Browsing Research Reports by Author "Lepoutre, Jan"
Performance assessment of innovation projects is a central issue in innovation management research. Using existing literature, a model is developed to assess the performance of new product and new service development projects. In this model, project performance is defined as a combination of a formatively indicated operational performance construct and a reflectively indicated product performance construct. The validity of this model is tested based on a sample of 219 innovation projects assessed by innovation managers. Using only the innovation managers' responses, it is, however, not possible to distinguish between operational and product performance. The impact of common method bias and informant bias is subsequently assessed using a subsample of 128 of these 219 innovation projects that are assessed by the innovation manager and the project leader. These latter results show that operational and product performance are two distinct constructs. In addition, the multitrait–multimethod analyses show that especially the more abstract items of performance, such as the perceptions of quality, captured knowledge, competitive advantage, gained reputation, and customer satisfaction, suffer from random error and informant bias. Project leaders appear to be better informed to assess operational performance, while innovation managers are better in assessing product performance. The paper concludes with a qualitative comparison of several alternative performance models: the project performance model as derived from the literature, a similar (misspecified) reflective performance model, two stand-alone models in which operational and product performance are assessed separately, and a mixed model that uses a combination of innovation managers' and project managers' data. Based on this comparison, it is advised to use either the stand-alone models for operational performance and product performance or the mixed model whereby the project leader assesses operational performance and the innovation manager the product performance of an innovation project.
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Rapport voor Vlaanderen & België 2008.
This article responds to the issues Samiee (2010–this issue) raises in his recent comment on Roth and Diamantopoulos (2009). The overall focus of the criticism (Samiee, 2010–this issue) on the missing critical considerations of the study is somewhat surprising. Samiee (2010–this issue) criticizes Roth and Diamantopoulos (2009) not on what they did but on what they did not do. Such criticism would, at least in principle, be justifiable if directed at omissions that are directly relevant to the core construct of Roth and Diamantopoulos' (2009) paper, namely the country image (CoI) construct. However, most of the critical issues Samiee (2010–this issue) raises apply to research on country-of-origin (CoO) effects in general and not to Roth and Diamantopoulos' (2009) study that provides concrete guidelines on how to conceptualize and operationalize CoI in future research. This response first highlights how Roth and Diamantopoulos' (2009) study, centering on the CoI construct, differs from studies on the CoO effect. The article then directly addresses the specific critical issues Samiee (2010–this issue) raises and also discusses the relevance of CoI and CoO research. The paper concludes by suggesting that, while demanding rigor in CoO and CoI research is indeed timely and important, completely rejecting this research stream is both premature and unwise.
In this paper, an artificial immune system (AIS) algorithm for the resource availability cost problem (RACP) is presented, in which the total cost of the (unlimited) renewable resources required to complete the project by a pre-specified project deadline should be minimized. The AIS algorithm makes use of mechanisms inspired by the vertebrate immune system and includes different algorithmic components, such as a new fitness function, a probability function for the composition of the capacity lists, and a K-means density function in order to avoid premature convergence. All components are explained in detail and computational results for the RACP are presented.


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Deliveries shall be effected ex works "Magdheide 7, 59394 Nordkirchen" (that is, if the delivery item is an item of sale: "ex works", resp. hereinafter "EXW Nordkirchen" according to Incoterms 2010) unless explicitly agreed otherwise in writing.
Following the completion of ExW orders as mentioned above, Customer is required to pick up his goods at the delivery destination pursuant to Sec. 4.2 within five (5) days (Monday through Friday, legal holidays excluded) from receiving notice of completion, unless indicated otherwise by Caplast. Upon Pick-up, Customer is obliged to settle any transport and/or all other costs concerning the goods which arose after their completion and provision by CaPlast.
Form, modality and scope of packaging are in the sole discretion of CaPlast. If CaPlast committed itself, in an individual case, beyond EXW Nordkirchen pursuant to Incoterms 2010, to send goods to Customer, the modality of dispatch is in the sole discretion of CaPlast.
Specified delivery and performance dates are only binding if CaPlast declared or confirmed them to be binding. If an estimated delivery date is overdue by more than 2 (two) weeks, Customer shall be entitled to set CaPlast an adequate subsequent period of time for delivery. If CaPlast does not deliver within the subsequent period of time, Customer shall be entitled to withdraw from the contract. Withdrawal shall be declared in writing.
The right to withdraw from the contract shall only exist if CaPlast is liable for not complying with the subsequent period of time set for delivery, and if it is not reasonable for Customer to adhere to the contract. If Customer choses compensation for damages in lieu of performance, CaPlast´s liability is subject to the limitations as stipulated in provision 9 below.
For the period of the existence of circumstances outside of the control of CaPlast ("Force Majeure"), such as inability to source raw materials and transportation means, stoppages in production, strikes and lock-outs, fire and natural catastrophes, CaPlast shall be discharged from its delivery obligation. Delivery deadlines agreed shall be extended by the period of the existence of the circumstances of Force Majeure. Customer shall only have the right to reject the deliveries after the circumstances of Force Majeure have ended if it is unreasonable to expect from Customer taking delivery after such lapse of time.
CaPlast shall be entitled to effect partial deliveries and services, if (i) the partial delivery is usable for Customer within the intended purpose of the contract, (ii) the delivery of the remaining ordered goods is secured and (iii) no substantial additional expenses occur for Customer hereby (unless CaPlast agrees in writing to bear these expenses).
In case CaPlast delivers upon Customer´s request goods to a non-EU country without being provided with a certificate of export or other relevant information concerning the export of the goods, Customer is liable towards CaPlast insofar as CaPlast is held liable for payment of Value Added Tax (VAT) regarding the respective delivery, unless CaPlast is responsible accordingly.
CaPlast is entitled to perform by subcontracting third parties (subcontractors), unless this contradicts Customer's justified interests. CaPlast is liable for the performance of subcontractors to the same extent as it is liable for its own actions.
Prices are ex works (that is, if the delivery item is an item of sale: "ex works", resp. hereinafter "EXW Nordkirchen" according to Incoterms 2010) and do not include freight, customs, import duties, ancillary levies; they are net prices plus statutory value added tax (VAT).
In case of shipment of the goods to a non-EU country, Customer shall, on its own initiative, send CaPlast as proof of shipment an export certificate in written form within 5 (five) business days after receiving the goods in the no-EU country. In case of not providing the export certificate or any other relevant information concerning the shipment of the goods, Customer is liable pursuant to 4.8 above.
In the event that during the period between conclusion of the contract and delivery cost decreases or cost increases occur, unforeseen and uninfluencable by CaPlast, especially due to changes in the raw material prices by more than 10 %, CaPlast and Customer are entitled to request of the respective other party an adjustment of the agreed prices by renegotiation. The validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected by such renegotiations. If no agreement can be reached by the renegotiations, both CaPlast and Customer are entitled to withdraw from the contract.
If desired, Customer may request the percentaged price development of the basic raw materials used by CaPlast as an overview (source: branch paper information for plastics (KI) – www.kiweb.de). Calculation base for price changes are the prices as shown in the aforementioned KI raw materials price index at the time of Customer´s order.
In case that price increases or price decreases are due to price changes of special raw materials not shown in the KI raw material price index, CaPlast will in each individual case prove towards Customer such price changes.
Invoices of CaPlast are due immediately upon receipt and shall be paid without deductions and within ten (10) days to the account indicated on the invoice, unless other terms of payment are agreed between the parties in writing or indicated on CaPlast's invoice. They are to be paid in EUR. Timeliness of payment shall be determined by the date the whole amount is credited to one of CaPlast's business accounts. In the event of default in payment, CaPlast is entitled to charge default interest in the amount of 8 percentage points above the base interest rate.
If Customer deducts a cash discount from its payment which is unjustified due to non-execution of a payment within a set payment period, absence of a complaint by CaPlast does not constitute a tacit acknowledgement of the deducted cash discount. Until expiration of the limitation period, CaPlast is entitled to demand payment of the partial amount not paid by Customer due to the cash discount or to settle this partial amount with outstanding claims of other orders of Customer resp. to book it on Customer's receivables account.
If Customer delays on payment with respect to carried out deliveries CaPlast is, at its option, entitled to either withhold not yet carried out deliveries until Customer has performed advance payment accordingly, or to withdraw from the contract about the not yet carried out deliveries.
For each debit balance not realized or returned unpaid, Customer shall, to the extent he is liable for the event which triggered the costs, reimburse CaPlast the costs incurred, including costs for the collection of the outstanding payments.
Any complaints against the level of CaPlast's remuneration charged to Customer shall be addressed to CaPlast immediately after receipt of invoice. Complaints have to reach CaPlast within eight weeks after receipt of invoice. Omission of timely complaints is deemed as approval of the amount of the invoice. Customer's legal claims concerning complaints after expiration of the deadline remain unaffected.
If, after the conclusion of a contract, there are reasonable doubts as to the solvency or credit standing of Customer or, if such circumstances are prevailing at the conclusion of the contract but become known at a later date, CaPlast shall be entitled to demand advance payment or the posting of collateral prior to delivery, as well as to revoke payment terms granted and render all credited receivables immediately due for payment.
Despite conflicting determinations of Customer, CaPlast shall be entitled to initially offset payments against older debts of Customer and shall notify Customer of the nature of any offset. If costs and interest have already accrued, CaPlast shall be entitled to offset payments against these costs first, then against interest and finally against the principal debt.
The risk of accidental loss of goods shall pass over to Customer in all cases (regardless of any INCOTERMS 2010 clause CaPlast and Customer have agreed to) as soon as the consignment is handed over to the third party effecting the transport or has left CaPlast´s warehouse for dispatch purposes.
Immediately after receiving the delivery, Customer shall examine its external condition, notify any transport damages to carrier, secure relevant evidence and immediately inform CaPlast and the carrier by phone and in text form (Sec. 126 b German Civil Code). In case of a delivery to a deviating debtor's address, Customer shall ensure that the examination for any transport damage is carried out in accordance with this section 6.
If dispatch cannot be carried out within the agreed delivery period for reasons for which CaPlast is not responsible, the risk of accidental loss of the goods shall pass over to the Customer upon him receiving notice of completion.
Obvious defects and defects noticeable upon proper inspection of the delivery including any transport damages (see Sec. 6.2) shall be notified by Customer in written form immediately upon receipt of the goods. Defects that could not be discovered within this period, even upon proper inspection, shall be notified to CaPlast immediately upon their discovery. The same applies to complaints because of wrong deliveries and discrepancies in quantities. If the period for notification is not observed, warranty claims shall be excluded.
Customer shall, prior to processing the delivered goods, be obliged to inspect them for their suitability for the purposes of use, even if samples of goods have been supplied before.
Minor discrepancies in dimensions and formats shall not entitle Customer to raise complaints for defects. Potential discrepancies listed in the relevant quality guidelines known to Customer are all in consistency with the contract.
Warranty rights may only be raised in respect of goods that are available for inspection or return. Without prior mutual agreement products may not be returned to CaPlast. Taking back goods by CaPlast does in no case constitute an acknowledgement that the goods taken back are defective.
For defects notified in time pursuant to 7.1, CaPlast grants delivery of new goods free from defects. In case the delivery of new goods by CaPlast turns out to be unsuccessful, Customer shall, at its option, be entitled to reduce the price or to withdraw from the contract. There are no claims for compensatory damages, except as provided for in section 9 below.
The warranty obligation shall expire if the goods delivered are changed, processed or improperly handled. Improper handling also includes an improper storage of the goods. Customer shall especially store goods UV-protected and comply with CaPlast's predefined temperature specifications during storage.
CaPlast is not liable for such products Customer provides CaPlast with for the purpose of processing or finishing. With respect to such goods there shall be no warranty rights for Customer, unless the defect is due to the processing or finishing by CaPlast.
The warranty statute of limitations amounts to twelve months from transfer of risk, unless another statutory term is prescribed by law or unless the compulsory provisions of the purchase of consumer goods (Sec. 478, 479 German Civil Code apply. The aforementioned does not apply in cases CaPlast is liable for culpable violation of life, limb or health, and in cases CaPlast is liable for claims for damage based on intent or gross negligence, including intent or gross negligence of CaPlast's representatives or vicarious agents.
Until such time as all receivables from the business relationship with Customer have been paid CaPlast shall retain title (ownership) to the purchased goods. To the extent CaPlast agrees with Customer on payment of the purchasing price on the basis of check / bills of exchange procedure, the retention of title shall also extend to the encashment as well as any claims against Customer in connection with a potential liability of CaPlast towards respective third parties holding rights in such bills and does not expire with the receipt of money from such check / bills of exchange procedure.
Processing or reshaping of delivered goods shall exclusively be made under maintenance of the security claims of CaPlast. The processed product shall secure at its full value the receivables mentioned above. To the extent that the goods delivered are being processed with other goods not owned by CaPlast, CaPlast shall acquire co-ownership in the new product in the proportion of the value of the goods delivered by CaPlast to the other goods processed not owned by CaPlast at the time of processing. In addition, to the new product generated by procession, the same applies as to the goods delivered under retention of title by CaPlast.
To the extent that the goods under retention of title are inseparably assembled or mixed with goods of other suppliers, CaPlast shall acquire co-ownership in the new product in the proportion of the value of the goods under retention of title (invoice amount plus value added tax) to the other goods they have been assembled or mixed with at the time of assembly or mixture.
If the assembly or mixture is made in such a way that the goods of CaPlast under retention of title become essential parts of a new product, CaPlast shall acquire co-ownership in the new product in the aforesaid proportion.
Customer shall store the respective share of co-ownership of CaPlast free of charge. In the case no acquisition of ownership in the sense of this section commences, Customer already now assigns its future ownership or co-ownership in the new product in aforesaid proportion to CaPlast by way of security.
Customer shall be entitled to sell the goods of CaPlast in the ordinary course of business. The receivables of Customer from selling or other receivables substituting the goods shall already now be assigned to CaPlast by way of security in their full amount with all ancillary rights irrespective whether the goods of CaPlast have been delivered with or without processing, reshaping, assembling or mixing and whether CaPlast´s goods have been processed, reshaped, assembled or mixed with goods of other third party suppliers. If another supplier is entitled to lawfully claim extended retention of title concerning receivables of Customer, Customer shall assign to CaPlast the receivables concerned to the extent of the retention of title of CaPlast to the sold goods.
If the receivables of Customer from selling the goods of CaPlast under retention of title or of goods in which CaPlast holds co-ownership are put in a current account Customer already now shall assign to CaPlast its payment claim in the amount of the respectively acknowledged balance covering the amount of the claims of CaPlast.
Until canceled, Customer is entitled to collect the assigned claims. CaPlast's right to collect the claims itself remains unaffected therof. Out of legitimate reason, like defaults of payment or cessation of payment of Customer, filing for initiation of insolvency proceedings regarding the assets of Customer, or other jeopardy to the satisfaction of the claims of CaPlast against Customer, the authorization of the Customer to collect the receivables may be canceled by CaPlast. Until then, CaPlast commits itself not to collect the claim itself. In this case the Customer shall be obliged, among others, to immediately label the reserved goods as property of CaPlast in appropriate manner recognizable for each third party.
Customer shall provide CaPlast with a detailed list of any reserved goods also to the extent that they are processed as well as a list of assigned receivables with naming of the third party debtors. Irrespective thereof, representatives of CaPlast shall be entitled to conduct appropriate examinations at any time during normal business hours at the Customer and inspect the documents necessary in this connection.
Customer bears the risk for the goods delivered by CaPlast. He shall be obliged to keep the goods diligently in custody and sufficiently insure them against usual risks, like damage, loss, theft, fire etc. to usual terms and common extent. Customer herewith assigns to CaPlast any claim against the insurer for the case of damages namely a first ranking partial amount corresponding to the purchasing price of goods delivered under retention of title. To the extent that the insurer does not cover the total damage, CaPlast may not be referred to a proportionate compensation.
Pledging or transfer of title for security purposes are excluded. Customer has to inform CaPlast without delay of any event concerning the title of CaPlast and be obliged to use best efforts in particular to make all legal declarations towards CaPlast or a third party in order to render the agreed retention of title and the pre-assignment effective. Customer shall be liable for all cost of an intervention in court and / or out of court.
CaPlast is obliged to release collaterals in their dutiful discretion, if and to the extent that the estimated value of the collateral exceeds the total receivables of CaPlast to be secured respectively, permanently by 50 %.
CaPlast shall be liable under statutory regulations insofar as Customer raises claims based on intent or gross negligence, including intent or gross negligence of CaPlast's representatives or vicarious agents.
To the extent CaPlast is accused of the slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation the fulfilment of which enables the proper execution of this agreement at all, and the violation of which puts the achievement of the contractual purpose at risk, and the observance of which Customer may regularly rely on, liability for damages is limited to the foreseeable and typically occurring damage.
Furthermore, in case of 9.2 above, the liability of CaPlast is limited to compensation of direct damages; compensation for indirect / consequential damages (example. g., compensation for loss of profits) is excluded as far as legally admissible.
Liability for culpable violation of life, limb or health and CaPlast's liability according to other mandatory binding provisions, especially according to the German Product Liability Act, shall not be affected thereby.
Customer shall, in the internal relationship to CaPlast, take the sole risk as (co-)producer in accordance with the German Product Liability Act, insofar as the cause of damage falls within his domain of responsibility and organization, and if he, in his external relationship to the claimant, is liable as producer. Customer shall in the abovementioned cases indemnify CaPlast explicitly from any third party claims and shall, when necessary, provide security insofar as his liability in the internal relationship is concerned. This applies especially, but not exclusively, in cases in which Customer delivered products to CaPlast.
The provision in 9.5 does not apply insofar as, in cases Customer provided CaPlast with goods or products for the purpose of processing or finishing, the cause of damage is due to the processing or finishing by CaPlast, not even in cases CaPlast does not appear as producer towards third parties.
nsofar as CaPlast's liability for damages is restricted, this applies to the personal liability for damages of CaPlast's staff, employees, personnel, representatives and vicarious agents.
Unless stipulated otherwise above, CaPlast's liability shall be excluded.
In the event that during the period between conclusion of the contract and delivery it turns out, unforeseeable to CaPlast, especially at the time of the conclusion of the contract, that CaPlast cannot be provided in sufficient amount with a raw material essential for CaPlast´s fulfillment of the contract, and such non-availability is not contemporary and cannot be overcome by reasonable expenses, CaPlast is entitled to withdraw from the contract with Customer. This does not apply if CaPlast is liable for such non-availability. CaPlast will inform PurchaserCustomer about the non-availability without delay.
To the extent that nothing deviating arises from a separate confidentiality agreement between the parties, parties undertake to keep confidentiality pursuant to this section 11. Parties shall mutually undertake to maintain confidentiality about all business and company secrets and about all information designated as confidential ("confidential information") that came to their knowledge in the context of performing this agreement or which the Parties exchange and make available for each other. As confidential information, the parties in particular understand all orders and all commercial and technical information and documents related therewith, illustrations, drawings, calculations, quality directives, samples and similar objects, knowhow, business relations, business strategies, business plans, financial planning, personnel matters. Information publicly known at the time of transmission, or later becoming publicly known not resulting from a wrongdoing of the party concerned, is not deemed as confidential. The same applies if an information, without a direct or indirect infringement of the concerned Party's duty to maintain confidentiality, becomes known to a third party other than by the party concerned or its affiliates. A reproduction and dissemination of such secret information shall only be allowed within the scope of operational requirements. It may only be disclosed or made accessible to third parties upon prior express and written consent.
The aforesaid obligation to keep confidential shall survive the termination of the supply relationship, as long as the confidential information has not become common knowledge.
After termination of the supply relationship Customer undertakes to return to CaPlast all business secrets he has received, provided that they are in hard copy or saved on electronic media, unless they are included in the scope of delivery. All business secrets are to be removed from Customer´s data processing equipment and storage media. Reproductions, regardless of their form, are to be destroyed in such way that reconstruction is impossible.
During the contract term, customer shall refrain to hire CaPlast's employees or other personnel who are involved in the fulfillment of the respective contract, unless the employee or other personnel has already resigned from CaPlast six months before, or CaPlast agreed in advance in written form. The aforementioned restraint also does not apply if the hiring of the employee or other personnel resulted from the initiative of CaPlast's employee or other personnel.
During the contract term, customer shall refrain to directly or indirectly solicit CaPlast's employees or other personnel who are involved in the fulfillment of the respective contract.
Both preceding paragraphs shall continue to be effective for one (1) year after the end of the contract term, starting with the end of the contract term.
12.1 and 12.2 above concerning the non-compete and non-solicitation provision shall also apply to companies associated with Customer.
Customer shall demonstrate and prove that the employment of a former employee or other personnel of CaPlast is not based on an infringement of this non-employment/non-solicitation provision.
Customer's right to offset is excluded. This does not apply insofar as the counterclaim is based on a violation of a main obligation of CaPlast pursuant to Sec. 320 German Civil Code, or the counterclaim is assessed in a legally binding judgment, or is undisputed.
CaPlast may set off all its claims against Customer's claims. This also applies if Customer used a cash discount in case of a delayed payment.
Customer shall have a right of retention only insofar as its counterclaim is connected with or arising from the same transaction and is assessed in a legally binding judgment, or is undisputed. Apart from that, Customer shall not have a right of retention.
This agreement shall precede all prior agreements concerning its object, regardless of whether they were agreed in writing or verbally. No subsidiary verbal agreements exist.
Any Amendments, addendums and the annulment of this agreement shall be in writing in order to be effective. This also applies for amendments of this written form clause. The aforementioned requirement of written form shall not apply to oral agreements made after the conclusion of this contract. Also, in this case parties agree on the necessity of a written confirmation concerning the content of the oral agreement.
Unless otherwise agreed within these General Terms, to fulfill the written form requirement, textform pursuant to sec. 126b German Civil Code, e.g. email, fax is sufficient.
All contractual and non-contractual relationships between CaPlast and Customer shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. The application of the consistent United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and - as far as permitted by law – of the German provisions on the Conflict of Law shall be excluded.
Exclusive – also international – venue for all disputes shall be, upon CaPlast's choice, CaPlast's seat or Cologne, provided Customer is an entrepreneur pursuant to the German Commercial Code or a government entity or special governmental estate. However, CaPlast shall be entitled to also raise a claim at the Customer's seat. The aforementioned shall not apply if another exclusive jurisdiction is prescribed by a mandatory legal provision.
Should particular provisions of these General Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected hereby. This does not apply if an adherence to the agreement would present an unreasonable hardship to a contracting party.
Customer may only assign rights and obligations arising from the agreement after prior written consent by CaPlast. CaPlast shall only refuse consent for important reason. Customer shall immediately inform CaPlast if he plans to assign rights and obligations arising from the agreement with CaPlast.
These General Terms shall be concluded in both German and English language. In case of any discrepancies between the German and English version, the German version shall prevail.
Then please send an email to info@caplast.de.


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Costantino Ceoldo
Here Draghistan, hell Italy
Opinion » Columnists
"When they asked the Spartans why they had such short swords, they replied: to be closer to the enemy."
How far these words are in time, for us who today live the madness in the Draghistan once called "Italy" ...
From 1 February 2022 the Italians have new rules of behavior. Crazy rules.
If you are not vaccinated, you can no longer enter a bank, a post office, you cannot collect your pension. You must be vaccinated to work and continue to work in the public service. But whether you are a teacher, a policeman, a soldier, a doctor, a simple employee or a worker of any kind, no matter what your CV or how many years you have served: if you are not vaccinated you end up suspended without pay. Even a criminal in prison has his daily allowance and a policeman suspended for disciplinary reasons still has half a salary to be able to provide for basic needs.
But in the Draghistan once called "Italy" it only matters that you have to get vaccinated otherwise you are a "no vax" and your life must become hell. This is what Minister Renato Brunetta and Senator Pierpaolo Sileri, undersecretary of the ministry of public health promised publicly not long ago on behalf of the government. They did it publicly, without any shame but rather proudly boasting about it and above all without anyone reproaching them for what has just been said.
Now, if you are over 50, you are forced to get vaccinated, under penalty of a one-off fine of 100 euros. More than a health measure, it is a compulsion to raise money.
However, it is not true that we have Star Trek-type Covid vaccines, as we are led to believe. We never had them. It is not even true that they are effective, because it has been discovered that after a short time the protection fades quickly and then disappears and the effect seems to reverse, even becoming something that can promote the disease.
It is not true that vaccines are definitively approved drugs because, in reality, they are all experimental, authorized with an emergency procedure and the experimentation is far from over. Their sales contracts are secret. The companies that produce the serums have an absolute legal immunity and not even the evidence that the data from the early stages of the trial had been rigged was enough to raise necessary doubts. Above all, not only you are forced to vaccinate but you still have to sign a paper with which you assume all the risks. Thus, as unfortunately some Italian families have already experienced, a judge can dismiss the case because the vaccines are not formally mandatory and the victim had signed the "informed consent".
It is therefore not true that there are no side effects. The long-term side effects are still unknown but, on the contrary, the short-term ones are now well known. Heart attack. Stroke. Thrombosis. Paralysis. They take your breath away. They ruin your body and can turn you into an invalid. They kill you. Every day in Italy there is a trickle of sudden deaths, in sleep or during trivial activities. It is a deliberately ignored epidemic of "sudden illness", with all too often fatal outcomes. Since the vaccination was then extended to the entire population, adults, adolescents and children, no one is safe from this monstrous Russian roulette wheel.
It is not true, it has never been true, that Covid is the plague of the twenty-first century. Above all, it is not true that there have never been treatments for the sick and that they could not be given at the first symptoms: there are indeed! And those who follow the official protocol (sic) by choice or because they are forced, seriously risk ending up intubated in the hospital and dying there, perhaps even mistreated by doctors and nurses after they discovered that the unfortunate is not vaccinated.
And for what then? The vaccinated become infected and contagious in turn and spread the disease with extreme ease thanks to the freedom given by their green pass. It is something for everyone to see even if many media and many people literally jump through hoops to deny it. Article 32 of the Constitution, to which non-vaccinated people appeal, protects them and all other Italians in the same way. It was conceived by our Founding Fathers of our Republic precisely to avoid the gruesome scenario we are experiencing today: the indirect obligations that the government imposes with careless ruthlessness to push for vaccination are actually extortions.
Here in the Draghistan once called "Italy", the whole Green Pass system has proved to be totally unsuccessful in terms of health, like the government of Mario Draghi who wanted it so much. However, this system has succeeded in its truest and most hidden aim: to disfigure our democracy and introduce a system of political control.
Our country, however, does not need a social credit system, useful only and exclusively to a small clique of bullies, greedy and power-hungry, who hate democracy because they consider it useless.
I want to recall once again the words of Senator Richard Black:
People who require a Green Pass for daily living are not free.
No, they are not, Senator: you're absolutely right. As also the philosopher Byung-Chul Han, half Korean half German, who coined the term "palliative society" is perfectly right: our Western society shuns suffering, lacks heroism, sits in the guaranteed tranquility of survival. But the people, el pueblo que unido jamás será vencido, keep their heads in the sand and prefer not to see. Never be that they have to accept the fact that they have been deceived and that there is a different plan at work, different from the one so much publicly proclaimed.
Unfortunately, horrible things happen here in the Draghistan once called "Italy", where it is no longer enough to be healthy but you must certify it beyond any doubt.
For example: in Mestre, near Venice, an 80-year-old mother hammered her 57-year-old daughter: "I wanted to kill her", she confessed to the police who came to arrest her. Reason: she was exasperated by her unvaccinated daughter who worked from home in smart working.
The exasperation arose from the fear of contagion and from having internalized, under the pressure of an obsessive terrifying propaganda, that our neighbor, be it a stranger or a member of our own family, is a potential murderous infector because he or she is not vaccinated or because he or she does not follow senseless hygiene rules.
In Turin, a few days ago, some high school students tried to express their opinion on internships working, which have become common practice in our high school. The reason was the death of one of their mates, which occurred due to a tragic accident on the last day of an internship in a factory, an internship perhaps even useless. They hoped there was someone to listen to them. Maybe someone from school, university or from that "civil society" that the Italian "progressive Left" so much likes. In fact, there was someone: the police, with batons, more worried about the anti-covid rules than the dead in factory:
In my life I have never seen a mafia boss with a face smashed and bloody but, as it is well known, even police have families and it is easier to be tough with those who cannot defend themselves than with those who, instead, can kill your family.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò well wrote a few days ago in his letter to our police:
...In these two years, like all citizens, you have witnessed a global coup, planned and carried out under the pretext of a pandemic, in which the most elementary principles of law, science and professional ethics have been trampled with impunity by people who, like you, had sworn: the rulers and magistrates, to respect natural and positive laws for the good of the country; doctors, to treat the sick and work to save their lives; reporters, to divulge the truth. Faced with what we see happening all over the world, we understand how many have betrayed the oath taken, how many have reneged on their commitments, how many have proved themselves corrupt and subservient to power.
And especially:
...Silence, blind-ready-absolute obedience, respect for the rules for a quiet life or for fear of retaliation cannot constitute a justification for the continuation of a situation that is now unsustainable. Remember Nuremberg, and how much it was worth to the condemned to justify themselves with "I followed orders".
Here, Nuremberg. Again Nuremberg. Unfortunately, in the Draghistan once called "Italy" and where we all live today, many, too many, feel themselves as privileged, untouchable, unpunished.
The next time one of our ignorant and good-for-nothing foreign ministers flies to Moscow and publicly asks the Russians to respect "human rights", old Sergei Lavrov could show him a photo of a student with a face smashed and reduced to a mask of blood and could then ask the unwary Italian imbecile how much respect for human rights is worth in Italy if a mother tries to hammer out her unvaccinated daughter, if students who demonstrate peacefully are brutally beaten by the police, if here everyone can always refuse an experimental vaccine but then lose their jobs and salaries by order of their own government.
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ATLANTA, Aug 19, 2019 – Miller Zell's Chip Miller will be honored as one of "2019's Most Admired CEOs" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Thursday at The Fairmont.
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Experts call for highlighting Bangladesh's potential to capture global market
Southeast Bank organises 'Business Policy and Planning Conference'
DBBL holds Managers' Conference-2023
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Bangladesh's participation in the global employment market will be stronger if it is possible to increase the capacity of the manpower it has as a developing country
In order to capture the global and local markets, Bangladesh needs to accurately highlight the aspects of its potential and success, said experts at a webinar.
"In the vision of the Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the capable daughter of the Father of the Nation, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is organising the 'International Conference on 4th Industrial Revolution and Beyond (IC4IR 2021)' and the 'Mujib100 Industrial Exhibition' as co-located events to build Golden Bangla," said UGC Member Md Sazzad Hossain, at a webinar titled "Current Trends in Global Markets: The Roles Academia and Industries in Bangladesh Can Play," on Saturday.
"This will truly take the industrial sector of Bangladesh a long way towards progress and prosperity, which will enable the employment market to create an environment friendly to industry and academia by adopting integrated and cohesive strategies as well as the development of academia and industry in Bangladesh," said Md Sazzad Hossain who is also the organising chair of IC4IR 2021.
"We must continue to work to build effective education systems, including new curricula in our education sector. The University Grants Commission and the present government have focused on implementing various plans for that purpose," he added.
The global economy is going through a crisis because of the Covid-19 pandemic and Bangladesh is trying to overcome the crisis, said the speakers at the webinar.
Events like the International Conference on 4th Industrial Revolution 2021 and the Mujib100 Industrial Exhibition will create huge potentials for Bangladesh, they said.
Another topic that came up in the discussion at the virtual webinar is that the educated, skilled and meritorious students of Bangladesh are doing research and study in different countries. As they gain more knowledge, they become more aware of the current challenges regarding the global employment market, said a press release from the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.
The whole world is now a global village. Bangladesh's participation in the global employment market will be stronger if it is possible to increase the capacity of the manpower it has as a developing country. The present government has taken appropriate steps to bridge the gap between industry and academia, which is a huge challenge in the real life, said the speakers at the event.
The speakers also said the International Conference on 4th Industrial Revolution and Beyond 2021 and the Mujib 100 Industrial Exhibition organised by the University Grants Commission are also working as important means of connecting with the global employment market.
Dr Anup Barai, associate professor, WMG, University of Warwick, UK; Bari Kahar, chief learning officer of E2D Education Services; Shams Tania Afroza Islam, senior scientist, Pfizer UK; Professor Md Mamun Habib, visiting scientist, UTA, Arlington, USA; Nishan Kumar Biswas, associate scientist, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; Md Sadek Ferdous, research fellow, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany; Ahsan Chowdhury, associate vice president, Aerospace Center, University of Texas, USA, participated as speakers at the webinar. Prof Md Sarwar Morshed, chair, Mujib 100 Industrial Exhibition 2021, was present as the host and Prof Dr M Shamim Kaiser, technical secretary, IC4IR 2021, was present as the co-host.
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Ex-Iowa TV Anchor Gaining National Attention for Discrimination Lawsuit
Johnny Marks Published: August 25, 2021
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A former Iowa TV personality is getting a lot of attention over her lawsuit against her former employer. Sonya Heitshusen, a former TV anchor for WHO in Des Moines, is 54-year-old. She had worked at WHO for over 17 years before leaving the station last July. Now, according to a TV Spy story, she is going after the station's parent company Nexstar for both age and gender discrimination.
Sonya Heitshusen has been vocal since leaving
Since her departure, Heitshusen has taken to Twitter to discuss her choice to sue, referring to it as "not an easy decision." Her lawsuit claims that male anchors received higher pay, more vacation time than female employees, and more on-air kudos for journalism awards. Heitshusen also says that they are not judged on their appearance in the same manner as female employees are.
Heitshusen is hoping for a "cultural shift" and says she was "thrown out to pasture" according to an AP News story.
Suits like Heitshusen's are not new
While the Heitshusen suit is gaining national attention, it's far from an isolated lawsuit. In 2019, five anchorwomen sued NY1 in New York claiming age discrimination. Since 2018, CBS has been dealing with allegations of racism and misogyny from many high-level employees past and present. These issues and others which has not yet surfaced are fueling Sonya Heitshusen's efforts.
As Heitshusen mentions in her only Twitter comment on the suit thus far, she is hoping it results in helping other women in broadcasting. Nexstar operates 199 TV stations in the U.S.
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Maximilian E. Fuentes Fuhrmann received his B.A. in psychology in 1981, M.A. and Ph.D. from the renowned clinical-aging psychology program in 1984 and 1988, all from the University of Southern California. He was also one of the first to obtain a certificate in gender studies from the Study of Women and Men in Society (SWMS) program at USC, in 1981. He currently holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the USC School of Social Work and supervises doctoral students in the clinical-aging psychology program also at USC. Since 1992, he has primarily worked as a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in geriatrics and GLBT concerns with offices in Westlake Village and Beverly Hills. He has provided over 150 mandatory educational trainings in gerontological issues to licensed psychotherapists and graduate students. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in geropsychology.
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There it stood – all of twenty pounds, right in the middle of the intersection- frozen in fear. I scampered into the road where the white poodle-mix stood paralyzed in fear. "Here little guy." I whistled, but it didn't turn its head as if the dog had no clue I was there. When I touched its head, it reacted to my touch. I cradled it and ran back to my car as it shivered in fear- dazed and confused and very scared.
It took a bath plus some trimming of the matted fur under its belly to even figure out that the dog was a female. The cataracts in her eyes were dense and her hearing non-existent. Her thinning coat showed the discoloration where once a collar had been firmly in place. This dog had clearly been abandoned, the collar removed and had been left one the road to be run over.
She (now named Erica) probably found shelter and in a drain but the rain in Houston last week must've driven her out. Unable to defend herself or find food- Erica must've just wandered and waited for impending doom- A.K.A her destiny- to become Texas road-kill.
The decisions those a rescue worked makes are in play again.
-It is impossible to find an old blind and deaf dog a home.
-Is it more humane to euthanize Erica with dignity?
-Would the local Poodle rescue group take her?
-Will I end up being a dog-hoarder if I keep on saving these dogs off the street?
-How much can I afford in terms of vet bills for these abandoned dogs?
-Is my time and effort better used in rescuing more adoptable pets?
Here is my decision for today.
-Get her checked out by a vet for health issues.
-Give her one week to find a home while I foster her.
blindness and be ready for putting Erica down.
Am I a horrible person? Or am I better than the people who loved her when she was happy and healthy. Who made her a part of their awesome life when they needed Erica and discarded her like a used tissue when she needed them? People who couldn't find it in their hearts to put her down humanely but to assuage their guilt would have her starve to death or be crushed by a car.
–Unless you are a bigger and better person than I am… Unless you have the heart I don't have. Unless you can keep her or try and find her a home.
Please find it in your heart to help her and help me. Maybe someone can still treasure her as she once treasured her humans.
Erica's old and deaf and blind- and she's looking for a new job.


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More than 20,000 LGBT teens in the US will be subjected to conversion therapy
Rachel Dowd
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More than 20,000 LGBT teens to receive conversion therapy
Practice used to change sexual orientation and gender identity has been criticized by health organizations as harmful
LOS ANGELES – An estimated 20,000 LGBT youth ages 13 to 17 will undergo conversion therapy from a licensed health care professional before the age of 18, according to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
Also, approximately 57,000 youth will receive the treatment from a religious or spiritual advisor. These are the first estimates of U.S. youth at risk of undergoing conversion therapy before they reach adulthood.
The researchers also found that approximately 698,000 LGBT adults in the U.S have received conversion therapy at some point in their lives, including about 350,000 who received it as adolescents.
Conversion therapy is treatment intended to change the sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of LGBT people. It is grounded in the belief that being LGBT is abnormal.
"Many professional health associations and the public support ending the use of conversion therapy on LGBT youth," said Christy Mallory, the state and local policy director at the Williams Institute and lead author of the study. "Our research shows that laws banning conversion therapy could protect tens of thousands of teens from what medical experts say is a harmful and ineffective practice."
A number of prominent national professional health associations — including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others — have issued public statements opposing the use of conversion therapy and several have called on Congress and state legislatures to pass laws that ban the practice.
To date, nine states, the District of Columbia and 32 localities have laws protecting youth under age 18 from receiving conversion therapy from licensed health care providers. According to the study, 6,000 youth ages 13 to 17 would have received conversion therapy before they reached adulthood if their state had not banned the practice. Some state bans also apply to anyone who performs the practice in exchange for money. None of them prevent religious or spiritual advisors from providing conversion therapy as long as they are acting solely in a spiritual capacity.
For more than a century, healthcare professionals and religious figures have used a range of techniques to attempt to change people's sexual orientation or gender identity. Currently, talk therapy is the most commonly used therapy technique. However, some practitioners have also used "aversion treatments," such as inducing nausea, vomiting, paralysis or applying electric shocks.
This year, several more states will be considering conversion therapy bans and pending federal legislation — the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act — would outlaw the practice nationwide.
"With such a large number of teens at risk of conversion therapy," said study author Kerith Conron, Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and research director at the Williams Institute, "we must ensure that families, faith communities and service providers have accurate information about sexual orientation and gender identity and work to reduce stigma and promote acceptance of LGBT youth and their families."
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Adam Henryk Małysz ([ˈadam ˈmawɨʂ] ( listen); born 3 December 1977) is a Polish former ski jumper and rally driver. In ski jumping he competed from 1995 to 2011, and is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport. His many accomplishments include four World Cup titles (a record shared with Matti Nykänen and Sara Takanashi), four individual Winter Olympic medals, four individual World Championship gold medals (an all-time record), 39 individual World Cup competition wins, 96 World Cup podiums (individual and team), and being the only ski jumper to win three consecutive World Cup titles. He is also a winner of the Four Hills Tournament, the only three-time winner of the Nordic Tournament, and a former ski flying world record holder.
Updated on 30 Mar 2015.
Last updated on: 21 January 2014.
Małysz began his senior level ski jumping career on 4 January 1995, finishing seventeenth at the third event of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck. In his first two World Cup seasons he was moderately successful, winning in Oslo on 17 March 1996; in Sapporo on 18 January 1997; and in Hakuba on 26 January. His breakthrough season came in 2000–01, when he won the Four Hills Tournament and ended Martin Schmitt's long run of success dating back to 1998–99. Małysz went on to dominate the season by reeling off five consecutive individual victories in Innsbruck, Bischofshofen, both ski flying competitions in Harrachov, and Park City. Further success came at the 2001 World Championships, in which he won a gold medal on the individual normal hill and silver on the individual large hill. He finished the season by a landslide points margin with three more consecutive wins in Falun, Trondheim and Oslo to claim his first Nordic Tournament title.
The 2001–02 season saw Małysz pick up where he left off, as he never once lost the lead in the World Cup standings. A streak of five wins by a highly motivated Sven Hannawald in December 2001 through January 2002 looked to threaten Małysz's run, but burnout prematurely ended Hannawald's challenge. Małysz picked up one last win of the season in Zakopane to the delight of his Polish fans, thereafter finishing consistently on the podium to claim his second World Cup title by a comfortable points margin. He also won silver on the individual large hill and bronze on the individual normal hill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City.
Małysz faced stiff competition in defence of his World Cup title throughout the 2002–03 season. Despite second place at the season-opener in Kuusamo, he failed to win a competition for nearly four months. The lead of the overall standings changed hands several times until the final month of the season, by which time Małysz began to regain his form. At the 2003 World Championships in Predazzo, he won the gold medal in both the individual normal and large hill competitions. This was followed up by three straight wins in Oslo and Lahti (twice in the latter), securing his second Nordic Tournament title. Małysz ended the season on a high by equalling the then-world record of 225 metres (738 ft) in Planica, as well as fending off a late challenge by Sven Hannawald, who again finished runner-up in the overall World Cup standings—albeit with six wins to Małysz's three, and by a closer margin than before.
In the following years, as is the case with almost all ski jumpers in the prime of their career, Małysz was unable to maintain his previous form. He only managed twelfth in the 2003–04 season, finishing on the podium four times but without a win. 2004–05 saw an improvement with fourth place in the overall standings as well as four wins; these came on the large hill in Harrachov, the ski flying hill in Kulm, and a double win in Zakopane. The only highlights of Małysz's 2005–06 campaign, in which he finished ninth overall, were third place in Kuopio and a win in Oslo.
Małysz experienced a significant career resurgence in 2006–07, which began with a surprise win in Oberstdorf in January 2007. This was followed up by a double victory in Titisee-Neustadt, an individual gold medal on the normal hill at the 2007 World Championships, and a hat-trick of wins during the Nordic Tournament (Lahti, Kuopio, and Oslo) to win his third and final such title. The season was punctuated with a clean sweep of all three competitions in Planica, which enabled him to leapfrog his younger competitor Anders Jacobsen with only two competitions remaining. This secured Małysz a fourth World Cup title, equalling Matti Nykänen's record total in the 1980s.
Sporadic success from 2008 to 2011 saw Małysz achieve seventeen podiums, as well as silver medals in both the individual normal hill and large hill competitions at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A fitting end to Małysz's career came in the form of a home victory in Zakopane on 21 January 2011 and third place at the season finale in Planica on 20 March. Małysz publicly announced his retirement from ski jumping six days later.
Małysz's success contributed to his enormous popularity not only among ski jumping fans but throughout Poland as well. Additionally, he is the only five-time winner of the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival (in 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007), earning the Holmenkollen Medal in 2001 for his ski jumping victories (shared with Bente Skari and Thomas Alsgaard). He was also voted the Polish sportsman of the year four times (2001, 2002, 2003, 2007).
Adam Małysz was born in Wisła, Poland, to Ewa and Jan Małysz. He has an older sister – Iwona (born 1975). He graduated from a vocational high school in Ustroń, where he learned a profession (specialisation: tinsmith-roofer). He speaks German very well. On 16 June 1997 he married Izabella Polok (born 4 December 1978). The wedding took place at the Evangelical Church of St. Peter and Paul in the Wisła (Izabella is Catholic). On 31 October 1997, Izabella gave birth to their daughter – Karolina. His life motto is "Be good and that's it" and his idol is German former ski jumper Jens Weißflog. His religion is Lutheranism.
On 1 April 2007 Małysz opened a Trophy Gallery, which includes all the major medals and trophies he won during his career, including the Crystal Globe trophies for victories in the World Cup. The Gallery is located in the building of the Izabella and Adam Małysz Foundation in Wisła, Poland.
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"It does seem hard of me to pack you off so! You have thought enough of churches, Heaven knows, without going into one in the dark. Stay there."
"Where you are. I can talk to you better like this than when you were inside... It was so kind and tender of you to give up half a day's work to come to see me! ... You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!"
Now that the high window-sill was between them, so that he could not get at her, she seemed not to mind indulging in a frankness she had feared at close quarters.
"I have been thinking," she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies... Now you mustn't wait longer, or you will lose the coach. Come and see me again. You must come to the house then."
"Yes!" said Jude. "When shall it be?"
"To-morrow week. Good-bye — good-bye!" She stretched out her hand and stroked his forehead pitifully — just once. Jude said good-bye, and went away into the darkness.
Passing along Bimport Street he thought he heard the wheels of the coach departing, and, truly enough, when he reached the Duke's Arms in the Market Place the coach had gone. It was impossible for him to get to the station on foot in time for this train, and he settled himself perforce to wait for the next — the last to Melchester that night.
He wandered about awhile, obtained something to eat; and then, having another half-hour on his hands, his feet involuntarily took him through the venerable graveyard of Trinity Church, with its avenues of limes, in the direction of the schools again. They were entirely in darkness. She had said she lived over the way at Old-Grove Place, a house which he soon discovered from her description of its antiquity.
A glimmering candlelight shone from a front window, the shutters being yet unclosed. He could see the interior clearly — the floor sinking a couple of steps below the road without, which had become raised during the centuries since the house was built. Sue, evidently just come in, was standing with her hat on in this front parlour or sitting-room, whose walls were lined with wainscoting of panelled oak reaching from floor to ceiling, the latter being crossed by huge moulded beams only a little way above her head. The mantelpiece was of the same heavy description, carved with Jacobean pilasters and scroll-work. The centuries did, indeed, ponderously overhang a young wife who passed her time here.
She had opened a rosewood work-box, and was looking at a photograph. Having contemplated it a little while she pressed it against her bosom, and put it again in its place.
Then becoming aware that she had not obscured the windows she came forward to do so, candle in hand. It was too dark for her to see Jude without, but he could see her face distinctly, and there was an unmistakable tearfulness about the dark, long-lashed eyes.
She closed the shutters, and Jude turned away to pursue his solitary journey home. "Whose photograph was she looking at?" he said. He had once given her his; but she had others, he knew. Yet it was his, surely?
He knew he should go to see her again, according to her invitation. Those earnest men he read of, the saints, whom Sue, with gentle irreverence, called his demi-gods, would have shunned such encounters if they doubted their own strength. But he could not. He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine.


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Review by Matt Anderson
Domino is a whirling dervish of coarse, trashy entertainment. It's also a fully loaded road trip through the seedy side of American pop culture.
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Adding edginess to the film is a jittery, montage-laden photographic style
Movie facts
R for violence, drugs, language, nudity, sex
It's hard to argue with a movie when the female protagonist, particularly one who's a former Ford model turned nun-chuck wielding bounty hunter, utters the line, "I wish in my heart of hearts we had stopped when my goldfish died."
Given the line's grim context (it comes at a pivotal moment just before the events surrounding a $10 million heist turn extremely grisly), the observation is campy, droll, deadly serious, and winking smart all at once. The rest of Domino follows suit, most of the time.
To backtrack a bit, Domino Harvey was a real-life model, a waif who abandoned the plush life for thrill-seeking opportunities in the bail bond business. In a tragic twist of fate, Harvey was found dead in her bathtub in June; the reported cause of death was a heart attack induced by an overdose of painkillers. At the time of her death, she was facing trial for numerous drug charges and was under house arrest.
According to some in the Hollywood rumor mill, the 35-year-old was upset about the liberties the movie was taking with her life's story. It's an oftentimes sexy, tough, violent, and vulgar piece of work, but apparently it's also a mostly fabricated, whitewashed and toned down abridgement of Harvey's non-fiction exploits.
What may or may not be true in this case is irrelevant, however. The movie openly states from the get-go that it's "based on a true story… sort of."
As it stands, Domino calls to mind something along the line of Fight Club, this time from a female perspective; Domino shuns worldly materialism and struggles with what everyone else says is acceptable behavior, much like Tyler Durden. Domino's gallows humor also matches David Fincher's masterpiece of modern day male angst.
The role of Domino is no small challenge for any actress to embody. Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) proves up to the occasion and delivers a knockout performance that successfully transforms her from a sweet girl playing the damsel in distress, as in Pirates of the Caribbean, to a tough-as-nails chick who would much rather take care of herself than allow a man to have the satisfaction.
Harvey was raised in the Notting Hill area of London, but her formative years lacked the cozy, romantic ambience of a Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant movie. The death of her actor father Laurence Harvey (John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate) when she was 4 years old only further contributed to her feelings of alienation.
After moving to Los Angeles and still in search of her proper place, Domino chose a career path that allowed her to indulge in her penchant for picking fights. She's not afraid to die and the girl just wants to have fun, so, in the movie's rendition of history, she joins forces with the exceedingly experienced Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke, Sin City) and the exceedingly off-kilter Choco (Edgar Ramirez, El Don).
Their Winnebago-driving chauffeur is an Afghan nicknamed Alf (Riz Abbasi, Hamlet). Supposedly he once ate a cat and since his real name is too hard to pronounce, they dubbed him after the cat-eating alien ALF, who graced TV screens in the '80s.
The American psychos find themselves embroiled in a sordid tale involving the Las Vegas mafia, the Stratosphere, con men, the WB network, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and even a Sam Kinison memorial.
Adding edginess to the film is a jittery, montage-laden photographic style by Daniel Mindel (The Skeleton Key) that at times features bleached out imagery while other scenes explode in over-saturated colors, particularly interrogation scenes between Knightley and Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels) that maximize the green and yellow portions of the spectrum.
Normally, such a display of non-stop finesse and style would be used to cover up an empty script. Here, the manic stylings serve the material well. Harvey's was a frantic, frenetic world and Domino deftly captures the chaos in both its story and its presentation. It's likely, though, that many will be distracted by the film's over-the-top techniques and miss the truly smart movie under the gloss.
In addition to telling an action/adventure tale of one girl gone madly wild, a good portion of the screenplay by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) serves as a scathing satire of American culture, pop and otherwise.
Poor Beverly Hills takes the brunt of the salvos, particularly Beverly Hills 90210 and its one-time stars, Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering. The duo gamely take on the roles of "celebrity hostages" and at one point clearly delineate why they're there: People don't kill other people when celebrities are around.
Reality TV gets skewered via over-the-top performances from Christopher Walken (Batman Returns), who chews up the scenery as a gung-ho producer of a proposed series called Bounty Squad, and Mena Suvari (American Beauty) as his nerdy assistant.
Domino plumbs the depths, finding humor in morbid scenes involving a tattooed severed limb and also the more obvious punching bag that is the king of sleaze himself, Jerry Springer. The instigator of so much that is wrong with TV today interviews a guest (Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson, Soul Plane) who figures into the aforementioned $10 million heist.
In a bizarre move, she uses Springer as a platform to demand recognition of additional minority classes such as "blacktino," "chinegro," and "japanic." Her hope is to get a book deal out of her tirade; not so ironically, that sequence also manages a quick bitch slap to DeVry University, the diploma mill.
At the other end of the spectrum, Tom Waits, the offbeat rock star and part-time actor, contributes a marvelous performance as a minister who eerily links Domino's past to her present. Other big name appearances include rocker Macy Gray and the always reliable thespians Dabney Coleman, Jacqueline Bisset (as Domino's mother), and Delroy Lindo.
Calling Domino Tony Scott's best movie doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. But the director of movies such as Top Gun and The Last Boy Scout finally has made a movie that's the complete package and one that compares favorably to his brother Ridley's more celebrated work.


How women are positioning impact investing as a mainstream strategy.
Leaders like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have taken notice. In his annual letter to CEOs this year, Fink wrote: "Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society." Some on Wall Street say that Fink's message sets a tipping point for the whole investment industry.
Demand is clearly growing for investments that factor in better environmental, social, or governance (ESG) performance, and statistics show they can deliver profits and long-term stability. The proof is in the figures: The MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, a capitalization-weighted index of 400 U.S. securities that provides exposure to companies with outstanding ESG, reports that its annualized returns (over a 20-year period ending January 31, 2018) were 5.46 percent, slightly better than the S&P 500's 5.43 percent over the same period.
Certainly, it is hard not to find an investment firm that offers funds focused on companies engaged in such practices as promoting clean energy or creating a more inclusive workforce. And strong interest from women investors, particularly millennials, has the potential to add as much as $22 trillion to investments in conscious capitalism, according to estimates from the impact-investing firm Swell Investing. That would greatly increase the existing pool of nearly $9 trillion.
A growing number of women, BlackRock's Huang among them, are taking leadership roles in positioning impact investing as a mainstream strategy or integrating the theory as an integral way of analyzing the value proposition of any investment. BlackRock has about $50 billion under management in investment vehicles it categorizes as "dedicated sustainable," including exchange- traded funds, funds that make direct investments in wind and solar projects, and green bonds that finance environmental projects. But it is also starting to provide data and tools that will make it possible to integrate ESG considerations across all of the firm's investment platforms.
"Society is demanding that companies…serve a social purpose.
VanderBrug has been a force in defining the components of social-impact investing. She coauthored with Joseph Quinlan the 2016 book Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact, in which the two said that "so-called non-financial measures of performance" can be critical to understanding where good financial performance comes from.
The growing product mix means that wealth advisers can steer you into impact investing through a wide spectrum. At one end are equities in large-cap companies that measure up to the best ESG standards; at the other are funds that provide backing to women in remote villages so that they can start small businesses and create jobs. And there is a growing array of products in between, including some aimed at affordable housing, clean energy, and health initiatives in the United States.
thereby creating something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Consider, for example, the ways Veris Wealth Partners puts money into what is now one of its most popular impact-investing themes— gender-lens investing, as detailed in the firm's 2016 Impact Report (published late 2017). Veris works with a mission-driven credit union to provide loans to women entrepreneurs and founders of color. For instance, Hope provided a small business loan to two women in Biloxi, Miss., who were then able to buy the bakery where they worked. Veris has also invested in Procter & Gamble, finding the multi- national corporation's women-friendly policies an important value booster.
There's a dividing line somewhere in that spectrum, however. In some ways it's easier to measure the social impact and the payoffs of companies that are actively traded on stock exchanges. When investors pay attention to their impact on society— whether it's a good or bad effect—and when reputation damage over pollution or sexual harassment sends investors seeing, their stock prices can move accordingly, thereby creating something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It would be nice if, when you invest in small community-impact projects, your money could be just as big an incentive to others to invest in these projects, thereby creating scale as well as strong returns. Smaller can be equally fruitful, but there are some challenges.
On the one hand, financial market expertise is essential. "If it's just 'Kumbaya,' you'll never have impact," says Durreen Shahnaz, the founder and CEO of the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) in Singapore, which operates a private placement platform and the world's first social stock exchange, though the stock exchange does not yet actively trade securities.
On the other hand, it isn't easy for big money from all over the world to find its way to social businesses in remote villages in a way that doesn't lose sight of the mission. Serving both investors and communities means you need a plan at each stage of the value chain for providing access to capital in a responsible and sustainable way, says Beth Bafford, vice president of syndications and strategy at Calvert Impact Capital. As more money is activated for impact, she says, we need to ensure it is going to people, businesses, and communities in a responsible and intentional way.
There is still room for proof of effectiveness when it comes to the many small social-impact projects. A 2016 study from the Wharton Social Impact Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania looked at what happens to the actual mission when investors in private-equity impact ventures seek liquidity. The Wharton study found that, so far, deals have generally provided market-rate returns without sacrificing the impact of the mission, or vice versa, but said that investors need more quantitative information to understand what's behind the returns, including additional metrics on the short- and long-term social impact. That kind of data could help unlock additional capital.
Unlocking more capital is an important part of what Shahnaz, the IIX founder and CEO, aims to accomplish. Born and raised in Bangladesh, Shahnaz is an Oslo Business for Peace Award winner and has been a Wall Street banker and a media executive. She cofounded, and eventually sold, an e-commerce business called oneNest that sold the handicrafts of women artisans to the global marketplace.
thereby creating scale as well as strong returns.
Smaller can be equally fruitful, but there are some challenges.
For Shahnaz's big ambition to materialize, it will take the detailed coordination of transparency about investor returns and data on where the capital is going that all deals need, plus, she says, a core of recipient businesses that can pass the feasibility test. They'll have to be able to show that they have a well-defined mission and an operational plan in place, along with financial statements that spell everything out to investors and auditors.
Meanwhile, she is bringing in gradual changes. The Impact Partners platform has brought in $23 million of investment capital into early and growth-stage social enterprises that has resulted in an additional $51 million of follow-on investments. A typical recipient is Mera Gao Power, a solar energy enterprise in northern India. With the help of impact capital, Mera Gao plans to expand its customer base by more than 50,000 households over the next four years. The impact comes when rural residents receive a reliable and inexpensive source of power, providing lighting and mobile- phone charging to households for the first time.
IIX has also issued an $8 million Women's Livelihood Bond, which has impacted the lives of more than 385,000 women in Southeast Asia by providing them with increased credit access, market linkages, and affordable goods and services. It is listed on the Singapore Exchange Limited.
Now Shahnaz has a new bond in the works, the Women's Health Bond, aimed at financing cervical-cancer care, maternal health, and family planning for underserved women in the U.S. The goal is to issue a $20 million bond each year over a five-year period, and ultimately help make health care accessible for some 2.5 million women.
These are just some of the possibilities that can be achieved through social-impact investments. Now that we have a sense of the potential for good, money alone is far less a value proposition.


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Head Receives Order of the Owl Award
by Mary Ann Beahon
Posted on May 1, 2002 October 23, 2013
Warren Head of Palmyra, Mo., received the Order of the Owl Award during Alumni Weekend at William Woods University, April 19-21. The award is given to honor the spouse of an alumnus who has shown a special interest in promoting and supporting the activities of the university.
Head is the husband of Katherine King Head, a 1940 graduate of William Woods University. They have two sons—Wallace, who is president and chief operating officer of Family Office Exchange in Chicago, and John, who is professor of international law at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. They also have four grandchildren.
Head was honored for his continual support of his wife's involvement in William Woods University, which includes serving on the National Alumni Board since 1985 and serving as reunion chair in 1980 and 1995. She was the 1988 recipient of the Green Owl Alumni Award.
Together, the Heads established the J. Warren and Katherine King Head Endowed Scholarship to encourage students from Palmyra High School to attend William Woods.
Head is a native of Palmyra, where he lives on the family farm named "Estelbrook." He graduated from Central Methodist College in 1933 and received a bachelor's degree in business and public administration from the University of Missouri in 1934.
After several years in the accounting field, he returned to the family farm to manage the Jersey cattle dairy operation. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Air Force, returning to the family farm, which included an Angus cattle herd and grain operation.
Head has been active in agricultural and civic organizations. For nine years, he served on the Missouri State Board of Education, serving two terms as president. He also was president of the Marion County Farm Bureau and president of the Missouri Jersey Cattle Club. He has been a member of Kiwanis for 50+ years. He also is an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the local historical society and Mark Twain Postcard Club.
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