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Canada has not been in complete favor with Americans recently due to various current events, such as the Northern neighbor's decision not to participate in the Iraqi War and more recently its controversial plans to ease up on marijuana laws. But this hasn't affected U.S. families who have relatives residing in Canada. For them, visits across the border are frequent—and welcome.
There are U.S./Canada border stations set up from coast to coast. Crossing them requires some identification but it's usually a quick process for citizens of either country. Crossings are generally a short distance over a bridge or, as in the Detroit-Windsor passage, a tunnel.
Anyone who's traveled there knows that life in Canada is very similar to life in the U.S.. They find familiar store names, the same style of dress, the same holiday weekends, and the same lifestyles in many cases.
So why is it that Americans seem to know so little about their neighbors to the North?
There are a number of reasons. Canada, despite being the second-largest country in the world in land area (Russia is the only one bigger), has only 30 million people compared with over 200 million in the U.S.. California has a bigger population than Canada. Canada is also much younger, having become a country only 136 years ago in 1867 (though, much like the U.S., it celebrates its independence in early July; Canada Day is July 1).
The above information and a lot more can be found out by exploring Web sites. Start by checking out http://www.canada.worldweb.com, where you'll find articles, information, a photo gallery, Web cams, and an interactive map.
Another good place to begin a discovery tour is at the Government of Canada's Web site at http://canada.gc.ca, where you'll find links to a wealth of information about Canada. What you'll notice first is that you have to choose the language you want to view the site in. Since Canada is officially bilingual, you'll find that the French language is quite prevalent, especially within the government, where the law requires that both languages be used. You'll notice food products contain both languages as well.
Besides wondering if everyone in Canada speaks French (French is the mother tongue of only 25 percent of the Canadian population), what else do Americans want to know about Canada? The images most connected to Canada (in Americans' minds) are snow ... beavers ... the maple leaf ... Molson ... and Mounties.
Those things are definitely part of the culture of Canadians. But there's more, much more. Visit the Culture Canada Web site at http://culturecanada.gc.ca. Delve into various areas of history, beginning many centuries ago when the country was populated with native peoples. You'll be able to follow the history through the British colonization and eventually its formation as a country, when the United Empire Loyalists formed English Canada.
Whether you're looking for information on society, government, land, or economy, or information on such topics as veterans, Canada's space program, or health, you'll find it at this site.
You might prefer to check out information that's not posted by the government. There's a vast array of sites you'll find of interest. You can actually tour Canada from your computer at http://www.tourcanada.com/tours.htm. The site takes you along some of the more famous sites in the country. Start off at #1 to get some facts about Canada and its provinces (the equivalent of states), then check out each spot along the map for some sightseeing, where you'll gain even more knowledge about the country and some of its highlights.
There's also a Canadiana resource page at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana that's got a wealth of information. You've probably already seen some of this information, but look for some of the unique things, such as the lyrics to "In Flanders Fields," which is a famous war poem written by Canadian John McCrea. Sports, music, and educational highlights are also offered through this site.
As you surf, you'll likely notice that words like "neighbour" are spelled with a "u" in them. That's because Canada has traditionally used the British spelling. Canadians have done that since 1890, when John A. Macdonald (the first Prime Minister) ruled in "favour" of the "u" so that the same system would be used throughout all of the British Empire. You'll also find that there are many words that are exclusively Canadian. Canadians turn on the tap and not the faucet. They also use the metric system, so you'll find highway signs in kilometers, not miles, and milk in liters, not gallons.
Of course, you won't find as many discrepancies in things like newspapers, which follow a style guide. American television is also prevalent in Canadian homes. Canada did, however, pass a law requiring Canadian stations to provide a certain percentage of Canadian content.
Though Canada is not as advanced in television and movies, more and more Canadian productions are becoming available. Remember the popularity of Due South on American stations a few years back? The show, about a Canadian Mountie in Chicago, was the first Canadian-made series to earn a prime-time slot on a major U.S. network. It explored some of the stereotypes that exist between Canada and the United States. You can view the official Due South Web site at http://www.duesouth.com or go to one of the many other sites dedicated to the show at http://home.hiwaay.net/~warydbom/duesouth.htm.
Mountie is actually a slang term for Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The RCMP is unique in that it is a national, federal, provincial, and municipal policing body providing policing services to all provinces except Ontario and Quebec. Sir John A. MacDonald formed the RCMP in Canada's early days to maintain order in what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. Learn more by checking out the RCMP home page at http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/index_e.htm.
Genealogists may be familiar with http://www.cyndislist.com/gencan.htm, a Web site that offers a vast amount of information about Canadian genealogy information. Though not a Canadian site, its categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet is one of the best resources for Canadian genealogy found online.
Still looking for those things that make Canada Canadian? Like Tim Horton's coffee, Molson Canadian beer, and Canadian back bacon? What about the beaver and the maple leaf? Odds are, you'll find some of this information on the more than 300 pages at Canada Info at http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada. Don't miss the link on Canadian-isms to find out some of the lingo that's special to Canadians.
Still haven't seen enough? There's a wealth of information at Oh Canada at http://www.ualberta.ca/~bleeck/canada, which says it is attempting to define what it is to be Canadian through looking at the multicultural fabric, history, symbols, and values of the country.
Getting back to understanding how Canada deals with political and world issues (such as Prime Minister Chretien's stand on the war in Iraq), you'll find information at http://canadainternational.gc.ca.
Take the time to explore these Canadian sites, and next time there's a question about Canada on one of those television game shows, you'll be one American who knows the answers.


That must be one rough lake!!
Yeah on second thought it's not as rough as LOTO. Bring that 36 over here some day and see how you like LT. Remember Flash Gordon? He used to run Texoma almost every wkend in his 36.
I'm certain that his annual premium stings a bit once in a year, or twice in 6 months. But if you broke it down with a 20% down payment and made 9 monthly notes it wouldn't be so bad.
Hell, I drop that same coin at least 3 times a week after work to purchase a 12 pack of Coors Light and a box of Marlboro 100's.
and if you ever had to execute a claim or had one filed against you it would be the same.
$180 isn't that big of a deal, hell that's just half a tank of fuel. I just feel like i'm throwing it away when I pay for insurance.
I guess my inexperience with claims is why it doesn't afford me any peace of mind.
[QUOTE=Crossett;3369857] I just feel like i'm throwing it away when I pay for insurance.
I used to feel the same way everytime I made an insurance payment too until my house got hit by lightning, caught on fire, and fried everything plugged in.
In the grand scheme of things Allstate is ahead of me on motor vehicles claim money paid out -vs- collected but they're way behind on my homeowners insurance payments -vs- what they paid on my home's claim.
They paid out almost as much as my purchase price of the home on that one and only claim.
I see your in the Austin area, I haven't been to the lake there since College. Once I get the new boat past survey and delivery here, Travis will be one of our weekend destinations.
My son is your same age and I'll bet his wife and kids will stay with mine when we go, we'll bring the 1300's to tow behind to the spot we anchor off in. I'd love to meet you and some of the other members in the area to find a great cove and enjoy some Texas summer water fun.
This goes for Trevor too because Texoma is a lake I've never been to but would like to go if I know we're meeting some locals, looking at the map it's large and I'll have no idea where the good spots are.
Devil's is the default location that people tend to go hang out. I'm not that big a fan of it. I have a mooring buoy a little further north of there that you're welcome to use if you want.


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21 energy-related projects in Scotland have been awarded a share of £10mn from the Green Economy Fund in the latest round of funding, Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) announced on 1 July. The network operator will support a range of … Continued
Flexitricity announces Scottish partners for Quickturn project
Edinburgh-based demand response firm Flexitricity announced that it has partnered with eight organisations on 2 July to trial a solution which it said has potential to revolutionise the demand-side response (DSR) industry. The Quickturn project, funded by BEIS, aims to … Continued
Scottish Government criticised for supporting a recent fracking license renewal
Scottish Liberal Democrat energy spokesperson Liam McArthur has criticised the decision of the Scottish government to extend Ineos's fracking license for a further 12 months in the Falkirk area. Published on 2 July, a recent letter from Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse confirmed the decision to "extend the … Continued
SSEN explores how to guarantee an "equitable transition" to a low carbon economy
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has published a new report on ensuring fairer ways of charging energy customers throughout the transition to a low-carbon economy. Published on 28 June, Core Capacity investigates how households, businesses and communities use and … Continued
Levenseat announces expansion of waste to energy treatment facility
Recycling and resource management company Levenseat announced the second phase of its waste to energy operations at its Lanark power plant on 28 June, which will see overall site capacity increase from 400,000 to 750,000 tonnes per year. The announcement … Continued
Glasgow City Council approves £4.2mn energy efficiency funding
Glasgow City Council announced on 27 June that it has approved £4.2mn to making households in the city more energy efficient. The funding is expected to deliver insulation measures to 776 homes in both the owner-occupied and private landlord owned … Continued
SSEN Transmission calls for £2.2bn investment in Scotland transmission network
SSEN Transmission published its draft Network for Net Zero proposal on 27 June, urging the government to invest £2.2bn in Scotland's transmission networks to allow it to meet net zero requirements. The plan aims to: transport renewable electricity that powers … Continued
Scotland renewable electricity at record levels
Renewable electricity generation in Scotland reached record levels in Q1 2019, the latest figures from BEIS have showed. In the first quarter of 2019, renewable generation was 8,877GWh – enough to power around 88% of Scottish households for a year. … Continued
Scotland announces additional £11mn to lock in peatland carbon
The Scottish Government has allocated an extra £11mn to repair and restore Scotland's peatland areas, which store around 1600mn tonnes of carbon. Announced on 25 June, the investment will also be used to fund projects to restore degraded peatlands, following an initial commitment … Continued
Scottish Government confirms £20mn electric vehicle support
On 24 June, the Scottish Government confirmed funding of £20.6mn to support the uptake of electric vehicles throughout Scotland. The announcement was made by Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Michael Matheson at the new electric vehicle charging hub … Continued
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Since leaving TND (the second time, but that''s a different story) I've worked with a number of companies on different aspects of marketing like web design, seo, blogs, ppc.
The adage in product marketing is if you have a solution to a problem you can own that problem. I approached my consulting work in much the same way. I attempted to diagnosis the problem and offer a specific solution. The problem is this assumed that the issue could be solved by a specific solution. Digital marketing is not like that. It does best when each element is aligned and integrated with the sales process.
What metrics are important to measure?
Back then I struggled with defining what the really important marketing metrics were. At first we were excited to get visitors, then leads. CTR seemed like the important measure. It seems like ancient history and it was not that long ago.
Today marketing automation measures each activity instantly so you can optimize right away. It's a huge advantage for companies big and small.
Still today 73% of executives do no think marketers are focused on meaningful results that impact bottom line performance. Which are the most important metrics they want to see? There are a few metrics that really show marketing's impact on the bottom line. Here are a couple of examples.
The average cost to acquire a new customer. Take the total marketing and sales spend which includes salaries, overhead and all expenses during a period / new customers acquired during that period. Ideally you want a low Customer Acquisition Cost and if you notice it starting to rise it could mean some inefficiency in your marketing or sales process.
This is how long it takes a customer to cover his acquisition cost. It is calculated by dividing the customer acquisition cost (CAC) by the monthly margin adjusted revenue. For example if CAC was $5,000 and monthly revenue was $1,000 the pay back time would be 5 months. Businesses generally want this to be no more than 12 months.
The Marketing Originated Customer % is a ratio that shows what new business is driven by marketing, by determining which portion of your total customer acquisitions directly originated from marketing efforts. It's easy to calculate. Just divide the marketing leads that became new customers by the total number of new customers. Say there were 10,00 new customers and 5,00 started as marketing leads. This means half of the company's new customers originate from a marketing campaign. If you have an inside sales team and a good leads process this is the number you want. Other companies without a strong leads effort will be around 20-30%.
As marketers, we track so many different data points to better understand what's working and what's not that it can become easy to lose sight of what's most important. When you can present marketing metrics that resonate with your decision makers, you'll be in a much better position to make the case for budgets and strategies that will benefit your marketing team now and in the future.


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Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1.
An Egyptian ploughman, circa 1200 BC (Wikimedia Commons)
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, had a question: What are the most meaningful innovations in humanity's culinary history? What mattered more to the development of civilization's cultivation of food: the oven? The fridge? The plough? The spork?
To answer that question, the Society convened a group of its Fellows — including, yup, a Nobel Prize Winner — and asked them to whittle down a list of 100 culinary innovative tools down to 20. That list was then voted on by the Fellows and by a group of "experts in the food and drink industry," its tools ranked according to four criteria: accessibility, productivity, aesthetics, and health.
Below, via Edible Geography's Nicola Twilley, are the ranked results of that endeavor. These are — per the eminent body of the Royal Society — the top 20 innovations in food and drink, from the dawn of time to the present day.
1. Refrigeration
The use of ice to lower the temperature of and thus preserve food dates back to prehistoric times. Machine-based refrigeration, however, was developed as a process starting in the mid 18th century and moving into the 19th. Domestic mechanical refrigerators first became available in the early 20th century. Throughout its long history, refrigeration has allowed humans to preserve food and, with it, nutrition. It has also allowed for a key innovation in human civilization: cold beer.
2. Pasteurization / sterilization
Useful for the prevention of bacterial contamination in food, particularly milk.
3. Canning
Developed in the early 19th century, canning is a method of preserving food by processing and sealing it in an airtight container. Canning provides a typical shelf life ranging from one to five years. It also provides a fun weekend activity for humans who live in Brooklyn.
4. The oven
The earliest ovens, found in Central Europe, date from 29,000 BC, and were used, at times, to cook mammoth. Their more contemporary counterparts, gas ovens, were first developed in the early 19th century and were used, at times, to cook buns.
5. Irrigation
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, and in the revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas. This is particularly useful during periods of inadequate rainfall.
6. Threshing machine/combine harvester
Invented in the late 18th century, the thresher brought more industrialization to farming, allowing for the mechanized separation of grain from stalks from husks. The device was originally called the "thrasher." Prior to its invention, farmers had separated grain by hand, with flails.
7. Baking
This is a food cooking method that employs prolonged, dry heat to cook food. Baking acts by convection, rather than by thermal radiation, and is typically undertaken in ovens, in hot ashes, or on hot stones. Its results can also be facilitated by invention #14.
8. Selective breeding / strains
Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular traits. It allows humans to manipulate natural selection among the plants and animals they consume in order to produce food products that are genetically stable. It is also the reason that a bull named Badger-Bluff Fanny Freddie has sired thousands of the dairy cattle in the United States.
9. Grinding / milling
Grinding is the process of grinding grain or other materials in a mill. It produces, among other things, flour, which is the main ingredient of bread — a staple food for many cultures. The milling of grain has been a practice since 6000 BC, enacted by millstones and similar implements — and replicated pretty much the same way until the late 19th century brought the advent of the steam mill.
10. The plough
A plough is a tool (or, more commonly now, a machine) that cultivates soil in preparation for sowing seeds. It has existed, in some form, pretty much since the dawn of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. In that regard, it facilitated the rise of sedentary human civilization.
11. Fermentation
Beer. More formally, "the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, bacteria, or a combination thereof, under anaerobic conditions" — which leads to such products as alcohol, wine, vinegar, yogurt, bread, and cheese. Mostly, though: beer.
12. The fishing net
Fishing nets have been used since the stone age, with the oldest known version made from willow and dating back to 8300 BC. The nets are still in wide use today, and currently include casting, drifting, dragging, landing, trawling, and leg-wrapping varieties.
The practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
14. The pot
The food container was an invention of revolutionary simplicity — one that allowed for such revolutionarily simple acts as boiling water. Which led to innovations like tea and pasta and cook-in-a-bag omelets. Additionally, "the pot" is the culinary innovation with, by far, the most intriguing disambiguation page on Wikipedia.
15. The knife
Including, ostensibly, the Ginsu.
16. Eating utensils
Excluding, ostensibly, the spork.
17. The cork
The cork allowed for the production of wine and beer. Cork's elasticity and near-impermeability make it ideal as a material for bottle stoppers.
18. The barrel
Same deal: wine and beer. While barrels store other things, too — water, oil — they made this list, ostensibly, because of the booze. As a technology, barrels also led to the advent of one of the least-scary forms of clown yet invented.
19. The microwave oven
Often colloquially shortened to microwave, this is a kitchen appliance that heats food by a dielectric heating process in which radiation is used to heat the polarized molecules in food. The microwave is notable mostly as a gateway technology, leading to the culinary innovation of the late 20th century: Easy Mac.
20. Frying
The cooking of food in oil or another fat originated in ancient Egypt around 2500 BC. Civilization recently combined frying with all of the above 19 innovations to create the product that will probably, somehow, lead to its end: deep-fried beer.
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The Bluebird Edge: The Tyranny of Happiness
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When things went belly up with the wife, I initially kept it private and avoided mentioning it to my colleagues. Then one day, 0n the way to my carpool pickup, I ran into a fellow teacher and the game was up (Dude, why are you in Harlem at this time in the morning?). Coincidently, another teacher I traveled with was also in the midst of a breakup. We still laugh about that bright spring day when we both burst into tears over the demise of our respective relationships as we drove down the West Side of Manhattan.
While it was good having carpool buddies to whom I could fume, what galled me most was their disposition to the whole thing. She was awful to you, but, you know, stuff happens. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.
So much for the concept of marital loyalty. So much for the concept of betrayal. So much for having a spine and working it out.
But I'm talking like a jaybird.
I'm also talking like a Ciceronian. Writing to his son in On Duties, Cicero has this to say:
Everything that is honourable arises from one of four parts: it is involved either with the perception of truth and with ingenuity; or with preserving fellowship among men, with assigning to each his own, and with faithfulness to agreements one has made; or with the greatness and strength of a lofty and unconquered spirit; or with order and limit in everything that is said and done (modesty and restraint are included here).
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To me, a marital vow is not merely the articulation of an emotional state at a given point in time. It's an agreement to love and to hold come hell or high water. In this sense, you're not promising to feel the same way about someone (the high of love) but promising to care for them no matter what. Of course, you should not take lightly such a decision, but once you've pulled the trigger that's it. It takes a lot of work, but you're agreeing to the work and one of the byproducts of said work is happiness. That's the pain and beauty of the vow.
But I'm old school.
The new school is something different and that's where the chasm opened between my wife and me.
Thanks to modern affluence, you don't need a wife or a husband as in days past. Marriage has become for all intents and purposes a strictly romantic affair. Sure, there are tax breaks, and splitting the rent is convenient, but you can do without. Plus there isn't a stigma against premarital sex or cohabitation.
But the fundamental change I believe is this: modern society emphasizes happiness as the one absolute. And by happiness society means pleasure. You only get one life, you might as well maximize the feel goods. Hard work in this paradigm is optional. In fact, if something takes a lot of hard work, it probably means you didn't find the one. Plus the consequences for walking out on someone are negligible (everyone's doing it, right?). Hedonism and narcissism rule the age. And thus the jaybird is put at a unique disadvantage to the bluebird. In short, the female tendency has won out. The evidence backs this up with the majority of women, not men, ending marriages. Not only that, females have caught up to their male partners in the adultery department. The jaybird once ruled the roost, but now it is the bluebird.
Maybe this is liberation, but there is a lot of misery especially when you toss in the kids. One thing my father said, "Thank God you didn't have children." He was right. Some folks aren't so lucky.
But it's not liberation. It's a new enslavement to the passions. One thing that has struck me about the modern bluebirds' attitude to breakups is their passivity. A breakup is something that happens to you, even if you are the one who initiates it. It's a strange possession of sorts: things aren't working, you're unhappy, and then you begin to mull it over for a time, chew that bone, and then opt to leave. Or it happens to you, in which case you're angry, but you can't be that angry because the other's passive paradigm doesn't allow you to be angry—stuff happens, shrug.
It's a false passivity, though. That mulling and choosing is an active embracing of the passions, of the feels, even as the bluebirds invariably describe it in passive terms.
That is maybe the most maddening thing of all for the jaybird. All these bluebirds flopping around, doing stuff (like ending marriages), and pretending they're just bending like a reed in the wind.
No, you're not, birdbrain. You're ripping the guts out of a marriage.
But you're not happy.
So let the fickle tyranny of the passions murder away. It can't be helped.
bellewether
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AEGEE-Bergamo President Lisa Gregis: "The University Loves Us"
24th September 2014•By Gunnar Erth•In PEOPLE
Bergamo is maybe the most romantic small-sized city in Europe – and a place with a great AEGEE antenna. "Everyone in the world should visit Bergamo, because it surprises you every time!", says Lisa Gregis (25), President of the Italian local and Network Subcommissioner. I fact, there are many occasions to find out how great the city is, because AEGEE-Bergamo organises a lot of activities.
Lisa Gregis
Golden Times: Congratulations for becoming new president of AEGEE-Bergamo! You were Secretary and Cultural events responsible of your antenna in the past two years. What made you candidate for President now?
Lisa Gregis: Thank you! I think it has been a natural process after years and years of activism and passion toward AEGEE and in particular toward my antenna.
Your antenna became quite famous this year because of the SU beds in the gym… How did that happen? I've never seen a gym with beds…
Lisa: Yes, we are aware of the success we had, thanks to Golden Times as well. Simply the Municipality of Bergamo lent us some camp beds normally used during the elections, when the police is forced to stay and control the voting station during the night.
How did the participants think about them?
Lisa: Everybody was very enthusiastic about it. I think that the beds in a gym are the best solution because it's great to stay all together with all the comfort of a bed.
I heard the beds only stayed in that nice position only for three days and then it started to get messy. What happened?
Lisa: The SU simply started: there was the mess caused by open suitcases and other stuff all around the floor, the unmade beds, the laziness caused by the sleeplessness and also the fact that we knew each others better… a lot!
The famous beds of SU Bergamo 2014
Are there more stories about your SU? I heard the municipality loves your antenna and supported you a lot…
Lisa: We worked very hard and year after year the Youth Policy Department of the Municipality of Bergamo acknowledged our efforts and the work done till now. They recognized us as an important association to deal with and they support us. We are very pleased with the results we achieved.
Let's talk about your antenna: it's one of the old ones of the network – when was it founded?
Lisa: We know about our antenna's activities for the past ten years. Recently, we discovered that AEGEE-Bergamo existed years before, when we read in the SU booklet of 1990 that Bergamo was mentioned. As a president I would like to re-build our history from the beginning. We look like orphans: we don't know when our birthday is and how old are we, actually. We would like to know who founded the antenna. If someone's reading this interview and knows anything about it, please let us know!
How many members do you have now?
Lisa: Now we have about 70 members. AEGEE-Bergamo experienced a not very clear phase. Five years ago it was managed by the present generation. We were only five at the beginning, then it kept increasing of about 15 or 20 members a year.
This year's SU was very successful.
Is it hard to find members?
Lisa: It's not difficult to find new members, but to make them operative in the team.
What is the typical member of your antenna: male/female, age, student/working, and what does he or she study?
Lisa: Our antenna is quite balanced, but in any case the most representative is the working male, aged 24-30, who studied economics or engineering.
What kind of typical regular local activities do you have in your antenna?
Lisa: We work a lot with Erasmus students. We help them in finding a house, with bureaucracy, with health issues, we organize cultural trips and parties: we are their tutor for everything. The International Department of the University of Bergamo counts on us and loves us. We created a tandem language web portal for the University, every Thursday we organize a linguistic Aperitivo and every Monday we promote "Original is Better", an original language cinema festival in our city. We also participate in activities for the students associations organized by the University.
In May, AEGEE-Bergamo created a new project for the city of Bergamo, under the name of "Bergamo is Europe". You are the project manager. What was the reason to create the project and what is it about?
Lisa: Bergamo candidated as European Capital of Culture 2019, but everybody knew that our city couldn't win, especially in the way the candidacy was made. So I wrote this project with the aim to get the citizens used to relate themselves with younger people in everyday life. I see it as a project aiming to re-educate the city towards culture and young people
What will be the next international event of your antenna? Maybe a thematic event? Or rather a fun event?
Lisa: At the moment we can and we want to dream big dreams. We want to keep on the path of thematic events with a European perspective.
Lisa and her AEGEE-Bergamo members took peictures of many people at Agora Zaragoza.
Can you name three reasons why every AEGEE member should visit your city?
Lisa: Everyone in the world should visit Bergamo, because it surprises you every time! That's why the Daily Mail nominated it as the most romantic small-sized city in Europe. It's a green city, based on the alpine foothills, and it is divided in two parts: Città Bassa and Città Alta. The latter is a medieval centre on a hill enclosed by monumental walls built by the Venetians in the XVI century. Soon this walls will be part of the Unesco World Heritage.
Now let's talk about you. When and how did you join AEGEE? Is there a nice story?
Lisa: I became part of AEGEE because I was member of an another association where I met a former AEGEE Bergamo president, Paolo Ghisleni. After taking part in some linguistic Aperitivo I decided to enrole.
AEGEE-Bergamo members with the Europe on track II travellers this spring.
Why did you become active? What convinced you that this is a great association?
Lisa: I became consciously an active member when I understood how much AEGEE could do in and for my hometown.
What was your best AEGEE experience or event so far?
Lisa: I can't decide between the Network Meeting in Salerno last spring or our first SU in Bergamo this summer.
You are also Subcommissioner since last year. What do you do exactly?
Lisa: I am Subcommie of Mattia Abis for area Rainbow. I collect the monthly reports from the antennae of Milano, Bergamo and Brescia and I take part in the Skype meetings with Mattia and the other Subcommies. We are a good team! I'm looking forward to meet them again at the next Network Meeting in Brescia next week.
Also as bambina Lisa liked to explore the world.
Are you planning to do more on the European level of AEGEE?
Lisa: First things first. I have just become president and I don't have any other idea for AEGEE outside my antenna for sure till the end of my term. I prefer to do things step by step, avoiding to do everything badly.
Your interests are not limited to AEGEE – you were President of a web TV for young people: Polar Tv. What is it about and why did you become active there?
Lisa: I was president of this association and web TV for two years. Polar Tv gives opportunities, space, instruments and know-how to young people who want to express themselves on a video. Actually I'm being less active with them now!, because I'm focusing more on AEGEE.
You also like dancing… what in particular?
Lisa: I studied classical, modern and tip tap for 15 years, and I was about to become a teacher with the English method ISTD, but four years ago I stopped because I understood that I wanted to do something else in my life.
What do you study or work? You just started working at the PJ Dance Studio in Bergamo, right? What do you do there?
Lisa: I'm studying Modern Literature at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo and I also work in a professional dance school taking care of organization, administration and communication. I started a week ago but I'm happy, because I'm still passionate about dance and working on getting this art better acknowledged makes me happy.
Lisa Gregis manages to juggle many tasks.
You seem really active. What do you do when you just want to calm down and relax?
Lisa: I like to stay with myself, and I need to do it at least half an hour per day. So I stay at home watching movies and series, or reading books, or surfing the web, or simply lying down on the bed thinking about my life.
Please finish the sentence: "AEGEE is for me…
Lisa: …a good chance to be active citizens and to discover our own talents."
What is never missing in your fridge?
Lisa: As every true Bergamasco: ham and cheese.
Please describe yourself in five keywords.
Lisa: Determined, introvert, altruistic, sincere, deep.
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Gerry McCanns Blogs: Days 2596 to Date
DAYS 2038 TO 2595 HOMEPAGE
BLOGS INDEX MADELEINE ANNIVERSARIES DAYS 01 TO 50
Day 2596:11 June, 2014 - Update from Operation Grange.
All blogs before this date have been deleted / removed
from the official Find Madeleine site
Saturday 04 May 2019 TO
No Update
12th Anniversary of Madeleine's Abduction (3rd May 2019)
It's that time of year again. As much as we'd like to fast forward the first couple of weeks of May, there's no getting around it.
The months and years roll by too quickly; Madeleine will be sixteen this month. It's impossible to put into words just how that makes us feel. There is comfort and reassurance though in knowing that the investigation continues and many people around the world remain vigilant.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support us and for your ongoing hope and belief.
For as long as it takes…………………
Kate and Gerry
Thursday 07 March 2019 TO
Statement by Kate and Gerry McCann regarding Netflix programme "The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann"
'We are aware that Netflix are planning to screen a documentary in March 2019 about Madeleine's disappearance. The production company told us that they were making the documentary and asked us to participate. We did not see and still do not see how this programme will help the search for Madeleine and, particularly given there is an active police investigation, could potentially hinder it.
Consequently, our views and preferences are not reflected in the programme.
We will not be making any further statements or giving interviews regarding this programme.'
Gerry and Kate McCann
End of Statement
Tuesday 25 Dec 2018 TO Tuesday 05 March 2018
Monday 24 Dec 2018
We couldn't let a Christmas go by without
passing on a warm 'thank you' to all our supporters for the kind and continuing good wishes,
especially at this very busy time of year.
We miss Madeleine dearly. Christmas will never be the same without her, but we will continue to
make the best of what we have.
The investigation is ongoing and our hope remains.
May 2019 be a peaceful and positive one for us all.
Kate & Gerry
Day 4019 Fri 04 May 2018 TO
Day 4018 Thurs 03 May 2018
DAY 4018
May 2018 – 11th Anniversary of Madeleine's Abduction
It gets harder to know what to say or write as each anniversary of Madeleine's abduction approaches then passes. Life is full and busy which helps but Madeleine is still missing and she is still dearly missed. Information continues to come in (incredible as it may seem after so long, although we are grateful for that) and work goes on. Perseverance and hope remain.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support us and wish us, especially Madeleine, well. After eleven years such warmth and persisting solidarity is truly remarkable, and at the same time a real tonic and boost to our spirit. We couldn't bear for Madeleine to be forgotten or to become just a 'story'. She is a real person and still our 'little girl' and as we always have, we will endeavour to do whatever it takes to find her. Thank you so much for staying with us on this mission.
Day 3889 Mon 25 Dec 2017 TO
Day 3888 Sun 24 Dec 2017
To all our supporters,
We just wanted to pass on our love and thanks to everyone who has continued to support us throughout another year. Christmas is a tricky time ....as it is for many people. Friendship, solidarity and warm wishes go a long way in giving us the strength to get through and make the very best of it. So, from all our family...a very big thank you.
We will never give up on Madeleine. With very good wishes for a happy and peaceful 2018.
Day 3849 Wed 15 Nov 2017 TO
Day 38887 Sat 23 Dec 2017
Day 3848 Tues 14 Nov 2017
Online Store 1st Draft
Unfortunately due to many commitments and pressures, I am unable at this time to attend to website orders. We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you to everyone who has kindly donated to Madeleine's Fund. Your support means a lot to us. Your kindness and generosity is no less appreciated however and continues to buoy us up. Thank you again.
~Kate
Online Store 2nd Edited Draft
Unfortunately due to many commitments and pressures, I am unable at this time to attend to website orders. We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you to everyone who has kindly donated to Madeleine's Fund through our Online Store (donations can still be made via one of the methods below). Your support means a lot to us. Your kindness and generosity is no less appreciated however and continues to buoy us up. Thank you again.
News section: Facebook Friday 29 September 2017
Official Find Madeleine Campaign -"Kate and Gerry are extremely thankful to the Metropolitan Police for requesting extra funding.
Day 3646 Tues 25 April 2017 TO
Day 3847 Mon 13 Nov 2017
Day 3645 Mon 24 April, 2017
24 April, 2017 - Ten Years
Ten years- there's no easy way to say it, describe it, accept it. I remember when Madeleine first disappeared I couldn't even begin to consider anything in terms of years. Shawn Hornbeck abducted and kept hidden for over four years, Natascha Kampusch for over eight years. I couldn't go there. And now here we are...Madeleine, our Madeleine- ten years.
Most days are similar to the rest - another day. May 3rd 2017 - another day. But ten years - a horrible marker of time, stolen time.
We are bracing ourselves for the next couple of weeks. It's likely to be stressful and painful and more so given the rehashing of old 'stories', misinformation, half-truths and downright lies which will be doing the rounds in the newspapers, social media and 'special edition' TV programmes.
Media appearances are draining and on occasion, unhelpful to the only thing we want, finding Madeleine. They need to have a purpose. We could spend all our time and energy trying to defend ourselves by correcting inaccuracies and lies, but then we would have no strength left to look for Madeleine, look after our other children and to live our life.
I truly hope that those reporting on the 'story' over the next couple of weeks will have a conscience. Even if little consideration for Gerry and me is shown, they will at least bear in mind the effect such unfounded and unwarranted negativity could have on our other children - and of course Madeleine.
Thankfully, there is an active police investigation to try and find Madeleine and bring her abductor to justice. There are no new appeals that the police wish to make at this moment in time and so we are keeping any media involvement marking this unwanted milestone to a minimum.
The two themes that seem most appropriate to me as we reach this ten year mark are perseverance and gratitude: We will go on, try our hardest, never give up and make the best of the life we have.
We consider ourselves immensely fortunate to have received the love, solidarity and support from so many kind and decent people over the last decade. There have been many challenges and low points along the way but the warmth, encouragement and positivity we have experienced from the 'quiet majority' has undoubtedly sustained us and maintained our faith in human goodness. And while that is there, there will always be hope.
Thank you so much from all of our family.
Day 3562 Wed 01 Feb 2017 TO
Day 3644 Sun 23 April 2017
Day 3561: Tues 31 Jan 2017
31 January, 2017 - Statement from Gerry and Kate Regarding Portuguese Supreme Court Ruling
What we have been told by our lawyers is obviously extremely disappointing.
It is eight years since we brought the action and in that time the landscape has dramatically changed, namely there is now a joint Metropolitan Police-Policia Judiciaria investigation which is what we've always wanted.
The police in both countries continue to work on the basis that there is no evidence that Madeleine has come to physical harm.
We will, of course, be discussing the implications of the Supreme Court ruling with our lawyers in due course.
Gerry and Kate
Day 3523 Sat 23 Dec 2016 TO
Day 3560 Mon 30 Jan 2017
Day 3522: Fri 23 Dec 2016
This Christmas marks our tenth without Madeleine. There are no words really.
Suffice to say, we will try and make it as happy a family occasion as possible despite being inevitably tinged with pain and longing. The year ahead too is one which we never could have believed or contemplated we would have to face.
Thank you so much to everyone who hasn't forgotten about Madeleine, for all of your help and continued prayers. The support we continue to have from so many people, friends and strangers, will we're sure, keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.
Somebody knows. We just hope they find the courage and compassion to let us know too.
We hope your Christmas is a happy one and that 2017 brings hope, joy and peace.
Day 3289 Wed 04 May 2016
Day 3521 Thurs 22 Dec 2016
Day 3288: Tues 03 May 2016
3 May, 2016 - Anniversary Update
As yet another anniversary comes around, we'd like to thank all our supporters for your continued help and commitment in the search for Madeleine, and the hope for her safe return.
It has been a very long time but the investigation continues, information is still forthcoming and our hope and resolve continue. Until we have answers, until there is news (real news!), there will always be hope and we will continue to do everything we can to help find Madeleine.
The charity 'Missing People' is releasing the single, 'I hope' on the 20th of May ahead of International Missing Children's Day. Please support the charity to help all missing children and their families by downloading the song. You can pre-order in the iTunes store at: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-hope-single/id1109372930.
Thank you for supporting Missing People and for keeping Madeleine in your heart.
Day 3276 Thurs 21 April 2016
Day 3287 Mon 02 May 2016
Day 3275: Wed 20 April 2016
19 April, 2016 - Statement from Gerry and Kate Regarding Libel Case
We are disappointed with today's ruling from the Portuguese Appellate Court. As we have said in the past, this action has never been about money. It has always been focused on the effects of the libels on our other children and the damage that has been done to the search for Madeleine.
We will continue to defend ourselves against this libel and the search for our daughter. We will be appealing to the Portuguese Supreme Court.
Madeleine is still missing and we will do everything we can to get her home.
Day 3274 Tues 19 April 016
Day 3156: Wed 23 Dec 2015
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all our supporters. Your compassion and help has once again spurred us on through another year and never fails to astound us.
We really appreciate how lucky we are to have such amazing support behind us. Thank you.
It is our 9th Christmas without Madeleine. As always, she is very much on our mind and in our hearts and Christmas preparations. We have not lost hope that we may get to celebrate another Christmas with her. If anything can drive us on, that most definitely will.
This year has blown over so quickly. Life is very busy, which is probably a good thing, but it does mean the months don't seem to last long! Thankfully, the police investigation has made progress over the year. Whilst it is never as much or as speedy as we, or the police would like, we are moving in the right direction and that's the positive. Patience and perseverance are virtues which we've acquired in abundance over recent years - another positive!
2015 has also been a full and successful year for the charity 'Missing People' which is great news for many of those missing and their families too. I loved taking part in the charity's '500 mile Cycle Challenge' in June and would encourage anyone who is interested to give it a go next year. It is such a fulfilling and worthwhile experience on many levels and it really makes a difference for missing loved ones and their families. Thank you for all the support given to the charity this year.
Thank you also for all the lovely Christmas cards we've received. It gives us a lot of pleasure and comfort to sit down together and share your kind messages, with the reassurance that Madeleine has not been forgotten.
And so a new year approaches….new energy, new opportunities, new hope.
Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and peaceful 2016.
Day 3101 Thurs 29 Oct 2015 TO Day 3155 Tues 22 Dec2015
Day 3100: Wednesday 28 Oct 2015
28 October, 2015 - Update
We would like to thank all the staff from Operation Grange for the meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out over the last four and a half years.
The scale and difficulty of their task has never been in doubt. We are reassured that the investigation to find Madeleine has been significantly progressed and the MPS has a much clearer picture of the events in PDL leading up to Madeleine's abduction in 2007.
Given that the review phase of the investigation is essentially completed, we fully understand the reasons why the team is being reduced. We would also like to thank the Home Office for continuing to support the investigation.
Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine, we remain hopeful that she may still be found given the ongoing lines of enquiry.
Day 2921 Sat 02 May 2015
Day 3099 Tues 27 Oct 2015
Day 2920: Friday 01 May 2015
May, 2015 - Update Eight years.
There's no gentle way of putting it. Whilst most days, weeks and months are fairly similar –
Madeleine is missed every day – this time of year cuts deep as it's a harsh reminder of time having passed and precious years with Madeleine lost.
Without a shadow of doubt, the love, support, help and prayers that we continue to receive from so many people, in spite of the years which have gone by, encourages us, maintains our hope and lifts our spirits.
We are also buoyed and reassured by the unwavering commitment and continued progress being made in the investigation. We are really grateful to the Metropolitan Police team for their conscientiousness, patience, consideration shown to us and above all, their will to find Madeleine and determine what has happened.
Cooperation with and from the Portuguese Police has, and still is, vital to the success of the investigation. We are very appreciative of the joint working relationship established between the two forces.
Next month, I will be raising awareness again of the charity Missing People, and the many children who go missing every year. One child is too many. I will be taking part in a 500 mile charity cycle from Edinburgh to London and during this journey, I am hoping to promote the UK's Child Rescue Alert (CRA) system. If you can help me, please do by either donating at www.justgiving.com/KateMcCann/ and/or signing up to the CRA at www.childrescuealert.org.uk.
We've always promised ourselves that something positive has to come out of all the suffering Madeleine and our family have endured. If highlighting the issues of child abduction (and missing children in general) and raising money to enable the charity Missing People to carry out their invaluable work improves this very real and heartbreaking problem, then every push of those pedals will be worth it. Always.
Thank you again for your incredible and very humbling kindness and support.
Thurs 29 April 2015
Day 2918: Wednesday 29 April 2015
We want to emphasise that the action was never about money. It has always been focused on the effects of the libels on our other children and the damage that was done to the search for Madeleine.
A lot has changed in the last six years since we started the action and we are pleased that there is an active investigation in both Portugal and the UK.
We would like to remind people that there is still an innocent little girl who is missing and that those responsible for her abduction remain at large.
Day 2792 Wed 24 Dec 2014 TO
Day 2917 Tues 28 April l2015
Day 2791: Tues 23 Dec 2014
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Christmas, 2014
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of our supporters.
Once again we have been amazed this year by the support we continue to have for our search for Madeleine - and opening the hundreds of Christmas cards has once again been a truly humbling experience. The warmth, kindness and commitment to never forget has precipitated more than a few happy tears! Thank you.
It's hard to ignore that 'here we are again' feeling at this time of year, still with no idea where our daughter is or of what's happened. What we can say is that our resolve to find out, as well as the hope which has always been present, has not lessened. In addition it's very apparent that the determination of the Metropolitan Police remains steadfast, in spite of the persistent challenges they face.
No matter where she is, Madeleine will, as always, be very much with us and our family this Christmas.
Thank you for holding her in your hearts too.
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11 June, 2014 - Statement from Gerry and Kate
We are very pleased that significant activity has taken place in Praia da Luz over the last 8 days with police officers and support teams from the UK working closely with the Policia Judicial and the Guarda Nacional Republicana.
We are further encouraged that, despite the intensive searches, no trace of Madeleine has been found and this reinforces our belief that she could still be alive.
As parents of a missing child, we have always wanted all reasonable lines of enquiry to be followed and it is gratifying to know that a substantial amount of work will take place over the coming months with close cooperation of the British and Portuguese authorities.
We would like to thank all those involved for their efforts and the members of the public who have come forward with information.
11 June, 2014 - Update from Operation Grange
Operation Grange officers working alongside experts in their field from around the UK, the Policia Judicial and the Guarda Nacional Republicana today, Wednesday 11 June completed an eight day period of work searching specific areas of land in Praia da Luz.
At this time no evidence relating to Madeleine McCann has been identified. However it has given us an essential understanding of the activity on and people that have used this piece of land.
This was the first phase of this major investigation which has been agreed with the Portuguese following the four International Letters of Request submitted to date. More activity has been agreed and we expect that to commence shortly. In addition further requests are being compiled and will be submitted in due course.
The decision to search the "horse shoe" shaped piece of waste ground to the west of Praia da Luz and other sites was as a specific result of the UK's investigation work to date.
The total area of land searched and surveyed was of approximately 60,000 sq metres and included all utilities, drainage channels and derelict buildings. 41 ground anomalies were identified initially by both aerial survey and ground analysis which were then investigated fully. These included three outside of the original area.
This deployment which was the largest ever undertaken by UK police overseas in a case of this type, highlighted the effective nature of the assistance given by the Portuguese authorities, for which the investigation team and family are very grateful.
The media's understanding and co-operation following Assistant Commissioner Rowley's pre deployment briefing has also been noted and appreciated.
There is still a substantial amount of work yet to be completed in the coming weeks and months, which again should be viewed as no more than normal operational activity in a case of this size and complexity. This recent work is part of ensuring that all lines of enquiry are progressed in a systematic manner and covers just the one hypothesis that she was killed and buried locally. This is the same as would be done in the UK for a murder or high risk missing person enquiry. The scientific support staff involved were there to provide the highest level of assurance that this area was searched to the highest possible standards.
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The Jupiter Grain Mill, Model 562, is a hand operated heavy duty flour mill, manufactured in Germany. This is a deluxe hand grain mill. Housing is made of light metal. The steel milling cone assures a dust-free milling, preserving the aroma and all vital ingredients, and does not heat or affect flavor. The stainless steel milling heads are only 1" in diameter, making it easy to turn and operate. It can mill "pastry fine flour" the first time through. It can grind most grains, seeds, spices and herbs including the oily seeds or grains: oats, rye, barley, spelt, flax, sesame seeds, corn, wheat, buckwheat, millet, coffee, kamut, quinoa, sesame seeds, northern beans, split peas, lentils, black beans, kidney beans, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, coriander, oregano, ginseng and similar herbs. However, do not mill corn.
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The Iroquois fire was not the result of fire prevention in theaters being a new or unusual concept. Books about theater design for twenty years leading up to the Iroquois fire commonly incorporated fire-prevention recommendations. The advice therein was either not seen or was ignored by Iroquois manager Will J. Davis. As a book collector, presumably Davis was a reader. Had he read just one of the books about fire safety in theaters, the Iroquois disaster might not have happened.
Seven years before the Iroquois fire, a 175-pg book about theater fires was published by engineer William P. Gerhard. Theatre Fires and Panics: their Causes and Prevention* (download searchable pdf file). Gerhard laid out a sobering worldwide history of theater fire victims dating to the mid 1700s. He followed with an extraordinarily detailed and comprehensive outline of procedures, fire fighting equipment and design features necessary to reduce the possibility of a theater fire causing loss of life. He backed up his discourse with a bibliography citing other books and magazines that discussed fire safety in theaters. Based on a paper delivered to fire engineers in 1894, the book was first published in 1896, again in 1900 and excerpts were published in several magazines and reviewed in multiple newspapers. Davis, his theater associates and people in Chicago's building and fire departments had ample opportunity to learn such a book had been published.
The age factor.
After the fire, Iroquois Theater architect Benjamin Marshall claimed to have studied theater fire safety. He must have skipped over the passages that warned against the danger of complex and winding stairways. To be fair, however, the minimal damage to the Iroquois structure might have been attributable to Marshall's efforts. As to the building opening before the plumbing was completed, would his client have listened if Marshall objected? Ben was a young man amidst men with formidable chops in building and managing theaters. Had he read Gebhard's book Marshall might, for example, have dismissed some remarks as not applicable at the Iroquois where Will J. Davis, had been managing theaters since before Marshall was born. Marshall may have been one many who gave more credit to Davis' grey hair than it deserved. Who in the mix would have guessed Davis would overlook or permit the situation described in Gebhard's discussion of a theater's age being a metric in anticipating the probability of fire:
"Out of a total of 252 theatres, 70, or more than one fourth of them, are destroyed before they reach an age of 5 years ... This may be explained, first, by the fact that in a new theatre the safety appliances, the arrangements for lighting, the scene-hoisting devices, the fire-protection appliances, are rarely in perfect working order, and the theatre employees have not as yet become accustomed to handling them, and are likewise unfamiliar with the rules of management."
To the perfect storm came a young designer, old theater managers, a young theater and an old history.
Granting benefit of the doubt
In the course of working on this project the target of my ire has changed depending upon my focus at the moment.
When looking at the overall tragedy, however, I agree with the jurors in three inquests that most of the blame has to be aimed at Will J. Davis. Between them, managers Will J. Davis and Harry Powers, and co-owners Klaw, Erlanger, Zimmerman, Frohman and Nixon had over a hundred combined years of experience in theater management. Because many of his years in the business were spent as a road manager Will Davis' experience with day to day theater management wasn't as extensive as sometimes presumed. His Iroquois partners, especially Harry Powers, had the experience that Davis lacked but possibly, like architect Marshall, would have not imagined Davis would allow such a poorly equipped theater to operate for five weeks. The history of stage lamps starting theater fires made the failure to equip the Iroquois with plumbed stand pipes, pails of water and real fire extinguishers inexcusable. That same history condemns Mr. Bluebeard electrician William Dunn having turned a deaf ear to William McMullen's complaint that the curtain was dangerously close to his arc lamp. These theater men all had to have known they were gambling. Whether they thought through the risk to acknowledge to themselves that the ante was hundreds of lives, we'll never know.
"The majority of fires during performances break out on the stage, and are due to open and unprotected or to deficiently protected, lights in too close proximity to, or amidst a mass of, unprotected and highly inflammable scenery, draperies, gauze, ropes and woodwork."
That said, I question whether McMullen could have put out the fire had there been a pail of water on his bridge. From testimony about the start of the fire, from McMullen himself and other stagehands, it quickly spread upward and beyond arms reach. How far can water in a pail be thrown? Was McMullen's position such that he could have hurled water at the angle necessary to reach the blaze? If he miss aimed, how long would it have taken to run down the ladder to the stage floor for another water pail and run back up the ladder to the bridge? Would the fire still have been within reach? He was there, I was not, but it seems iffy.
William Paul Gerhard (1854-1927)
Author Gerhard was a civil engineer who consulted on hydraulic and sanitary projects, authoring thirteen books and seventy magazine articles about waste disposal, gas lighting, fire prevention in theaters and water supply.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, he had graduated from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Baden-Wurttemberg in 1875, emigrated to the United States, married Selma Weiskirch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1881 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1893. He first settled in St. Louis, later relocating to Newport, RI and then to Brooklyn. He and Selma had two sons, both of whom followed their father's footsteps into the field of engineering.
His passport reported he was short in stature with blonde hair. William died of heart failure at age seventy-five.
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Marilyn Sullivan, coordinator of the Fashion Marketing program at El Centro College, began teaching fashion marketing at the colleges of DCCCD after working in fashion buying and retail management. She holds a bachelor's degree in home economics education (now consumer sciences) and a master's degree in clothing and textiles from Kansas State University.
She was recognized as Brookhaven College's 1984-85 Piper Professor, received the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award in 1984 and 1999, and in 2004 was listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. In addition to teaching courses in apparel and accessories marketing, fashion advertising, fashion buying, fashion promotion, fashion trends, textiles and visual merchandising, she serves on the executive boards for Fashion Group International, Dallas region, and Dallas Fashion Incubator. Her focus in both of these organizations is student membership and networking opportunities for Fashion Marketing students as they make their transition to the workplace.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. Aug 2015 Vuzix® Corporation (VUZI), a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses are now available for the first time in a prescription capable safety glass format. Industry leader Rochester Optical has officially launched its ANSI (American National Standards Institute) rated safety glasses for the Vuzix® M100. The safety glasses with side shields successfully met ANSI/ISEA (International Safety Equipment Association) Z87.1-2010 standards and are available to innovative companies utilizing Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses in the workplace. Rochester Optical is the first and only optical manufacturer to offer prescription safety glasses for Vuzix M100 currently.
The availability of Z87.1-2010 certified eyeglasses for the M100 smart glasses will allow companies conducting pilots to roll out programs to more users and ultimately into broader adoption without compromising worker safety.
Employees view the smart glasses display frequently and for long durations. Therefore, in addition to safety, visual acuity, comfort and fashion are critical. Rochester Optical's Smart GOLD™ Lenses minimize eyestrain and eye fatigue, allowing Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses to be worn comfortably for extended periods of time. Smart GOLD™ Lenses compensate for the unique visual demands of smart glasses. Whereas normal prescription lenses are not optimized for devices using a Heads Up Display (HUD) such as the Vuzix M100, Smart GOLD Lenses provide specific adjustments – unique to a user's eyes – for the upper corners of a lens where a HUD is located. This greater visual clarity may help minimize eyestrain and eye fatigue for smart glass wearers. By creating an additional, optimized optical center where the HUD is viewed and compensating to balance binocular vision, Smart GOLD eliminates prismatic effects and off axis aberrations, providing continuous, comfortable visual acuity.
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets. The Company's products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 41 patents and 10 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2014 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK and Tokyo, Japan.
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Through analyzing the issuesexisting in the digital landscape of mainland China, this article questions theimportance of SEM and SEO in the Chinese unique context. Three challengestowards the searching business are identified, including the fact that peoplenowadays go directly to the service instead of searching, people can get theinformation before searching, and people's searching experience is fragmented.This article also proposed two recommendations to this problem, i.e. playersshould to have a clear understanding towards the Chinese market, and the budgetallocation by channel should be rethought.
As is well-known, SEM and SEO are two of the most effective digital marketing ways to increase the website traffic, which, thus, provide opportunities to improve the brand awareness or conversion rate. There have been tons of articles talking about the strategies of SEM and SEO. A great number of companies still put emphasis and spend money on them. However, as far as I can see, the landscape of search business in mainland China is not only different from that in the rest of the world, but also keeps metamorphosing in recent years. So, I think it's time to question and scrutinize the importance of SEM and SEO in the context of mainland China.The analysis of the issue is as follows.
People go directly to the internet service instead of searching.
The first challenge to the search business in the case of mainland China is that, with the development of mobile applications, people go directly to the internet service instead of searching for them.
In the PC era, integrated search engines are the first choice for people to access various types of internet services.However, with the advent of the mobile internet era, mobile-end application scan provide people with more professional information in a more convenient way than the integrated search engines, making the search engine's status in the process of access to services and information significantly declined. The entrance to mobile internet services has been transformed, which resulted in less and less people taking the search engine as the preferred way to reach services and information. According to statistics of CNNIC's 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China (CNNIC, 2017), among the 5 most commonly used APP in 2016, only "mobile phone Baidu" (手機百度) belongs to search engine, accounting for only 15.3%,notably lower than WeChat, QQ, and Taobao. The report also shows that the proportion of major search services, such as integrated services, navigation services, and shopping services used by users on the PC and mobile devices in2016, was lower than that of last year.
People can get the information before searching.
Secondly, the data driven targeting advertising technology push the needed information in front of people before they search, making people needn't to search.
The development of technology in data collection, data analytics as well as digital advertising, such as the Google Analytics, the data management platform, the real-time bidding technology, the ad exchange, has changed the game. Algorithm is so powerful.Through the collection and excavation of users' cookie, including internet browsing records, social media post records, search engine query records, and other data, internet content and service providers continue to improve information push mechanisms, ensuring their push results highly match people's potential needs. The corresponding information is pushed before clear requirements are generated, thereby weakening the importance of the search service in the user information acquisition process.
The continuously optimized information push mechanism satisfies people's information taking requirements in more and more scenarios. Therefore, the status of the search service in the information acquisition process is declined again.
People's searching experience is fragmented.
Thirdly, since the big three of the Chinese internet, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent compete fiercely with each other,walls were built around the information on each platforms to protect the business, which fragment people's search experience.
In September 2008, Taobao, the biggest e-commerce platform in China announced that it would block Baidu's webcrawlers (Moazed, 2015). Obviously, Alibaba didn't want Baidu to be the middleman between consumer and itself, instead, it aimed at changing people's habits and acquiring the first hand searching data, also regaining the initiative of the SERP for the products. From then on, Baidu can't index the product information in Taobao, and people have to go to Taobao to search for products. Add to that, Sina Weibo, which is the Twitter of China and has a huge amount of information in hand, also isolated itself from Baidu since Alibaba became its 2nd largest shareholder. The war of information initiative between Tencent and Baidu is also cruel. WeChat of Tencent was designed to be a closed system with sprawling ecosystem of built-in content and services. People can'tfind the articles from WeChat official accounts on Baidu. Moreover, WeChat even launched the "search" feature on May 2017(Horwitz, 2017), which enable users to trawl through almost everything on WeChat, threatening Baidu's search business.
As a result of competition among the three internet giants, the information on Chinese internet is segmented and fragmented. There is no real one-stop integrated search engine as Google in the rest of the world, which means that the effect and efficiency of SEM and SEO are limited to a great extent.
On the basis of issue analysis, we can see that the online searching business is being eroded by the complicated digital environment of mainland China.
As for recommendation, the first thing that matters is that players in the new media analytics area should have a clear understanding of what's going on in mainland China. Chinese case differentiates itself from the overseas not only in the digital landscape, but also in the way people behave when it comes to internet. If there is any problem with the data of SEM or SEO, like the conversion rate or ROI even go down after optimization, taking the factors of environment as discussed above into consideration may be helpful. After all, users' end-to-end experience we always emphasis requires the players' end-to-end understanding and thinking.
Secondly, since I hold the opinion that the online searching business is being eroded, perhaps it's high time that CEO rethought the budget allocation by channel. To be more specific, the orientation of optimization of the budget allocation should align well with the real situation. For example, apart from the SEM or SEO on Baidu, how about the Taobao and WeChat? How about joining with the trend that leveraging big data and algorithm to realize pushing the information that people need just before they search? How about communicating directly with customer and cutting down the middleman of searching?
Overall speaking, I question the effectiveness of SEO and SEM in the context of mainland China, and maintain the idea that players should adjust their mindset and strategy in time to confront with the issue. However, things still keep changing, and I will also pay attention to the dynamics of new media analytics area continually.