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Infrastructure Today Magazine | How important is Project Management for New India
How important is Project Management for New India
Indian Highways: The Growth Story Unfolding
Opportunities galore, but targets ambitious
Roads & Bridges / Oct 2018
In another ten years, India is expected to have the second largest number of project management jobs in the world after China. Phenomenal growth in project management opportunities will largely be driven by economic expansion and infrastructure projects. But, is the country geared up to meet the demand for skilled personnels in that area?
India is known to the world as the largest democracy and as the second most populous country. It has a distinct recognition for its diversity, rich history, traditions and values and is well-known for its human assets in terms of hard work and intelligence. However, being considered as a developing country even after 70 years of independence, there is every need for India to redefine itself and unleash its real potential.
India is a country of contrasts. We produce sufficient food to feed our population, yet thousands go hungry.
India has the second largest road network in the world after the US, yet connectivity remains poor.
There are many such difficult questions we have yet to address. India has had a tremendous journey in the last seven decades. There has been a significant progress in various spheres but we are still short of our goals in many areas.
The next three to five years are crucial for India as it leaps forward into a more advanced world. Reaching the significant milestone of 75 years doesn't come without its challenges. An increasing demographic, lack of jobs, lack of adequate infrastructure and many such trials will greet us in the future.
For the various projects that the Indian Government has taken up in mission modes such as Make in India, Skill Development, Digital India, Smart Cities and Start-up Infrastructure, the importance of a good project management needs to be reinforced more than ever. Secondly, in these times where disruption is the norm, organisations and nations that succeed are those that adapt rapidly to new opportunities and challenges. These innovators are changing the way they act, think and work. Companies are creating technologies that at one time seemed limited to the realm of science fiction.
Technology is all pervasive and there is competition from areas which was completely unheard of before. So, what worked in the past is not necessarily going to succeed in the future. Therefore, the government and the organisations need to account for the new changes in technology.
As organisations face increasingly complex challenges from such forces as innovation, disruption and the demands of a global business environment, the inextricable link between strategy and implementation must be addressed. Organisations like these realise that disruptive technologies can give them a competitive advantage by improving the customer experience, enhancing employee efficiency and shortening project timelines. They harness technology to change the way they operate and the way they manage projects.
It's no secret that all strategic change is delivered through project management. Yet research from our 2018 Pulse of the Profession, a global survey conducted by the Project Management Institute (PMI), shows that organisations waste 9.9 per cent of every dollar due to poor project performance. Much of this waste is due to poor implementation, rather than a flawed strategy. The survey also reveals that around Rs. 6.5 million is wasted every 20 seconds collectively by organisations around the globe due to the ineffective implementation of business strategy through poor project management practices. It equates to roughly Rs 1.28 trillion being wasted in a year. India loses 8.1 per cent of every dollar invested by businesses, pointing to a significant opportunity to drive financial performance.
Organisations that want to understand and manage the impact of technologies, viz., cloud solutions, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, advanced robotics, voice-driven software, to name a few, can look to proven project management practices to survive and thrive during these times of change. As they embrace project excellence, they will experience greater success with their strategic initiatives and higher project rates. We see an average of 71 per cent of the projects of innovators; organisations in our research that have a mature digital transformation strategy are risk tolerant and have adopted and made disruptive technologies a priority and meet the original goals or business intent.
Innovators in our research commit to excellence by:
Using disruptive technologies
We see that innovators are leveraging these technologies to their advantage to encourage greater efficiency and automation, increase productivity, promote the development of better products and services, automate mundane tasks, advance innovation and drive better decision making.
Embracing the value delivery
As innovators look to compete in the future ways of working, they are using the full spectrum of competencies that enable organisations to deliver their projects and programmes, or the value delivery landscape.
Elevating the project manager
Innovators believe that the role of the project manager will evolve to the one that advocates for technology, motivates teams to implement, supervises course corrections and becomes an authority on disruptive technologies.
In conclusion, while we realise that challenges lie ahead, we see a considerable reason for optimism for the future of work and the role project management plays. Since all strategic change happens through projects and programmes, proven project management practices remain crucial for an organisation's success.
Authored By Raj Kalady, Managing Director, Project Management Institute, India.
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Q: Time elapsed since a property was last accessed I have a property which gets and sets a list of integers, which I use to draw a chart using LiveCharts.
The values are being passed from an external hardware device. Sometimes the values may be unavailable due to a hardware problem, during which no values are being passed to my app, and so the property is not being fired. I still want to plot the values, but as NaN.
How can I detect if a property has not been accessed/set in my code, say for 10 milliseconds?

A: You can assign DateTime.Now to another instance variable in the setter of your property. And then in the getter you can return NaN if that value is more than 10ms old. Something like below.
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More in Headquarters - First Jewish Youth Center Opened in Russia's Far East - A Lone and Destitute Jewish Woman Gets A Jewish Burial - When Friendship Isn't Only For Kids: The Circle Expands to 21 Plus - Heirs to the Rebbe's Legacy - Jewish and Canadian Law Contrasted at Westmount Symposium - STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH WORLD HEADQUARTERS
Reaching All Our Children
A Special Conference
by R. Wineberg - Brooklyn, NY
What to do about kids who just don't cut the grade in school? How can we save them from falling through the cracks in classrooms that may have less than the ideal teacher-student ratio?
These and other questions will be raised at the second annual Summer Educators Conference for Women, this July 6-7. Announced by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chinuch Office, the theme of the Conference, "Reaching All Our Children," will explore successful techniques and theories of education that speak to this objective. "Jewish educators, especially those teaching in Chabad, see their work as being far more than a career," observes Mrs. Pearl Stroh, director of Chabad's Early Learning Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "For most of them, it's a calling, requiring a lifetime of energy, dedication and enthusiasm for a task that is really monumental." It also requires networking, and a forum where Chabad educators can meet and learn--with and from each other.
Stroh is on the coordinating committee of a new forum designed to fill that need. The two-day conference will feature lectures, workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics, covering everything from classroom techniques to personnel management. An active participant at last summer's inaugural conference, she says the two days are an "intensive and uplifting" experience for educators, providing them a much appreciated opportunity to explore issues and concerns that relate directly to the challenges of educating Jewish children in the 21st century.
Initial responses to the Conference are coming in fast, and is expected to draw some 200 women educators from as far away as Australia to the Robert Treat Conference Center in Newark, N.J. "This is a conference by educators, for educators," says Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the Chinuch Office-Association of Chabad Educators that coordinates the annual event. "It is uniquely tailored to suit participants' needs."
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2020 Oscar Reviews: Bombshell
Posted on February 4, 2020 by elgalv
Each year for the past few years, I have attempted to watch as many of that year's Oscar nominees as possible before the awards are presented. It's just a little personal challenge for fun, and I've had varying degrees of success in both seeing the films, and making predictions (ok that's stretching the truth- my predictions are always failures). This year the nomination announcements caught Me by surprise somehow. I'd managed to completely miss the Golden Globes (whose nominations I usually use to get a jump start), and for the first time ever, I have not seen a single one of the nominees already on my own. Doh! Lots of work to do! Last year I wrote up reviews of all the nominees I managed to see, and published both my predictions, and my reactions. I hope to do the same this year, but I'll try to write up my reviews individually as I see the films, and then will do a big prediction post at the end. Today we focus on…
(3 nominations, including best actress – Charlize Theron, supporting actress – Margot Robbie, and makeup and hairstyling)
Of all the Oscar movies I've watched thus far, Bombshell is the one that's impacted me the most. I can't get it out of my head. I saw it the same weekend as Parasite and Harriet, the third film in three days, at a point where usually I'm frankly movie-fatigued. But this movie… this movie is big. And so, I am supremely disappointed to see it so underappreciated by the academy, particularly when one sees the other crap that's been nominated.
But let's start with the actual nominations! Charlize Theron is nominated for her portrayal of the very real ex-Fox-news anchor Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie is nominated for her portrayal of evangelical millennial Kylie, who is a fictional composite character of many interviewed women who worked at Fox, and the makeup and hairstyling departments are nominated for their incredible ability to make Theron and the rest of the cast look nearly identical to the real-life people they portray. All three nominations are well-deserved. Theron in particular is amazingly good at capturing Kelly's tone and strength, and you absolutely do forget which person you're watching on screen. She's currently my top choice for best actress, but I am yet to see Judy, so we'll see what happens there. Robbie, however, had the most important job in the entire film; making us, the audience, feel her emotional arc as she goes from being a bright-eyed young professional brimming with potential and ambition, to getting hit by the realization that her dream was not going to develop as she had always hoped and her journey would go down a darker path, to feeling her horror, shame, repulsion, and isolation once her harassment began. She nailed it.
Which nominations are missing? The full cast of Bombshell was nominated for a SAG award (and lost out to Parasite), and I wish we could just nominate everyone. John Lithgow was perfectly gross (that breathing… eww!) as Roger Ailes. Allison Janney was fantastic as always. The list goes on and on. But the most notable non-nominated performance was Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson. Her character was so central, and her performance so spot-on, that I have trouble understanding the ommission. Oh well.
Also, while we're acknowledging the hair and makeup, why not acknowledge the costumes? The costumes alone told half the story in this film. Women are pressured into dressing up as "News Anchor Barbie" in short form-fitting dresses, exposed legs, and blood-inducing heels. Protests within the office involve tight-fitting tees. Pants are forbidden, and when worn, they are commented upon with scorn. One of the best quotes of the film is, "Do you know why we dress soldiers the same? So everyone knows they're replaceable. I refuse to be replaceable."
The other major omissions, in my mind, are Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. I want to direct you to this entire piece by screenwriter Charles Randolph, who won this year's Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America for his amazing script:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-12-19/bombshell-was-written-with-men-in-mind-says-charles-randolph
Randolph interviewed several women who had worked at Fox News in order to make sure he presented the atmosphere of his work as accurately as possible. Why is a man writing a script about sexual harassment? Because women already know what it is like, and he wanted to make sure that he and other men understand, too. In the linked article he explains:
"I've been surprised in recent years by how quickly I can question the emotional experience of women around sexual misconduct, as if ruled by gender defensiveness, some Darwinian instinct to minimize, 'Yeah, but she went voluntarily up to his place….' I wanted to write straight at that instinct, to map its fault lines, to drag my prejudices through a gantlet of actual lives. Here's what I hope I can do: put a few men like me into the rooms where harassment happens, in offices like the one where Kayla encounters Roger Ailes in 'Bombshell.' If I can put men in that room, and inside Kayla's perspective, inside her experience, then we can feel how that minimizing urge — 'She kept seeing him!' — does injustice to situations that are surreally complicated and utterly life-changing."
Randolph is, in my mind, enormously successful, and I am reminded of the stellar work Jon Krakauer did with his hearth-wrenching book Missoula (which you should all absolutely read). But my mind isn't the one that matters here. I found it an odd choice that the story is told my Megyn Kelly in the first person since the real Kelly did no consult on this film. What did she, or Gretchen Carlson, or any of the other women portrayed feel about Randolph's telling? I hit up the Google and was relieved to see that they were (for the most part) satisfied with his work. Gretchen Carlson, who is strictly bound by an NDA, reacted to Kidman's depiction of her by saying, "I couldn't participate, but I feel like she found my fighting spirit, and that's really all that matters." This is probably the best confirmation we could expect from someone who is not allowed to confirm anything.
But Megyn Kelly absolutely CAN react to the film, and she did so with a thirty minute long report which you can watch one YouTube.
Kelly watched the film with her husband and three other women whose stories are told in the film. While there were a couple small details they picked at, they overall lauded the film for capturing exactly what their experiences had felt like. All of the women talked about how demeaning it was to have to twirl. An emotional Kelly explained, "So I was asked to do the spin, and God help me, I did it… I know people think it's like 'oh, yeah you have to spin around.' But I remember feeling like… I put myself through school. I was offered partnership at Jones Day, one of the best law firms in the world. I argued before federal courts of appeal all over the nation. I came here, I'm covering the United States Supreme Court. I graduated with honors from all of my programs. And now, he wants me to twirl. And I did it…. If you don't get how demeaning that is, I can't help you."
I could write ten more paragraphs about Kelly's video reaction, but really you should watch it on your own and hear their own thoughts. Because hearing their actual thoughts was something that often didn't fly while they were at Fox News, at least not according to the film. Carlson got blasted at for doing a segment without wearing makeup (the horror!). A producer (played by Kate McKinnon) can't let anyone at work know who she is, but she can't get different work because everyone knows she works at Fox. Kelly got blasted for asking a bloated douchebag whether someone who calls women disgusting pigs is someone with the right temperament to be president (the answer is no.) Maybe (definitely) they have bad opinions like hating on of Black Santa (ugh), but maybe they have some solid opinions like "it's not fair that I'm being pressured into giving my boss a blowjob." Randolph explains, "No one's more surprised than me that an explosive story of feminist determination came from inside Fox News, but I'm glad it did… They prove some issues transcend politics. In a fractured culture, the most powerful stories are the ones that frustrate our easy judgments, and those sometimes come from rooting around in the sloppy middle."
If there's one thing I would change about the movie, it's decisions about which character to depict or not depict. Assuming we believe Kelly (and I do), Janice Dean should have received a much larger role in the film, because she was the main person who found and convinced women to come forwards, yet in the film was only mentioned once. As an outsider watching the film, I'm surprised that Bill O'Reilly doesn't play a bigger role. His harassment and subsequent ousting was referenced once or twice, and then was dropped in the postscript when it's revealed how much money Fox paid out to the victims, and how much they paid to Ailes and O'Reilly in severance (spoiler: the abusers made more money than the abused, grr.)
Simultaneously, dozens of Fox personalities are dropped into the movie for literally just a few seconds or lines each. To some degree it's cool and fun to how closely the actors match their onscreen personalities (https://www.eonline.com/photos/29777/bombshell-stars-compared-to-their-real-life-counterparts/983310), but there isn't really much point in cramming them all in if we don't learn anything about them or if they don't somehow contribute to the story. How many of the men at Fox were complicit in the toxic culture? How many were oblivious? Why didn't we get a better sense of any of that? My guess is that the filmmakers didn't want to take the focus off of the women, which is great. But I dunno… I think there was space in the film to fit a little bit more substance about issues at Fox besides Ailes.
Anyhoo, you should definitely watch this movie. Please watch this movie. Everyone should watch this movie.
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Day of Caring a blessing for Howell family
Mike Lammi
An emotional Dennis Jann choked up as he took a break from helping a crew of volunteers erect a new wooden fence around the yard of his family's home.
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The brand-new fence around the Jann home on Livingston Street in Howell was constructed as part of the Livingston County United Way's 13th annual Day of Caring.
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Volunteers spent the day doing home repairs, painting, yardwork and other tasks for individuals and groups in need across the county.
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Dennis Jann's layoff, his extensive surgeries and extensive roof repairs left the family with no money to replace a picket fence that was falling apart. The couple have lived in the home since 2000.
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Free Software and (e-)Government
This article originally appeared in The Guardian — March 3, 2005
by Richard Stallman
The UK government has funded the development of software useful for e-government, and now doesn't know what to do with it. Someone had the bright idea to hand it over to local councils, inviting them to turn themselves into software companies.
The public have already paid to develop this software. Isn't it absurd to make them pay, now, for permission to use it? Isn't it absurd to restrict what they can do with it? Alas, such absurdity is not unusual; it is standard practice for governments to deliver publicly funded software into private hands, to companies that make the public — and even the government — beg for permission to use it afterwards.
Even worse, they impose frustrating restrictions on the users, denying them access to the software's source code, the plans that a programmer can read and understand and change. All the users get is an executable, a "black box", so that they cannot adapt it, understand it or even verify what it does.
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I went to see him, simply because I liked him
As part of a study on the effects of child pornography production on the affected children, 3 interviews were conducted with boys. This interview with Stephan is the third interview.
pornography photography police friendship girls parents
Published first: 1992 scientific journal Time to read: 25 mins
Report-ID: 10628 (to the German version)
Source: IPT-Forensics Journal
Author: Benjamin Rossen
Perspective: grown up boy
Start of relationship: 1982
Age of the boy: 11 - Continuing
Age of the man: 34
# relationships (boy): one relationship
Plausibility: 5 of 5
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https://www.ipce.info/host/rivas/boys_men/stefan.htm
Interviews: [Johnny](/en/reports/1980s/ipt-1992-johnny/), [Peter](/en/reports/1980s/ipt-1992-peter/), [Stephan](/en/reports/1980s/ipt-1992-stephan/)
Source: Jan Shuijer and Benjamin Rossen (1992). "The Trade in Child Pornography" Appendix E: "Interviews with Three Boys", IPT-Forensics Journal, volume 4.
Interview conducted by B.R. on March 20, 1990, with Stephan B. (19), born 13 December 1970.
Taken from the collection Positive Memories, compiled by T. Rivas.
Stefan's parents were divorced and he often stayed over Elly's. Elly was the sister of his mother's new boyfriend's. He got to know his adult friend Ferdi [the same Ferdi as in Peter's story] through Elly, when he was about eleven years old.
"It was a lot of fun. We clicked immediately. We dived from the diving board and we played ball at the swimming pool."
After some time, Stefan slept over with Ferdi for about ten times while his mother thought he was staying at Elly's place. Ferdi decided he wanted to talk it over with Stefan's mother, who accepted their friendship and even believed Stefan's behavior had improved considerably since he had been seeing Ferdi.
"Whenever I felt like going to Ferdi, I went to see him, and if I did not feel like it, I simply did not go."
"At first we just played games at Ferdi's place. And we went to amusement parks. We continued to do so later on [when they were also having sex]. And we also used to swim a lot together in the beginning. And we rode our bikes as well. And when I had to study or do my homework, Ferdi helped me with it. Yes, it all was a lot of fun."
Stefan adds that they often also went to the dunes or played hide and seek with friends, or soccer.
"I went to see him, simply because I liked him, because I thought he was nice. At that moment in time, I saw something of a father figure in Ferdi, because my parents had just been divorced."
They started having sex after about two or three months.
"It happened very naturally. I used to be a nudist, so I always slept naked. And so did Ferdi. And I just felt attracted to him."
"Everything was exactly like in any relationship between a man and a woman, for instance. The first night we had sexual contact, we made love, by which I mean stroking each other and Ferdi gave me a blow job."
After this experience, Stefan felt he had to cry because of the strange sensations the blow job produced in him, and Ferdi really tried to comfort him and felt guilty for putting Stefan through this. All the same, the sex became a normal part of their relationship. It more or less increased their emotional attachment to each other.
In the end, Stefan realized that he liked girls and that's when the sex with Ferdi stopped.
Stefan used to love Ferdi a lot and he still continues to love him. He considers him a very good friend and they talk a lot. Ferdi supported him and taught him important things about people and life.
Stefan is convinced that his relationship with Ferdi had almost no negative aspects. He stresses that his relationship should not be seen as a surrogate for the insufficient parental skills of his father and mother; it was a goal in itself.
There was only one negative experience related to the relationship, which concerned an erotic photo session by a friend of Ferdi's, Fred. Though Stefan enjoyed the session as such, he was afraid the police would discover the pictures. [Cfr Peter's story]
When Ferdi was arrested and sent to prison, Stefan remained in touch with him. The sexual contact had stopped already, but they remained friends after his release, and continued to talk and do things together.
At the time of the interview, Stefan and his girlfriend were happily living together.
Interviewer: I first want to ask you a few questions about your contact with Ferdinand.
Stephan: Yes, that's fine.
Interviewer: Then I want to ask some questions about the photo sessions with Fred V. and last about your experience with the police. If there are things you cannot remember then say so. Also, if you don't want to give an answer then feel free to say so. How did you first meet Ferdinand?
Stephan: Uh … Ya. My parents were divorced and my mother had a new boy friend, and I often went and stayed overnight with the sister of the boy friend. She was called Elly. One day Elly said to me "Let's go to the nude swimming at the Heiligeweg207 baths," and I said, "Fine, I'll come along" and Ferdinand also came with us. He was a friend of Elly's and so I got to know Ferdinand via Elly. Now, it was really nice. It clicked straight away. Just diving from the diving board and playing with a ball in the water. For some time after that I didn't go swimming. Then one day Elly said, "Come, let's go and visit Ferdinand because his wife is having a birthday." I said, "Great, terrific." And then Elly added, "You had better watch out for Ferdinand because he's pedophile." Now, I was pretty well up with the times when it came to sex. I knew about all kinds of sexual things.
Interviewer: How old were you then?
Stephan: I was 11, about.
Interviewer: And you say that you knew a whole lot about sexual things?
Stephan: Yes. I've never had sex education or such like. I learned everything myself, or saw it, or did it.
Interviewer: Before Ferdinand did you have contact with a pedophile?
Stephan: No. But I knew that it existed. I didn't know the name 'pedophile' yet. But I knew that 'man with young child' was also possible. That I knew. The word not, but certainly what it was.
Interviewer: What did you think when Elly said that?
Stephan: Nothing actually. I wasn't shocked, and then she said, "He sometimes has relationships with young children." And then she added, "mostly boys." I didn't respond. Then we went to the birthday party. Now, for the whole evening I followed Ferdinand around, of my own will. At that time I was crazy about Andre Hazes, that is a singer, and I kept asking, "May I put this tape on?" and that sort of thing. When Ferdinand went to the kitchen I went to the kitchen. When Ferdinand went into the bedroom, by way of speaking, I also went into the bedroom. I followed him the whole time. Then from my own initiative I said, "I'll come one day and visit." After that we went home. For a while after that I didn't stay overnight with Elly, but then later on a few more times.
One day Elly had to go away and she couldn't have me to stay for the night. She then asked me, "Would you like to go and stay the night with Ferdinand, because I have to go away?" So that is what I did, without informing my mother. And after that I went again for a few weekends in a row. And then I told my mother. "Listen, I'm not staying the weekends with Elly. I've been sleeping over with Ferdinand." Then she asked, "Who is Ferdinand?" And so I told her, "He is a friend of Elly's. It is really nice with him. We go swimming in the weekend and that sort of thing." And my mother asked further, "What sort of person is that?" And I said, "Just an ordinary person." The next weekend I told Ferdinand what I had said at home and then Ferdinand said, "Yea, I would like to speak to your mother. Do you mind?" And I said, "Uuh, No." And so that was done as agreed. And that is how I got to know Ferdinand.
Before that discussion I did not visit Ferdinand for a very long time. Certainly half a year. I didn't stay with Elly and I didn't stay with Ferdinand. I just went my own way with my friends and so on. One day I was playing football on the street and I was acting a bit crazy, singing really loud on the street and having fun. Then I heard a car horn, a claxon, and I looked around and it was Ferdinand. He had seen me. I ran immediately to him and then I made a date and then I went to visit him.
Interviewer: Why had you not been to see Ferdinand for half a year?
Stephan: I don't know. Just that I was too young to follow up my agreements. I just went my own way and if I felt like going to Ferdinand then I went to Ferdinand and if I didn't feel like it I didn't go.
Interviewer: Did your mother know that he was pedophile?
Stephan: After the discussion that Ferdinand had with her for sure. He told her himself.
Interviewer: And how did she respond?
Stephan: My mother said, "I can't forbid anything. I can see that Stephan has improved at school and in his behavior at home." And I had improved. And then my mother said, "I can't forbid it because he will go secretly to him anyway, and it is his life after all." That's what she said.
Interviewer: But you had only stayed overnight with Ferdinand a few times. That seems rather fast to me to have improved at school and in your behavior at home.
Stephan: No. It had been more often. About 10 times. Thus I had slept with Ferdinand for, say, about 10 weekends without telling my mother.
Interviewer: And after that not again for about six months?
Stephan: Ya. Something like that.
Interviewer: Then you started again?
Stephan: And then I started again and then Ferdinand told my mother what it was all about. I don't remember precisely how many weekends that must have been, but my mother said that I had improved after that discussion she had with Ferdinand.
Interviewer: What kinds of things did you do with Ferdinand at that time?
Stephan: In the beginning period, with him at home, just ordinary games. Ya, ordinary games at home with Ferdinand, and we also went to entertainment parks, for example the Efteling.
Interviewer: Did that happen in the initial period?
Stephan: Yes, also. That has been so all along. That always went on. In the beginning we also went swimming frequently. And if I had to study, to finish my home work, then Ferdinand helped me. Yes, that was really great, everything put together it was great.
Interviewer: Why did you stay over the weekends with the sister of the boy friend of your mother?
Stephan: I just wanted to. My mother sometimes went away for the weekends and then she would say, "Why don't you go and stay with Elly." And I never had any problems with that because Elly went swimming often and that was fun.
Interviewer: And Ferdinand took over that role?
Stephan: Do you mean that I went to stay over the weekend with him because of my mother? No. I just went because I thought he was really nice. Because at that time I saw in Ferdinand, because my parents had just been divorced, I saw a sort of father person, and I took hold of that very hard. At that time I really needed that, and as it happened, I preferred to be with Ferdinand than with Elly. In the beginning that had mostly to do with the swimming, because that was fun, but also because I thought Ferdinand was really nice. But after that I began to see a real father figure in Ferdinand. From then on I have always had that. Still now.
Interviewer: Can you remember any more things that you did with Ferdinand?
Stephan: Yes. This is about the initial period, huh? What we did at that time we have always done, actually. From the beginning to the end. Doing things with Ferdinand became a normal routine. We both had fun and we saw that we liked each other's company. We went swimming, and after that we went into the sand dunes in Noordwijk or in Castricum. And we often played hide and seek with other kids, or played football. They were friends of mine or other kids we had met in the swimming pool. Sometimes we bought French fries first and then went to the dunes or to the sea. At that time I was also in a football club and Ferdinand sometimes came along to watch the football.
Interviewer: Did Ferdinand pay for the French fries and those sorts of things?
Stephan: Sometimes I had money with me and then I paid everything for myself.
Interviewer: Did you have sex with Ferdinand?
Stephan: Yes.
Interviewer: From the beginning?
Stephan: Uh … No. From about two months, three months. I guess you want to know how it started? It just happened naturally. I was a nudist and so I slept naked. Ferdinand also, and I felt myself attracted to him. We played games sometimes, for example, helicopter. I'd sit on Ferdinand's belly and he'd jiggle to and fro and he would say something like, "Wind force ten", or "Wind force one." I would get such a warm feeling inside. It came up in myself, and then everything went along like in any relationship between and man and a woman, for example. The first night that we had a sexual contact, that was a real cuddling208 session. By cuddling session I mean stroking each other and then Ferdinand sucked me off. When that happened such a strange feeling went all the way through me that I began to cry. I didn't regret doing it, but the crying suddenly came up, and then Ferdinand comforted me and then he also began to cry. He even shouted out, "What have I done?" He was actually shocked. He was rather badly shocked that I was crying. And then we talked about it, and then there wasn't a problem any more. After that the sexual contact went on quite naturally.
Interviewer: Did you have an orgasm then?
Stephan: Apparently yes. I was 11 years old and … Look, I certainly knew what an orgasm was but I didn't yet have any sperm. But I'm sure that was an orgasm because such a tingling went through my whole body. I'm sure. And from then on the sex went on naturally of its own accord.
Interviewer: Playing games had become a habit with Ferdinand. Did the sex also become a habit?
Stephan: Yes, you could put it that way. Sex had become just as common between us as in any heterosexual relationship. Thus, not that we had sex every night or every day. But yes, it was part of our relationship. To a greater or lesser degree it strengthened our bond.
Interviewer: For how long? For at a certain time the sex stopped.
Stephan: Yes, because at a certain stage you think to yourself, "What am I actually doing?" You choose your own way, being a boy. And I must honestly say, in that end period I had a strong feeling of, "What on earth am I doing?"
Interviewer: Guilt feelings?
Stephan: No! But rather more a feeling of, "You are now doing something really important. Am I homosexual or heterosexual?" But I felt in myself at that time that boys turned me off, so I knew that I was heterosexual. I also had girl friends, so that also played a role. Ferdinand was actually the one who helped me build up my experience and from my side I had sex with Ferdinand for the daring and excitement, but also out of love.
Interviewer: Love for Ferdinand?
Stephan: Love for Ferdinand, yes.
Interviewer: Is Ferdinand important for you?
Stephan: Very important! And he still is. As a friend, as a father. No longer in the same way as before, I mean with the sexual contact. But still, a really very good friend. I say to my girl friend sometimes if I haven't seen or spoken to Ferdinand for a week, "Listen, I must call him." And then I call him and then it's good again. Yes, I talk often with him and it's really great to be with him. Because I still have in Ferdinand a father figure. Ferdinand really picked me up in a terrific way. I have learned lots from him, I've had many experiences and I've done lots of things with Ferdinand. I have learned something about human nature from Ferdinand. And other important things in society, responsibility, how to go about with money. I still don't do that very well, you know, it just didn't stick with me. But, you know, that sort of thing. The important things in life. Before Ferdinand I didn't know about any of these things and through him I have discovered them. Also, I always say, "I didn't have a childhood until I met Ferdinand. Then I received my childhood." And that is really how it was because before that I had so many problems.
Interviewer: What are the negative aspects of your contact with Ferdinand?
Stephan: Not one! That is very easy to say. Not one.
Interviewer: No? That seems rather black and white.
Stephan: Ah no. Absolutely not one!
Interviewer: What do your parents think about your contact with Ferdinand?
Stephan: As far as I am now concerned I don't care what they think. But in those days they thought, "So long as nothing happens." But I wanted it all myself. So I left them with the delusion that everything went according to what they wanted. In fact I never really asked them for their opinion.
Interviewer: But you were 11, a rather small boy, and the opinion of your parents at that age is certainly important.
Stephan: I was up with the times. I was 11,but I had the thoughts of a 14- or 15-year-old. There was thus a big difference between me and other kids, I think.
Interviewer: Did you feel that you got a raw deal at home?
Stephan: A very raw deal, yes. Very raw.
Interviewer: Therefore you can say that Ferdinand filled your need for attention and love. He came as a rescuer at a moment of need?
Stephan: No. He was not a rescuer at a moment of need. I mean, not in that sense. OK, it was chance and luck that I met him, but the relationship between Ferdinand and myself was no emergency solution. It was something in its own right. I have never regarded the situation as such that only when I had a problem I could go to Ferdinand. I have always seen our relationship as something along the lines of, "Hey, it's fine to go to Ferdinand." And with feelings such as, "My friend and my father in one." Yes, a parent of mine.
Interviewer: What did your friends at school think of your contact with Ferdinand?
Stephan: No one knew about it. I am no longer at school, but no one knew about it.
Interviewer: What can you tell me about the photo sessions with Fred?
Stephan: Which photo sessions? Do you mean the ordinary holiday photos, or if we had to pose and that sort of thing?
Interviewer: I don't know anything about them. What can you tell me?
Stephan: The holiday photos were just ordinary. There were always things such as, for example, a great huge balloon. Photos were taken while we were playing. Fred and Ferdinand took the photos. And for the rest there is nothing much to say.
Interviewer: But there were also child pornography photos?
Stephan: I wasn't there. At least, I did have one photo session with porno. That was with a boy from Belgium. And, we both found it exciting, and we just did it because we were really good friends. It was fun and exciting for us both. Fred made those photos. He didn't say, "Sit here. Do this. Do that." It was altogether done out of our own free will and at the same time some photos were made.
Interviewer: And the boy from Belgium, where did he come from?
Stephan: He was Fred's little boy friend from Antwerp, if I have it right. We were together on holiday in Yugoslavia with a whole group. It was a big rabble, it was gigantic fun.
Interviewer: How often have you been in Yugoslavia with Ferdinand?
Stephan: Yugoslavia, that was from 1981 to 1986 or 1987. Say, about six years. And once to Spain, to Benidorm. Johnny has also been there. We weren't there together. I had been two or three years earlier than Johnny, because I knew Ferdinand longer than Johnny.
Interviewer: How long did you go for?
Stephan: Varied. Two weeks, three weeks.
Interviewer: What are the positive aspects of the photo sessions with the boy from Belgium?
Stephan: It was all rather a big joke. It was daring, and exciting. Still it was a bit frightening, the idea, "What would my old man think of this?" But then again it was also fun. It was a dare for both of us.
Stephan: I don't know any more. Let me think. I think I was about 13 or 14,about.
Interviewer: What are the negative aspects of the photo sessions?
Stephan: The negative aspects. The fear that the police might raid Fred and that the photographs would then be seen.
Interviewer: How long have you had that fear?
Stephan: Not really long. Shortly after the photo session. Sometimes it came back to me, we've done this and that. And then the fear would come up again and I'd think, "Hopefully there won't be a raid." And for the rest there weren't really any negative aspects.
Interviewer: Do you think that your ignorance was exploited?
Stephan: What ignorance?
Interviewer: Your innocence over the possible consequences of the photo sessions.
Stephan: I didn't even stop to think about it. Afterwards for sure. That was the fear.
Interviewer: Can you tell me how you came in contact with the police?
Stephan: I went one evening to Ferdinand and I had a good talk with him about problems that I had at home at that time. I had been kicked out of the house because of problems I had with my parents. I have had problems with my parents all my life, for that matter. About twelve o'clock I left Ferdinand's place. Between half past twelve and half past one the police came and took Ferdinand with them to Utrecht.
Just before they arrested him, he was helping me. Just think about that! And he knew that the police might be coming. I didn't know that. That's the kind of friend Ferdinand is!
I heard it about a week later. I don't remember precisely any more. I received a letter from Ferdinand's lawyer and there he said that Ferdinand had been arrested and that his house had been turned upside down. That really cut into me because I also felt guilty that I was not there, at the time that Ferdinand was taken away.
After that my mother got a telephone call from the police in Utrecht. "We want to talk to you and also with your son." Then my mother made an appointment. I had to be at school on that day and I didn't want to stay home for that. They gave me a time, about three o'clock, when they would come and pick me up from school. I told the concierge, "At three o'clock I will be picked up by some friends." I obviously couldn't say police detectives, and at three o'clock they came and I was taken to Utrecht. Hardly anything was said on the way. I only asked them why I had to go.
So, I was taken to Utrecht, and I ended up in the little interrogation room and I had to talk. You don't come for nothing into such an interrogation cell. And then they started putting questions to me and I answered or didn't answer. Actually, I had nothing to do with the case for which Ferdinand had been arrested. In fact, they were putting questions to me about which I knew nothing. The porno photos — I didn't know anything about them. We also just talked some. Then there was a break, to eat, and after that we carried on talking. And then they took me home.
Interviewer: Did you have any further contact with the police?
Stephan: No.
Interviewer: Ferdinand was eventually sentenced because of indecent assault, not for the pornography. The porno was made by Fred V.
Stephan: Yes, I know.
Interviewer: What are the positive aspects of your contact with the police?
Stephan: Hey? I don't see anything positive! How so positive!? There weren't any positive aspects. After all, they had arrested my friend and I was angry. And everyone has some fear of the police and I had that too at that time.
Interviewer: What are the negative aspects of your contact with the police?
Stephan: That they put their questions in such a way that you had to think 10 times before you gave an answer. They said, "You can go ahead and tell us everything because the others have already told it all." And also the double edged questions. They tell you something and then give the answer themselves, and you have the inclination just to agree with them. I mean, they don't ask fair questions like, "Is it possible that this or that could have happened?" and that sort of thing. They use all sorts of dirty tricks and methods so that they actually already have come to their conclusions. That is very unpleasant.
They also interrogated my little brother. And he told them all kinds of lies about indecent assault and so on, "Yes I had to go and stand and there was a row of 10 other people, all men, and I had to choose who I would go to bed with," and also, "I have often been away on vacation and I've often been to the amusement parks." Those are the sorts of things my brother said which were totally not true. My brother has never been a friend of Ferdinand's. He once stayed overnight at Ferdinand's but nothing happened. He was then a little kid of 10, and the police just took in everything he said because he was so young. That is a very negative point. In that way the police made their own conclusions, such as, "Yeah, this and that happened and so this must have also happened." And that is actually really very bad.
Interviewer: What did your parents think of it?
Stephan: I don't know. I hardly have any contact with my parents. The only contact we have goes something like this, "Ferdinand phoned," or "Ferdinand has been through this or that"' or "The solicitor told me this or that"' and then I reply to my mother, "Now I shall call myself," or, "I'll write to him." My mother sometimes asks, "How is it going with Ferdinand?" Luckily I now live with my girlfriend, for one and a half years now.
Interviewer: How is it going?
Stephan: Real crazy, man. Our house is almost finished. Soon we are getting a new settee and dinette. It is really going fine. Now and again we have an argument, but that is normal in a relationship. Everyone has that once in a while.
Interviewer: Back to Ferdinand. Why did you continue writing letters and telephoning Ferdinand while he was in jail?
Stephan: Why not? He is my friend, so I am concerned about what happens to him and I want to know how he is doing because he is my friend. I want to know how he feels. I wanted to know what they were doing and what would happen next. Just my concern. And also out of love, naturally, because it really hurt me. Look, it didn't affect me so badly as Johnny. Johnny was really lying awake at night. I couldn't do that because I had too many problems of my own. And I regret that at the time Ferdinand was arrested and in jail, that I had so many problems that I was not always up with the latest. Certainly with the main part, but not the details. That I really regret. But I wrote to Ferdinand in order to keep in touch and because I also wanted him with me. And thanks to the letters he was, in a way, always with me.
Interviewer: How have you been able to carry on you friendship with Ferdinand after his release?
Stephan: My relationship, or rather, our relationship continued because we love each other. That is why. And … that is why.
Interviewer: Has your relationship with Ferdinand changed since his release?
Stephan: The sexual contact was already over. But the spiritual contact, talking with each other and doing things together, that was still there. Look, I don't go every weekend to see Ferdinand because … I have my own life now, and I have my girl friend. We have our own lives and many things to do. But whenever I come to see Ferdinand it is always comforting and friendly.
Interviewer: Has your contact with the police changed your ideas about the police?
Stephan: I am not frightened of the police any more. Police agents are, after all, also people. I now know that the police also make mistakes, many mistakes. I have seen how the police work and I realize what they are like. They are just ordinary people. If I was arrested today, it doesn't matter what for, I would just remain calm. I am not afraid any more.
(The tape recorder was switched off at the end of the interview. Stephan then asked if he could make a final statement and the tape recorder was switched on again.)
Stephan: I have something more to say. First; I hope Ferdinand and I stick with each other for a very long time, keep seeing each other for a very long time, just as friends, talk to each other as real friends. I am glad that I got to know Ferdinand. I still see him as my father. Still now, even though I now live in my own place. Secondly; I don't want to have anything more to do with Fred. He said, "the photos won't be published in booklets and magazines." Then he went and did that, without Ferdinand's knowledge. I take that very badly. He always said, "Only Ferdinand will get to see these photos," and then he went and gave then to total strangers and because of that Ferdinand was arrested. It's because of him that this whole case got started, and I take that very badly. Because of that I want to have nothing more to do with Fred. That was it.
In the beginning my mother was shocked
After all, I have to live in this society
I've always done what they say you shouldn't do
For my son, he's the best friend
I kissed him in the pub
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UCLA women's soccer wins NCAA title after miraculous comeback.
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MILWAUKEE —
They handed him cigars, gave him giant hugs and greeted him with smiles.
Good luck walking the back hallways of Fiserv Forum looking for someone to say something bad about Lakers coach Darvin Ham because here, where he won a championship as an assistant on coach Mike Budenholzer's staff, he's beloved.
He even got a quick scoreboard tribute and a nice applause from the fans.
Everything but an easy win.
The Lakers had to earn that.
With Anthony Davis (44 points, 10 rebounds), LeBron James (28 points, 11 assists, eight rebounds) and Russell Westbrook (15 points, 11 assists, seven rebounds) all having excellent games, the Lakers beat the Bucks 133-129 in Ham's return to Milwaukee — easily the best win for the Lakers this season.
For Davis, it was the most he's scored since Jan. 3, 2020, when he had 46.
The Bucks, who got All-Star forward Khris Middleton back for the first time since April, were led by Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had 40 points. Jrue Holiday added 28 points while Middleton had17.
The game had nearly everything — stars making huge plays, role players stepping up and tremendous back-and-forth play down the stretch with Grayson Allen and Holiday missing game-tying three-point attempts in the final 30 seconds.
There was even some history, with James moving past Magic Johnson for sixth all time on the career assists list in the fourth quarter.
James and the Lakers suffered a bit of a scare early in the fourth quarter when James got tangled with Middleton on the block. As they awkwardly fell, Middleton's knee pressed into James' oft-rolled left ankle and forced him to quickly grab at it in pain. He stayed on the court and was able to limp to the bench during a timeout before staying the game.
The Lakers continue their road trip Sunday in Washington against the Wizards.
UCLA women's soccer wins NCAA title after miraculous comeback.
A group of people want the UC regents to stop UCLA from moving to the Big Ten.


nonprofits seeking funds. Fortunately, based on self-awareness gained through honest and transparent conversations with grantees, many funders are rethinking their grant processes.
Important initiatives like Project Streamline from Grants Managers Network (GMN) are providing further guidance and a framework of simple steps to make the grant process easier for everyone. It's rewarding to see the many changes taking place in an effort to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the flow of grant funds.
An exciting new initiative led by GuideStar, Technology Affinity Group's Simplify Initiative, and most online grants management software vendors is providing yet another opportunity to improve the grant process. Known as GuideStar for Grant Applications, it allows nonprofits to use data from their GuideStar profiles to automatically populate online application forms. Key organizational information such as mission statement, financial data, and board of director's roster will automatically flow into the grant application, eliminating redundant data entry for the grantseeker. Grant writers can instead spend their limited and valuable time focusing on the details of their specific requests to each funder.
~Nonprofits must take initiative to update their GuideStar profiles and be as transparent as possible with data about their organizations. This data is available to the public on the GuideStar website and also feeds into other important initiatives such as AmazonSmile and Network for Good. To take advantage of these initiatives, thorough profiles should be a best practice for all nonprofits as part of their overall fundraising strategy.
~Funders must agree to accept data from GuideStar profiles as a means of populating their grant applications. This may require changes to grant application procedures and a willingness to accept some information in a format that is different from historical processes.
~Grants management software vendors must incorporate GuideStar for Grant Applications technology into their solutions and work with their grantmaking clients to update the clients' online application forms appropriately.
It's not realistic to think that GuideStar for Grant Applications will completely eliminate the need for a nonprofit to ever write another custom grant application. But it is very realistic to believe that this program can provide nonprofits with a significant jumpstart on a grant application and allow them to focus their grantwriting efforts on the most important components of their proposals. This will result in better proposals for funders to review and will save nonprofits valuable time.
When you think about the hours wasted by nonprofits on duplicative and inefficient grant application tasks—and multiply those hours across the entire nonprofit sector—I think we can all agree that support of this initiative is worth the effort.
Let's help our nonprofits focus time on their critical missions rather than busywork.


The AMS Neve Genesys G64 is a 64 input, 32 fader analogue console with DAW control and Pro Tools connectivity. The Genesys G64 features 32 channels of Neve mic/line preamps, 32 channels of DAW playback and analog summing across 64 channels at mixdown.
The AMS Neve Genesys G64 is a 64 input, 32 fader analogue console with DAW control and Pro Tools connectivity. The Genesys G64 features 32 channels of Neve mic/line preamps, 32 channels of DAW playback and analog summing across 64 channels at mixdown. There are eight aux buses, eight group buses and 5.1 monitoring. The hand-built Neve Genesys is modular design, so it can be expanded as your needs grow.
There's a 'classic Neve' look and feel to the controls, but take a closer look and you'll see they're ultra modern too: every switch is 'soft'. The benefits go far beyond letting you customize your set up to suit the way you work. It also means every routing decision and every switch setting can be saved and instantaneously reset. Add the legendary sounding Neve analog EQ and dynamics cassettes and you can instantly recall these settings too. Just think of the reconfiguration time that saves when you're juggling multiple projects in your studio.


The Gillett community was rallying around a family who was displaced and a 12-year-old boy hospitalized with critical burns after a house fire Saturday night.
Authorities were called to 310 Pulcifer Ave. in Gillett at 10:51 p.m. Saturday for a report of a structure fire, according to a press release Tuesday from Gillett Fire Chief Kurt Hicks and Police Chief Jess Keplinger.
"Three individuals were inside the house at the time of the incident, and there was one reported injury," the release said. The injured boy was taken from the scene by the Eagle III rescue helicopter. People familiar with the situation said he was in critical but stable condition at a hospital burn center as of Monday.
The home was rendered uninhabitable by the blaze. The crews from several area fire departments got the fire extinguished and were released from the scene around 3 a.m. Sunday.
The family – identified on social media only as the Santos family – lost all of their belongings, escaping with only the clothes they were wearing. The American Red Cross was at the scene Saturday night helping the family, and a number of community volunteers also began to step forward as word of the fire spread.
Jake Steldt, a member of the city's Tourism and Marketing Committee who administers the Gillett Community and Events page on Facebook, set up a GoFundMe page to support the Santos family and had raised more than a quarter of a $2,000 goal by Tuesday morning. Gillett Elementary School teacher Vicky Britton was collecting clothing donations, urging drop-offs at the school or City Hall.
Thousands of items were donated within 24 hours of the original post, he said — much of it brand-new with the tags still attached. Gas cards were donated so the family wouldn't have to worry about the cost of driving to the hospital to visit the boy.
Businesses have been contacting Steldt and Mayor James Beaton about organizing a fundraiser to support the family sometime in the next few weeks, he said.
Other agencies that helped combat the fire included the Oconto County Sheriff's Office and the Oconto Falls Police Department, the news release said.
To donate to the family, visit www.gofundme.com/5s4kdow, and for more information, visit the Gillett Community and Events or James Beaton, Gillett Mayor pages on Facebook. Updates to this story will also be posted to octimesherald.com and the Times Herald's Facebook page.


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Hazel, Tatum, and Adelaid cool off at the local splash pad in Niceville. (Credit: Terry Sheffield)
People who live in Kaysville are happy to tell others where they come from. It's a place where people know their neighbors, even the ones across town. The Rocky Mountains are on one side and the Great Salt Lake on the other. Each year the community throws a Fourth of July celebration, which brings thousands of people to Main Street to gab with old friends and make new ones. The parade ends with a huge water fight, but of course, no real fighting.
A couple, who lives on Main Street, posted on Facebook that they needed help moving dirt around their front yard to get it ready to lay sod. A few days later, their yard was full of people who brought their own rakes and wheelbarrows to help out.
On another corner of Main Street is a community garden where anyone can sign up to plant vegetables, flowers, or whatever they please on a small plot of land. After the season was over and the ground was covered with dying vines and plants, a local youth group came out in the dark to clear away the vegetation.
Last month, a family, who lives just off Main Street, was devastated when they lost their son. Their neighbors collected money to have a local artist create a charcoal pencil portrait of their son standing next to Christ. Somehow the artist was able to finish the portrait in two days so the family could display it at their son's funeral and feel at peace.
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Prologis Provides Year-to-Date 2016 Capital Proceeds Update
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), the global leader in logistics real estate, today announced that year-to-date through May 31, 2016, the company generated proceeds of $1.6 billion from non-strategic dispositions, fund contributions and fund rebalances, in-line with the company's previous guidance.
The following is a summary of activity during the period (PLD share, $ in millions):
Complete at
Midpoint of
2016 Guidance
Installment sale related to Facebook
Fund ownership rebalances
Total Proceeds
Proceeds Generated as a Percent of 2016 Guidance
"We generated significant proceeds in April and May," said Thomas S. Olinger, chief financial officer of Prologis. "Disposition activity is strong thanks to recent sales to a diverse group of buyers and across a number of geographies. We've also completed our ownership rebalancing activities for the quarter in our USLF and PTELF joint ventures, which generated $411 million. Overall, the proceeds generated from these various activities – which comprise a key portion of our ability to self-fund future capital deployment – put us more than halfway toward reaching the midpoint of our capital proceeds guidance for the year. Furthermore, we have several properties representing $220 million in value under binding agreements."
Management to Participate at REITWeek 2016
The company also announced that chief financial officer Thomas S. Olinger will participate in REITWeek 2016: NAREIT's Investor Forum at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Prologis is scheduled to present on Tuesday, June 7, at 3:45 p.m. ET.
The presentation will be available live via webcast and accessible at: https://ir.prologis.com/events.cfm
Webcast replays will be available for 90 days after the presentation. Presentation materials will be available for download on Thursday, June 9, in the Investor Events & Presentations section of the Prologis investor website at: https://ir.prologis.com/events-and-presentations/events/2016
Prologis, Inc. is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. As of March 31, 2016, the company owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 667 million square feet (62 million square meters) in 20 countries. Prologis leases modern distribution facilities to a diverse base of approximately 5,200 customers across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.
The statements in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which we operate as well as management's beliefs and assumptions. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact our financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, development activity and changes in sales or contribution volume of properties, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt, capital structure and financial position, our ability to form new co-investment ventures and the availability of capital in existing or new co-investment ventures — are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust status, tax structuring and income tax rates, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments in our co-investment ventures, including our ability to establish new co-investment ventures and funds, (viii) risks of doing business internationally, including currency risks, (ix) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by us under the heading "Risk Factors." We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this document.
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Jeff Wallach, a native Five Towner, writes 'Mr. Wizard'
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North Woodmere native Jeff Wallach has written 'Mr. Wizard,' a novel that begins in the Five Towns of the 1970s.
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By Jeff Bessen
Reaching back to his childhood community, Jeff Wallach has written a book that encompasses plenty of places that are familiar to Five Towners in the 1970s, while plotting a story that could resonate with many people that never set foot on the South Shore.
"Mr. Wizard" tells the tale of two brothers, Phillip and Spencer, who believed they were Jewish-American and in Wallach's words, "set off on a treasure hunt in search of who they really are and what that might mean to them."
"A lot of people are taking DNA tests and are discovering surprises in parents, [being] adopted and ancestry," Wallach said. "[We] never had that kind of science, where you could spit into a cup and find out all those things."
Wallach's life began in Brooklyn in 1960, the son of Sidney, a jeweler, and Rosemay (née Wolfe), a homemaker and retail jeweler. Growing up in North Woodmere, Wallach had writing on his mind since he was 12. Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver were influences.
"At Woodmere North Junior High School (now Woodmere Middle School), I had a teacher who was extremely encouraging," he said, remembering seventh grade English teacher Lisa Huttner. "I wrote the worst short stories. She encouraged me."
Taking that support to Vassar College, he graduated with a bachelor's in 1982, and attained a master's in fiction writing from Brown University two years later. Married to Renee Renfrow, a graphic designer and licensed massage therapist, Wallach who lives in Portland, Oregon, has enjoyed a successful writing career as the author of five non-fiction books and more than 1,000 articles, essays and reviews in the American Book Review, Men's Health, The New York Times and Sports Illustrated.
Golf, a game that plays a part in the book, is a focus of Wallach's writing. "In junior high I would play at North Woodmere all the time," he said. "One person's mother would drop four of us off and 12 hours later someone else would be pick us up." Lawrence Country Club was another venue as Sidney played as well.
Delving into fiction, he had written two other novels that were not published, is different from nonfiction. "You don't simply put on a different hat as so much get in involved in a different world," Wallach said.
Placing his novel in the Five Towns allowed Wallach to reminisce, but he also had to fact check as he had not been back in years. Noting that his memory was faulty, Wallach said he rewrote scenes or changed the location of a scene. Through the book, Wallach wants readers to understand "what defines who we are."
As an experienced writer, he said he was skeptical when a friend recommended using a book doctor to serve as a constructive critic and sounding board. "I talked to him and sent him a sample five to 10 pages," Wallach said. "He was extremely insightful and I had him go through the book twice."
Book doctor Dan Pope said he understood Wallach's skepticism. "I think Jeff was skeptical because he's an accomplished writer and published author, he might have thought he couldn't benefit from my services," Pope said. "I think he saw, based on my comments where the expanding or editing worked."
The collaboration produced "Mr. Wizard" published by Open Books. A book that Pope endorses as a "great read" and Wallach's writing reminds Pope of "Richard Russo at his best." Russo is noted American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and teacher.
"Mr. Wizard" is available for purchase at https://bit.ly/2Xdswlw.
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Christine: A Potently Pessimistic Period Piece
Events leading to journalist Christine Chubbuck's 1974 on-air suicide are recounted in Christine (2016), a bleak but potent film written by Craig Shilowich and directed by Antonio Campos. Strong performances by its lead actors and its visual authenticity make Christine the best overlooked film of 2016.
Christine Chubbuck (Rebecca Hall) is a sincere but troubled woman working as a reporter for a local news station in Sarasota, Florida. She lives with her mother, Peg (J. Smith-Cameron), and performs puppet shows at a children's hospital on the weekends. Her life begins to spiral out of control when, approaching 30, she discovers she has a cyst on one of her ovaries and may never have children.
Her boss, Michael (Tracy Letts), is concerned about falling ratings and wants Christine to cover more sensational stories. This professional dilemma is compounded by the arrival of station owner Bob Andersen (John Cullum), who wants to move some personnel to Baltimore. Christine is passed over in favor of anchor George Peter Ryan (Michael C. Hall) and sports anchor Andrea Kirby (Kim Shaw). This is a double-blow because Christine had an unrequited crush on George.
I won't reveal how the film ends, but you probably already guessed. Rebecca Hall, who also starred in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) and The Dinner (2017), is outstanding as Christine Chubbuck, and won several awards for her effort. I'm not sure this film would have been nearly as good without her performance. She disappeared into the role, bringing her character to life with all the emotion and idiosyncrasies of a real person.
This film's authenticity is also incredible. If you could somehow capture the look and feel of a decade, Christine does it. 1970s period pieces usually feature larger than life characters and situations. This film does the exact opposite–it shows normal people at a normal job, who happened to be involved in an incredibly tragic incident.
But Christine is not entirely accurate. The film depicts Christine living with her mother, which was true, but her older brother also lived with them. I can't recall any mention of her siblings in the film. Also, in the film, Christine procrastinates getting a cyst removed from her ovary, but in real life she had the surgery a year prior to her suicide. Neither of these alterations negatively affect the film. The filmmakers needed to show how the surgery affected her in the run-up to her suicide, which would have been difficult if it occurred months before the events depicted in the movie.
Christine confronts an issue in journalism that continues to be debated to this day. In the film, Christine is constantly butting heads with her boss over the definition of news. Michael is concerned about their station's low ratings and wants her to focus on more controversial stories. Christine doesn't think reporting on stories that interest people is real journalism.
The push to report on crime and disaster deeply conflicts with Christine's self-image, and she frames her suicide as a statement against sensationalism in news. "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts', and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide," she says before she pulls a pistol and shoots herself behind her right ear.
The message couldn't be any clearer, but don't expect Christine to spoon-feed you answers. The movie is like a snapshot of one moment in time. We don't know how Christine's family and coworkers deal with the tragedy, or whether it affects that station's approach to the news. Its open-endedness enhances the film's final impact.
Author Michael KleenPosted on April 23, 2018 December 13, 2018 Categories Historic America, ReviewsTags 1970s, film, Florida, news media
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Dan O. says:
Well-acted, insightful, and sad. But worth watching. Nice review.
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Cebu Pacific records P7.7-billion net income for 1H 2016
Cebu Pacific and its wholly owned subsidiary Cebgo, generated a net income of P7.7 billion from January to June 2016, a substantial increase from the P5 billion earned in the same period last year.
The Cebu Pacific Air group's 1H 2016 revenues surged to P33 billion, a growth of 12% year-on-year. Passenger revenues climbed by 11% to P25 billion, after CEB carried over 10 million passengers for the first half of 2016. Cargo revenues also went up by 6% to P2 billion.
Likewise, ancillary revenues soared by 20% to P6 billion consequent to the 9% growth in passenger traffic and 10% increase in average ancillary revenue per passenger. Improved online bookings, together with a wider range of ancillary revenue products and services, contributed to the increase.
"Our strong operating and financial performance attest to the ever growing number of air travelers and communities we serve, via approximately 2,400 weekly flights out of Cebu Pacific Air's six strategic hubs nationwide. We are optimistic that with the support of relevant government and airport authorities, we can continue contributing to the progression of air transport services in the country," says Atty. JR Mantaring, Vice President for Corporate Affairs.
Cebu Pacific recently announced three new domestic routes out of Cebu, to cater to the increasing inter-island travel demand in the Visayas region. Beginning November 19, 2016, the airline will be operating daily flights between Cebu and Ormoc (Leyte) and Cebu and Roxas (Capiz); and four times weekly flights between Cebu and Calbayog (Samar).
The airline will also be operating direct, daily flights between Kalibo and Incheon, South Korea, effective October 1, 2016.
Cebu Pacific Air now offers flights to an extensive network of over 100 routes on 36 domestic and 30 international destinations, spanning Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and USA.
Its 57-strong fleet is comprised of seven Airbus A319, 36 Airbus A320, six Airbus A330, and eight ATR 72-500 aircraft. Between 2016 and 2021, the airline expects delivery of 32 Airbus A321neo, two Airbus A330, and 16 ATR 72-600 aircraft orders.
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