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POV Explained
December 15, 2016 Carl E. Reedpoint of view, writing, writing style, writing tips 22 Comments
Let's differentiate point-of-view (POV) in the simplest, most direct manner possible.
The first distinction to be made is to identify what perspective your story is being told from: first-person, second-person or third-person. Examples:
First-person: "I walked into the bank . . ."
Second-person: "You walked into the bank . . ."
Third-person: "He walked into the bank . . ."
First- and second-person POVs are fairly self-explanatory, but there are sub-categories within third-person POV that need to be elaborated on for purposes of clarity.
The secondary distinction to be made in third-person POV is along the "subjectivity/objectivity axis": whether or not the writer gets inside the head (or heads) of the characters he or she is describing.
If the writer confines himself to describing the behavior, emotional reactions and thoughts of one single character at a time while other character's observed emotions and conjectured thoughts are only described as externally-perceived phenomena, you are writing in third-person limited POV.
If the writer confines herself to describing only the actions and sounds of a scene, you are writing in the third-person objective POV. You are chronicling the scene as if you had a good camera and recording device trained on the action. No character thoughts or emotions are directly revealed or described.
If your narrative has a single, god-like viewpoint from which we view all other characters and perspectives—or you talk directly to the reader—or your narrator travels freely backward and forward in time—or the narrator can transfer their all-knowing perspective into animals or inanimate objects—you are writing in the third-person omniscient POV. (Much frowned upon today, though a very popular POV in 19th-century novels.)
—Sharon was angry and confused. (You are making a flat declaration of fact about Sharon's interior emotional state, hence are writing in third-person omniscient POV.)
—Sharon looked (or seemed) angry and confused. (You are confining your description to only those facts an objective, not omniscient, narrator might observe or know; hence you are writing in third-person limited or third-person objective POV.)
Q: What if I describe the actions, conjectured thoughts and observed emotions of, say, five different characters in a scene. Isn't that the omniscient POV?
A: Nope. You didn't declare anyone's emotional state as a flat declarative fact (hence talk directly to the reader), nor did you reveal anyone's inner thoughts. You are still writing in a third-person POV, but now it's a multiple third-person POV. If no one's thoughts or emotions are directly shared or revealed, it would be an objective multiple third-person POV. If you reveal or share the focal character's thoughts or emotions with the reader you are writing in the third-person limited POV.
Here's where things can become muddled: You "head-hop" into another character within the same scene and directly reveal their emotions and/or thoughts to the reader. This does not mean that your narrative has necessarily shifted from third-person limited to a third-person omniscient viewpoint (remember: the omniscient viewpoint is an over-arching, unifying viewpoint that contains all characters and perspectives), but rather that the focal point character has shifted within the scene. A writer can use multiple viewpoints in a work of fiction, true—but it is strongly recommended that the text show a clearly-demarked line or chapter break when you switch amongst multiple points of view.
Q: My focal point character—the one I'm following most closely in this scene—reveals his inner thoughts and emotions to the reader. But the other four people in this scene do not. Since I'm only directly revealing the thoughts and emotions of one of the five people in this scene, I'm writing in third-person limited POV, correct?
A: Correct. If you didn't directly reveal the thoughts and/or emotions of even one character in this scene, you'd be writing in the objective third-person POV. (Camera and sound recording device only, remember?)
Q: My reviewers are accusing me of head-hopping. So what? I'm writing in multiple third-person limited POV; what's the big deal?
A: The big deal is that every time you jump into another character's head to directly reveal the inner life of that character you steal focus from the scene's focal point character, thus injecting emotional distance into your text by diffusing empathy and muddying the over-all clarity, dramatic pacing and concision of your scene. A clean line or chapter break when switching amongst POVs will help to keep your reader focused, involved and empathizing with the most important person in the narrated scene.
First-Person POV: allows for the closest reader identification with your narrator. Drawbacks include: (a) the narrator is strictly confined to discussing what he or she directly experiences or observes, (b) first-person voice can come across as comically narcissistic and melodramatic, and (c) first-person voice is not the easiest (or most credible) stylistic vehicle to use when describing the thoughts and motivations of others.
Second-Person POV: almost never used, for obvious reasons. (Who's this joker telling me what I think and feel and do?!)
Third-Person POV: has the most credibility with the reader.
(a) The third person omniscient narrator can move backwards and forwards in time; talk directly to the reader; inhabit the bodies and psyches of animals, insects, toasters and toys—but this can come across as mightily contrived and corny to a contemporary reader.
(b) The third person limited narrator must confine his description of directly-revealed thoughts and/or emotions to only one character at a time in any given scene.
(c) The third person objective narrator mechanistically chronicles the scene like a camera and sound recording device, never entering his character's emotional or cognitive lives.
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Not too schooled in POV, I will reread before I comment.
You have given me a fine new word: concision. (Related to concise?) A thousand thanks, oh fellow-word-beguiled one.
Ha! After the obvious, another definition from Google: Archaic. a cutting up or off; mutilation. Used by Saint Paul as a derogatory term for circumcision. I see this leading to some strange conversations. (Sly read a bit of the Bible, after his dumb-ass brother converted to Presbyterianism, in order to argue against it.)
Now I have to research frog and hedgehog (his two best childhood friends) penises. Do they have anything to concise? I don't rule out a game of Show me yours, I'll show you mine. Carl, you are a real pal! To share these great ideas with me!
I can make hay of this. One of the ways Sly taught himself to speak English (any tongue, he is multi-lingual) was, he had a word of the day, that he used as many times that day as he could figure out to do. Hmmmm.
His attempts to master Frog must have resulted in some comical scenes. No wonder his mother was concerned for her tiniest, most vulnerable, and, apparently, addle-brained child. When he seemed to mumble to himself, making really strange noises, he was practicing his words. I did the same when I was trying to learn French.
Finally, having reached the pinnacle of achievement as the close advisor of a king, still smarting years later over how he'd been scoffed at back home, he wants to show the rubes what he's made of himself. That is the motivation for his trip north. I'd thought it a sentimental journey to see his mother. No! He wants to rub hometown noses in his way-superior success in life.
A delightful idea, Carl! Thanks to you. I will give you another credit in my footnotes. Praise for your outstanding word-smithery. And mentions of your on-Amazon books, of course.
Carl E. Reed says:
LOL, Mimi! Love the idea of how Sly learned to speak. (PS. My books don't exist anymore on Amazon. Methinks they have all been obliterated as part of the fallout from the great Book Country vs. Amazon debacle.)
My book no longer shows on Amazon. Their loss. They could have made several bucks by now.
atthysgage says:
A very nice summation. I admit to having a certain affection for third person omniscient. I've never used it for anything longer than a short story, but it offers an opportunity to play with the reader's expectations and preconceptions. I've more than once tried to convince Mimi that she ought to have the narrator of Sly step out from behind the authorial lectern halfway through the narrative and reveal himself to be a player in the story with his own agendas and biases, which would call in to question everything that went before. Of course, that's easier said than done, especially when you're (hopefully?) nearly done writing the thing.
I would trust you to handle that viewpoint well. Do you remember that one of my first reviews of your work SPARK! on Book Country contained the praise "your writing has delightful sparkle and effortless pop; it has the light, deft touch of whimsy"? It's a tricky, rare thing, Atthys! I can't do this.
Well now you've gone and made my day.
I love the idea, Atthys, but I can't see how to do it without dumping a lot of stuff that I don't want to dump.
The Novella and Book One are essentially done. Books two and three have a long way to go.
I've used the first person POV for a number of short stories, and some readers have assumed they were autobiographical, which they were not. I was glad at least to think that the stories sounded real for those readers.
I'd take it that way.
@Perry: Heh! I've had similar reactions to my use of the first-person POV by those who should know better. I actually had to remonstrate with one editor who gave me a sly (I think of Mimi and her work whenever I hear that word now) smile and said, "Is your alter ego really Dick Hardcock?" Me: "Oh for the love of Pete! The protagonist's name is intended as an outrageous send-up of all those phallic tough-guy names in the detective genre; it's meant to be the final word in single entendre in this regard."
I'm aware of PoV while writing, for the obvious reasons. But I do suspect that strict PoV adherence is the result of Hollywood & television. That single perspective will, of course, vanish in virtual reality movies. Maybe novels of the future, written for holodeck presentation, will somehow present a holistic view of each scene.
Who writes omniscient these days? I think of what I do as a cubist painting. A dab here, a dab there, until you have the whole picture. I don't get how that can be a bad thing.
I understand the criticism, breaking the focus, etc. Muddying clarity? I think it adds clarity. Of a different, deeper kind.
@Mimi: "Head-hopping" does not refer to the use of the omniscient voice. An invisible narrator could very well say something like: "And now we find our intrepid band of heroes about to make the biggest mistake of their adventuring lives." Further narration might describe divers characters' thoughts and feelings as the scene plays out. Corny, but an acceptable use of the omniscient voice.
"Head-hopping", on the other hand, is frowned upon in the third-person limited point of view because you keep yanking the rug out from under the reader and asking them to reorient their perspective and empathy within the same scene.
(Example of deathless prose #1)
Steve stared at her in disbelief. He couldn't have heard what he thought he heard. Twelve years! Twelve years together and it's over just like that! "You want a divorce. Before Christmas."
She took a deliberate sip of wine, set the glass down carefully. Considered the tabletop for long, interminable seconds. "Yes," Melinda said, raising her eyes and fixing her husband with a steady, somewhat pitying stare. "That's exactly what I want."
"I see," Steve said. He fought to keep his voice steady. This can't be happening! She's still upset over the move and the loss of the dog, that's all. We'll sleep on it. And in the morning . . . "Hon—can we discuss this tomorrow?"
Melinda took a deep breath. "No, we can't."
Do I stutter? I thought that was pretty clear. Melinda took a deliberate sip of wine, set the glass down carefully. Considered the tabletop for long, interminable seconds. "Yes," she said, raising her eyes and fixing her husband with a steady, somewhat pitying stare. "That's exactly what I want."
Melinda took a deep breath. The 'ole avoid-and-delay routine again. Not this time. "No, we can't."
Which version do you prefer?
I prefer deathless prose version #1, but I think the passage works too without any of the italics.The emotions of the characters are implied in the spoken words.
Yes, some of the facts would be missing (twelve years, the move, loss of the dog), but I assume these are made known elsewhere in the story.
@Perry. Agreed! That would be the third-person objective POV. But for purposes of illustration I wanted to directly reveal character thoughts to the reader to show how and why head-hopping is frowned upon.
Therefore, the kind of clarity that readers who crave fast-paced fun despise.
I like both, but the second I would structure as follows:
Melinda took a deliberate sip of wine and set the glass down carefully. Do I stutter? she wondered. I thought that was pretty clear. She considered the tabletop for long, interminable seconds. "Yes," she said, raising her eyes and fixing her husband with a steady, somewhat pitying stare. "That's exactly what I want."
Does my change make a difference?
If you eliminate all of Steve's internal thoughts from the example above and reveal Melinda's only, then you're back to a rock-solid third-person limited POV. Perfectly workable and acceptable.
Still fuzzy on omni, but I'm fuzzy on a lot of things.
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Jazz on the Road Don Albert's Musical LIfe
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Music of the African Diaspora
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Christopher Wilkinson uncovers a fascinating and unexplored side of American musical and social history in this richly detailed account of Don Albert's musical career and the multicultural forces that influenced it. Albert was born Albert Dominque in New Orleans in 1908. Wilkinson discusses his musical education in the Creole community of New Orleans and the fusion of New Orleans jazz and the Texas blues styles in the later 1920s during his tenure with Troy Floyd's Orchestra of Gold. He documents the founding of Albert's own band in San Antonio, its tours through twenty-four states during the 1930s, its recordings, and its significant reputation within the African American community. In addition to providing a vivid account of life on the road and imparting new insight into the daily existence of working musicians, this book illustrates how the fundamental issue of race influenced Albert's life, as well as the music of the era.
Albert's years as a San Antonio nightclub owner in the 1940s and 1950s saw the rise in popularity of rhythm and blues and the decline of interest in jazz. There was also increasing racial animosity, which Albert resisted by the successful legal defense of his right to operate an integrated establishment in 1951. In the two decades before his death in 1980, his performances in Dixieland jazz bands and interviews with oral historians concerning his own career were the fitting climax to a multifaceted musical life. Albert's voice and personality, his feelings and opinions about the music he loved, and the obstacles he faced in performing and promoting it, are artfully conveyed in Wilkinson's fluid, accessible, and erudite narrative. Jazz on the Road shows the importance of live performance in bringing jazz to America, and succeeds brilliantly in depicting an era, a locale, and a way of life.
Christopher Wilkinson is Associate Professor in the Division of Music at the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University.
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The trans-China Shanghai-Chengdu railway, currently under construction, has been extended another leg to Yichang, Hubei province, reported Xinhua. Travel time from Chongqing to Wuhan will now be halved to five hours.
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Q: How/does DMA handle multiple concurrent transfers? I am working on implementing a VM and trying to model all the different hardware components as accurately as possible, just for pure learning purposes.
My question is, how does a DMA device handle multiple concurrent transfer requests? From what I understand a DMA device has several registers to set the location in memory, the type of operation (read or write) and the number of bytes, so what happens when the CPU requests an operation from DMA, puts the thread to sleep and then the next thread that runs also requests a DMA operation while the previous one is still in progress? Is this even supported?

A: Unless you're talking about ancient, ISA-era hardware, DMA nowadays is handled by the device itself taking ownership of the bus and requesting the data directly from the RAM. See the Wikipedia article on Bus Mastering for more information.
Therefore, it is really up to any individual device how to handle DMA, so not much can be said for the general case. However, most simple devices just support a single DMA operation at a time; if the host wants to submit two DMA operations, it would simply wait for the first DMA to complete (being notified by an interrupt) and then instruct the device to do the second one, the OS putting the requesting thread to sleep while the first DMA is in progress. There are certainly variations, however, such as using a command-buffer that can specify multiple (DMA-involving or not) operations for the device to do in sequence without interrupting the CPU between each.
I doubt there are very many devices at all that try to carry out multiple transfers simultaneously, however, seeing as how interleaving DRAM accesses would just hurt performance anyway. But I wouldn't exclude their existence, especially if the operations involve very large transfers.
In the end, you'll just have to read up on the particular device you're trying to emulate.

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Introducing: Pain Perdu, a traditional French bistro in Lawrence Park
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Name: Pain Perdu
Contact Info: 3185 Yonge St., 416-488-0081, painperdubistro.com
Neighbourhood: Lawrence Park
Owners: Evaristo De Andrade and Yannick Folgoas, who also owns the pretty Pain Perdu pâtisserie on St. Clair
Chef: Evaristo De Andrade, a former pastry chef at Pain Perdu pâtisserie
The Food: Chef De Andrade hails from Côte d'Azur on the French Riviera. His classic bistro menu is about as decadent as it gets: foie gras on brioche, escargots tucked in puff-pastry baskets and steak smothered in creamy Bearnaise.
The Place: This new uptown bistro is a spin-off of the Pain Perdu pâtisserie on St. Clair, which is well-known for its croissants and other French confections. The simple white-walled room (formerly another bistro called Steak Frites) is decorated with colourful canvases by chef Evaristo De Andrade, who is also an accomplished artist.
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• $65-$145 for a caviar supplement
• 20 paintings by chef De Andrade, who is also an accomplished artist
• 4 traditional French desserts: crème brulée, lemon tart, chocolat liégeois (i.e. chocolate ice cream with whipped cream) and profiteroles
Croissant wafers and smoked salmon layered with cream cheese, capers, chives and mixed greens in ginger dressing ($15)
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Escargots in puff pastry baskets with parsley-garlic butter ($12)
Mussels simmered in garlic and white wine broth, served with frites ($12 small or $19 large)
Steak frites with béarnaise sauce and baked tomato ($25)
The simple, white-walled room is decorated with colourful canvases by chef De Andrade, who is also an accomplished artist
Profiteroles with vanilla ice cream, dark chocolate sauce and roasted almonds ($9)
Pain Perdu is located at 3185 Yonge Street, just north of Lawrence
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Steve Bako says:
Had dinner here… love it….amazing…wine list is reasonably priced and the menu and decor is calssic simple and the food is great… try having a slection from each section. Good value for your money …
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I live nearby… Can't wait to try it. Frequented the patisserie on St. Clair and the quality is high level.


The Enterprise receives a call from the Sheliak Corporate, which they haven't heard from in 111 years. The Sheliak insist Tau Cygna Five is theirs, due to an old treaty, and they want the humans there gone- despite the fact that, due to hyperonic radiation, the crew doesn't think any humans could possibly be there.
When they reach the system, they find the radiation interferes with the sensors, along with phasers and transporters. Data, as the only crewmember immune to the radiation, is sent down via shuttlecraft to begin evacuation procedures. To everyone's surprise, however, Data finds, not a crashed ship with a few dozen people on it, but a thriving civilization of over 15,000 people, descended from the occupants of a 92-year old lost colony ship. Further, their leader, Gosheven, boasts of the colony's accomplishments, scorns the Sheliak claim, and refuses to leave. While Data meets and befriends Ard'rian McKenzie, a woman very interested in androids, Picard tries to ask the Sheliak for more time.
The Sheliak, unfortunately, are sticklers for the letter of the treaty, and refuse. Data, hearing of the urgency of the situation (three days remain before the Sheliak colony ship arrives), attempts to speak with Gosheven again, with as little success. Then, he and Ard'rian start spreading the word to the people of the colony, as the Enterprise leaves the system to begin looking for the Sheliak vessel.
A few hours later, Data has met with little success. Their words have had the effect, however, of making Gosheven call a public meeting, at which Data tries to evoke images of how they will die at the hands of the Sheliak if they do not leave. Gosheven's rhetoric is too strong, though, and the evacuation still does not begin. Data and Ard'rian meet covertly with several colonists, including Gosheven's two top aides, to try to go behind his back, but Gosheven catches them and stuns Data, saying he's merely "deactivated a faulty machine." Meanwhile, after the Enterprise finds the Sheliak colony ship, Picard and Troi beam over to try to reason with the Sheliak, only to fail utterly.
As Picard decides to study the treaty for possible loopholes, Ard'rian manages to revive Data, who decides to begin using actions instead of words. He uses some of his own circuitry to create a phaser that will work in the radiation, and uses it to make the point that the colonists will, in all probability, never even see the Sheliak before they are killed. Realizing this, the colonists agree to leave. Picard, meanwhile, invokes the treaty's third-party arbitration clause, and names as mediators a race in hibernation for the next six months. To avoid this, the Sheliak agree to give Picard the three weeks he asks for. Upon Data's return, Picard compliments him for his ability to be creative.
"The Ensigns of Command" - Data races against time to save a human colony that's been marked for death by aliens.
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Main Cycles: Nitrogen Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Photosynthesis, and the Water Cycle
"Every day, up to 150 species are lost." That is the conclusion of U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity scientists. We, as the smartest species in the world, are not treating our fellow species wisely. We dominate them and make them vanish every single hour. Humans do not realize that biodiversity is the most vital feature of our planet. Changes in the environment and biodiversity are interconnected. Lower diversity results in more diseases, lower security, and other vital problems. If we ignore life of other species on the Earth, we will soon pay for it.
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Biodiversity is the contraction of "biological diversity". The term means the variety of living organisms from any sources in Earth. It is the foundation of the ecosystems including layers of organisms. Biodiversity includes not only unmanaged but also managed ecosystems. Biodiversity is presumed to be limited to unmanaged ecosystems like oceans, forests, wildlands. This is a common wrong conception. The term biodiversity also covers farms, ranches, and urban parks, and even pets in your home. They have managed ecosystems. Biodiversity is omnipresent on the Earth, on the surface, underwater, and in the air. However, we seldom appreciate biodiversity because most of living organisms are as small as five centimeters.
Biodiversity is the most vital feature of nature, as professor David MacDonald, at Oxford University affirms that, "Without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity." It plays an important role in ecosystem function that provides ecosystem services, biological resources, and social benefits to human beings. In the macroscale of ecosystem services, there are four main cycles: nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle, photosynthesis, and the water cycle. All of them need the participation of animals and plants to happen. Species also contribute to soils formation and protection. Biodiversity provides biological resources, such as, food, medical resources, wood, etc. In an CNN report, "One third of all our food—fruits and vegetables—would not exist without pollinators visiting flowers". This statement mentions honeybees, the primary species that fertilize plants. Another important role of biodiversity is social benefits. It provides us enjoyment and tourism, such as parks, zoos and beaches. Additionally, it provides cultural values, like dogs and cats.
There are a lot of threats to biodiversity makes species are loss faster and faster. First and foremost, climate change contributes the most in biodiversity loss. Changes in climate has adversely affected species globally and permanently. For example, marine biodiversity and vegetation zones shift when ocean temperature rises. Another major threat to biodiversity is deforestation. It is the direct cause of biodiversity and habitat loss. According to Mashable, 18 acres of forests are lost each year. It was because of logging and other human practices. Overexploitation contributes to a huge loss of species. We overfish and overhunt to fulfill the demand for food. Other indirect causes of biodiversity loss namely pollution and invasive species. According to Mashable, 19 billion pounds of plastic are dumped into the ocean every year. It is obvious that the major factor makes species vanishing faster than ever before is human activities. Biodiversity loss is because of humans' demands, especially for food and energy.
According to Center for Biological Diversity organization, we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. Extinction is a natural phenomenon, and it usually happens at the rate of one to five species a year. However, species now are being lost at 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate. Center for Biological Diversity gives an estimation that thirty to fifty percent of all species possibly will be extinct by mid-century. They also affirm that "99 percent of currently threaten species are at risk from human activities primarily through driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, global warming." Human beings, as the smartest species, are the dominant the main cause of fellow species' extinction. If we keep ignoring disappearance of animals and plants, we will soon pay for it.
Biodiversity loss adversely affect humanity, especially higher health risk and lower security. In the academic journal, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health vol 10, issue 6, page 1432, the article "Biodiversity loss: Public health risk of disease spread and epidemics" gives us a comprehensive look at the affect of biodiversity loss to humans' health. Humanity is an integral and inseparable part of the nature. Our health depends ultimately on the extinction and health of other species and the natural functions of the ecosystems. Biodiversity and epidemics are interconnected. Increase in host diversity results in decrease in magnitude and impact of epidemics. This is called dilution effect. Through research of Lyme disease, a disease transmitted to humans from mice through ticks, they concluded that, "A region rich in diversity of species of vertebrates has protective effect against vulnerability of human vector-borne communicable diseases". The loss of biodiversity also leads to less security for humans. Without plants and animals, natural disasters occur more and more than ever before. Without diversity in food source, we put ourselves in the risk of starvation. There used to be a variety of plants that supply food in a field. However, there is usually just one kind of food-supply plants in a field nowadays. If epidemic explodes, we will have nothing left to eat. We need to take action now or the next species to be on the verge of extinction may be us.
There are plenty of ways to help and protect biodiversity, directly and indirectly. We can support species like birds, fish, or plants that live in our area. Volunteering to participate in environmental organizations is a great way to help. One of the most important activities we can do is to reduce climate change by reusing and recycling. We do not need a new bottle of water every time we need to drink, nor we need new plastic bags when we go to the grocery store. Indirect ways to save the environment and species namely saving water and energy, buy organic foods to prevent the use of pesticides, using paper carefully really help. Donating money to a conservation organization or being an educator can influence other people to give a hand to save species.
Biodiversity is the most complex and important function of nature. However, humanity is threating the existence of other species. We are exploiting resources, over hunting, deforesting to serve the need of our economy, culture, religion, technology improvement, etc. Out demands beget habitat loss, environment pollutions (air, water, and soil), climate changes and other threats to species. That results in both direct and perceptible issues and indirect issue, especially to human health. We need to take immediate actions, or our next generations are not going to exist.
"Biodiversity & Human Well-Being." Define biodiversity, GreenFacts, 6 June 2005, www.greenfacts.org/en/biodiversity/l-3/1-define-biodiversity.htm.
The article gives clear definition of biodiversity. The source gives information about dimensions of biodiversity, and the importance of other species. A general look at current trends in biodiversity is also given. This source is recommended to explain the concept of biodiversity and its importance.
"Cycles in Nature." Central Place and Bid-Rent Theories | S-Cool, the Revision Website, S-Cool , 21 Oct. 2008, www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/the-earth-and-the-atmosphere/revise-it/cycles-in-nature.
The source provides useful information about four main cycles on the Earth. They are nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle, photosynthesis, and water cycle. The cycles are explained thoroughly from their beginning to their end. Pictures are provided as illustration for those cycles. The source is useful to give readers information about cycles and explain the importance of them.
"How to Help Biodiversity." How to Help Biodiversity, AMNH, 20 Aug. 2017, www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_bio/howtohelp.php.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) offers ways to protect biodiversity. They also call for actions as they say that humans are the keepers of this green planet. The source is recommended to provide people ways to help other species with different backgrounds and situations.
Petronzio, Matt. "5 Major Threats to Biodiversity, and How We Can Help Curb Them." Mashable, Mashable, 23 May 2015, mashable.com/2015/05/23/biodiversity-threats/#Syb2WGvjPZqb.
Matt Petronzio writes an informative article about what makes species vanish significantly. All of the causes are relevant to humans. He also links food, energy and biodiversity. In conclusion, extinction of animals and plants is because humanity demands for food and energy is so enormous. The source gives a comprehensive look at the connection between humans' activities and life of other species.
"The Extinction Crisis." The Extinction Crisis, Center for Biological Diversity, 5 July 2009, www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/.
The website mentions the extinction crisis we are facing nowadays. Species are disappearing 1,000 to 10,000 than natural extinction rate. The source also illustrates what will happen if biodiversity is low. The source is great to provide current status of the environment and useful to call for actions.


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Q: Stop 100% rollout Google Console I have started rolling out a new version of our APK to our users. Unfortunately during rollout I've mistakenly pushed 100% rollout to PROD. I do believe it's an ok build but I wanted to halt the rollout.
Is there a way to stop it? Currently it is still in review but I can't find a way which is weird.


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In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in collaboration with the University of Alabama, have experimentally demonstrated a novel phenomenon of graphene that can make it behave like an insulator and a conductor simultaneously.This study surely excites material scientists and graphene could make its way into the next generation of electronic devices.
Graphene is a form of carbon, just like diamond and graphite. It is made of a honeycomb shaped sheet of single layer of carbon atoms. Because of its remarkable electrical (conducts 30% better than copper), and mechanical (the strongest material ever tested) properties, graphene is now a sought-after material by engineers and material scientists. Scientists are still discovering other interesting facets of this 'wonder material' and this study is a testimony to that.
In their study, Mr. Amogh Kinikar and his team have demonstrated 'edge mode transport' in graphene, where electrons flow only along the edges of a graphene, and not on its surface. "In our work, we show an example of a class of materials in which the current flows only along the edges. It acts as an insulator with a metallic coating, conducting electricity only along the edges", remarks Mr. Kinikar.
So, what makes a material an insulator or conductor? When an electric field is applied on a conductor, the outer electrons in the atoms of the conductor move, and this flow of electrons results in electricity. In insulators, these electrons are bound tightly to the atomic nucleus, and require a very large electric field to start moving.
Mr. Kinikar explains this phenomenon of insulators with an analogy. "Imagine a hot air balloon stuck in a valley of a mountainous region. To get the balloon moving, we need to increase the burners in the balloon. Most insulators are like these mountainous regions", he says. But how about a region like the Western Ghats -- with mountains on the one side and the vast sea on the other? Here, if the balloon is along the edge of the mountains, it can slide easily towards the coast with a little help from the burners, and keep flying. That is what happens with graphene.
However, in graphene, if you increased the electric field just a little bit, the electrons can move in from the edges, towards the center -- a problem that the researchers faced. "We wanted the electrons to just flow along the edges, but they also flowed through the middle. The obvious solution, therefore, is to increase the height of the mountains. That is quite easy to do in materials, we just have to make them narrower", says Mr. Kinikar.
Building a narrow channel in a sheet of graphene can result in two types of edges due to the hexagonal arrangement of carbon atoms -- 'zigzag' and 'armchair' -- with the former being the prefered one for edge conduction. Using conventional etching techniques to build a narrow channel results in an edge that is a combination of both zigzag and armchair. The researchers overcame this by mechanically tearing a piece of graphene from a piece of graphite, which gave them the desired edge. Once they had the narrow channel and the desired zigzag edge, the researchers could finally demonstrate 'edge mode transport' in graphene, for the first time.
This study, being the first to experimentally demonstrate such an 'edge mode transport', opens new avenues of research into the behaviour and applications of this property of graphene . "The most well-understood materials are those in which more electrons move if you apply a larger electric field. These are called Ohmic materials because they obey Ohm's law; that the current across the resistor is proportional to the voltage applied. Both superconductors and insulators break Ohm's law. For the last century, every time a class of material was found to not obey Ohm's law, new physics has been discovered" signs off Mr. Kinikar.
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Volcanism is a geological process that has significant socio-economic implications due to its short and long term associated hazards, which include their direct impact but also potential global atmospheric effects. Therefore, understanding the causes and effects of volcanism is of major importance to minimise its risks. Deciphering how volcanism works and how we can anticipate the occurrence of volcanic eruptions, require first to fully understand how its main driving force, magma, forms, evolves and moves across the lithosphere.
During the 2010-2015 ILP funding period two independent task forces have generated substantial progress on the research foci 'Bridging the gap from microseismicity to large earthquakes' (Bohnhoff, ILP task force III) and 'Numerical geomechanical modelling of processes in the lithosphere' (Heidbach, ILP task force VII). The fact that both task forces are now coming to an end while great challenges lie ahead triggered discussion on how to best follow up the addressing the pending key questions. Here, we propose to continue both topics together and in a complementary way in the framework of a unified proposal for a new task force for the new ILP funding period 2015-2020.
The subduction of the continental lithosphere into Earth's interior leads to dramatic changes in the dynamics of the mantle as well as seismic and volcanic activities at the convergent systems. The geological processes that resulted from the continental crust-mantle interaction are complex and diverse and may evolve into different scenarios. One well-accepted model is that the Si-rich continental material keeps subducting into the mid-upper mantle where it is subjected to partial melting, thus causing volcanic events. However, experimental studies have shown that a part of the crustal material that delaminated and avoided melting may be modified to become denser than surrounding mantle.
Subduction zones play a fundamental role in our daily life. Half of the world population lives on top or nearby one of them, in coastal areas repeatedly devastated by large earthquakes, tsunamis or volcanic eruptions. Giant earthquakes occurring on subduction zone mega-thrusts (Mw close to 9 or larger) are indeed amongst the deadliest natural hazards. During the last decade, very large earthquakes took many lives (Sumatra, Chile, Japan) and, according to the World Bank, over 200 billion € for the 2011 Japan earthquake.


Mtatsminda Park,Tbilisi Development and operational management of a 50 hectare former USSR public park into a modern Theme Park. Scope: Lead Consultant Client's Advisor Concept Masterplaning Organization Development Project Management Pre Opening & Operations Management Capital Cost: $36,000.000 Notable: Park built 727 meters above the City of Tbilisi.
From 2015 to 2017,we continuely provided products to 94branches of WANDA KIDS PLACE in China,like Jungle Family Roller Coaster,Halloween Pumpkin Family Trains.Buyers' data shows that our products ranking TOP 3 in their playground.Meanwhile,we become A Class Supplier of WANDA Amusement Equipment.
From June 2015,we have continuely provided Halloween Family Roller Coaster,Golden Childhood Flying Chair,Fantasy Corsair,12P European Style Carousel,18P American Style Merry Go Around,Moon Boat,Rainbow Musical Revolving Cup,Happy Rabbit Revolving Cup and other amusement equipment to branches of Wale's Happy World.Wale's Happy World is a large-scale interlocking theme park,part of Taiwan-funded industry,Mei Huatai Industrial Co.,Ltd.They adhere to the concept of Professional,Safety and Innovation.
In August 2017,our Tackle Train was selected as specified equipment for Suning Red Kids Playground which upgrading its 60 flagship experience stores.Meanwhile,Suning plans to expand up to 150 flagship stores in next three years,aiming at becoming the best entertainment resorts for adolescents family.
In May 2017,Spin Tackle Roller Coaster has sucessfully installed in Shanghai Andersen Fairyland,being one of 7 Theme Parks,named Swan Shire Theme Park.This works incorporated into the classic story of Andersen Fairy Tales that created an enjoyable and educational experience for kids.
In May 2017, Spin Tackle Roller Coaster has been successfully installed in Shanghai Andersen Fairyland.Andersen Fairyland is the world's FIRST large theme park named after fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen that authorized by the Kingdom of Danmark.It covers an area of 81,300 square meters and contains 7 Theme Parks while SWAN COUNTY spinning rides is one of the 7 theme parks.Its elegant swan shape and charateristic gardenscape perfectly explain the elements from Andersen fairytale.As the most favorite patent work of World Fun Attractions Brand,SWAN COUNTY spinning rides received high praise from kids and parents.
In July,2016,our Halloween roller coaster,Golden childhood flying chair,Fantasy pirate ship,Ocean merry-go-round and other amusement equipment have been successfully installed in Gathering Paradise.Gathering Paradise is a large scale national 4A tourist attractions with leisure,entertainment,resorts,tourism and business.The whole industrial cluster covers an area of 16.97 hectare,including thermostatic water park(four seasons),European style theme park,theme hotel,large scale business,Ice worlds and 60 other experience projects. Rides from World-Fun Attraction are widely popular among passengers.


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Q: Android Share to G+ is missing location field The location field no longer appears in the share to G+ dialog on Android. This is the code I'm using:
Intent shareIntent = new PlusShare.Builder(this.getActivity())
        .setType("text/plain")
        .setText("Test")
        .getIntent();
startActivityForResult(shareIntent, 0);

Previously, in the share dialog, you could add the location (similar to the "Write" dialog in the G+ app). With a recent update to play services, that location field is no longer there.
Am I missing something?
This is a screenshot of the current share dialog.
And this is a screenshot of the write dialog in the G+ app.

A: The sharing actually moved from the Google+ app to Google Play Services, and they are slightly different sharing experiences - for example the new contacts first sharing is only in the Google Play services sharebox. If its a feature you're keen on, probably the best bet is to file a request in the Platform issue tracker: https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/list


(7 November 2018 - W. M. Keck Observatory) Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but hiding behind this messy cloud of material are two supermassive black holes, nestled at the center of each of the galaxies, that are now excitingly close, giving astronomers the best view yet of the pair marching toward coalescence into one mega black hole.
It's not easy finding galaxy nuclei so close together either. The late stage of the merger process is so elusive because the interacting galaxies kick up a lot of gas and dust, especially in the final, most violent stages of the merger. A thick curtain of material forms and shields the galaxy nuclei from view in visible light. Astronomers did not have the capability to observe this type of event until now.
W. M. Keck Observatory is a distinguished leader in the field of adaptive optics (AO), a breakthrough technology that removes the distortions caused by the turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. Keck Observatory pioneered the astronomical use of both natural guide star (NGS) and laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) on large telescopes and current systems now deliver images three to four times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. Keck AO has imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors. Support for this technology was generously provided by the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation, Change Happens Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, NASA, NSF, and W. M. Keck Foundation.
The Near-Infrared Camera, second generation (NIRC2) works in combination with the Keck II adaptive optics system to obtain very sharp images at near-infrared wavelengths, achieving spatial resolutions comparable to or better than those achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope at optical wavelengths. NIRC2 is probably best known for helping to provide definitive proof of a central massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers also use NIRC2 to map surface features of solar system bodies, detect planets orbiting other stars, and study detailed morphology of distant galaxies.
The W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes are among the most scientifically productive on Earth. The two, 10-meter optical/infrared telescopes atop Maunakea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high-resolution spectrographs, integral-field spectrometers, and world-leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems. The data presented herein were obtained at Keck Observatory, which is a private 501(c) 3 non-profit organization operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the Native Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.


Deep Blue Financial was first launched back in 1999 when good friends, Andrew Peters and Clive Corbett had the desire to build and run their own business. Andrew and Clive first met in 1992. Realising their shared financial background and passion for Scuba Diving, the friendship was cemented.
After many years of both Andrew and Clive working independently in financial services, they decided to bring their wealth of knowledge and expertise together to start a new business venture; a business that would excel in offering expert advice and customer care. Naming the company Deep Blue was an easy decision as it holds a clear link to their shared passion of diving. To this day, Scuba Diving remains a passion for both Andrew and Clive and they still regularly dive together all over the world.
Deep Blue Financial offers impartial financial advice to corporate and private clients across the UK. Their head office is situated by the quayside in Fareham and offers beautiful views across the water. The building started its life 150 years ago as a warehouse, but today the offices are bright and spacious with porthole style windows which completes the nautical theme of Deep Blue.


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Simon Property Group Fights to Reinvent the Shopping Mall
With department stores in sharp decline, Simon is overhauling its empire to keep customers coming
BYPhil Wahba
December 2, 2016, 11:30 AM UTC
Photograph by Tom Schierlitz for Fortune; Prop: Yuji Yoshimoto—Studio UG; Styling: Rachel Haas—King Management
With department stores in sharp decline, Simon is overhauling its empire to keep consumers coming back.
The Roosevelt Field shopping complex was built 60 years ago, in Garden City, N.Y., on the former Long Island airstrip where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic transatlantic flight. But when you walk in, it doesn't take long to realize this isn't your mother's mall—or even your own high school mall.
When you enter by the Nordstrom (JWN), your attention is drawn not to one of those smudgy, indecipherable "You Are Here" map directories, but to sleek screens whose messages nudge you to shop the mall's trendier fashion brands. Those same screens pepper you with reminders about an app-based loyalty program, which could help you snag the most coveted item on any shopper's list—a premium reserved-parking spot.
As you pass leather couches flanked by charging stations for cell phones, you'll see the refurbished food court—sorry, make that "dining district"—with eateries that eschew plastic plates and utensils for actual silverware, and furniture that says hipster bistro rather than cafeteria remainder sale. Roosevelt Field has significantly expanded its full-service, sit-down restaurant offerings as part of a $300 million overhaul. And throughout the mall, tasteful signage steers you to the new luxury wing, opened in February 2016 and anchored by (and named for) a state-of-the- art Neiman Marcus store.
The King of Prussia mall, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, is the second-largest in the U.S. Simon recently added 50 stores to the mall as part of a $200 million renovation.Photo: Courtesy of Simon
Photo: Courtesy of Simon
Hundreds of shopping centers across the U.S. are facing obsolescence, abandoned by shoppers who are going online or getting choosier about where they shop. But Roosevelt Field shows that there is still a lot of life in that American mainstay, the suburban mall. The 2.4-million-square-foot center generates about $1,000 in annual retail sales per square foot, according to real estate research firm Green Street Advisors—more than twice the national average for shopping centers. And in its combination of novelty, technology, and customer pampering, Roosevelt Field embodies the strategy that has helped its owner, Simon Property Group (SPG), navigate retail's crisis to stay on top of the mall world.
Simon, a real estate giant with headquarters in Indianapolis, has relied on aggressive dealmaking and savvy property management to bolster its position as the largest U.S. operator and developer of shopping malls. Its U.S. portfolio includes 108 malls, most of them high-grossers like Roosevelt Field, and 72 discount outlet centers. That adds up to real estate worth $110 billion. Some of the biggest and most luxurious malls in the country— including the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, King of Prussia outside Philadelphia, and the huge high-end New York outlet mall Woodbury Common—are bastions of the Simon empire. (The company also operates malls abroad and owns 20% of Klépierre, a Paris-based mall operator with properties across Europe.)
"Reinvesting is what separates a good landlord from a not-so-good landlord." —Edward Mui, Morningstar
The company generated $5.3 billion in revenue in 2015, with an enviable 37% profit margin. Simon's revenue has grown every year since the Great Recession ended, and its market cap has risen fivefold since the end of 2008, to $57 billion. The key to that success: constantly adapting to figure out what sells, at a time when many of the businesses that fill its malls—especially department stores and apparel retailers—aren't selling.
Along with a handful of other mall operators, including General Growth Properties (GGP), Taubman Centers, and Macerich, Simon dominates the so-called A-malls, those with the highest sales per square foot. To win in that category, Simon has been diligent about staying ahead of trends and modernizing its centers, and quick to replace struggling brands with those on the upswing. "We've cleaned a lot of stuff out, and we're very sensitive to creating the environment where those retailers can do the most business," CEO David Simon told investors in July. (The press-averse Simon declined to be interviewed for this article.)
Still, the company and its investors are grappling with the reality that being the No. 1 mall owner may soon be analogous to reigning as queen of the compact disc. Simon's shares, which reached an all-time high of $229 in July, had fallen more than 21% by mid-November, reflecting concerns about how many of Simon's tenants are struggling. Two of Simon's three top tenants, Gap Inc. and Abercrombie & Fitch, have closed hundreds of stores in the past two years and have announced more to come; anchor department stores are shutting their spaces too. Green Street Advisors has predicted that 15% of U.S. malls could be in jeopardy in the next decade, the inevitable unwinding of years of overbuilding.
And so Simon cannot afford to rest on its laurels. The company has another $1.9 billion worth of renovations and new projects in the pipeline: Some 100 miles to the southwest of Roosevelt Field, Simon recently wrapped up a $200 million overhaul and expansion of the King of Prussia mall—adding space for 50 more stores in what's already the second-largest mall in the U.S.
Simon is also at the vanguard of rethinking what kind of store fits in a mall. Many of Simon's "boxes," as the spaces are called in commercial real estate parlance, are being repurposed for occupants like Cheesecake Factory and fast-fashion retailer Primark. Simon has added 200 restaurants in its properties in the past five years. Other non-retail spaces that people want, like movie theaters and health clubs, are also proliferating.
Such reinventions can be expensive, but Simon is gambling they will pay off in future income increases—potentially the only way it can keep growing in a country that has more malls than it needs. "They're always on their toes, reinvesting in their properties for that extra edge," says Morningstar analyst Edward Mui. "It's what separates a good landlord from a not-so-good landlord."
For the moment, business looks good for the industry's good landlords—Simon in particular. The company's U.S. malls and outlets are 96.3% full (about four percentage points above the industry average). Sales per square foot are $604, a slight drop from a year ago but a full 27% higher than the industry average of $474, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the industry's trade organization.
But even the industry's biggest cheerleaders acknowledge the risk posed by the wave of store closings. The five top department-store operators whose branches anchor so many malls—Macy's (M), Penney, Kohl's (KSS), Dillard's, and Sears Holdings (SHLD)— have together closed some 750 stores since 2013, or 20% of their fleets, and analysts think the Honey, I Shrunk the Retailer trend will continue. A spate of bankruptcies among mall stalwarts in the past two years, including Aéropostale, Wet Seal, Pacific Sunwear, and American Apparel, has also pressured landlords. And even highly successful stores like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Hudson's Bay's Saks Fifth Avenue are hurting these days.
David Simon, CEO of Simon Property Group.Dan Callister—Alamy Stock Photo
Simon: Dan Callister—Alamy Stock Photo
All those closures effectively put more brick-and-mortar retail space into the marketplace, potentially undercutting mall operators' ability to raise rents. Analysts generally believe America is "overmalled" to begin with: There are 2,353 square feet of space of shopping centers in the U.S. for every 100 Americans, compared with 1,636 in Canada and 458 in Britain, according to CoStar Realty Information. From the 1960s through the 2000s, developers built hundreds of malls per decade. But since 2010, only nine new ones have been built (and many of those have been one-of- a-kind luxury projects, like the recently opened Westfield mall at New York's World Trade Center). Green Street forecasts that rents will grow only a modest 1.5% a year through 2019.
And all this, of course, plays out against the backdrop of changing consumer habits. Online shopping has siphoned many consumers away from bricks and mortar. And smartphones and shopping apps have transformed mall-going for those who still show up. "There is no need to window-shop or go to 12 different stores if they've already researched online," says D.J. Busch, a senior real estate analyst at Green Street. All these factors make a day at the mall especially unappealing when the stores look as though they haven't had a makeover since L.B.J. was in the White House. The upshot: A market able to support five malls a few years ago might need only three now.
The REIT Rundown
Investing in shopping malls almost always means buying a real estate investment trust [REIT].
Why Investors Like REITs
Companies organized as REITs get favorable tax treatment, in return for which they must distribute at least 90% of taxable income as a dividend. That makes them at- tractive to investors seeking bigger income streams.
Why Landlords Love Them
The REIT structure allows Simon Property Group and other landlords to raise capital on public markets, making them less reliant on bank loans. That's a big advantage for developers that typically have billions of dollars of projects in the pipeline.
Why They're Both a Little Nervous
Many economists expect that interest rates will rise in 2017. That would make REITs less attractive to investors relative to bonds, while raising the cost of their debts—cutting into profits.
Simon Property, so far, has rolled with these punches. Bankruptcies have always been a fact of life in retail. David Simon is fond of pointing out that only three of his 10 top tenants from 1993, when Simon Property went public, still exist in their current form. But he and his best-performing competitors have moved quickly to upgrade themselves. After the recession, Simon and GGP gradually spun off or sold most of their malls that had weaker overall sales, while ramping up investments in their better ones. One example of how that has paid off: Of the 100 or so stores Macy's said this summer it would close by the spring of 2017, only one is at a Simon-owned mall.
For all their problems, department stores are still essential to mall operators: GGP says that 70% of its mall customers visit a department store. So Simon has been proactive in assisting anchor tenants like Neiman Marcus. At Roosevelt Field, the company not only named its new luxury section the "Neiman Marcus Wing" but also began holding glitzy occasions aimed at bringing in shoppers, like influencer powwows hosted by leading fashion bloggers and stylists. "They've stepped up the quality of their events," says Neiman CEO Karen Katz. "They've done such a great job of promoting Neiman Marcus in the Simon branding within the mall."
And if big stores close anyway? Simon has a strategy for that too. Over the past 15 years, Simon has redeployed 90 vacant department stores in order to gut them and remodel them to accommodate other retailers and businesses that are potentially more profitable. "The industry's been able to absorb the store closings by repurposing that property for things that drive higher foot traffic," says ICSC CEO Tom McGee—including for those very un-mall-like grocery stores, spin-class fitness shops, and entertainment centers.
There is irony in Simon Property's having to reinvent itself to adapt to a new retail world—because the company essentially invented the old one.
Back in 1960, Melvin Simon, the company's Bronx-born founder and David's father, teamed up with his brothers Herb and Fred, forming a trio of machers who came to be known as the "Marx Brothers of Malls." The brothers pioneered the concept of a shopping center being anchored by a department store. Before that, department stores tended to be in city centers at stand-alone locations. The Simons' idea was to leverage the shopper traffic of department stores, which at the time were the apex of the retail food chain, within enclosed malls where those giants were the marquee attractions. To make that happen, they charged department stores a pittance while charging other tenants much more. Even today the typical anchor store pays around $4 per square foot in annual rent; the average non-anchor tenant paid $42.22 per square foot a year as of the third quarter of 2016, according to real estate analytics firm Reis.
The anchor model took hold, and over the ensuing decades, Melvin Simon & Associates grew into a shopping center behemoth, becoming the largest real estate investment trust to list shares on the stock market with its 1993 IPO. Three years later Simon mushroomed when it merged with rival DeBartolo Realty. As malls' organic growth began to wane, dealmaking prowess became an essential skill for anyone hoping to move into the corner office.
Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y., one of dozens of older malls that Simon has overhauled in the past two decades.Photo: Courtesy of Simon
Courtesy of Simon
Enter David Simon, Melvin's eldest son. In 1990, Melvin asked David to come home to Indianapolis from New York, where he was an M&A banker for the renowned boutique investment firm Wasserstein Perella & Co.; David became CEO in 1995. The survival skills he learned in the rough-and-tumble Wall Street milieu, mixed with his familial temperament, made David a fearsome negotiator. "Even though I was born and raised in the Midwest, when you have a father from New York, it kind of rubs off on you in terms of your aggressiveness," Simon told a group of Wharton School students in 2009.
That aggressiveness helped Simon land a succession of deals in the late 1990s that transformed Simon into the first truly national mall developer, in what had been a localized, fragmented market. In 1997, Simon bought the Retail Property Trust for $1.2 billion in a hostile takeover, acquiring 10 prestigious properties, including the high-end Westchester in White Plains, N.Y. A year later Simon snagged Corporate Property Investors (CPI) for $5.9 billion, getting its hands on prized malls like Roosevelt Field. And in 2004 it bought Chelsea Property Group, a $3.5 billion deal that instantly turned Simon into the largest operator of high-end outlet malls—including Woodbury Common in New York's Hudson Valley, which rakes in $1.3 billion a year in sales by some estimates.
"[Retailers] chased the holy grail of internet sales, to the detriment of their physical product." —David Simon, CEO
At the same time, Simon was also proactive in ditching less productive malls. In today's mall economy, "there is much more of a split between the winners and losers," says Barbara Denham, an economist with Reis. In 2014, Simon spun off most of its so-called B-and C-malls—those with lower sales per square foot—into a new REIT, called Washington Prime Group. That deal left Simon with a higher proportion of the most productive malls than most other REITs—and a nice supply of cash to keep those malls updated.
Still, Simon Property and its competitors are now at a turning point. After years of consolidation, there's not much more room to grow via M&A. Over the years Simon has tried and failed to acquire its biggest rivals, including GGP, Taubman, and Macerich (in 2015). Now Simon finds itself in an era of experimental partnerships. In September, for example, in its first such move ever, Simon joined with GGP and other investors to buy Aéropostale out of bankruptcy and keep it afloat.
Mall operators are also trying to master shopping tech before it masters them. Simon created a venture capital arm in 2014 that has invested, along with partners such as GGP, in e-commerce companies like Deliv and Shopkick, a shopping loyalty app. Simon pumped more than $20 million over the past two years into small tech companies, among them a dress-rental service for weddings called Union Station, and Fashion Project, a marketplace for deeply discounted clothes. Talking with Fortune about one of his company's most in-demand app features, GGP CEO Sandeep Mathrani was both upbeat and sardonic about the technology. "We are spending a lot of money to guide you to a parking space," he says.
If you want to get a rise out of David Simon, tell him mall traffic is declining.
It's easy to see why that narrative has taken hold, given that one retail CEO after the next has bemoaned declining mall traffic to explain weak sales. (It's as popular as blaming the weather or, this fall, the presidential election.) But Simon has been pushing back against retailer kvetching for years. In 2012, at an industry event hosted by retail-focused investment bank Financo, J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler complained that the intense smell of popcorn at one mall was keeping customers away from a J.Crew store. "I'll take all your space back right now," Simon shot back.
In fact, Simon says, traffic isn't declining at the A-malls, and independent statistics back him up on that. "They don't keep track of the mall traffic. We keep track of the mall traffic," Simon told a conference in June, with some pique. "I mean, these are my clients, but I do think they need to be crisper in how they describe it." At other times he has laid much of the blame squarely at the feet of the retailers themselves. "They've chased the holy grail of Internet sales, to the detriment of what they should be doing with their physical product," he told Wall Street analysts in October.
The Roosevelt Field shopping complex was built 60 years ago, in Garden City, N.Y., on the former Long Island airstrip where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic transatlantic flight. A new luxury wing, opened in February 2016 and anchored by a state-of-the-art Neiman Marcus store.Courtesy of Simon
Still, even if retailers revive their brick-and- mortar strategies, the diminishment of department stores' hegemony means the average U.S. mall will look a lot different in five years. In fact it could be back to the future. Until the 1970s, U.S. malls had a much broader mix of tenants: It was standard for a shopping center to have a supermarket, a drugstore, and services like dry cleaning and shoe repair. That could well become the norm again, as it is in Canada and Europe. There are still 443 department stores at Simon malls, but the company is already heading in the direction of diversification: At the College Mall in Bloomington, Ind., one of the company's original malls, Simon recently demolished a defunct Sears, and it is putting a Whole Foods (WFM) 365 discount grocery, an Ulta, and other smaller stores in the same space.
As more department stores downsize their fleets, smaller retailers could end up playing the anchor role—in other words, getting a big rent break from operators like Simon because they bring in so many shoppers. By one estimate, hosting an Apple (AAPL) store lifts a mall's overall sales by 10%. Presently, 55 Simon malls have an Apple, while 15 have a Tesla store, another draw for the well-heeled.
Green Street's Busch says it's conceivable that landlords could charge a fast-growing retailer (these days, a T.J. Maxx or Ulta Beauty would fit that bill) a rent similar to what they pay at strip malls. That would typically be $8 to $15 per square foot per year, according to various industry estimates—not as good a deal as the department stores get, but still a worthy tradeoff for the traffic they draw. Like many analysts, Busch sees the current department-store wreckage as an opportunity: "It could be a catalyst for where the mall should have been going all along."
There are plenty of up-and-coming retailers in the wings to pick up other slack, including retailers that started out exclusively online. On GGP's most recent quarterly earnings call, Mathrani reminded analysts that eyewear retailer Warby Parker could grow to have 1,000 stores, while web-based men's clothier Bonobos has said it would get to 100. Amazon (AMZN) reportedly has plans for hundreds of bookstores. "There's going to be plenty of opportunity for retailers that want to expand to find locations," says Mark Hunter, managing director of retail asset services at commercial real estate consultancy CBRE.
To see data charts showing why shopping malls are in trouble, click here.
The shift away from traditional apparel retail is already making itself felt. Food and beverage, for example, now makes up 9% of leasing space in U.S. malls, according to ICSC, and industry executives expect that to grow. Adapting to trends like these costs money and is likely to pinch REIT profits. But with their traditional tenants languishing, they have little choice.
And the continual churn of reinvention at Simon's malls shows that it isn't living in the department-store past. At an investor conference in June, David Simon predicted, "You're going to see, at the end of the day, the better malls will get bigger and better and more diverse, and some of the other fringe retail will suffer." It'll be his job to keep the family business as far as possible from that fringe.
A version of this article appears as part of the 2017 Investor's Guide in the December 15, 2016 issue of Fortune, with the headline "Reinventing the American Mall."


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Shirley Park set to be shown in all its glory in 2020 calendar
The war memorial in the park surrounded by poppies. Picture Friends of Shirley Park.
Shirley Park on a misty winter's morning. Picture Friends of Shirley Park.
Sunset over Shirley Park. Picture Friends of Shirley Park.
Sarah Mason 19th Nov, 2019 Updated: 19th Nov, 2019
SHIRLEY Park is set to be shown in all its glory in a new calendar for 2020, which hopes to raise funds for projects at the park.
Over the past 12 months members of the Friends Of Shirley Park Facebook page have risen to the challenge to capture the beauty of the Stratford Road park.
Each month more than 1,100 members were given the chance to get out and about and submit pictures in the hope they would be crowned as winner for that month.
Images included showing the war memorial surrounded by poppies at night, misty mornings in the winter and the park in full bloom during the summer.
Helena Morrissey, chair of Friends of Shirley Park, said: "The idea was to get more people into the park, exploring it and taking pictures to showcase what a beautiful outdoor space we all have on our doorstep.
"There were a range of pictures in the summer we could see the park in full bloom and other seasons people captured and this lovely oasis.
"We received many many beautiful photos and choosing the winner each month was very difficult and we now have 12 stunning photos of our beautiful park.
"The park sometimes gets a bad press – so it's great to be able to show the park off in its full glory."
Copies of the calendar will cost £6 and proceeds will go towards future projects the group will hold.
Helena told The Observer several projects are lined up for next year for the group, from installing accessible picnic benches for those in wheelchairs and pushchairs, to planting bulbs and litter picking.
She also revealed plans in the pipeline to create a outdoor classroom at the park which would be available to school and community groups.
She said some of the funds from the calendar could go to this but plans are still in the early stages.
The calendars will be on sale at Shirley Christmas lights switch on event on December 1 in Parkgate, by contacting the group's Facebook page or emailing friendsofshirleypark@outlook.com.
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I have read about multi-cuisine food in many novels but for the first time I tasted it in Global Village '007 program organized by TCS Maitree. 42 people from 18 different countries took part in it. This was an initiative to bring the TCSers from different country under one roof.
Banyan Park is a workplace everyone will envy. I enjoyed its scenic beauty along with a cloud of bats present over there. The program was also colorful when people from China to Colombia danced for Doom & Daler Mehandi's album.
Finally, the food served, baffled me on what to eat and how much to eat. I ate from French pastries to Brazilian chocolates & Italian Pastas. Candidly speaking I turned a glutton for that evening as I used to be.The only stall I did not go was the Indian food, since they served Pav Baaji & Dabeli was served there, which is very common in Mumbai.
The closing part of the program was a presentation on India, by the people from these countries. That showed their respect India, really moved me.
I came home with my heart and tummy filled. A commendable program by TCS.


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Q: jQuery TokenInput with Meteor How can I include jQuery TokenInput with the Meteor framework? I couldn't find a smart package so now I am wondering how I can do it without needing a smart package.
For example how to include the jquery.tokeninput.js?
As for coming up with a script that returns search results would I just use iron-router for that?
And have a route that accepts a query string q, then do a simple MyCollections.find({name: q} ....?
If would be great if someone could help me understand exactly how I can add this plugin to my app that's on Meteor's framework.

A: A possible way of doing this without the need of packaging is to put it in your client/lib/ folder.
In this case it would be root_of_your_app/client/lib/jquery.tokeninput.js, you can also put .css files in there.
I still think you should make a smart package out of it, but this should work.
In terms of building the script, I think you're on the right track.
Make sure you use .fetch() to return the results in an array, and then possibly use JSON.stringify(array) to get the right format.


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From Evidence to Implementation: Clarifications Around USPSTF Recommendations for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) : Episode 4
Barriers to Access for HIV PrEP
By Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA
Carl Schmid
Frank J. Palella, MD
Ryan Bitton, PharmD, MBA
Sean E. Bland, JD
Sean E. Bland, JD, discusses barriers to access for eligible patients to receive HIV PrEP therapy.
EP: 1.Introduction: From Evidence to Implementation: Clarifications Around USPSTF Recommendations for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
EP: 2.Uptake of HIV PrEP Therapy
EP: 3.Unmet Needs for HIV PrEP Therapy
EP: 4.Barriers to Access for HIV PrEP
EP: 5.Overcoming Barriers to Access HIV PrEP
EP: 6.Role of USPSTF Guidelines for Access to HIV PrEP
EP: 7.Implications of USPSTF Grade A Rating of HIV PrEP
EP: 8.Understanding Implementation of USPSTF Guidelines for HIV PrEP
EP: 9.USPSTF Guidelines for HIV PrEP: Coverage for Drugs vs Ancillary Services
EP: 10.USPSTF Guidelines for HIV PrEP: Using Medical Management Techniques
EP: 11.USPSTF Guidelines: Approaching Optimal Therapy for HIV PrEP
EP: 12.Unmet Needs for USPSTF Guidelines for HIV PrEP
EP: 13.Using Real-World Evidence for HIV PrEP Policies
EP: 14.COVID-19's Effect on Access to HIV PrEP Therapy
EP: 15.Improving Access and Uptake of HIV PrEP
EP: 16.Overcoming HIV PrEP Access Barriers With Advocacy Groups
EP: 17.Key Takeaways for the Management of HIV PrEP
Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA: I want to transition to health policy. We're lucky to have Sean on today. Sean, I'm going to look for your input here as to what are some of those barriers to accessing appropriate patients to receive PrEP [pre-exposure prophylaxis]? I know you've done a lot of research in this space and I'm curious from your perspective, what are some of the biggest barriers regarding access for appropriate patients?
Sean E. Bland, JD: Thank you for that question. There are a number of barriers to people receiving PrEP. While we've made some progress on PrEP education efforts, as others have mentioned, awareness of PrEP is a key issue, and it's a barrier. It's still too low, so we need more community education and awareness campaigns to reach all the populations that could benefit most from PrEP, particularly Black and Latinx gay and bisexual men, cisgender women, particularly Black women, and also transgender women and men. Again, those are all populations that need to be the focus of awareness campaigns. Those campaigns need to emphasize again, the preventive value of PrEP, but also need to represent sexual pleasure and how PrEP can fit in to make people's lives better in a general sense, to relieve stress around a maybe risky sexual behavior that you engaged in and not have to think about what that could mean in terms of a new HIV diagnosis. Thinking about that is critical.
There are also many misconceptions about PrEP, including around who it is for. I still hear a lot of folks who say that it's really just for gay men. Although it can be a benefit for gay men, particularly Black and Latinx gay men, as I mentioned, and lots of other folks, but that's also true for women and for trans folks, also for people who use and inject drugs, making sure that they're part of the conversation as well. Also, there are misconceptions around adverse effects, so we need campaigns also to emphasize that PrEP is safe and effective, and that it's an option for different communities. Some other barriers I see coming up, particularly on the legal and policy side, are around laws around minor consent and the ability for young people to access confidential care when they're on their parents' health plan. That can be a barrier to PrEP. Other barriers, which have already been mentioned, surround perceiving oneself as being at risk for HIV. Related to that barrier, providers often don't talk to their patients about sexual health and as a result, they don't discuss PrEP with individuals.
This is an issue for engaging particularly a lot of younger folks, which we've called out, but it also is a challenge for older folks. A lot of providers don't see older folks, including older gay and bisexual men, as being sexually active, or older women as being sexually active. They are, and we need to make sure that providers are having those discussions about sexual health with everyone, including groups that they may have their own misconceptions about. When we're screening for PrEP, a lot of the focus is generally on behavioral risk assessment. That risk assessment doesn't always consider some of the structural and environmental factors that impact vulnerability to HIV. Again, we need to make sure that folks feel comfortable discussing sexual and drug-using behaviors. Often, they don't feel comfortable because of stigma, stigma around HIV, around sex, around drug use. Often providers contribute to those feelings of stigma, so it's important to address both stigma and to address bias and discrimination from providers and others related not just to sex and HIV, but also to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, income, and other issues.
I want to briefly say that many of the folks I work with and engage the most, people from communities of color, aren't used to going to the doctor at all. Particularly, many folks don't go because they have had past negative experiences with the health care system. They often don't trust the health care system. That's a big barrier to getting folks onto PrEP if they don't engage with health system at all. Many folks don't have access to insurance, or they face disruptions in insurance, and just the complexity of the health system is a challenge, and people do need a lot of assistance and all those wraparound services that we mentioned. Even for folks with insurance, the cost of PrEP and the cost of PrEP-related services are a significant barrier, and connected to that also are challenges around accessing transportation and having convenient options that fit into their lives for them to be able to access PrEP. That lack of options is a barrier as well.
Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA: That was a great summary. You packaged a lot of things. I'm hoping we hit on those more as this discussion continues because it's really that lack of awareness sometimes, just because PrEP therapy's available, there are so many other things that we have to work through as barriers. Even those unconscious biases from those providers who are at that point of care, the ones who could initiate and screen for patients who are most appropriate and have some of these key conversations. How do we expand that? Sean, you hit on it really well, and hopefully we can expand upon that with your knowledge as we move forward.