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Conor Brennan (born 30 March 1994) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish League Two club Stenhousemuir.

Brennan has previously played for Kilmarnock, Stranraer, Raith Rovers, Ballymena United, Greenock Morton, Brechin City, Dumbarton and  East Kilbride

Career
Brennan made his debut for Kilmarnock in a 2–0 victory over Dundee United on 3 October 2014, after replacing injured Killie goalkeeper Craig Samson at half time.

In July 2015, Brennan signed on loan with Scottish League One side Stranraer on a six-month deal. He was recalled by Kilmarnock on 1 September 2015, after the club loaned fellow goalkeeper Devlin McKay to Derby County. On 23 May 2016, he was one of six players released at the end of their contract.

On 27 August 2016, Brennan signed for Scottish Championship club Raith Rovers on a contract until January 2017. He made his debut the same day, as Raith Rovers drew 2–2 away to Dundee United. On 12 January 2017 Brennan signed an extension to his contract keeping him at the club until the end of the season.

After leaving Raith, Brennan signed with NIFL Premiership side Ballymena United before returning to Scotland to sign with Greenock Morton on 18 January 2018.

During the 2018 close season, Brennan signed for Brechin City. He left the club in January 2019 and signed for Dumbarton. After impressing in his two appearances for the club he signed a new one year deal in June of the same year. He left the club in July 2020 after spending the 2019–20 season as the club's number one and signed for Lowland Football League side East Kilbride.

Career statistics

References

External links

Conor Brennan Official Profile at the Irish Football Association

1994 births
Living people
Association footballers from Northern Ireland
Kilmarnock F.C. players
Stranraer F.C. players
Raith Rovers F.C. players
Ballymena United F.C. players
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Association football goalkeepers
Scottish Professional Football League players
Northern Ireland youth international footballers
Northern Ireland under-21 international footballers
Brechin City F.C. players
Rangers F.C. non-playing staff
East Kilbride F.C. players
Lowland Football League players
Stenhousemuir F.C. players

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Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Ubuntu Community Discussions > The Cafe > Should Gnome Bother With Browsers, IM Clients, Office Software, Etc?
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Let's face it. Install any distro with Gnome as the default desktop and the packagers have already chosen Firefox, Pidgin and OpenOffice.org for you. Since there isn't the same integration between appliances for Gnome as there is between ones for KDE does it really make sense for the Gnome developers to continue working on apps like Epiphany, Telepathy and Gnome Office (Abiword and Gnumeric) as purely Gnome apps. Or should they just bite the bullet and make them desktop agnostic GTK apps (i.e. replace all Gnome dependencies with GTK ones)?
Or should the Gnome people push harder to get their stuff included as the default apps in Gnome based distros?
I personally use most of Gnome Office (Evolution, Abiword, and Gnumeric), especially over OpenOffice (personal preference). What I'd really like is to see them push better integration with the desktop or with each other, and that's about it. Most distributions use other software mostly because it's more popular. I mean, seriously, not shipping Firefox as default? I don't personally use it (I use Epiphany), but it's easy to see why most people do and why most distros ship with it. Same for Pidgin (although I believe that was actually changed now to Gnome's default in Ubuntu).
Anyways, now that I went way off topic, I don't know anyone who uses much of Gnome Office outside of Gnome (with the exception of some people using Abiword on Windows), so I'm not sure it'd really be worth the extra trouble to change much for the sake of less dependencies. And having said that, I'm not really sure it's dependant on Gnome, and not just GTK, is it? In Windows you only have to have GTK? (Yes, I'm not much of a techie).
It's upto the project directors and the people that donate their free time to the project.
Both Abiword and Gnumeric are installed by default in Xubuntu intrepid (not sure about older versions). I don't think there are Gnome deps, as "Gnome Office" is only a name. "Gnome Office" apps are developed by different people, and are not integrated.
Now that empathy supports voice and video, I guess many people will start using it. Pidgin has more features, but voice and video is a requirement for many people.
There are many people complaining about Firefox performance in Linux. That's a good reason to keep and improve Epiphany. I just can't wait for a stable Epiphany webkit support.
The world should be without GNOME dependencies. I'll take GTK any day.
Don't have a link but I read it somewhere on the gnome site today.
Starting with GNOME 3.0, various deprecated parts of GNOME will be removed. These deprecated components include GNOME-specific libraries such as libgnome, libgnomeui, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libglade and libgnomevfs. For applications that ship as part of the GNOME Desktop, a number of cleanup tasks have been carried out to ensure no deprecated code is used. This will ensure the smooth transition to GNOME 3.0.
Developers are strongly urged to follow this example in their own applications too. Furthermore, for any developers (or potential developers) who wish to help us out, the GNOME goals wiki page lists the various tasks that are yet to be completed.
I was wrong. There are gnome dependencies in both Gnumeric and Abiword.
These are the dependencies with gnome in the name, maybe there are more.
Gnome is a Desktop Enviroment and it should have those in it.
Epiphany, Pidgin, ... are great applications.
But that's exactly the point: To make things integrate better for improved user interface. Epiphany is making leaps now, with its own Awesome Bar (except better :P) for example. The 2.27 - 2.28 cycle should be the last step towards integrating WebkitGtk to the core GNOME experience, and Epiphany is right there.
The Telepathy project is actually desktop neutral. It's developed with GNOME very much in mind, but the idea is to have something that works everywhere (including mobile) and can stretch to all sorts of uses.
Like Epiphany, Telepathy is (potentially) vastly superior to the competition when run on its target platform because other applications in GNOME (will) work with it for magical things. The outcome is that the user can just click through tasks like silk and only has to tell the computer anything once, if at all.
With regards to user experience on the desktop, Firefox and OpenOffice are both horrendously detrimental. They are inconsistent, they are ugly and they lack any hint of integration.
gnome should, xfce shouldn't. mark, isn't xfce heading more in the direction you're suggesting gnome should go?
I know they've recently adopted Midori as a browser. But they've always had their own apps for some things (there's a whole list of them on the xfce site) and used common GTK apps for other things.
It's good that Telepathy is going to be desktop neutral, the GOffice suite should follow suit. It's just a shame the front end (empathy) is still a bit buggy.
To me Gnome and xfce are two different takes on the GTK desktop, with xfce being closer to one of the boxes (the option to use a right click applications menu instead of a panel applications menu) and Gnome being more like Windows (start menu on panel). It makes sense that they should share apps where appropriate. Obviously the creators of xfce are striving for lightness (despite the best efforts of the Xubuntu builders :p ). So they're going to choose lighter default apps than the Gnome maintainers will choose.
Rather than wasting resources in trying to compete with popular open source applications Gnome should be trying to help in assisting in porting the application.
They should also be using these resources to fix deficiencies in the DE.
Not being able to configure different wallpapers on multiple monitors or different workspaces. Should be what Gnome should be working on or the mouse wheel deficiency.
The problem with open source is that there are too many instances of "reinventing the wheel", what is disheartening is when large foundations like Gnome take part it in. Rather than assisting other open source projects.
No it isn't webkit is mainly developed by Apple who forked KDE's KHTML. Webkit had become far superior and it was difficult for KDE to port the changes back in to KHTML, that KDE dumped KHTML in favour of Webkit.
Now Google is also a big player in Webkit.
If they had tried to somehow shoehorn that into Firefox, they would still be at square 1.
As for switching to Webkit, there are very good reasons to do so including the fact that the rest of the GNOME platform is moving that way, too. (Devhelp is using WebkitGTK in Jaunty, for example).
There is nothing child-like in accepting that a goal was misdirected and proceeding to support the Gecko version of the browser as default.
Who is this "they," anyway? A free software project like GNOME doesn't just redirect resources like a typical corporation can. Novell or RedHat could, naturally, but from GNOME's perspective, contributors are contributors. It should be noted, of course, that MANY of the applications shipped with GNOME are developed by projects rather distinct from the platform people; they just guarantee to be nice and synchronize releases with GNOME.
That is why they shouldn't have messed it with it in beginning. Only tried assisting Firefox with it's Linux GTK version. They should be building components than the final application. Like the keyhole type back button in the Windows version of Firefox.
Has epiphany gained any marketshare from Firefox in the Gnome Broswer market? No.
What was their developers response: "They were more interested in webkit and they weren't going to fix Gecko bugs.
So now we have Epiphany which is bugged implementation of Gecko and an incomplete version of Webkit. The user is left with 2 half working applications compared to a user on Apple or Windows.
I got no issue with them working on WebkitGTK component but they shouldn't be wasting time on a application such as Epiphany-Webkit.
Now you have Google which will release an open source Linux version of it's webkit based broswer, hopefully the dreamers at Gnome don't think their Epiphany-Webkit has got any chance against Google's chrome.
Till companies like Canonical that are interested in non-business desktop market have considerable influence over Gnome, the Linux desktop will continue to suffer. Gnome as it currently stands is in no position to take the next leap in the Linux desktop by catering to influx of new users from Windows.
doesn't sound anything like that is on that page.
Webkit was forked but it has changed massively, because of Apple, so saying "KDE are doing a fine job in regards to it" is very misleading.
What was their developers response: "They were more interested in webkit and they were going to fix Gecko bugs.
You're missing an important detail, though: WebKitGTK is a key platform thing and it's where most of the focus is now going (not Epiphany specifically). Using WebKitGTK, Epiphany becomes rather simple so is not a "waste of time" at all.
Further, as I mentioned, porting Firefox to feel native in Linux with GNOME would be a tremendously pointless task. The GTK version is still using XUL, which is plain not adequate for a default application. (Not that I have a vendetta against non-standard UIs. I love Blender, for example. However, for apps like the web browser, being native is rather necessary).
In Firefox today aboard GNOME, context menus feel wrong, tabs behave wrong, toolbars disobey global settings (text beside icons!), menu accellerators cannot be changed and there are countless other inconsistencies.
That stuff could all be patched, giving us "Firefox 3.0 for GNOME" (and a demand for a name change, resulting in FireGnome or some such). However, I get the distinct impression that such patching would lead to a completely unsupportable, unstable application riddled with exceptions and "maybes".
What makes Xfce different is modularity. Fully-loaded Xfce isn't really any lighter than GNOME, but it is designed to be totally modular so you can pick and choose the components you need.
I think gnome should make most of their applications more desktop agnostic. I realise integration is good, but it doesn't have to cripple the application outside of Gnome.


The Olympic drama raged on today with heavy anti-China protests over the Olympic torch run in Paris, resulting in it having to be extinguished twice to afford carries to board a bus for safety.
The scene was straight out of a surreal film, with some 3000 French police sporting roller blades, jogging gear or cruising on motorcycles to create a "human bubble" shield to protect the torch. The Eiffel Tower became became a point of confrontation when French police demanded that activists fold Tibetan flags and put them away.
On Sunday a similar protest in London was staged by human rights activists amidst extremely tight security. The protest disrupted the torch relay several times and resulted in more than two dozen arrests. China's policies in Tibet matched with their environmental record have overshadowed the Beijing games. And while protests rage on in cities worldwide, China responds by condemning demonstrators and blaming the Dalai Lama.
Just yesterday the Dalai Lama responded to China's accusations of his role in the uprisings in a statement released from his home in exile in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala. The Dalai Lama urged Tibetans to refrain from violence and asked them not to disrupt the events leading up to the Beijing Olympics in August.
"The recent protests all over Tibet have not only contradicted but also shattered the People's Republic of China's propaganda that except for a few 'reactionaries,' the majority of Tibetans enjoy a prosperous and contented life," the Dalai Lama said.
"These protests have also conveyed to the world that the Tibet issue can no longer be neglected."


The day after a jury found Michael Rosfeld not guilty of homicide in the shooting and killing of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II has brought mixed reactions.
The heads of two of the city's most powerful philanthropic institutions shared in the shock and outrage that brought people into the streets Friday night while an online fundraiser set up to help Rosfeld with legal fees thanked people for their support.
Rosfeld was charged with one count of homicide for killing Rose on June 19 as the teen ran from a felony traffic stop.
The rally has moved to Schenley Plaza in Oakland.
Pittsburgh Public Safety tweeted that Rolling road closures were continued as demostrations moved on throughout Downtown.
Just before 5 pm, Public Safety sa The Downtown demonstrations ended peacefully and traffic flow was normal as normal.
Members of Focus Pittsburgh's trauma response team were in Braddock and East Pittsburgh today talking to residents and offering support in the wake of Friday's acquittal of Michael Rosfeld.
The rally was making its way to the courthouse.
Some demonstrators were starting to head toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
] "Mike was acquitted on all counts. We are beyond words in regards to the support we have received from the community. We truly thank you from the bottom of our hearts, "a post on the Funded Justice page for Rosfeld read Saturday.
Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments released a joint statement on the verdict Saturday.
"Pittsburgh now sadly joins a disturbing and ever growing catalog of cases across the United States where law enforcement or security officials have walked free after the killings of young black but under questionable circumstances, "they wrote.
They asked if Rose would be alive today if they were white. They suspected he would be.
Megan Guza is a Tribune Review staff writer. You can contact Megan at 412-380-8519, mguza@tribweb.com or via Twitter .


Free Journalists' Initiative (OGI) released a report on press freedom and oppression against journalists in Turkey.
According to the report, 180 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey. In August 30 journalists were detained and 14 were arrested and sent to prison. Two journalists were released from prison in August.
Three press organizations were shut down by Turkish authorities including the popular Kurdish news agency Dihaber.
In August Turkish authorities confiscated passport of a journalist and banned him from traveling abroad.
The report was presented to the public at a press conference in Human Rights Association's office in Diyarbakir. Speaking at the event the Hakki Boltan, spokesperson for OGI, called international powers to put pressure on Turkish government about the detention of journalists.
Boltan criticized EU countries and said they are only interested in cases in which an EU citizen is detained.
"This is an unacceptable attitude. All international treaties that guarantee freedoms, apply the same for all the journalists. Therefore calls, diplomatic pressures should be used to ease the oppression against journalists in Turkey.


In the summer of 1998, Americans watched the U.S. House of Representatives debate a proposal to eliminate all national arts funding - contentious issue that was wrapped up in the "controversial" art such funding supported as well as questions over the very idea of federal funding of the arts. Meanwhile, news reports began to tell how the government of Finland had an advanced system of supporting music through its school curriculum.
As if to reinforce that point, Finnish composers, vocalists, instrumentalists and conductors seemed to be everywhere that year. New York alone was the setting of a "Northern Lights" festival at Lincoln Center, a "Scandinavia Today" festival at the Juilliard School and a conductors' workshop at Carnegie Hall presented by the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki.
Finnish music rode a wave of popularity that swelled in the next three or four years as the news media continued to pick up on the story. One New York Times article in 1998 proclaimed that conductors were the country's "hottest export," more than Nokia phones or Finlandia vodka.
Since the initial excitement, Finnish musicians have not lost their foothold in the U.S., of course, but they are becoming more ingrained in American musical life.
Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen has acknowledged that his recent works like Wing on Wing and LA Variations owe less to European modernism and more to the sunny sensibility of his adopted Los Angeles. In 2006, the annual Musical America directory named Salonen its artist of the year. A year earlier, that same honor went to Karita Mattila, a soprano whose reputation largely rests on her performances of Strauss and Wagner.
Osmo Vänskä, who was Musical America's 2005 conductor of the year, has been especially embraced by the American critics and audiences, not just for his work on behalf of Kalevi Aho and Sibelius but also his Beethoven symphony cycle on the BIS label. When he became the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2004, he refrained from conducting any Sibelius during his first season. "The whole question is about the music and not about the nationality," he says.
Reijo Kiilunen, managing director of Ondine Records, believes that American success is the result of the combined efforts by major international talent agencies, management companies and labels. "We are in the machinery of the United States," he said. Kiilunen noted that Ondine, which releases between 20 and 25 albums per year in the U.S., has benefited from generous American press coverage. The label's 1996 recording of Rautavaara's Angel of Light was a particular breakout, the result of an active marketing campaign.
Aside from a few high-profile premieres scheduled this season – including a Piano Concerto by Salonen for the New York Philharmonic and a new work by Saariaho for the Boston Symphony's 125th anniversary – the U.S. lags behind many European countries and Japan in the number of Finnish premieres.
Yet considered another way, top-level orchestras here often present the second, third or fourth performances of works that get their premieres in Europe. In addition, Finnish composers have moved from being the "pet projects" of Finnish conductors and are frequently embraced by many non-Finnish musicians.


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Q: Android if else block wont run I have an app on a startup that performs 3 checks (everything happens in a separate file called "Application"): first for an internet connection, then for the internet connection type, and lastly, for the apps permission to start main activity.
All 3 checks pass correctly, however, on the last pass I get in a string value "False", which is fine, but in the splash screen when I want to check that value, it does not work. I did set if block if the value is false to launch another acitivty, but it does not, it just ignores that block.
Here is the code:
 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    setFullScreen();
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.layout_activity_init);
    if(APP.connectionCheck(InitActivity.this) == "TRUE"){
        JSONObject JOBJC = APP.getJSON(APP.defaultUrl());
        String result = APP.checkPermission(JOBJC);
        if(result=="false"){
            Intent i = new Intent(this,app.pcg.notation.Notation.class);
            startActivity(i);
            finish();
        }else if(result=="true"){

        }
    }else{
        Intent i = new Intent(this,app.pcg.notation.Notation.class);
        startActivity(i);
        finish();
    }
}

A: Change to this result.equals("false") or result.equalsIgnoreCase("false") . You can not compare string using == Operator.
Do it same for else part .
result.equals("true") or result.equalsIgnoreCase("true")
Edit Code
if(APP.connectionCheck(InitActivity.this).equalsIgnoreCase("true")){
        JSONObject JOBJC = APP.getJSON(APP.defaultUrl());
        String result = APP.checkPermission(JOBJC);
        if(result.equalsIgnoreCase("false")){
            Intent i = new Intent(this,app.pcg.notation.Notation.class);
            startActivity(i);
            finish();
        }else if(result.equalsIgnoreCase("true")){

        }
    }else{
        Intent i = new Intent(this,app.pcg.notation.Notation.class);
        startActivity(i);
        finish();
    }

A: You cannot compare Strings with == in Java. Use String.equals() instead.
See How do I compare strings in Java? for a good explanation.

A: String comparisons MUST be done with .equals(). Using == for objects compares the pointer value (i.e. is it the same object?) rather than the value.
So, if(APP.connectionCheck(InitActivity.this).equals("TRUE")) ...

A: always use equals(); while you are comparing two strings
because == operator checks reference to the objects,
while equals() checks its value.
you will get proper result
if( APP.connectionCheck(InitActivity.this).equals("true"))
{
}

or
if( APP.connectionCheck(InitActivity.this).equalsIgnoreCase("true"))
{
}

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Trump Highlights New Initiatives for Childhood Cancer, HIV in State of the Union
During his second State of the Union address, President Trump highlighted past bipartisan accomplishments, such as legislation to confront the opioid crisis, but also outlined future priorities, such as addressing the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs.
Trump asked Congress to pass legislation for his proposed International Pricing Index, which would allow Medicare to pay what other countries pay for certain drugs. The proposal was unveiled in October 2018, and in December 2018, more than 300 groups asked Congress to intervene and halt the plan.
While Trump emphasized that drug prices dropped in 2018, they still remain at historic highs and he noted that more must be done.
"It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place," he said. "This is wrong, unfair, and together we can stop it."
Trump also said he wants more transparency in the US health system. In January, hospitals began posting prices for services as required by CMS; however there are currently no penalties for noncomplianc,e and there are no requirements on where the information should be posted.
The president said the country should "require drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals to disclose real prices to foster competition and bring costs down."
He also announced some new initiatives, including a desire to defeat HIV in the United States within 10 years. There have been remarkable advances in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and Trump said his budget will ask Congress to make a commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic.
In addition, Trump put the spotlight on childhood cancer. First Lady Melania Trump brought 10-year-old Grace Eline as her guest to the address. Eline was diagnosed with brain cancer last year and was treated with radiation. Now, Trump is asking Congress for $500 million over the next 10 years to fund research into new therapies for childhood cancer.
After the State of the Union, Trisha Danze, president of Thea's Star of Hope, a volunteer-based organization dedicated to improving treatment for kids with brain tumors, told The American Journal of Managed Care® in an email that the childhood cancer community was "jumping for joy" at the announcement.
While she said she is a little skeptical and is waiting to hear the detail of the plan and how it will turn new treatments into a reality, Trump's announcement could represent a turning point in awareness and funding.
"Whether you support Trump or not, the power of the leader of the free world talking about the lack of new treatments and the need for funding research, specifically for childhood cancer, is shedding a light on this disease like never before," Danze said.
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Vaccination rates against influenza and pneumococcus were lower in patients receiving organ transplants who lived outside of urban areas and had lower socioeconomic status.
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Reverend Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project and board member of UPMC for You, who discusses his experiences in promoting health and resiliency in trauma-affected communities, as well as challenges related to access and accessibility of care and medical mistrust.
Developing a terminology strategy that reflects real-world practice and industry standards can help data scientists and other allied data professionals efficiently and accurately identify clinically relevant insights that help improve the health of populations and individual patients.
To mark the publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®'s 12th annual health IT issue, on this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Christopher M. Whaley, PhD, health care economist at the RAND Corporation, who focuses on health economics issues, including the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care delivery.
This new study examined uptake and use of a digital tool meant to aid in diabetes prevention.
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On Day 56 in 365 Things To Do In Glendale, CA we find ourselves in India, courtesy of the imaginative marketing folks at the Americana on Brand.
Sounds like a fun evening with Indian Dancing (will it be Bollywood? I adore Bollywood!), gourmet food trucks, music and henna artists. Sounds like fun!


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There's a Skeleton Inside You! (Hardcover)
By Idan Ben-Barak, Julian Frost (Illustrator)
From writer Idan Ben-Barak and illustrator Julian Frost, the creators of Do Not Lick This Book, comes a hilarious, interactive picture book that takes a look inside our bodies to show what humans are made of.
Lay your hand flat out in front of you. Have you ever wondered what it's made of?
What's beneath your skin?
Your muscle?
Your nerves?
Find out in There's a Skeleton Inside You!
Follow two friendly aliens named Quort and Oort as their spaceship breaks down on the way to their friend Kevin's birthday party. They realize they need a hand, but . . . they don't have hands! Don't worry. They have a great idea: They'll just grow some!
What follows is an uproarious exploration of what makes up the human body, layer by layer.
Idan Ben-Barak has written several books so far, including Do Not Lick This Book and Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World; they've been translated into over a dozen languages and won a couple of awards. He lives in a smallish apartment in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and their two boys. Sometimes, after they go to bed, he grabs the guitar and makes up harmless little tunes. He has degrees in microbiology and in the history and philosophy of science, a diploma in library studies, and a day job that has very little to do with any of the above. You can find Idan on Facebook (too often for his own good), Instagram (occasionally) and Twitter (rarely). When he has anything to say about writing he says it on his blog.
Julian Frost is an internationally renowned illustrator, designer, director, and animator. He received worldwide acclaim for his animation "Dumb Ways to Die," created for the Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia to promote rail safety, which won the Cannes Lion Grand Prixs and has had close to 188 million views on YouTube since 2012. Frost also illustrated Ben-Barak's Do Not Lick This Book.
Winner of the 2020 Australian Book Design Award for Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book
"The Australian creative team who introduced readers to microbes in Do Not Lick This Book (2017) returns with a similarly metafictive introduction to our structural insides. A clever presentation of some basic anatomy by a duo with talented hands indeed." — Kirkus
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date: September 8th, 2020
Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology
Young Adult Fiction / Interactive Adventures
Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Body


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Our lab focuses on germline stem cells (GSCs) and their regulation in the nematode C. elegans. GSCs reside within a stem cell niche and generate daughter cells that differentiate. This niche uses Notch signaling to maintain a pool of GSCs that divide stochastically. Notch signaling activates a regulatory network to maintain germ cells in a stem cell state or to drive them into differentiation. The two key target genes that are activated in GSCs by Notch signaling encode novel proteins that are predicted to be largely disordered. These two genes form a functional link between Notch signaling and the regulatory network that acts in stem cells to maintain totipotency or promote differentiation. The major hub of that network for GSC maintenance relies on FBF, a sequence-specific RNA binding protein of the broadly conserved PUF family maintenance. The major hub for GSC differentiation relies on GLD proteins, which are also RNA regulators. FBF targets >1000 mRNAs, about a quarter of which are shared with its human PUF counterparts. We continue to analyze regulators of stem cell maintenance, regulators of differentiation as sperm or oocyte and the molecular network that encompasses both stem maintenance and differentiation.
Chair, President's Committee on National Medal of Science, 2015-2017
President, Society for Developmental Biology, 2004-2005
Hilldale Award, Biological Sciences Division, 2003
American Philosophical Society, elected in 2002
Vilas Professorship, 2001
National Academy of Sciences, elected in 1995
(Find further recent publications on PubMed)
Lee, C., Sorensen, E.B., Lynch, T.R. and J. Kimble (2016) C. elegans GLP-1/Notch activates transcription in a probability gradient across the germline stem cell pool. eLife 5, e18370.
Aoki, S.T., Kershner, A.M., Bingman, C.A., Wickens, M. and J. Kimble (2016) PGL germ granule assembly protein is a base-specific, single-stranded RNase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113(5): 1279-1284.
Prasad, A., Porter, D.F., Kroll-Conner, P.L., Mohanty, I., Ryan, A.R., Crittenden, S.L., Wickens, M. and J. Kimble (2016) The PUF binding landscape in metazoan germ cells. RNA 22(7), 1026-1043.
Noble, D.C, Aoki, S.T., Ortiz, M.A., Kim, K.W., Verheyden, J.M. and J. Kimble (2016) Genomic analyses of sperm fate regulator targets reveal a common set of oogenic mRNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 202(1), 221-234.
Seidel, H.S. and J. Kimble (2015) Cell-cycle quiescence maintains Caenorhabditis elegans germline stem cells independent of GLP-1/Notch. eLife 4, 10832.
Kershner, A.M., Shin, H., Hansen, T.J. and J. Kimble (2014) Discovery of two GLP-1/Notch target genes that account for the role of GLP-1/Notch signaling in stem cell maintenance. PNAS111(10), 3739-3744
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With Airtrack and other schemes focusing attention on the United Kingdom's largest and busiest airports, it is easier to miss activity at the one of the country's lesser know airports: Southend Airport in South East Essex.
Southend Airport, renamed London Southend in 2008, is in the middle of a massive overhaul in preparation for receiving passengers during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. New developments include a brand new terminal building, a 300m runway extension, a new air traffic control tower and, importantly, a dedicated railway station.
This upgrade programme is to facilitate many more intra-European services than present (currently the only scheduled commercial flight is to Jersey, operated by Flybe). At the moment, Frankfurt is only city that has said that it wants to run services to the airport, but other cities in Europe are presumed to want to serve Southend, as it will be cheaper to land there than at other London airports.
Hard as it is to imagine now, during the 1960s Southend was the third busiest airport in the country, with Heathrow and Gatwick taking first and second place respectively. It continued to handled more flights than Stansted until well into the 1970s making it, in practice, London's third airport. In 1993, however, the airport, suffering heavy losses, was sold to Regional Airports Ltd, the operator of Biggin Hill in South London, by Southend Borough Council. Since then, commercial flights have been sparse, with most flights being chartered or private. In January 2008, the airport was put up for sale, and on 12 December of that year, it was bought by the Stobart Group for £21 million, who also own Carlisle Airport. It is this company that is overseeing the improvements to the airport.
The work will be carried out in two phases: Phase 1 will include the new railway station and air traffic control tower. A runway extension and new terminal building will is included in Phase 2.
Today, rail access to the airport is from Rochford station which is three quarters of a mile away. Passengers have to change for a shuttle bus to the airport. The trains are operated by National Express East Anglia, which run services on the line between Southend Victoria and London Liverpool Street via Shenfield, Romford and Stratford. There is a train every 20 minutes.
A brand new station: Southend Airport, between Rochford and Prittlewell, is due to be opened on Sunday 12th December 2010. Designed by Atkins, it was completed this September 2010. By the Olympics in 2012, there will be eight trains per hour, the vast majority of the passengers being spectators arriving from Continental Europe. Journey time from the airport station to Liverpool Street will be about 53 minutes.
The new air traffic control tower has been built, but it will not be in operation until early 2011.
The only runway at the airport is 1,605 metres long and 37 metres wide. It is due to be extended 300 metres to the south-west to 1,905 metres, but still maintaining the same width. With this, the runway could declare an available take-off distance of 1,799 metres. This was approved on 13th October 2009. When the work is completed, the runway will be able to accept Airbus A319 and Boeing 737s, for short-haul flights only. A new Instrument Landing System (ILS) will improve safety.
As mentioned above, a brand new terminal is also to be built in two phases. When first opened, it will have five aircraft stands, and will later be expanded to have a further five, bringing it to a total of ten. In comparison, Stansted has 70 stands. The extended runway and the new terminal building are due to be completed in 2011.
To reduce annoyance caused by flying at night, the proposals suggest an 87% reduction in the cap on night flights from 915 (today) to a maximum of 120 flights per month – the number of night flights currently at the airport between 11.00pm and 6.30am.
No aircraft with a Quota Count (QC) of greater than one will be allowed to operate at night. QC1 aircraft are one of the quieter categories of aircraft. Aircraft during this night time period will take off and land away from Southend, over less populated areas, unless there are significant conditions which prevent this.
By 2020, the intention is that there will be four planes per hour landing at and taking off from the airport, with 2 million passengers per year. The airport will employ 3,000 staff to work in the area, with 2,500 of them at the airport. In overall terms the airport would be the generator of over 6,700 jobs in the local area.
The East of England has been one of the fastest growing economies in the last twenty years. This expansion of London Southend will boost that dramatically, and the airport and the passengers it brings will no doubt have an impact on how people travel to the capital. This airport will not only benefit Essex, but the whole of London and the South East.


Spectacular vistas, hilltop castles dotted the way on Friday. The weather being partly sunny made the 23 kilometer walk pleasant. Much of the day I walked alone, passing or meeting up with people I am beginning to think of as friends. In the distance the ancient fortification stand watch, I was not inclined to get a closer look!
Half way way through the walk my right big toe developed a second blister, ouch! With a slight limp I finished my planned walk for the day, but my body was hurting all over from compensating for 6 miles, thus the pained expression on my face.
This is area is a rich with olives, vineyards and canola flowers. Not many ruins or homes for that matter. Enjoy the scenery!


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Vito Lopez vs. Brooklyn's 'Gold Coast'
By William Alden July 14, 2010 11:44 am
Tuesday's hearing on the 421-a Property Tax Exemption Program almost didn't happen.
"When we mailed out the notice and we reached out to a lot of people, there was almost no response," Vito Lopez, chairman of the state Assembly's housing committee, said. "So it's quite interesting."
At issue was whether 421-a, which gives tax breaks to developers who build affordable housing and which expires at the end of this year, was worth renewing. Mr. Lopez, his Assembly colleague Rory Lancman and the five witnesses who testified all spoke in support of the tax credit program. Tempers flared, though, over the details of 421-a and the circumstances under which it should apply. Mr. Lopez strongly criticized Brooklyn's "gold coast" and pushed for the required percentage of affordable housing in new buildings to be increased to 30 percent.
"There are units for people making a hundred or more," he said in an opening statement. "There are almost no units for people making thirty, forty and fifty thousand."
Rafael Cestero, commissioner for the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, expressed his support of 421-a and proposed a series of minor amendments, such as a clarified definition for commencement of construction and a more streamlined application process.
In response, Mr. Lopez proposed still further amendments, such as increasing the required percentage of affordable units in a building from 20 to 30 percent. He admitted that the higher figure would "have a lot of developers committing hara-kiri."
Mr. Cestero sympathized with the spirit of Mr. Lopez's proposal but remained evasive, saying, "We don't have to build that housing under every program." He said 421-a is "just one tool in the toolbox to create affordable housing."
Ever skeptical of for-profit developers, Mr. Lopez cautioned against the way developers have used 421-a in a way contrary to his own affordable housing ideals. He ranted against what he saw as "the consequences of, say, 421-a and a policy of a massive displacement in gentrification," bemoaning what he called the new "gold coast" of Williamsburg. He expressed horror, later in the hearing, at the fact that some developers have actually appropriated his term "gold coast" in their branding. "These are all wealthy people. They're not the indigenous people," he said. "Some people will clap and applaud that, but someone has to give support to the person that makes only $20,000."
Stephen Levin, council member of Brooklyn's 33rd district, who testified next, echoed Mr. Lopez's ideals, saying, "We do not need any more luxury housing built without paying property taxes."
Mr. Lopez agreed. "I can't live in most of my district," he said. He then playfully accused Mr. Levin of perpetuating the pernicious gentrification. "You almost caused it when you came to the district. You lived in one of these apartments with four friends," Mr. Lopez said. "I don't know what we can do about that."
To make his position clear, Mr. Levin said the "exclusion zone," or the area in which 421-a applies, should be expanded to the entire city, a move that would eliminate tax breaks for buildings that don't include affordable housing.
The big storm came after the testimony of Michael Slattery, senior vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York. Mr. Slattery said that an additional cut to developers' tax burdens, from 30 to 12 percent, was the only way to get them to build more affordable housing. "We're just looking for a shared burden to keep these units affordable," he said.
But Mr. Lopez didn't like Mr. Slattery's attitude. He thought Mr. Slattery's desire to further cut the taxes was unrealistic, and he accused REBNY of being too focused on profit. "Become a little bit more humanitarian," he said. "You're asking some tough stuff here."
When Mr. Slattery addressed the now-defunct negotiable certificate program, which allowed affordable housing developers to sell tax rebates to market-rate developers, Mr. Lopez exploded. "I try to have a working relationship with you," he said. "Give me some respect. That was driven solely by exorbitant profit margins. It was outrageous. Totally outrageous."
He got particularly inflamed over Williamsburg's New Domino development: "Everything is more money. Greater profit margin. Is that what government is supposed to do? Guarantee greater profit margin? Segregate people? Racially divide people? I mean, this is what you're talking about."
The chairman later apologized for his outburst, saying it was motivated by passion.
After two more witnesses testified, the hearing had raised provocative questions without hammering out many solutions.
"I don't have all the answers," Mr. Lopez said. "But I plan, God willing, to have a hearing in every borough in the next six months to talk about the creation of a 70-30 program and a moratorium on every other kind of development—and ask the city and state not to support anything but that. Now, you may say I'm going nuts. But we don't need any more luxury development."
walden@observer.com
Keywords: Affordable Housing, Brooklyn, Daily Transom, Development, Gold Coast, michael slattery, Rafael Cestero, Real Estate Board of New York, Rory Lancman, Stephen Levin, Vito Lopez, Williamsburg
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We are working to create a living gene bank of threatened conifer species by collecting their seed from native forests and then growing the young trees to plant out in safe havens in Perthshire. These new collections contain a wealth of genetic diversity and can be drawn on in the future to help restore the original depleted forests around the world.
Seed collecting expeditions follow in the footsteps of historic 'plant-hunters' like Archibald Menzies and David Douglas, who travelled the world in the 18th and 19th centuries in search of new plants 'for pleasure and profit', and whose legacies live on in the extraordinary landscapes in places like the pinetum at Scone Palace.
Modern expeditions to collect and study plants have conservation as their primary objective. The techniques used today are hugely advanced from the early days of plant hunting. Through collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we can draw on RBGE's world-leading expertise in modern-day plant collecting, following strict scientific protocols established there in recent years.
When a seed collecting expedition returns to Scotland, an early assessment is made of its achievements, as the data that accompany the seeds are as important to us as the seeds themselves. All our seed and plant collections are recorded in detail, and carefully tracked and monitored using the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's plant records database. We follow RBGE's world-leading standards on data quality. We also follow strict national and international licencing requirements linked to seed collection and planting out, as well as increasingly important and rigorous bio-security measures to prevent risks from the spread of pests, diseases and invasive non-native species (INNS).
Seedlings in the nursery
Seeds are sown in RBGE's Edinburgh nursery and tend to germinate the spring after sowing. The emerging seedlings are grown on for several years until they are robust enough to plant out on one of our carefully selected sites in Perthshire. PBTC Conifer Conservation Programme trees are grown in peat-free compost, using the Air-Pot® system. These special pots are manufactured in Scotland using recycled plastic.
As the young trees are growing, suitable sites within Perthshire are selected for future planting. Once the trees have reached suitable planting size, they are carefully tested to ensure they are free from plant pathogens before being distributed to their designated sites and planted with appropriate protection. They are then nurtured and regularly monitored as they establish themselves in their new home.
Our planting sites fall into two categories:
'Specimen tree' sites
Typically located in gardens and arboreta, for example in the grounds of Gleneagles Hotel, Cluny House Gardens and the Birks of Aberfeldy. These feature relatively small numbers of individual trees comprising a diverse species mix planted in-keeping with their surroundings, often historic landscapes.
'Naturalistic grove' sites
These tend to be within commercial forests, for example Craigvinean forest near Dunkeld or sites like the Bonskeid Estate near the Linn of Tummel, just north of Pitlochry. These sites feature large numbers of individual trees of a single species, planted at a spacing that will result in a 'natural appearance' to the groves as they grow and develop.
We are very fortunate to be able to adopt this approach. Few conservation projects are able to create such 'naturalistic groves' containing large numbers of a single species, yet they are extremely important to conservation as they allow for a much greater range of genetic diversity to be conserved.
We work with a wide range of keen and helpful landowners in the public and private sectors to establish our conservation collections. All participating sites are selected based on meeting the following criteria:
Public access – as a minimum standard, a public right of way passing through or beside the site.
Environmental suitability – given the wide range of species involved in our work, a wide range of sites with diverse environmental conditions will be needed to accommodate the collections and ensure they thrive.
Longevity of ownership and management – sites wishing to become involved must be prepared to commit for the long term. After all, the trees being planted through our project have the potential to live for over 200 years or more!
Sites wishing to become involved in our conservation work by hosting a collection of threatened trees should contact us.
Planting on Site
Once a site is selected for planting, some advance preparation is needed to ensure conditions are ideal for the new arrivals. Planting is usually undertaken in autumn or spring, and protective structures are placed around all the young trees to allow them to establish without the risk of damage by rabbits, deer or even humans!
All the trees have been mapped accurately, are labelled carefully and monitored closely, often during two site visits in the first year after planting, and then annually to record and measure their ongoing growth and health.
By planting trees across a range of sites with different environmental conditions and recording the performance of trees across these different sites, we are able to build up a wealth of knowledge to provide valuable information for conservationists working to protect the future of these trees here and in their native original forests.
Updated: 2nd August, 2021
Perthshire's tree planting history
Read about how Perthshire's tree history was shaped by 'plant hunters' working for landowners to bring new and exotic species of trees and plants to Perthshire.
PCCP Expeditions
Read about the Perthshire Conifer Conservation Programme's expeditions to collect seeds from and help conserve some of the world's most threatened conifer species in their native countries.


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Parental Leave Lawyer in Chicago
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For most people in Chicagoland, family comes before everything else. Most people work partially to find personal fulfillment, but mostly to provide financially for their families. Occasionally, success at work, at least in the eyes of a boss, and family commitments come into conflict. A number of federal laws protect workers in these situations, but many employers ignore these laws.
At the Law Office of Mitchell Kline, our parental leave lawyers in Chicago understand that happy employees are productive employees. That is why we offer generous leave packages to our employees, and that is why we fight so hard to protect your legal right to paternity leave when this right is threatened. Because of our hard work and dedication, we normally settle these matters out of court and on worker-friendly terms.
The Family Medical Leave Act
The 1993 FMLA gives most Chicagoland workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a new child. That 12 weeks applies to both birthing time and bonding time. Furthermore, the leave applies to naturally-born children or adopted children. The FMLA also provides protected, unpaid leave for:
Caring for a seriously ill family member,
Recovering from a serious illness or injury, or
Dealing with the consequences of a family member's sudden military deployment.
Leave is available if the employee has worked at least 1,250 hours over the last 12 months, which breaks down to about 25 hours a week. Additionally, the law only applies to employers who have more than 50employees. Additionally, employers can request appropriate documentation, such as a medical diagnosis of pregnancy complications that require bed rest.
On a related note, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act also applies to many parental leave situations. Employers cannot terminate or discipline current or potential employees for requesting or taking maternity or paternity leave.
Discriminatory Parental Leave Policies
The calendar says we live in the 21st century. But many parental leave policies still have 20th-century provisions. The most common example is a leave policy for expectant and new mothers but no leave for expectant and new fathers. Alternatively, paternity leave could be much shorter or require much more documentation or effort to obtain.
Under Illinois and federal law, all workers in similar situations are entitled to the same treatment. That is the essence of not only employment discrimination laws, but also other anti-discriminatory measures.
If a leave policy treated different people differently, a Chicago parental leave lawyer can make a claim for disparate treatment discrimination. Substantial compensation, including money for economic losses, could be available.
In these situations, employers must present a discriminatory-neutral reason for the disparate treatment. Employers have the burden of proof, and the burden of persuasion, on this point.
Additionally, parental leave policies must meet statutory and industry standards in terms of length, availability, and compensation (paid vs. unpaid leave).
Reach Out to an Experienced Lawyer
Mothers and fathers are both entitled to family leave. For a free consultation with an experienced parental leave attorney in Chicago, contact the Law Office of Mitchell A. Kline. We do not charge upfront legal fees in these cases.


Degenerative joint disorders such as arthritis and labral tears.
Joint abnormalities, due to trauma, such as tears of ligaments and tendons.
Sports related injuries and work-related disorders caused by repeated strain, forceful impact or vibration.
Pain, swelling or bleeding in the tissues in and around the joints.
Decreased motion of the shoulder joint.
MR scan, you will be positioned on the moveable examination table. Straps and bolsters may be used to help you stay still and maintain the correct position during imaging.
Learn more about how to prepare for a bone and muscle MR scan in the preparations for a MR scan of the extremities section.
Find out if a bone and muscle MR scan is right for you in the benefits and risks of a MR scan of the extremities section.


South Downs Riding for the Disabled Group has had to relocate due to redevelopment.
The group, which was founded in Upper Beeding in 1977, was sad to have had to leave Bridge House Equestrian Centre in Slinfold but it is pleased with its new home is at Horsham and Mid Sussex Equestrian Academy (HMSEA) in Albourne, near Burgess Hill, where three sessions are run on Wednesday mornings.
Jayne Simpson, public relations officer, said: "The group enjoyed five successful and happy years at Bridge House, during which time the owners, Liz and Chris McIlwraith, and the wonderful liveries who so kindly loaned their ponies to the group, were always incredibly supportive.
"However, HMSEA have extended a very warm welcome to the group and their riders and after the upheaval of the move, all are settling nicely into their new surroundings.
The group will have a stand at the Albourne Village Show on Saturday, 12pm to 4.30pm, and would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in the work of the group.
Treasurer Fiona Wright, who lives in Steyning, received the highest volunteer award in her field from the Princess Royal in 2015. She was presented with the RDA's President's Award for service of an exceptional nature over more than 30 years.
The group celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2017 and one of the highlights of the year was the selection of one of its riders, Amanda Worne from Yapton, to feature in the BBC television programme DIY SOS.
Amanda suffered an horrific cycling accident in August 2015 on Bury Hill and was left paralysed from the waist down, but has refused to let it get her down and has been an inspiration to many.
For more information about the group, visit www.southdownsrda.org or telephone Carolyn Heitman on 01403 711867.


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How Acorns Is Beating Roboadvisors on Scale
March 7, 2016 March 7, 2016 Craig Iskowitz
It's been nearly a year since Vanguard and Schwab launched automated advice platforms, stepping into the fray against roboadvisors and apparently winning. As we've discussed, the end may be near for the Wealthfront as the big boys are close to knocking the upstarts out of the fight.
Meanwhile, a presumed lightweight in the battle for digitally-managed assets has been quietly hammering away, making impressive inroads into the coveted market for Millennial investors. Acorns has not been included in the media hype when roboadvisors are discussed.
Acorns offers a mobile app that lets users link their bank and/or credit card and automatically rounding up the cost of transactions to the nearest dollar. They withdraw that spare change to invest in a portfolio of ETFs. It's an effective strategy to nudge investment-averse Millennials toward a lifetime of investing and it appears to be gaining traction in a big way.
AUM Versus User Base
Roboadvisors have been in a race to grow AUM, seeing this as their yardstick of success. This is in contrast to technology startups, who measure value on the size of their user base.
Acorns's AUM, a paltry $73.6M as of year-end, is not significant. It's their user growth that deserves attention.
Over the last year, Betterment and Wealthfront's AUM have flat-lined. This has left their VC investors eyeing an exit with increasing unease, while Acorns, not burdened with AUM fixation, has been on a tear.
Acorns has grown its user base to 750,000 since 2014, including a 57% increase in just the past two months. The company is just now beginning to launch internationally. This user growth is even more impressive given the recent stock market volatility. They are certainly not worried that Millennials will quit the investing game at the first sign of market weakness.
Compare this to the number of accounts at the standalone robos. Wealthfront has a measly 35,000 accounts while Betterment more than doubles them at 75,000.
This is chicken scratch compared to Acorns. Extrapolate their user growth over the rest of 2016 and it's possible that they could have close 2 million client accounts by year-end.
Imagine all of the possibilities for finding additional revenue sources from their user base? That is what drives valuations. Could Acorns offer recommendations for insurance products or credit cards like Mint.com? Maybe. Or perhaps they could mine their clients' financial transactional data that is flowing into their database and find other products and services they need. This could be quite lucrative.
While the roboadvisors are slugging it out in a losing battle against Vanguard and Schwab, Acorns is pursuing a business model that has so far proven to be attractive to a lot of Millennials. (See How a Snapchat RoboAdvisor Could Rock the Industry)
VC Funding Woes
Wealthfront's VC backers, who have pumped in $130 million so far, had every reason to expect a rich valuation, given that their last round of funding valued the company at around $750 million. When Blackrock purchased FutureAdvisor, which had less than $600 million in AUM, for a reported $150 million, expectations were that Wealthfront might be the next acquisition target. However it's beginning to look like the first of the automated wealth management firms to reach a $1B valuation may be Acorns.
If, for the sake of argument, Acorns did reach 2 million users this year, a $1B valuation would equate to around $33 per user. How realistic is this? Certainly Acorn's average account balance of just $156, compared to Wealthfront's approximately $80,000, makes Acorns appear a long way from Unicorn status.
But Acorns has a longer-term game plan. Millennials have assets estimated at over $2 trillion and as they pay down the burden of college loans, increase savings and inherit wealth, this demographic will eventually bypass Boomers as the wealthiest demographic and the core focus for wealth managers.
For aspiring investors, starting small can be a good thing, as long as they keep going. "It's easier to part with $1 fifty times than it is to part with $50 once," said Jeff Cruttenden, co-founder of Acorns.
As the number of Acorns clients continue to grow exponentially, the company is establishing itself as a trusted brand in the eyes of the crucial Millennial demographic. Acorns is positioned to scale it's users into a higher revenue mix of products and services in the future. It won't be long before $33/user is a sensible valuation for Acorns.
But to realize the scalability of its business model, Acorns has to survive the impending roboadvisor shakeout. The competitive position of automated managers has become all the more precarious considering that we've just experienced a six-year plus bull market. (See RoboAdvisors Shakeout: Who Will Be The Last One Standing?)
Commodization
At the same time, the technology behind algorithmically-driven asset management has become commoditized. Any advisor firm with the desire can adopt robo-advisor tech. Without a disruptive technological advantage, B2C Beta-only roboadvisors now have to compete with Vanguard and Schwab on price and service, a daunting, if not impossible task. (See 3 Thoughts on Why Invesco Acquiring Jemstep Was A Smart Move)
Even if Betterment and Wealthfront double their AUM to $8 billion in 2016, according to some analysts, it may not be enough for them to survive.
Acorns, on the other hand, is poised to survive with an efficient, far-sighted business model. They charge a flat fee of $1 per month, which is a simple figure that clients can understand. Of course, they do not seem to realize that based on a $156 average account size, $12 annually amounts to a whopping 7.7% fee!
Their fee multiplied by 750,000 clients equals $9,000,000 in gross revenue. Wealthfront is estimated to be generating around $6,000,000 and Betterment has approximately $4,000,000. Acorns seems to be under no pressure to compete on fees with other automated advisors.
When your service has become commoditized, one way to compete is on efficiency and keeping costs low. This is an area that Acorns is also ahead of their robo brethren with only 77 employees, according to news reports. That is less than half of other firms in the space. This is the kind of efficiency needed for long-term staying power.
Acorns Roboadvisor
Trust has always been key in the business of wealth management. Engineers, like Wealthfront's CEO Adam Nash, have been the driving force behind the technologies that have disrupted many entrenched, bloated industries in recent years. Nash has boasted that Wealthfront is built as a software company designed for a new generation of investors.
But Wealthfront has made the mistake of going toe-to-toe with the wealth management behemoths who have built trust over decades. Acorns, by focusing on slowly building the trust of Millennial clients, is positioning itself to be a survivor.
Acorns seems to understand what Wealthfront does not: Trust cannot be engineered, it has to be earned over time.
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Craig, very good article and you are definitely hitting the pertinent points here on user numbers. We are trying to build a proposition that has user scale similar to Acorns and apps like Spotify before focusing on AUM. Running peoples money is a long game and if you get the proposition right client assets should be sticky.
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CONGRESS' COSTLY TAX CUTS WILL DRAIN THE SURPLUS TO PROVIDE BENEFITS
THAT COULD BE WIPED OUT BY HIGHER INTEREST RATES
The tax cuts passed by the 106th Congress would threaten our fiscal discipline, and could plunge the nation back into on-budget deficit (according to OMB's estimates) or use the entire on-budget surplus (based on CBO's less conservative projections). Either way, this approach leaves no money for key priorities like a Medicare prescription drug benefit. Moreover, the benefits of the tax cut for middle-income families could be wiped out by only a small increase in interest rates.
In contrast, President Clinton has proposed targeted tax cuts that provide substantially more tax relief at less than half the total cost of the Congressional proposals. The President's approach maintains the fiscal discipline that has contributed to our current prosperity, prepares for the future by strengthening Social Security and Medicare, invests in key priorities like a Medicare prescription drug benefit, and pays down the debt by 2012.
The tax cuts passed by Congress this year would cost more than $700 billion over 10 years; with interest, they would drain over $900 billion from the surplus.
If the Republican Congress is still intent on enacting tax cuts passed last year, including across-the-board reductions, the total cost of its tax cuts would be more than $1.4 trillion; with interest, they would drain $1.8 trillion from the surplus. This would use the entire on-budget surplus, even according to the more optimistic projections by the Congressional Budget Office.
The major tax cuts passed by the House Ways and Means Committee this year would provide an average tax cut of $220 for a middle-class family (the middle fifth of the income distribution). If interest rates rose even 1/3 of a percentage point, a typical family with a $100,000 mortgage would see its mortgage payments go up $270, more than wiping out the benefits of the tax cut.
Under the President's fiscally responsible plan, the tax cuts for middle-class families are substantially larger than under the Republican plan. The middle fifth of the income distribution gets an average tax cut of $371 annually from the major provisions of the President's $263 billion package, at less than half the cost of the Republican bills, and thus much less risk of higher interest rates.
An analysis by Goldman Sachs found that interest rates today are 2 percentage points lower as a result of going from a record $290 billion deficit in 1992 to a record $124 billion surplus in 1999. Lower interest rates have resulted in annual savings for families of $2,000 on a typical home mortgage, $200 on a typical student loan, and $200 on typical car payments.
Tax Cuts Passed by the Republican Congress This Year Would Cost More Than $700 Billion; With Interest Costs They Drain More than $900 Billion From the Surplus
Instead of passing one large tax bill, this year the Republican Congress is passing its tax cuts piece by piece. But the economic and budgetary effect is the same. According to the new analysis by OMB, these tax cuts now cost more than $700 billion over 10 years. Accounting for additional debt service, the total drain on the surplus is over $900 billion:
TAX CUTS PASSED BY CONGRESS THIS YEAR ($billions, 2001-10)
Cost Passed By
Marriage Penalty                       $2931           House and Senate
Estate Tax Repeal                      $105            House and Senate
Small Business / Minimum Wage          $123        House and Senate (2)
Social Security Benefits Tax           $116      House Ways & Means and
Reduction                                                  Senate (3)
Communications Excise Tax Repeal       $51         House and Senate (3)
Pension and IRA Limit Increases        $52                        House
Affordable Education                   $21       House Ways & Means and
Patients Bill of Rights4               $69             House and Senate
Taxpayer Bill of Rights                $7                         House
Trade and Development                  $4                       Enacted
Total Cost (eliminating duplication) $712
Added Interest                         $201
Total Drain on Surplus                 $913
Source: Cost estimates of individual bills are from Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation and total cost is based on an analysis by the Office of Management and Budget. The total cost excludes duplicate provisions but does not take into account possible interactions of the different provisions.
1 The passed bill sunsets after 2004 for procedural reasons. This estimate assumes the tax cut is permanent. 2 Senate version is $103 billion.
3 Passed as an amendment to estate tax repeal in the Senate and then stripped from the bill before final passage. 4 Passed in 1999 and currently in Conference. Senate version is $39 billion.
The Total Tax Cuts Passed By the 106th Congress Would Use $1.8 Trillion of the Surplus -- At Least the Entire On-budget Surplus Over 10 Years
The Republicans have passed many of the pieces of the $792 billion tax bill the President vetoed last year; and they describe the bills they have passed this year as just a "down payment" on their ultimate goals. They still have remaining many costly elements of last year's bill, including across-the-board rate reductions. If the Republican Congress has not reversed its support for passing these tax cuts - this year or next - the total drain on the surplus from 2001-10 would be $1.8 trillion. This substantially exceeds OMB's projection of a $1.47 trillion on-budget surplus from 2001-10, leaving an on-budget deficit of over $300 billion. It uses up the entire $1.81 trillion on-budget surplus in the Congressional Budget Office's more optimistic projections. This would risk our fiscal discipline and leave nothing for other priorities like a voluntary Medicare prescription drug benefit, paying down the debt by 2012, providing targeted tax cuts to help working American families with the costs of college, long-term care, child care, and raising larger families, and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. (These on-budget surplus estimates exclude Medicare surpluses, something that was proposed by the Vice President, endorsed by the President, and agreed to in principle by the Republican Congress.)
TOTAL TAX CUTS PASSED BY THE 106TH CONGRESS ($billions, 2001-10)
Tax Cuts Passed This Year $712
Some of the Tax Cuts Passed Last Year
Reduction in Tax Rates                 $490        House and Senate (1)
Individual Alternative Minimum Tax     $1152       Conference Agreement
Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax      $14         House and Senate (1)
Capital Gains for Individuals          $57         House and Senate (1)
Capital Gains for Corporations         $8          House and Senate (1)
Interest Deduction on Worldwide Basis  $29         House and Senate (1)
Extend R&E Tax Credit                  $183            House and Senate
Extend exemption for Subpart F AFI     $6          Conference Agreement
Total Cost (eliminating duplication) $1,447
Total Drain on Surplus                 $1,796
1 Cost estimate is from H.R. 2488 as passed by the House. 2 Excludes the cost of the provisions passed as part of this year's marriage penalty bill.
3 Cost estimate is from H.R. 2488 as passed by the Senate excluding the cost of the 5-year extension enacted in 1999. The Senate passed this provision again this year as an amendment to estate tax repeal, but then stripped it before final passage.
The Benefits Of Republican Tax Cuts For Typical Families Could Be Wiped Out By Higher Payments On Everything From Mortgages to Student Loans
An analysis by the Department of the Treasury of the major provisions passed by House Ways and Means this year (estate tax repeal, marriage penalty, limit increases for pensions and IRAs, Social Security benefit taxation reduction, and other tax cuts) found that families in the middle quintile of the income distribution got an average tax cut of $220.
If a reversal of our fiscal discipline were to drive mortgage rates up by even 1/3 of a percentage point, then a typical family with a $100,000 mortgage would see its annual payments go up by $270 - more than wiping out the benefits of the tax cut.
According to the analysis by the Department of the Treasury, the top 1 percent of taxpayers get about the same total dollar benefits from the major tax cuts passed by House Ways and Means this year as the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers combined.
President Clinton's Targeted Tax Cuts Would Provide More For Most Families At a Much Smaller Total Cost
President Clinton has proposed tax cuts totaling $263 billion over 10 years. This fiscally responsible tax package would deliver more benefits to more families than the much larger Republican tax package:
The major tax cuts proposed by the President would provide an average tax break of $371 annually for a person in the middle quintile of the income distribution - that is substantially more than the $220 annual tax break they would get from the tax cuts passed by House Ways and Means, which cost more than twice as much in total revenue.
66.4 percent of the benefits of the tax cuts proposed by the President go to the middle 60 percent of Americans; in contrast, about 25 percent of benefits of the tax cuts passed by House Ways and Means go to this group.
President Clinton's tax cut proposals build on a successful strategy that has resulted in the lowest total Federal tax rates on typical families in over two decades. The tax cuts signed into law by the President in 1993 and 1997 -- for example, the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, the $500 child tax credit, the $1,500 HOPE Scholarship Tax Credit, and expanded IRAs - have reduced taxes for American families. The total Federal tax rate for the median-income family of four has dropped from 24.5 percent in 1992 to 22.8 percent in 1999 -- that's the lowest tax rate since 1978. For families at one-half the median income, the effective Federal tax rate has been slashed from 19.8 percent in 1992 to 14.1 percent in 1999 - that's the lowest tax rate since 1968.
What Fiscal Discipline Means For American Families and the American Economy
Goldman Sachs credits deficit and debt reduction with lowering interest rates by 2 percentage points. "According to the model, the swing in the federal budget position from a deficit of $290 billion in 1992 to a surplus of $124 billion in 1999 - roughly matching the improvement in the general government position - has lowered equilibrium bond yields by a full 200 basis points." [Goldman Sachs, "GSWIRE Undistorted by the Budget Surplus," April 14, 2000. One "basis point" is 1/100 of a percentage point.]
Lower interest rates have already cut mortgage payments by $2,000 for families with a $100,000 mortgage. Because of deficit and debt reduction already achieved, a family taking out a home mortgage of $100,000 expects to save roughly $2,000 per year in mortgage payments. This has helped raise the homeownership rate from 64.0 percent in 1993 to 67.1 percent in the first quarter of 2000 - the highest rate on record.
Lower interest rates cut car payments by $200 annually for families taking out a typical car loan.
Lower interest rates cut student loan payments by $200 annually for a person with a typical student loan.
Each 1 percentage point reduction in mortgage rates reduces mortgage costs by $250 billion over ten years. According to calculations by the Department of the Treasury, a percentage point reduction in interest rates saves families $250 billion over 10 years on mortgage payments.
Lower debt will help maintain strong economic growth. With the government no longer draining resources out of capital markets, businesses have more funds for productive investment. This has helped to fuel a 12.5 percent real annual increase in productive equipment and software investment since 1993 - seven consecutive years of double-digit growth and the strongest period of growth on record. This compares to 4.7 percent annual growth from 1981-92, a period that saw the debt held by the public quadruple.
Rising investment has contributed to a pickup in productivity growth. Non-farm business productivity has grown at a 2.6 percent average annual rate for the last five years, and a 3.2 percent average annual rate for the last three years. This is more than double the 1.4 percent annual growth from the 1973 through 1990.