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Year Left: 2016 New Team: Jacksonville Jaguars Age At Signing: 26
Contract With The Jacksonville Jaguars: 6 years / $90 million ($42 million guaranteed); $14 million a year
Production With Broncos in 2015: 16 games played with 16 starts at defensive tackle; 5.5 sacks: 34 tackles
Broncos Replacement: Undecided
Malik Jackson left the Broncos this year with an offer that the Broncos just would not be able to match. Jackson signed a massive deal averaging $15 million a year with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Most of the time when the Broncos lose a free agent, they don't even offer them a contract. This was not the case with Jackson.
The Broncos wanted to keep him and offered him a contract reportedly worth about $12 million a year, but Malik knew he could get more on the open market. The Broncos have moved on, but have not yet found his replacement. His replacement could already be on the roster — Antonio Smith (free agent) or Vance Walker — or they could get his replacement through the draft, potentially even with their first round pick.
History has proven that when Elway has let a big name leave, he has found an adequate replacement, if not an upgrade. Will Elway find the same magic with Malik's replacement? Only time will tell.

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Hello, can anyone recommend a person who can restore vintage auxiliary lights?
You can buy spare parts for older Hella lights. If you have a look around you may be able to find modern lenses and reflectors that fit your old shells. The lights haven't changed much in years.
I would look for NOS or excellent parts for these Hella lights, even if it means buying another light or lights with, for instance, a cracked lens but a great reflector.
restoring reflectors isn't too hard. plating make the most sense as the older light bulbs will generate heat. they don't look too bad in the pic, have you attempted to hook them up to see how they perform?
IIRC, reflectors on these lamps is an electrostatically deposited aluminum; don't believe it's plated. This process provides a much more reflective surface than plating. I can understand why restoration would be so expensive as the depositing equipment is pretty expensive. And if your reflectors are rusted it's gonna be almost impossible to make 'em good again--the metal is very thin and really can't be repaired.
You might also want to contact Daniel Stern. When I purchased used Euro headlamps for my 2000, it was recommended that I get in touch with him regarding refinishing the reflectors. He sells bulbs, headlights, auxiliary lights and relays, and also provides advice. Unfortunately, I don't recall who he recommended to restore the reflectors and ultimately I didn't have it done. His contact info is below. Good luck.
In germany we have quite a lot companies doing PVD mirroring.
It's fairly easy any not too expensive if there is no pitting in the reflector. Once you have pitting it will cost you factor 4-10 if it's possible to re-mirror.


The steady increase in microplastic concentration could result in dramatic effects on the vulnerable wildlife of the oceans and marine food supplies. It is therefore of immediate importance to develop novel types of polymeric materials that can be sustainably produced to address these environmental concerns. MARPLAST focuses on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a class of biodegradable bioplastics which are considered to be feasible replacements for current petroleum-based plastics. PHAs are polymers occurring in nature, produced among others by bacteria, and with properties similar to oil-derived polypropylene and polyesters, rendering them useful as an attractive biodegradable replacement. However, the naturally occurring PHA production pathways are not sufficiently understood, and currently known technologies for production are too costly to allow for a full-scale replacement. MARPLAST aims to develop and provide tools (bacteria, enzymes, and pathways) to enable efficient production of sustainable and biodegradable bioplastics from low cost unexploited biomass. Focus will be on PHA-producing cold-adapted marine bacteria, which have a range of properties that make them especially suitable for industrial applications. MARPLAST will utilize expertise from the Univ of Tromsø (Norway), Univ of Bucharest (Romania) and Umeå University (Sweden) to make important progress and contributions to the transition to a bio-based European economy.
On this focus of MARPLAST, Romanian Team will isolate new marine bacterial strains from Black Sea, especially those with a high PHA production but will test also all marine bacterial strains previously isolated and deposited to Microbial Collection of Department of Genetics. Bacterial strains will be phenotypically characterized using the Biolog Microbial Identification System and other usual microbiological tests. On molecular level, identification will be based on 16S rDNA sequences. Marine bacteria will be analyzed regarding PHA production by Red Nile fluorescence intensity measurements, in order to establish the best cultivation conditions for the highest production of PHA. Those conditions will be tested also to a larger scale in bioreactor.
The first phase of the project is focused on bacterial strains selection from marine environments capable of production polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) granules. A number of 155 strains from MICROGEN Microbial Collection were tested using Red Nile fluorescence. Thus, we managed to select three PHA producers, subsequently confirmed by GC-MS, also identifying polymer type for the tested conditions. Selected strains were taxonomically identified based on ribosomal RNA 16S as Loktanella sp. P2, Granulosicoccus sp. P4, Sulfitobacter sp. P5. These strains along with ones from the Norway partner, Halomonas sp., Pseudomonas sp., Roseobacter sp., were subjected to metabolic assays comprising API and BIOLOG tests. Resulting data revealed special nutritional demands of tested marine bacteria, oligotrophs for many carbon and nitrogen sources. Thus, we faced several problems when adapting our marine isolates to laboratory conditions, requiring a more detailed analysis of growth media. PHA production was evaluated in a volume of 250 mL, variating the temperature and carbon source. Detection and quantification of PHA granules was conducted based on Red Nile fluorescence, using a 96 well plate reader, also determining cellular density. These assays managed to emphasize the high PHA production potential of MICROGEN Bacterial Collection tested strains. For biotechnological approach, Roseobacter sp., was selected for batch cultures in a 2L bioreactor, recording a lower fluorescence then 250 mL cultures. New isolates from the Black Sea were tested, and from 22 strains only four were identified as PHA producers for selected conditions. Thus, we conclude that all our activities were successfully accomplished.
The isolation and purification activities of bacterial strains from the Black Sea ecosystem resulted in a number of 82 isolates, out of which 12 were selected as PHA-producing strains. Following molecular analysis of 16S gene sequencing, these strains have been taxonomically identified as belonging to various bacterial species, some of them poorly studied as PHA-producers. For a suitable metabolic and taxonomic characterization, the selected strains were analyzed by Biolog system for their ability to metabolize multiple carbon and nitrogen sources, and in terms of osmotic and ion effects (e.g. tolerance to different salts concentrations). The enzymatic profile, determined by API assays, showed high similarities between the isolates, but BIOLOG tests showed a metabolic diversity of the carbon and nitrogen sources. As expected, high salts tolerance confirmed their provenance from saline and hypersaline marine environments such as those from Norwegian partners. The optimization of growth conditions and PHA production parameters primarily consisted of cultivation on carbon sources of low economic value: molasses, glycerol, starch, fructose, in combination with various nitrogen sources. The results obtained were extremely diverse, each strain analyzed behaved differently in terms of multiplication and PHA production capacity. Of all the strains analyzed, C2/2 Photobacterium seems to have nutritional needs that have led to values of 20-25 DO cultures, which is biotechnologically important. Moreover, the extremely intense fluorescent signal we have obtained confirms PHA production potential of this strain, which belongs to a less studied species with no emphasis on PHA production capacity. Bioreactor tests have shown that C2/2 strain can store up to 70% PHA in the cell and can produce up to 4g PHA / L, results comparable to other studies. Although PHA production for strains N16b Halomonas and C2/10 Leisingera, was slightly lower, they still accumulate up to 40-58% of the dry weight, which are interesting results that can be exploited biotechnologically.
European Conference of Biotechnology, Athena, Greece Aprile 26-28, 2018, Polyhydroxyalkanoate production potential of Black Sea new bacterial isolates, Mereuta I, Chiciudean I, Lascu I, Avramescu SM, Stoica I, Tanase AM, abstract published in Journal of Biotechnology: DOI: 0.1016/j.jbiotec.2018.06.148.


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The Free Library > Literature > Henry James > The Aspern Papers > IX
I left Venice the next morning, as soon as I learned that the old lady had not succumbed, as I feared at the moment, to the shock I had given her--the shock I may also say she had given me. How in the world could I have supposed her capable of getting out of bed by herself? I failed to see Miss Tita before going; I only saw the donna, whom I entrusted with a note for her younger mistress. In this note I mentioned that I should be absent but for a few days. I went to Treviso, to Bassano, to Castelfranco; I took walks and drives and looked at musty old churches with ill-lighted pictures and spent hours seated smoking at the doors of cafes, where there were flies and yellow curtains, on the shady side of sleepy little squares. In spite of these pastimes, which were mechanical and perfunctory, I scantily enjoyed my journey: there was too strong a taste of the disagreeable in my life. I had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Miss Bordereau in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours afterward that it was highly probable I had killed her. In writing to Miss Tita I attempted to minimize these irregularities; but as she gave me no word of answer I could not know what impression I made upon her. It rankled in my mind that I had been called a publishing scoundrel, for certainly I did publish and certainly I had not been very delicate. There was a moment when I stood convinced that the only way to make up for this latter fault was to take myself away altogether on the instant; to sacrifice my hopes and relieve the two poor women forever of the oppression of my intercourse. Then I reflected that I had better try a short absence first, for I must already have had a sense (unexpressed and dim) that in disappearing completely it would not be merely my own hopes that I should condemn to extinction. It would perhaps be sufficient if I stayed away long enough to give the elder lady time to think she was rid of me. That she would wish to be rid of me after this (if I was not rid of her) was now not to be doubted: that nocturnal scene would have cured her of the disposition to put up with my company for the sake of my dollars. I said to myself that after all I could not abandon Miss Tita, and I continued to say this even while I observed that she quite failed to comply with my earnest request (I had given her two or three addresses, at little towns, post restante) that she would let me know how she was getting on. I would have made my servant write to me but that he was unable to manage a pen. It struck me there was a kind of scorn in Miss Tita's silence(little disdainful as she had ever been), so that I was uncomfortable and sore. I had scruples about going back and yet I had others about not doing so, for I wanted to put myself on a better footing. The end of it was that I did return to Venice on the twelfth day; and as my gondola gently bumped against Miss Bordereau's steps a certain palpitation of suspense told me that I had done myself a violence in holding off so long.
I had faced about so abruptly that I had not telegraphed to my servant. He was therefore not at the station to meet me, but he poked out his head from an upper window when I reached the house. "They have put her into the earth, la vecchia," he said to me in the lower hall, while he shouldered my valise; and he grinned and almost winked, as if he knew I should be pleased at the news.
"She's dead!" I exclaimed, giving him a very different look.
"So it appears, since they have buried her."
"It's all over? When was the funeral?"
"The other yesterday. But a funeral you could scarcely call it, signore; it was a dull little passeggio of two gondolas. Poveretta!" the man continued, referring apparently to Miss Tita. His conception of funerals was apparently that they were mainly to amuse the living.
I wanted to know about Miss Tita--how she was and where she was-- but I asked him no more questions till we had got upstairs. Now that the fact had met me I took a bad view of it, especially of the idea that poor Miss Tita had had to manage by herself after the end. What did she know about arrangements, about the steps to take in such a case? Poveretta indeed! I could only hope that the doctor had given her assistance and that she had not been neglected by the old friends of whom she had told me, the little band of the faithful whose fidelity consisted in coming to the house once a year. I elicited from my servant that two old ladies and an old gentleman had in fact rallied round Miss Tita and had supported her(they had come for her in a gondola of their own) during the journey to the cemetery, the little red-walled island of tombs which lies to the north of the town, on the way to Murano. It appeared from these circumstances that the Misses Bordereau were Catholics, a discovery I had never made, as the old woman could not go to church and her niece, so far as I perceived, either did not or went only to early mass in the parish, before I was stirring. Certainly even the priests respected their seclusion; I had never caught the whisk of the curato's skirt. That evening, an hour later, I sent my servant down with five words written on a card, to ask Miss Tita if she would see me for a few moments. She was not in the house, where he had sought her, he told me when he came back, but in the garden walking about to refresh herself and gathering flowers. He had found her there and she would be very happy to see me.
I went down and passed half an hour with poor Miss Tita. She had always had a look of musty mourning (as if she were wearing out old robes of sorrow that would not come to an end), and in this respect there was no appreciable change in her appearance. But she evidently had been crying, crying a great deal--simply, satisfyingly, refreshingly, with a sort of primitive, retarded sense of loneliness and violence. But she had none of the formalism or the self-consciousness of grief, and I was almost surprised to see her standing there in the first dusk with her hands full of flowers, smiling at me with her reddened eyes. Her white face, in the frame of her mantilla, looked longer, leaner than usual. I had had an idea that she would be a good deal disgusted with me--would consider that I ought to have been on the spot to advise her, to help her; and, though I was sure there was no rancor in her composition and no great conviction of the importance of her affairs, I had prepared myself for a difference in her manner, for some little injured look, half-familiar, half-estranged, which should say to my conscience, "Well, you are a nice person to have professed things!" But historic truth compels me to declare that Tita Bordereau's countenance expressed unqualified pleasure in seeing her late aunt's lodger. That touched him extremely, and he thought it simplified his situation until he found it did not. I was as kind to her that evening as I knew how to be, and I walked about the garden with her for half an hour. There was no explanation of any sort between us; I did not ask her why she had not answered my letter. Still less did I repeat what I had said to her in that communication; if she chose to let me suppose that she had forgotten the position in which Miss Bordereau surprised me that night and the effect of the discovery on the old woman I was quite willing to take it that way: I was grateful to her for not treating me as if I had killed her aunt.
We strolled and strolled and really not much passed between us save the recognition of her bereavement, conveyed in my manner and in a visible air that she had of depending on me now, since I let her see that I took an interest in her. Miss Tita had none of the pride that makes a person wish to preserve the look of independence; she did not in the least pretend that she knew at present what would become of her. I forebore to touch particularly on that, however, for I certainly was not prepared to say that I would take charge of her. I was cautious; not ignobly, I think, for I felt that her knowledge of life was so small that in her unsophisticated vision there would be no reason why--since I seemed to pity her-- I should not look after her. She told me how her aunt had died, very peacefully at the last, and how everything had been done afterward by the care of her good friends (fortunately, thanks to me, she said, smiling, there was money in the house; and she repeated that when once the Italians like you they are your friends for life); and when we had gone into this she asked me about my giro, my impressions, the places I had seen. I told her what I could, making it up partly, I am afraid, as in my depression I had not seen much; and after she had heard me she exclaimed, quite as if she had forgotten her aunt and her sorrow, "Dear, dear, how much I should like to do such things--to take a little journey!" It came over me for the moment that I ought to propose some tour, say I would take her anywhere she liked; and I remarked at any rate that some excursion--to give her a change-- might be managed: we would think of it, talk it over. I said never a word to her about the Aspern documents; asked no questions as to what she had ascertained or what had otherwise happened with regard to them before Miss Bordereau's death. It was not that I was not on pins and needles to know, but that I thought it more decent not to betray my anxiety so soon after the catastrophe. I hoped she herself would say something, but she never glanced that way, and I thought this natural at the time. Later however, that night, it occurred to me that her silence was somewhat strange; for if she had talked of my movements, of anything so detached as the Giorgione at Castelfranco, she might have alluded to what she could easily remember was in my mind. It was not to be supposed that the emotion produced by her aunt's death had blotted out the recollection that I was interested in that lady's relics, and I fidgeted afterward as it came to me that her reticence might very possibly mean simply that nothing had been found. We separated in the garden(it was she who said she must go in); now that she was alone in the rooms I felt that (judged, at any rate, by Venetian ideas) I was on rather a different footing in regard to visiting her there. As I shook hands with her for goodnight I asked her if she had any general plan--had thought over what she had better do. "Oh, yes, oh, yes, but I haven't settled anything yet," she replied quite cheerfully. Was her cheerfulness explained by the impression that I would settle for her?
I was glad the next morning that we had neglected practical questions, for this gave me a pretext for seeing her again immediately. There was a very practical question to be touched upon. I owed it to her to let her know formally that of course I did not expect her to keep me on as a lodger, and also to show some interest in her own tenure, what she might have on her hands in the way of a lease. But I was not destined, as it happened, to converse with her for more than an instant on either of these points. I sent her no message; I simply went down to the sala and walked to and fro there. I knew she would come out; she would very soon discover I was there. Somehow I preferred not to be shut up with her; gardens and big halls seemed better places to talk. It was a splendid morning, with something in the air that told of the waning of the long Venetian summer; a freshness from the sea which stirred the flowers in the garden and made a pleasant draught in the house, less shuttered and darkened now than when the old woman was alive. It was the beginning of autumn, of the end of the golden months. With this it was the end of my experiment--or would be in the course of half an hour, when I should really have learned that the papers had been reduced to ashes. After that there would be nothing left for me but to go to the station; for seriously (and as it struck me in the morning light) I could not linger there to act as guardian to a piece of middle-aged female helplessness. If she had not saved the papers wherein should I be indebted to her? I think I winced a little as I asked myself how much, if she HAD saved them, I should have to recognize and, as it were, to reward such a courtesy. Might not that circumstance after all saddle me with a guardianship? If this idea did not make me more uncomfortable as I walked up and down it was because I was convinced I had nothing to look to. If the old woman had not destroyed everything before she pounced upon me in the parlor she had done so afterward.
It took Miss Tita rather longer than I had expected to guess that I was there; but when at last she came out she looked at me without surprise. I said to her that I had been waiting for her, and she asked why I had not let her know. I was glad the next day that I had checked myself before remarking that I had wished to see if a friendly intuition would not tell her: it became a satisfaction to me that I had not indulged in that rather tender joke. What I did say was virtually the truth--that I was too nervous, since I expected her now to settle my fate.
"Your fate?" said Miss Tita, giving me a queer look; and as she spoke I noticed a rare change in her. She was different from what she had been the evening before-- less natural, less quiet. She had been crying the day before and she was not crying now, and yet she struck me as less confident. It was as if something had happened to her during the night, or at least as if she had thought of something that troubled her-- something in particular that affected her relations with me, made them more embarrassing and complicated. Had she simply perceived that her aunt's not being there now altered my position?
"I mean about our papers. ARE there any? You must know now."
"Yes, there are a great many; more than I supposed." I was struck with the way her voice trembled as she told me this.
"Do you mean that you have got them in there--and that I may see them?"
"I don't think you can see them," said Miss Tita with an extraordinary expression of entreaty in her eyes, as if the dearest hope she had in the world now was that I would not take them from her. But how could she expect me to make such a sacrifice as that after all that had passed between us? What had I come back to Venice for but to see them, to take them? My delight in learning they were still in existence was such that if the poor woman had gone down on her knees to beseech me never to mention them again I would have treated the proceeding as a bad joke. "I have got them but I can't show them," she added.
"Not even to me? Ah, Miss Tita!" I groaned, with a voice of infinite remonstrance and reproach.
She colored, and the tears came back to her eyes; I saw that it cost her a kind of anguish to take such a stand but that a dreadful sense of duty had descended upon her. It made me quite sick to find myself confronted with that particular obstacle; all the more that it appeared to me I had been extremely encouraged to leave it out of account. I almost considered that Miss Tita had assured me that if she had no greater hindrance than that--! "You don't mean to say you made her a deathbed promise? It was precisely against your doing anything of that sort that I thought I was safe. Oh, I would rather she had burned the papers outright than that!"
"No, it isn't a promise," said Miss Tita.
"Pray what is it then?"
She hesitated and then she said, "She tried to burn them, but I prevented it. She had hid them in her bed."
"In her bed?"
"Between the mattresses. That's where she put them when she took them out of the trunk. I can't understand how she did it, because Olimpia didn't help her. She tells me so, and I believe her. My aunt only told her afterward, so that she shouldn't touch the bed--anything but the sheets. So it was badly made," added Miss Tita simply.
"I should think so! And how did she try to burn them?"
"She didn't try much; she was too weak, those last days. But she told me--she charged me. Oh, it was terrible! She couldn't speak after that night; she could only make signs."
"And what did you do?"
"I took them away. I locked them up."
"In the secretary?"
"Yes, in the secretary," said Miss Tita, reddening again.
"Did you tell her you would burn them?"
"No, I didn't--on purpose."
"On purpose to gratify me?"
"Yes, only for that."
"And what good will you have done me if after all you won't show them?"
"Oh, none; I know that--I know that."
"And did she believe you had destroyed them?"
"I don't know what she believed at the last. I couldn't tell-- she was too far gone."
"Then if there was no promise and no assurance I can't see what ties you."
"Oh, she hated it so--she hated it so! She was so jealous. But here's the portrait--you may have that," Miss Tita announced, taking the little picture, wrapped up in the same manner in which her aunt had wrapped it, out of her pocket.
"I may have it--do you mean you give it to me?" I questioned, staring, as it passed into my hand.
"Oh, yes."
"But it's worth money--a large sum."
"Well!" said Miss Tita, still with her strange look.
I did not know what to make of it, for it could scarcely mean that she wanted to bargain like her aunt. She spoke as if she wished to make me a present. "I can't take it from you as a gift," I said, "and yet I can't afford to pay you for it according to the ideas Miss Bordereau had of its value. She rated it at a thousand pounds."
"Couldn't we sell it?" asked Miss Tita.
"God forbid! I prefer the picture to the money."
"Well then keep it."
"You are very generous."
"So are you."
"I don't know why you should think so," I replied; and this was a truthful speech, for the singular creature appeared to have some very fine reference in her mind, which I did not in the least seize.
"Well, you have made a great difference for me," said Miss Tita.
I looked at Jeffrey Aspern's face in the little picture, partly in order not to look at that of my interlocutress, which had begun to trouble me, even to frighten me a little-- it was so self-conscious, so unnatural. I made no answer to this last declaration; I only privately consulted Jeffrey Aspern's delightful eyes with my own (they were so young and brilliant, and yet so wise, so full of vision); I asked him what on earth was the matter with Miss Tita. He seemed to smile at me with friendly mockery, as if he were amused at my case. I had got into a pickle for him--as if he needed it! He was unsatisfactory, for the only moment since I had known him. Nevertheless, now that I held the little picture in my hand I felt that it would be a precious possession. "Is this a bribe to make me give up the papers?" I demanded in a moment, perversely. "Much as I value it, if I were to be obliged to choose, the papers are what I should prefer. Ah, but ever so much!"
"How can you choose--how can you choose?" Miss Tita asked, slowly, lamentably.
"I see! Of course there is nothing to be said, if you regard the interdiction that rests upon you as quite insurmountable. In this case it must seem to you that to part with them would be an impiety of the worst kind, a simple sacrilege!"
Miss Tita shook her head, full of her dolefulness. "You would understand if you had known her. I'm afraid," she quavered suddenly--"I'm afraid! She was terrible when she was angry."
"Yes, I saw something of that, that night. She was terrible. Then I saw her eyes. Lord, they were fine!"
"I see them--they stare at me in the dark!" said Miss Tita.
"You are nervous, with all you have been through."
"Oh, yes, very--very!"
"You mustn't mind; that will pass away," I said, kindly. Then I added, resignedly, for it really seemed to me that I must accept the situation, "Well, so it is, and it can't be helped. I must renounce." Miss Tita, at this, looking at me, gave a low, soft moan, and I went on: "I only wish to heaven she had destroyed them; then there would be nothing more to say. And I can't understand why, with her ideas, she didn't."
"Oh, she lived on them!" said Miss Tita.
"You can imagine whether that makes me want less to see them," I answered, smiling. "But don't let me stand here as if I had it in my soul to tempt you to do anything base. Naturally you will understand if I give up my rooms. I leave Venice immediately." And I took up my hat, which I had placed on a chair. We were still there rather awkwardly, on our feet, in the middle of the sala. She had left the door of the apartments open behind her but she had not led me that way.
A kind of spasm came into her face as she saw me take my hat. "Immediately--do you mean today?" The tone of the words was tragical-- they were a cry of desolation.
"Oh, no; not so long as I can be of the least service to you."
"Well, just a day or two more--just two or three days," she panted. Then controlling herself, she added in another manner, "She wanted to say something to me--the last day--something very particular, but she couldn't."
"Something very particular?"
"Something more about the papers."
"And did you guess--have you any idea?"
"No, I have thought--but I don't know. I have thought all kinds of things."
"And for instance?"
"Well, that if you were a relation it would be different."
"If I were a relation?"
"If you were not a stranger. Then it would be the same for you as for me. Anything that is mine--would be yours, and you could do what you like. I couldn't prevent you--and you would have no responsibility."
She brought out this droll explanation with a little nervous rush, as if she were speaking words she had got by heart. They gave me an impression of subtlety and at first I failed to follow. But after a moment her face helped me to see further, and then a light came into my mind. It was embarrassing, and I bent my head over Jeffrey Aspern's portrait. What an odd expression was in his face! "Get out of it as you can, my dear fellow!" I put the picture into the pocket of my coat and said to Miss Tita, "Yes, I'll sell it for you. I shan't get a thousand pounds by any means, but I shall get something good."
She looked at me with tears in her eyes, but she seemed to try to smile as she remarked, "We can divide the money."
"No, no, it shall be all yours." Then I went on, "I think I know what your poor aunt wanted to say. She wanted to give directions that her papers should be buried with her."
Miss Tita appeared to consider this suggestion for a moment; after which she declared, with striking decision, "Oh no, she wouldn't have thought that safe!"
"It seems to me nothing could be safer."
"She had an idea that when people want to publish they are capable--" And she paused, blushing.
"Of violating a tomb? Mercy on us, what must she have thought of me!"
"She was not just, she was not generous!" Miss Tita cried with sudden passion.
The light that had come into my mind a moment before increased. "Ah, don't say that, for we ARE a dreadful race." Then I pursued, "If she left a will, that may give you some idea."
"I have found nothing of the sort--she destroyed it. She was very fond of me," Miss Tita added incongruously. "She wanted me to be happy. And if any person should be kind to me-- she wanted to speak of that."
I was almost awestricken at the astuteness with which the good lady found herself inspired, transparent astuteness as it was and sewn, as the phrase is, with white thread. "Depend upon it she didn't want to make any provision that would be agreeable to me."
"No, not to you but to me. She knew I should like it if you could carry out your idea. Not because she cared for you but because she did think of me," Miss Tita went on with her unexpected, persuasive volubility. "You could see them--you could use them." She stopped, seeing that I perceived the sense of that conditional-- stopped long enough for me to give some sign which I did not give. She must have been conscious, however, that though my face showed the greatest embarrassment that was ever painted on a human countenance it was not set as a stone, it was also full of compassion. It was a comfort to me a long time afterward to consider that she could not have seen in me the smallest symptom of disrespect. "I don't know what to do; I'm too tormented, I'm too ashamed!" she continued with vehemence. Then turning away from me and burying her face in her hands she burst into a flood of tears. If she did not know what to do it may be imagined whether I did any better. I stood there dumb, watching her while her sobs resounded in the great empty hall. In a moment she was facing me again, with her streaming eyes. "I would give you everything--and she would understand, where she is-- she would forgive me!"
"Ah, Miss Tita--ah, Miss Tita," I stammered, for all reply. I did not know what to do, as I say, but at a venture I made a wild, vague movement in consequence of which I found myself at the door. I remember standing there and saying, "It wouldn't do--it wouldn't do!" pensively, awkwardly, grotesquely, while I looked away to the opposite end of the sala as if there were a beautiful view there. The next thing I remember is that I was downstairs and out of the house. My gondola was there and my gondolier, reclining on the cushions, sprang up as soon as he saw me. I jumped in and to his usual "Dove commanda?" I replied, in a tone that made him stare, "Anywhere, anywhere; out into the lagoon!"
He rowed me away and I sat there prostrate, groaning softly to myself, with my hat pulled over my face. What in the name of the preposterous did she mean if she did not mean to offer me her hand? That was the price--that was the price! And did she think I wanted it, poor deluded, infatuated, extravagant lady? My gondolier, behind me, must have seen my ears red as I wondered, sitting there under the fluttering tenda, with my hidden face, noticing nothing as we passed--wondered whether her delusion, her infatuation had been my own reckless work. Did she think I had made love to her, even to get the papers? I had not, I had not; I repeated that over to myself for an hour, for two hours, till I was wearied if not convinced. I don't know where my gondolier took me; we floated aimlessly about in the lagoon, with slow, rare strokes. At last I became conscious that we were near the Lido, far up, on the right hand, as you turn your back to Venice, and I made him put me ashore. I wanted to walk, to move, to shed some of my bewilderment. I crossed the narrow strip and got to the sea beach--I took my way toward Malamocco. But presently I flung myself down again on the warm sand, in the breeze, on the coarse dry grass. It took it out of me to think I had been so much at fault, that I had unwittingly but nonetheless deplorably trifled. But I had not given her cause--distinctly I had not. I had said to Mrs. Prest that I would make love to her; but it had been a joke without consequences and I had never said it to Tita Bordereau. I had been as kind as possible, because I really liked her; but since when had that become a crime where a woman of such an age and such an appearance was concerned? I am far from remembering clearly the succession of events and feelings during this long day of confusion, which I spent entirely in wandering about, without going home, until late at night; it only comes back to me that there were moments when I pacified my conscience and others when I lashed it into pain. I did not laugh all day--that I do recollect; the case, however it might have struck others, seemed to me so little amusing. It would have been better perhaps for me to feel the comic side of it. At any rate, whether I had given cause or not it went without saying that I could not pay the price. I could not accept. I could not, for a bundle of tattered papers, marry a ridiculous, pathetic, provincial old woman. it was a proof that she did not think the idea would come to me, her having determined to suggest it herself in that practical, argumentative, heroic way, in which the timidity however had been so much more striking than the boldness that her reasons appeared to come first and her feelings afterward.
As the day went on I grew to wish that I had never heard of Aspern's relics, and I cursed the extravagant curiosity that had put John Cumnor on the scent of them. We had more than enough material without them, and my predicament was the just punishment of that most fatal of human follies, our not having known when to stop. It was very well to say it was no predicament, that the way out was simple, that I had only to leave Venice by the first train in the morning, after writing a note to Miss Tita, to be placed in her hand as soon as I got clear of the house; for it was a strong sign that I was embarrassed that when I tried to make up the note in my mind in advance (I would put it on paper as soon as I got home, before going to bed), I could not think of anything but "How can I thank you for the rare confidence you have placed in me?" That would never do; it sounded exactly as if an acceptance were to follow. Of course I might go away without writing a word, but that would be brutal and my idea was still to exclude brutal solutions. As my confusion cooled I was lost in wonder at the importance I had attached to Miss Bordereau's crumpled scraps; the thought of them became odious to me, and I was as vexed with the old witch for the superstition that had prevented her from destroying them as I was with myself for having already spent more money than I could afford in attempting to control their fate. I forget what I did, where I went after leaving the Lido and at what hour or with what recovery of composure I made my way back to my boat. I only know that in the afternoon, when the air was aglow with the sunset, I was standing before the church of Saints John and Paul and looking up at the small square-jawed face of Bartolommeo Colleoni, the terrible condottiere who sits so sturdily astride of his huge bronze horse, on the high pedestal on which Venetian gratitude maintains him. The statue is incomparable, the finest of all mounted figures, unless that of Marcus Aurelius, who rides benignant before the Roman Capitol, be finer: but I was not thinking of that; I only found myself staring at the triumphant captain as if he had an oracle on his lips. The western light shines into all his grimness at that hour and makes it wonderfully personal. But he continued to look far over my head, at the red immersion of another day-- he had seen so many go down into the lagoon through the centuries-- and if he were thinking of battles and stratagems they were of a different quality from any I had to tell him of. He could not direct me what to do, gaze up at him as I might. Was it before this or after that I wandered about for an hour in the small canals, to the continued stupefaction of my gondolier, who had never seen me so restless and yet so void of a purpose and could extract from me no order but "Go anywhere--everywhere--all over the place"? He reminded me that I had not lunched and expressed therefore respectfully the hope that I would dine earlier. He had had long periods of leisure during the day, when I had left the boat and rambled, so that I was not obliged to consider him, and I told him that that day, for a change, I would touch no meat. It was an effect of poor Miss Tita's proposal, not altogether auspicious, that I had quite lost my appetite. I don't know why it happened that on this occasion I was more than ever struck with that queer air of sociability, of cousinship and family life, which makes up half the expression of Venice. Without streets and vehicles, the uproar of wheels, the brutality of horses, and with its little winding ways where people crowd together, where voices sound as in the corridors of a house, where the human step circulates as if it skirted the angles of furniture and shoes never wear out, the place has the character of an immense collective apartment, in which Piazza San Marco is the most ornamented corner and palaces and churches, for the rest, play the part of great divans of repose, tables of entertainment, expanses of decoration. And somehow the splendid common domicile, familiar, domestic, and resonant, also resembles a theater, with actors clicking over bridges and, in straggling processions, tripping along fondamentas. As you sit in your gondola the footways that in certain parts edge the canals assume to the eye the importance of a stage, meeting it at the same angle, and the Venetian figures, moving to and fro against the battered scenery of their little houses of comedy, strike you as members of an endless dramatic troupe.
I went to bed that night very tired, without being able to compose a letter to Miss Tita. Was this failure the reason why I became conscious the next morning as soon as I awoke of a determination to see the poor lady again the first moment she would receive me? That had something to do with it, but what had still more was the fact that during my sleep a very odd revulsion had taken place in my spirit. I found myself aware of this almost as soon as I opened my eyes; it made me jump out of my bed with the movement of a man who remembers that he has left the house door ajar or a candle burning under a shelf. Was I still in time to save my goods? That question was in my heart; for what had now come to pass was that in the unconscious cerebration of sleep I had swung back to a passionate appreciation of Miss Bordereau's papers. They were now more precious than ever, and a kind of ferocity had come into my desire to possess them. The condition Miss Tita had attached to the possession of them no longer appeared an obstacle worth thinking of, and for an hour, that morning, my repentant imagination brushed it aside. It was absurd that I should be able to invent nothing; absurd to renounce so easily and turn away helpless from the idea that the only way to get hold of the papers was to unite myself to her for life. I would not unite myself and yet I would have them. I must add that by the time I sent down to ask if she would see me I had invented no alternative, though to do so I had had all the time that I was dressing. This failure was humiliating, yet what could the alternative be? Miss Tita sent back word that I might come; and as I descended the stairs and crossed the sala to her door-- this time she received me in her aunt's forlorn parlor--I hoped she would not think my errand was to tell her I accepted her hand. She certainly would have made the day before the reflection that I declined it.
As soon as I came into the room I saw that she had drawn this inference, but I also saw something which had not been in my forecast. Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me. She stood in the middle of the room with a face of mildness bent upon me, and her look of forgiveness, of absolution, made her angelic. It beautified her; she was younger; she was not a ridiculous old woman. This optical trick gave her a sort of phantasmagoric brightness, and while I was still the victim of it I heard a whisper somewhere in the depths of my conscience: "Why not, after all--why not?" It seemed to me I was ready to pay the price. Still more distinctly however than the whisper I heard Miss Tita's own voice. I was so struck with the different effect she made upon me that at first I was not clearly aware of what she was saying; then I perceived she had bade me goodbye-- she said something about hoping I should be very happy.
"Goodbye--goodbye?" I repeated with an inflection interrogative and probably foolish.
I saw she did not feel the interrogation, she only heard the words; she had strung herself up to accepting our separation and they fell upon her ear as a proof. "Are you going today?" she asked. "But it doesn't matter, for whenever you go I shall not see you again. I don't want to." And she smiled strangely, with an infinite gentleness. She had never doubted that I had left her the day before in horror. How could she, since I had not come back before night to contradict, even as a simple form, such an idea? And now she had the force of soul-- Miss Tita with force of soul was a new conception--to smile at me in her humiliation.
"What shall you do--where shall you go?" I asked.
"Oh, I don't know. I have done the great thing. I have destroyed the papers."
"Destroyed them?" I faltered.
"Yes; what was I to keep them for? I burned them last night, one by one, in the kitchen."
"One by one?" I repeated, mechanically.
"It took a long time--there were so many." The room seemed to go round me as she said this, and a real darkness for a moment descended upon my eyes. When it passed Miss Tita was there still, but the transfiguration was over and she had changed back to a plain, dingy, elderly person. It was in this character she spoke as she said, "I can't stay with you longer, I can't;" and it was in this character that she turned her back upon me, as I had turned mine upon her twenty-four hours before, and moved to the door of her room. Here she did what I had not done when I quitted her-- she paused long enough to give me one look. I have never forgotten it and I sometimes still suffer from it, though it was not resentful. No, there was no resentment, nothing hard or vindictive in poor Miss Tita; for when, later, I sent her in exchange for the portrait of Jeffrey Aspern a larger sum of money than I had hoped to be able to gather for her, writing to her that I had sold the picture, she kept it with thanks; she never sent it back. I wrote to her that I had sold the picture, but I admitted to Mrs. Prest, at the time (I met her in London, in the autumn), that it hangs above my writing table. When I look at it my chagrin at the loss of the letters becomes almost intolerable.


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WSO Champ Paes Wins US Open
By John Delong
One of our champions is also the US Open champion.
That's right, Leander Paes has followed up his 2013 Winston-Salem Open doubles title by teaming with Radek Stepanek to win this year's US Open men's doubles crown.
The 40-year-old India native claimed the eighth Grand Slam men's doubles title of his career and his 53rd doubles title overall with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over the second-seeded team of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares.
That came after Paes and Stepanek had knocked off Bob and Mike Bryan in the semifinals, ending the Bryan brothers' chances at a calendar-year Grand Slam.
Paes had teamed with Daniel Nestor to win the WSO crown two weeks ago, at a time when Stepanek took a week off to make sure he was fully healthy for the Open. Stepanek had missed almost four months earlier this year after undergoing spinal surgery for neck problems.
The soft-spoken Paes, who made his first Winston-Salem appearance back in 2001 in the Davis Cup World Group Qualifier between the United States and India, has been effusive in his praise of Stepanek.
"I can't say enough about my partner," Paes said. "What he has been through this year, both he and I know. For me, that will come with me to my grave, and I will always be with him in his corner no matter where we go in our lives, no matter what we did. I think that's what gives us strength on the court.
"The way he's recovered, the way he's done his rehab, the way he's stayed with it, to me, along with some other adversities this year, shows off a great champion that he is. Beginning of the year when he got injured I got lots of phone calls to play with other guys. But that's not what you do. What you do is you stand by your partner. I have tremendous belief in him, and he's really shown that belief coming good. I'm very proud of the partner I share the court with. He's probably the best partner I have had. I really enjoy playing with him."
That's high praise since Paes had a longtime partnership with countryman Mahesh Bhupathi and has also teamed with Lukas Dlouhy and Martin Damm – also Czechs – to win Grand Slam doubles titles. Paes joked that the key to winning Grand Slams was to have a Czech for a partner.
Paes' other Grand Slam titles have been the 2012 Australian Open with Stepanek – which completed Paes' personal career Grand Slam – the 2009 US Open with Dlouhy, Roland Garros in 2009 with Dlouhy, the 2006 US Open with Damm, Roland Garros in 2001 with Bhupathi, Wimbledon in 1999 with Bhupathi and Roland Garros in 1999 with Bhupathi.
"This one is actually really, really special," Paes said. "For me, this one if probably even more special than the Australian Open win. In Australia I was going for a career slam, and that was something Radek worked so hard to do. We achieved it, he did it for me, and that was pretty special.
"This one really means a lot to me because through this year we both had to handle a lot of adversity. I have always said that tennis is such a blessed profession for us, that you build friendship, you build camaraderie, you build a brotherhood. For me to win this trophy after the year Radek had is just something I will never forget. It's way up there with some of the best Grand Slams I have ever won."
Paes' victory in Winston-Salem with Knowles was his first of the year. He and Nestor beat Julien Knowle and WSO singles champ Jurgen Melzer in the first round, Paul Hanley and John Peers in the quarterfinals, Eric Butorac and Frederik Nielsen in the semifinals, and Treat Huey and Dominic Inglot in the finals.
Paes will now look to add the final crowning achievement to his resume in the ATP World Tour finals, which he and Stepanek are now qualified for.
"That's the trophy which is missing in Leander's showcase," Stepanek said. "That's what I'm very focused on. That's what I would like to deliver."
Paes emphasized that he is NOT nearing the end of his career. He's talking about playing for years to come.
"The cardinal rule my father taught me when I was a kid is to look to get better every day," Paes said. "We both come from humble backgrounds and come from countries where tennis wasn't necessarily the No. 1 sport. We both fought against adversity to get to where we are. So age is just a number for us. Age is something we look at and we smile. For us, we really take it very seriously to go out and get better every day and push each other.
"We are definitely not done. I'm going after 41 now, 42, and then 43."


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On Meetings, Mexico, the (new) Mayor and (new) Motorcycles
The King is Dead. Long Live the King! Our last episode ended with Now Voyager making it back to LA. One week later he had a new owner. Before moving on, he set a new record: 730 miles in one day and averaging about 100 mph for more than an hour. He acquitted himself with honors on his last mission. Here he gets his first wash after getting back from Guatemala by our neighbor in Puerto Vallarta.
It's difficult to summarize this past winter's events. Where's the theme in it all? It started with the following two-week travel sequence: DC – LAX- PV – Mexico City- PV – Guadalajara- LAX. The trip included meeting with the White House's most senior energy staff and being told…"We talk about LACI all the time here. There's no one doing anything like you guys…" I know that and $1.65 will get me a small Starbucks, but it was nice to hear anyway and certainly a 180 degree change from just three years ago. The trips also included signing an MOU with the Mayor of Los Angeles in Mexico City and being told "You're exceeding expectations, Fred" by the Mayor. Please remember that when we're asking for more money from the City to support LACI, I'm thinking:) Oh, and we began building a Global Innovation Network (GIN) which now has members in Germany and Mexico, soon to add Italy and the rest of Europe. And I'm part of the Mayor's delegation on his upcoming trip to Asia this fall.
South of the border, KR has become a world-class inn keeper as the Corona Adobe/Little Big Sur vacation rental business has exploded. No one is more surprised than KR and I at this new development. Corona Adobe has become a very popular B&W to the point that KR has had to escape to LBS because the house was fully rented. That option soon disappeared as well since the Corona Adobe/LBS "metropolitan living and jungle escape combo package" has been very popular. Last week KR had to stay in a PV hotel because we had no space in our own home or out at LBS. KR is coming to LA for the month of April partly because there's no room in PV. And to see Her Man, of course.
All work and no play makes for a dull boy (which I've been accused of being), so there's been a fair amount of that including a couple of days in PV with friends (Puerto Vallarta is just a great, great town), a Saturday night bar crawl like I only vaguely remember in my youth, and….. A NEW MOTORCYCLE!
We welcomed Now Voyager II into the family about a week ago. He's a 2014 BMW GS with every gadget, gizmo and option that the German's could think of:) I spent about two months evaluating various choices for the Walti's new DreamMobile, but settled on the biggest, fastest, heaviest, and most expensive alternative. Go figure. He's so big that I'm thinking of getting special elevator shoes made:) None the less, he's handsome, fast, comfortable and handles great. Why has it taken me all these years to man-up and get a GS? Go figure.
Maybe the theme for this winter is it's been a time of transitions. LACI is growing up — in size, footprint and reputation. One of these days it will be a real force to be reckoned with. Our life in PV has transitioned to that of part-time/ full-effort inn keeper which has pretty much changed what KR does south of the border. We've shifted to a new motorcycle, leaving the stressed-out Now Voyager behind and welcoming the fully-capable Now Voyager II into the fold. And, as we all face the challenges of growing up (finally?), we lost two of our friends this winter. One, Jack Foster, was one of the greatest creative people I've ever worked with. He certainly set the standard for how to have fun and do great work. Not a bad legacy.
The year started with my first ever Chinese New Years (its the Year of the Horse ) formal celebration. This one was given by Hong Kong's Trade and Invest group out of LA. It was quite a fascinating experience as I was one of the few non Chinese heritage folks. Pretty crazy dragons manned by young women danced and danced. I got tired just watching.
"Fireside Chat" with the new Secretary of the Department of Energy in Washington DC at the ARPA-E conference. It's a great conference, brimming with mind-boggling innovation.
Walking past the White House after a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It was sunny, but nippy out. Barack asked me to stay for dinner, but I had something already booked. Next time.
How can the coolest motorcycle themed bar that I've been in is located in Washington DC? The Iron Horse Tap Room has the best collection of pristine 60's and 70's era motorcycles that I've come across. One of my all time favorite bars, but I doubt that there was a motorcyclist in the place.
Reception in Mexico City welcoming the Mayor's "Invest L.A. "delegation" It was held in Carlos Slim's museum named after his wife. Very, very nice.
This is what it looks like from the outside.
The Mayor, Eric Garcetti, giving the last speech of the day. His schedule was packed — eight meetings each day for two days straight — and he was brilliant in each and every one. Antonio was pretty damn good on his feet, but Eric is better, giving off a lot of warmth.
The signing ceremony in Mexico City
I didn't get much chance to see Mexico City aside from a brief walk in Polanco, one of Mexico City's most upscale neighborhoods. Walking the streets you'd think you're in some European city as well-off Mexicans are very stylish people. This is the view from the Argentine steak house that I had lunch at.
Outside Carlos Slim's museum in Polanco, Mexico City's version of Beverly Hills.
The sweet smell of cement. LACI's 60,000 sa. ft. La Kretz Innovation Campus under construction. Move-in date is summer 2015.
Morton La Kretz and his daughter Linda visit their namesake. You haven't lived until you've walked around a site in a DWP hard hat.
The neighborhood's most popular Bed & Wine stands over its domain:)
The two views of inn keeping. To get the cash, you
need to make sure the place is spic and span for the guests. My favorite inn keeper preps for new guests
Street life in Puerto 'Valarta
It' can be dangerous in Mexico; you never know what's going to jump you. Here a man-shaped iguana gets ready to pounce.
This is the face of someone who's going to pick up his new motorcycle. At the train station waiting to go to Orange, CA.:)
Picking up NV II at Irv Seaver BMW. Not sure who's the most handsome, but the other one has 125 hp.
New parents document their baby's first step, I document NV II's first meal.
The second stop after NV's meal is Ryan Reza, the ultimate BMW doctor. We (OK, he attached I watched) extra gas tanks and tool tubes among other gadgets and gizmos.
(Almost) fully outfitted NV II overlooking the Angeles Crest forest.
You can never have too many shots of the new baby
There are few better moments in life: a screwdriver and reading over the new owners manuals after a first day's ride:)))))
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Gwen Stevens says:
And the beat goes on. Thanks for the very interesting catch up!
Bill Barclift says:
Fred – Thanks for the fabulous update, as always! Enjoy NV II!
chuck bachrach says:
Hey, FW can your feet reach the ground on this
new bike? When will you be in LA again?? CB
Bruce Conrad says:
Fred Your luck just changed with that 1200 GS, no more midnight E mails from Zambowango telling us you are busted down. Good Going. Bruce
Hi Fred,
Very fancy new motorcycle !!! I notice you have it outfitted for more adventures 😉
No wonder we haven't heard from KR, she is busy collecting the dough from the B and W business…yay for her success !
Sindhu & Greg says:
Congrats to KR on the B&W. Now that you built Casa PV and it seems to be occupied by others, will you build your own PV hide-away?
Kudos for you on the LACI and GIN success! Going global is where it is. Hopefully, the Emerging countries will grasp this reality.
May NV2 meet your expactations.
Jim de Boisblanc says:
Both of you are amazing. Your reports have become my favorite reading material.
On a personal note, would you tell us which vitamins you take, and the dosage.
Great new about the B&B, I had no doubt about its success.
Fred congrats on he new bike. Nothing but the BEST! It becomes you. Cheers!
How one day slides out of control Building GIN, moving to a smaller loft in LA, and driving north with the do...


Augmented reality (AR) gained widespread attention the summer of 2016 with the addictive game Pokémon Go. But these days, AR is not just for fun. This disruptive technology is expected to drive significant changes to businesses across many industries because of its ability to combine the virtual and physical worlds. Specifically, AR transmits a live view of a real-world environment that is augmented by computer-generated, 3D images. A digital object can be scaled to fit neatly in a physical environment using an AR application and camera on a mobile device.
In 2018, AR is moving beyond early experimentation, which merely showcased AR's novelty, into more viable business application – especially in the life sciences industry. Innovative companies are developing compelling ways to use AR to enhance customer engagement, improve education of complex topics, and create powerful, even emotive, brand differentiation.
AR is becoming more accessible thanks in part to new software such as Apple's ARKit, which is making it faster and easier to develop applications. There are more than 2,000 AR applications available today, and more coming, according to a report by the research firm Forrester Research. "Virtual reality (VR) and AR solutions are revolutionizing the way large and complex B2B products get marketed and sold – just as three-dimensional (3D) modeling precursors forever changed the way these products get designed and manufactured," Forrester notes.
Early adopters in life sciences are starting to use AR to explain complex concepts and treatments. It optimizes today's digital channels by providing an attention-grabbing new content type that allows healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients to engage directly with 3D images. For example, one company created a 3D heart model to demonstrate how a medicine moves through the organ as part of a new treatment, producing much greater impact for the audience than a simple video. Other AR applications have mapped an individual's body for surgery and shown the exact location of veins in a patient's arm, helping HCPs treat patients better and improve outcomes.
Regeneron is using AR to create deeper empathy and understanding of patients suffering from vision loss. HCPs can experience the blurriness, wavy lines, or black patches caused by different types of retinal disease to better appreciate the challenges patients face from this condition.
As AR continues to gain traction in the life sciences industry, it will be built into core enterprise software such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and content management systems – bringing an exciting digital content format to life by making it widely accessible and actionable. In this demonstration – https://bit.ly/2Lw37wg – built in conjunction with Pixacore and presented in May at the 2018 Veeva Commercial Summit in Philadelphia, Veeva shows how AR baked in to Veeva CRM combines the virtual and physical worlds to help develop patient empathy and a better understanding of disease state. The demonstration let the audience experience what it was like for a patient when his vision starts to fail from macular degeneration, an incurable disease.
Here are three of the most significant ways AR will be a game changer for marketing, sales, and customer service in life sciences.
AR will enhance customer engagement by creating highly engaging experiences for HCPs and patients. This is crucial today, especially as HCPs expectation increases for digital engagement. Finding new ways to interact with them can serve as a true differentiator and help foster more personal relationships. Using AR to spur emotional reactions such as wonder or surprise can also create a better connection with customers, and help ensure HCPs are fully engaged.
Specifically, AR enables life sciences companies to innovate how they tell and deliver their product's value, as well as demonstrate the outcomes. These demonstrations are extremely powerful, particularly when unpacking complex medical concepts because customers can visualize the product in their actual environment. HCPs gain a clearer understanding of how a treatment works in the body, even in a particularly patient's body. The contextualized experience allows HCPs to more fully appreciate the treatment benefits, too, which also makes the information more memorable.
Consumer brands are already using AR to personalize the customer experience. Ikea Place allows customers to place and move furniture virtually in their own homes. The 3D furniture appear at scale, with true-to-life representations of the texture, fabric, lighting, and shadows for a true 'try before you buy' experience. Similarly, AR can demonstrate exactly how marketing materials might look on display in a doctor's office, similar to how over-the-counter drug makers virtually arrange their shelf layout in-store. This simple change not only personalizes the engagement experience, but it also raises the bar from personalized content to a personalized virtual experience.
Unprecedented scientific discovery has led to an increased focus on developing specialized treatments that are highly complex – both in action and, oftentimes, in delivery. With every new discovery, effectively communicating complicated breakthrough therapies or even cures becomes more challenging – particularly just with words. Videos help but are still limited.
Today, AR technology offers a multi-dimensional way to communicate complex concepts for greater comprehension and retention. In fact, researchers have concluded that AR is more effective in demonstrating spatial and temporal concepts, allowing people to engage in the learning process with multiple senses and producing better results. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." AR involves the viewer, in multiple ways, so he learns faster.
In healthcare, for example, AR can be used to teach medical practitioners complex medical procedures – not just in theory, but also in practice – allowing them to virtually touch and manipulate objects to see the effect or practice the procedure. AR can also provide 3D on-body visualizations of how medicines or medical devices work for both HCPs and patients. Think of the value of virtually demonstrating a unique delivery mechanism for a new drug to HCPs early in the commercialization process. Medical teams could proactively instill product familiarity and averting potential apprehension before the product is even launched. Combining situational and sensorial learning via AR is an exciting way to improve information retention, deepen understanding of benefits, and pre-market complicated products to key opinion leaders.
In an increasingly competitive landscape, AR can provide an important point of differentiation for life sciences companies. Marketers will be able to use AR to stand out in a world saturated with content. With AR, companies can add value to the customer – helping them visualize the product, providing empathic experiences or creating context for the product. Because AR blends the real world with the virtual world, it empowers brand teams and content partners to build rich, immersive new experiences. This helps the field force deliver their messaging using a new visual way to communicate product benefits, and offers a new avenue for marketers to engage in storytelling for their brand.
A powerful visual experience can showcase important attributes that are different from other products. Differentiation with AR could highlight better efficacy, address new uses or dosing, or build awareness by taking advantage of an emotional aspect of the product. Life sciences companies using AR can illustrate these distinctions in a fresh new way. Being first to market with an attention-grabbing AR experience can also strengthen brand awareness in customers' minds.
Life sciences companies are testing the waters in new and exciting ways today and industry analysts expect to see a dramatic climb in AR adoption over the next several years. "The integration of AR applications into conventional workflow, such as through CRM, EMR, and analytics platforms, will lead to even more exciting possibilities for commercial operations," Fossat says.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to AR is simply resistance to change and inertia. Forward-thinking companies will lead the way and provide the industry key learnings while creating broader acceptance of AR as a "killer app" with endless possibilities. Looking to the future, AR will be increasingly important in life sciences commercial strategy, creating extraordinary experiences for HCPs and patients.


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What a great way to continue your education by studying in Copenhagen and experiencing other research facilities. It is ironic that you were researching and learning about fear and subsequent behaviors, while you were somewhat nervous about what you were going to experience in these new cities and environments.
Having students from the institution from all over the world was amazing experience. I am sure you learned about what you were studying, but also about different cultures and individuals. It is great to see that your instructors and fellow students impacted your experience.
I hope that you are able to bring your experiences back to OSU and can continue to use what you have learned!


Preheat oven to 300°. Arrange grapes in one layer on a tray or cookie sheet and bake 30 minutes, or until soft and sticky. Beat together yeast, sugar and water. Let stand for 5 minutes. Add flour, salt and oil. With dough hook, knead 2 minutes to form soft dough. Form in a ball and let rest 10 minutes, covered, on a floured surface. Roll dough into 18" x 8" oval, arrange on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with grapes, rosemary, salt and pepper. Let rise, covered with plastic wrap in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled. Set oven to 375°. Bake focaccia for approximately 1 hour, or until golden brown. Cool on a rack.
Makes 2 braids. In large mixer bowl, combine 2-½ cups flour, yeast and salt, mix well. In saucepan, heat milk, ½ cup water and butter until warm (120° to 130°; butter does not need to melt). Add to flour mixture. Add honey and 3 eggs. Blend at low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, gradually stir in carrots, raisins, orange rind and enough remaining flour to make dough firm. Knead on floured surface until smooth and elastic, 3 to 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover, let rise in warm place until light and doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down dough. Divide into 2 parts. Divide each half into 3 equal parts. Roll each part on lightly-floured surface to make a 15" strand. On greased cookie sheet, braid loosely. Pinch ends and tuck under to seal. Cover; let rise in warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Combine remaining 1 egg and 1 tsp. water. Brush braids. Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes until golden brown; cool.
To make small loaf. Brink milk, ricotta cheese, margarine/butter and egg(s) to room temperature. Note: you can microwave them on 10-20% power for approximately 30 seconds. Put ingredients, in the order listed above (milk, ricotta, margarine, egg, sugar, salt, flour, yeast) into the bread maker. Bake on white bread cycle, light crust setting, or rapid cycle, light crust. Do not use a delayed time setting.
Same direction as small loaf.
Same directions as for small loaf.
In a mixing bowl combine flour and salt, make a well in center, add eggs and ¼ cup water and beat the mixture until it is smooth and bubbles start to form. More water may be added a little at a time until a smooth thick batter forms that no longer adheres to the spoon. Bring salted water to a boil in a large soup pot. Dip a long narrow wood cutting board (with a handle) into the boiling water to moisten it.. Place a little dough (2 oz.) on the board, press it flat with a moistened knife, hold board at an angle above the surface of the water, moisten the knife and quickly cut fine strips of dough and push them into the boiling water. Moisten knife often. When spaetzle rises to the surface remove them, rinse briefly in cold water and put in hot water to keep warm while you cut more strips until all dough is used. Drain the spaetzle and warm in butter. Sprinkle with bread crumbs browned in butter.


I confess that I am still confused by all of this!
Well, how can I help? We have a variety of meal kit services over here on this side of the water. I have been trying out the top companies and describing my experiences with them. Sorry it's not translating well.
We get 'Meals on Wheels' but that is mostly for old folk.
OK, think Millennial Ingredients on Wheels for Profit. Instead of getting the service beca use you at too old to cook for yourself, you get the service for convenience and entertainment.


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No, Britney Spears Is Not Trying to Launch a Career in Painting
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Britney Spears at the Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Los Angeles premiere. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Britney Spears, America's foremost princess of pop music, is many things: a nationally beloved icon, a chart-topping artist, a tabloid fixture and a person without complete control of her own finances due to the terms of her conservatorship agreement[1]. She's also a mesmerizing Instagram presence[2]—in recent years, Spears has posted videos of herself painting contemplatively on a grand patio while piano music tinkles in the background. However, she is not trying to launch a side career in painting, despite the assumptions many had when a small gallery in Figeac, France called Galerie Sympa[3] announced it would be presenting her "first solo show in a contemporary art gallery." Spears' publicist told the BBC[4] there was "no truth to this" when asked to confirm that the singer was involved.
SEE ALSO: Hitchcock Icon Kim Novak Ditched Hollywood to Become a Painter[5]
However, the work being used to promote the show (which they were calling "Sometimes you just gotta play!!!!!![6]" after one of Spears' characteristically enigmatic Instagram captions) does appear to be created by Spears' hand. She reportedly donated the work to a charity auction for the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting, according to the BBC[7].
The stunt was a clear ploy by the gallery to get its name on the international scene. Perhaps they should have put more work into attempting to actually snag a celebrity artist, as it is a rising trend among small or distantly-located galleries trying to make a name for themselves. It might not have been that hard; many famous people have straddled these worlds: Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins has been painting for years[8] and exhibits with Harte Gallery in Lahaina, Maui. Lena Dunham debuted her watercolors last year at Red Truck Gallery in New Orleans[9]. Who knows if they tried to get Spears involved in an exhibition and resorted to pretense when it didn't pan out, but one thing's for sure: Britney Spears doesn't need to pivot to painting to prove she's a great artist. She's already proved that with every single song she's ever released, except for "If U Seek Amy," which was kind of gimmicky. We rest our case.
^ conservatorship agreement (www.usatoday.com)
^ Instagram presence (www.instagram.com)
^ Galerie Sympa (www.dazeddigital.com)
^ Spears' publicist told the BBC (www.bbc.com)
^ Hitchcock Icon Kim Novak Ditched Hollywood to Become a Painter (observer.com)
^ Sometimes you just gotta play!!!!!! (galerie-sympa.fr)
^ to the BBC (www.bbc.com)
^ painting for years (observer.com)
^ at Red Truck Gallery in New Orleans (observer.com)
Read more https://observer.com/2020/01/britney-spears-painting-exhibition-galerie-sympa-hoax/
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To experience all the modern comforts and conveniences in one of the hotels in Bahia Feliz, it is important to figure out the type of holiday you're after. To feel the vibe of lavishness, you can choose to stay in either a 4-star or a 5-star property, featuring high standards of hospitality with an excellent range of facilities. Or if it's about enjoying a relaxed yet pleasant getaway within budget – opt for an all-inclusive package or a low-cost apartment in Bahia Feliz. The list is never-ending, you need to take a wise decision for an unforgettable experience.
In Bahia Feliz, you'll find several things to see and do throughout the time, thus making it an ideal base for holidaymaker of all ages. There are many beautiful beaches to experience some moments of pure relaxation with sun loungers and parasols available to relax after a splash.
Beyond lazing on the beach and sunbathing under the endless glorious shade, the resort boasts several other points of attractions to be explored, all of which are within easy reach. The waterpark in Maspalomas is great for a family day out, the Palmitos Park offers the dolphin shows and you can also try your hand at various recreational activities.
Whether you want to sample the local specialities, something more exotic or wish to treat yourself to a home from home experience – there are several options to choose from an exotic range of different cuisines. You can visit the traditional restaurants to experience fine-dining with authentic food such as fresh fish, which is usually prepared with high-quality, locally-sourced ingredients. For light bites, head to the cafes to serve your appetite with tasty snacks or if you're wanting to overlook magnificent sea views while eating a meal – look for a beachfront eatery with a modern setting.
An absolute mecca for party animals, the neighbourhood of Bahia Feliz offers a colourful nightlife scene at the end of every day – with several bars and clubs offering everything you'd need to make the most of your evenings. However, if you're wanting to enjoy a relaxed and laid-back atmosphere, you can stay in one of the hotels in Bahia Feliz to chill out with your companions over a glass of wine or local beer.
For all those who're wanting to experience retail therapy after spending some time at the beaches will surely find a variety of local shops and markets to bring souvenirs and goodies back at home. You can also take care of your basic needs while staying in self-catering Bahia Feliz apartments or visit the nearby shopping centres to find many items under one roof.
It's a lovely area to stay if you want to be away from the noise of Playa Del Ingles but €5 in a taxi will get you down to Playa Del Ingles for shopping etc. It's very clean and there are plenty of places there to do gift shopping. Quiet area.
If you resist or want some excercises then this is right place for you. You need to move a few hundred of meters to taxi, bus stop, or shopping center, beach aso. Busslines to Maspalomas dynes and beach, Ingles, airport, Vecindario big shopping center and Las Palmas are available in a nice price. Busses are airconditioned, and gos 1 few time in a hour, even in the weekends so don't need to bother what day is today. A, there are not so many bars for adults, they are in the Pl. de Ingles area. Entertainment is in the other hotels, so visiting them in the night, if needed.


Kimmy Zee is the production company of Winnipeg-based writer-producer-performer, Kim Zeglinski.
A busy teacher-counsellor-wife-mother by day, Kim's alter-ego, Kimmy Zee, gets many glimmers of inspiration while nighttime bathing. She quickly jots down these stream-of-consciousness ramblings, adds a lot of hyphens, calls some creative friends, procrastinates a whole bunch, and finally turns them into her quirky, honest, shoot-from-the-hip, signature-style monologues. The result is a knock-em-dead hour of poignant truth-telling, and laugh-out-loud fun.
Nominee for 2014 Manitoba Association of Playwrights' Harry Rintoul Award for Best New Manitoba Play!
Winnipeg Fringe Best of Fest!
The Bush Ladies: In Their Own Words 2008 Winnipeg Fringe Best of Fest!
The Winnipeg Poetry Slam 2014-15 Semi-Finalist!


The name says it all! The unique location of Beachfront Hotel on the shores of the Tasman Sea and in the heart of Hokitika allows you to beach comb and explore the arts and crafts galleries all from your doorstep.
The Hotel also offers a wide range of accommodation choices from simple street front to luxury beachfront rooms. With a restaurant and bar on site Beachfront Hotel has all you need for that perfect stay.
Ocean View Rooms – Modern, spacious rooms. All with an ocean view and just steps from the beach. Spa bath rooms available.
Driftwood Rooms – Hokitika street views. Offer convenient access to town and the beach.
Ocean View Restaurant & Wine Bar – This magnificently positioned restaurant is elevated above the beach so you can relax and enjoy quality, local flavored cuisine while watching the waves roll in.