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"Hey, everyone — Sandy Frink just landed in a helicopter!"Is that an earthquake? In honor of the 20th anniversary of their 10 year reunion, we join the Madonna twins and a big giant girl who smokes and says "shit" a lot to revisit 1987 and 1997 in Romy And Michele's High School Reunion. Watch out, Tucson!
Chris and Seth have a special place in their hearts for this teen comedy made specifically for the C-Group (and anyone else who ever had their hamburger stolen by a deludanoid), and mutually agree that this is the cutest the When We Were Young podcast has ever looked. Meanwhile, Becky (the obvious Rhoda of this episode) comes to the scarf-folding fun with a fresher perspective to examine how this cherished cult hit holds up against today's comedic standards. The WWWY gang is also joined by special guest Chelsea, inventor of Post-Its, to discuss her fancy-schmancy formula for glue.
So grab your flip phone and your huge notebook, because When We Were Young is doing Tucson (for a business thing), and we're not stopping until our shoes are overflowing with blood. If you hate throwing up in public, you've come to the right podcast!
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I like a lot of movies, but it's hard to think of one that makes me quite as happy as Romy And Michele's High School Reunion. As much as I enjoy The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel (recently covered by this very same podcast), those films are ever-so-slightly marred by some goofier slapstick bits aimed at a younger audience. Romy And Michele, however, is Rated R and therefore lobs all of its jokes at an adult audience. (Granted, an adult audience that's prone to laughing at Lisa Kudrow thrusting her tongue at the window to scare a little boy.)
I also find Romy And Michele's High School Reunion the most insanely quotable movie of all time. I honestly don't think there's a single line you could say to me that I would not recognize, particularly when delivered in these characters' distinct voices. ("I thought so!" isn't a terribly memorable line… except the way Mira Sorvino delivers it.)
The first iteration of Romy and Michele was a 1988 play entitled Ladies Room, starring Lisa Kudrow and a bunch of other Groundlings, based on two women writer Robin Schiff really did encounter in a Los Angeles restroom. Sciff was also a Groundling, and that attention to character-based comedy is definitely what makes this film stand out. Ladies Room takes place at the Green Enchilada, a Mexican restaurant in LA, featuring a cast of 9 characters, and according to the original LA Times review, characters "range from the middle-brow women from the ad agency a few suicidal floors up to a pair of totally awesome Valley girls (Christie Mellor and Lisa Kudrow), vapidly looking for guys with good jobs (it makes them sexier)." Romy and Michele also appeared on a TV pilot written by Schiff called Just Temporary, where they were named Nicole and Torie.
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Domestic/Worldwide Total Gross: $29.2 million
Opening Weekend: $7.4 million
Metacritic: 59
In 1997, Friends was in Season 3 at the height of the Ross and Rachel romantic drama, so Kudrow was already a household name, though she had yet to carry a feature film. Mira Sorvino was an Academy Award winner, thanks to her role as a goofy prostitute in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, beating formidable talent like Joan Allen and Kate Winslet. She was a mid-90s "It Girl," known for dating Quentin Tarantino, but was by no means a bankable box office draw, either. Janeane Garofalo was the biggest movie star in the cast, having already proven herself in The Truth About Cats And Dogs and The Cable Guy. (At the time, it felt a little strange that she was playing second-fiddle to Kudrow and Sorvino in a studio comedy.)
The film co-starred Alan Cumming, Julia Campbell, Elaine Hendrix, Camryn Manheim (of The Practice), Jacob Vargas, and a then-unknown Justin Theroux — a stellar cast all around. The film was directed by Simpsons writer/producer David Mirkin, who later directed Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt in another female buddy comedy, 2001's Heartbreakers. (It's no Romy And Michele, but I have a soft spot for it anyway.)
Here's what the critics had to say in 1997:
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone:
"The affably airheaded Romy And Michele's High School Reunion won't silence her detractors, though Kudrow's Michele is a deadpan delight as she joins fellow misfit Romy (a deliciously funny Mira Sorvino) at their 10-year high school reunion. The trailer alone is wittier than the entirety of McHale's Navy and Jungle 2 Jungle, two '97 comedies driven by TV stars. Kudrow and Sorvino have a ball in this babe version of Dumb and Dumber."
Todd McCarthy, Variety:
"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion looks like a peroxided Clueless wannabe straggling along to the party two years after it's over. Desperately uncertain in tone and able to generate only sporadic laughs, pic decks out its meager story of revenge and comeuppance with a vulgar, flashy shimmer that will no doubt attract teenage girls, or the core Clueless audience. Some good early returns are therefore likely, but the film's own legs don't reckon to be nearly as long as those of its statuesque heroines."
There was no way Romy And Michele's High School Reunion wasn't going to hold up for me — I've watched it several times since my early fandom, though it had been a couple of years, at least, since I revisited it. This may have been the first viewing where I was looking for more than just a good time, though, and on that level, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion is surprisingly potent.
Schiff's script is truly smart in the way it addresses high school anxieties. It presents a tiered system of outcasts, which is definitely accurate — even most kids who consider themselves rejects are still cooler than someone — and it rightly separates the smart nerds (like Sandy and Tobey) from the dumb nerds (Romy and Michele) from the might-be-smart-if-she-gave-a-fuck nerd (Heather Mooney). It also grounds its characters in vulnerability — not just Romy and Michele, who make up a ridiculous lie about Post-Its to impress their former classmates, but Tobey, Sandy, and Heather, too. Tobey Walters could easily be a joke character the movie laughs off as easily as Heather does, but instead she gets a moment to explain how Heather's harsh words hurt her, and we feel for her. Even Heather, as blunt and mean as she can be, is clearly acting this way defensively. Romy And Michele's High School Reunion goes above and beyond most high school comedies in portraying the nuances of high school drama. Its much more complicated than the typical "jocks and homecoming queens versus the math club" that we usually see. Even the popular crowd is thought-through — yes, Christy Masters is pretty much the stereotypical bitch villain of every high school comedy ever made, but we definitely sense that her quest for external perfection has left her hollow inside. And there's obviously something going on in the A-group between Christy and Lisa, which we get only a taste of in this movie. This is relatively rare in a studio comedy — the sense that every single one of these characters truly has a life outside the walls of this movie.On the podcast, we mention that Romy And Michele's High School Reunion feels ahead of its time — perhaps not as a mainstream movie, but certainly in terms of its nuanced character work. This movie seems unlikely as a major release in 2017 — at least, not without some Bridesmaids-style raunch thrown in — but it's easy to imagine these characters existing in a sophisticated cable or streaming comedy, the likes of which didn't exist in 1997.
As much as I've always loved this film, it wasn't until doing this podcast that I realized why I love it so much — not just because it's hilarious (which it is), but because it has memorable, original characters and a smart, thoughtful message about several rites of passage in our lives. Romy And Michele's High School Reunion understands that some, but not all, of who we are is evident in high school, and spreads that all-important message to the outcasts out there: "It gets better!" At the same time, it is realistic about the ways our high school insecurities linger far longer than it makes any sense for them to, evidenced most cleverly in Michele's dream, in which just about every aspect of high school is still haunted by the domineering Christy Masters.
If we've left town and moved on from out high school lives, it certainly shouldn't matter what a few people we happened to go to high school with think. But it does. In ways that are generally far less dramatic (or hilarious) as depicted here, high school reunions do give us a chance to get that closure — to face our old demons as the people we are now, and finally put them out of our minds. The lesson learned in Romy And Michele's High School Reunion is one I learned at my own high school reunion, too — that everyone was and always will be dealing with their own shit, and most likely, no one ever was actively trying to make your life a living hell.
I'm not entirely sure I would have ever learned that lesson if Romy And Michele's High School Reunion hadn't primed me for it, almost 15 years ahead of time. So, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of this film, I have to say a truly heartfelt "thank you" to Robin Schiff, Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, David Mirkin, and the rest of the cast and crew of this movie. I probably wouldn't have said this before sitting down and truly contemplating what this film means to me, but Romy And Michele's High School Reunion is really, truly a great movie.
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Testing GTX 1080 SLI Performance with Dual Palit GeForce Cards
Page 4 : Power Consumption, Wrap Up
By Steven Walton on July 5, 2016
Wiggling the mouse in Windows 95 made the operating system faster
Testing GTX 1080 SLI Performance
Benchmarks: Far Cry Primal, Overwatch, Star Wars Battlefront
Benchmarks: DOOM, The Division, Ashes of the Singularity
Power Consumption, Wrap Up
Power consumption is typically one of the biggest drawbacks of running multiple GPUs, as gamers will need to spend quite a bit of money on their power supply to ensure power is delivered under heavy load. Take the Crossfire R9 390X cards above, for example. We see that they are approaching a total system load of nearly 600 watts. This calls for at least an 800-watt power supply and a quality one at that. And that's not even considering the long-term power consumption costs.
Meanwhile, the GTX 1080 SLI graphics cards consumed well under 500 watts, so it is possible to get away with a decent 600 - 700 watt power supply, even with the factory overclock on the Palit cards.
Here we see that when benchmarking with Call of Duty Black Ops III, where SLI does scale well, the Palit GTX 1080 GameRock PE SLI cards only pushed the total system power consumption 35% higher over the single card configuration. That is over 30% less power than the same system using Radeon R9 390X Crossfire graphics cards.
How Sweet Is It to Run Dual GTX 1080s?
When the covers were taken off Nvidia's brand new Pascal flagship a few weeks ago, there was one key question on our minds: do we finally have a single GPU capable of 60fps 4K performance?
Even though some settings can be tweaked to boost performance and achieve the desired 60fps with a single card, I, like many, longed for a no-compromise solution. One that didn't require more multiple GPUs and didn't cost over a thousand dollars. For the most part, the GTX 1080 delivered, but there were a handful of titles where tuning was still required, like in The Witcher 3.
Adding a second GTX 1080 means you aren't just achieving acceptable performance... you are getting outstanding performance. A graphics-intensive game like The Witcher 3 looks incredible at 4K and with a pair of GTX 1080s we enjoyed an average frame rate in excess of 80fps.
Though we mostly focused on games that support Nvidia's multi-GPU technology, these also happen to be some of the most popular PC games released as of late. On average SLI enabled 63% more performance -- or 71% if we ignore Ashes of the Singularity. We'd call that a solid score for SLI scaling.
Granted, this may not convince many to spend another $600+ on a second GPU but in a good number of scenarios at 4K, it pushed performance from playable to smooth-as-silk.
Overall, while I'm not generally a big advocate of multi-GPU technology, it does make sense here assuming that you can afford it. The 4K gaming experience delivered by these cards is the best I have seen yet. For those willing and able to drop four figures on this GPU configuration, you won't be disappointed with the results.
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Lawmakers want harmony; issues say it won't be easy
/ Sunday, January 10, 2016
TALLAHASSEE -- After the disastrous 2015 session ended without a deal on the state budget and a gridlock on health care funding, Florida lawmakers begin the 2016 annual session on Tuesday with more promises of cooperation and harmony.
There is more money for the state budget. And House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, and Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, have a cordial relationship.
Florida House Speaker Andy Gardiner, left, and Senate Majority Leader Steve Crisafulli. (AP PHOTOS)
Yet lawmakers face a number of issues that could derail this year's session just like last year's collapse. Gov. Rick Scott is lobbying hard for $1 billion in tax cuts, with lawmakers likely to come up short. Scott has also advanced a new $3 billion gambling deal with the Seminole tribe, but it will reignite the complicated fight among all of Florida's gambling interests as they try to get a piece of the action.
Other challenges loom including more controversial gun legislation, Scott's request for $250 million in economic incentive funding and a continued debate over using Amendment 1 money to fund environmental projects.
Nonetheless, lawmakers expect this year's 60-day session to be a smoother ride.
"My hope is that the '16 session will return back to some normalcy, as we call normal around here," Crisafulli said.
Gardiner said disagreements are part of the legislative process but he too expects lawmakers to work out their differences this year with less drama.
"There are going to be disagreements. Absolutely," he said. "We'll debate them and we'll win some and we'll lose some."
Last year was a tough year for the 40 state senators and 120 House members who despite being a part-time Legislature were in Tallahassee for sessions or meetings every month except July. It included a three-week special session to complete a state budget in June and two subsequent special sessions that failed to produce redistricting plans for congressional and state Senate seats, which were ultimately drawn by the courts.
Crisafulli said the resolution of an internal leadership fight in the Senate, which resulted in Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, being designated as the next Senate president, will help create more harmony.
Gardiner said the fact that the uncertainty over federal funding for Florida hospitals, which played a major role in last year's budget gridlock, is resolved will also help. But it means lawmakers know they will face a $400 million cut in the hospital funding program in the new budget.
But as a sign of their cooperative spirit, the House and Senate are lined up to pass major priority packages for Gardiner and Crisafulli early in the 2016 session.
Lawmakers have agreed on a major water policy bill backed by Crisafulli that would set water-flow levels for Florida's natural springs while also providing guidelines for a regional water-supply planning effort in Central Florida and outlining further management plans for the Lake Okeechobee region, including the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie River systems.
Lawmakers are also ready to pass a series of measures that seek to increase education and employment opportunities for Floridians with disabilities, a top priority for Gardiner whose son has Down syndrome.
But the largest challenge for lawmakers remains a new state budget, which will be in the range of $79 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
With an improving economy, lawmakers have more money as they craft the new budget, with economists projecting a $635 million surplus in state revenue. But Gov. Rick Scott's top priorities are a $1 billion tax-cutting plan and a $250 million incentive fund to lure more businesses to Florida.
As lawmakers head to their annual session next week, Scott has stepped up the pressure with a statewide television advertising campaign, funded with $1 million from his political fund, urging lawmakers to back his tax cuts and incentive plan.
"We can't stop now," Scott says in the 30-second commercial, which notes the 1 million private-sector jobs that have been created since he was first elected in 2010. "Let's create more manufacturing jobs, more small businesses, attract businesses to move to Florida and to start and grow here. Let's keep Florida working."
Republican legislative leaders said they will support a major tax-cutting package but the tax breaks will have to be balanced against other state needs, including Scott's call for record per-student funding in the public school system and health care funding, including rising costs in Medicaid.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee, R-Brandon, said last month that lawmakers could support Scott's ambitious tax-cutting plan but they also have to understand the long-term consequences of the permanent tax cuts, like a reduction in corporate income taxes for manufacturers and retailers.
"We just ought to do it with our eyes open," Lee said. "I'm as interested in trying to cut taxes as (Scott) is but I also don't want to set my colleagues up for failure."
A long-term potential funding source could come from the proposed seven-year, $3 billion gambling agreement with the Seminole tribe. It would replace a five-year $1 billion deal that expired last year.
But Gardiner and Crisafulli said there are no guarantees on reaching an agreement on a high-stakes deal that will involve every gambling interest, as well as gambling opponents, in the state.
"Is it going to be a very challenging issue to pass out of the Legislature? Yes," Crisafulli said. "That's just the reality of where we are. Can it be done? Certainly."
In contrast to his tax cuts, Scott is not lobbying heavily for the gambling agreement, other than calling it a "good deal" for taxpayers that will bring some certainty to Florida's gaming future.
"It's up to the Legislature. I respect their decision," he said.
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This list highlights our most popular stories and blog posts from 2018. We hope you enjoy!
10. Three Generations of Support: Our Family & Anera
Reflecting on the genesis of Anera and her family's support for the organization since the beginning, Betty Sams wrote in a guest blog post, "In August of 1967, 50 people from all over the U.S. came to our home in Bethesda, Maryland for dinner. It was two months after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and they represented the many different committees that had mobilized to raise and send aid to the Palestinians, both those who were suffering under occupation and those who were made refugees."
9. Creating Opportunities for Children in Palestine and Lebanon
Many Palestinian children have faced an uncertain school year in light of donor cuts to UNRWA, which operates schools for refugee children. But Anera supporters can take pride in the opportunities for Palestinian children that they have helped make possible, including the October 2017 launch of the first national kindergarten curriculum guide for teachers in Palestine.
8. Anera Makes Mental Health Treatment Available in Lebanon
Dr. Madeleine Badaro Taha, who has been working with the Family Guidance Center since 1998, at her desk.
There are very few mental health professionals or facilities in Lebanon. The Family Guidance Center was founded to provide specialized preventive and therapeutic mental health services for refugee youth. Anera supports the center by delivering medicines, donated by Direct Relief, to treat seizures, bipolar disorder, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, compulsive obsessive disorder and social phobias, enabling vulnerable patients to access the medicine they need free-of-charge.
7. Empowering Gaza Women Through Small Loans
Anera established the Gaza Women's Loan Fund in 1995 with the Culture and Free Thought Association. The program provides working capital to low income women in order to reduce poverty, create employment, and improve livelihoods. Since its inception over 20 years ago, Anera has supported 5,676 women across Gaza with loans totaling $7,200,000 million. As the humanitarian and economic crisis in Gaza deepens, the number of women now responsible for family incomes increases and so does the need to support their efforts.
6. Leveling the Playing Field through Soccer for Palestinian Refugees
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Anera and Inter Campus, the Corporate Social Responsibility program of Inter Milan, one of the world's most famous soccer clubs, partnered to provide youth sports programs in Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Trainers from Inter Campus are sent twice a year to Shatila as part of this ongoing training project. During their March and July visits this year, the Inter Campus coaches joined local coaches to organize sports activities for young boys and girls at the Al Siraj soccer field in the camp.
5. A Career in Early Childhood Development Leads Back to Palestine
Dr. Ilham Nasser reflected in a guest blog post on the journey that led her to work with Anera as an early childhood education specialist and become a leader in drafting and launching the first national curriculum for preschool and kindergarten education in Palestine.
4. 50 Photos for 50 Years
In 1984, Anera establishes a six-person office in Gaza. Over 30 years later, our wonderful office manager Sabah Al-Barakoni is still keeping the place running!
This year, we delved into the Anera photo archives to feature one emblematic photo for each year of our existence, covering one decade at a time since the organization first opened its doors 50 years ago. #anera50for50
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Last year, with funding from Islamic Relief USA, Anera supported eight women's cooperatives with dough mixers, pans, cooking utensils and stoves to support their professional work and help them generate income despite the difficult economic conditions in Gaza. This story looked at how one of the cooperatives, Al Hakoura Women's Cooperative, takes advantage of the date harvest season to gather dates from the farms to make food products that they sell to earn an income all year long.
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With the recent delay in the nomination of a new Secretary of Labor and no new head of OSHA in place, we are concerned that OSHA continues to designate its workplace crystalline silica regulation as a top agency priority at a time when silica Personal Exposure Limits (PELs) are already in place and OSHA has failed to make the case for new regulations. This new OSHA regulation will have negative economic and market use impacts on the breadth of the masonry industry, affecting acquisition and handling of raw materials, manufacture and handling of the product, insurability, and installation. A rush into this rule will result in a misguided regulatory focus that can destroy the masonry industry and tens of thousands of jobs. OSHA even admitted, with its own numbers nearly a decade ago when this rule was first proposed, that the economic cost of new rules would be nearly $650 million (extremely conservative) and it would only create benefits of $232 million.
What is Crystalline Silica?
Silica is one of the most abundant substances on earth. It is most commonly found as sand or Quartz. Silica is ubiquitous on construction sites by virtue of its presence in many commonly used construction materials including: concrete, bricks, rocks, and stones.
Construction activities that can generate/spread silica dust include but may not be limited to: jackhammering, grinding, tuckpointing, milling, rock crushing, drywall finishing, earthmoving, sawing, and drilling.
OSHA's Current Requirements:
Silica is measured by a Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL), which is the maximum amount of silica to which a worker may be exposed to during an 8-hour shift of a 40-hour week.
OSHA's PEL for silica exposure in construction is 250 micrograms per cubic meters of air. General industry's PEL is set at 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
In construction, employers are required to ensure that employees are not exposed to silica levels above the PEL by using administrative or engineering controls. However, protective equipment (e.g., respirators) or other protective measures can be used to keep workers' exposure below the PEL whenever implementing controls are not feasible.
OSHA's Proposed Rulemaking Includes:
A significant reduction of the PEL level (when control measures must be taken) down to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air across all industries.
The introduction of a new "action level" (where constant monitoring must begin) of 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
Detailed requirements to use dust controls for specific construction operations.
A requirement to provide respirators to workers when dust controls prove ineffective.
The introduction of "regulated areas" where exposures may be above the PEL and worker access to these areas is controlled.
Training requirements for workers covering operations that result in silica exposure and ways to limit exposure.
A requirement to provide medical exams for workers and maintain their records for 30+ years.
Concerns with OSHA's Proposed Rule:
OSHA's proposed crystalline silica rule is potentially the most far-reaching regulatory initiative proposed by OSHA for the construction industry.
OSHA has not met its burden of demonstrating that the proposal is technologically and economically feasible.
In addition to the significantly decreased PEL, OSHA's proposal prescribes control methods that contradict existing safety practices, raising concerns that the agency did not adequately consider unique factors associated with the construction industry. For example, not only are tasks and activities highly variable and changing constantly as projects progress, but workers themselves frequently move among jobs and even employers.
OSHA has not explained how a drastically lower PEL/action level will effectively reduce the number of silica related illnesses and deaths. The agency itself has admitted a failure to properly enforce existing standards, while the CDC has reported a 93 percent drop in silica-related deaths between 1968 and 2007.
OSHA estimates the rule will result in approximately $1 billion a year in costs to the industry while generating $8 billion in benefits. This stands in stark contrast to industry studies that show OSHA has underestimated the cost of the proposed rule by approximately a factor of five. We now estimate a cost to the construction industry of roughly $5 billion per year.
The coalition has serious concerns that the construction industry will be saddled with onerous new requirements at a time when most segments of the industry have not yet recovered from the economic downturn. OSHA's proposed silica standard may substantially alter the industry's competitive structure.
The Construction Industry Safety Coalition is asking Congress to ask OSHA to answer very important, pertinent questions on the feasibility and need for this new rule before funding is allowed to be used for its implementation.
Rulemaking Timeline:
Silica has been listed on OSHA's regulatory agenda for more than a decade.
A SBREFA panel was held in 2003.
A proposal went to OMB in February 2011.
The proposed new rule was announced on August 23, 2013.
The proposed new rule was published in the Federal Register on Sept. 12, 2013. [at 78 Fed. Reg. 56274]
OSHA's deadline to submit comments on the proposed new rule was February 11, 2014. [Docket No. OSHA-2010-0034]
Public hearings began March 18, 2014; Post-hearing data and information was due June 3, 2014; Final briefs, arguments, and summations were due on July 18, 2014.
Final Rule was released by OSHA on March 24, 2016.
MCAA and our partners in the Construction Industry Safety Coalition actively participated in the public rulemaking process every step of the way and submitted data driven comments showing that this rule is both technologically and economically infeasible.
Final Rule was set to go into effect for the construction industry on June 23, 2017.
On April 6, 2017 OSHA delayed enforcement of the final rule until September 23, 2017.
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A week after finding a TV partner in its hastened push into video, Mashable is laying off several editorial staffers.
"We are certain this is the right direction for Mashable. But that doesn't make it any less difficult to say goodbye to our friends and teammates," Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore wrote in a memo posted on LinkedIn.
Chief content officer Jim Roberts and CRO Seth Rogin are among those leaving the company. Both joined Mashable from The New York Times in 2013.
"Jim has been instrumental in building Mashable into a truly global media brand," wrote Cashmore. "He has built an editorial team that stands for trust, credibility and accuracy, allowing us to compete with some of the world's most established media companies." Rogin, meanwhile, will move to a "new venture," Cashmore wrote.
I've worked with some amazing digital journalists in my 2 1/2 years at Mashable. You know who you are. Thanks for making it such a gas.
The site will scrap coverage of world news and politics, laying off the entire politics team, and will instead focus on technology, web culture, science, social media, entertainment, business and lifestyle. Mashable had hired NPR's Juana Summers as its first politics editor last summer.
As it pivots to video, the digital media company is bringing on TV veterans to oversee content.
Greg Gittrich has been named chief content officer, joining from Vocativ, where he held the same role. At Vocativ, Gittrich oversaw the series Dark Net for Showtime. He was previously vp of NBC News digital. Mashable's new CRO will be Ed Wise, who ran the branded content sales teams at Funny or Die and Turner Broadcasting. Wise will be charged with increasing Mashable's branded content offerings as well as bringing their ads to television.
Today's staff shake-up comes after last week's $15 million investment, led by Turner, which includes TBS, TNT and CNN in its stable of properties. Mashable becomes the latest digital media company to get a foothold in linear television following the likes of Vice, Vocativ and Vox.
Mashable, which will present for the first time at the Digital Content NewFronts in May, had been pushing heavier into video, especially premium content. Last June, the company launched Mashable Studios, which creates serialized video programming and branded entertainment.
"What our advertisers value most about Mashable is the same thing that our audience values: Our content," Cashmore wrote, adding that branded content "has become our fastest growing revenue stream over the past year. Content is now at the core of our ad offering and we plan to double down there."
This isn't the first time the 11-year-old company has changed course. Mashable launched with a heavy emphasis on tech news but has branched out into broader topics including global news and politics as well as entertainment and lifestyle. That all changes today.
Cashmore says all the affected staffers have been notified. He is planning an "All Hands" meeting with the remaining staffers this afternoon.


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Climate Change and Worker Health Science Fellow
Company: Natural Resources Defense Council
Location: Washington D.C.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our staff helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, and many of the implementing regulations; our water enforcement cases played a major role shaping current water policy throughout the country. Today, our staff of more than 500 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy and communications experts, and others, work out of offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bozeman, Montana and Beijing.
Work is a central element in the lives of most adults, but relatively little is known about the occupational health implications of climate change. NRDC is seeking a two-year, full-time Climate Change and Worker Health Science Fellow who can provide subject matter expertise and conduct multi-disciplinary research and analysis on the occupational health effects of climate change. As part of the Federal Policy team of NRDC's Climate and Clean Energy Program, the Fellow also will develop broadly accessible communication materials about occupational health and climate change to support NRDC's community partnerships, public outreach, and advocacy on climate and clean energy policies (including climate adaptation).
Specific topics and projects undertaken by the Fellow will depend on their expertise and NRDC's programmatic priorities. Some examples of potential projects include:
Investigating the health implications of severe drought on outdoor occupations such as construction, agricultural, or recreation workers;
Identifying indoor and outdoor worker populations most vulnerable to wildfire smoke;
Quantifying the risk of occupational injuries or workplace accidents associated with prolonged work in preparation for, or response to, wildfires, hurricanes, or other extreme events;
Assessing how the occupational health threats of climate change interact with other socioeconomic stressors and disparities;
Quantifying health care costs imposed on indoor and outdoor workers by climate-related hazards; and Modeling how adaptation measures like an occupational heat safety standard might reduce health harms and related costs, or limit broader economic costs.
The Climate Change and Worker Health Science Fellow is supported by NRDC's Science Center and its Science Fellows program, which is a key element of the Science Center's mission to enhance NRDC's scientific capabilities and provide resources and support for policy and advocacy work. The Science Fellows program provides young scientists interested in working in the science, policy and advocacy arena with professional experience and on-the-job training; it is an excellent opportunity to refine existing skills and build new ones, develop professionally, publish work, and gain important competencies.
The Fellow will ideally be based in our Washington, D.C. office, although exemplary candidates will also be considered for our New York, NY office or our San Francisco, CA office.
The Fellow's core responsibilities will include:
Working with the Climate and Clean Energy program, the Science Center, and other NRDC staff to identify, understand, and communicate the health threats of climate change to indoor and outdoor workers.
Accessing, reviewing, and analyzing relevant literature, datasets, and analytical and screening tools from federal, state, and local sources to advance scientific understanding of the occupational health implications of climate change, inform and guide NRDC advocacy, and support outreach and engagement with decision-makers, labor groups, and other organizations and communities.
Developing relationships with subject matter experts and labor representatives to aid with identification of climate-related occupational health threats, data collection and analysis, and public outreach and engagement.
Drafting reports and peer-reviewed publications outlining methods, findings, and recommendations based upon occupational health analyses conducted at NRDC.
Developing and reviewing legislative and regulatory proposals to protect workers from the health effects of climate change.
Responding to inquiries about the health implications of climate change on workers from NRDC program, policy, communications, and legal staff; colleague organizations; labor and health partners; and the media.
The following qualifications are required:
A doctoral degree in sociology, occupational psychology, occupational safety, or a related field, and familiarity with a range of health impacts of climate change and associated literature. A candidate with a Master's degree and relevant academic and/or work experience may also be considered.
Familiarity with occupational health databases and their analytical uses and drawbacks.
Excellent quantitative, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Demonstrated success working with multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience communicating with non-technical audiences.
The following qualifications are desired:
Expertise in interpreting and analyzing economic data.
Experience working with labor and/or community-based groups.
Experience with environmental policy analysis or advocacy.
Familiarity with the intersection between occupational health and disparities associated with race, ethnicity, gender, and/or socioeconomic status.
Media training and/or experience giving media interviews.
Website: https://careers-nrdc.icims.com/jobs/4205/climate-change-and-worker-health-science-fellow/job?mode=view&mobile=false&width=745&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240
Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest that addresses: (a) why the fellowship with NRDC is desired; (b) how the candidate is qualified, including relevant work and/or research experience; and (d) how the candidate hopes the fellowship will affect her/his career goals. Applicants should also submit a resume and a writing sample.


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A notice in the official gazette said the 13 troops were dismissed from the institutional security office attached to the presidency…reports Asian Lite News
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday dismissed 13 more military officers who were assigned to the National Security Advisor's office that is responsible for the president's security, reported France24.
A notice in the official gazette said the 13 troops were dismissed from the institutional security office attached to the presidency. The decision follows the removal of 40 military officers on Tuesday from the Alvorada presidential residence, as Lula expressed his distrust in the military for failing to act against supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed government buildings on January 8.
Just days after the attack on the presidential palace, Supreme Court and Congress by backers of far-right ex-president Bolsonaro, Lula said the rioters likely had inside help and hinted at security force involvement.
He ordered a thorough staffing review, saying he was "convinced that the door of the Planalto (presidential) palace was opened for people to enter because there are no broken doors."
The demonstrators were protesting Bolsonaro's loss in the October elections and calling for a military coup to oust Lula and restore the far-right populist leader.
Leftist Lula, 77, beat Bolsonaro by a razor-thin margin in October elections that followed a vitriolic and divisive campaign.
Some 1,400 alleged rioters remained in custody as investigators track down the masterminds and financiers of the January 8 revolt.
So far, 39 people have been officially charged.
Anderson Torres, a former Bolsonaro justice minister who was in charge of Brasilia security but abroad when the riots happened, has been arrested on suspicion of collusion.
Like his former boss, Torres has denied any link to the revolt. He appeared before investigators for a first deposition on Wednesday, and opted to remain silent according to the G1 news portal.
The violence recalled the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. (ANI)
ALSO READ: 'Solution to ease burden of Canada's hospitals lies in ayurveda'
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How to develop a strategy for improving your marketing efforts in the coming year.
Welcome to the final installment of the Bold Brand Challenge. Over the past twelve months we discussed how to position, differentiate, communicate, and market your brand. As our challenge comes to a close, we'll take a look at how to review your marketing progress, and how to set goals for the coming year.
Success? I'll know it when I see it.
Perhaps you're unsure where your brand stands today? If that's the case, consider performing a simple brand audit. If you'd like a few ideas, you can download our simple DIY Brand Audit.
Once you have a clear understanding of your brand, it's time to write out a plan for next year.
First you'll want to decide what you want to achieve.
Do you have a sales target? Aiming for clients in new markets or industries? Are you trying to improve profit margins? Write down all of your goals for the coming year. I typically recommend three to five goals.
Create strategies to achieve those goals.
Strategy is another squishy word, but for our purposes, let's treat strategy as the thing that connects your goals with actions that will help you achieve them.
I would argue that most so-called growth strategies require a holistic brand or marketing strategy to facilitate any of them. If you're going to create deeper offerings to sell more services to current clients, wouldn't it be helpful to both position your company as a firm who offers such services, and a marketing strategy for how to communicate these new services?
As such, we always recommend that you not only identify your goals and objectives for the year, but also create strategies to connect the dots. And more likely than not, your strategy should include brand- and marketing-level strategies for putting these ideas into action.
Now it's time for tactics.
If you haven't already, take a moment to peruse some of the topics we've covered in the Bold Brand Challenge. Whether it's time to update your positioning, create a new identity, or simply ramp up your content marketing program, there are a variety of marketing tactics at your fingertips. Fortunately, when you start with goals and strategies, it's much easier to determine which tactics are worthy of your time and investment.
Now it's time to determine what you're going to measure.
Strangely, in professional services marketing, the things that are most often measured are proposal related: how many did we write, how many shortlists did we make, and how many clients hired us. While proposals are certainly related to marketing, they're very lagging indicators and downstream ways to measure progress. We recommend that clients not only track closing opportunities, but also track leading indicators such as website traffic, email subscribers, email opens, email clicks, database size, and responses to online calls to action (or CTAs).
It's up to you and your firm to determine what's best to track and measure, so think through what other data points will help demonstrate the effectiveness of your marketing and branding efforts.
If you've stuck with us for the last twelve months, congratulations—we did it!
I hope these concepts help you build your very own Bold Brand. And if you've come this far, but haven't taken action, I'd encourage you to reach out to me and continue the conversation. And of course, if you're looking for more self-guided help, pick up a copy of my book on Kindle or paperback for a deeper discussion of each of these topics.
To keep an eye on what I'm up to, feel free to follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn, and I'll see you online!


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Topic: The End of the Line (Intro and Plot Idea)
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The End of the Line (Intro and Plot Idea)
The End of the Line
Roberta Sanders
Occupation: Teacher
Hobbies: Geography, Hiking, Fishing, Rock-Climbing
Roberta was an experienced camper and backpacker, no husband to tie her down and take up her time with family demands, and she was rounding out the end of her summer vacation with a more than week-long trip into the back country of the Sierra Nevada of California. She drove her Ford Explorer into the back country, parked at the trailhead, and hiked in about eight miles. Far from the nearest town. She enjoyed the solitude, the getting away from it all. No service on the cell phone, of course. Not that she wanted any. For this week, the rest of the world was going to have to solve its own problems. She was...away from it all.
She brought a backpack full of supplies...a bedroll, dehydrated food. A compass and map. Fishing gear. Binoculars. And a digital camera to take pictures. A couple changes of clothes. Summer clothing, of course. For much of the trip, she would end up going topless. Encountering others on this back-country trail was rare. That was the whole point of the endeavor, of course. One had to endure eight months of screaming classrooms of fifth-graders to truly appreciate this nine days of solitude and peace.
The hike went beautifully. Roberta only met three other people the whole time: a young couple from San Jose, and an older Hispanic man who apparently hadn't spoken any English. He had looked at her appreciatively, saying something in Spanish before moving on. And that was the last she had seen of either of them...though she knew the man was interested in her. The only mishap had been weather: two days of wicked thunderstorms toward the end. She had found shelter in an old mine shaft as the hillside had been all-but-strafed by bolt after bolt of lightning, and heavy downpours.
But on the eighth day, the weather improved to just some piles of cumulus, and the woman made her way back to the spot where her SUV was parked. Nothing had happened to it. She climbed in, and started up the engine. It rattled into life, and she drove down the dirt road. There were a couple radio stations that came in up here, some of the powerful Bay Area AM stations, plus a local FM from the town about three miles down the road.
Roberta was puzzled. She slid in a CD...it played normally. So the speakers weren't out, and the in-dash unit itself didn't appear to be damaged.
The dirt road turned into a paved road. So far, she had seen no other traffic. For the dirt road, this was a trifle odd, but not too strange. It wasn't a well-traveled route. But as she went three or four miles down the highway, and still no sign of anyone, Roberta began to feel uneasy. She fiddled with the radio. Still nothing. Another two miles. No traffic. She did pass two cars, pulled off the road, no one inside or near them.
Of course! The cell phone. The service usually resumed right about where the pavement did. She would call someone...another teacher she knew down in Modesto. Just to hear another voice. The flipped the phone open, turned it on. It played its little ditty as it started up.
A chill began to form in the pit of Roberta's stomach. This situation had gone from being odd, passed through "bizarre," and was now entering "scary." About a mile ahead was a grocery/gas combo place. She knew it was open because she had filled up the tank there on the way in. Hopefully they would have answers there. She tossed the phone up onto the dash, stepping on the gas a little bit. She told herself this was just a strange day, that she would round the curve and see four or five cars in the parking lot at Tom's Gas and Go, with the store clerk shooting the breeze with some retirees about where the bass were running up at the lake.
The SUV rounded the corner...and all at once Roberta stomped on the brakes. Barely a hundred yards down the road, an RV was flipped over, blocking both lanes of traffic in front of the store. She pulled on the wheel, managing to guide the SUV into the shoulder as it skidded to a halt just ten feet short of the cab of the Winnebago. She gave way to the shakes for a moment, the smell of burnt rubber thick in the afternoon air as she trembled at the thought of how close she had come to smacking into it. Only after her nerves settled fifteen to twenty seconds later did she come to wonder how the vehicle had gotten in that predicament.
She drove around, off the road, and took the bumpy ride into the Gas-n-Go parking lot. Stopped the engine. She noted she still had better than three-fourths of a tank. The Miller Lite and Dos Equis signs in the front window were dark. The front door was ajar. Turning back to the RV, she noticed it was sitting there. No ticking of a cooling engine, or sign of life. No scared passengers standing around, the driver on his phone with the Highway Patrol or an insurance adjuster.
It was then that she noticed the body. A man, looking to be in his 50s or 60s. Laying behind the SUV. Another car was crashed into the trees at the side of the road. It had been a collision, or a near-miss, between the Winnebago and the Chevy that was burned-out and crumpled against the tree. Roberta noticed a fire had started, but had gone out fairly quickly. If it hadn't been for the epic thunderstorms dropping a couple inches of rain, she supposed, it would probably be a raging forest fire by now.
Flies circling the corpse told her the man was beyond any help. If this were a movie, she supposed she would find a shovel somewhere to bury him, but she was far more concerned with how in the hell this pretty major wreck could sit on a principal highway for at least a full day and not have anyone tending to it. Turning toward the store, she walked up to it and pulled the door open...
I'm looking for a writing partner or storyteller her to help me continue this tale, from the point Roberta enters the store. I will leave the situation of the world up to my writing partner, but as the intro indicates, whatever has happened is pretty bad. I'm open to many possibilities: plague, alien invasion, war, demoniac uprising. Only thing I'm not too terribly keen on is zombies. Because I am looking for Roberta to be engaged (probably against her will) in sexual encounters, and zombies aren't exactly the amorous type. I'm thinking more along the lines of biker gangs, aliens, maybe Chinese or Mexican soldiers, or demons. Something with two legs. I am also looking for plot here...for a story where the pieces fit together and there's a larger purpose.
« Last Edit: July 25, 2010, 06:01:04 pm by OldSchoolGamer »
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Re: The End of the Line (Intro and Plot Idea)
I know you have my yahoo, let's chat about this game. I have an idea.
This is still open...I'll probably go with two different "interpretations" of it running at once.
I'm bringing this back to the top, because I'm in the mood for this kind of deep story.


I've been a huge fan of Thomas Dodd for many years. I met him on Redbubble around six years ago. Both of us have now moved into the Facebook world. The Work of Thomas Dodd is treading that fine line between Photography and Digital Art. This line would have to be the most difficult line to balance in our techno age. Do yourself a favor, have a good look at his art.


MANCHESTER UNITED are on the verge of signing Chelsea's Nemanja Matic in a £40m deal.
The move will see United end their interest in England and Tottenham ace Eric Dier.
Former Chelsea boss Mourinho knows all about Matic, after bringing the midfielder back to Stamford Bridge from Benfica in a £20m deal in 2014.
The United boss identified Matic as one his main targets before the end of last season as he looks to turn his side into Premier League champions once again.
Mourinho has been desperate to land a defensive midfielder and reckons the 28-year-old can be the long-term replacement for veteran Michael Carrick.
Blues boss Antonio Conte is willing to sell Matic to make room in his side for Monaco's Tiemoue Bakayoko.
It will also enable him to keep Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas at Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho reckons Matic has the right mental strength to succeed at Manchester United and will add some much-needed steel to his side's midfield.
Matic, 28, will become Mourinho's second summer signing following United's £30m swoop on Benfica for Swedish defender Victor Lindelof.
United had been keen on luring Dier to Old Trafford but Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy refused to sell him.
Chelsea made a huge effort to keep Matic at Stamford Bridge last summer and he went on to help them land the title in Conte's first season in charge.
But the champions are not afraid to sell their stars to big rivals, with Juan Mata having joined United in 2014 while Petr Cech was allowed to join Arsenal two years ago.
Matic, who has won 32 caps for Serbia, landed four major trophies during his time at the Blues including two league titles and an FA Cup.


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"When Your Guests Drink and Drive: Understanding Dram-Shop and Social Host Liability Law"
Hosting a Super Bowl party for your friends and family can be a stressful time: What will you serve? Where will everyone sit? Is your television big enough? One of the last things you want to worry about is what happens if Uncle Stan drinks too much and then gets behind the wheel of a car. Nevertheless, you should watch Uncle Stan's alcohol consumption not only because of your concern for his safety and that of other drivers, but also because of your possible legal liability should Uncle Stan cause an accident.
As a host, be aware of your state's dram-shop or social host liability laws. These laws identify situations in which a third party can be held liable for the actions of an intoxicated person. Such laws are meant to deter social hosts from over-serving drivers, and to find an additional source of money to help cover damages and injuries caused by drunk drivers. For example, under a traditional dram-shop law, if Uncle Stan gets drunk at Bar X and leaves and drives his car into a church van, injuring three van passengers, the passengers may be able to sue Bar X.
These laws vary broadly by state. However, they generally fall into two categories: laws that are directed only at commercial sellers of alcohol such as Bar X (usually called dram-shop laws), and laws that allow the injured party to sue private individuals who do not sell alcohol but who do serve it or make it available (usually called social host liability laws). State dramshop laws differ on whether a plaintiff must show that the bartender knew the customer he or she was serving was drunk and on whether the bartender must have known the customer was going to get behind the wheel. Social host liability laws vary even more. Some states don't have any such laws at all, while others have strict ones. In some states, these laws focus on underage drinking and only hold a social host responsible if the accident is caused by an individual under the legal drinking age (and in some states, there is a requirement that you are responsible for determining whether Uncle Stan is at least 21 years old before you serve him).
Other states extend social host liability to corporate parties. This could be a critical concern for you if you run a small business. Because these laws vary so much and could easily result in extensive financial liability for you or your business, make sure you fully understand your obligations and responsibilities before hosting that "open bar" party. If you do plan to host a party and serve alcohol, regardless of where you live, there are a few steps you can take in order to avoid legal liability (and, even more importantly, to make sure that your guests get home safely!). Keep taxi information, especially phone numbers, in a public place. Identify one or two designated drivers who will be available at the end of the evening. And eat! Provide plenty of food and nonalcoholic drinks and make them a central part of any get-together.


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Robna marka ili anglicizam brend (eng. brand, iz starofrizijskog "označiti vrućim željezom" ili žigosanje životinja) je prepoznatljiva oznaka ili ime nekog proizvoda, koje često podrazumijeva i kvalitetu.
Marka mora stvarati snažni i trajni identitet proizvoda/usluge, sažimati osobnost poduzeća i poticati osjećaje povjerenja, korisnosti, dobrobiti i sigurnosti. Osnovna prednost marke proizlazi upravo iz njezine nazočnosti u podsvijesti potrošača/korisnika, odnosno mogućnosti za njezino prisjećanje i prepoznavanje, tzv. "svjesnost o marki" (eng. "brand awareness").

Povijest robne marke

Robne marke ili barem trgovački žigovi stari su tisuće godina. Na kineskom porculanu i keramici iz Grčke i Rima već su više od tisuću godina prije naše ere utisnuti žigovi, simboli ljudi koji su ih napravili ili obrtničkih radionica, koji su izvještavali o porijeklu, kvaliteti i provjerenoj vrijednosti proizvoda.
Vlasnici životinjskih stada imali su svaki svoj simbol, što su ga užarenog utisnuli na životinje kako bi označili svoje vlasništvo. U to je vrijeme robna marka imala zadaću izvještavanja o vlasništvu, kao i o autorstvu ili izvoru proizvoda i usluga.

Tek u dvadesetom stoljeću marka i upravljanje markom postaju iznimno važno područje poslovnih tj. marketinških odluka i aktivnosti. Naime, upravo je značajka suvremenog marketinga diferenciranje putem marke. Značenje politike proizvoda dobiva sve veći značaj jer se sva tržišna obilježja proizvoda koriste kako bi se učinio odmak od generičkih proizvoda prema proizvodima s markom.

Mnogi su teoretičari glavnom svrhom robne marke smatrali prepoznavanje proizvoda.
Kotler u svojoj knjizi Marketing management robnu marku namjenjuje prepoznavanju proizvoda jednog ili skupine proizvođača te razlikovanju od proizvoda konkurenata. Veliki preokret u razumijevanju robne marke napravio je Jean Noel Kapferer u svojoj knjizi Brand management kada je zapisao da robna marka nije proizvod, nego suština proizvoda te time postaje metafizička kategorija.

Elementi marke

Elementima marke, koji se ponekad nazivaju i identitetima (ili čak osobnostima) marke, smatraju se elementi koje je moguće pravno registrirati i zaštititi, a uključuju:

Ime marke – Brand name – Dio marke koji se može izgovoriti, a sadrži riječi, slova i brojeve.
Znak marke – Brand mark – Vizualni identitet marke. Neizreciv, ali uočljiv dio marke. Primjerice simbol, dizajn, kombinacija boja i sl.
Zaštitni znak – Trade mark – Zakonita oznaka koja upućuje da vlasnik ima isključivo pravo uporabe marke ili njezina dijela. Oznake ® © ™

Izborom elemenata marke, poduzeće neposredno utječe na izgradnju njezine vrijednosti.

Vrijednost marke

Marke imaju svoju vrijednost na tržištu, no malo koja kompanija zna kolika je vrijednost njezinih marki jer je teško izračunati točnu vrijednost nečega što ovisi, primjerice, o svijesti potrošača i njihovom prepoznavanju marki na tržištu.

Tržišna vrijednost marke odražava marketinške napore uložene u upravljanje markom. Vrijednost poznatih marki, izražena u financijskim pokazateljima može biti u stotinama milijuna američkih dolara.

Poznatija metoda utvrđivanja tržišne vrijednosti marki je mjera zamjenjivosti koju su razvili Longman i Moran. Prema tom modelu, ključni pokazatelj tržišne vrijednosti marke jest stopa ponovljene kupnje, uz dakako tržišni udjel. Ta stopa pokazuje koliko će potrošača koji su određenu marku kupili posljednji put to učiniti i sljedeći put. Znači, tržišna vrijednost marki veća je ako je veća stopa ponavljanja.

Osim ponovljene kupnje, kvantitativni aspekt vrijednosti marke može se promatrati putem: udjela na tržištu, prihoda i profita, stope povrata na uložena sredstva i razlike u cijeni u odnosu na glavne konkurente.

Kvalitativnu vrijednost marke predstavlja: percepcija kvalitete, zadovoljstvo ili nezadovoljstvo potrošača/ korisnika, njihova lojalnost, konkurentska prednost proizvoda ili usluge.

Prema Davidu A. Aakeru, elemente marke moguće je grupirati u 5 kategorija koje predstavljaju temeljne vrijednosti marke:
lojalnost marki
svjesnost o imenu
percipirana kvaliteta
asocijacije vezane uz marku u odnosu na percipiranu kvalitetu
ostale zaštićene vrijednosti (elementi) marke

Vrijednost marke se smanjuje, ako je krivo izabrana ili se njome ne upravlja na pravi način, a time se smanjuje vrijednost koju proizvod ili usluga imaju za potrošača/ korisnika.

Privatne marke

Privatne marke - private label - mogu se podijeliti na:

Ekonomske privatne marke kojima je obilježje niska cijena, ali i niža kvaliteta. One obično trgovcima služe da bi uspostavili kontrolu nad proizvođačima.
Premijske privatne marke trgovci koriste u drugoj fazi uvođenja privatne marke. Njihova je kvaliteta ista kao kod proizvoda sličnih robnih grupa, ali im je cijena niža.

Danas gotovo sve veće hrvatske trgovačke kuće imaju svoje privatne marke, a cijene takvih proizvoda su i 40 posto niže od onih koje proizvođači prodaju pod svojim markama. Uvođenje vlastite robne marke nije nimalo lako jer, nakon što se odredi proizvod koji se želi prodavati pod vlastitim imenom, treba pronaći proizvođača.

Globalne marke

Poduzeća koja internacionaliziraju poslovanje suočavaju se s problemom izbora marke za strana tržišta. Standardizacija – jedno ime, znak, slogan marke – zajedničko za sva tržišta, ili adaptacija – prilagođavanje specifičnostima svake zemlje.

Prednosti globalne marke:
Globalne marke omogućavaju primjenu ekonomija razmjena u područjima: razvoja marke, promocije marke, te pakiranja i opremanja opipljivih proizvoda, čime se ostvaruju značajne uštede koje omogućavaju bolju konkurentsku poziciju na tržištu.
Globalne marke imaju prednost u razvoju svjesnosti o marki. Potrošači/korisnici su izloženi marki čak i kada putuju po inozemstvu.
Pojam globalna marka ima nekoliko korisnih asocijacija – implicira na sposobnost konkurentske prednosti, snage, pouzdanosti proizvoda/usluge te smanjenog rizika.
Veliki broj globalnih marki neposredno asocira na zemlju proizvođača, gradeći time imidž zemlje porijekla proizvoda.

Nedostaci globalne marke:
Imena, znakovi, simboli i asocijacije ne prilagođavaju se kulturnim obilježjima i vrijednostima lokalnih tržišta
Animozitet lokalnih potrošača prema stranim proizvodima i proizvođačima

Vanjske poveznice

Lista brendova magazina Forbes

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The other New Hampshire primary: State races on tap Tuesday
Holly Ramer | The Associated Press
Published on Sept. 11, 2018 | Updated 10:21 a. m.
Democratic hopefuls are introduced during a televised debate for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District at the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. on Sept. 5. From left are William Martin, Deaglan McEachren, Mark MacKenzie, Mindi Messmer, Chris Pappas, Naomi Andrews, Lincoln Soldati, Paul Cardinal, Terence O'Rourke, Maura Sullivan and Levi Sanders. Eleven Democrats and six Republicans are competing in the Tuesday, Sept. 11 primary for a chance to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who is not seeking re-election.
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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire, which prides itself on going first in presidential primaries, is among the stragglers for state primaries.
Just eight weeks before the general election, voters on Tuesday will pick nominees for an open Congressional seat in a sought-after swing district, a Republican challenger in the other district and a Democratic opponent for the current governor.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu faced no primary challenge as he seeks a second term, and will face either former state Sen. Molly Kelly or former Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand in November.
Seven Republicans are competing for a chance to face Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster in the 2nd Congressional District, but most of the action has been in the 1st District, which roughly covers the eastern half of the state.
There, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter's decision to step down after four non-consecutive terms resulted in a swarm of candidates seeking to replace her.
Executive Councilor Chris Pappas and former Obama administration official Maura Sullivan lead a crowded field of 11 Democrats that also includes longshot Levi Sanders, son of the Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. State Sen. Andy Sanborn and Eddie Edwards, former enforcement chief for the state liquor commission, emerged as the front-runners in the six-candidate Republican race.
The 1st District was once reliably Republican but has flipped back and forth in each of the last four cycles. In 2016, it both returned Shea-Porter to Congress and backed President Donald Trump.
Edwards, who received the backing of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, sought to make the race about character and integrity, and said he'd refuse to support Sanborn as the nominee. Sanborn, a four-term senator from Bedford, has acknowledged making a sexual "joke" to a Statehouse intern in 2013 but said a recent investigation into the matter was politically motivated.
On the Democratic side, Sullivan raised more money than the other 10 candidates combined, but she's faced criticism for being both new to the state and voting in general.
She said she and her fiancé moved to New Hampshire last year to put down roots, but her opponents have accused her of district shopping. After the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper reported that she failed to vote in either of the past two midterm elections or the 2016 presidential primary, Sullivan said she regrets not voting more often but saw herself as a soldier and public servant.
Pappas, who is openly gay, is a former state lawmaker who is serving his third term on the governor's Executive Council and runs a family restaurant in Manchester. He gained the backing of the state's two Democratic U.S. senators, and touted his strong financial support from New Hampshire residents.
Secretary of State William Gardner is predicting 180,000 ballots will be cast, roughly split among Democrats and Republicans. That amounts to about 19 percent of registered voters and would be a record for Democratic ballots cast in a midterm primary.
Black ex-police chief gets GOP nod for New Hampshire House
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Cases of death from overwork soar in Japan
Julian Ryall
04/05/2016 April 5, 2016
As a new generation of employees joins their companies, experts express concern over the pressure that is heaped upon Japanese workers - and the growing problem of 'karoshi.' Julian Ryall reports from Tokyo.
https://p.dw.com/p/1IPUw
Some 910,000 new hires attended welcome ceremonies at companies large and small across Japan on April 1. Greeted with speeches from presidents and CEOs and urged to do their best for an organization that the new arrivals are encouraged to consider their new family, few are likely to have pondered the possible negative impact of their entry into the Japanese workforce.
Even fewer will have remembered the case of Mina Mori, who was 26 years old when she killed herself in June 2008, just two months after joining Watami Co., which runs a chain of "izakaya" bars.
It was not until December 2015 that the company agreed to pay compensation of Y130 million (1.03 million euros) to Mori's parents for her death. The company - which was founded by Miki Watanabe, a politician in the upper house of the Japanese parliament - was also ordered by the court to provide details of the settlement and an apology on its website.
'What we are seeing is an ageing workforce as fewer young people come through,' says expertImage: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/GettyImages
As well as working a 10-hour shift, which finished after her last train had gone - meaning she had to stay in the bar overnight - Mori put in an average of 140 hours of unpaid overtime per month.
In a note she wrote shortly before her death, Mori said, "My body hurts. I feel exhausted. I Feel emotionally numb. I can't move as fast as I want to. Please help me."
'Karoshi' cases soar
Government statistics released this week show that legal cases filed over "karoshi" - the Japanese term that means death from overwork - soared to 1,456 in the year that ended in March 2015. In comparison, a total of 1,576 cases were filed between 2004 and 2008.
The situation is being exacerbated, analysts point out, by a shortage of workers in several sectors, including healthcare, social services and construction.
"There are lots of reasons why we are seeing this problem becoming worse, but it really all boils down to the excessive sense of competition in Japanese society," said Hiroshi Kawahito, president of the Kawahito Law Office in Tokyo, and a member of the National Defense Counsel for Victims of Karoshi.
"Since Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, the economy has stagnated, meaning that companies have been forced to implement downsizing measures and take on more temporary workers instead of full-time salaried staff," he told DW.
"At the same time, full-time workers were expected to put in longer hours and came under stronger pressure to perform," he said. "Their fear was that if they didn't they would lose their full-time status, so they endured the situation."
In the quarter of a century that has passed since the bubble burst, long hours, unpaid overtime, shorter holidays and fewer perks have become the norm at Japanese workplaces.
Labor laws lack teeth
"Basically, the problem is that Japanese labor laws have no teeth," said Kawahito.
"European countries have limits on the hours that employees can work and those are enforced," he said. "We have the same limits in Japan, but companies get around them by signing agreements with workers and unions."
Fearful for their jobs, workers have caved in to companies' demands and a 12-hour working day is considered quite normal, Kawahito added.
Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, says Japan's working conditions are "atrocious."
"Japanese people put in punishingly long hours, the work they do is generally tedious, their vacations are short, there is immense pressure on them, and the corporate culture means they are expected to spend a lot of time drinking with their colleagues when they do finally get out of the office," he told DW.
Dujarric is not convinced, however, that Japan is experiencing a spike in karoshi cases.
"Working for a Japanese company has been like this for generations, so what I believe is that we are seeing an ageing workforce as fewer young people come through, with older 'salary men' far more likely to suffer high blood pressure or a heart attack," he explained.
PM Abe's government attempted to address the problem, passing a law in 2014Image: Reuters/T. Hanai
Government efforts
The government has attempted to address the problem, passing a law in late 2014 designed to prevent karoshi by monitoring companies and researching cases of death or ill-health brought on by overwork. Last year, authorities investigated 2,362 complaints and reported violations in 60 percent of cases.
And Kawahito believes that a fraction of the cases are being reported or investigated.
"If we look at mental health cases, we can see a sharp increase in reports of depression among workers brought on by pressure in the workplace," he said.
And unless the problem is solved soon, Kawahito believes, the impact on Japanese society will be dramatic.
"Younger workers are obliged to put in so many hours at their companies now that they don't have time for a boyfriend or a girlfriend," he points out. "It's all work, work, work. That, in turn, means they are getting married much later - if they get married at all - and they're not having children.
"The government says it is worried about population decline and a shrinking workforce with more older people, but they are not doing enough to help people who do want to have a normal family life," he said.
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Once the preserve of automated factories and research and development laboratories, androids are stepping out into Japanese society. DW's Tokyo correspondent Julian Ryall reports. (21.07.2015)
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German formula 1 driver triple world champion. We contested our first Formula 1 race in 1966 and won our first F1 grand prix in Belgium in 1968.
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I have been deliberately cutting back on my social media consumption this year, for a number of reasons. But like everyone else, I find myself scrolling around here and there to catch up on what I "missed." So this past weekend, I'm scrolling through my FB feed and saw a post about an article that caught my eye.
But of course under the post were comments. Come for the article, stay for the comments!
I have to disclose that I agree with that sentiment.
But I also understand why people put up with this.
Let me explain. My path has been all about figuring out what (else) I could do when my academic plans went awry. Twice. And having landed on the other side of that mess, I can safely say that while I took a long and winding road to get here, and it was not easy, nor pretty, I have landed in the kind of work I should have been doing all along. (A 'regular' staff job in higher ed in a line of work utterly unrelated to most anything I studied academically.) And yet my husband's path, equally messy, and with essentially the same end-point (an alt-ac job but directly in his field), was the corollary. He's a through-and-through academic. Someone who is suited only for working in his academic field in teaching and scholarly inquiry…and yet had to accept our financial & work-life reality and adjust course.
Your Assumptions About Office Work Might Be Wrong. Dead Wrong.
I just kept ruminating about the comments, over and over. "Office work." As if all jobs that are in offices are the same, and none require higher-level brain power. "It's not enough to just get a job," as if most of us can idly sit by awaiting work that inspires us to come along for…how long? At what costs?
Here's where I realized what it really was that was bugging me so much. The black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking that was taking place.
I believe (and know!) it doesn't have to be that way.
It doesn't have to be follow your dream passion OR get a soul-sucking job in a cubicle farm.
Your job doesn't need to be either: "do what you love" or "love what you do" to be right for you.
Smart and interesting people aren't working ONLY as faculty in higher ed. They're everywhere.
You don't have to choose between doing something rewarding OR getting paid enough to afford groceries.
When you must do what you love, you will still have to make sacrifices.
You shouldn't write something off [like, say, "office work"] until you have researched it, worked it, learned about it, and/or lived it.
I don't know if it's just a result of my own personal journey, or also because of my work that I've done in job design and position analysis, or coaching or what, but there is an enormous spectrum between "do what you love" and "I hate my soul-sucking work!" Sometimes you're closer to "I hate this!" but incrementally, with each new project or job, moving closer to what you DO want to do. Or at least further from what you don't want to do!
Even When You Start Doing What You Love….You may not Love It As Much!
Also, often, once you start doing something you love as a full-time, day-in, day-out JOB, you often find that reality doesn't quite align with what you thought it would be. Every single job, even those you love, involve doing some things you hate, whether that's writing reports, public speaking, no ability to telecommute, something. And it's often like the Dunning-Kruger effect in that you can't know what you do or don't know, like, or hate about a job UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT.
It's impossible to know what role your passion should play in the jigsaw puzzle of your career or how your career will fit with, complement, and/or facilitate your professional passion(s) and personal interests and goals until you do some serious introspection, self-reflection, and even self-assessments, and gather up some work experience (of different stripes, I would even say) under your belt. And it's not just that I strongly believe, it's that I am living proof that your passion does not have to equal your career! (And for many of us, that's a recipe for disaster).
So it's this black & white thinking we need to get away from. There are pluses and minuses to all kinds of approaches to careers, and all kinds of career plans. There's room for it all!


Bamieh, Bamia, or what is also known as Okra and apparently some people refer to it as "Lady finger", when I type an Arabic word in English it is very difficult to be precise in the choice of letters for the accent differs from one person to another in our region.
Anyhow, I am one of the people who loooooovvvvveee Bamieh, I mean really, this vegetable tastes so good and different from anything else. This is a vegetarian dish and I have noticed that most Middle-Eastern dishes are vegetarian but we tend to add meat to them, so when checking my recipes, just try to look for the ones that can substitute the meat.
I am always so curious to why Okra is not so much used in the west ?
Apparently Bamieh or Okra is mostly found in Asia, Ethiopia and West Africa. The Egyptians have used it since the 12th and 13th century, and is very well-known in the Middle-East and between all Arabs as Bamieh or Bamia.
Bamieh / Okra is very low in calories, they provide 30 calories per 100g, has neither saturated fat nor cholesterol. They are rich in dietary fiber, minerals, and vitamins.
I must admit to you that so many people are turned off by the bamieh as soon as they are introduced to the dish because of its slimy appearance after cooking. I personally don't mind it maybe because I grew up with it and I love the taste of it.
The recipe below is a famous Lebanese dish and is called Bamieh bil Zeit (which mean Okra soaked in olive oil) and is usually eaten with pita bread. What most Palestinians and Jordanians make is Okra stew or Bamieh bil Bandora "Bamia in Tomatoes", hopefully I will share the Okra stew recipe with you soon in the following months. Meanwhile give this amazing Bamieh bel Zeit a try at home.
WASH THE OKRA VERY WELL AND DRAIN.
CUT THE PEELED TOMATOES INTO MEDIUM SIZE PIECES.
FINELY CHOP THE ONION AND CORIANDER.
CUT THE CHILI IN FINE CIRCLES.
REMOVE ALL GARLIC SKIN AND CRUSH 4 OF THE GARLICS.
CUT THE REMAINING GARLIC COVES IN HALF'S.
IN A MEDIUM SIZE SAUCEPAN, ADD THE OLIVE OIL. ONION, GARLIC AND PARSLEY WHILE YOU STIR THEM ALL TOGETHER.
ADD THE OKRA, SALT, PEPPER, GREEN CHILI AND STIR VERY WELL FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES.
ADD THE TOMATOES, THE LEMON AND POMEGRANATE MOLASSES AND LEAVE OVER LOW HEAT FOR ABOUT 30 – 45 MINUTES.
YOUR OKRA SHOULD BE VERY WELL COOKED; YOU CAN USE YOUR FORK TO TEST HOW SOFT YOUR OKRA IS.
NOTE: IF REMAINS, STORE IN REFRIGERATOR AND DO NOT HEAT BEFORE SERVING.
How to eat the Okra in Olive Oil?
This dish is preferably served cold. You can serve it as an appetizer or a main dish. This dish must be served with pita bread on the side to eat with.


Democrat Campa-Najjar responds to being called a "security risk."
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, who's running to unseat Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter in California, responded Wednesday to a Hunter ad calling him a "security risk" because of his Palestinian family connections.
Campa-Najjar was on ABC Live's "The Briefing Room" Wednesday to speak with Political Director Rick Klein and Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks. He criticized the ad, saying he is not a threat to national security, but he is a threat to Republicans.
Hunter is fighting to keep his job after being indicted over the summer for charges related to misuse of campaign funds.
(Denis Poroy/AP, FILE) Rep. Duncan Hunter, center, leaves an arraignment hearing, Aug. 23, 2018, in San Diego. Hunter and his wife Margaret pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they illegally used his campaign account for personal expenses.
Campa-Najjar's grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born, was involved in the 1972 terror plot at the Munich Olympics. Hunter has tried to capitalize on that fact, saying that his family makes him a threat to the nation.
Campa-Najjar criticized Hunter and said he personally tries to draw on the friendly messages sent in the past Republicans like McCain, who shut down similar comments being made toward his presidential opponent Barack Obama.
California's conservative, San Diego area district has been represented by Hunter since 2013 when he assumed the office from his father. The former Obama staffer and Labor Department employee said California's 50th district is ready for a change.
Hunter was indicted in August for the misuse of more than a quarter of a million dollars in campaign funds, which included a vacation to Italy, dental pills and plane tickets for a pet, according to the New York Times. FiveThirtyEight still only gives the hopeful Democrat a one in seven chance of winning the seat.


Today we take time to reflect on a precious verse and a beautiful song. We call it Word & Worship.
Living surrendered to the One Who gave His life for ours, is the only way to live a life blessed and fulfilled.
To some, this verse may seem like and oxymoran; but as you grow deeper in your relationship with the Lord, it makes more and more sense. We're now in day 8 of the 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, with the past week having our focus on drawing close to Jesus. One of the key ways to do so is by surrendering ourselves to Him. It's letting go of our worldly desires, living life for ourselves and the need to have control, and submitting ourselves fully to God, allowing Him to navigate our lives. It's easy to think we know what's best for us and if we're behind the wheel, then we'll get where we want to go faster. However, in reality, we only go in circles, all to discover that our satisfaction is temporary. But when we surrender our lives to the Lord, He fills and blesses it to no end. It's the only satisfaction that lasts. It's the only one worth pursuing and having.
We encourage you to relinquish all control that you may be holding onto, as you listen to today's worship, fully surrendered. We pray these words bless you.
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The plant disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB) is believed to be caused by a phloem-restricted bacterium which is vectored by the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP).
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The purpose of the Arkansas quitclaim deed is to disclaim one's interest in real property and pass the claim to another person. The Arkansas quitclaim deed form is typically used in divorce situations when a spouse is disclaiming interest in property that the other spouse owns.
This Arkansas quitclaim deed document template is downloadable and printable. The Arkansas quitclaim deed form was professionally drafted using a easy to understand format.


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