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July 25, 2014 / Autumn 2014 / Issue 76
How Old Industries Become Young Again
Five indicators reveal when your sector is about to be transformed by dematurity.
by John Sviokla
Illustration by Lars Leetaru
When contemplating possible threats to their business, many executives worry about disruption. They see competitors with new technologies poised to capture their existing customers, and they know it's better to be a disruptor than a disruptee. But disruption is often misunderstood. In fact, as New Yorker writer Jill Lepore points out ("The Disruption Machine," June 23, 2014), many celebrated cases have been less disruptive than they were portrayed as being. What most industries experience as disruption is typically not a sudden change from one source, but the accumulated impact of a range of interacting factors. If you want to be prepared for disruption, it's critical to understand the more gradual, prevalent, and multifaceted dynamic that underlies it: a phenomenon called dematurity.
Dematurity is what happens to an established industry when multiple companies adopt a host of small innovations in a relatively short time. Those seemingly trivial moves combine to rejuvenate the old mature industry and make it young again. The term was coined in the early 1990s by Harvard Business School professors William Abernathy and Kim Clark. They were thinking of the U.S. auto industry, which was undergoing a profound operational renewal, spurred by Japanese competition, the quality movement, and lean management. Toyota and Honda, with their superior production methods, did not fully disrupt Detroit. They dematured it. Instead of collapsing, the Detroit Three adopted their rivals' tools and techniques, and the entire industry advanced to higher levels of quality and customer satisfaction.
You can think of dematurity as a crescendo of mini-disruptions that add up to great effect. It will hit most industries sooner or later; it struck sectors as varied as software development, entertainment, and defense contracting. It is happening right now in the U.S. in healthcare and electric power generation. In the long run, dematurity is a great boon, but it can also be terribly threatening to individual companies. Nearly all cases of dematurity have one thing in common: the genuine surprise of executives when it happens to their industry. It is all too easy to be caught off guard—to ignore the small changes that appear one by one, to fail to believe they will affect you, and to end up at the tail of the wave, outpaced by competitors who saw the possibilities earlier.
Nearly all cases of dematurity have one thing in common: the genuine surprise of executives when it happens to them.
The solution lies in gaining better sensitivity—in other words, improving your ability to recognize and respond to the signals of incremental change. This is difficult, but not because information about the pending changes is sparse. Rather, the signals are too abundant. News breaks of deals, partnerships, and market entrances or exits. Scholars, commentators, and business leaders talk of looming disruption. Some of that talk is accurate in its foresight, and some of it is hyperbole. It is difficult to know which is which.
Here, then, to help you sharpen your mental gauge for disruption and dematurity, are five often overlooked but genuinely prescient signals of pending industry change. They reflect more than 20 years of close observation of innovation launches in a variety of industries. These phenomena tend to arise when an industry is on the verge of dematurity. Look for early signs of these five changes, and you can better recognize the impact of today's events—and the trajectory of tomorrow's.
New Customer Habits
In the 1980s, most people who bought telephones installed them in a single location, connected them to the telephone network with a wire, and used them exclusively to communicate via voice. By the end of the 1990s, mobile phones were available with analog transmission networks. Consumers used them as portable supplements to their wired voice lines—a widespread incremental improvement, but not a dramatic shift in people's habits.
Then digital transmission (2G and 3G) became available. In 2002, people sent more than 250 billion text messages. Before long, they began to integrate other functions—reading magazines and books, listening to music, playing games, finding places to eat in unfamiliar neighborhoods, and so on. This new group of consumer habits added up to a paradigm shift in everyday life. The same person who might once have carried a cellular phone, map, book, camera, Gameboy, and Walkman now could have one device serving all those purposes. By 2007, the year the iPhone was introduced, it was clear that major changes were coming in business and pricing models for a broad group of digital industries—electronics, creative content, gaming, photography, video, music—that had formerly operated independently of one another.
A similarly powerful paradigm shift is happening now in business-to-business IT with cloud- and Internet-based software subscriptions, known as software-as-a-service (SaaS). This sector did not exist before 2000. Formerly, nearly all corporate technology adopters bought the software they needed to run their businesses, and installed it on machines residing in their own facilities. Web-based software delivery models, known as application service providers (ASPs), struggled to gain enough scale to make money. They were hobbled by slow Internet speeds, non-modular software development practices, and a lack of cloud computing, and their offerings were too frustrating to be usable. Today, employees in companies of all sizes routinely access application services via high-speed cloud connections, a completely new customer habit that took hold only after incremental improvements in related technologies and practices propelled SaaS across a threshold of usability. The business is growing 20 to 30 percent per year; this, plus its clear link to new habits, indicates that it has only just begun to rejuvenate the software industry.
Not every promising technology fosters a customer habit. The Segway, a highly publicized, technologically ingenious self-balancing electric vehicle, turned out to be too unwieldy and expensive to reform habits. It has sold only about 50,000 units since its launch in 2001. Similarly, although the SodaStream home soft drink machines are widely distributed kitchen appliances, it's not yet clear whether they have enough popularity to disrupt the carbonated beverage industry. Much depends on how many people prefer the convenience of never running out and the thrill of making soda themselves to the convenience of a prepackaged can that doesn't need cleaning.
For every prospective innovation, whether you're promoting it or facing off against it, seek out any early signals of new customer habits. The way people embrace or reject the innovation, and the logic underlying their response, will tell you a great deal about whether it's a smartphone or a Segway.
New Production Technologies
When a new technology changes the way an established business produces its core product, dematurity often follows. For example, many auto insurance providers are changing the way they price their policies. Instead of classifying customers' likely driving risk through actuarial statistics about gender, age, and location of residence—and thus getting only a rough statistical view of the habits and risk levels of individual drivers—they now use data collected from in-car diagnostic devices. This allows them to design more profitable products that return more savings to customers. MetroMile, a startup launched in 2012, provides a free device for cars that tracks mileage, driving patterns, and locations; it pays for this service with insurance policies targeted at urban residents who drive less than 10,000 miles a year and who pay by the mile. Progressive Insurance, a more established auto and home insurance company, uses its own in-car monitor called Snapshot to gather data, and rewards safer drivers with lower premiums.
The power generation sector—an industry that is controlled by large, semipublic semi-monopolies—is also facing dematurity because of new production technologies. Today, utility customers buy electricity directly from the companies that generate it. But the centralized, expensive infrastructure that has long been a strength of the industry is also a source of costs, inflexibility, and disaster risk. In particular, the hurricanes and other weather catastrophes of the past few years, especially the tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in March 2011, have provided a wake-up call for many companies. Losses related to those events, coupled with the falling costs of fuel cells, solar panels, personal wind turbines, and other storage and power-management technologies, will probably lead many power companies to embrace alternative power systems and the digital grid over the next few years.
How do we know this long-awaited shift will finally happen now? Because the technology is crossing a threshold of effectiveness and cost efficiency. It also helps to recognize the complement of new customer habits: When large companies such as Google use renewable technologies to power installations like large server farms, it gives other commercial building owners and nearby homeowners more reason to change their habits as well. When the change reaches critical mass, the winning electric power companies will be those that move away from selling supply, and toward selling wind turbines, gas generators, and other means of production.
Another good example of production technology breakthroughs is digital fabrication. This newly prevalent technology is altering the foundational practices of most manufacturing industries. Fabrication machines use software to control 3D printers that can build components and products by placing hundreds or even thousands of layers of material—usually plastic polymers or metals—in specified shapes. As with many other technological advances, each year brings devices that are faster, cheaper, and more varied in their capabilities than those of the year before.
The technology has now reached a tipping point. More than two-thirds of 100 U.S. manufacturers surveyed by PwC in 2014 reported deploying 3D printers in some way. Many of the machines are used to prototype new products. Early adopters report that their product development cycles are shrinking as they quickly design, build, and redesign products before launch. The technology also makes new supply chain value propositions possible. Companies can produce discontinued parts as needed on a 3D printer. Some manufacturing experts anticipate that the use of 3D printing will cause a US$3.4 billion annual drop in materials transportation costs, by enabling manufacturers to construct components entirely on site instead of assembling them from smaller parts made by multiple suppliers. (For another perspective, see "A Skeptic's Guide to 3D Printing," by Tim Laseter and Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat, s+b, Winter 2013.)
New Lateral Competition
There was a time when a family doctor had a near monopoly on primary care services. The doctor knew the patient, knew the family history, and was present whether in treating the flu or deciding a twisted ankle needed an X-ray. The only problem was the time it took to get an appointment, or the three-hour wait for the doctor to be free.
Today, the demand for accessible, quality healthcare delivered in a timely way has created an explosion in convenience providers. CVS's Minute Clinic, Walgreens's Healthcare Clinics, and urgent care chains branded to major health networks are offering relatively inexpensive, rapid, and accessible medical care. These cover basic preventive services such as immunizations, flu shots, and diabetes tests; treatment of sudden conditions such as burns, sprains, splinters, back pain, and migraines; and chronic needs, such as the management of asthma and high blood pressure.
A traditional family doctor might look down on these clinics as providing an impersonal, transactional service, but consumers don't seem to mind. Visits to retail clinics in the U.S. tripled between 2008 and 2013. One recent study by the PwC Health Research Institute found that 45 percent of consumers across all age groups are willing to use alternative providers for a range of basic health services. Their options to do so will rapidly expand. CVS and Walgreens together have close to 1,000 clinic locations in the United States, and Walmart is getting into the game through an experimental partnership with Kaiser Permanente. These new healthcare actors are giving primary care providers and even hospital emergency rooms competition as the source of choice for quick, simple medical services.
The emergence of healthcare convenience chains is just one example of the dematurity that occurs when a new type of competitor appears—one with products and services that substitute for those of incumbents. Usually these involve lateral moves, the transfer of capabilities and business models from one sector to another, where the first sector has a completely different (and better) way of solving the second sector's problems. Though they're considered to be disruptive, lateral moves are not always that abrupt and clear-cut; they often occur in incremental fashion, with some incumbents (in the healthcare clinic model, Kaiser Permanente, for example) taking part. Thus, when you see a lateral competitor emerge, even in nascent fashion, it's a good predictor of more widespread system change. Indicators visible today include the use of mobile phones for paying bills, and the increasing popularity of prefabricated buildings, which may revitalize some aspects of the construction industry, even in urban settings like New York.
New Regulations
Changes in government regulation patterns have an enormous impact on the type and intensity of competition in many markets. The passage of the Affordable Care Act, for instance, is adding millions of patients to the healthcare system in the United States. This places new competitive pressure on payors and providers, challenging both types of companies to raise the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of their offerings. Suddenly, old players and new entrants alike see opportunities to keep patients out of the doctor's office with fitness and nutrition tools like MapMyRun and MyFitnessPal, and diagnostic tools such as at-home strep throat testing kits. This kit has the potential to prevent 78,000 doctor's office visits per year, valued at $94 million in physician revenue. Some of these diagnostic tools have prompted new regulations. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration halted operations for the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe, pending review of its saliva sample DNA test service.
Financial services, energy, education, transportation—all these industries and others are subject to new and revised government rules, each with its own form of regulatory push and pull. New payment systems such as bitcoin for online markets, or prepaid cards for physical use, are undergoing scrutiny by multiple agencies around the world. The carbon tax seems to be gaining momentum as one tool in the effort to curb industrially produced greenhouse gas emissions. And recent U.S. government relief for people with outstanding student loan debt may be just the beginning of efforts to use regulatory means to make a college education more affordable and to make evaluations of colleges more useful and accessible.
In general, emerging regulations give you a good way to anticipate change, even in areas where imminent change seems unlikely. For example, loosening regulation on the use of autonomous flying vehicles like drones will have an effect on investigative journalism, law enforcement, and insurance, along with the effects of their use in war and defense. Similarly, when regulatory relaxation appears imminent for self-driving automobiles, we can expect a major dematurity wave to hit mass transit systems, taxi services, the car rental industry, and presumably many other transportation-related endeavors.
New Means of Distribution
The advent of digital infrastructure has already thoroughly dematured media and entertainment—affecting formerly established business models for music, motion pictures, publishing, periodicals, advertising, and communications. Now it is dematuring the physical world as well. For example, consider what the online taxi dispatch service Uber is doing for personal transportation. Anyone who has been caught trying to hail a cab on a rainy evening in New York City knows that the system is in desperate need of an overhaul. As of 2014, there were fewer than 15,000 yellow cab licenses (called medallions) in operation in the city, and great peak pressure on demand: Everyone wants to use the supply of taxis at the same time. This is a classic distribution system overload problem.
Uber sets up a new distribution system that overcomes the limits of the old one. It allows riders to log in to the system and indicate where they are and where they are going. The Uber app then responds with a wait estimate and often a fixed price. Uber has moved the distribution off the street corner and into the mobile device, which tells riders how much their ride will cost based on real-time demand, weather, distance, and current traffic conditions—take it or leave it. Instead of wondering how long it will take to hail a cab, taxi riders feel the sense of certainty that a better distribution system often brings. Whatever happens to Uber the company, we can be certain that taxi management systems like the one it has developed are here to stay.
Business-to-business environments are similarly affected by emergent distribution shifts, like the one signaled by Monsanto's 2013 acquisition of the Climate Corporation. Climate is an agricultural service provider that sells crop insurance and delivers it in conjunction with in-depth analysis derived by crunching data pertaining to such variables as weather and soil composition. Agricultural clients get real-time advice about when to plant, weed, or fertilize. Seemingly small adjustments can have a huge impact on farm yields. If Monsanto chooses to bundle its seeds with insurance or data services as a result of this deal, it will change the distribution system for agricultural insurance.
Leading in Dematurity
One of the few certainties in business today is that dematurity is coming to your industry, and soon. Responding effectively requires that you throw out old assumptions about how value is built and sustained in your markets. You need to ask questions about your industry that others believe have already been fully, inexorably, answered: What makes for efficient scale? Who is the competition? Who are the customers? What do customers want? Who owns what? Where is the risk?
If asking these questions and pursuing untraditional answers seems like an unlikely path to success, consider this fact: More than 80 percent of the self-made billionaires who are profiled in my upcoming book, The Billionaire Effect, made their billions in mature industries that they reinvigorated by tackling one or many of the factors identified above. They either introduced a product attuned to new consumer habits, changed the technologies of production, adopted ideas from another industry, adapted to new regulation, changed the distribution system, or made some combination of those moves. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, challenged the internal combustion engine's dominance in the auto industry by developing a customer-friendly electric car. Farallon Capital Management founder Tom Steyer worked laterally: He created an investment vehicle for university endowments and changed how those customers defined profitable investing. Alibaba founder Jack Ma created one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world by taking advantage of production and distribution changes inherent in the Web to provide platform and infrastructure services to thousands of small businesses.
Although dematurity is inevitable, your business can be the one that benefits most. Half the task is recognizing the facets of impending change early enough to prepare. The five indicators in this article provide you with a starting point, a way to begin honing your judgment and identifying the real threats to your industry. The other half of the task is to respond in a way that makes you stronger: by assembling and integrating the capabilities you'll need in this new, rejuvenated marketplace. The right capabilities will probably be a combination of what you already do well and what you must learn to do from scratch. If you can set your company up to sense and respond to dematurity ahead of time, then you'll be one of the first to catch the big wave of small changes—before everyone else in your industry gets on board.
John Sviokla is principal and leader of Global Thought Leadership with PwC. He is the coauthor of The Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value (with Mitch Cohen; Portfolio, 2015).
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Creating Great Writers
Marjorie Sandor, former director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Oregon State began plotting an opportunity for OSU students: to add a third year to the typical two-year master of fine arts (MFA) program.
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The peaks of the Wallowa Mountains in Eastern Oregon are still snow-capped in July. The lake is clear and still. The sun shines down hard, and writers at Summer Fishtrap chase shade even at breakfast. Guzzling coffee among them is Jon Ross, a creative writing graduate student at Oregon State University, who wears a tentative smile below his floppy hat.
The mountains, the lake and the rolling hills of the valley provide the perfect setting for writing about the West. That's what Fishtrap is all about. The nonprofit literary organization based in Enterprise has been hosting its summer writing conference on Wallowa Lake for 25 years.
Fishtrap director Ann Powers takes pride in her setting.
"It's beautiful to look up at the mountains every day," she says. "Innovative thinkers and creative people can make this place flourish. We want to cultivate clear thinking and good writing in the West."
Marjorie Sandor, former director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Oregon State, has a similar goal. A few years ago she was thrilled to learn that Powers, a former student of hers from the Rainier Writing Workshop, was the new director of Fishtrap. That's when she began plotting an opportunity for OSU students: to add a third year to the typical two-year master of fine arts (MFA) program. By applying their writing skills in a professional environment, they would deepen their educational experience and test their creativity in practical circumstances. It's an approach that is taking root in several writing programs at Oregon State and turning the university into a writer's haven.
"The typical two years of an MFA program is a very brief time when you're trying to make your way as a writer," Sandor explains. She admits that the hard work of creating a body of publishable work while teaching and taking courses leaves MFA students with little time for networking and exploring writing-related careers outside the university.
Camped out at the summer Fishtrap workshop, Oregon State graduate student Jon Ross prepares for an experiential year in OSU's MFA program in creative writing. (Photo: Caroline Zilk)
This fall, that will change for two MFA students. Jon Ross and Sally Parrish will complete a third year of their program with help from Fishtrap. Ross will work as Powers' assistant. Parrish will head the Fishtrap College Program and teach writing courses to high school students for Oregon State credit. She will also teach courses and workshops to younger students and to members of the community. Supporting their work financially are the Oregon State School of Writing, Literature and Film; private donors; and the Ford Family Foundation.
Both students will live in Wallowa County, working for Fishtrap and on their theses and personal writing projects.
Sandor hopes this new partnership with Fishtrap will be the beginning of myriad third-year options for OSU MFA students. Other Oregon State programs, such as the Spring Creek Project, have been inspiring writers for years. At OSU-Cascades in Bend, a new low-residency MFA degree will enable students to work off campus and draw inspiration from the details of their daily lives.
A Sense of Place at Oregon State
Parrish is a poet. Before she came to Corvallis, she spent six weeks basking in the warm glow of the Costa Rican sunlight, touring the country and taking a break after earning her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina Asheville. She didn't know it at the time, but the experience would provide inspiration for much of her written work at Oregon State.
"Place is a really important aspect of my writing," she says, "I'm looking forward to experiencing the contrast between Corvallis, where I've spent the last two years, and the Wallowa County. I hope it'll encourage reflection on both environments."
Sense of place is also important for another Oregon State program, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word. Director Charles Goodrich calls the project willfully and energetically interdisciplinary.
"At a university where people get into their own cubbies, we pull them out and have conversations around topics of how to create a sustainable world and how to become good citizens in it," he says.
Spring Creek combines the talents of creative writers, environmental scientists and philosophers in discussions about how to envision our relationship to nature and how we should live. Goodrich hires writing students as interns and brought MFA student Maya Polan on board to coordinate the "Campus Creature Census." Through short written pieces, artwork and photography by members of the Oregon State community, the "census" explored the flora and fauna on campus.
"The goal was to get people to pay attention to what is in their place," Goodrich says. "We want people to think about this campus as a home and as a habitat."
He also encourages MFA students to participate in the Spring Creek's residential experiences. For example, writers can devote a week or more to the forest at two locations: the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Cascades and a cabin in the Oregon Coast Range. "There, we ask them to engage with the place," Goodrich says. "In turn, they produce pieces that have been published in The Atlantic and other prestigious journals."
Among the Best in the Nation
The growth of Oregon State's creative writing programs strengthens the university's research-based, land grant mission. Creative expression and imagination, Sandor and Goodrich feel, are just as important for solving our world's problems as are science and engineering. Others are paying attention. In 2012, Poets and Writers magazine tagged the MFA program as one of the 25 best in the nation.
This year, the MFA program received over 400 applications for only 14 spaces. Sandor is excited to be accepting students who turned down nationally-ranked programs at other institutions, including the University of Iowa. "You can't have application numbers like these and not be recognized," Sandor adds.
Adding a third-year option for MFA students is one of Sandor's goals, and a new low-residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades may become a vehicle for that. Emily Carr directs that initiative and says the program will begin in November. Applications are open and will be reviewed throughout the month of August. Writers around the region are applying, and over time, Carr believes, the program will gain national recognition.
"The low residency MFA, I think, is the future for creative writing programs," Carr says. "The format is a pragmatic response to what it means to be a writer in this economy in the 21st century."
"Low residency" means that students will work from home and correspond with instructors online. In addition, they will attend classes at the OSU-Cascades campus during two intensive 10-day residencies per year. Mid-career professionals and parents of young children may benefit most from this arrangement.
The high-desert landscape provides Emily Carr with new inspiration for her own writing. The director of OSU-Cascades' low-residency MFA in creative writing received her Ph.D. at the University of Calgary. (Photo: Tom Fehrenbacher)
Carr, who started at OSU-Cascades on May 1, has been developing the program from scratch. So far, faculty members include T. Geronimo Johnson, a fiction writer (Hold It 'Till It Hurts), and Arielle Greenberg, a poet (My Kafka Century). "I wanted to find faculty who know what it means to be entrepreneurial as a writer and who do that in their own writing lives," she says.
Carr hopes to inspire students in the low-residency program to be just as entrepreneurial, to engage with the Bend community during their short time on campus and learn how to market their writing skills.
Students need opportunities outside the classroom to use their writing experience in a professional environment, say Carr and Sandor. "You need to make mistakes as a student before you take on a real job or set out to write professionally," Carr adds.
Ross and Parrish know they might be making some mistakes during their year at Fishtrap, but both say they feel prepared for the challenge. In Wallowa County the two students will be part of the small but vital writing community.
"Our program is about excellence," Sandor says. "It's about creating good writers and good teachers."
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Acteurs principaux
 Gabriel Macht : Harvey Specter, associé senior chez Pearson Hardman
 Patrick J. Adams : Mike Ross, collaborateur chez Pearson Hardman
 Rick Hoffman : Louis Litt, associé junior chez Pearson Hardman
 Meghan Markle : Rachel Zane, assistante juridique chez Pearson Hardman
 Sarah Rafferty : Donna Paulsen, secrétaire juridique chez Pearson Hardman
 Gina Torres : Jessica Pearson, associée gérante de Pearson Hardman

Acteurs récurrents
 Tom Lipinski : Trevor Evans
 Vanessa Ray : Jenny Griffith
 Rebecca Schull : Edith Ross
 Ben Hollingsworth : Kyle Durant
 Max Topplin : Harold Jakowski
 Eric Close : Travis Tanner

Épisodes

Épisode 1 : Avocat à son insu

Épisode 2 : Tous les coups sont permis

Épisode 3 : Le Moteur de la réussite

Épisode 4 : Préserver sa vie privée

Épisode 5 : Il n'y a pas de cause perdue

Épisode 6 : Un Monde sans pitié

Épisode 7 : Le Vrai-Faux Procès

Épisode 8 : Cas de conscience

Épisode 9 : L'Épreuve de force

Épisode 10 : Une vie de mensonge

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 607 square miles (1,570 km2), of which 560 square miles (1,500 km2) is land and 47 square miles (120 km2) (7.8%) is water. It is the third smallest county in Alabama by land area.
Giles County, Tennessee - north
Lincoln County, Tennessee - northeast
Madison County, Alabama - east
Morgan County, Alabama - southeast
Lawrence County, Alabama - southwest
Lauderdale County, Alabama - west
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (part)
As of the 2000 census, there were 65,676 people, 24,688 households, and 18,219 families residing in the county. The population density was 45/km2 (116/sq mi). There were 26,897 housing units at an average density of 18/km2 (47/sq mi). The racial makeup of the county was 78.79% White, 15.33% Black or African American, 0.46% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.14% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. 2.65% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Limestone County were English 66.31%, Scots-Irish 15.12%, and African 13.33%
There were 24,688 households, out of which 34.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.00% were married couples living together, 10.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.20% were non-families. 23.40% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.02.
In the county, the population was spread out with 24.90% under the age of 18, 8.80% from 18 to 24, 32.10% from 25 to 44, 23.10% from 45 to 64, and 11.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.80 males.
The median household income in the county was $37,405, and the median income for a family was $45,146. Males had a median income of $35,743 versus $23,389 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,782. About 9.80% of families and 12.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.20% of those under age 18 and 14.60% of those age 65 or over.
As of the 2010 census, there were 82,782 people, 31,446 households, and 22,876 families residing in the county. The population density was 57.1/km2 (147.8/sq mi). There were 34,977 housing units at an average density of 24.1/km2 (62.5/sq mi). The racial makeup of the county was 80.3% White, 12.6% Black or African American, 0.7% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 3.5% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. 5.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 31,446 households, out of which 31.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.3% were non-families. 23.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the county, the population was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 27.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.0 males.
The median household income in the county was $46,682, and the median income for a family was $55,518. Males had a median income of $46,071 versus $31,609 for females. The per capita income for the county was $24,007. About 10.3% of families and 13.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.5% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.
Limestone County comprises the Thirty-Ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama. The Thirty-Ninth Judicial Circuit was created in the early 1980s when Limestone County broke away from Morgan County to form its own circuit.
The Thirty-Ninth Judicial Circuit has two circuit judges and two district judges. The two circuit judges are Judge James W. Woodroof and Judge Robert M. Baker. The two district judges are Judge Jeanne W. Anderson and Judge Jerry L. Batts.
The current District Attorney is Brian C.T. Jones.
The current Sheriff of Limestone County is Mike Blakely, who has been sheriff for 7 terms (since 1982). The term for sheriff is 4 years, and there is no term limit.
Mark Yarbrough (R) is the Chairman of the County Commission.
Limestone County School District operates public schools in areas not in the City of Athens
Athens City Schools - K-12 education for the city of Athens
Calhoun Community College - 2-year college located in the southern part of the county in Decatur
Athens State University - 2-year upper level university located in Athens
Alternate U.S. Highway 72/State Route 20
CSX Transportation—freight line that runs North to South
Norfolk Southern Railway—freight line that runs East-West
Cowford Campground — riverside campground with 48 campsites with full hookups. Next to Cowford Landing.
Cowford Landing — swimming, fishing, and boating. Next to Cowford Campground.
Limestone County Canoe & Kayak Trail — a 21.9 miles (35.2 km) along the Elk River for canoeing with 5 access sites. Designated a National Recreation Trail in 2010.
Noah Bike & Vintage Car Trail — a road route for bicycles, motorcycles, and vintage cars in Northwest Limestone County that is 89 miles (143 km) long. The starts and ends at the Athens-Limestone Visitor's Center at 34.803°N 86.967°W / 34.803; -86.967.
Richard Martin Trail — a 10.2 miles (16.4 km) rail trail in northern part of the county for bicycling, horseback riding, and walking. Designated a National Recreation Trail in 2010.
Antebellum Trail - a trail rich in the Antebellum period architecture that highlights Athens, Belle Mina and Mooresville.
Ardmore Walking Tracks - One .25 miles (0.40 km) walking track is located in Ardmore Town Park on Park Avenue. The other .5 miles (0.80 km) track is locating in Ardmore's John Barns Park on Ardmore Ridge Road
Athens Greenway Walking Trail - This 3.3 miles (5.3 km) walking trail starts at the Athens SportsPlex goes by Athens High School and Athens Public Archery Range and continues to U.S. Highway 72 for an additional 1.2 miles (1.9 km)
Athens Historic Volksmarch - An American Volksport Association (AVA) sanctioned 10K (6.2 miles) walk.
Beaty Historic District Walking Tour "Step Back In Time" - walking tour of the Robert Beaty Historic District which was placed on the Registry of Historic Places in 1984.
Civil War Trail - Driving/walking trail highlighting the history of the Civil War in the greater Limestone County community.
The Glory Road - Driving tour of historic and community churches of Limestone County
Canebrake Club - membership
Chriswood Golf Course - community
Southern Gayles Golf Club - community
Limestone County Alabama offers access to the prime fishing waters of the Elk River, Tennessee River and Wheeler Lake.
Limestone Hunting Preserve & Sporting Clays offers deer, dove, quail, pheasant and chukar hunts and sporting clays.
Piney Creek Kennels and Hunting Preserve offers 100+ acres of dove and quail hunting land.
Swan Creek WMA - 8,870 acres of Alabama Department of Conservation managed area and includes a shooting range
Tennessee Valley Federal Property - 11,300 acres of regulated hunting land
Hospice Chili Challenge - last weekend
Polk Sallet Follies - second week, Thursday-Saturday
Home and Garden Show - second weekend
Athens Cruise In (April–September)
Saturday Historic Walking Tours - Athens & Mooresville—each Saturday
Cars and Bikes on the Square - last Saturday
Singing on the Square (April–September) - third Fridays
Earth Day Celebration - third Saturday
Athens-Limestone Relay for Life
Limestone Sheriff's Rodeo
Athens Bible School Homespun Arts and Crafts Show
Athens Lions Club Kiddie Carnival (last weekend in June to first weekend August)
Limestone County Week of Independence (last Saturday of June to first Saturday of July)
Ardmore Lions Club Tractor and Truck Pull - second weekend
CASA Mud Volleyball Tournament - third Saturday
Alabama Championship Tractor and Truck Pull - Tanner—last weekend
Ardmore Crape Myrtle Festival
Ardmore Police Reserve Rodeo
Piney Chapel American Farm Heritage Days
Athens Grease Festival
Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention - first full weekend
Wacky Quacky Ducky Derby - first full weekend
Athens Storytelling Festival - last weekend
Hilltop Arts Festival
Athens Christmas Open House
Athens Christmas Parade
Limestone County Tree Lighting (same night as Athens Parade)
Ardmore Christmas Parade
Elkmont Lions Club Christmas Parade
Sippin' Cider
Lincoln Bridgeforth Park Tree Lighting
Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives - honoring veterans and their families with displays of memorabilia from the Revolutionary War to the present.
College Inn/Newby Gulf Station Museum - This landmark was restored to look like a 1940s gas station. It has been featured in Southern Living photo spreads.
Donnell House - This historic landmark is the former home of Reverend Donnell and a significant site for the "Sack of Athens"
Houston Memorial Library and Museum - The cornerstone of the Houston Historic District, the building now houses a library and the county museum.
Limestone County Archives - Contains community and genealogical records for Limestone County.
Alabama Welcome Center - Just south of the Alabama/Tennessee border, this facility is home to a Saturn 1B rocket as well as war memorials for World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Athens State University - A significant site for the "Sack of Athens". Founders Hall is the original structure of the university and is graced with 4 large pillars. Founders Hall also houses the New Testament Chapel containing life-size carvings depicting Christ and other New Testament figures.
Trinity School - Established by the American Missionary Association to educate the children of freed slaves.
Belle Chevre Creamery - Tour and sample fresh goat cheese in the heart of Elkmont
Humble Heart Farms - Choose from 4 themed tours about the farm and creamery.
Athens (county seat)
Decatur (partly in Morgan County)
Huntsville (partly in Madison County)
Madison (partly in Madison County)
Limestone County, Alabama Wikipedia
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#import "PFSQLiteDatabase.h"
#import "PFSQLiteDatabase_Private.h"

#import <sqlite3.h>

#import <Bolts/BFExecutor.h>
#import <Bolts/BFTaskCompletionSource.h>

#import "BFTask+Private.h"
#import "PFFileManager.h"
#import "PFInternalUtils.h"
#import "PFMacros.h"
#import "PFMultiProcessFileLockController.h"
#import "PFSQLiteDatabaseResult.h"
#import "PFSQLiteStatement.h"
#import "Parse_Private.h"
#import "PFThreadsafety.h"

static NSString *const PFSQLiteDatabaseBeginExclusiveOperationCommand = @"BEGIN EXCLUSIVE";
static NSString *const PFSQLiteDatabaseCommitOperationCommand = @"COMMIT";
static NSString *const PFSQLiteDatabaseRollbackOperationCommand = @"ROLLBACK";

static NSString *const PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorSQLiteDomain = @"SQLite";
static NSString *const PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorPFSQLiteDatabaseDomain = @"PFSQLiteDatabase";

int const PFSQLiteDatabaseInvalidArgumenCountErrorCode = 1;
int const PFSQLiteDatabaseInvalidSQL = 2;
int const PFSQLiteDatabaseDatabaseAlreadyOpened = 3;
int const PFSQLiteDatabaseDatabaseAlreadyClosed = 4;

@interface PFSQLiteDatabase () {
    BFTaskCompletionSource *_databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource;
    dispatch_queue_t _databaseQueue;
    BFExecutor *_databaseExecutor;
    NSMutableDictionary *_cachedStatements;
}

/**
 Database instance
 */
@property (nonatomic, assign) sqlite3 *database;

/**
 Database path
 */
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *databasePath;

@end

@implementation PFSQLiteDatabase

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Init
///--------------------------------------

- (instancetype)initWithPath:(NSString *)path {
    self = [super init];
    if (!self) return nil;

    _databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource = [[BFTaskCompletionSource alloc] init];
    _databasePath = [path copy];

    dispatch_queue_t queue = PFThreadsafetyCreateQueueForObject(self);
    _databaseQueue = queue;
    _databaseExecutor = [BFExecutor executorWithBlock:^(dispatch_block_t block) {
        // Execute asynchrounously on the proper queue.
        // Seems a bit backwards, but we don't have PFThreadsafetySafeDispatchAsync.
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^{
            PFThreadsafetySafeDispatchSync(queue, block);
        });
    }];

    _cachedStatements = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

    return self;
}

+ (instancetype)databaseWithPath:(NSString *)path {
    return [[self alloc] initWithPath:path];
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Connection
///--------------------------------------

- (BFTask *)isOpenAsync {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        return @(self.database != nil);
    }];
}

- (BFTask *)openAsync {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        if (self.database) {
            NSError *error = [self _errorWithErrorCode:PFSQLiteDatabaseDatabaseAlreadyOpened
                                          errorMessage:@"Database is opened already."
                                                domain:PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorPFSQLiteDatabaseDomain];
            return [BFTask taskWithError:error];
        }

        // Check if this database have already been opened before.
        if (_databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource.task.completed) {
            NSError *error = [self _errorWithErrorCode:PFSQLiteDatabaseDatabaseAlreadyClosed
                                          errorMessage:@"Closed database cannot be reopen."
                                                domain:PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorPFSQLiteDatabaseDomain];
            return [BFTask taskWithError:error];
        }

        // Lock the file to avoid multi-process access.
        [[PFMultiProcessFileLockController sharedController] beginLockedContentAccessForFileAtPath:self.databasePath];

        sqlite3 *db;
        int resultCode = sqlite3_open([self.databasePath UTF8String], &db);
        if (resultCode != SQLITE_OK) {
            return [BFTask taskWithError:[self _errorWithErrorCode:resultCode]];
        }

        self.database = db;
        return nil;
    }];
}

- (BFTask *)closeAsync {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        if (!self.database) {
            NSError *error = [self _errorWithErrorCode:PFSQLiteDatabaseDatabaseAlreadyClosed
                                          errorMessage:@"Database is closed already."
                                                domain:PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorPFSQLiteDatabaseDomain];
            return [BFTask taskWithError:error];
        }

        [self _clearCachedStatements];
        int resultCode = sqlite3_close(self.database);

        [[PFMultiProcessFileLockController sharedController] endLockedContentAccessForFileAtPath:self.databasePath];

        if (resultCode == SQLITE_OK) {

            self.database = nil;
            [_databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource setResult:nil];
        } else {
            // Returns error
            [_databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource setError:[self _errorWithErrorCode:resultCode]];
        }
        return _databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource.task;
    }];
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Transaction
///--------------------------------------

- (BFTask *)beginTransactionAsync {
    return [self executeSQLAsync:PFSQLiteDatabaseBeginExclusiveOperationCommand
            withArgumentsInArray:nil];
}

- (BFTask *)commitAsync {
    return [self executeSQLAsync:PFSQLiteDatabaseCommitOperationCommand
            withArgumentsInArray:nil];
}

- (BFTask *)rollbackAsync {
    return [self executeSQLAsync:PFSQLiteDatabaseRollbackOperationCommand
            withArgumentsInArray:nil];
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Query Methods
///--------------------------------------

- (BFTask PF_GENERIC(PFSQLiteDatabaseResult *)*)_executeQueryAsync:(NSString *)sql withArgumentsInArray:(NSArray *)args cachingEnabled:(BOOL)enableCaching {
    int resultCode = 0;
    PFSQLiteStatement *statement = enableCaching ? [self _cachedStatementForQuery:sql] : nil;
    if (!statement) {
        sqlite3_stmt *sqliteStatement = nil;
        resultCode = sqlite3_prepare_v2(self.database, [sql UTF8String], -1, &sqliteStatement, 0);
        if (resultCode != SQLITE_OK) {
            sqlite3_finalize(sqliteStatement);
            return [BFTask taskWithError:[self _errorWithErrorCode:resultCode]];
        }
        statement = [[PFSQLiteStatement alloc] initWithStatement:sqliteStatement queue:_databaseQueue];

        if (enableCaching) {
            [self _cacheStatement:statement forQuery:sql];
        }
    } else {
        [statement reset];
    }

    // Make parameter
    int queryCount = sqlite3_bind_parameter_count([statement sqliteStatement]);
    int argumentCount = (int)[args count];
    if (queryCount != argumentCount) {
        if (!enableCaching) {
            [statement close];
        }

        NSError *error = [self _errorWithErrorCode:PFSQLiteDatabaseInvalidArgumenCountErrorCode
                                      errorMessage:@"Statement arguments count doesn't match "
                                                   @"given arguments count."
                                                domain:NSStringFromClass([self class])];
        return [BFTask taskWithError:error];
    }

    for (int idx = 0; idx < queryCount; ++idx) {
        [self _bindObject:args[idx] toColumn:(idx + 1) inStatement:statement];
    }

    PFSQLiteDatabaseResult *result = [[PFSQLiteDatabaseResult alloc] initWithStatement:statement queue:_databaseQueue];
    return [BFTask taskWithResult:result];
}

- (BFTask *)executeCachedQueryAsync:(NSString *)sql withArgumentsInArray:(NSArray *)args {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        return [self _executeQueryAsync:sql withArgumentsInArray:args cachingEnabled:YES];
    }];
}

- (BFTask *)executeQueryAsync:(NSString *)query withArgumentsInArray:(nullable NSArray *)args block:(PFSQLiteDatabaseQueryBlock)block {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        BFTask PF_GENERIC(PFSQLiteDatabaseResult *)*task = [self _executeQueryAsync:query withArgumentsInArray:args cachingEnabled:NO];
        return [[task continueImmediatelyWithSuccessBlock:^id(BFTask PF_GENERIC(PFSQLiteDatabaseResult *)*task) {
            return block(task.result);
        }] continueImmediatelyWithBlock:^id(BFTask *resultTask) {
            [task.result close];
            return resultTask;
        }];
    }];
}

- (BFTask *)executeSQLAsync:(NSString *)sql withArgumentsInArray:(NSArray *)args {
    return [BFTask taskFromExecutor:_databaseExecutor withBlock:^id {
        return [[self _executeQueryAsync:sql
                    withArgumentsInArray:args
                          cachingEnabled:NO] continueWithExecutor:[BFExecutor immediateExecutor] withSuccessBlock:^id(BFTask *task) {
            PFSQLiteDatabaseResult *databaseResult = task.result;
            int sqliteResultCode = [databaseResult step];
            [databaseResult close];

            switch (sqliteResultCode) {
                case SQLITE_DONE: {
                    return nil;
                }
                case SQLITE_ROW: {
                    NSError *error = [self _errorWithErrorCode:PFSQLiteDatabaseInvalidSQL
                                                  errorMessage:@"Cannot SELECT on executeSQLAsync."
                                                               @"Please use executeQueryAsync."
                                                        domain:NSStringFromClass([self class])];
                    return [BFTask taskWithError:error];
                }
                default: {
                    return [BFTask taskWithError:[self _errorWithErrorCode:sqliteResultCode]];
                }
            }
        }];
    }];
}

/**
 bindObject will bind any object supported by PFSQLiteDatabase to query statement.
 Note: sqlite3 query index binding is one-based, while querying result is zero-based.
 */
- (void)_bindObject:(id)obj toColumn:(int)idx inStatement:(PFSQLiteStatement *)statement {
    if ((!obj) || ((NSNull *)obj == [NSNull null])) {
        sqlite3_bind_null([statement sqliteStatement], idx);
    } else if ([obj isKindOfClass:[NSData class]]) {
        const void *bytes = [obj bytes];
        if (!bytes) {
            // It's an empty NSData object, aka [NSData data].
            // Don't pass a NULL pointer, or sqlite will bind a SQL null instead of a blob.
            bytes = "";
        }
        sqlite3_bind_blob([statement sqliteStatement], idx, bytes, (int)[obj length], SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
    } else if ([obj isKindOfClass:[NSDate class]]) {
        sqlite3_bind_double([statement sqliteStatement], idx, [obj timeIntervalSince1970]);
    } else if ([obj isKindOfClass:[NSNumber class]]) {
        if (CFNumberIsFloatType((__bridge CFNumberRef)obj)) {
            sqlite3_bind_double([statement sqliteStatement], idx, [obj doubleValue]);
        } else {
            sqlite3_bind_int64([statement sqliteStatement], idx, [obj longLongValue]);
        }
    } else {
        sqlite3_bind_text([statement sqliteStatement], idx, [[obj description] UTF8String], -1, SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
    }
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Cached Statements
///--------------------------------------

- (void)_clearCachedStatements {
    for (PFSQLiteStatement *statement in [_cachedStatements allValues]) {
        [statement close];
    }

    [_cachedStatements removeAllObjects];
}

- (PFSQLiteStatement *)_cachedStatementForQuery:(NSString *)query {
    return _cachedStatements[query];
}

- (void)_cacheStatement:(PFSQLiteStatement *)statement forQuery:(NSString *)query {
    _cachedStatements[query] = statement;
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Errors
///--------------------------------------

/**
 Generates SQLite error. The details of the error code can be seen in: www.sqlite.org/c3ref/errcode.html
 */
- (NSError *)_errorWithErrorCode:(int)errorCode {
    return [self _errorWithErrorCode:errorCode
                        errorMessage:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:sqlite3_errmsg(self.database)]];
}

- (NSError *)_errorWithErrorCode:(int)errorCode errorMessage:(NSString *)errorMessage {
    return [self _errorWithErrorCode:errorCode
                        errorMessage:errorMessage
                              domain:PFSQLiteDatabaseErrorSQLiteDomain];
}

/**
 Generates SQLite/PFSQLiteDatabase error.
 */
- (NSError *)_errorWithErrorCode:(int)errorCode
                    errorMessage:(NSString *)errorMessage
                          domain:(NSString *)domain {
    NSMutableDictionary *result = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
    result[@"code"] = @(errorCode);
    result[@"error"] = errorMessage;
    return [[NSError alloc] initWithDomain:domain code:errorCode userInfo:result];
}

///--------------------------------------
#pragma mark - Private
///--------------------------------------

- (BFTask *)databaseClosedTask {
    return _databaseClosedTaskCompletionSource.task;
}

@end

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•	Accountable for the Wholesale P&L of Japan and provides insight and reacts pro-actively to overall market status including key account business and competitors performance within the wholesale channel.
•	Create, in cooperation with the Legal Team, sales agreements in which the company complies with the mutual interest of all parties, and external wholesale customers.
•	Develop and execute sales and marketing strategy, to better meet new customer needs and requirements - with the objective of both expanding business with current accounts and penetrating new markets and customers. Prepare and deliver all Key Account presentations, pricing, and promotional proposals, and other business endeavors.
•	Work closely with existing or prospective Key Accounts to identify opportunities, and to drive and further develop the successful business. Monitor major complaints and wishes which the Japan market and key accounts may have. Improve the way the brand deals with them, and be an internal advocate for the Wholesale business.
•	Identify market developments, trends and wishes in the area of Wholesale. Identify new wholesale opportunities and create the Japan market strategy.
•	Responsible for meeting seasonal and annual commercial revenue targets, product margin, penetration/ door count targets, and wholesale door count expansion.
•	Lead and oversee the process for realistic and accurate account planning, forecasting, seasonal initiatives, business analysis, and new sales opportunities.
•	Lead and work collaboratively with Merchandising to execute key/national accounts pre-line and sell-in process, as per the approved sell-in timelines and order deadlines seasonally.
•	Manage all aspects of the assigned territory, by developing and implementing sales strategies that promote the sale and sell through of all products. Achieve the product margin and revenue goals by ensuring that all accounts are profitably served, and control the Wholesale costs.
•	Achieve the annual wholesale revenue goals, new product sales goals, and gross margin goals, by growing top-line revenue, and penetrating deeply into key (retail) accounts.
•	Actively sell all seasonal and at-once product initiatives, and be responsible for selling and maximizing the profit on EOL product. Monitor and develop product segmentation in the different trading channels in the market place.
•	In cooperation with HR, recruit, manage, train, assess and motivate the direct reporting staff according to company procedures, policy and employment law.
•	Coordinate the involvement of cross-functional personnel, including supply chain support, customer service, and management resources, in order to meet partner performance objectives and customers' expectations.
•	Monitor competitor activity within the channel market, and develop strategic plans for increasing market share. Monitor major payment behaviour of markets. In cooperation with A/R, select agents, distributors, and country sales or key account managers for payment reminders, revenue reports and forecasted revenues.
•	Collaborate with the Product and Marketing Teams on product, price, quality, and design, in order to deliver impactful product introductions.
•	Provide quarterly forecasts of shipments, and monthly outlooks of bookings for Japan market - detailing major customer orders and product levels, in order to ensure minimal lead-times and accurate shipments.


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MDMA became a catalyst for anxiety so severe, that for three years George Hodgson felt he couldn't leave his bedroom. But in his battle with crippling anxiety, OCD and paranoia, George found comfort through creating a fashion brand that raises awareness about mental health and helps fund a charity supporting other young sufferers
It's 8 July 2012, a date I will never forget. I'm sitting in a small tent with three friends, and it's pouring with rain outside. One friend opens a small, clear bag and starts rolling up a £5 note. Taking it in turns, we inhale a browny-white powder called MDMA – to have "a good time". We were at NASS Festival, and the experience I had was the complete opposite of a good time. I was just 16 years old.
I've always been an anxious person. Even as a boy I suffered from anxiety. I remember being at primary school and needing extra support because I always had so much energy. I used to run everywhere – "Why walk when you can run?" I thought.
George Hodgson
Everything changed when I moved to secondary school though; I had a large friendship group and we all stuck together. My anxiety became a thing of the past, and as the years went on I completely forgot about it.
But it was only three months after taking the drug that I hit the darkest period of my life. I was suffering from panic attacks and I thought everything I touched had MDMA traces on it, leading me to wash my hands at least 50 times a day. The MDMA had become the catalyst for my severe anxiety, so bad that for three years I couldn't actually leave my bedroom. I became completely paranoid.
The paranoia I had surrounding MDMA, and being convinced I was permanently on the drug, had consumed me. I didn't even particularly enjoy the experience I'd had when I was on it, and it was terrifying. Anxiety had found my weakness, and it wore me down. I don't believe MDMA was the cause of the anxiety, as I had always suffered, but it was certainly the cause of the OCD and psychosis I was experiencing.
One of my behaviour patterns during my illness was the need to be with one of my parents at all times if I left the house. To that end, I would often go to my father's office. He is a graphic designer, and as I spent more time there, I began to scribble. One day, half way through my therapy, when I began to feel a little better, I came up with the idea of translating some of my anxiety drawings on to T-shirts. My father told me this was feasible.
Encouraged, my brand, Maison de Choup, all based around mental health, was born and in 2015 was launched to the world.
Maison de Choup played a huge part in my recovery. Without having anything to do, I had really started to lose my mind. But with this project I found focus, purpose, and something to get up for in the mornings. It pushed me to do things that I would never have thought I was capable of doing. Attending networking events, meeting incredible people, and having to interact with complete strangers almost every day – for someone who was suffering from severe anxiety, who couldn't actually leave the bedroom for three years, to actively go out and want to talk to people was almost surreal.
For me, Maison de Choup isn't about being the next big fashionable brand, it's all about creating a brand that is synonymous with mental health. When people say "Maison de Choup", I don't want them to think "Oh yeah, they sell cool clothes", I want them to think: "That's that brand helping young mental illness sufferers through fashion."
It's about creating and spreading awareness of mental health through fashion, connecting people, and reassuring young people who suffer that they can do amazing things. I'm opening up, telling people about my battle with severe anxiety, OCD, and how drugs affected me so cataclysmically, using my brand as a way of expressing my feelings. Vanity Fair magazine summed up what Maison de Choup is about in one line: "The fashion brand with a mental health cause at its heart."
I'm partnered with the YoungMinds charity. I was lucky that my parents could send me to private mental health care, but for the young people who aren't in the same fortunate position that I was, I don't know what they do. The waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services is now upwards of a year, and within that time frame something unimaginable could happen.
That's why I want to give back to YoungMinds. I was that young person suffering, and I know what it's like to be in such a dark place. It is so important to me that I can give back to a charity that helps young sufferers.
In October 2017, for World Mental Health Day and the YoungMinds #HelloYellow campaign, I decided to take on the challenge and ride 147 miles to raise money. So I set about training for this mission, something I had never done before. On the day, I finished my bike ride in 13 hours, raising more than £900 for YoungMinds.
I still suffer; but remember, we all suffer. I know I'll never get over my anxiety and OCD, but I am now able to employ coping mechanisms to deal with it in my own way. Every day is a new day. I now speak at schools, colleges and universities about my experiences, to encourage and inspire other sufferers that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that they will get through it. It just takes time.
Visit maisondechoup.com to find out more about George's fashion brand, with mental health awareness sewn into its core. Follow George on Twitter @imgeorgehodgson
Graeme Orr MBACP (reg) UKRCP, Reg Ind counsellor, says:
Taking MDMA transformed George's anxiety, resulting in him struggling to function with this severe mental illness. But when he discovered he could express his emotions through art, he grew in confidence, purpose and found he could address his illness. George's story gives us insight into the power of taking your time with finding your own form of therapy, and having compassion for yourself while you do. We can challenge and beat our anxiety, one day at a time.
George is a contributor to the July issue of Happiful.
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Lincoln [PG-13]
Writer: Tony Kushner
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook
Lincoln is an exceptional historical biopic, in that it is fuelled by powerful and driven performances, directed with such excellence, and polished off to the letter. The film tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's last four months, encapsulating the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination, but with a core focus on the passing of the 13th amendment to the US constitution. Steven Spielberg, writer Tony Kushner, and star Daniel Day-Lewis have collaborated to make a spectacular film of grand proportion, and their effort shows in this wonderful film.
Daniel Day-Lewis, who stars as our 16th President, is most certainly going to see Oscar gold for this spellbinding performance. He depicts Abraham Lincoln as a down-to-earth, intelligent, plainspoken man with ambition and ideals, but a man who isn't afraid to play behind-the-back politics realistically in order to achieve what is ultimately just. Lincoln pushed to pass the 13th Amendment because he believed that slavery was immoral, but also because it would help the Union crush the Confederates war movement, and ending the war was a most important priority for almost all of Washington. Day-Lewis portrays Lincoln as calmly collected and respectful man, with a realistic sense of the world and an air of self-confidence that great leaders aspire too. Lincoln is not portrayed as a ferocious politician, instead a realistic one who strives to achieve what he believes to be right.
As the House of Representatives battle over this controversial amendment to the constitution, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) works hard to pass the abolition of slavery. He is seen here as mildly loud-mouthed and crafty, particularly when dealing with the difficult opposition of the democrats. Jones plays the part with energy, making room for his character's underlying true heart to show as well. In the White House, the man helming the bill is Lincoln's Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn). Seward is loyal to the President's views, but he doesn't seem to share the personal determination of Stevens or Lincoln.
These two supporting characters are fine additions to the craftwork of the film, but the supporting star that brings out the most of Day-Lewis' Abraham Lincoln is Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary's obsession with their son who died of illness has left the other two living children relatively abandoned, and her relationship with her husband is strained at times, to say the best. Sally Field is great in her performance as Mrs. Lincoln, this is shown particularly strongly in a sequence in which Lincoln threatens to send her to an institution if she doesn't divert her attention to the living boys they do have left.
In order to have the 13th Amendment passed, Lincoln hires three negotiators to persuade enough democrats to vote yes for the bill in exchange for jobs, titles, and whatever else he has to offer. This is a different view of Lincoln than the one we most often think of, but the President portrayed here is perhaps the most realistic take we have ever seen on US presidential history. Day-Lewis shows Lincoln's soft-spoken exterior with terrific attention to the details of the character, and in his face we see the years of war that Lincoln has suffered through, and the exhaustion of leading such a divided nation.
Steven Spielberg has been a master director for forty years now, and his latest film work continues to be some of his best. Lincoln shows the director at a refined new level, the accuracy of the film as well as the sterling performances rooted in Tony Kushner's script are directed with such mastery by Spielberg, that no other director could have made this movie. Lincoln is long and at times dense, but its packs such incredible performances, as well as having a wonderful soundtrack and outstanding directing, making it one of the most honorable films of the year.


The idea is that teams of 2-3 players can compete as allies against other teams. The 3 possible alliances are Allied, Axis, and your choice of the remaining countries including Russia and China.
Players can select nations/factions in the order of whoever bids the highest combined victory point differential at the end of the scenario. Differential is the total victory points of the countries played at the beginning of the game(whatever date that is agreed upon) from the victory point total of the countries played at the end of the scenario. If your team does not achieve the number of victory points that they 'bid', they are considered to have gained no points and thus their victory point total is '0'. This is still better than any faction that has lost victory points however.
I am looking for anyone willing to challenge my 2 allies and myself. We refer to ourselves as EuropaKorps. We are located all over the world so we will have to agree upon a time to play. I hope to create a catalogue of different alliance teams.
So please let me know if your player friends would like to form a team with you and post the name of your team, along with the best times you have available. Thanks.
I've begun saving emails and phone numbers of people who represent teams or individuals. I expect to have a number of teams saved and can potentially provide them to other teams who offer a challenge. I will try to match people with others who speak their native language whenever possible.
Those who wish to register may send me their email through pm.
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Hey all, first things first - I can't take credit for this idea, as my Co-teacher came up with it for her open class and I just love it! So props to her.
Next, have a box for each team. We had two brown boxes with the labels "green team" and "yellow team" on them and a post-it of each colour to match, stuck on top.
After, collect one sock per team member and put into their team box. So you should have two boxes , 1 for each team, filled with socks.
B: "No, it's not mine." / "Yes, It's mine."
Now, my tip is that you demonstrate yourself by hiding a big sock in a box at the start of the lesson and then pulling it out and asking the questions by the 'A' speaker as seen above. Then have the students say "no, it's not mine."
So, the objective of the game is to guess the correct owner of the sock pulled out of the box.
Then they had only three guesses , asking "Is this yours?" to the other team's members and if they guessed correctly "Yes, it's mine." then that team would keep the sock - the team with the most socks collected by the end, wins!
Now, you can also easily play this with pencils, pencil cases...hats...you name it. As long as their names aren't on the items you're fine.
I hope this can work in your class and let me know how it goes! Sorry, classroom photos, maybe later.


Remember I was in Italy earlier this year? Wondering what it was for? I am finally able to tell you!
Agency 180 Amsterdam contacted me that they were searching for a contortionist to film a video with for the new jeans called 'Hyperflex' by Replay. I was so excited! Such a big client! The video below is what we shot!
A few days after the shooting of the video me and a team from 180 flew to Italy to go to the headquarters of Replay. The Spring Summer '15 fashionshow took place here and I was going to perform! After they played the video I was there live to show people my act. This was one of the most amazing things I've ever done! All these fashion people took out their phone, started filming and they were cheering and clapping all through my show! I loved it so much!
I hope you'll enjoy the video! I'm very proud of it!
Shot by Tobias Pekelharing and his crew.
This set is sooo extremely comfortable, seriously wearing it all the time. Got my hands on this set (finally) at De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. Top size S and bottom size XS.


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a lot to do with <the> grace and gifts that were naturally given
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RajuMV
Friends, here is a sentence from the book A Turn in the South by V S Naipaul:
I thought I was something special in the world-I think it had a lot to do with grace and gifts that were naturally given, God-given, to me.
Why article 'the' is not necessary before grace and gifts in the sentence, though grace and gifts are definite as they were the ones naturally given.
Thanks a lot in anticipation
Glasguensis
Signal Modulation
English - Scotland
"The" here is optional. Although it's perfectly okay to use "the", because the reference is specific, there is no obligation to do so.
Englishmypassion
Glasguensis said:
Although it's perfectly okay to use "the", because the reference is specific, there is no obligation to do so.
That's very, very tricky: a nemesis of most non-native speakers.
I'd have used "the".
Does it mean in every case where a reference is specific, 'the' is optional?
RajuMV said:
Oh, no! Never jump to such dangerous conclusions on the basis of just one example. "The" is usually necessary where there is a specific reference, but there are some exceptions, and the sentence in question seems to be one of them.
velisarius
British English (Sussex)
I think "grace" here is the grace received from God, so in that sentence "the grace" would be wrong.
...it had a lot to do with grace - I think it refers to an abstract concept, like "virtue" or "goodness". As used here, it isn't specific. With "gifts", I think the article is optional. I suspect that "that were naturally given to me" refers only to "gifts" and not to "grace" as well.
As @Englishmypassion says, no. It really depends what you're talking about. when you are talking about things in a fairly general way, the fact that you can make a general reference specific does not mean that you must do so. But if the context means that the things are very concrete and specific, then "the" becomes compulsory.
I like (the) apples from the big tree in my orchard
I picked up (the) apples which had fallen from the big tree
I picked up the apples which were on the table
Here "the" is optional in the first two sentences but compulsory in the third.
Thank you so much to all especially Glasguensis.


Home › Moon photo locket, round bronze locket with moon man on front cover.
Moon photo locket, round bronze locket with moon man on front cover.
Photo locket with a moon man on front cover. Photo locket features a 1 1'4" in diameter round vintage look locket with a bronze moon man stamping on front cover.
Moon man stamping has been sealed with a clear resin to give a lasting glass like finish.
Locket hangs on 24" bronze chain with a bronze floral connector and a heart and key toggle clasp.


Thanks for all of your answers. A few more questions.
As I mentioned in my last post. I sent out my test Gerber file to my vendor and I have the film back and I checked a few dimensions. The measurements seem to be slightly on the minus side. I had a Ø.152 and it measured Ø.1517, a line width of .006 measured .0059. Does ACE have an accuracy set up?
1. The Gerber data states the line width is 0.0059 (and not 0.006). You can query any trace to get the width.
What would be the difference in the following: Gerber digits (integer.decimal) 3.4 and 3.5 and 4.6 ?


One year ago, almost to the day, I got on a plane to take part in the one year FGASA Professional Field Guide course with Ecotraining. What a year it has been! I studied as hard as I could with the tiny hope that my efforts might secure me a job. In May, just ten months into my game ranger course, the stars aligned and my dream of being a real safari guide came true. I got a job! Now working in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, I managed to take a week off from guiding to celebrate the end of an incredible year at my official graduation.
Last week I travelled to one of the Ecotraining camps, Karongwe, and met up with the people who began this journey with me. Excited to hear all of the stories of their respective internships, that first night we talked until the fire had died to its last glowing embers. From the incredible things we have witnessed and adrenaline-packed close calls with wildlife to hilarious mishaps and even the odd tragic tale. An entire 6 months were packed into a single evening. Finally, the winter cold biting through our many layers, my tent-mate Jayne and I surrendered to our beds.
My tentmate Jayne and I reunited at last!
Over the next few days I'd like to say we did amazing things and had wonderful sightings on the reserve, however, the truth is rather different! After working so hard over the year, we finally had the chance to be 'on holiday'. With that in mind, two of my closest friends and I decided to relax. And what better way to relax than with a bottle of gin….or seven!
Despite this we did manage to stay sober long enough to complete a couple of bush walks and drives with our old instructors. On one such drive we were even lucky enough to spot the three resident male cheetahs! Totally relaxed, we sat with them just metres from the vehicle and enjoyed tea and biscuits while Cameron and I avidly clicked away with our cameras. At Klaserie, these are the one animal we really don't see so I was extra-excited to find them.
We spent an amazing hour with 3 cheetahs – this one was scent-marking a tree.
Finally, six days later, the big day arrived – graduation day! Putting on our old Ecotraining uniforms, the students and their families all headed out on game drive whilst the staff set-up for the evening. Arriving back after dark, we were greeted with warm mulled wine and beautiful lanterns lining the path to camp. Instructor Dave began his presentation of photos from the year, carving up happy memories and moments of our game ranger course.
Heading out on game drive with the Ecotraining game ranger course graduates!
Feeling like celebrities, we were at last ushered to our starlit dinner. Complete with candles, posh tablecloths and even free wine on the table, we could hardly believe it. A traditional South African braai followed and then, suitably fed and watered, the ceremony began. Wilhelm started with a speech congratulating us all on completing the Professional Field Guide course. Then, one-by-one, he called us up to collect our FGASA certificates and say a few words of our own. Having not predicted this, a few of us wished we had drunk less of the free wine. However, we all made it to the end without any obvious stumbles and the real party started around the fire. Time for the cardboard box game!
For those of you who don't know, this simple game is a bit of a fireside tradition. A cereal box is placed on the ground and each person must attempt to pick it up with their mouth. For added difficulty, no part of the body other than the feet can the floor. After each successful round, the box is lowered until, several pulled hamstrings later, only a single bendy competitor remains. Watching the mums, dads and instructors desperately bend and writhe in vain was certainly cause for a lot of laughs!
Martin, Jayne, Me and Cameron. All of us are now FGASA qualified field guides!
However, even the best of evenings must eventually come to an end. The following morning it was all over. Bags packed, hugs exchanged, promises of staying in touch made. Most of the group returned to their home country, whilst Cameron and I left to continue with our jobs. This eclectic mix of nature-lovers, from 19 to 40-something years, have become a weird little family over the last year. I hope those promises were just that, and that we do stay in touch. But for now, it's back to my greatest adventure – my amazing job!


With several awards and a host of international performances under their belt, Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra come to Exeter Phoenix for an incredible evening of music.
Both bands will play a varied selection of music, from the classic swing of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, vocals featuring band members, and more modern arrangements in a wide range of styles, right up to contemporary funk, with all tastes in between catered for!
This is a charity fundraising event for CITY Community Trust (charity number 1121596), Exeter's leading health and wellbeing charity and Exeter City Football Club's charity partner.


With 24 boats, the J/24 class boasted the largest fleet at the 2011 Primo Cup. Entries came from 7 countries including Monaco, France, England, Hungary, Italy, Brazil and Sweden. Amongst the entrants were Sweden's Anna Gunnarson, and three time world champion Maurizio Santa Cruz from Brazil with J/Boats Italy's Paolo Boido aboard, England's HITCHHIKER sailed by Andrew Taylor and JOLLY ROGER helmed by Roger Morris, and Hungary's NORD TELECOM SAILING TEAM skippered by Gabor Makai.
Unfortunately, the wind did not cooperate and the regatta finished after only one race. On Saturday Feb. 5th, following a black flag recall, a race was finally started. Despite a slow start, Santa Cruz's team figured out the tactics and surged through the fleet to finish 2nd in the one and only race for the regatta. The calm seas made for gorgeous sunrise and sunset photos but offered impossible conditions to finish off the regatta after a beautiful start on Friday midday.


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WIT Summer Program
Mindful Mitzvos: Back to Basics
Classes Begin Monday, June 29, 2020 Via Zoom
(click on the schedule to download)
Summer Spotlight Speaker Bios
(in formation)
Mrs. Rivka Leah Goldman is a teacher par excellence who has taught in day schools, Talmud Torahs, and in an adult education milieu in various communities throughout the U.S. She resides in Baltimore where she educates kosher consumers, in her capacity as a Kashrus Computer Specialist for STAR-K Certification, in addition to delivering popular parsha and Rosh Chodesh shiurim for women.
Mrs. Shira Hochheimer, a native Baltimorean has been educating woman and girls of all ages for over 15 years. She is passionate about empowering women to find more fulfillment in their lives by learning Torah. Shira has a BA from Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women and a MA in Secondary Jewish Education from the Azrieli Graduate School. She has been a Rebbetzin in Rochester, NY and is now an educator in Baltimore. She is the author of Eishes Chayil: Ancient Wisdom for Women of Today published by Mosaic Press in 2017, which is now in its second printing.
Mrs. Shifra Rabenstein received her B.A. in Judaic Studies from Stern College. She went on to earn a Masters degree in School Administration from Johns Hopkins University. She is a faculty member of the Rebbetzin Frieda K. Hirmes Women's Institute of Torah, Maalot Baltimore and Bais Yaakov of Baltimore. She resides with her husband and three children in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mrs. Rachelle Reingold is a native of Silver Spring, MD where she currently resides. Mrs. Reingold is the Judaic Department Chair at the Girls Division of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington where she teaches chumash as well. Mrs. Reingold feels that teaching Torah is her passion. She is also on the faculty of WITS/Maalot Baltimore.
Rebbetzin Ettie Rosenbaum is the Founding Director of the Rebbetzin Frieda K. Hirmes Women's Institute of Torah (WIT) and is currently Menaheles at Maalot Seminary. Mrs. Rosenbaum has been giving a class in Navi for WIT for over two decades, which draws over 70 women each week.
Mrs. Chana Slavaticki- bio coming soon!
Mrs. Jaclyn Sova moved to Baltimore from New York, where she taught Tanach at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls for seven years and currently teaches at the Beth Tfiloh High School and Bnos Yisroel High School. Jaclyn received a Master's Degree in Jewish education and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration. In addition to teaching, Jaclyn lectures to various ages of women in the community.


We mature, well-balanced adults would have nothing to moan about if it wasn't for the groms in our lives. They hang around the surf school leaving their clothes strewn about and their half-eaten lunches abandoned for the gulls to attack. They play football games that ransack numerous family camps in the vicinity, or boules games that soon come to resemble Dambuster bombing raids! And having been under our feet the whole day they are mysteriously missing when a parent turns up to take their little treasure home!
Just occasionally a grom will provide one of those priceless moments that more than rewards us for those petty annoyances – and one such event happened this week when Harris' nephews brightened a drowsy afternoon by inventing the new sport of Bin Snorkelling as seen in the picture above. The delights of exploring the azure seas of Porthmeor must have lost their allure when the murky contents of the wetsuit washbin offer a more interesting prospect.
Similarly, Fion, a firm favourite of everyone at the school, decided to step up his progression from scooter to bike to skateboard by donning Todger's motorbike helmet in readiness for his next step. Anyone got any XXS bike leathers for sale?
Such behaviour should not be encouraged by responsible adults!


This lens, though, is tinged by Jordan's victory, so we naturally tend to associate the two: winning and mental toughness. When LeBron James all but vanished in the 2011 NBA Finals, we indicted his mental stability – he lost, so his mind was weak. Just a year later, he became mentally tough because he emerged from the sideline, body ravaged by spastic muscle cramps, to sink what turned out to be the game winning three-pointer in a pivotal Game 4.
Clearly, the arbitrary nature of this designation is absurd, but the true absurdity lies in coupling mental toughness with mental health. Recently, Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin suffered an emotional breakdown in response to alleged bullying led by teammate, Richie Incognito. The media, former players and fans everywhere were quick to stigmatize Martin as unfit for the game of football—too mentally weak to survive in this violent ecosystem of men. But do the two really have anything to do with each other?
If Michael Jordan were to admit that his greatness was a product of his deeply embedded insecurities—that he had to be great because it was the only self-validation he could attain—would our opinion about him change? Would he be any less tough because he suffered from the same kinds of emotional turmoil Jonathan Martin may be suffering from? The two concepts are incongruous. We are guilty of reserving mental toughness for the victors while excluding mental health from the conversation altogether.
Before we further alienate athletes suffering from real, internal battles by stigmatizing them as mentally weak, the culture of sports needs to be enlightened. Only then will the veil of ignorance that shrouds mental health be lifted, making us all "mentally tougher" in the process.