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Rompente Collective
The Rompente Collective, an endeavour of unrest and cultural resistance, was formed in Vigo in 1975. This intentionally random video looks to continue this initial exploration of Rompente.
The Museo Reina Sofía presents this documentary on artist Elena Asins. The film is the result of research conducted in the artist's archive, assembling unseen documents and interpretations around a key figure in Geometric Abstraction and art as research.
The Collection Cinema and video
Study with Gigapixel
This video, made in conjunction with the Museo Reina Sofía's participation at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021, sketches out the journey to the inside of Guernica
The Museum The Collection Restoration
Margarita Ledo
The Feminist Film Essay
Margarita Ledo (Spain, 1951) is among the pre-eminent theorists of essay film from a feminist perspective, her work combining research and film practice.
Activities Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
Neighbourhood Picnic
The Joy of Being Together
The encounter between different collectives, associations and residents of the Lavapiés neighbourhood in the Garden was special, constituting a new opportunity to keep on vindicating what is considered just, but never at the expense of joy.
Activities Seminars and conferences
Equipo1821
Serenity Rave
This pedagogical proposal inspired by the piece Roof Piece (1971) by Trisha Brown is part of an investigation about performance and its archive that was carried out by the Equipo1821
Pink Triangle, LGTBIQ+ Activisms in Schools
In this video, activist and socialist Miguel Missé and lecturer and educator Mercedes Sánchez Sáinz engage in a conversation centred around the situation of different expressions of sex-gender in schools
Activities Education
Performance by Itziar Okariz, in a collaboration with Izar Ocariz
"The Ocean Breath"
Itziar Okariz reflects on The Ocean Breath, a performance made in collaboration with Izar Ocariz. It starts from the breathing used in yoga, whereby the artist is the instructor.
Activities Live Arts
The Powers of Memory in the Little Things
Closing lecture given by Judith Butler
On 8 October 2020, in the framework of the 2020 edition of the Politics and Aesthetics of Memory Chair, directed by Chilean theorist Nelly Richard, American feminist theorist Judith Butler gave a lecture based around the idea of memory outside hegemonic readings of history. She began by reflecting on the virtual medium of the lecture she was presenting, on a situation that brings us together but creates a longing for contact and encounter as it leaves us in solitude. She went on to refer to the right-leaning and volatile political situation in the United States on the eve of the election and in the midst of the pandemic, characterising it is as necropolitical exhilaration. She also contrasted this context with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, at once a movement and a slogan, and also an archive of live, just as Richard has put forward. Finally, her lecture centred on a reading of Marx from a feminism perspective, connecting the exist/resist of Palestinian claims and the performance "Un violador en tu camino" by Chilean collective Las Tesis. The lecture was followed by a conversation with Nelly Richard and Ana Longoni.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair and is a Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS). Her work, initially focused on gender studies, also sets forth notable reflections in the field of ethics, politics and human rights. She is one of the foremost intellectuals of our time.
Claudia Claremi
El Tiempo is a project which, through the collective production of an experimental film, explores the intangible, and the personal and collective memories of the Museo's team of volunteers, delving deeper into different works from the Collection.
In the Face of Violence
Interview with Stephen F. Eisenman
Eisenman explores issues with ethical and disciplinary significance, elucidating a critical standpoint and acknowledging the ideological ties that join somewhat distant pasts to the present we inhabit.
Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
Now! We Are All Black
Santiago Álvarez, NOW!, Cuba, 1965, original version with Spanish subtitles, b/n, 35mm, 6'
We wholeheartedly condemn all forms of racism and we hope that, in the aftermath sparked by the tragic death of George Floyd, this implacable wave of protests and demonstrations can produce irrevocable change towards a more just and equal society.
In modern and contemporary art museums we experience art and its ideas as agents of social transformation, as actively being part of a framework of relationships on multiple scales. We do not want to stay on the margins. We want to be spheres that resonate and take a stance, which is why we stand with all people affected by politics underpinned by racism and discrimination across the world.
We join the myriad voices which, from streets and institutions, demand that black lives matter, now and always. With that in mind, we wish to share the work NOW! by Cuban director Santiago Álvarez (Havana, Cuba, 1919–1998). Conceived as a news broadcast to be screened in cinemas in 1965, the film constitutes one of the most emphatic condemnations of US police brutality against African Americans. Álvarez, one of the inventors of montage documentary — "give me two photos, a song, a novel and a moviola and I'll give you a film", he claimed — shows a series of photographs of anti-racism protests and their brutal suppression in the 1960s. Sadly, these images could have been taken on the streets of any American city this week. The backdrop to the film is the voice of jazz singer, actress and activist Lena Horne (New York, USA, 1917–2010), in a song with words we make our own: "Now is the moment / Now is the moment / Come on, we've put it off long enough / Now, no more waiting / No hesitating / Now, now".
We associate the overwhelming and current uprising in this short film with the graphic art campaign Argentinian artist Juan Carlos Romero (1931–2017) propelled with the Southern Conceptualisms Network in 2009. "We Are All Black" was the slogan that confronted the fatuous celebration of the bicentenary of independence in Mexico, Argentina and other Latin American countries, and which ignored the memory of an earlier anti-colonial uprising: the Haitian Revolution. That campaign recovered a passage from the first constitution of Haiti written by Toussaint L'Ouverture, a black liberator, which proclaimed that: "all Haitian citizens, hereinafter, shall be known under the generic name of blacks", explicitly including white women, Germans and Polish, and excluding those who were or would be slave owners. At the beginning of the 19th century, the status of "black" was put forward as a political and cultural denomination, thus disobeying racial or biological categorisation.
Related project: Red de Conceptualismos del Sur and Museo Reina Sofía
Juan Carlos Romero. Ahora todos somos negros [Now! We Are All Black]. Intervention, 2007-2011
Cinema and video
Udlot, Udlot, by José Maceda
In March 2019, the Museo opened a call to participate in the performance of the piece Udlot Udlot (1975), by Philippine composer José Maceda, whose work combined his interest in traditional music from Southeast Asia and Europe. The performance of the piece required no prior musical knowledge, simply attendance at a workshop organised by the Museo, in collaboration with the Escuela Municipal de Música y Danza del Distrito Centro María Dolores Pradera. Some one hundred people learnt the score together and kept in time with its rhythms. During the current pandemic, the experience reminds us of something essential: the power of union and respectful co-existence, not only between humans but with all other living organisms on the planet.
Interview with Eszter Salamon
About MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS
Choreographer Eszter Salamon explores in depth the creative process of the piece MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS (2019), made with Erzsébet Gyarmati, surveying the mother-daughter binomial from a commitment to producing intersubjective temporalities.
Triángulo Rosa [Pink Triangle]
Encounter on LGTBIQ+ activism in schools
More information: Spanish activity Triángulo Rosa
Archipelago 2019
For the third year running, the programme Archipelago encourages an understanding of the complexity of the contemporary world through listening, exploring what is understood by experimental music and the relation it bears to popular culture by way of different narratives and geographies.
The present edition explores the concept of tradition: a term predominantly associated with conservatism and regression in the face of change, but with a meaning that implies the transfer of knowledge from one person to another and from one generation to the next.
Restoration of "Un mundo [A World]", by Ángeles Santos
The work Un mundo (A World) by Valladolid artist Ángeles Santos was created in 1929 and made a huge impression on the intellectual circles at the time.
The Collection Restoration
Corbeaux (Crows)
Interview to Bouchra Ouizguen
As part of the performing arts series staged in collaboration with the Community of Madrid's Teatros del Canal, the Museo Reina Sofía presents, over two sessions, Corbeaux (Crows), by choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen.
Corbeaux is a kind of "living sculpture" with no contrivance, comprising raw elements, gestures, silences and, at times, the cries of a group of women dressed in black, their bodies creating figures and forms in the space they share with spectators. As the piece evolves, pre-conceived notions of time and space vanish, making way for a hard-to-classify lived experience intended to be both intimate and universal.
The Perturbable School
The Perturbable School is an extended programme of studies, residence and cultural productions that runs in parallel to the exhibition Luis Camnitzer. Hospice of Failed Utopias (Museo Reina Sofía, 17 October 2018 - 4 March 2019).
From Art, Despite Art
Interview with Lucy Lippard
Lucy Lippard (1937) is one of the foremost critics and creators in the conception and history of contemporary art. Her writing, exhibitions and biography have been the subject of far-reaching studies and shows, for instance the recent Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of the Conceptual Art (Brooklyn Art Museum, 2012–2013) and From Conceptualism to Feminism. Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969–74 (Afterall, 2012). Lippard was a guest at the opening of the Juan Antonio Ramírez Chair, which explores different approaches to art history – understanding it as a constantly evolving discourse – and signalled the start of activities in the Museo Reina Sofía's Study Centre. Therefore, on the occasion of her visit, a master lecture, workshop and interview were all conducted, the latter of which looked over, for the first time, her career as a whole, for example the landmark exhibition Eccentric Abstraction (1966), representing a feminist and organic critique of Minimalism, a key term in the "dematerialisation of art" (1972), or the displacement of the institutional systems of art by community- and territorial-based aesthetic practices.
Archipelago 2018. Concert series
In its second edition, Archipelago asserts its approach to listening as a form of both knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. Attendants are encouraged to approach the complexities of the cotemporary world not only through the ear, but also through the body, by absorbing sound with all their organs and bones.
Participants: Janneke van der Putten, Agnès Pe, Hashigakari, Tutu, Clara de Asís, Cedrick Fermont, Toukadime, Sofyann Ben, Youssef (Ammar 808), Áine O'Dwyer, Tarawangsawelas + Rabih Beaini, Nadah El Shazly, Errorsmith and Dj Lag.
The Words of Others by León Ferrari
A Theatre of the Present
This video assembles a series of interviews, carried out in conjunction with the presentation of León Ferrari's literary collage The Words of Others, which explore the Argentinean artist's approaches to his work and the challenges and research entailed in staging this theatre piece in the Museo Reina Sofía.
Ruth Estévez. Independent researcher. In charge of direction and mise en scène.
Ana Longoni. Director of Public Activities, Museo Reina Sofía.
Javier del Olmo. Representative of the León Ferrari Foundation.
José Antonio Sánchez. Researcher. In charge of dramaturgy and mise en scène.
Isabel de Naverán. Dance advisor, Museo Reina Sofía.
Adam Curtis, Without a Mirror
How do we explain a time of excessive and overwhelming information overload? Film-maker Adam Curtis proposes narration as a mechanism for unravelling the present, his documentaries connecting occurrences, people, events and ideas randomly and temporarily, shaping a tightly packed network of connections which explain and confront, in a way few cultural productions do, contemporary reality. How can we add images to this narration? Or, similarly, through film how can we represent the way in which power operates? In this interview, conducted exclusively by Soy Cámara online (CCCB's video essay channel), and in conjunction with the retrospective on the film-maker in the Museo Reina Sofía, Curtis reflects on these questions and his own concept of film.
Activities Cinema and video
Archipelago 2017. Éliane Radigue by Emmanuel Holterbach + Agnès Pe
Archipelago is a new series of concerts that views listening at once as a form of knowledge and aesthetic enjoyment. In this, the first edition, Archipelago is enveloped in drone and minimalist music, exploring its influences and unexpected offshoots.
In this session, Emmanuel Holterbach performs the full version of Trilogy on Death, by the French composer Éliane Radigue. Agnès Pe, a self-taught and multidisciplinary musicologist and researcher, performs her own interpretation of the concept of Archipelago, approaching a musical theme via different styles and places.
Archipelago 2017. Yoshi and Tashi Wada + Damián Schwartz
The programme welcomes the Japanese musician and artist Yoshi Wada, linked to Fluxus, and his son Tashi Wada, who works with experimental music, art and interdisciplinary performance. They perform in this session a specific piece with the collaboration of the percussionist Ingar Zach and the Banda de Gaitas Lume of Biqueira.
To complete the session, Damián Schwartz, producer, DJ and artist based in Madrid explores the edgier side of dance music, relating figures such as Jamal Moss and his more experimental strands to composers such as Terry Riley and Robert Ashley.
Archipelago 2017. Severine Beata and Javi Álvarez + iNSANLAR
This session presents Severine Beata, name chosen by Marta Peláez for a new sound project, who performs some of these new tracks alongside Javi Álvarez (Fluzo, Dúo Cobra, Néboa, Dj de la muerte, La Follable, etc.), producer of the record presented on this occasion; and the band iNSANLAR (literally meaning "humanity" in Turkish but with more profound and esoteric connotations), whose album Kime Ne, gained international admiration, catching the ear of the listener with its idiosyncratic blend of traditional Anatolian-Mesopotamian instrumentation, electronic music and spiritual and philosophical lyrics.
Interview with Joan La Barbara
Voice Is The Original Instrument
Throughout her career as a performer and composer, Joan La Barbara, a hugely influential figure in the sphere of contemporary experimental music, has explored the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, developing a true and signature vocabulary of experimental techniques. She uses these techniques to explore the potential range of timbres in a single pitch, circular breathing inspired by French horn playing, and multiphonics, in addition to recovering classics such as choral singing.
When Something Is Possible
When Something Is Possible puts forward a panoramic view of the actions and programmes developed by the Museo Reina Sofía Education Department, proceeding from the voices of those who are at its core: participants, educators, mediators, teachers and members of the education team. This kaleidoscope of experiences brings to light the diverse array of languages, sensibilities and knowledge that are interwoven in the education work of the Museo, in addition to the multiple subjectivities that can find a place there.
Inhabiting Painting
Artist-led Workshop with Miren Doiz
The Artist-led Workshop, a collaborative project between artists and educators aimed at children aged between 8 and 11, and this year in its fifth edition, sets up a dialogue between the artistic career of Miren Doiz (Pamplona, 1980) and the works on display in the two temporary exhibitions from the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Artist Miren Doiz explore both exhibitions with participants, not only to highlight the historical importance of collecting as a staple in the holdings of public collections, but primarily to put forward an overview of painting from contemporary practice. Miren Doiz's surroundings-based works, which intervene through expanded painting, trigger experiences that directly pose a question to the viewer through sentience. Her concept of painting transgresses the frameworks that encapsulate it and includes diverse techniques, which allow the children participating to discover, over the five days the workshop is held, how this can generate inhabitable spaces.
Concerts for Another Listening
Resonance is a series of sound interventions for a specific site, activating the acoustic and historical space in the Museo Reina Sofía's Sabatini Building. The programme refrains from using the auditorium and electronic amplification, which means guest artists, musicians and composers will present a series of pieces that set in motion alternative contexts for sound and contemporary music.
This series lays out a set of interventions that work with unwanted echoes and resonances, developing the properties sound possesses, depending on where it is produced – a quality that the careful design of auditoriums, speakers and earphones have tried to make us forget.


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Café at Mjölknabbens campsite and cottages at the island Sirkön in the middle of Lake Åsnen. Offers coffee, pretzels, cakes and cookies. Everything is homemade.
On the island Sirkön in the middle of the vast lake Åsnen you'll find this Café. Here you're welcome for many hours of the day to sit down and enjoy homemade pies, cakes and cookies or just a cup of coffee. All in a relaxing and pleasant environment with beautiful views of the lake.
Opening hours 2018 June, July, August From June 1st to August 19th Open all days 10.00 - 20.00 August, September August 20th to September 9th Open all days 10.00 - 18.00 September 15/9-16/9, 22/9-23/9, 29/9-30/9 Open 10.00 - 17.00 Between March 30th and October 21st we accept larger groups outside of the ordinary opening hours.
Closed Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer Day.


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Most of the vegetarians do not take the pleasure of cakes and pastries or dishes made out of them, because of the presence of egg in those recipes. Here is a way out for them….
Preheat the microwave for 7-8 minutes on Power 100.
Meanwhile, sieve maida, cocoa, soda, baking powder all together and keep aside.
Combine the sugar and milk- maid in a deep bowl and beat well using a whisk. Pour butter and mix well.
Now add milk and essence and mix it.
Add the sieved flour mixture and mix gently with the help of spatula for 3-4 minutes till it gets smooth and light. The batter should be of medium consistency.
You can add some dry fruits in batter and put some into bowl before placing the batter.
Pour the batter into a greased and dusted (sprinkle some amount of maida) 7'' diameter microwave bowl.
The cake is ready when it leaves the sides or you can check by inserting the toothpick into it. It should come out either clean or with only a few crumbs clinging to it.
Remove from the microwave and invert the bowl over a plate and tap it to unmould the cake.
Now add little lukewarm water and add icing sugar and cocoa into it.
Top it all up with this icing mixture.
Decorate it with dry fruits.
Enjoy your eggless cocoa cake.
You can use coffee with cocoa to give the flavor of mocca.
You can serve it with icecream also.


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Traps.
July 20, 2019 · By Amy Swift Crosby
Can you stay with me long enough to tolerate a low-hanging metaphor?
I promise not to stay here long.
I was laying ant traps the other day due to an infestation in my master bathroom. After placing each plastic death square in key pathways, I took a moment to observe. Would they be like bees to honey (or ants to insecticide in this case) or… remain undeterred? My hope was that they'd eat the bait, take it back to their friends, and ideally make painless transitions to more appreciated reincarnations.
Only about half of them took it. The rest went around it.
What is it that causes an ant to know how to avoid his own demise?
And so, my metaphor begins.
How good are any of us at spotting what I can only describe as irresistible yet emotionally costly situations? Are we all susceptible to repeating what, in the end, amounts to the death-of-my-better-self trap?
These 'traps' I'm describing are circumstances that trigger behaviors or internal conversations that we know bring out the worst in us – or that further embed a toxic pattern – but that we can't resist repeating.
In my role as a copy writer, I stop brands from falling into expected messaging traps all the time. But as a human, I'm batting more like the ants.
Being misunderstood, ignored or overlooked.
Coming home to a messy kitchen (guilty).
The internal dialogue that may churn when peer success shines a light on one's own (seemingly) slower pace.
Certain conditions spike our emotional insulin in just the right way – taking us from calm and optimistic, to cynical and accusing. We give them attention and credibility in a way that hijacks our most rationale, generous attributes. And without a professional to prevent the derailment, it's up to us to be the disruption we need to thwart such emotional stick-ups.
Couples experience this frequently by virtue of repetition – he does this, so I say that. The relationship rarely improves by repeating that same song and dance (yet again), but impulse control can be weak in version 10,000; tapping into reserves to create a new pattern isn't always possible. We get tired. And if we're not paying attention, falling for the poisonous bait of habitual dynamics can quickly go from outlier to the status quo. Chronic discord can lead to distance… and the equivalent of swallowing psychological Raid. Ultimately, it represents more than disagreement, and grows into disengagement. That's a pretty fatal trap.
Few of our traps are big surprises (childhood dynamics with parents, anyone? Getting cut off in traffic?). While we usually can't stand how much our reactions keep us from who we want to be and the kinds of relationships we hope to attract, we're drawn in, and sometimes even addicted, to scratching an emotional itch.
But… no sooner are we full of regret, remorse and a desire to revise immediate history.
While most of us won't meet our literal death from our own B.S., the cost is still real when it comes to our perception that life is getting better, not worse; that we're gaining ground, not losing it; that we aren't alienating people who matter.
Freud called this phenomena Repetitive Compulsion, and without unpacking the full meaning and implication of this term, it basically means we can't help but repeat dynamics that are hard-wired over time, no matter how icky these perfect storms of familiar dialogues, arguments or triggers make us feel.
I like to think we can, actually, overcome predisposition or long-held defense mechanisms. But as anyone who has tried to disrupt a knee jerk response in some intense personal scenario knows, it ain't easy. Valuable practices and retreats (designed to repattern these pathways) support transformation, but they're not insurance policies. Which is to say, it's hard to change what may be natural, even when it sucks.
But rising a few thousand feet above the day-to-day trip wires, to a more metaphysical plane, traps don't just enable lesser present selves – they sabotage future ones. Think of the hard work you've done to overcome limiting beliefs, or trauma, or stories that don't support what you really want. These traps are distractions that build walls and block intimacy. They stop movement, figuratively and literally.
For me, falling for a known trap makes me feel bad for days. I admonish myself for knowing better but doing worse. So the ants got me thinking. Why not use words, a currency I often curl up with, to reframe these situational landmines?
Could "traps"…instead be viewed as "tests"?
Instead of heading directly for the bait (because it's a familiar toxin), we could identify traps as opportunities to foresee the feeling of being cornered by our own beliefs and reactions, and then – with all our mental muscle – twist our own plot. I know I could better anticipate what has kept me down in the past – or as recently as yesterday – and view it as an opportunity to demonstrate something different…to myself, or whoever may be watching. Witnessing myself…not be (my historical) self…could be a very powerful disruptor.
Cognitive dissonance is rarely intentional…
Good people have toxic communication patterns.
Lifelong meditators fly off the handle.
The confident and talented undervalue and underestimate themselves.
These aren't mutually exclusive scenarios, and our best qualities don't necessarily save us from our worst ones.
It's funny how you can just be getting to know yourself, half-way through this life.
It's also amusing that the traps that most rob us of the good emotional hygiene we hope to nurture aren't usually high voltage negotiations or even major life events – but rather the daily transactions that come with being alive, being in a relationship, taking risks, being loved.
No one's trying to kill me (or you) on the plus side.
Yet…I can save my own life (and so can you) at any time.
Solve If With What.
November 23, 2015 · By Amy Swift Crosby
No rational human welcomes the feeling of uncertainty – that uneasy sense that you can't see around corners or don't know where a road might lead. Of course recent events make us feel that the world is more unpredictable than ever. But when you depend on yourself for success, financial stability, reputation, life's work – the mercurial feelings that demand clearer answers exists all the time. Will this idea work? Is this partner right? Why didn't anyone RSVP? I don't even know what I don't know, which means I really don't know enough. EEEK!
Because we can't see the future, and because we have to do something as answers are revealed and work performed, here's my plan (for myself) every time these feelings arise.
I'm going to give – an in giving, try to create a little bit of certainty for another human being. It gets us out of our own way. And offers the very thing we ourselves often crave; Unexpected grace. But I'm not going to just do anything for someone else. I'm going to do something specific – that only I can do. Could be a talent, a connection, a word, a way of seeing something, to someone who needs it.
Here's what it does: it gives us a little tiny bit of knowing that we moved another human forward toward something they really, really want – with something only you have – and were meant to give to the world. It gets us out of our own way.
In honor of thanksgiving, let's just give some small (but hugely useful) thing. To someone. Somewhere. Freely.
It's medicinal.
Dualité.
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On level one, you just want to cry and grieve and do something (anything) to help.
On level two, you have to deliver work for a client.
On level one, you want to let them know you care, that we are connected, that their tragedy is in our hearts and minds.
On level two, you have to make dinner.
What happened in Paris, and what is in the news every day, challenges us to live two lives. In one, we go about our days, having meetings, pitching work, seeing friends, making plans, complaining about resolvable problems.
And that's normal, right? That's life. You have to run your business, feed your family, listen to a friend complain about traffic.
I find it really challenging to do all this, while I feel all that.
You can't be all business.
But you can't be all heart, either.
The only, only take-away for any of us can be that these events have a grounding, sobering affect.
Stupid sh&t just doesn't matter. But a lot of other things just really do.
I hope somehow goodness can prevail.
Last Days on the boat. See you in nine months.
The last days of anything always feel melancholy. Sometimes it's as simple as the season – saying goodbye to summer. Other times it's the end of a partnership, a relationship, a business, a project. But last days have such an important role in the way we punctuate our lives – professionally and privately. Last days mean we are in deep presence and appreciation for what was – what it meant, why it happened. But so much of self-help dogma is about finding silver linings and escaping that uncomfortable edge. Well-meaning friends say, "this is just a transition" or my favorite, "when one door closes…." etc. And we tend to agree with them. But maybe we shouldn't re-market these themes back to ourselves. Because that's what they are. Marketing. We are typically selling ourselves out of feeling uncomfortable. But why NOT be a little bit blue about the end? Why NOT sit in that feeling for more than a minute? And why do so many of us feel we need to tell ourselves "I didn't want that anyway" or "maybe it worked out for the best." Well maybe it did, but maybe it effing did NOT. Maybe you wanted it really badly but didn't get it. It's so easy to talk ourselves out of what's "hard" because enduring it, being in it, seeing who you are in those dark places is brutal. But is it possible we could come out better for having not pulled the parachute too fast?
Risk can be terrifying. Unknowns can be torture. Relationships can feel unsteady. Work can have curveballs. Confidence can be shaken.
The nausea of vulnerability and change are places we don't voluntarily dwell. But maybe we don't have to make that go away so fast. There's something for us in the rabbit hole, as anyone who has ever had dark, uncertain days can tell you. But we have to be there (and stay there for a minute) to find out.
You can insert competency, naturalness, authority into this if that feels better, but here's what we talk about when we talk about fluency.
You do this work at the highest level without thinking about techniques or mechanics.
You're comfortable enough to think through questions and answers, without panicking about what's "right" – thanks to experience.
You can be quiet – because sometimes you don't need to talk.
You can be brilliant, without preparing for it.
You can manage surprises without losing your place in the script.
All of this happens when you develop a fluency in a skill, a sport, a relationship, a way of being. It's a great place to be, right? But there will always be new things you get into where you're a beginner – you're on the JV team (and it's uncomfortable for a varsity player like yourself.)
When I first started moderating panel discussions I was very focused on my questions – now I hardly look at them because I take cue's from people's answers, and aim to drive the conversation genuinely, but in a natural direction that serves the audience and gets the most from the panelist.
On the other hand, there's my tennis game. I was a social player until this summer when I started taking lessons. I'm in the JV phase where I think about every stroke, my leg positions, my racquet – it's all in my head. There's very little naturalness. But if I keep going (and who doesn't want to wear a tennis costume legitimately) maybe I'll gain some fluency and stop THINKINg so much. And become good, if not fluent.
It's important to know your fluencies, and your JV sports. Expectations change when you see the game you're playing.
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The Curse of Customization.
August 18, 2015 · By Amy Swift Crosby
Isn't it amazing how each of us can now dial our lives and experiences down to the most granular, seemingly insignificant level? Not only can we be our own DJ's and turn on the alarm for the house from 20 miles away, we can tap into podcasts and audiobooks while having our teeth cleaned, plug our menstrual cycles into apps that calculate ovulation, look at our wrists to see how many steps we took that day – and get business cards designed, printed and shipped – in two days. More and more, our lives are becoming customizable – but you know what that does to everything that ISN'T? It makes us cranky. As we get more and more accustomed to things being connected, in sync, measurable, on-demand and tuned into our every mood and preference, all of the elements of life that are out of our control – relationships, business deals, creative projects, partnerships – all of those variables that cannot be swiped, clicked or downloaded – become incrementally more frustrating.
It's simple, actually. We're getting used to having our way with our worlds. But the world is still reminding us that we're human, people are people, life is still life – and most of it is still out of our control.
So now we get to practice tolerance. Patience. Flexibility.
Funny how the technical pace of life might also be accelerating our spiritual paths. If we let it.
Here's a list of some of my favorite customization tools.
Urban Daddy app
Where to eat? Any time, city, circumstance.Tara Brach podcast
Spiritual musings.Ovia app
When am I ovulating? Now you know.OMG I can Meditate app
Self explanatory.
Marc Maron podcast WTF
Musicians, artists, actors, writers – Q and A.
Hotel Tonight app
Last minute hotel – any city.
Astrolis Horoscope App
Silly predictions – but kinda believable.
Every question under the sun – answered.
Tiny Scan
Take a picture of a document – scanned!

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Egberto II (; h. 1060 - m. el ) fue un conde deBrunswick y margrave de Meissen desde 1068 hasta su muerte .

Era el hijo mayor del margrave Egberto I de la familia brunónida. Aún menor de edad, sucedió a su padre a la muerte de éste el 11 de enero de 1068, en Brunswick y Meissen. Se casó con Oda, hija del conde Otón de Meissen-Orlamünde, cuyas tierras heredó, incluyendo el castillo de Wanderslebener Gleichen.

En 1073, losa sajones, liderados por el duque Magnus y Otón de Nordheim, se rebelaron contra el rey Enrique IV. La insurrección fue aplastada por el duque Bratislao II de Bohemia en la Primera batalla de Langensalza el . Si Egberto participó o no en la rebelión sajona es algo que no queda claro, con base en las fuentes existentes, pero dado que a pesar de todo se le vio como opositor al rey, fue privado de Meissen, que se le dio a Bratislao. Sin embargo, Egberto expulsó a Bratislao de Meissen al año siguiente y fue condenado. Un condado frisio entonces en posesión suya fue confiscado y entregado al obispo de Utrecht.

Al principio, Egberto apoyó al antirrey Rodolfo de Rheinfeld, pero con el tiempo él y muchos otros nobles sajones retiraron su apoyo y permanecieron neutrales. Después de la muerte de Otón de Nordheim en 1083, Egberto fue el más importante, pero también el más inconsistente, opositor de Enrique IV. En 1085, los dos se reconciliaron por poco tiempo y Egberto recibió a Enrique en Sajonia en julio. En septiembre, el conflicto se reanudó, pero en 1087, Egberto y Enrique hicieron las paces.

Algunas fuentes documentan que después de la muerte del antirrey Germán de Salm, los obispos Hartwig de Magdeburgo y Burcardo de Halberstadt convencieron a Egberto para que se volviese contra el rey y que él mismo pretendiera la corona. Sea cual fuere el caso, Egberto pronto rompió con sus nuevos aliados, probablemente por promesas incumplidas. El sometimiento del obispo Hartwig al rey aisló a Egberto por completo.

En 1088, Egberto fue asediado en su castillo de Gleichen durante cuatro meses por Enrique, pero en la Nochebuena consiguió escapar, durante la confusión de la batalla, con un ejército que había acudido a aliviar el asedio. Fue declarado fuera de la ley y privado de Meissen y sus posesiones frisias por una corte de príncipes en Quedlinburg, y más tarde de nuevo en Ratisbona en el mismo año. Egberto, huido, no derrotado pero aislado, cayó en combate en 1090.

Las posesiones que le quedaban pasaron a su hermana, Gertrudis y su esposo Enrique el Gordo de Frisia, cuya hija Riquilda se casó con Lotario de Suplimburgo, más tarde duque y emperador. Pero Meissen fue entregada por el emperador a otro Enrique, Enrique I de la Marca Sajona Oriental.

Enlaces externos

Margraves de Meissen
Nobles de Alemania del siglo XI
Brunónidas
Condes de Brunswick
Gobernantes de Frisia

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Q: Laravel - Set Select2 Default to NULL rather than First Option I have a Laravel edit form that utilizes the Select2 jQuery extension with options pulled from a database table.
Below is the form select field I am referring to:
            <select id="ship_to" name="ship_to" class="js-example-basic-single2 form-control">
                @foreach($cCustomers as $customer)
                    <option value="{{$customer->id}}"
                    @if ($shipment->ship_to == $customer->id) selected="selected"
                                 @endif
                    >{{$customer->customer_name}}</option>
                @endforeach
            </select>

Now, everything pops up fine, the options are there, the select box has been transformed into a Select2 format. My problem is that when I pull data from a database, if the specific column is empty, the select2 pulls the first option, rather than the allowed null choice (and yes I have selected a placeholder), clearing the select2 box works just fine.
So my question goes as such:
If I have a record where the select's field is NULL, how do I get the page to open up automatically will the null value and placeholder in my select2 box, rather than the first option?
Current Output:
<select id="ship_to" name="ship_to" class="js-example-basic-single2 form-control select2-hidden-accessible" data-select2-id="ship_to" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true">
        <option></option>
        <option value="164" data-select2-id="387">4G ENTERPRISES</option>
        <option value="192">4G ENTERPRISES</option>
        <option value="81">5280 PACKAGING</option>

A: From the docs. Make sure that on your select2 options, you set a placeholder:
$('#ship_to').select2({
    placeholder: "Please select a customer"
});

And add an empty option in the <select> (Just above the @foreach($cCustomers as $customer):
<option></option>

A: You could add an option with null value before foreach.
<option value=""></option>

Add above line before foreach

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/* global describe, it */

'use strict';

var ROOT_DIR = require('path').resolve(__dirname, '../../..');

var expect = require('chai').expect;
var continueOnError = require(ROOT_DIR + '/internals/continueOnError.js');

describe('fluxible-action-utils.internals#continueOnError', function () {
    it('should call callback with data if the returned function is passed data with no error', function (cb) {
        var payload = 'actual data';
        var callback = function (err, data) {
            expect(err).to.equal(null);
            expect(data).to.be.a('string').and.equal(payload);
            cb();
        };

        continueOnError(callback)(null, payload);
    });

    it('should call callback with data.err if the returned function is passed an error', function (cb) {
        var error = {status: 404, message: 'Not Found'};
        var callback = function (err, data) {
            expect(err).to.equal(null);
            expect(data).to.be.an('object').and.have.property('err', error);
            cb();
        };

        continueOnError(callback)(error);
    });

    it('should call callback with data[errProp] if the returned function is passed an error and errProp',
        function (cb) {
        var error = {status: 404, message: 'Not Found'};
        var callback = function (err, data) {
            expect(err).to.equal(null);
            expect(data).to.be.an('object').and.have.property('error', error);
            cb();
        };

        continueOnError('error', callback)(error);
    });
});

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Current: IDC FutureScape: Top 10 Predictions for the Future of Customer Experience
IDC FutureScape: Top 10 Predictions for the Future of Customer Experience
NEEDHAM, Mass., November 22, 2022 – As we move beyond COVID-driven restrictions, IDC's Future of Customer Experience predictions for 2023 reflect how B2B and B2C businesses must confront a new set of macroeconomic challenges – inflation, global economic instability, and flattening customer growth – while still navigating new hybrid work and organizational leadership models. Customers are demanding greater value, more memorable and immersive experiences, and greater control over how they engage with enterprises, becoming equal stakeholders in the customer experience (CX) ecosystem.
Going forward, customer-centric business resilience will require enterprises to move beyond transactional-level experiences and tie business outcomes to relationship-based experiences that will be fulfilled by delivering customer value and trusted customer outcomes. Building and scaling these desired outcomes will require CX executives to leverage strong technology foundations comprising customer data, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and zero trust architectures.
These CX initiatives will usher in an era of new customer metrics, greater focus on quantifying customer and business value, and trusted communities where the customers' role will evolve into an active participant in the experience ecosystem, as both creators and consumers of experiences. With digital business models becoming a steppingstone to the future enterprise, the imperative to maintain the human element in the customer experience will assume even more importance.
"In a world of accelerated uncertainty, the next era of CX innovation will be led by those brands that improve value for the customer through empathy and delivering outcomes for customer success," said Sudhir Rajagopal, research director, Future of Customer Experience at IDC. "Thrivers will share and apply intelligence at the speed of customer engagement, create new customer engagement models and metrics for a digital business, and tap into the power of decentralization/Web3 to create equitable value parity in customer and business outcomes alike."
IDC's top 10 predictions for the Future of Customer Experience are:
Prediction 1: By 2027, one-fourth of global brands will abandon CSAT as a measure of customer experience and adopt a Customer Effort Score correlated to outcomes as a key indicator of journey satisfaction and success.
Prediction 2: By 2024, 50% of the G2000 will adopt customer data platforms (CDPs) as the enterprise customer data service for real-time customer interactions like a central nervous system, increasing CX metrics and revenue by 5%.
Prediction 3: To foster loyalty and a competitive edge, 64% of the G2000 will own online communities by 2027 and core IT application integrations will enable a new wave of collaboration and outcome-based insights.
Prediction 4: By 2026, 40% of the Global 2000 will incorporate employee experience (EX) initiatives into their core CX strategies to compete in CX, talent acquisition, and retention, but will struggle to measure EX+CX.
Prediction 5: Adopting Web3 technologies will drive 45% of global brands to create new immersive experiences, accessible content, and engaged communities and grow the CX creator economy into a $300 billion market by 2024.
Prediction 6: By 2026, 45% of the Global 2000 will use AI/ML to elevate context and nudge customers into unfamiliar and novel experiences that simultaneously improve sentiment metrics and brand upselling potential.
Prediction 7: By 2024, at least 30% of organizations will introduce new success metrics to track and measure the internal and external flows of customer value creation.
Prediction 8: By 2025, 50% of G2000 enterprise customers will primarily select their CX platform provider based on the efficacy of the vendor's customer success services.
Prediction 9: By 2024, 30% of organizations will be forced to expand data management and privacy measures to mitigate risks of data breaches caused by ecosystem partners costing $4.6 million per breach.
Prediction 10: By 2026, 40% of G2000 companies will build safe communities to foster interpersonal guardrails for future metaverse platforms — and collect first-party data.
IDC's Future of Customer Experience predictions are presented in full detail in the report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Customer Experience 2023 Predictions (IDC #US48543222). Copies of this report are available to qualified members of the media.
An on-demand replay of IDC's Worldwide Future of Customer Experience 2023 Predictions webcast will be available as one of more than 40 FutureScape webinars that will address the CIO Agenda, Digital Business, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Sustainable Strategies and Technologies, and a range of industry-specific and Future of X topics. To register for any of these webinars, please visit: www.idc.com/futurescape2023.
About IDC FutureScape
IDC FutureScape presents information about technologies, markets, and ecosystems that help decision makers to better understand future trends and their impacts on the enterprise. They also present guidance on complex, fast-moving environments and offer prescriptive, actionable recommendations. Every year, IDC identifies the key external drivers that will influence businesses in the coming years. An IDC FutureScape establishes 10 predictions derived from these drivers, analyzes the impacts on the IT organization, and proposes recommendations for the next five years. To learn more about IDC FutureScape, please visit: www.idc.com/futurescape2023.
About IDC's Future of Customer Experience Practice
Success in the future of customer experience requires an empathetic relationship between customers and brands built on what the customer wants and how they want to be treated through the technology lens of awareness, engaging, learning, and measuring. IDC's Future of Customer Experience research practice helps organizations fundamentally change how they view and engage with their customers. To learn more about IDC's Future of Customer Experience research practice, please visit www.idc.com/promo/future-of-x/customer-experience.
Future of customer experience


In some people eczema can be genetic. In these people their eczema can be triggered and made worse by a combination of genetics and environmental factors.
There are many types of eczema. And there are many things that can trigger an outbreak. Some types of eczema can run in families, so there could be a genetic cause. But they are not always caused by it.
In Atopic Dermatitis, the underlying cause is thought to be your genetic make up. If a child has one parent with atopic eczema, then they are 60% likely to develop it themselves. If both parents have it, then the chances of developing it jump to 80%.
Now for the science part. I have simplified it, even just for me to understand it!
A recent study has shown that there is a main genetic reason why some families are more likely to develop atopic dermatitis.
Your skin is your protective barrier. Guarding you against irritants, allergens and bacteria, and from the loss of water. The barrier is formed partly of filaggrin. Filaggrin is a protein that is part of the skin's structure. It also helps to keep your skin moisturised, by holding water inside of your skin cells.
When there is a mutation of the filaggrin gene, this can cause the skin barrier to be less effective. A mutation is when there is a permanent change in genetic material. So the changed gene could be inherited, and passed through families.
When the filaggrin gene has been changed permanently it can make it less effective at doing it's job. When your skin's protective layer is not doing it's job, it can allow the baddies in. This causes irritation and allergies to form. It is also unable to keep your skin as moisturised as it should. This leads to dryness and itchiness, so eczema is more likely to develop.
During May, the first ever International Eczema Conference was held in Nottingham, UK.
Researchers from all over the world met up at the University of Nottingham. They spoke about recent and upcoming research being done to learn more about the causes, prevention and treatment of eczema.
They will also talk more about the study being completed, to find out the effectiveness of silk clothing on eczema. I mentioned this study in a Facebook post in January, so looking forward to reading the results.
As of writing this, the discussions and findings of the conference have not been published. I will keep you up to date when anything is reported.
It is well known fact that smoking cigarettes has many negative effects on your health.
One part of the body that can be affected is the skin. It has been reported that smoking can trigger some skin conditions, and make skin inflammation worse.
If you are a smoker you may find that any eczema on your hands becomes irritated and inflamed after having a cigarette.
Also if you have a child with eczema, it is always recommended not to smoke around them. But cigarette smoke will still likely be in the atmosphere. As well as on clothes and fabric furniture. So any contact your child has with the smoke could irritate their eczema.
The best way to eliminate the negative effects of smoking, is to eliminate the cigarettes. Easier said than done, I know, but worth it for many reasons, especially if you have children. And especially if they have eczema.
Preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF/gas 6. Warm the milk in a small pan over a low heat, then leave to cool slightly. Crack the eggs into a large bowl, add the vinegar, then gradually stir in the warm milk until combined.
Combine the flour, salt, sugar and yeast in another bowl, then, using a wooden spoon, stir the dry ingredients into the wet mixture until it forms a sticky dough. Add the olive oil, then bring it together with your hands into a ball, adding a little flour if it's too sticky.
Place onto a lightly oiled baking tray, cover with a damp tea towel, then leave to prove in a warm place for around 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
Once risen, place the tray in the hot oven and bake for around 35 minutes, or until golden and cooked through. Leave to cool slightly on a wire cooling rack, then slice and serve.


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Killer View
by Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen (Foreword by) Roy Johansen
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Buy Online, Pick up in Store best-selling series. In Hood's Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Transgression, the continuation of a recently launched series, Adam Hayes is asked by his CIA Black Ops program to set up a safe house and is the only survivor when the mission is blown. Dedicated to helping others after having escaped from a shadowy black box program aimed at creating assassins, Evan Smoak, a.k.a. Orphan X, has a new mission in Hurwitz's Dark Horse: rescue the kidnapped daughter of Texas drug overlord Aragon Urrea (200,000-copy first printing). In Jance's Nothing To Lose, retired police detective Beaumont is asked for help by the son of his former partner Sue Danielson, who was murdered years ago by her raging ex-husband. Johansen gives us a big, new Killer View of Jessie Mercado, a Southern California private investigator who surfaces regularly in the "Kendra Michaels" series he writes with his mother, Iris Johansen. In the Edgar Award-winning Kanon's Cold War Berlin-set The Berlin Exchange, two U.S. students and an MI5 operative are being quietly traded far from Checkpoint Charlie for physicist Martin Keller, who had been imprisoned in the UK and now wants to see his ex-wife and son—but what do the East Germans want from him? (125,000-copy first printing). Wending their way through City of the Dead, Kellerman stalwarts Alex Delaware and his buddy, Det. Milo Sturgis, discover a naked, bled-out young man in the streets and a trail of blood leading to the nearby home of sliced-up Cordelia Gannett, an internet influencer Alex knows. Multi-award-winning Northern Irish writer McKinty follows up the New York Times best-selling, Paramount Pictures-ready The Chain with The Chase, so obviously of interest that we won't even worry about the absence of plot details (150,000-copy first printing). In the New York Times best-selling Mezrich's The Midnight Ride, fresh-from-prison Nick Patterson sneaks into a hotel room on an obligatory job to find his fence dead and scared-witless MIT student Hailey Gordon hiding out after having been caught counting cards; added to this mix is a U.S. history professor's discovery of an unsettling secret about the Revolutionary War (75,000-copy first printing). A domestic-thrills author with 20 Sunday Times best sellers to her name, Parks limns the unaccountable disappearance of two women—contented wife and stepmother Leigh and wealthy, newly married Kai—in cases that shouldn't be linked but seem to be in Both of You (100,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing).


Beloved 365 Devotions For Young Women from Zondervan. Young women receive so many negative messages in today's society. Counteract that with Beloved, a topical 365-day devotional that will inspire them with positive role models from Scripture. Each day features an easy-to-read, relevant devotion paired with a scripture verse about a biblical girl or woman, such as Ruth, Esther, Mary, or Abigail. Every page speaks to the pressures and changes girls face, giving them real-world applications to find God in their hearts and in their lives. Some pages include remembering the teensy rivalry between Leah and Rachel? Well, that history, coupled with Jacob's unbalanced favoritism of Rachel's oldest son Joseph, led to some serious bad blood between Jacob's sons. And that bad blood resulted in Joseph being sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers.
My Opinion: This offers so much for young women to read and learn from to make them a stronger, confident woman with the guidance and help from God. Read one page every morning at breakfast before school and think about what you read for a better understanding to your day.
I like this book because you can write down thoughts, verses, or notes everyday.
I like the daily devos!


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An official document issued by local government which acts as a guarantee that a structure  adheres to all local building and zoning laws.
A certificate of occupancy (CO) is issued after a building is inspected by a representative of the relevant local government agency and found to be in compliance with all local building and zoning ordinances. The document also establishes things like the intended use of a property and the expected number of occupants. You can think of a CO as the "other side" of a building permit, the building permit establishes beforehand that a structure will adhere to local codes, and the CO checks the finished structure to make sure that it is does.
A CO must be issued under three circumstances:
-When construction of a new building is completed.
-When the main purpose of a building changes. (E.g. Residential to Commercial)
-When ownership of a commercial or multi-residential building changes.
A CO is required in order to make everyday use of a space for either commercial or residential purposes, and is also necessary for most mortgages. In some cases, a temporary CO may be issued to a property owner. This would generally be done when a building is still partially under construction, but certain floors or parts of the building are deemed habitable and fit for use.
A certificate of occupancy generally does not need to be issued when a single-family home changes ownership.
-Example
Restaurant Owner is in the process of constructing a new commercial building for their restaurant. Upon completion of the building, an inspector from the city government would ensure that all local laws and codes are adhered to, and then give the go-ahead for city hall to issue a Certificate of Occupancy to Owner for their new restaurant. After several years, the restaurant under performs financially so Owner decides to sell the structure to their friend Buyer. As a part of the purchase, a new Certificate of Occupancy would need to be issued to reflect the change of ownership. If, after several more years, Buyer decides to leave the restaurant business and convert the building into a block of townhouses; then yet another Certificate of Occupancy would need to be issued, this one reflecting the change in purpose of the structure.


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Realogy posts $237 million Q1 loss | Inman News
Real estate brokerage and franchise giant Realogy Corp. reported a $237 million first-quarter loss today, as interest expenses on the company's massive debt outweighed improvements in operating income.
Realogy reported that excluding the costs of recent debt restructuring, its operating income — earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA — rose 14 percent from a year ago, to $25 million.
The biggest components of Realogy's loss were interest expenses on its $7.3 billion debt (which totaled $179 million), followed by depreciation and amortization expenses of $46 million. Realogy reported that it took a $36 million loss on the early extinguishment of debt in its restructuring.
Revenue for the quarter was up 1 percent from a year ago, to $831 million.
Most of that revenue came from 740 company-owned real estate brokerage offices, whose 43,000 sales agents generated $587 million in revenue, down 2 percent from a year ago.
Realogy's company-owned brokerages, which are operated by NRT under the Coldwell Banker, ERA, Corcoran Group and Sotheby's International Realty brand names, posted a cumulative $37 million loss for the quarter.
Real estate franchise services Realogy provides to independently owned franchisees and NRT brokerages generated considerably less revenue than the company-owned offices' operations — $118 million — but were Realogy's most profitable business segment, producing $62 million in earnings for the quarter.
The $118 million in revenue generated by franchise services includes $44 million in intercompany royalties and $45 million in marketing fees paid by company-owned real estate brokerages.
Realogy provides franchise services to independently owned brokerages, which operate nearly 14,000 offices with 217,000 agents worldwide under the Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Sotheby's International Realty, and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand names.
Closed home sales among Realogy franchisees were down 4 percent from a year ago, to 184,643. The average home-sale price climbed 3 percent, to $193,710, and the average broker commission rate held steady at 2.54 percent per transaction side.
The royalties Realogy collects from its franchisees on each transaction side were down $1 from a year ago, to an average of $251, as the net effective royalty rate declined 17 basis points to 4.87 percent.
(The net effective royalty rate represents the average percentage of franchisees' commission revenues collected by Realogy, net of volume incentives achieved).
Company-owned real estate brokerages handled 51,200 transaction sides, down 3 percent from a year ago. Although the average home-sale price was down slightly, to $414,164, the average commission rate per side was up 2 basis points, to 2.5 percent, leaving gross commission income per side essentially unchanged from a year ago, at $11,188.
Revenue from relocation services was up 14 percent, to $87 million, and title and settlement services generated $83 million in revenue, up 28 percent from a year ago.
Both segments were profitable, with earnings from relocation services up 150 percent from a year ago, to $10 million, and title and settlement services generating $2 million in earnings compared to a $5 million loss a year ago.
In the relocation services segment, initiations were up 8 percent from a year ago, to 35,108, and referrals climbed 6 percent to 12,812.
The title and settlement services division saw business from refinancings climb 41 percent, to 16,826, more than offsetting a 5 percent decline in purchase title and closing units, to 18,971.
via inman.com
This entry was posted in blog on May 4, 2011 by Robert Paul.
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