector remains no less vulnerable than any other city to both home-grown and international economic shocks, which could see occupancy levels and room rates plummet overnight.
While the hotel business can be highly volatile at times, the Dublin market is an attractive proposition for the medium to long-term judging by the acquisition of several of the city's highest-profile hotels by international investors in 2019.
Included in these major deals were the €134 million sale of the Marker (which will be rebranded as Ananatara) to German investor Deka Immobolien; the €116 million sale of the Conrad Dublin to Archer Hotel Capital; the €50 million sale of Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links to Canadian-headquartered Northland Properties; and the €40 million sale of the Central Hotel to Deutsche Finance International.
The average price across all Dublin hotel deals last year was €400,000 per room – or "per key". The Marker set a new record of €700,000 per key.
New hotel: the Hyatt Centric, on Dean Street, in Dublin 8. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
APART FROM THE EXTRAORDINARY appetite among investors for existing hotel stock, Dublin is witnessing a near unprecedented level of new hotel development.
A detailed examination of the planning files at Dublin's four local authorities shows that a total of 100 hotels, aparthotels, or other forms of guest accommodation are either the subject of a planning application or are under development. To put that figure in perspective, an analysis of the Dublin market by JLL shows there are 250-plus hotels in operation in the city and its surrounds at present.
While the vast majority of these are long established, there have been a number of new additions in the city centre over recent months including: the 234-bedroom Hyatt Centric on Dean Street in Dublin 8; Marriott's 158-bedroom Moxy Dublin City hotel at Sackville Place, Dublin 1; and the 300-bedroom Marlin Hotel on Bow Lane East in Dublin 2.
Also open for business is the 87-bedroom Mayson at North Wall Quay in Dublin 1. The docklands hotel represents the latest addition to the near 50-strong stable of bars, hotels and restaurants operated by Paddy McKillen jnr and business partner Matt Ryan's Press Up Entertainment Group.
McKillen and Ryan's development company, Oakmount, meanwhile is involved in the delivery of a new 213-bedroom hotel as part of its wider development of the Clerys Quarter. Located on the site of the former Clerys department store on O'Connell Street, the development will comprise a mix of offices, retail, leisure facilities, a rooftop restaurant and an as-yet-unnamed boutique hotel.
New hotel: the Marlin, on Bow Lane, in Dublin 8. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Still more high-profile hotels are due in the capital by the end of 2021: the 157-bedroom hotel Johnny Ronan's Ronan Group Real Estate (RGRE) is incorporating into Aqua Vetro, the 23-storey office tower it is developing on Tara Street; and the 163-bedroom hotel being built on the site of the landmark Big Tree pub on Dorset Street by the Dublin Loft Company. The Dublin Loft Company, led by siblings Mark, Andrew and Kelly Cosgrave of the Cosgrave developer family, opened its first hotel, the 146-bedroom Hendrick, in Dublin's Smithfield area in May 2019.
Another highly-anticipated hotel due in the medium term is a boutique hotel from Ashford Castle owner Red Carnation, planned for Hatch Hall on Hatch Street in Dublin 2 – which operated as a direct provision centre until 2019. Having paid more than €20 million to acquire the former Victorian university residence hall last summer, the UK-headquartered hotel operator is aiming to deliver a five-star hotel to compete with the likes of the Merrion, Shelbourne and Dublin Conrad, all located nearby.
Premier Inn, which is owned by Whitbread Plc, has secured five sites in the capital to date. In December 2019 alone, the company agreed separate deals for the development of two new hotels, one on Gloucester Street in the city's south docklands and another next to Newmarket Square in Dublin 8.
Prior to that, Premier Inn secured three sites capable of accommodating a total of 527 rooms at South Great George's Street, Jervis Street and at Castleforbes Business Park.
LAST YEAR WAS a particularly strong one for the purchase of hotel sites in Dublin, with more than €100 million spent by international operators looking to capitalise on the city's thriving tourist economy.
But while some argue that Dublin is being overwhelmed by the development of hotels at present, it should be borne in mind that both these new arrivals and the city's established hotel stock could be vastly and rapidly reduced – if investors decide that the lands they occupy could be put to a more profitable use. One doesn't have to look too far back in history to find instances where some of Dublin's highest-profile hotels faced the wrecking ball as their owners sold up to developers intent on the delivery of residential and other forms of commercial development.
The most striking example of this was when the Gallagher and Doyle families secured in excess of €700 million from developer Seán Dunne for the 400-bed Jurys and 185-bed Berkeley Court hotels in Ballsbridge, and the sale to Bernard McNamara of the 501-bedroom Burlington Hotel, the 179-bedroom Montrose Hotel in Donnybrook and the 109-bedroom Tara Towers Hotel in Booterstown.
The disposal of those five properties took place against the backdrop of a wider realignment of the then Jurys Doyle hotel group's business, which also saw the €1.65 billion sale of the Jurys Inn chain of budget hotels to Quinlan Private.
New hotel: Moxy, on Sackville Place, in Dublin 1. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
While Dunne never got to realise his own ambitions for the redevelopment of the Jurys and Berkeley Court hotel lands, the Dublin 4 site is now being transformed by former rival Joe O'Reilly's Chartered Land into a high-end residential scheme known as Lansdowne Place.
The Berkeley Court has already been demolished and replaced by several apartment buildings, while the former Jurys trades as the Ballsbridge Hotel in advance of its own removal and redevelopment.
The Burlington Hotel, meanwhile, continues to trade successfully, having changed hands twice in the years since the crash.
Had the Irish economy not imploded shortly after developer Bernard McNamara's original €288 million boom-era acquisition of the Dublin 4 property, both it and then adjacent headquarter premises of Axa Insurance would have been demolished and replaced as part of a €1 billion mixed-use scheme comprising offices, apartments and retail.
The Montrose Hotel, Dublin 4, didn't make it through the crash and recovery. Following its sudden closure in 2010, the landmark property favoured by generations of American tourists was redeveloped as student accommodation.
The Tara Towers Hotel on Merrion Road was demolished last year. It is being replaced with a new hotel by the Dalata Hotel Group and a scheme of 69 apartments which the hotelier has forward sold to Ireland's largest private residential landlord, Ires Reit.
Ronald Quinlan is Deputy Property Editor of The Irish Times
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Story No. 123
Jack the Robber
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Tradition: Gypsy, Roumania, Bukovina, Ukraine
Now we'll leave the master to stand a bit, and go back to the mother. So in the morning Jack says to his mother, 'Mother,' he says, 'give me one of them old bladders as hang up in the house, and,' he says, 'I'll fill it full of blood, and I'll tie it round your throat; and when the master comes up to ax me if I got the sheet, me and you will be having a bit of arglement, and I'll up with my fist and hit you on the bladder, and the bladder will bust, and you'll make yourself to be dead.'
Now the master comes. 'Have you got the sheet, Jack?
And just as he's axing him, he up with his fist, and hits his mother.
And the master says, 'O Jack, what did you kill your poor mother for?'
'Oh! I don't care; I can soon bring her right again.'
'No,' says the master, 'never, Jack.'
And Jack began to smile, and he says, 'Can't I? you shall see, then.' And he goes behind the door, and fetches a stick with a bit of a knob to it. Jack begin to laugh. He touches his mother with this stick, and the old woman jumped up. (This is s'posed to be an inchanted stick.)
Says the master: 'O Jack,' he says, 'what shall I give you for that stick?'
'Well, sir,' he says, 'I couldn't let you have that stick. My inchantment would be broke.'
'Well, Jack, if you'll let me have that stick, I'll never give you another thing to do as long as you live here.'
So he gave him £50 for this stick, and said he'd never give him nothing else to do for him. So the master went home to the house, and he didn't know which way to fall out with the missus, to try this stick. One day at dinner-time he happened to fall out with her; the dinner she put for him didn't please him. So he up with his fist and he knocked her dead.
In comes the poor servant-girl and says, 'O master, what ever did you kill the poor missus for?'
He says, 'I'll sarve you the same.' And he sarved her the same.
In come the wagoner, and he asked, 'What did he kill the missus and the sarvint for.' And he says, 'I'll sarve you the same,' he says. He wanted to try this stick what he had off Jack, He thought he could use it the same way as Jack. So he touched the missus with it fust, but she never rose. He touched the servant with it, and she never rose. He touched the wagoner, and he never rose. 'Well,' he says, 'I'll try the big end,' he says, and he tries the knob. So he battered and battered with the knob till he battered the brains out of the three of them.
He does no more, and he goes up to Jack and says, 'O Jack, you've ruined me for life.' He says, 'Jack, I shall have to drown you.'
So Jack says, 'All right, master.'
'Well, get in this bag,' he says; and he takes him on his back. As he was going along the road, he . . . went one field off the road, being a very methlyist man. During the time he was down there, there come a drōvyer by with his cattle. Now Jack's head was out of the sack.
'Hello! Jack, where are you going?'
'To heaven, I hope.'
'Oh! Jack, let me go. I'm an older man till you, and I'll give you all my money and this cattle.'
Jack told him to unloosen the bag to let him out, and for him to get into it. Away Jack goes with the cattle and the money. So the master comes up, taking no notice of it, and
he picks the bag up, and puts it on his shoulder, and goes on till he comes to Monfort's Bridge. [Montford Bridge, over the Severn, near Shrewsbury]. He says, 'One, two, three'; and away he chucks him over.
Well, Jack goes now about the country, dealing in cattle. So in about three years' time he comes round the same way again, round the master's place.
So, 'Hello! Jack,' he says, 'where ever did you get them from?'
'Well, sir,' he says, 'when you throwed me, if I'd had a little boy at the turning to turn them straight down the road, I should have had as many more.'
So he says, 'Jack, will you chuck me there, and you stop at the turning to turn them.'
So Jack says,' You'll have to walk till you get there, for I can't carry you.'
And when he got to the bridge Jack put him in the bag, and Jack counted his 'One, two, three,' same as he counted for him, and away he goes. And Jack went back and took to the farm, and making very good use of it. For many a night he let me sleep in the field with my tent for telling that lie about him.
Matthew Wood gave the closing episode to Mr. Sampson, who summarises it thus (No. 69. 'The Fool with the Sheep'): –
The first half of this story, which, like the next, was told to Mr. Sampson in English by Cornelius Price, is here omitted, having been already summarised on pp. 48-9 (No. 12. 'The Gypsy and the Priest').


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1707.16 NEW WHO
So we were told that the new actor to play The Doctor in 'Doctor Who' would be revealed directly after the Men's Wimbledon Finals. I monitored social media and learned the tennis had finished early so quickly turned over to the last few minutes of the men's final.
I'm not a tennis fan so was particularly agrieved that I was forced to watch any of it. I think that not giving the announcement a fixed time meant the tension increased although many were upset because they missed the live reveal.
The lineup of possibles was quite impressive ranging from top movie stars to favourites from television. The rumour mill has been working overtime since Peter Capaldi announced he was stepping down. The early favourite was Kris Marshall which was my least favourite choice, not because I don't like Mr Marshall but because I think he would be a 'safe' bet and Doctor Who (in my opinion) is ready for something new.
So the reveal began in the form of a short film showing a hooded figure walking through a wooded area. No clues there. Then the hand was seen opening with the TARDIS key materialising in the palm, could that be a woman's hand? Then the eye could be seen from within the hood, it's definitely a woman (or Eddie Izzard?). The hood came down and the reveal was complete, Jodie Whittaker is the next Doctor Who.
The reaction initially was upbeat and positive. I'm absolutely chuffed, it shouldn't be an issue that the Doctor is female this time but unfortunately some on social media are getting a little upset and angry with the fact. It's not 'political correctness', the Doctor is a Gallifreyan Time Lord and it's been well established that the fictional race can regenerate into any sex, skin colour, height etc. It's probably one of the only roles in film and TV that can literally be portrayed by any actor.
And to those that have trouble with the casting because of gender, no this doesn't mean a female James Bond or a male Miss Marble. Stop being silly, it's the 21st century and I'd like to think those attitudes are firmly in the past.
Well done Jodie, I think they made a great choice.
"Change my dear, and it seems not a moment too soon"
- Doctor #6
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