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Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us
by Bruce E. Levine
Photograph Source: Mick Rock – Public Domain
While not as well-known as "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day," and not one of the classics he wrote for the Velvet Underground (such as "Heroin" and "I'll Be Your Mirror"), Lou Reed's "Kill Your Sons," about his electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT) as a 17-year-old, gives voice to an event that majorly radicalized him to distrust authorities. That is the conclusion of Aidan Levy in Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed, one of several recent biographies about Lou Reed (1942-2013).
"All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electroshock," is how Reed begins "Kill Your Sons," and though in Lou's case, ECT trauma would fuel his art, such trauma often only destroys; as the ECT that Ernest Hemingway and William Styron received late in their lives only served to hasten their end. And even in Reed's case, his ECT fueled not just his art but his rage, which sometimes hurt people who cared about him.
As a teenager living in suburban Freeport, Long Island, Lou felt alienated. He became increasingly anxious and "resistant to most socializing, unless it was on his terms," according to his sister Merrill Reed Weiner, whose parents were overwhelmed by her brother's behaviors and by his disregard of them, and so they sought treatment for Lou. They would comply with a psychiatrist's recommendation.
In the summer of 1959, Lou was administered 24 ECT sessions at two-day intervals at Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in Queens, New York. Weiner recalls, "I watched my brother as my parents assisted him coming back into our home afterwards, unable to walk, stupor-like. It damaged his short term memory horribly and throughout his life he struggled with memory retention, probably directly as a result of those treatments."
Lou Reed loved evocative lyrics—his own and others—and my guess is that he would have appreciated the description of his ECT by Aidan Levy:
The doctor paced back to the machine, then the two trembling orderlies, barely out of high school and only a year older than Lou was, laid across his chest and knees to brace him for the shock to come. He had read Frankenstein;now he was living it. The doctor flipped the switch on the metal box, the size of a small amplifier, and Lou Reed, who had up to that moment in his life been an acoustic being, became quite literally electrified.
Weiner continues to be pained by her brother's ECT, and she feels sorry for their parents who, she tells us, may have been guilty of much poor parenting but not, as some have suggested, of seeking treatment for Lou's homosexual urges.
Weiner remains angered by doctors for destroying her family, concluding that "the 'help' they received from the medical community set into motion the dissolution of my family of origin for the rest of our lives. . . . My parents were like lambs being led to the slaughter — confused, terrified, and conditioned to follow the advice of doctors. . . . Our family was torn apart the day they began those wretched treatments."
Levy concludes about Lou's ECT, "The punishment solidified Lou's unflappable spirit of rebellion." While psychiatry rejects Levy's view of ECT as "punishment," Lou himself would likely have agreed with this Levy analysis: "His parents and by extension civilized society objected to his defiance—even then, he refused to play by anyone else's rules, and as punishment for breaking them, he faced an adolescent's worst nightmare."
Prior to his ECT, Levy notes, "Lou had already embraced the counterculture, but electroshock secured his allegiance to the underground. If he wanted to escape, he would have to do it himself. No one, not anyone in mainstream society at least, would do it for him. He would later dedicate his life to exposing the seamy underbelly beneath the sanitized reality presented by the mainstream, eternally distrustful of any authority figure, especially any record executive, after he had seen authority be so wrong."
Lou's talents enabled his rage over his ECT to be transformed into the kind of art that deeply touched society's outcasts and victims of illegitimate authority. But while Lou found artistic fuel from his ECT, it scarred him with an unpleasant defensiveness. Throughout much of his life, Lou would protect himself by attacking, and he was often viewed, even by his friends and lovers, as a "jerk" and an "asshole."
Psychiatry would prefer the general public hear ECT testimonials from advocates such as Kitty Dukakis rather than the ECT realities of Lou Reed as well as of other public figures for whom ECT was a disaster, a lengthy list including Ernest Hemingway and William Styron.
A seriously depressed Hemingway was treated with ECT as many as 15 times in December 1960, then in January 1961, he was "released in ruins," according to one biographer Jeffrey Meyers. Another biographer and close friend, A. E. Hotchner reported in Papa Hemingway that Hemingway's loss of memory caused by the ECT made him even more depressed and hopeless, as Hemingway had stated, "Well, what is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business?" In July 1961, shortly before his 62nd birthday and soon after Hemingway had been given still another series of shock treatments, his end came by suicide with a shotgun.
William Styron is another ECT casualty. In a 2019 article "William Styron: His Struggles with Psychiatry and Its Pills," journalist Joshua Kendall reports that in early 2000, when Styron became even more depressed while on the antidepressant Wellbutrin, he became desperate and vulnerable to quick fix recommendations. Kendall reports:
"The quick fix that Styron settled on was ECT. 'One of the reasons that he wanted to try ECT was that he had had such a bad experience with drugs, and he didn't want to take another one," Rose [Styron's wife] says. . . . Once when Rose accompanied him to an ECT treatment, he yelled at her, 'You're killing me!' . . . .The ECT was then abandoned, but not before possibly causing the Parkinsonian symptoms that emerged that summer, as Alexandra [Styron's daughter] notes in her memoir."
Many Americans are surprised to discover that ECT continues to be used as a psychiatric treatment. Psychiatry is well aware of ECT's negative public image, so in recent years, its administration is not as painful to observe as it once was. Unlike Lou, patients today are given an anesthetic and oxygen along with a muscle relaxant drug to prevent fractures. However, while ECT no longer appears quite as torturous to observers as it appeared prior to these procedure changes, ECT's effects on the brain are as damaging as ever. Moreover, as I detailed in 2017 (The Electrical Abuse of Women: Does Anyone Care?), a recent comprehensive review of the research on ECT effectiveness concluded that there is "no evidence that ECT is more effective than placebo for depression reduction or suicide prevention."
For Lou, it is likely that in addition to his ECT at Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in Queens, simply being a patient there cemented his strong reciprocal connection with society's "untouchables." I grew up in Rockaway, Queens, and telling another kid that "you belong in Creedmoor" was one of the greatest of insults that we hurled at one another. And so Lou was handed the choice of either being shamed by his outcast status or to celebrate it. He had the courage to celebrate it.
I also spent some time in Creedmoor, but under very different circumstances than Lou. In 1976, a locked ward at Creedmoor served as my first trainee internship, and it was here that I began to be embarrassed by my chosen mental health profession, especially by its dehumanizing attempts to control people. While psychiatrists utilized drugs and ECT to control patients, psychologists' arsenal of control included "behavior modification," which included the "token economy."
During my internship at Creedmoor, I recall one severely depressed man who refused to talk to staff but who chose me for some reason to shoot pool with. Spotting my interaction with him, a clinical psychologist, my boss, told me that I should give him a token—a cigarette—to reward his "prosocial behavior." I fought it, trying to explain that I was 20 and this man was 50, and that it was humiliating to treat the man in the manner of training a dog. But the psychologist threatened to kick me off the ward. So with staff watching—but not hearing—from behind the nurse's station window (similar to what I had just seen in the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), I asked the man what I should do. Fighting the zombifying effects of his heavy medication, he grinned and said, "We'll win. . . let me have the cigarette." In full view of staff, he took the cigarette and then placed it into the shirt pocket of another patient. Next, he shot a look at the staff which clearly expressed: "I may be a patient in Creedmoor but you staff are the truly sick ones."
While most students training to become mental health professionals are initially jarred by their observations of dehumanizing chemical-electrical-behavioral controls, many of them become numb to these experiences and go on to become professionals who repeat these practices. For other students, these upsetting experiences kill their interest in a career in psychiatry, psychology, and the mental health profession. But for a small handful who do not exit the profession, these observations radicalize them and compel them to resist and speak out.
Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His most recent book is Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person's Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian―Strategies, Tools, and Models (AK Press, September, 2018). His Web site is brucelevine.net


The next Amateur Station Licence Examination will be held on Thursday 29th June in the ComReg Offices in Dublin.
Four Exam Reports which were previously published in Echo Ireland are available on the Downloads section of the website at http://www.irts.ie/downloads under "Studying for the Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate".
These reports contain very useful information for anyone studying for the Licence Examination. Intending candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the syllabus for the examination especially Annexes 1 and 2.


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Dareh Ardashes Gregorian – Facts About Maggie Haberman's Husband
By Adeola Seun
One of the most respectable and prestigious news publications in the world is The New York Times and one of its recognized journalists is Maggie Lindsay Haberman. Her husband is Dareh Ardashes Gregorian who is also a journalist who works for New York Post. Together, they have been walking the path of finding the truth and reporting it to American and global audiences.
Dareh Ardashes Gregorian has had an extensive career that has made him a successful man in his field. He has been in the profession for over two decades, with experiences that have led him to become an editor. We take a closer look at the life of Dareh Ardashes Gregorian below. Read below to learn more.
Dareh Ardashes Gregorian's Bio
The New York Post journalist was born on the 24th of March, 1970 in Austin, Texas to parents Clare Gregorian and Vartan Gregorian. Not much is known of his childhood but he is one of three children born to his parents, with the other two siblings being two brothers named Vahe and Raffi.
Following the completion of his high school education, Dareh Ardashes Gregorian furthered his academic pursuits at Boston University where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1992.
After that, Dareh began his professional career when he joined The New York Observer as a part reporter and part researcher. After spending a year at The Observer, he crossed over to New York Post, where he began to work as a typist and a part-time reporter. He spent his first two years working in the role before he promoted to a full-time reporter in 1995.
Following his promotion, Dareh Ardashes Gregorian worked as a reporter for the New York Post between 1996 to 2012, covering several major news stories before he joined the New York Daily News in 2013. Over the course of his career, he has specialized in different aspects of news coverage from covering the Supreme Court to the Police to being a general assignment reporter.
After working with the New York Daily News for three years, Dareh was promoted to the role of political editor for the publication and has maintained the role ever since. He has also had a few awards to his name, including the New York City Police Department Crimestoppers Award.
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While he has made strides since he joined New York Post, his wife, Maggie Haberman (whom he met at New York Post) has also made considerable strides in her profession. She has become one of America's most notable journalist, working for two major news publications, The New York Times and CNN. For CNN, Maggie is a political analyst who makes appearances on several shows on the news network.
Relationship with Maggie Haberman
Dareh's wife, Maggie Haberman (left) during a New York Times summit
Scientifically, it is believed that you are more likely to fall in love and marry someone you share an environment with. While there are exceptions to that theory, it was true in the case of Dareh Ardashes Gregorian and Maggie Haberman. They met while they both worked for the New York Post in 1996.
Four years after joining the journalism industry, Dareh Ardashes Gregorian met his future wife and they dated for seven years and still remained in love with each other despite the ups and downs they faced together. In November 2003, Dareh Ardashes Gregorian and Maggie Haberman decided to take a step further in their relationship and went to the altar to tie the knot. Their marriage was held at Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan and the union was officiated by a Chief Judge of the United States District Court, Judge Edward R. Korman.
Since declaring their love for each other in front of friends and family, Dareh and his wife have gone on to birth and raise three children – Max Gregorian, Miri Gregorian, and Dashiell Gregorian. They have since remained together in support of one another with no publicized scandal since they met in 1996, culminating to over 20 years as a couple.
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Other Facts About Dareh Ardashes Gregorian
While his exact net worth is unknown, he earns an average of $48,000 to $78,000 per year.
Dareh Ardashes' father, Vartan Gregorian is a former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library while his mother, Clare Gregorian is the President and Chairwoman of Literacy Partners in Manhattan.
By the virtue of his father's ancestry, Dareh is an Armenian-American.
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Locate Therapeutics
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Locate Therapeutics to lead regenerative medicine revolution following first equity investment by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund
Nottingham-based Locate Therapeutics Ltd is the first firm to receive equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF)
MEIF is providing £400k as part of a £2million investment that will help the firm to deliver an innovative targeted drugs and stem cells delivery system to market
The capital will also enable the company to add six more experts to its team and open the doors to international trade
Pioneering specialist in regenerative medicine, Locate Therapeutics, has received the first equity investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund.
Part of a £2million finance package, underwritten by Mercia Fund Managers, including MEIF POC and Mercia EIS funds, this cash injection will help the firm fast-track its medical inventions to market, as well as make six more expert hires.
Headquartered within MediCity in Nottingham – an incubator space for companies specialising in medical technology – Locate Therapeutics, a spinout from the University of Nottingham, is leading the way in the development of a targeted drug and stem cells delivery system. This system enables doctors to administer treatments to delicate parts of the body where greater levels of precision are required, with the added investment bolstering Locate Therapeutics' business development capacity as it trademarks its inventions and begins to market it to medical providers all over the world.
The Life Sciences sector has been marked by the government in its recent Industrial Strategy as being one of the UK's main growth sectors over the next 20 years, boasting a current national turnover of £64 billion – a figure that is set to increase significantly.
Explaining the implications of this investment, Dr Ian Wilding, Chairman of Locate Therapeutics, said:
"We are extremely excited about the potential of our drug delivery technologies to be 'game changers' in the field of regenerative medicine, opening up new products to change the lives of patients with severe illnesses.
"Our company has successfully transitioned from the research to development phase in the last three years and we welcome the backing of Mercia Fund Managers as our investment partner in our journey to commercialisation."
Ken Cooper, MD at the British Business Bank, commented:
"Locate Therapeutics has a real opportunity to make improvements in patient care – factors that without this equity investment would not be able to take place. Helping deals such as this go through is a big part of what the Midlands Engine Investment Fund was set-up to do, as it continues to support small innovative companies to grow and to address the regional funding imbalances across the UK."
Commenting on the deal completion, Julian Dennard, Investment Director at Mercia, said:
"To be able to support innovative firms such as Locate Therapeutics is a key driver for Mercia Fund Managers. This is a great example of how finance available through the MEIF can be leveraged with private money to bring needed capital to a potentially high growth life sciences' business.
"We look forward to working with Locate Therapeutics and its partners to drive the business forward, allowing patients to benefit from new treatments by building an exciting next generation drug delivery business."
Peter Richardson, Chair D2N2 LEP, said:
"The Midlands Engine Investment Fund is designed to make the Midlands an engine for growth. By increasing the amount of finance available to companies across our area and working together as councils, businesses and local enterprise partnerships – we are helping businesses like Locate Therapeutics to grow, access new markets, export and flourish, both nationally and internationally."
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Publications on innovation and innovation management often are only concerned with product innovations, i.e. innovations within the existing business model. This is definitely too short-sighted. As a consequence of ignoring business model innovations, a major source of innovation would not be detected by the company´s radar screen. In the period from 1997 to 2007, 26 companies which were founded since 1984 have entered the American Fortune 500, and more than half of them, i.e. 14 companies did so through a business model innovation (Johnson 2010).
The meaning that people attribute to the term "business model" varies greatly. Frequently the term business model is used as an equivalent to profit model. But this definition is much too narrow. To explain why, I give you just one example.
When Southwest Airlines launched in 1960, it was successful against the established traditional airlines because its innovative business model diverged from that of its competitors in many respects, with differences in the profit or revenue model being only one part. At least as determining for the success of the Southwest Airlines business model was that Southwest Airlines offered its customers major time savings due to its direct point-to-point flights and a much friendlier service, and that Southwest Airlines built excellent relations with its employees which resulted in, for example, outstanding employee productivity which in turn allowed a generous employee compensation.
A business model is a description of how a business creates and delivers value, both for the customer and for the company. It is a short-hand description of the business of a company or business unit. The description is at a high level of aggregation and provides a quick "big picture" overview. If we describe the business model of a specific company we focus our description on those components that are the most important for the value creation of the company, and that set the business model apart from the others.
As the term indicates, value must and can only be judged from the customer´s or consumer´s perspective.
These four main components of a business model can be broken down in sub-components. In the following I use nine sub-components.
This way of describing a business model lends itself very well to its practical use (see also Osterwalder, Pigneur 2010), as I will now illustrate by means of the Zara business model:.
Often established businesses do not find it easy to describe their business model. But this is the first step needed before a company may start thinking of changing its business model, or about introducing another business model in parallel. The above 4-component/ 9-subcomponent model should facilitate the identification of one´s own business model.
Once this is done, we can also begin checking to what extent our own model differs from that of competition (Kim and Mauborge 2005) as we do here with the Zara business model. On the left we have listed Zara´s key differentiators vs. competition on the market side, on the right Zara´s key differentiators on the supply chain side.
Based on this visualization of a business model we can see: the product offering is only one sub-component of the business model. Accordingly, a product innovation is only a subset of a business model innovation.
For simplicity reasons, in the following I will, however, treat product innovations and business model innovations as if they were on the same level. By product innovations I mean innovations that mainly concern the products or services as they are visible to the customer. Business model innovations, instead, combine existing products with the other components of the business model in new ways.
In accordance with this definition, product innovations are not a necessary part of a business model innovation. Not to mention patents. This equally applies to Zara as to South West Airlines. Or think of the Aldi discount chain. Also in this business model innovation, product innovation or patents played no real role. This does not mean that a simultaneous business model innovation plus product innovation such as Apple´s iPod does not hold even more success potential.
• a new business model, which differs from its existing company master business model. This, for example, Microsoft did with the launch of its Xbox 360 game machine with the Xbox Live online gaming service.
• innovative products or services within their existing company master business model, competing with existing business models. Procter & Gamble, for example, tried this with the Dryel textile cleaning kit, which it sold to the consumer via its established retail trade channel. Dryel was meant to enable the consumer to cleanse her delicate fabrics herself at home (new business model). So far, she had brought her delicate fabrics to the dry-cleaners (old business model).
The assessment whether a business model is new to the world and therefore a business model innovation can only be made from the perspective of the market and the customers. What they regard as such is what counts. P&G´s master business model, for example, is to sell branded and advertised products, not services indirectly to the private consumer via the retail trade channel based on its five core competencies: consumer understanding, innovation management, brand-building, go-to-market capability, and scale. If existing companies such as P&G launch an innovation within their existing company master business models, and if the consumers view the innovation and its business model as an innovative business model because such a business model did not exist before then this counts as a business model innovation. Therefore Crest Whitestrips, P&G´s at-home tooth-whitening innovation, which competes with dentist bleaching (old business model), and which in the end was also sold via the familiar retail trade, is a business model innovation (see the following figure).
This figure describes business models (BM) both from an external and an internal perspective. Nestle´s Nespresso coffee system is a new business model both for Nestlé and for the outside world, and therefore a business model innovation. Crest Whitestrips, although in the end not being a new business model from an internal perspective as P&G´s master business model is being used, is a business model innovation for the outside world. Nestlé´s Dolce Gusto coffee system is neither new from an internal nor an external perspective as it is belatedly launched in the traditional trade channel after the introduction of similar coffee systems by competition (Sara Lee´s Douwe Egberts, Kraft etc.).
enters and scales up a new market which is just forming.
Often established companies launch new business models in parallel to their existing business models out of defensive considerations. The management of these parallel business model innovations is not to be underestimated. It is a big challenge. Typically separate business units are assigned responsibility for the management of the new business models. In 1994, United Airlines tried to defend itself against the upcoming Southwest Airlines with the launch of United Shuttle, and Continental with the introduction of Continental Lite. Both defenses were not successful.
Because of all the above, in the real business world we can observe many more sequences of product innovations by established firms than sequences of new business model introductions or changes of business models. Often, if a new business model has been introduced, it is followed by a large number of product innovations within this new business model. See, for example Apple. After the introduction of its iTunes software + iPod hardware + iTunes Music Store business model innovation, it launched a long series of iPod innovations followed by the iPhone and the iPad.
Another example is Toyota, whose cars were at first very rudimentary and whose business model was very traditional. Toyota's innovation was the "Lean" business model which started off with the Lean Manufacturing System and to which was then added the Lean Product Development System and a Lean Delivery System. The cars that Toyota brought forth with this system distinguished themselves at this stage by a very good value for money, excellent quality and high customer satisfaction. But they were not yet impressive from a technological nor design standpoint. Toyota achieved design and technological breakthroughs with the launch of the Lexus (1989) and of the radical innovation Prius hybrid (1997), which helped to burnish Toyota´s image as a technological and environmental leader.


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Enid Blyton joins JK Rowling and Dan Brown in list of decade's biggest selling authors
Her books are supposed to have fallen out of fashion, but Enid Blyton has emerged as one of the best-selling authors of the past decade.
The Famous Five remain as popular as ever
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
6:41PM GMT 16 Dec 2009
Blyton was a surprise entry on a list dominated by modern writers, including JK Rowling, Terry Pratchett and Dan Brown. The top 10 was based on sales at Amazon.co.uk, the online retailer.
Her charming tales, including the Famous Five and Noddy series, remain as popular as ever, bought by parents and grandparents who remember the books fondly from their own childhoods.
She is currently undergoing something of a revival, with a BBC drama chronicling her life and the Famous Five being reborn as a cartoon. Documents released by the BBC archive last month revealed that she was banned from the corporation for nearly 30 years because executives thought her books lacked "literary value" and were no more than "competently written". However, the stories have sold more than 600 million copies worldwide.
Amy Worth, head of books buying at Amazon.co.uk, said: "Enid Blyton was a prolific author and many people who enjoyed her books as children will now be buying those books for children of their own. It goes to show that great books never go out of fashion."
Blyton died in 1968 and is one of only two dead authors on the Amazon list. The other is William Shakespeare.
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Rowling was at number one with the Harry Potter books, followed by Stephenie Meyer, another female writer who created a literary phenomenon with the Twilight series.
Julia Donaldson, creator of The Gruffalo, was third, followed by Jamie Oliver - the only chef to make the list.
Dan Brown was sixth thanks to the astonishing success of The Da Vinci Code. Blyton was seventh, while the other writers in the top 10 were Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels, and Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Amazon's list of best-selling music artists also proved that the old ones are often the best. Although Robbie Williams, Coldplay and U2 all featured, the list was topped by the Beatles.
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Supriya Pilgaonkar is an actress who is best known for his role in the comedy "Tu Tu Main Hand". Shortly after completing her studies, she began his performance with marathi.
She has appeared in a popular television series such as Kabhi Biwi Kabhi Jasoos, Tu Tota Main Maina, Sasural Genda Phool, Dilli Wali Thakur Gurls, Kuch Pyar Ke Rang Aise and the other.
She has also worked in Bollywood films such as 'Deewane Hue Pagal', 'Awara Pagal Deewana', 'Khoobsurat', 'Aitbaar', 'Bluffmaster', Ktp She married at age 18 with actor Sachin Pilgaonkar and has a daughter, Shriya Pilgaonkar.
She is 10 years younger than her husband. She met him in 1984 on the set of his first "Navari Mile Navaryala" film, which he noticed and noted. She also participated in "Nach Baliye - Season 1" with her husband and won the title.
They were also seen in the 5th and 7th season of Nach Baliye. She also participated in the "Komedie Ka Maha Muqabala" program. In 2010 she won the "Indian Telly Award" in the category "Best actress in support role" - in the television series "Sasural Genda Phool".


KENDRICK LAMAR now joins the ranks of high-profile artists who are making an effort to limit the impact of the digital landscape on live performances ances as he will reportedly limit photos at his concerts. According to the Guardian, the rapper, who is now embarking on the European leg of his DAMN. tour will be following the lead of the likes of Alicia Keys, Prince, Guns N' roses and Jack White and encourage fans to put away the smartphones and rather choose to be more present and in the moment.
He'll be taking things a step further and will also prohibit outside professional photographers from the venues in which he will perform throughout Europe. According to the publication, Kung Fu Kenny is making this decision as a means of protecting his brand and ensuring that tickets continue to sell as opposed to the act of fans giving their friends back home a special free viewing via social media.
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If you are the owner of a deli, you know that they can be busy places, especially around meal times. In order to get all of your customers through the ordering, preparing and payment process, you will need to plan accordingly and make sure that your customers can get through as quickly and efficiently as possible. One way to do this, in delis, is to accept credit cards.
You may think that accepting credit or debit cards is more trouble than its worth, but that couldn't be further from the truth. You will be able to streamline the check out process and get everyone through in minimal time. In addition to making your customers happy that they will not have to wait and making the checkout process quick and efficient, there are several other benefits as well.
As a deli owner, you will find that choosing to accept credit and debit cards will bring extra profits your way.
Many people have only a limited time when they take a break, for instance, so they will go to the establishment where they know they can get through quickly. When a potential customer knows that you accept credit and debit, they will be more likely to go to your deli over delis that only accept cash.
Another way that you can bring customers in by accepting credit cards is when you do large orders. For the same reason, businesses and individuals will likely want to pay for large orders, like catering orders, via credit card, not cash or check.
Finally, when you accept credit cards, you will have immediate access to your money and be able to have a better cash flow that if you do not accept credit.
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Safdie Architects completes world's tallest indoor waterfall at Jewel Changi Airport
An indoor forest sits under a large glazed dome with a rainwater waterfall running through the middle at Singapore's Jewel Changi Airport by Safdie Architects.
Safdie Architects led a consortium of architects and designers to build the five-storey plant-filled greenhouse filled with shops and public spaces, which opens to the public next week.
The waterfall drops seven levels through an indoor forest
The glass bagel-shaped building is connected to the city's transport systems and directly to airport terminal one, as well as terminals two and three via pedestrian bridges. It has five stories above ground and five more below.
Called the Rain Vortex, the 40-metre-high indoor waterfall is the largest in the world and can channel 10,000 gallons of water a minute. Called the Shiseido Forest Valley, this area also features two smaller waterfalls
"The Jewel toroidal inverse dome creates a new kind of spatial experience, a daylit vast landscaped garden, combined with seven levels of shopping and airport facilities," said Moshe Safdie, founder and principal of Safdie Architects.
"Light penetrates everywhere, while the roof drains through the dome to create a dramatic waterfall, dropping seven storeys to the lowest building level."
On the fifth floor another garden called Canopy Park is filled with attractions such as nets and slides
Fourteen tree-like columns and a ring beam support the domed roof, which is formed of a continuous grid shell supporting panes of hig...
Honeycomb-patterned towers by Büro Ole Scheeren frame gardens in Singapore


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Introducing a charging "plan" for electric vehicles
AddÉnergie wants to give consumers the ability to use charging services on a monthly subscription basis, eliminating the need to have their own charging station.
The Shawinigan, Quebec-based company, which develops smart charging stations for residential, commercial and public markets, aims to develop the next generation of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles. The small business recently announced a $16.9 million initiative, which will receive financial backing from Natural Resources Canada ($6.7 million) and the Quebec Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation ($748,000), supplementing $7.3 million from AddÉnergie itself and $1.9 million from various private partners.
This initiative will allow AddÉnergie to continue developing a new business model that will give consumers and businesses access to charging services on a monthly subscription basis, much like a cable television service. This formula addresses the cost barriers to buying and implementing charging infrastructure, both for the residential and commercial markets.
"Our goal is to give condominiums and businesses an offer similar to what they would get from a phone provider. We're removing the barriers to entry by looking after installing the infrastructure. In return, customers pay a monthly subscription fee ranging from $80 to $120, based on their usage," explained Louis Tremblay, president of AddÉnergie. "We've spent the past few months testing this type of model with some private companies, and the results have been very promising."
Louis Tremblay, president and CEO of AddEnergie, Catherine McKenna, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and François-Philippe Champagne, federal Minister of International Trade
As part of this initiative, AddÉnergie will also install new charging stations to its curbside FLO network in five major Canadian cities, including Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, drawing on expertise developed during the rollout of several hundred charging stations in Montreal in partnership with Hydro-Québec and the City of Montreal. "This will be a pilot project involving 20 stations in each of these cities to gauge peoples' response and assess demand in each of the different areas. Our goal is to develop and implement charging technologies for the next generation of electric vehicles in Canada."
These projects will lead to the creation of 86 permanent jobs over 5 years and prevent emissions of more than 880,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases. They will also lead to the installation of over 1,000 new charging stations across Canada by 2019.
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On October 16, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced four new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those four cases are two males and two females from Indonesia with their ages ranging from 10 to 30 years old. They entered Taiwan for studies on September 30.
Those four cases have not developed suspected symptoms since arrival. After entry, the four cases underwent quarantine at four different quarantine hotels arranged by their schools. The health authority arranged for them to take a COVID-19 test on October 15 when they completed the quarantine period. Infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in the four cases on October 16 (the CT values for their tests were between 27 and 36, and they are awaiting antibody test results).
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8 Ways to Keep the Rust Off of Brand Trust
We in the marketing and public relations business talk a lot about brand trust. Do we walk it? With trust, simply put, you have a chance to succeed with prospects and customers. Without it, well, you do the math.
We in the marketing and public relations business talk a lot about brand trust. Do we walk it?
With trust, simply put, you have a chance to succeed with prospects and customers. Without it, well, you do the math. In data-driven marketing, where data is often described as the currency of customer engagement, here, too, trust is the bank.
Right now, sad to say, trust appears to be available only at a premium. There seems to be less and less of it at a time when we really need more and more of it. This is societal. It's not just advertising and business where trust may be in short supply. Government, institutions, education, medicine, media all seem to be scrutinized, with a loss of trust in the balance. At a time when and where factual information has never been so available and transparent, fears of misinformation, opacity, and malevolence also appear to be heightened.
Believability is at risk.
I can't fathom how to regain trust in all these institutions just now. But I can think of our world of marketing. Brand, and brand trust, matter more precisely now, because trust everywhere appears in short supply.
Recently, Edelman, a global public relations concern, published its annual "Trust Barometer" report, looking at trust issues among consumers across eight nations, among them the United States. I find the results illuminating, because it helps provide a blueprint of where brands might concentrate efforts to bolster trust.
MarketingCharts.com summarized some of the findings here:
Chart Credit: MarketingCharts.com, July 2019
(Re)Gain the Trust — Some Insights From the Report
Here's my take on eight areas of the findings:
Product Must Perform
While it's increasingly a customer-centric world, product still matters. Quality, performance, convenience — consumers won't even entertain trust if the produce/service fails the bar. In fact, it's the biggest trust factor. Reputation may enable consumer consideration, but 67% of customers report they won't come back if the product fails. More than eight in 10 consumers cite quality, convenience, value, and brand trust as a "deal breaker" or "deciding factor" in a purchase decision.
Trust: Why Now?
Consumers report several reasons why trusting brands is more important: 62% cite concerns about product experience (can't afford a bad purchase, need products to keep pace with innovation, and reliance on brands for increased automation); 55% about customer experience (use of personal data, use of tracking and targeting, and use of artificial intelligence in customer service); and 69% about societal impact (fake news and misinformation, brand involvement in social issues, and affinity with personal values).
Yet There's Considerable Room for Improvement
Just 34% of consumers trust most of the brands they buy and use. While some might see this as in indictment, I choose to see it as a huge opportunity. In the United States, overall, 54% trust businesses to do the right thing — trust in government, by the way, is 40% .
The Trust Dividend Is Real
When trust is earned, the payback is pronounced. The difference between not fully trusting brands and trusting brands for a long time is a 28-point lift in percentage when considering what brand to buy first; 33-point lift in staying loyal; 27-point lift in being an advocate; and a 21-point lift in defending a brand.
We Must Walk the Talk
Remember greenwashing environmental benefits? "Trustwashing" is also a concern regarding brands and authenticity. Worldwide, 56% of consumers feel too many brands use societal issues as a marketing tactic to sell more product. Trust in business vs. trust in government has fallen off year-over-year between 4% and 6% in brands' ability to effect positive change on societal impacts. If you're buying into social good, it had better be the real deal. That means an enterprise commitment that's followed through — rather than a marketing promotion.
Most Consumers Have Taken Steps to Avoid Ads
I think it's a mistake to say all ads are held in low esteem — they're not. Other surveys have shown that eight in 10 consumers still rely on advertising to discover new products and services. But three in four consumers have taken steps in their lives – ad blocking, paid subscriptions, and changed media habits — to curtail the amount of advertising they see. More than three-fourths of consumers says they pay attention to ads from brands they trust!
Enable Reviews — and Influencer Involvement
Most consumers say they trust what others say about a brand, more than what the brand says in advertising about itself. Working in combination — peer review then owned, paid, or social content (ads) can work together to lift trust.
Run Hard
Interestingly, the more saturated the message (meaning, engagement across media channels), the greater chance for trust. One might think this doesn't square with the previous ad avoidance message, but it goes to show repetition and reinforcement work. But only when the message is on-point, resonates with the user, and conveys authenticity.
Those of us who worry and work a lot about "trust" — we have some mighty work to do. But even in an age of consumer skepticism — or simply skepticism — the hard, honest work of trust-building often becomes its own greatest reward, regardless of business payback. Despite all the doubts and pushback, consumers do want to believe this necessary work is getting done, and brands and ourselves can be all the better for it.
Author Chet DalzellPosted on July 15, 2019 July 15, 2019 Categories BrandingTags Brand trust, Business Trust, Consumer attitudes, Consumer behavior, Consumer experience, Consumer trust, Edelman, Product experience, Research, Societal Impact, Trust BarometerLeave a comment on 8 Ways to Keep the Rust Off of Brand Trust
Marketers Doing the Data Privacy Balancing Act Ask What 'I Want My Privacy' Means
It's not just policymakers who are trying to figure out how to act on consumer sentiments toward data privacy. We all, overwhelmingly, want it — business and consumer.
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We are all seeking a U.S. federal privacy law to "repair" what may be broken in Europe (hey, the toaster needs fixing), and to correct any perceived privacy shortcomings in California's new law (scheduled to take effect in January). Will such a federal law pass this year?
One of the ongoing challenges for policy in this area is what's been called the privacy paradox. The paradox? Privacy in the form of consumer attitudes, and privacy in the form of consumer demands and behaviors, rarely are in sync. Sometimes, they are polar opposites, simultaneously!
Should law be enacted on how we feel, or respectful of what we actually do?
How do we define privacy harms and focus regulation only what is harmful — and to go light, very light, or even foster wholly beneficial uses?
Should private sector controls and public sector controls be differentiated?
Do existing laws and ethical codes of conduct apply, and how might they be modified for the digital age?
On top of this, consumer expectations with data and technology are not fixed. Their comfort levels with how information is used — at least in the advertising sector — change over time. In fact, some marketers can't keep pace with consumer demands to be identified, recognized and rewarded across channels. Generations, too, have differences in attitudes and behaviors.
What's creepy today may in fact be tomorrow's consumer-demanded convenience.
Case in point: It used to be people complained about remarketing — the ad following them around on the Net as they browsed. (All the same, remarketing works — that's why it was so pervasive.) Today, in role reversal, consumers sound off when the product they purchased is the same product they still see in the display ad. The consumer has little patience when brand data is locked in data silos: the transaction database doesn't inform the programmatic media buy, in this scenario.
The marketing and advertising business have been trying to solve for the privacy paradox since the Direct Marketing Association assembled its first code of ethics in the 1960s and introduced the Mail Preference Service in 1971. (Today, the Mail Preference Service is now known as dmaChoice, and DMA is now part of the Data Marketing & Analytics division of the Association of National Advertisers.) During the 1970s, consumers could use MPS to both add their names to marketing lists, and to remove their names from marketing lists for direct mail. At that time, far more consumers sought to add their names. Later, MPS strictly devoted itself to offering consumers an industry-wide opt-out for national direct mail, with add-ons for sweepstakes and halting mail to the deceased.
During the '70s, DMA also required its member mailers (and later telemarketers and emailers) to maintain their own in-house suppression lists. These ethics behaviors were codified, to some extent, when the U.S. government enabled the Do-Not-Call registry and enacted the CAN-SPAM Act to complement these efforts.
Fair Information Practice Principles — A Framework That Still Works Wonders
So here we are in the digital age, where digital display and mobile advertising are among addressable media's growing family. Again, the marketing community rose to the challenge — enacting the Digital Advertising Alliance YourAdChoices program (disclaimer, a client) and offering consumers an opt-out program for data collection used for interest-based advertising for Web browsing (desktop and mobile) and mobile applications.
Over and over again, the pattern is the same: Give consumers notice, give consumers control, prevent unauthorized uses of marketing data, protect sensitive areas — recognize advertising's undeniable social and economic power, enable brands to connect to consumers through relevance and trust — and act to prevent real harms, rather than micromanage minor annoyances. Allow marketing innovations that create diversity in content, competition and democratization of information. Let the private sector invest in data where no harms exist.
'I own my data!'
Data ownership is a dicey concept. Isn't there sweat equity when a business builds a physical or virtual storefront and you choose to interact with it? Is there not some expectation of data being contributed in fair exchange for the digital content we freely consume — and the apps we download and enjoy? And once we elect to become a customer, isn't it better for the brand to know you better, to serve you better? Shouldn't loyalty over time be rewarded? That's an intelligent data exchange, and the economy grows with it.
The demand for access to everything free, without ads, and without data exchange, without payment to creators is a demand for intellectual property theft. Sooner than later, the availability and diversity of that content would be gone. And so would democracy. If you put everything behind an ad-free paywall, then only the elites would have access.
'But I pay for my Internet service. I pay for my phone service!'
Sure you do — and that pays for the cell towers, and tech and Web infrastructure, union labor — with some profit for the provider. But unless you're also paying for subscriptions and content — it's advertising that is footing the bill for the music you listen to, the news you read, the apps you use, and so on. All the better when ads are relevant.
At the end of the day, the consumer is always right — and privacy is personally defined.
I'm all for limits on what governments can do with data when it comes to surveillance, and how it goes about maintaining our safety and security (a paradox of its own).
On the private sector side, policymakers might best act to give a privacy floor (do no harm) — and where economic benefits accrue (to serve consumers without harms) — allow consumers freely accessible tools to set their own privacy walls, using browser settings, industry opt-outs, brand preference centers and other widely available no-cost filters. It's a wise society that can encourage responsible data flows, while blocking altogether irresponsible data flows. Get it right, and we all participate in a thriving 21st Century Information Economy. Get it wrong, and Europe and China will set the global rules. With some luck and deliberation, we'll get this right.
Author Chet DalzellPosted on April 8, 2019 April 15, 2019 Categories Data, Data SecurityTags Consumer attitudes, Consumer behavior, Data privacy, data privacy balancing act, Data-driven marketing, Ethics, Legislation, Policymaking, PrivacyLeave a comment on Marketers Doing the Data Privacy Balancing Act Ask What 'I Want My Privacy' Means
Bad Thing! Or Why Segmentation by Consumer Attitudes May Be Dangerous
For years, B-to-B and B-to-C marketers have relied on attitudinal segmentation research to help them group their current customer base, and potential customers as well, for communication, promotion, marketing and experience initiatives. The thesis has been that, by asking a small, but meaningful, set of attitudinal questions, they would be able to develop an index, algorithm or framework equation that ranked these consumers by propensity to buy, both near-term and long-term.
These frameworks—they're arithmetic, so we can't call them "models"—typically include questions regarding the importance of elements like value for money, acting with the consumer's interests in mind, credit and payment terms, having knowledgeable employees, offering products which will meet the consumer's needs, and the like. From these questions, basic segment categorization can be determined; and, once these three, four or five segments are established, we've often seen marketers go on to build assumptive plans and conduct further, more detailed, research around them.
The goal of these approaches is to produce attitudinal segments, which the questions can predict with high accuracy, often in the 80 percent or 90 percent range. This creates what economists would call a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" situation, Latin for "after this; therefore, because of this." It is a logical fallacy, essentially saying that A occurred (the responses to the attitudinal questions); and then B occurred (the cuts, or segments, of consumers). Thus, A caused B. Once the B, or segment creation, stage has been established, further fallacies, such as creating reliable marketing, operational and experiential strategies around these supposed propensities, can be built. It's a classic situation, where correlation is thought to be the same as causation. As your economics or stat professors may have told you, correlation and causation are far from being identical concepts.
As a consultant and analyst, I've seen this result of this application of research and analytics play out on a firsthand basis on multiple occasions. Here's a recent one. A client in the retail office products market had been using an attitudinally derived element importance question framework for small business market segmentation purposes. The segment assumptions went unquestioned until followup qualitative research was conducted to better shape and target their planned marketing and operational initiatives. Importance of certain products and reliable service were identified in the research as key areas of focus and opportunity for the office products retailer; but, in the qualitative research, power of both focus areas appeared, anecdotally, to be consistent across all segments. And, even though implied supplier roles were suggested to build purchases, this was much more "leap of faith"-based on the established quantitative research segment personas than actual qualitative research findings.
There are related issues with what we can describe as quasi-behavioral measures, such as single question metrics (likelihood to recommend to a friend or colleague or the amount of service effort required on the part of a consumer); or traditional customer loyalty indices (where future purchase intent is included, but also attitudinal questions such as overall satisfaction). It's not that they don't offer some segmentation guidance. They do—on a macro or global level; but they tend to be less effective on a granular level, especially where elements of customer touchpoint experience are involved.
And, they tend to have limitations as predictors of segment behavior, a key business outcome for marketers and operations management. When compared to research and analysis techniques, such as customer advocacy and customer brand-bonding, which are contemporary, real-world frameworks built on actual customer experience—high satisfaction scores, high index scores and high net recommendation scores produced likely future purchase results (in studies across multiple industries) which were often 50 percent to 75 percent lower than advocacy or brand bonding frameworks. I'd be happy to provide proof for anyone interested in reviewing the findings.
So, that's the scenario. The challenge, and potential danger, for marketers and those responsible for optimizing customer experience is that these attitudinal and quasi-behavioral questions are just that—attitudes and quasi-behaviors. Attitudes are fairly superficial feelings, and tend to be both tactical and reactive. And, because they are so transitory, their predictive value is often unstable and unreliable. Quasi-behaviors are also open to many similar challenges. More importantly, attitudes and quasi-behaviors are not behaviors, such as high probability downstream purchase intent based on actual previous purchase, evidence of positive and negative word-of-mouth about a brand based on prior personal experience, and brand favorability level based on experience. These are especially valuable in understanding competitive set, and they have real, and very stable, predictive and analytical value for marketers.
As Jaggers, the lawyer, said to Pip in Charles Dickens', "Great Expectations," take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." For marketers, that's excellent shorthand for taking everything on behavior, and perceptions based on documented personal experience, rather than attitudes and quasi-behaviors.
Author Michael LowensteinPosted on October 2, 2013 Categories CRM, DataTags Actual customer experience, Attitudes, Attitudinal, Attitudinal questions, Attitudinal segmentation research, Behavior, Business market segmentation, Consumer, Consumer attitudes, Customer, Customer base, Customer brand-bonding, Customer experience, Customer loyalty indices, Customer touchpoint experience, Derived element importance, Element importance question, Experience, Experience initiatives, Framework, Framework equation, Importance question framework, Market segmentation purposes, Marketers, Marketing, Net recommendation scores, Office products, Office products retailer, Operations management, Personal experience, Qualitative research, Qualitative research findings, Quasi-behaviors, Question, Research, Satisfaction scores, Segment, Segment assumptions, Segment categorization, Segment creation, Segmentation, Segmentation guidance, Single question metrics, Traditional customer loyalty1 Comment on Bad Thing! Or Why Segmentation by Consumer Attitudes May Be Dangerous


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Demonstration facility, backed by a $25 million U.S. Department of Energy award, will showcase biomass to fuel technology and provide new "green" jobs for Hawaii
DES PLAINES, Ill., – UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that it has begun construction in Hawaii of a biofuels demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into green transportation fuels.
Backed by a $25 million U.S. Department of Energy award, the Honeywell UOP Integrated Biorefinery will upgrade biomass into high-quality renewable gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The project is part of the DOE's efforts to help spur the creation of the domestic biofuel industry, drive domestic job creation and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The project will also support the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative goal to achieve 70 percent clean energy by the year 2030.
Located at the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Kapolei, the Integrated Biorefinery will be used to demonstrate viability of the technology, test the fuels produced and evaluate the environmental footprint of the fuels and the process technology. The project, which will generate more than 80 new jobs during construction, is scheduled to begin initial production in 2012. It is expected to be fully operational by 2014.
"Biomass is abundantly available today, and it is an important opportunity to consider as we seek alternatives that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and improve our environmental footprint," said Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager of Renewable Energy and Chemicals for Honeywell's UOP. "Our Integrated Biorefinery will illustrate these benefits as well the potential that biorefineries have to enhance the local economy and provide new green jobs."
"Our island home is far too dependent on imported fossil fuels, and I am very pleased that this alternative energy initiative has the support of the federal government. Hawaii will play a critical role in helping the domestic biofuel industry thrive and this project will create much needed jobs in Kapolei," said Senator Daniel K. Inouye. "I am also pleased that Honeywell's UOP is partnering with a number of local stakeholders including Hawaii BioEnergy, Group 70, Kai Hawaii, University of Hawaii and Leeward Community College. I will do all I can to ensure that Hawaii continues to serve as the laboratory for renewable energy initiatives in the Pacific."
Once successfully proven in this demonstration unit, a commercial-scale facility using the same technology could produce as much as 50 million gallons of drop-in green transportation fuels per year and could create as many as 800 new construction jobs and 1,000 new jobs in biomass production and refinery operations, Rekoske said.
The demonstration unit will utilize the RTP(R) rapid thermal processing technology to rapidly convert biomass into a pourable, liquid biofuel. This liquid biofuel will then be upgraded to green transportation fuels using hydroprocessing technology from Honeywell's UOP.
Honeywell's UOP, the recognized leader in developing process technology for the refining, petrochemical and natural gas industries, offers technologies that convert natural oils and plant biomass to valuable fuels. Since launching its efforts in renewable energy and chemicals in 2007, the company has commercialized the UOP/Eni Ecofining(TM) technology for the production of Honeywell Green Diesel(TM) and the UOP Renewable Jet process for the production of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM). In 2008, UOP partnered with Ensyn Corp. to form a joint venture business, Envergent Technologies LLC, to offer RTP technology and equipment.
UOP LLC, headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA, is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. UOP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. and is part of Honeywell's Specialty Materials strategic business group. For more information, go to www.uop.com.
Honeywell International Inc. (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywellnow.com.
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We place an emphasis on family membership to create a friendly atmosphere for sailing, fishing and social activities. Sailing occurs over the summer season (October – April) with organised racing every Saturday. For those who don't mind the cold we also have a winter series held during May.
At present boats racing include Hartley TS16, Ultimate 16 and 18, Explorer 16, Kitty Catamaran, 125, Mirror, Sabre, Pacers and Impulse classes. See Off The Beach boats and Trailable yachts.
We cater for sailors with different levels of ability and experience, and run sail training programs and Discover Sailing days.
We also have a very active fishing fleet with around 80 members.
The Club extends invitations to other clubs and class associations to join in the races and conducts national, state and local championship regattas.


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It is great honour and also a great pleasure for me to address myself to such an exquisite audience.
During the second half of 2010 my country, Belgium, has the Presidency of the European Union and we are very happy to take part at the process of exchange of knowledge concerning safety and health matters through these Joint Conferences on this issue. Conferences at high level and in a tripartite environment. Especially this tripartite approach is a very important element, a key element I should say, for improving working conditions regarding OSH.
Mrs Joelle Milquet, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Employment and her staff members have shown great interest in the programme of this Conference and they are looking forward to be informed about our finding. Perhaps they might be taken on board during our Presidency.
But first of all before going more into detail in the program, I would like to congratulate our American colleagues for having chosen such a beautiful location for this event. I am sure that it will inspire all of us to do a great job and to come up at the end of the Conference with some solid proposals and solutions in order to improve the working conditions of the employees in the US as well as in the EU. This is also good for business.
use of economic incentives at Community level (e.g. via the Structural Funds) and at national level for micro-enterprises and SMEs.
The European Agency for Safety and Health together with his focal point network in every Member State plays an important role in promoting safety and health by running two-year campaigns.
I want to highlight briefly two campaigns.
what preventive or protective measures are, or should be, in place to control the risks.
The campaign helped to demystify the risk assessment process; risk assessment is not necessarily complicated, bureaucratic or a task only for experts.
It also promoted the idea of a participatory approach to risk assessment. It is essential for the workforce to be consulted and involved in the risk assessment to ensure that hazards are identified not only from principles of knowledge but also by knowledge of working conditions and patterns of adverse effects upon workers. As an example of such a tool, I am proud to refer to the SOBANE strategy, a Belgian tool developed by the Catholic University of Louvain together with some preventive services.
Promote a simple, structured approach to OSH management in maintenance, based on an appropriate risk assessment (the 'five basic rules').
Such a campaign is clearly justified by bearing in mind some major accidents and incidents, in the past and very recently, and for which the causes for these awfull events are strictly related to poor maintenance.
The ultimate aim, of course, is to help to reduce the number of people who are being hurt or are experiencing ill health as a result of inadequate maintenance or lack of maintenance, now and in the future.
During this campaign we want to promote these five basic rules at a large scale even outside "the work environment" because they are also very usefull to apply at home during domestic task related to maintenance. You may call it "mainstreaming of OSH in our daily life.
During our Presidency we will organize a week for the promotion of safety and health at work. During this week a lot of events will take place.
The past decade psychosocial aspects became a great issue in our EU workplaces. European social partners have signed an agreement on work related stress a few years ago. The implementation of this agreement will be on top of the agenda of the Forum organised with the Commission from the 22nd tot the 24th November 2010 in Brussels.
Also an important study of the Bilbao Agency, the ESSENER survey, is on the agenda. The past two years we also have noticed that sometimes restructuring of companies may lead in some cases to dramatic consequences for the mental health of workers.
First: Allthough I refered at a few occasion to Belgium, you have to bear in mind that I have spoken on behalf of the 27 Member States of the EU.
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Cost: $25, $10 Duke Students; General Admission Seating
Experts trace the origin of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition to French and Spanish rule, when enslaved Africans gathered to let off steam while celebrating their heritage at Congo Square in New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood. Processionals of the richly costumed Indian "tribes" are led by "spyboys," or lookouts, along a parade route. Fittingly, the funked-up Mardi Gras Indian band Cha Wa named its 2018 GRAMMY-nominated album Spyboy in tribute to this essential custom. Praised by Offbeat Magazine as "spirited" and "freewheeling," Cha Wa, led by vocalist J'Wan Boudreaux, combines second-line and brass band music into its own signature New Orleans sound. Taking its name from the Mardi Gras Indian rallying call, "here we come," Cha Wa will enliven Durham with this Crescent City tradition.
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Trivium's Matt Heafy shares 'What The Dead Men Say' acoustic EP
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It's the last of the frontman's acoustic re-workings of the band's previous LPs
By Will Lavin
Trivium's Matt Heafy. CREDIT: Frank Hoensch/Redferns
Trivium's Matt Heafy has released a new acoustic EP that features reworked songs from the band's 2020 album 'What The Dead Men Say' – listen to it below.
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The frontman, who shared the new project yesterday (April 16) on YouTube, has already released an acoustic EP for each of Trivium's previous LP's, including 'The Crusade', 'Ascendency' and 'Shogun'.
The 'What The Dead Men Say' acoustic EP tracklist is as follows:
01. 'What The Dead Man Say'
02. 'Catastrophist'
03. 'Bleed Into Me '
04. 'The Defiant '
05. 'Scattering The Ashes'
Listen to the new EP below:
Back in September, Heafy confirmed the sad news that former Trivium bassist Brent Young had died.
Young played on the metal band's 2003 debut album 'Ember To Inferno', as well as their 'The Blue Demo' record.
"We have just been given word on the passing of one of the early members of Trivium, Brent Young," Heafy wrote on Instagram.
"Having had a couple wonderful years with Brent in the Florida local band scene, doing the Blue demo and ETI together, the very first European mini-tour and first USA tour together – I have nothing but amazing memories of a wonderful person. Our hearts and condolences go out to all of Brent's family and friends."
Earlier this year, Heafy shared a heavy metal cover of sea shanty 'Wellerman'.
The frontman is one of many artists to hop on the recent TikTok trend of sea shanties, which was kickstarted by Scottish postman Nathan Evans.
Putting his own spin on the popular sailor anthem, Heafy reworked the track on his Twitch account in February mixing it with some raging riffs and thunderous drum kicks.
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