P/E ratios are not mean reverting.
Readers of works on value investing have become acquainted with the mercurial Mr. Market. His presence everyday at the front door to offer or buy securities served as an allegory by Benjamin Graham to depict fear and greed. As Mr. Market arrives to set a daily price based on his mood, the investor decides whether to transact. Investors are taught that fundamentals should drive decision making rather than temperament. It was an important step in transitioning the practice of security analysis into data mining and out of rumor and innuendo.
One of the hallmarks of value investing is being a contrarian with a well-researched view that is different from the herd. Our friend Mr. Market is often seen as the herd as he is excitable. We believe this simplification can be the beginning of investing in value traps. Although we acknowledge the importance of the allegory, we believe it describes how the market transactsrather than how the market reasons.
When one buys an equity security the price is being set by the market as determined by the aggregate of all interested investor's opinions. While Mr. Market may have difficulty valuing the market daily, he is more proficient at valuing an individual security. This is because the market is a sub-martingale and its expected price is higher tomorrow therefor the buyer of the market in a downturn will eventually be right and enjoy a profitable trade, the buyer of an individual security is engaged in an extremely different payoff expectation and is not guaranteed success.
We have been exposed to the reasoning of many value investors who buy a security and then utilize Mr. Market as the reasoning or even worse the investment thesis. In this case our allegorical character is not standing alone, he has an army of analysts armed with data behind him. The wisdom of crowds is a powerful concept and it is not as easy as depicting greed and fear, it is an aggregation of all market knowledge. There are rare times when this group is decidedly wrong, but it is having been described by Warren Buffett as "periodically" not consistently. Another take away from the Oracle of Omaha is that one does not have to transact at all with Mr. Market so even when a given equity has been repriced there is fundamental work to do.
Investors often look at the past multiples for a shorthand approach to valuation. This is common in the version of value investing known as Growth at a Reasonable Price. Price/Earnings ratios are not mean reverting although our observation of investors over 30 years leads us to pronounce that many investors believe so. Often the multiple is below the prior year's multiple for reasons such as competition, substitute products coming to market or customer habits shifting. Cyclical companies will have a range of multiples through the cycle but will have the lowest multiple at peak earnings before the backside of the curve.
If the investment thesis is simply that the company's multiple is below a previously observed number there is a reasonable chance that the outcome will not be one where Mr. Market is pessimistic but rather realistic.
There have been companies that have been undermanaged and have produced subpar results with languishing stock prices. Different leadership or game changing innovation can lead to a repricing of the stock (think Apple). Should we really blame our dear friend Mr. Market for being depressed? He is simply transacting today, he will be there to transact tomorrow if the facts change. It is not a depressive state that is leading him to sell at today's price, his reasoning is clouded by today's facts. Periodically there will be a company that will remake itself and change its profitability (Berkshire Hathaway in 1966) * but the reader should be reminded that the business that existed prior to Mr. Buffett's arrival has been gone for quite some time.
The allegory of Mr. Market has been extremely useful in the description of stock market transactions however unless there is a name plaque with this given name on an investment committee, it is not part of an investment thesis.
*Mr. Market was not depressed upon offering Berkshire Hathaway stock for sale in the single digits, he was just lowballing the return on invested capital calculations. His analysis was that the company founded in 1839 was on its last legs because the assets were not producing sufficient return. Assets that walk on two feet are almost always measured in the rear-view mirror and come with notable risks such as buses, lucrative offers and retirement.


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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22, 2021 — Scriptation, Apple's #1 app for Film & TV production, was named a recipient of the Television Academy's 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards. The app received this top honor at a ceremony on Thursday, October 21st at the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live, hosted by Kirsten Vangsness.
Franco Zuccar, Steve Vitolo, Felipe A. Mendez
Franco Zuccar, from left, Steve Vitolo and Felipe A. Mendez, of Scriptation pose with their Engineering Emmy at the 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards, presented by the Television Academy at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision for The Television Academy/AP Images)
Founded in 2013, Scriptation set out to revolutionize the script revision process. Scriptation's launch was propelled by Emmy nominated actor Rainn Wilson's "Script Change Hell" campaign, which highlighted the chaos of getting a revised script, figuring out what's changed, and rewriting notes onto the new pages.
To solve this industry-wide problem, Scriptation's engineering team developed proprietary algorithms that compare, analyze, and transfer PDF annotations between scripts. This groundbreaking achievement shortened a process that used to take hours, into seconds.
Scriptation has been used on thousands of productions worldwide including Emmy-winning series' "Saturday Night Live," "Bridgerton," and "Game of Thrones." The company is backed by over a dozen Hollywood power players including "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris, "Billions" actor and director Rob Morrow, "Modern Family" director Michael Spiller, "Grace and Frankie" director Gail Lerner, and "Titanic" cinematographer Russell Carpenter.
"Keeping my notes in every draft of a script and having them migrate is huge for me," says Liz Hannah, co-writer of the Academy Award nominated film "The Post." "It cuts down on time, and makes it easy to share when I'm in a room with my collaborators."
"I make an enormous number of notes, including lighting and blocking diagrams, and they're all housed in my script," says "Creepshow" cinematographer Rob Draper. "Transferring all that data with one button click is a tremendous timesaver."
Recipients of the Emmy award are Lead Engineer Franco Zuccar, and Scriptation co-founders Felipe Mendez and Steve Vitolo. "Scriptation has completely disrupted how production work is done on set," says Vitolo. "We're honored to be recognized as a leader in the digital production space, by creating solutions that provide wins for the user, the studios, and the environment."
Available as a Universal app for Apple devices, Scriptation transforms traditional production tasks into efficient and environmentally-conscious workflows, enabling entire productions to go paperless. Scriptation's widespread adoption is linked to its time-saving value to every department on set and off, having become the essential tool for remote collaboration and paperless practices.
Other award recipients included Arnold Global Illumination Rendering System, ARRI SkyPanel, CEDAR Studio, Golaem Crowd, Massive, Teradek Bolt 4K, and Chaos' V-Ray. Reed Hastings was honored with the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award and Dolby Laboratories received the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award.
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If you're involved in a startup company or tech-transfer then you have probably already heard of the 'Valley of Death'. For those of us who have never heard the term, the Valley of Death is the gap the exists between an idea and the reality of a commercialised product. There are many great research ideas that look promising on paper, yet for some reason never realise their potential.
Why is this? There are numerous reasons, lack of publicity, lack of funding, overly protective IP licensing or even just poor management of the idea. But whatever the reasons behind it, the gap is real; half of UK startups fail within 5 years. Often these failures aren't due to poor ideas, but instead are down to ineffective implementation.
Cyber security is an industry which suffers acutely from this problem. The field progresses at such a pace, meaning many threat mitigation ideas get left behind as the threat moves on. It is also hard to find good software engineers who know how to program solutions quickly, innovatively and securely.
Many universities' technology transfer departments are constrained by resources and expertise in this emerging field, so have limited experience with developing cyber security ideas. These same issues mean publicising these ideas is not necessarily a priority either, so many of them are left unseen by industry (more on the complexities of technology transfer next week). To assist in overcoming this problem we built CLUE, our European cyber security research database (see last week's blog, 'How CLUE'). CLUE is a critical part of our business process, but the information we have put together is also interesting to the wider cyber security industry, so we made it freely available.
By doing so, we have also reached out to heads of IT, Chief Information Security Officers (and the dizzying volume of equivalent titles) to understand the existing and projected needs in the market.
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THAT IS THE QUESTION!
Prof. G. Venkataraman
The following is the transcript of a talk broadcast recently by Prof. Venkataraman over Radio Sai. The transcript is supplemented with appropriate photographs and video clips. We hope you would enjoy this article and also find its accompaniments useful.
Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prasanthi Nilayam.
Dear listeners, this is a special talk, made necessary by certain happenings in recent times that are rather unusual and disturbing at the same time. I am sure you must be wondering what it is all about; so, let me begin at the beginning.
From the time Radio Sai started functioning, it has been primarily concerned with the dissemination of the teachings and the message of our Most Beloved Bhagawan. That said there have also been times when I personally had to make exceptions in order to intervene and dispel deliberate misinformation that was being spread to create confusion in the minds of devotees. I expected that after Swami withdrew, there would be no need for this sort of thing, since the problem was external to the community of devotees. Everyone believed that a new era of collective responsibility would begin in which everyone would be united in preserving His legacy in all manners possible, particularly by way of sustaining the various institutions Swami had established.
The Recent Confusion
Sadly, it turns out that I was mistaken. Lately certain things have been happening which belong to an altogether different category of problems that have serious implications. Many have expressed their anguish about this in person to me when visiting here, while others have conveyed their agitated feelings via e-mails.
A good many of you who are deeply immersed in work, and use your spare time for re-living those golden times which so rapidly dissolved into history, are perhaps wondering what is it that I am talking about; allow me please to put the matter in perspective as best as I can.
I start with Easter Sunday 2011 when, what we thought would not and cannot ever happen, actually did. Our dear Divine Master decided that He had given His Teachings and must now withdraw to His Eternal, Formless and Omnipresent Aspect, leaving us to behave like adults, and improve ourselves spiritually by carrying on His Mission, besides spreading His Teachings.
The Eternal Dissolves into Eternity - Part 01
However, this being the Kali Yuga that did not quite happen; and thus began a major test for the faithful, a test that commenced without warning or even enough time to recover from the traumatic experience we all had to go through. Having started the test, it seemed as if Swami was telling us,
Bangaru! Here is your test. You can easily handle it if you are completely familiar with My teachings and your buddhi is sharp enough to discriminate between what would please Swami and what would not. And remember, when you talk of Swami, I am not confined to one form or place but Omnipresent.
At the same time, since you who are now alive have been given the extraordinary blessing of experiencing the Avataric Form, you have to be extra careful in understanding and interpreting My teachings.
The last point is important. In my experience, I have found that where Swami is concerned, problems usually arise in two different ways. First is through misunderstanding Swami's teachings and second is through misinterpretation.
There is a difference between the two situations. Misunderstanding leads to mistakes but genuine ones. This has happened to me several times and of course on every occasion Swami duly ticked me off; that is how He sometimes imparted education, by acting as a tough headmaster. Where misinterpretation of Swami's teachings is concerned, sometimes it is due to spiritual ignorance while at other times the intentions are questionable, if I may put it that way.
I am sure many of you may be somewhat irritated and also wondering what exactly is it that I am trying to say. Well, two things have been happening recently which are linked and also disturbing. Let me start with the more recent one, which has set alarm bells ringing in many places. It is all about an email that is going round, in which the writer says,
QUOTE: I know now that Sai Baba needs me here as he has just made his first public appearance in the subtle body (light body), while taking 150 people to Kodaikanal.........for the past 10 days. Many discourses and films will be released soon...
The writer continues:
QUOTE: You will, I am sure, hear of this historical moment which will be a test of faith for many. The rumour that He was in the subtle body and has taken residence in Muddenahalli, has been widespread for 2-3 years now.
On my first of a dozen or so visits over the last 1 & 1/2 years, when He called me to Muddenahalli, He told me, 'My body had decayed and useless and I had to leave it behind. But I will continue My mission as promised until my 96th year. Then, I will take a new form.' END OF QUOTE.
The writer adds that at "His command," meaning of course Swami's command, he the writer, visited the institutions set up by newly-formed Trusts "in various countries," and further that many more such institutions, i.e., schools and hospitals would be built including a super-specialty hospital in America, not forgetting the execution of water projects.
Here comes the interesting part and listen carefully. The writer of this mail also says:
QUOTE: He (meaning Swami of course) told me not to speak of my visitations to his new form or activities of his post-Samadhi mission, which I had not, but that time has now come. I am sure this is beyond understanding for many as it is not possible to comprehend this phenomenon intellectually but only through the boundless perception of the heart.
This will most certainly be a new controversial test of faith for all, and a great commotion will now begin (as is and has always been his signature), for many that call themselves devotees of Sathya Sai Baba, so few really understood what he was.....…Or who they are... So again he stirs the pot of transformation...wow! END OF QUOTE.
This letter is, if I may put it that way, the effect; and the cause for it is, as the writer himself has described,
The rumour that He was in the subtle body and has taken residence in Muddenahalli … for 2-3 years now.
You will recall I had read out this part a little earlier.
So that in brief is what is bothering many, yours truly included; that Swami has taken residence in subtle form elsewhere and, through the agency of others who are in communication with His subtle Form, He gives instructions, authorises missions and most recently has told the writer that He would be back in His 96th year meaning, I presume, in the year 2021. Furthermore, as this writer says, all this would be comprehensible only to the limited few through the boundless perception of their heart while most of us remain trapped by our intellect which, presumably, is quite feeble to understand happenings in the subtle world.
The Misinterpretation
So you see there is Swami's test. What I am not sure about is who is being tested?! Maybe, together we can figure it out. But meanwhile, we too have been hearing about this Muddenahalli business, that people have started going there, etc. However, we chose not to pay attention for an important reason. A large number of devotees who were attached to the physical form had unquestionably been traumatised by Swami's withdrawal and were ready to clutch at any straw to seek consolation. If they felt secure by going somewhere else, why unnecessarily disturb them? That was the view we took.
Soon we found that instead of coming out of the shock and back to normality, these suffering souls were being systematically presented an alternate reality according to which Swami had taken residence in Muddenahalli in subtle form, etc. Although this was clearly in violation of not only what the scriptures say but also what Swami Himself had declared, we chose to refrain from commenting on this bizarre and dubious alternate reality that was being promoted. Presently, things have gone to such a stage that it has become necessary for us to come out of the shell and, in general public interest, draw attention to certain things that Swami has said which have a direct bearing on this strange turn of events.
As a prelude, let me begin with an incident that happened many years ago in Trayee Brindavan when Swami was having one of those famous Trayee sessions, at which I happened to be present. In other words, what I am going to say is from my own personal knowledge.
That evening, soon after the usual opening formalities were completed, Swami asked one of those present to speak. Since talking about experiences was the norm, this person narrated with much gusto how Swami suddenly appeared at midnight in a hospital room in Canada where a devotee had suddenly become very sick. There was no medical attendant or nurse around and this person was collapsing. He prayed, whereupon Swami manifested and healed the seriously ill person, who then fell asleep. Ending his talk with appropriate dramatic flourishes the speaker sat down and then asked Swami:
"Swami, You are here in Brindavan. And yet, You suddenly manifested in far off Canada to come to the assistance of a devotee who called out to You. How did You do that Swami?"
All eyes were now focussed expectantly on Swami, wondering what He was going to say. Swami took His own time and then slowly said to the speaker,
"You seem to have a rather poor opinion about God!"
While all of us gasped, Swami continued,
"These days, when a man speaks in Washington, you are able to see and hear him here in your drawing room. If man can do that, is it so difficult for God to be in two places at the same?
Actually it is not as if God travels from place to place and so on. He is everywhere and all the time. However, He is not visible. When required, He manifests at the place He has to be in and after He has completed what He had appeared for, He unmanifests Himself."
This was a great lesson and I soon realised that there is a perfect example in Nature that we hardly notice.
As we all know, planet earth is surrounded by a thin protective skin called the atmosphere which, by the way, we now seem hell-bent on polluting beyond decent limits. While the atmosphere is made up primarily of two (transparent) gases, namely, nitrogen and oxygen, it also has water vapour. However, this water vapour is not visible. In other words, what we regard as a clear sky actually has a lot of moisture; the vapour not being visible to the eye, we say the sky is clear. Stated differently, the sky being clear is merely a perception and does not mean that there is no water vapour.
I am mentioning all this because even though the sky might be clear, suddenly a cloud could appear as if from nowhere. And just as clouds appear seemingly from nowhere, they could also thin out and disappear. In other words, if Nature could make clouds to appear and disappear, could not the Creator also manifest and unmanifest as He chooses?
Going back to Swami being in residence in Muddenahalli after Mahasamadhi, one wonders where He was in residence just before He incarnated as the Avatar of the Kali Age. Was He somewhere close to Shirdi? What happened after He shed His form as Lord Sri Krishna, which happened about five thousand years or so ago? Any number of such questions can be asked.
Someone asked me: "Swami has said in so many of His Discourses, I am in you, etc. If Swami has taken residence in Muddenahalli, does it mean that Swami vacated my Heart?"
What I am trying to point out is that this business of systematically creating an alternative reality is causing unnecessary doubts in the minds of ordinary devotees. Is this right and proper? Here I must make a mention of a question addressed to me after I finished a talk I gave soon after Mahasamadhi, to a group that had come from the Far East. One person got up and asked,
Many people are saying that Swami can no longer be physically seen, is there any point in going to Puttaparthi? Do you have any message or answer for them?
I replied,
No one can be compelled to go here or there. People visit places for their own reasons and are perfectly free to do so. However, your question reminds me of what our headmaster told us after a morning prayer-session when I was studying in a school. This happened around 1948 in Madras, Chennai as it is now called. I remember very clearly what the headmaster told us because it made a lasting impression on me. He said,
"Boys! Some of you must be wondering whether there is any benefit in attending these prayer sessions. Let me tell you that the sound vibrations generated during prayer every day gets embedded in these walls around you. Day after day, this accumulation of sacred vibrations goes on. This school has been in existence for many years, and right now all of us are immersed in the subtle vibrations accumulated during all those years. The vibrations generated by prayer are powerful and would have a beneficial effect on you."
Continuing my answer to the question asked of me I then said:
"I narrated what the headmaster said to us because one day during His Discourse, Swami suddenly paused, looked directly at the boys sitting in front of Him and then said,
"Boys! Always sing bhajans with intense devotional fervour, and deep Love in your heart. The physical sound would fade away for sure but the subtle vibrations would fill the entire universe. More important, they would be embedded forever in every pillar and nook and corner of this hall. This hall would thus become one of the holiest places on earth."
I continued:
I have just told you what Swami said on that occasion. Before I continue on that theme, I must return to the remarks of my headmaster. He said people go on pilgrimages to holy places, bathe in sacred rivers, and so on. Why? What was special about them? In what way is Tirupathi superior to the temple in your village? Why is the Ganges considered to be more sacred than other rivers? The answer to all this is simple. If one goes to holy places one would pick up extra subtle vibrations; that is what is special about pilgrimages.
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Most organizations have a range of internal change consultants, typically found in different departments, such as project management, organization development, change management, quality, process improvement, LEAN and Six Sigma, and IT. These consultants all add value to the change process, but not at the same time and not in the same way. None of them oversees the entire change process from A to Z, so there is an absence of strategic oversight to what all changes need across the organization. Inevitably, value is left on the table.
Change leaders calling on change consultants' services too late in the process to ensure clear foresight or prevent people or process problems.
Competition among these resources for who gets called on for what, and when, and who should answer to whom on project teams.
Leaders not seeing the need for support with change, or when they do, miss significant opportunities for how best to apply these talents.
Existing services offering a piece of what is needed, and thinking that is all that is needed.
Nobody is designated to keep their eye on the organization's strategic change needs such as priorities and sequencing of changes, capacity for change, or impacts on culture and leadership.
There is no conscious, proactive attention to ensure that the organization sets up its mission-critical change efforts for success from the very beginning.
There is nobody overseeing that the level of change expertise needed is being developed and used in the best way.
There is not effective collaboration among these various change resources for the good of the change efforts and the entire enterprise.
There is an answer to these common dynamics. It is in creating a Strategic Change Center of Excellence.
The complexity, cost, and potential benefit of enterprise transformation have generated a need for a Strategic Change Center of Excellence. This Center of Excellence is comprised of the organization's major change support resources, as previously listed. Likely, your organization has much of this consulting expertise in place, at its headquarters and in its business lines. The Center is a way of organizing, networking, monitoring and training them for the best and highest use.
The Center is one of the first steps you should consider in creating transformational change as a strategic discipline because it builds on your current expertise and successes in leading change and takes them to new levels – levels required for breakthrough results.
The Center's charge is to create a "new breed" of change consultant, devoted to the overall success of the business, no matter what their expertise, when they are used during change projects, or where they live in the businesses.
1. Provide the central pool of the most highly-skilled consulting resources for use on major change efforts.
2. Determine complementarities and ensure consistent practices and tools among all change resources and their approaches, thereby providing the best and most aligned guidance for the overall success of change.
3. Help match resources to demand and be a voice for change capacity reality checks.
4. Provide temporary or "loaned" resources where the organization most needs them.
5. Be a vehicle for developing the highest level of change leadership and consulting that the organization needs to succeed.
6. Participate in the organization's strategic planning process to ensure the identification and prioritization of the most important change efforts.
7. Identify, build, and distribute best change practices.
8. Pilot new change practices before rollout.
9. Provide "case management" learning clinics and showcases for others (consultant and leaders) during any phase of change.
10. Surface critical risk factors, issues, and needs for course correction from all levels of the organization engaged in major changes.
11. Advocate for realistic conditions for success on how changes are set up and led.
12. Input to and look after changes in culture and leadership style affecting key change efforts' success, including coaching executives as they lead their change efforts.
13. Advise and support the executives in charge of the most important change initiatives or programs.
14. Provide the best resources and services on major change efforts – for start-up, change strategy development, planning, design, implementation, and consultation on the multiple project integration requirements among all priority initiatives.
15. Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and change communications.
16. Provide change assessments after to fact to identify Lessons Learned and Best Practices.
17. Help address cross-boundary/cross business integration needs relevant to producing the highest results from change.
18. Input to and facilitate essential course corrections to the change agenda and its priorities.
19. Work toward creating full organizational alignment in the design and execution of all change efforts in support of the business strategy.
The Center's consultants can also provide high-level change education and coaching for executives, change sponsors, leaders and middle managers. A critical role they can play is to help identify the organizations best practices and patterns that inhibit its ability to succeed in change. They can use change history audits to surface this data and then work with key executives to determine how to prevent these negative practices and embed better ways to oversee change.
How to Structure and Run a Strategic Change Center of Excellence?
The Center works as a network and does not require changes in organizational structure. It need not house your resources; rather, it supports them, accesses them, and develops them.
The Center can be structured and run in several ways. It is a convener, organizer, developer, and orchestrator. It can host periodic face-to-face meetings and trainings, work virtually, provide web-based education and support, and use an interactive intranet sight for meetings, learning, project or issue tracking, logistics, and communications. When working on key change initiatives, the Center's consultants should partner with business line or headquarter change sponsors to provide the best change consulting from the very beginning of the effort, which is the heart of strategic consulting.
The Center's role, in whole or in part, is a necessary investment in ensuring your organization can achieve results and create the value it needs from its most important change efforts over the long term. Building strategic consulting expertise within such a center is the next edge of project management, organization development and change management. It expands the role and positioning of these services to focus on the organization's most important changes, using and teaching the strategic disciplines for change the organization chooses to create. The more major change you have going on or planned, the more you will gain value from investing in this strategy.


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I built a supermarket before gifting a city to an AI player, and although the AI player is fully developed (technologically, financially, and militarily), the AI never bothers to exploit the presence of the supermarket to produce more food by producing farmland.

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Q: How can the extra space above/below HTML5 video in Safari be removed? I'm seeing a strange bug (only) in Safari (recent versions, desktop and mobile) where extra space is added above/below an HTML5 video. That might be okay in some scenarios, but in mine it reveals a background image being used to work around an IE video/poster bug.

I'm inclined to believe that this is a Safari bug, as if I toggle various CSS properties within the dev tools or with JavaScript, the problem goes away. The JS approach could potentially be a solve, but the user has to suffer through the flash of unstyled content and I'd prefer to work around or correct the issue at the CSS level. (I've tried various workarounds: setting height on video, changing display on video)
Here's the relevant HTML:
<section class="series" style="display: block;">
  <video autoplay="" class="series-video series-video-desktop" loop="" muted="" playsinline="" poster="data:image/gif,AAAA" src="https://iandevlin.com/examples/speechapi-video/video/big-buck-bunny.mp4"
    style="background-image: url(http://fillmurray.com/1024/768);"></video>
</section>

... and CSS:
section {
  display: block;
  min-height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

video {
  background: none no-repeat 50% 50% transparent;
  background-size: contain;
  display: inline-block;
  height: auto;
  width: 100%;
}

Also, FWIW, here's my JS fix:
window.addEventListener('load', function () {
  var xs = document.querySelectorAll('.series');
  [].slice.call(xs).forEach(function (x) {
    // doing this via CSS has no effect
    x.style.setProperty('display', 'block');
  });
});

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A: I was able to solve the issue noted above by replacing width with min-width and max-width:
video {
  background: none no-repeat 50% 50% transparent;
  background-size: contain;
  display: inline-block;
  height: auto;
  /* width: 100%; */
  min-width: 100%;
  max-width: 999px;
}

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On August 24, 2010 By Toolbag TuesdayIn Toolbag Tuesday
There was no denying that Mark was hot.
He was a surfer, with the accompanying abdominal muscles and bleached blonde hair.
He worked at a popular coffee shop near our college campus and girls would line up to order drinks, even if they didn't like coffee. He was funny, charming and talkative.
He was also in high school.
But, he didn't mention that last part to my college roommate, Samantha, until three months into their relationship.
(You'd think the fact that he was in high school would be a deal breaker, but no, Samantha stayed with him for almost a year, did his chemistry homework and even WENT TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.) haha
Mark lied to Samantha when they first met, saying he already graduated from high school and was taking "a year or two" off to surf and save money. Samantha was a sophomore in college, and lived off-campus.
Samantha and I had just moved into our first real apartment (not a dorm) and we were 800 miles away from our hometown and high school was a distant memory.
We never considered that anyone we hung out with was in high school, since we were so old and grown up and Mark certainly didn't scream "high school."
He lived with his dad, who was totally cool with him staying over at his girlfriend's house (what!!), he was practically a manager at the coffee shop and he had lots of college-age friends.
He also had a fake I.D. (as did we) and he'd hang out at bars all night.
On weeknights he spent the night with Samantha, Mark would get up at 7 a.m. to "go surfing," which didn't seem out of ordinary.
(Surfing was a good excuse, since he was really going to homeroom.)
Samantha soon became suspicious when Mark wouldn't meet her for lunch during the week.
"I have a break between my classes," Samantha would text him. "Want to grab a bite downtown?"
He wouldn't respond, or he'd say he was at his house sleeping, or that he was tired from serving all those coffee drinks.
"He's cheating on me!" Samantha told me one day, after several weeks of being blown off. "He NEVER hangs out with me during the week! I bet he's hanging out with somebody else!" (Like his math teacher.)
"Well, he sleeps over here every night!" I pointed out. "He gets up early to go surfing, I'd be sleeping all day, too!"
(I don't know why I give people the benefit of the doubt. Mark had me fooled, too.)
"But he NEVER calls me during the day! He won't return my calls!"
She was insecure about how good-looking he was, and saw girls bat their eyes at him, and she was convinced he was up to no good.
After Samantha's fourth freakout, I told her to ask Mark what was going on.
Yet, like many girls (um, guilty), her tone was more accusatory than inquisitive.
"ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME? Because you never call me during the day! You NEVER meet me for lunch!"
Mark said no, of course not, that he liked her a lot and has been really happy dating her.
"Then, what's going on then?" she asked. "Something is going on."
Mark said yes, something was going on, and that he'd like to take her out that night and explain everything.
Us roommates were very nervous for Samantha when she left that night to meet him.
"What do you think it is??" we all asked when she left. "You think he's broke and can't afford to pay for lunch?"
"You think he's really seeing someone else??"
Samantha came home an hour later frazzled, and dumbfounded.
"He's in high school," she said.
Our mouths dropped.
"He's a senior in high school, and that's why he can't get lunch during the week."
"BECAUSE HE'S AT HIGH SCHOOL!??!!!"
All of us, except for Samantha, burst out laughing. We then thought it through.
Ahhh, this makes sense now! The getting up early part. The living with his dad part. The only seeing him after 3 p.m. part.
Before his confession, Mark had brought Samantha out to a romantic spot in the city, overlooking the water. He lightly touched her face, pulling her hair back.
He looked her deep in the eyes and said, sweetly,
"What would you do if I told you I was still in high school?"
WHAAAAAAT!!!!! she said, and got into a coughing fit. She asked him more questions, and then told him that she needed to think for a few days.
I don't know, maybe it was his incessant calling and apologizing, maybe it was his abs, maybe it was the fact that she liked getting free coffee — but she forgave him and they stayed together for almost a year.
She met his dad. She went to his graduation. Seriously, he even invited her to prom (they didn't go).
They broke up soon after he graduated, and he ended up moving away. Perhaps he's working at another coffee shop somewhere, surfing, pulling girls' hair off of their faces, looking them deep in the eyes, sweetly saying, "What would you do if I told you I was a toolbag?"
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John Bahr
Big Deal! So obviously the kid was a senior, and you said that you were both a sophomore in college, so what, there was like 2 years difference between the two? HaHa, non story. Sounds to me like someone was a little jealous of her friend.
JennySays
ummm…he still lied about it. Repeatedly.
OK, I'll give you that. But, women do the same thing. Everyone seems to lie about their age, it's been going on for centuries. lol
This is so suprising – a Man (sorry, John. I have clearly alreay given you too much credit)not only thinks it is not a big deal to date someone and hide a huge part of their life from them for 3 months, making them feel insedure and (rightfully so) lied to. But additionally, you picked the quintessential caveman adjective to pick on Jenny – "jealous". My head hurts from shaking. Now, I will agree on the 2 year age gap not being a big deal. What needs to be understood is that SOME 2 year age gaps are more important than others, i.e. 12-14 for instance, or, in this case it seems, 17-19 or 18 to 20. There is a world of difference there – between social circles, responsibilities, and… I'm going to say it, common sense development. Prime example: What "JennySays" in this very story.
Great close GJenny. ❤


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This is the German edition of His Other House which will be published by Diana Verlag (Random House) in two weeks. (This is a reader's copy, or so I figure when I put the words in the pink spot through Google translate.) Nachts Schwimmen means Night Swimming, which refers to two of the characters swimming illicitly in the local pool at night (one of the lesser transgressions in the novel).
It's difficult for me to imagine any kind of swimming at the moment. Even in subtropical Mullumbimby it's really chilly; right now I am sitting by the wood heater wearing ugg boots. In Germany, of course, it's summer (apparently it's 35 degrees centigrade in Munich today) and I reckon the lovely watery cover of my book might be enticing indeed when it hits the bookshops in less than two weeks.
I've found myself thinking about the whole translation process and how the translator effectively becomes a co-author. Nachts Schwimmen's translator was Ute Brammertz (who lives in England). We had an email exchange about a couple of points (eg how to translate Lot 1, meaning a block of land, and we decided it wasn't really possible to translate in the context, and she found a way around it). Ute explained that translating is a balancing act between making a text sound right in German and staying as true to the original as possible. She says it's inevitably a question of approximation and a certain degree of interpretation.
I will never know what degree of approximation or interpretation as I don't read German!


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Ralf Rangnick adds to his Man Utd backroom team -Shoot
Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick made a winning start to life at Old Trafford with a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on Sunday.
The German secured three points courtesy of a rare Fred goal in the second half which extended the Red Devils' unbeaten run to four matches.
Except for Michael Carrick, who opted to leave the club following his three-game stint at interim manager, Rangnick has inherited the coaching staff that worked alongside Ole Gunnar Solskjaer before the Norwegian was sacked last month.
However, press conference prior to United's Champions League tie against Young Boys, Rangnick revealed that he has made two additions to his staff.
Fred celebrates his winning strike against Crystal Palace.
"We have decided to bring in a sports psychologist, Sascha Lense, I worked with him for three years at Leipzig," Rangnick said.
"We know each other. He will be introduced to the team as soon as he's got his visa. I hope we'll have him on board by Thursday.
"I will also have another assistant coach with Chris Armas. He was at New York Red Bulls when I met him. He will again hopefully be able to join us in the next few days."
On the appointment of Lense, Rangnick added: "I don't know what the situation is like in England. Most German clubs have employed a psychologist. For me it is logical. If you have special coaches for goalkeeping, strikers, fitness, you should also have an expert for the brain."
"Not to put them on the red sofa, or hold hands, for me it's about helping the players know the brain should assist the body, not work against it. For me everyone in the team should think the right way. Whenever we speak about football, the major part is up here [the brain].
"He's a former player, hands on, not caught too much in the theory. Having worked together at Leipzig I know we can benefit from him. For me it's vital on top level you should have the best person possible on this job."
United have already secured their place in the last-16 of the Champions League as group winners having picked up 10 points from five matches.
And with a trip to Norwich City to come on Saturday evening, Rangnick says he will give squad players the opportunity to shine at Old Trafford.
"Everybody has the chance. That's why I'm happy to give game-time to quite a few of those players tomorrow."


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Not many people know that Port Maria, the "Puerto Santa Maria" of the Spanish, was the second town to be established in Jamaica by the colonizing Spaniards. Formerly a bustling seaport under both Spanish and English rule, the town today reflects little of its former prosperity or importance. Except for a handful of buildings, not much remains of the Colonial-era architecture. The town is set in the center of a deep inlet of the northern coastline with a small island just offshore, and the bay is certainly one of the most picturesque in Jamaica. As capital of the parish of St Mary, Port Maria is home to the St Mary Courthouse, an old, elegant building subtly dominating the town's waterfront.
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Port Maria, and indeed the entire parish of St Mary, has a very old and deep-seated tradition of protest. From as early as 1655, African slaves set free by the fleeing Spanish took to the hills, forming Maroon communities and carrying out the occasional attack on British estates and towns. In 1760, Tacky, the notorious rebel slave, led a revolt against slave owners that lasted over a month before British authorities could suppress the fighting. Centuries later, in a 1938 riot that started in Islington, a small farming community near to Port Maria, four men died as a result of clashes with local police. The spirit of protest lives on, although in recent times not much has been able to incite the people here to mass violence.
In front of the courthouse is a monument to Tacky, a freedom fighter of the 18th century. In 1760 Tacky, an African slave of Coromantee descent, assembled a guerrilla army to attack their British enslavers and seize control of the land. The revolt started on the nearby Frontier plantation, but spread quickly after Tacky and his followers raided the munitions store in Port Maria. Tacky's Revolt was one of the most pivotal slave uprisings in Jamaican history, because, although outnumbered and ill equipped, Tacky's followers kept the British at bay for more than a month before the rebellion could be subdued. Following the rebellion, many of the slaves that managed to evade the British banded together and fled to the hills to join the Maroons, but as many as 300 slaves were executed for their participation.
The St Mary Parish Church, built in 1861 of limestone blocks on the edge of the bay, is one of the most picturesque structures anywhere on the island. The modest chapel is set against the dazzling turquoise harbor, framed by tall palm trees whose leaves rustle gently in the warm sea breezes.


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CUPE vote in Ontario favours strike, workers could walk off by month's end
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Published September 16, 2019 Updated September 16, 2019
A major union representing education workers in Ontario says its members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a potential strike that could take effect by the end of the month.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says 93 per cent of its 55,000 members voted in favour of job action, putting them in a legal strike position as of Sept. 30.
The union says that while it intends to continue bargaining with the Ontario government and hopes to avoid a strike, its members are concerned about recent changes to the province's education system.
The measures include increases to average class sizes, shifts towards online learning models and a gradual reduction in the number of working teachers.
The changes were implemented over the past year by the Progressive Conservatives under Premier Doug Ford.
The president of CUPE's bargaining unit says members are prepared to walk off the job in order to push back against what they see as cuts that will compromise the quality of education in Ontario's schools.
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Coastal FC spokesman Chris Murphy said the club had suspended the coach Tuesday, less than a day after the blog post went viral, racking up 17,000 views in 24 hours. The club said it will conduct its own investigation.
An explosive blog post, levelling pointed accusations at a local soccer coach over his time with the Vancouver Whitecaps women's team nearly a decade ago, has sent shock waves through the local soccer community and led to his suspension from the club team he currently works for.
A former Whitecaps and national team player wrote a post about her and her teammates' experiences playing for both teams, which were coached by the same person.
The bulk of her post centred around an unnamed coach who she alleges fostered an environment of bullying, intimidation and inappropriate behaviour. No criminal charges were filed.
The coach in question continued to work in the B.C. youth system, eventually landing with Coastal FC in White Rock, where he's worked for the past seven years.
Coastal FC spokesman Chris Murphy said the club had suspended the coach Tuesday, less than a day after the blog post went viral, racking up 17,000 views in 24 hours. The club said it will conduct its own investigation, but the shape and breadth of it has yet to be determined until board members meet later this week.
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Murphy also stated the club had no reason not to hire the coach, and contacted the Whitecaps before doing so.
"The staff member that was involved in the hiring process made contact with the Whitecaps at that time, to inquire if there were any reasons that would preclude him from being a coaching candidate for us. And none were provided," Murphy said.
"The Whitecaps didn't share any reason as to why there would be concern of him coaching in any capacity. On that basis, and without having anything substantive, he was awarded a coaching position."
The Whitecaps declined to comment on the issue, instead issuing a statement through a team spokesman: "The well-being of our staff and athletes is of paramount importance.
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The player said she was spurred to write the blog after seeing a recent CBC report outlining rampant abuse in Canadian sports.
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This upper-elementary/middle-grade novel offers inspiration for kids on what it means to inspire others. Through seven chapters, you are introduced to various students and scenarios at Flint Hill Elementary School. Each chapter involves students solving a problem, inspiring others, or giving back. Through school projects, the students learn how to work together and inspire others to work together not only in their school but in their community.
Even though the setting is the same, Flint Hill Elementary, each chapter stands alone with its own situation and characters with the final chapter bringing everyone together for a final project. I think kids will identify with the characters and appreciate the struggles the characters faced in these daunting situations. This book shows readers that kids can accomplish a lot with a plan and are just as valuable in a community as the adults.
This book would be great for a family to read and be inspired to start a volunteer project or for a classroom or all-school read for inspiration to help others. Kids can go to the WEBSITE and enter their own Code Word and be challenged to start their own project.
No matter where Bryan Johnson is-in the car, at the dinner table, or around the campfire-he loves inventing stories for his children on demand. Bryan is also a real-life adventurer. If he's not flying airplanes, he's exploring the ruins of ancient Rome or climbing the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro. Bryan also loves fist bumps over handshakes, pizza without the crust, and colorful shoes. For more, check out his website, HERE.
What a great way to show kids how they can make a difference!


I actually just looked at our Photopass pictures today from our trip last week and saw some of the photos you mentioned -- some I knew about and others I was wonderfully surprised to see.
Typically, the photographers take a traditional picture and then those who can take a second pose with the "surprise."
Since I wanted some of those photos, I just asked the photographers if they would be taking any pictures with added features. If they didn't, they always told me where the nearest photographer was that would be able to do that.
I'd also recommend looking at a website called stichkingdom.com . It includes a thorough explanation of Photopass as well as locations and examples of the fun pictures.


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What is a flight voucher? Should you accept it?
2020-07-13 2020-09-09 William Mingozzi
Flight vouchers are the aviation industry's response to flights cancelled by the Coronavirus crisis and the subsequent claims for refunds. Don't be fooled! Ticket refunds are a right, claim yours now!
Only a few months ago requesting a refund for a cancelled flight was not a problem and most refund requests were processed in a professional and prompt manner. With the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic airlines found themselves in the unprecedented state of having to cancel hundreds of thousands of flights and ground fleets for an unknown and indeterminant period of time.
What is a flight voucher?
To try and cope with the millions of passengers with cancelled flights and potential billions of Euro in refundable tickets, airlines opted for other options that would allow them to operate without having to refund cash. In general airlines opted for a mix of three major options:
Free of charge flight date change option
Vouchers as flight compensation
Automatic airline credit
Some groups of travellers, such as frequent flyers, were happy to opt for the free of charge date change option, however in the vast amount of cases airlines offered vouchers as compensation for cancelled flights. These unsolicited vouchers were intended to work as a type of credit system which could be used for a set period, generally 12 months from issue, but often extendable to 24 months, for any flights and services of the airline.
In most cases, as future flights were cancelled in advance this proved very unsatisfactory for customers as they had something that now only had a notional value, that is to say that they could be used to rebook new flights at an, as yet unknown, future date.
Some airlines such as WizzAir offered inhouse credit at a rate of 120% of the cancelled ticket value. For some this proved to be a satisfactory alternative, especially for frequent travellers and less rigid travellers, where travel dates and even destination are less of an issue.
What to do if an airline offers you travel vouchers
All over the world hundreds of thousands, if not millions of passengers were left with airline vouchers that they did not want. If you are one of those customers you have many options open to you.
All ticket holders are entitled to a full refund for COVID-19 cancelled flights. If you are offered a flight voucher that you do not wish to accept, you are under no obligation to take it. You can request a refund from the airline instead.
Legally airlines are obliged to refund all legitimate ticket refund claims within a period of 7 days. However, please do be aware that currently airlines are taking much longer to respond to customers and process refunds. Some airlines even state that refund requests, once accepted, will take at least 6 months to process! However, instead of waiting so long the help of a professional service such as GIVT's can be sought as a means of expediting claims.
Many airlines work on the premise that most customers will accept what is offered and the bulk of customers will accept a flight voucher instead of a refund. This is not the case and under no circumstances can airlines force customers to accept unwanted travel vouchers.
All passengers are entitled to a full ticket refund for cancelled flights due to Coronavirus. Many airlines, however, try to obligate customers into either rebooking their flights for another date, or accepting a travel voucher, or airline account credit in lieu of a cash refund. If your airline does not offer a refund option, this is no way means that refunds are not a possibility, on the contrary, it is your right as confirmed by the European Commission on May 13th.
How do I use my flight voucher?
The exact details on how to use airline vouchers will differ from airline to airline, however in most cases it will involve logging in to an airline registered account online or entering the voucher number at the start or end of the booking process. Book flights and additional services can be done as normal.
If after such a booking credit still remains then either a new voucher will be issue to the value of the remaining credit, or the existing voucher will be revalued at the remaining credit value.
Can I sell or swap my voucher?
Some airlines allow vouchers to be transferrable, that is to say that the original payee or passengers need not necessarily be one of the new passengers booked with the voucher. In this case then vouchers can indeed be sold or swapped, as with any other item of a similar value.
Note: Please check the exact details of voucher transferability with your airline first.
Why should I not accept a voucher in lieu of a refund for my cancelled flights?
Vouchers have an expiry date, while airlines promise that unused vouchers or remaining voucher credit can be redeemed at the end of expiry period, this assumes many things, especially that the airline will still be operating at the end of the expiry term. Once an airline files for dissolution obtaining a refund is a very difficult business.
Running an airline is a very volatile business and the huge costs involved make for much unpredictability. In 2019 alone 23 airlines went bust including the world's oldest package operator Thomas Cook.
For example, LOT – Polish Airlines, Poland's largest airline is in the process of voluntary controlled bankruptcy. Whether LOT 2, as it is being called, will honour expired vouchers is anyone's guess.
Vouchers predominantly are not interchangeable and can only be used with one airline. This can limit passengers if another airline has special offers of interest and all their money is tied up with a different airline.
Some airlines offer extra benefits with their vouchers, for example a percentage bonus as with KLM or SAS. In these cases it may be mutually beneficial for travellers to opt to accept vouchers. This can be particularly true in situations when only one airline offers services to or from a particular airport.
Whether you wish to fly again soon, or not, it always feels good to know where your money is. Obtaining a refund is for a cancelled flight is your right and if you are in doubt the experts at GIVT will be happy to help.
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William Mingozzi
After completing his studies in the IT/Science Computer Science major, William left his native Ireland and moved to Europe. He spent 15 years living in many different places, including Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Warsaw. Privately, a lover of the cinema, crosswords and books, which he reads whenever he has the opportunity.
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Leh Ladakh is the crown of our India, and on this great tip, we take tours to the very highest point, including most top café. The mountains make you to the scenic view and the pictures which take you to a different life. Northeast is rich in sceneries and spectacular views; it is time to go through the beautiful journey.
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Things you cannot miss during the tour of leh Ladakh:
PANGONG LAKE
A distinct feature of the lake is that which does not remain blue throughout the year or even the day it would also change colours from azure to light blue to green and grey too. It is also known as Pangong Tso, it has been a tourist attraction for a very long time and also has gained so much further popularity after being the top spot for many film shoots, apart from being crucial for anyone travelling to Leh – Ladakh. The sublime beauty, crystal waters, and so many gentle hills of the Pangong Lake is a very different example of the beautiful landscape of the region.
The hill is situated at a distance of 30 km from the town of Leh, at the height of around 14,000 feet above the sea level. The eastern side of the hill also flows the Sindhu River, originating in the Tibet and is an almost important stopover for all those who travel to Ladakh. A critical illusion or actuality, the Magnetic Hill in Ladakh has mysterious magnetic properties that draw tourists from across the globe. Magnetic Hill is an enchanting place to stop by on your trip and just for the fun of it and to so many experience depth beyond the limits of our everyday lives.
TSO MORIRI
The lake offers a scenic place of peace and tranquillity, measuring about 20-40 km in length from north to south and also about 100 feet average in depth. The mesmerising Tso Moriri lake which is also surrounded by barren hills, with the backdrop of beautiful snow-covered mountains. In the remote parts of the country makes Tsi Moriri is a stargazing sight, which is a complete mind-stirring site.
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National Park is home to the one-horned rhinos which attract tourists from all over the world. Finding one-horned rhinoceros in its stomping yard is an experience that you can live to tell your grandchildren. Situated to a height of 10,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh, the Tawang Monastery gives an exasperating view of the valley. It is home to 450 monks; this is the perfect place to visit for a surreal experience. River rafting in the ecstatic Siang River is a major tourist attraction. It is indeed an adventure that you should also undertake with your family and friends. The Phong Monastery dates back to the 18th century and is one of the most religious places for the Buddhists and there for tourists. There are so many indications that there are structure dates which are back even more than the 18th century, with the isolated location making it even more unusual for an enriching experience.
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Opening day for legal pot on its way in Cape Breton
David Jala (david.jala@cbpost.com)
Published: Oct 02, 2018 at 7:48 p.m.
Updated: Oct 02, 2018 at 9:08 p.m.
Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation employee Dave MacPherson stands at the entrance to Cape Breton Island's first and only cannabis store. The shop, which will open Oct. 17 when recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, is located inside the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission's Sydney River outlet. The Crown corporation showed off its new store on Tuesday when local news media toured the facility that in two weeks will be legally dispensing recreational cannabis. - David Jala
NSLC cautioning new cannabis users to take it 'low and slow' as Oct. 17 marijuana legalization date nears
SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton's new cannabis store is not what you might expect — in fact, it could be described as the platypus of retail outlets.
First of all, it's a store within a store. And to access its premises, customers must make their way through the aisles of the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation's Sydney River location to a back corner where the cannabis trade will be carried out behind the frosted glass and ceramic walls that separate it from the shelves of alcohol.
NSLC spokesperson Beverley Ware shows off one of the many containers in its Sydney River Cannabis Store.
If not for the large overhead CANNABIS sign, the entrance could easily be mistaken for that of an airport washroom, with customers entering to the left of the wall and exiting from the right. The interior resembles that of a generic post office with an expansive wall of product dispensers situated behind a long sales counter. The three-sectioned containers are empty now but are expected to be filled with cannabis (marijuana) products when the store officially opens on Oct. 17, the day the long-outlawed drug becomes legal in Canada.
The retail space is bright — very bright — with neon lights accentuating its mostly white interior. Tall business-like tables, like those found in the public areas of financial institutions, display electronic tablets that link directly to the NSLC website. Stanchions support nylon belts that guide customers through a corral-like maze as they wait for their turn at the sales counter.
On Tuesday, NSLC spokesperson Beverley Ware conducted a tour of the new cannabis dispensary for members of the local news media. She said that while the cannabis shop may be at the back of the NSLC store, it's not meant to be hidden and was designed with the customer experience in mind.
"It's bright, it's open and it's inviting, and we really hope our customers will have a positive experience while they are here, and they enjoy that experience," said Ware, who added that the intent was to maintain NSLC's corporate look and feel.
Upon entering the store, customers will be greeted by an NSLC concierge, who will consult with them on their experience with cannabis.
"Experienced users will know what they want, but we'll also have customers who are new to cannabis and they're probably not sure what they're looking for because they don't have that experience, so we can chat with them and then help them decide what might be good for them in terms of THC and CBD levels," explained Ware.
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Once customers get to the sales counter, their order is taken, and staff retrieve the product from one of the many containers. The purchase comes pre-packaged and is placed in a sealed NSLC bag to prevent the wafting of the more odorous strains.
According to Ware, the Crown corporation considers education, about both cannabis and alcohol, to be a primary component of its service. And, that message cannot be ignored as it can be found hanging on the walls in poster form, on placards in the lineup area atop the stanchions, on the customer tables, on a series of monitors mounted high on the wall behind the sales counter, and in pamphlets that are put in NSLC bags along with the purchased product.
Ware also said customers will constantly be reminded of some basic health and safety practices.
Signs like the one above, aiming to educate the public on the some of the potential pitfalls of recreational marijuana, are posted throughout the Sydney River outlet.
"The product has to be stored securely and kept out of the reach of minors — we're also telling people not to co-consume cannabis and beverage alcohol and, for new users, we recommend that you go low and slow, start with low THC levels until you have the experience of knowing how your body will react," she said.
The cannabis itself is to be sold in five formats: Pre-packaged dried flowers; pre-rolled; seeds; oil; and gel caps. And, it will be available in three price ranges – value, core, and premium. And, the weed is categorized into four groups – Relax, Unwind, Centre, and Enhance.
"The intent here is that some of the products are higher in THC level, while other products focus on the CBD level – we've divided them into categories to give some general idea as to whether they will have more effect on the mind or have more of an effect on the body," said Ware, who added that THC levels will range from about two per cent to a maximum of 24 per cent.
While it's been speculated that the marijuana will be sold at between $8 to $14 per gram (HST included), she said official pricing won't be revealed until the province's 12 cannabis stores are ready to open. Until then, she said the NSLC will continue to monitor both the illegal cannabis market and the prices that will be charged in other jurisdictions.
About 200 NSLC employees have completed, or are almost finished, an intensive five-day course in preparation of working in the new shop. At the Sydney River store, there are 11 staffers who have received the training, although all NSLC employees will, at some point, be trained to work both the alcohol and the marijuana sections of the retail outlets.
For those planning to check out the cannabis store when it opens, the NSLC is advising customers to be patient as it expects to be busy during its first few months.
"There might be some lineups because this is a new product category for many customers and it's going to take some time to make their purchases," said Ware.
The stores will not sell edibles for at least a year, but it will offer a small array of paraphernalia such as rolling papers, glass pipes, bud grinders, storage containers and vaporizers. And, the NSLC will also offer online shopping with home delivery.
The NSLC estimates it will sell up to 15,500 kilograms of cannabis in its first year.
Cannabis Retailing Facts
• The province's 12 NSLC-operated cannabis stores to open Oct. 17
• NSLC expects to sell more than 15,500 kilograms of cannabis in its first year
• Hours of Sydney River Cannabis Store to match that of liquor outlet
• Recreational cannabis to be sold as dried flowers, seeds, oils, pre-rolled and gel caps
• Products categorized as value, core and premium
• Customers must be 19 years of age
• NSLC employees trained to recognize impaired and underage customers
• Medical marijuana to remain under federal law and is not available in NSLC stores
• Education component considered key part of Cannabis retailing
david.jala@cbpost.com
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When Romano Cagnoni photographed the Durham Miners' Gala
Posted by Andy Dowson 139sc on January 21, 2021
In the summer of 1963, the internationally renowned photographer Romano Cagnoni travelled to Durham to capture the Miners' Gala.
Regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, Cagnoni accompanied Harold Wilson as the new Labour leader travelled the country for his "People Matter" campaign.
On the evening before the Gala, Cagnoni joined Wilson in Trimdon for the unfurling of the new lodge banner.
His photographs show Wilson enjoying the sights and sounds of the Gala from the balcony of the County Hotel, and speaking to the crowds from the Racecourse platform.
Cagnoni's images of the Gala crowds capture the fundamental human spirit and joy of The Big Meeting.
Born in Pietrasantra, Tuscany, Italy, in 1935, Cagnoni gained fame for his documentation of war, as he focussed on the human condition of those affected by conflict.
His images of world-historic events featured on the front pages of publications around the world. He became the first independent Western photographer allowed to enter North Vietnam, where he convinced Ho Chi Minh to be photographed. The image appeared on the cover of Life magazine.
Known for the great humanity of his work, he won numerous awards covering conflicts around the world, including in Cambodia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Chechnya, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan.
In South America, he reported the return of Peron to Argentina, and with the great novelist and journalist Grahame Greene he documented Allende's Chile.
Romano Cagnoni died in January 2018 at the age of 82. The Romano Cagnoni Foundation preserves his legacy. Our thanks to the Foundation for allowing us to share this gallery of wonderful Gala images with you.
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