We are an agency specialized in the Us Hispanic market, with more than 14 years of experience working with local and regional brands.
We like to get better, establish processes, create new services, add tools, innovate, invent and add value.
We are an agency that's alive. An agency that learns, changes and grows. We like to work by giving everything, and always asking ourselves what else can be done.
Our projects start by analyzing all aspects related to the client´s market, its target audience and its competitors. We look into the opportunities the client has and how our work can take advantage for its business potential. Our research allows to understand the complexities of its business and how to communicate the brand effectively in achieving its marketing goals. The benchmark of its market´s brand, its consumer behavior and its competitors will provide a plan for our creative division.
Our creativity is the secret of our success. Our creative team has the biggest impact on the results of our campaigns. Our Agency believes in great ideas. We are convinced that great ideas, only with proper strategies and treatments, can have an astronomical reach. We accomplish all this through our Omni-channel experience.
We have a team working in house every day on the most cost effective optimization of our campaigns. They oversee the results and improve their performances in real time utilizing new ads when necessary. Having the paid media team in house allows them to work hand in hand with the social media team in understanding the preferences and interests of our audiences. All this Cooperation between teams gives us the chance to have an effective campaign with fast results.
We were established 15 years ago as a development company working on innovation and best practices to provide our clients with the best user experience. Currently we are developing web and mobile applications for our clients' campaigns with emphasis on the acquisition of relevant data.
Social Media is key to reach our client's audience. We learn what kind of content is best by evaluating the performance of previously received data from the target audience. This data provides excellent information for generating sales leads. This data is only one tool, among many others, that we use to measure and improve our work every month. We evolve along with the evolutions of the Social Media Platforms.
We handle all details of events and activations in a traditional way and also by introducing digital conversion into an expandable experience which can have KPI Measurablebility. This provides the audience with an experience that can be shared across all online platforms.
We look for in each market an appropriate talent that has local, national and international followers. Our research evaluates profiles according to their audience work, their values and their uniqueness. We select all the candidates for the optimal match for each brand. We negotiate contracts and take care to inform them about the guidelines and content of the brand. All this ensures that talent profiles complement the target audiences of our campaign.
We focus on the 360° view of the customer´s touch points from offline in-store interactions to web and mobile apps. Our secret is in the delivering of personalized experiences that turn browser users into shoppers and then into loyal customers. Our main goal is always related to increasing the conversion rate and revenue per user through robust customized recommendations.
We have our own team producing audiovisual content from script to storyboard and then to final production. Our creations can be used alone or in conjunction with other outputs such as radio spots, billboards, print, coupons, POP materials, social media and augmented reality. We have had successful campaigns using our productions with Pepsi, Philips, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, Häagen-Dazs, Fiber One, ESPN, NBC Universal, etc.
Our designers interact with our other departments in the development of final materials which include Key Visuals. They are especially instrumental in the production of POP, Billboards, print, packaging, out of home materials, multimedia productions, etc.
Our main strategy in the business-to-business model is to create valuable experiences having a positive impact on people and their businesses. Creating content designed to address the problems and needs of ideal customers, we attract qualified prospects and build trust and credibility for our clients business.
Our approach differs from conventional public relations. We find topics that are of genuine interest to the media, we develop powerful stories based on directing traffic to our clients' websites, which helps generate more potential customers online. We are a reliable partner in terms of public relations, press, SEO positioning, link building, social media management and online marketing.
Networking and productivity in a single communication tool.
We reached our 14th year with a new image and a more integral approach.
After a long and profound self-examination we are a more strategic agency that develops digital ecosystems based on the users' experiences with brands. It has also helped us generate 360 strategies which extend boundaries to all media and platforms. This rebrand concept originated in the essence of its partners, who describe a living agency that feels, questions, evolves and is constantly growing like a living organism.
Visually, Wiper's logotype changes from rigidity to dynamism with a more living isotype that can become whatever the agency wants it to be. This rebrand represents the name's initial "W", but also the agency's conviction. We seek that bridge between conception and completion.
May has taken up the responsibility of leading our Account team to provide services in Mexico. She is doing this with more than eight years' experience on both sides. She worked as a client and also for an agency. Her goal will be to pass her knowledge by boosting growth and making Wiper expand in Mexico.
Her objective will be to help us build healthy and lasting relationships with clients, giving them all the support and service they may require, and leaning on the executives who currently make up the team.
2018: A Year with Regional-Level Awards.
We had a very positive 2018, with recognition of our clients' most noteworthy productions and presence in awards in Las Vegas, São Paulo and Buenos Aires.
Our campaigns for Philips played a major role: under the concept "Démosle una mejor cara al fútbol argentino" (Let's pretty up the face of Argentine football) and with a spot starring Ponzio and Cubero, the great activity created for Argentina was one of the highlights. At the same time, Mexico received double recognition with two gold awards for "Independencia en tu cara" (Independence in your face).
Also, in Argentina, "Cuotas de felicidad" (Installments of happiness) for Tarjeta Cencosud was crowned twice, both at a national level and for Latin America (with ECHO LATAM 2018).
Internal communication in companies has been growing in importance. This is why we have developed tools that help co-workers work better.
Intrasites brings members of an organization into contact with each other, offering them news, documents, projects, working groups and many other features necessary to make access to information easier. It allows for easy and safe internal communication targeting. It also includes modules intended to digitize processes and create a work and collaboration environment.
Communication, productivity and collaboration: all in one single tool. Learn more at https://www.intrasites.com/ and let the digital transformation of your company start today.
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Stay on a farm near the City of Glasgow and enjoy the beautiful surrounding countryside. Relax in a rural retreat either B&B or self-catering where you will find the very best of Scottish hospitality and wake up to the country.
With a large and varied selection of shops, restaurants, museums and art galleries plus country parks, hills and hidden villages, it's no wonder the region is a top destination for short breaks and holidays.
Wake up to the country in and around Glasgow and experience the best of old and new Scotland, it is also ideally situated for trips to Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Lomond, The Trossachs and the Scottish Borders.
It also has lots of opportunities for walking, cycling, horse riding, golf, fishing and many other outdoor pursuits.


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This section is from the book "Building Construction And Superintendence", by F. E. Kidder. Also available from Amazon: Building Construction And Superintendence.
214. There is such a variety of locks for securing the doors of buildings now manufactured and on sale by hardware dealers, that it will be impossible to describe all of the different patterns, and an attempt will be made to describe only the principal features common to most locks, with the manner in which they work, and some of the special styles of locks with which the architect should be familiar.
Construction and Operation. - In regard to their construction, locks may be classified as "tumbler locks" and "cylinder locks," and as "rim locks" and "mortise locks." Rim and mortise locks, however, differ only in the shape of the case, a rim lock being made to be fastened to the face of the door, while the mortise locks are set into a mortise cut in the stile of the door, the internal construction being the same in both locks.
Tumbler Locks. - Tumbler locks are the common kind of locks operated by an ordinary key, and so called because the security of the lock depends upon tumblers or levers, which must be raised to an exact position before the bolt can be thrown. These locks also differ a great deal in some of their details, and also in the manner in which they are made. Most of the locks in common use have cast iron cases and cast bolts, with only the springs and tumblers of wrought metal, and even the tumblers are of cast iron in some of the cheaper locks. In the very latest patterns of tumbler locks, all of the parts, including the case, are made of wrought metal by means of the drop forge which cuts and stamps the parts to the desired shape, and as these locks merit a special description, they will be described in another section.
The ordinary tumbler lock consists essentially of the following parts: 1. The case, which contains the works, and to which the wards and guides are attached. 2. The bolt. 3. The levers. 4. The catch with its accompanying springs. 5. The hub, and 6 the key. The hub and catch are not a part of the locking apparatus, and many locks have no latch, but they form a very important part of the ordinary house door lock. The knobs and spindle might also be gives as a part of the ordinary lock and latch, as they are necessary to operate the latch.
To enable one to understand the general principles upon which a tumbler lock is constructed, and also the features that effect the quality of a lock, a short description of the various parts and tike-way in which they operate is given,
Fig. 367. - Sargent's. Lock.
The case is usually made of cast iron, left comparatively rough: for motised locks, and finished, usually in japan, for rim locks. A few of the old style or cast locks have cases pressed out of cold rolled steel, but perfectly plain.
The cast case is made in the form of a shallow box, as in Fig. 367, with a flat cover, fastened in place by a screw. The front of the box is usually of a separate piece of brass or bronze metal, secured to the case by lugs and rivets. In the very cheapest locks the face is of iron cast with the case.
Most cases have a post, B, cast with the box part, and also guide for the latch bolt.
Wards. - On the inside of the cover of the case near the keyhole a small projection, W, Fig. 367, is commonly cast, necessitating a corresponding cut in the sides of the key to allow it to turn. This projection is called a ward. In ancient locks the wards were made quite elaborate, and much dependence was placed upon them for the security of the lock. While it is true that wards prevent the use of any ordinary key not made to fit the lock, they do not interfere with the picking of the lock by an experienced lock picker, and in the better grades of locks they are now usually omitted.
Another device to prevent using any but the right key in the lock, often seen on cheap locks, is a projection on the side of the keyhole, as shown in Figs. 367 and 370. The projection requires a corresponding depression in the face of the key, but as ordinarily made, this is no safeguard against burglars, as a thin key can be slipped by the projection, or the projection, being of cast iron, can easily be broken off. A professional lock-picker, however, generally uses pieces of stout wire to operate the lock, and against these wards and keyhole projections are no protection.
The bolt which secures the door is generally made quite heavy where it projects beyond the face plate, but is thinned down inside the lock so as to be as light as possible and to give space for the levers. The general shape of the common cast bolt is shown in Fig. 368. The notch A is where the key catches, the post B is the part which catches in the levers, and the slots C fit over a guide post on the case. Fig. 369 shows the dead bolt of the Vulcan locks with solid bronze head and steel tail piece forged together.
Fig- 368. - Cast Deed Bolt.
Fig. 360. - Dead Bolt and Lever, of the Yale
In all the best grades of cast locks the bolt is of brass or bronze, an iron bolt being too easily broken.
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Must-have official items for every Saniwa that make Touken Ranbu even more fun!
The Part 2 companion book to our Touken Ranbu Kenran Zuroku, a comprehensive official visual guide to the Touken Danshi featured in PC browser and smartphone game "Touken Ranbu," Touken Ranbu Kenran Zuroku II is coming out in summer 2018!
And at the Nitroplus Online Store, we're offering the "Touken Ranbu Kenran Zuroku II" bundled together with the "Touken Ranbu: Index Stickers" as our Touken Ranbu: Summer 2018 Comiket Set!
Will include a total of 26 different Touken Danshi, including Nansen Ichimonji who was introduced in April 2018. Contains images of the Touken Danshi poised for battle and illustrations by Uchiban, as well as a collection of the special-move illustrations rarely seen even in-game. But that's not all, it's packed full of all-new incredibly detailed images that have never been seen before!
Index Stickers, printed with 72 total Touken Danshi, including Nansen Ichimonji, added in April 2018.
Features one horizontal and one vertical design for each character, with a total of 160 stickers to use however you like.
Stickers are made of paper, enabling you to add text with pen or pencil.
Perfect for your planner, notebook, or Touken Ranbu Kenran Zuroku II!
・This product will be available for advanced sale at Comic Market 94, held Aug. 10-12, 2018 at Tokyo Big Site. Please note that your order cannot be cancelled.
・There are plans to offer both the "Touken Ranbu Kenran Zuroku II" and the "Touken Ranbu: Index Stickers" for sale individually at a later date, but no further information is available at this time. Individual sale prices are listed below.
・Please refrain from contacting the Nitroplus Store regarding Comic Market 94 inquiries.
* All orders received during these dates will be honored.
* In the event that pre-order reservations exceed available supply, acceptance of new orders may be temporarily suspended.
Scheduled to ship from (Fri) Aug. 31, 2018. Should unforeseen circumstances cause shipment delay, we ask for your patience and understanding.
Frist available at Comic Market 94.


is slotted for Nov 28 at 8.30pm at Stadium Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur.
The duo's Zuo Lin You Li world tour started in 2003. It was so well-received that the artistes went on their second world tour the following year to overwhelming turnouts. Over 100 concerts were performed ac ross Europe, the US, Canada, Hongkong, Macau, Australia, Singapore, parts of China as well as Malaysia.
entertainment. Their popularity was so remarkable that their concert tour even became a brand name with a comedy movie produced and named after it in 2005.
The Zuo Lin You Li concerts also topped the list as the most number of concerts performed outside of Hongkong. In fact, the last two shows in Kuala Lumpur (in 2003 and 2004) drew over 50,000 fans.
This coming Alan Tam & Hacken Lee Concert Live in Malaysia 2009 is part of their 2009 world tour after Hongkong and the US. The tour started beginning this year with a total of 13 consecutive sellout shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum.
Tam and Lee are the perfect match, always bringing on stage great surprises and promise to their fans of an enjoyableconcert experience.
The concert is a mega production with a stunning stage design from audio and visual effects to creative dance choreography, costumes and lots of interaction with the artistes.
Their repertoire of countless greatest hits promises to turn the concert into a mass karaoke session!
In addition, a contest car sticker will be given away for every ticket bought, and if their cars are spotted with the stickers, customers will stand a chance to win a RM5,000 cash prize. A series of limited-edition windbreakers are also up for grabs with every purchase of RM500 and above (full price).
Tickets for the show are priced at RM423, RM323, RM263, RM193, RM143 (numbered seating) and RM93 (free seating). For details, call 03-9223 3667 or log on to http://www.starplanet.com.my.


Pick Strawberries in Northern Japan!
Large in size, juicy, and sweet. Strawberries grown and cultivated in Japan's northern region of Tohoku are some of the most delicious strawberries in the world. Strawberry farms are located throughout the area, so visitors can enjoy picking this fruit themselves in every prefecture in Tohoku. Enjoying half an hour or one hour of picking strawberries is the perfect activity and is sure to create lasting memories.
Many farms in Tohoku offer strawberry picking from January to May. However, some farms also cultivate a summer and fall strawberry, offering visitors a chance to enjoy picking this delicious fruit all year long.
Strawberries started being grown in Japan over 100 years ago. Farmers throughout the country have continously tried to cultivate exquisite strawberries.
Out of all the different types of delicious strawberries, Tohoku produces the popular Tochi Otome, Beni Hoppe, Akihime, and Mo-ikko varieties.
The Tochi Otome strawberry, popular in eastern Japan, has a nice sweetness and acidity. It is in season from November to June.
The vivid red Beni Hoppe variety is a large strawberry known for its perfect balance of sweetness and sourness. Its season is from January to June.
Akihime strawberries are long and conical in shape. They are particularly soft and contain a lot of juice. They are harvested from December through May.
The Mo-ikko variety is originally from Tohoku in Miyagi Prefecture. It features a delicious blend of sugariness and tartness and has a nice texture. These strawberries are in season from January through April.
Many farms in Tohoku allow visitors to taste these different types of strawberries. Find the strawberry you like the best!
When picking strawberries, look for ones with a shine and a uniform color. The best-tasting strawberries will be covered in seeds and have a green stem and leaves.
When eating strawberries, start from the top of the strawberry after removing the stem and leaves. The top and bottom of the strawberry contain the most sugar, so starting from the top allows you to enjoy the sweetness the entire time.
Strawberry desserts, snacks, and even wine, can be bought at many farms in Tohoku. After having fun strawberry picking, be sure to browse for gifts and souvenirs.


Every year Michelle does something amazing to help raise funds for Cancer Research. She does this in special memory of her mother, champion line dancer Irene Kiener, and the friends she has who have been afflicted or affected by this dreadful disease. I am, personally, full of admiration for her ......... her courage in tackling these daunting tasks matches that shown by her amazing mother during her long battle with Cancer.
And man, it was not easy. Especially the run, which is normally my favorite part. I already knew on the bike that I didn't feel in great shape, and that was confirmed when I started the run. My left knee grumbled all the way around the 10K, with my mind only taken off it by how bad my stomache felt. None of which was helped by how hot it was by the time it came to run. And there was no shade to be had running around the dock. The swim, well, I plodded my way through the swim which meant I had it all to do on the bike and the run. But the most important thing was that I survived the swim, which for someone who couldn't even swim 25m in January, well I'm happy with that. What's it like swimming in the docks? Cold (although no one else agreed with me on that one!), salty and it tastes of petrol, yuck!
And yes, I am quite sore. Watching me tackle stairs is pretty entertaining for everyone else right now. Don't laugh guys - carry me! It's still not as hard as fighting cancer though I reckon. It was tough, but I only had to fight for 3 hours or so, not days, weeks or years like many cancer patients. If you haven't sponsored me yet, please dig deep and give what you can to beat this horrible disease. And HUGE thanks again to those who have already sponsored. You are all stars and knowing how much was riding on it on the day helped to keep me going.
The continuing work of Cancer Research is so very important. I really did dig deep, train hard and push myself to complete the London triathlon. So I'm asking you again to dig deep for this tireless charity and to sponsor me online if you haven't already. If we meet my target of �575.00 we will have raised �.00 for every 100m I covered.


This is a new irregular feature here at The Genealogue. Let's define a "genealogy hack" as a tip or trick that solves a specific problem and increases one's productivity as a genealogist, whether online or out in the real world.
Here's an easy way to get around this limitation. Left-click on the manifest, and then use this keyboard shortcut: Shift + F10. When the menu pops up, select "Bookmark This Page" (in Firefox) or "Add to Favorites" (in IE).
Click Save As, and give the image a name that ends in .gif.
Chris, This is a good "hack." Thanks. I've been using a capture program (FastStone Capture available for free!) to grab those images that were too good not to bookmark/save. I'll try your suggestion. THANKS!
This is the easiest method I've found that doesn't require downloading additional software or Firefox extensions.
Anyone else have a trick to grab these images?


Follicular lymphoma info linking latest research on epigenetics to lifestyle. Vit. D, exercise, sleep, stress, nutrition/diet. Regression. Transformation. Jul 22, 2015 Venture capital firm backing exceptional entrepreneurs. Offices in Boston, NYC & Palo Alto. Follow us: https://twitter.com/gcvp. Jul 22, 2015. Milk thistle and liver cancer. I have heard that milk thistle is good for your liver. Would this help someone who has cancer affecting their liver. Не, все равно выходят вот такие крякозябры Но это, видимо, проблемы моих компов, потому что.
By the year 2015, the population of age >65 years is predicted to rise by 22%, and of R-GCVP seems to be well-tolerated treatment for patients with DLBCL for. Loading gcvp's tweets. General Catalyst . Ask a VC Boston: 20+ Investors and You! on Apr 10, 2015 . Awarded at: 3rd Annual NEVY Awards Jun 18, 2015 Venture capital firm backing exceptional entrepreneurs. Offices in Boston, NYC & Palo Alto. Follow us: https://twitter.com/gcvp. Jun 18, 2015. На сайте Народного банка размещена еще одна программа для формирования списка пенсионных. The Global Campaign for Violence Prevention (GCVP) aims to implement the recommendations of the WHO World report on violence and October. This section tells you about the basics of chemotherapy treatment - what chemotherapy is, how chemotherapy drugs work and where you have treatment. Sep 2015. Review: 2016. Version. 1.6. R-GCVP. INDICATION. CD20-positive high-grade non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in patients in which R-CHOP is not indicated. Jan 2, 2015 2015 Mar;81(6):1932-41. doi: 10.1128/AEM.03494-14. (adiA), and in gcvP ( glycine decarboxylase), a possible acid stress component. Aug 29, 2006 Abstract. Genetic counseling is conceptualized as having both "teaching" and " counseling" functions; however, little is known about how these.
Read and comment on the latest Young Oncologists Journal Club article on hematologic malignancies. Dec 17, 2015 Venture capital firm backing exceptional entrepreneurs. Offices in Boston, NYC & Palo Alto. Follow us: https://twitter.com/gcvp. Dec 17, 2015.


"The tug of war between reason and faith is the undercurrent of our society in what some see as a fundamentalist era," Bill Moyers has said. "It's an ancient conflict, a long-running argument, but with all the fear, violence, and intolerance that grip our times, we have to come to terms with the fact that it must be reason and faith, not reason versus faith. Otherwise, we would tear our society apart." This is a world in which the two principles must co-exist if we're to survive and so we present here a number of stories, commentaries and conversations in which some of our most creative and provocative activists and leaders wrestle with issues spiritual, secular – and sometimes both.
The Buddhist nun offers strategies for living in a chaotic world.
Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bill about ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith. Watch the preview.
In part two of their conversation, Bill talks with the astrophysicist about the nature of our mysterious universe and whether faith and science can be reconciled.
Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms.
The historian explains how a fascination with America led curiosity-driven Europeans to move beyond church dogma in the pursuit of knowledge that reshaped their understanding of the world.
Moved by the plight of the poor and unemployed, Pope Francis decries a global economy that "does us so much harm." In this essay, Bill Moyers reflects on our broken economy.
Susan Jacoby talks with Bill about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity have played throughout America's history.
19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin talks about fighting the creep of creationist curricula in public school science classes and publicly-funded vouchers.
Does the former Christian Coalition leader's resurgence signal a new revolution or an old racket?
Bill invites Sister Simone Campbell and Robert Royal to discuss faith, politics and the Ryan budget.


Items where Author is "Kärrberg, Patrik"
Young, Jamie, Kärrberg, Patrik and Liebenau, Jonathan (2010) Technology in a cold climate: intelligent public services and an interconnected innovative and sustainable society. . RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), London, UK.
Liebenau, Jonathan and Kärrberg, Patrik (2009) Enterprise efficiency in the use of ICT in China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan & the USA: first interim report on LSE-Dell research. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Kärrberg, Patrik and Liebenau, Jonathan (2007) Mobile service delivery business models in Europe and Japan: the shift from 'wherever and whenever' to 'right here and now'. In: Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium, 2007-09-03 - 2007-09-07.
Kärrberg, Patrik (2007) Information systems innovation: definitions, comparative contexts, and cognitive models. In: L.A. Global Mobility Roundtable 2007, 2007-06-01 - 2007-06-02.
Kärrberg, Patrik and Liebenau, Jonathan (2006) IT and telecoms convergence: mobile service delivery in the EU and Japan. In: Helsinki Global Mobility Roundtable 2006 (GMR 06), 2006-06-01 - 2006-06-02.
Liebenau, Jonathan and Kärrberg, Patrik (2013) Economics of the cloud: employment effects in two exemplary sectors in the USA, the UK, Germany and Italy. Network Economy Forum (26 Feb 2013). Blog Entry.
Kärrberg, Patrik, Liebenau, Jonathan and Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia (2013) European Internet traffic: indicator of growth and competition in digital services – a summary. Network Economy Forum (26 Feb 2013). Blog Entry.
Liebenau, Jonathan, Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia and Kärrberg, Patrik (2013) The rise of digital services poses new challenges for Europe's telecom operators and their regulators. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (15 Jan 2013). Blog Entry.
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The Fine Line: Brand Activism or Wokewashing?
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Brands are becoming more culturally and socially aware and active. And that's a brilliant thing. If we can make the capitalist system work for people who face discrimination and hardship, and our planet, all the better.
At its core, aligning a brand's marketing with customer values is a good idea. It can deliver true loyalty and increase the value of what our businesses sell. As a marketing strategy, it's robust. And it's taken a long time for marketers to respond to the trend. But recently, it's gathered pace at an infathomable rate.
The problem is that companies are battling to be the most culturally aware, promoting the trending cause and clamouring for attention without really understanding or contributing to those causes. In fact, often this faux activism does genuine damage to the cause.
It's been labelled "wokewashing" – adopting progressive values for profit.
Wokewashing threatens to undermine the efforts of brands genuinely trying to make a positive impact. Unilever CEO Alan Jope has warned that woke-washing is "infecting" marketing, "polluting purpose" and "destroying trust".
Wokewashing in action
The rainbow flag is a symbol of LGBTQIA+ pride. But appropriating this symbol of activism to help sell products is not only an insult to those who belong to groups who face discrimination in our cisheteronormative world, and those who have campaigned and even faced death to fight for freedom and justice, but also a barrier to progress as ill-informed brands take attention away from the meaning and movement behind the symbols they plaster on their products.
Meanwhile, it erodes the public's trust in advertising, diminishing trust even in companies which are genuinely invested in social progress.
Commodifying movements is happening everywhere. Always, who make period products, have created a parallel between empowerment and their products for years.
In an ad which attracted one of the biggest backlashes of 2020, Pepsi tried to capitalise upon the #BlackLivesMatter movement by portraying influencer Kendall Jenner as an activist who cut short a modelling shoot to bring unity and peace to a protest by handing out cans of Pepsi to the police – trivialising, as they did so, the protests.
The difficult questions for marketers are these: when does using a symbol like this become appropriation? And how can we stay aligned with a purpose without detracting from a cause?
1. Authentic purpose
Purpose is crucial. Today, consumers expect brands to be socially and environmentally responsible and this expectation is increasing all the time. And they are right to do so. Consumer pressure forces businesses to do better all the time, from M&S recently withdrawing non-recyclable black plastic packaging which they used only to imply luxury, to B&Q transitioning thousands of their products to comply as Forest Friendly.
Unfortunately – and unsurprisingly – consumer trust in brands who communicate purpose is down. And that's largely because there is a mounting perception that brands lack authenticity when communicating their purpose.
Wokewashing is wrong. It damages causes, it cheapens and damages our brands and it calls into question the work of other brands which are genuinely making a positive impact through authentic purpose-driven marketing.
But it's entirely possible to do purpose-driven marketing in an authentic way, which contributes positively to causes, boosts the brand we represent and makes a positive impact on the industry we're part of.
2. Values first
Purpose has to come from the heart, and that means it can't just come from our marketing departments. Everyone at the business needs to rally around the same purpose, the same set of values.
If there's a shared sense of purpose but it isn't enshrined in a set of values, that's where this needs to start. Our leadership teams need to settle on and endorse values which allow the business to align with social causes in an authentic way.
For example, a mismatch between the words that are used to the outside world and the actions of the business leaders will only lead to enduring corrosion of consumer trust.
Those values can then filter freely throughout the business, from the resource it allocates to supporting social or environmental change to the marketing messages it uses, eventually filtering out into the world in a way that – hopefully – is symbiotic.
Want to see purpose done right? Check out Patagonia's activism.
3. Get educated
In almost all cases, we cannot meaningfully contribute to a cause if we have made no effort to understand it.
If our organisations said #BlackLivesMatter, but didn't encourage our teams to donate, read resources or follow activists to help them become actively anti-racist, our organisation didn't dismantle white supremacy. It contributed to racism.
If our organisations said #MeToo, but is complicit in covering up or gaslighting sexual harrassment, our organisation didn't protect people from gender-based harm. It contributed to upholding patriarchy and is anti-#MeToo.
Instead, we should always start by asking "what are we doing to to educate ourselves about this issue?"
In an age where the most richly populated resource for knowledge about all things is available to almost everybody in marketing and management, there is no excuse not to research issues. Don't know where to start? Start somewhere. Anywhere. Not educating ourselves because we don't know where to start is a privilege.
If we're leading organisations and want purpose-based marketing, but we won't educate ourselves about the very social issues we want our marketers to appropriate, what we are doing is wrong and damaging.
4. Actions over words
People want brands to take action.
They want brands to stop making money by exploiting low-paid workers and start guaranteeing the real living wage. They want brands to stop polluting our environment with toxic chemicals and start cleaning their supply chain and investing in organic, low-carbon resources. They want brands to stop silencing whistleblowers of institutionalised racism and sexism, and enact zero tolerance policies that protect black lives, trans folks and women's bodies.
Words in an ad campaign aren't enough. Plastering symbols on packaging aren't enough. Saying words without taking action is an empty gesture which insults the public and is an affront to those affected by the issues being appropriated by the campaign, as well as those campaigning for change.
Is there ever a reason why we would associate our contributions to a movement to a particular product in our lines? I believe delineating our activism and products is the right thing to do. Activism shouldn't be product-bound. it should filter through everything our businesses do.
If we believe what we're doing is right, we shouldn't wait for others to move first. Why would we? We should be the change we want to see. And remember, if we don't move first, we might risk appearing desperate by copying our competitors.
5. Be consistent
Purpose-driven marketing is only justifiable if the work we have done to align our organisational values with social justice or environmental issues and the organisation's marketing efforts if it's genuinely engrained into a long-term strategy.
This means that jumping on a bandwagon to seek attention will not only backfire, but it will damage causes by taking attention away from the voices that really matter and need to be amplified.
But symbiotic success can arise if we enable our organisations to contribute to social change or environmental protection consistently over a period of time, boosting consumer trust, helping our businesses thrive and making a difference in causes that matter to us.
Solidarity, celebration and support done right
Slapping a pride flag on a pack of sandwiches like M&S did isn't sensitive or helpful. Hailing our brands' "green" future without any plan of action towards reducing the carbon footprint is dishonest.
But I believe showing solidarity or celebrating people affected by a cause by, for example, wearing pride colours on our brand logos – or whatever it might be – can be done tastefully.
But I also believe that the litmus test for doing so tastefully and authentically is taking well-informed, sustained positive action which supports the cause in question.
Adopting and thoughtfully applying progressive values for environmental protection, social justice or social progress should be applauded. I've outlined a few of my thoughts on five things we, as managers or marketers, should do to ensure that our motivation is authentic and properly thought out so that it genuinely has the positive impact we're telling the world we're having. Profit and positive social and environmental action can and should go hand in hand. But when the former is prioritised over the latter, we may reap the immediate rewards but rue the damage to our brand, and even our market niche, in the mid to long term – not to mention our personal, professional and organisational integrity.
Conversely, by truly understanding the causes we want to support and taking a holistic, sustained and thoughtful approach to brand activism, we can genuinely contribute positively to those causes and further our brand while we do so.
This is very much an open and evolving conversation, and, as a marketer myself, I know I don't always get things right. It's part of the reason I wanted to write this, to flesh out my ideas and record what I've learned so far on what it means to do activism right when representing a brand.
I would love to hear your thoughts or corrections. Please let me know what you think on Twitter!
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On Friday evening there was a fatal pedestrian accident in Chicago and police are asking for help in finding a hit and run driver. The Chicago Breaking News Center is reporting that the van vs. Chicago pedestrian accident occurred in the Calumet Heights neighborhood around 9:15 p.m.
A 24 year old pedestrian was hit crossing the street at 9100 S. Stony Island. The driver that hit him fled the scene in a red or burgundy Chevy conversion van that has a gray stripe on the side of it. The driver is reportedly an African American male in his 20s.
The pedestrian victim, who was a Chicago resident, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead a short time later.
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Earth is a vibrant, lush planet that's bustling with life, but if you're far, far away — enough that the planet just looks like a tiny blue dot — would you be able to tell if there's was life on Earth at all? Yes, it turns out, but identifying life on a distant planet outside of our solar system is tricky, and requires careful detection of some very subtle biosignatures.
"Life's impact — for us to be able to see it over very long distances — is going to have to be on a global scale," Victoria Meadows from the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute explained during a presentation on Monday.
Meadows, who was speaking at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's two-day workshop, "Searching for Life Across Space and Time," explained that researchers could determine if there was life on a distant planet by looking for certain clues in the environment as a whole that were probably caused by organic life.
Such "disturbances," as Meadows called them in a subtle nod to Star Wars, can include an abundance of gas that seems more likely to have originated from organic life rather than a planetary or geologic source. Other possible biosignatures could include color abnormalities caused photosynthesis, seasonal temperature changes, and a large elemental disequilibrium suggesting an "active source" of the prolific element.
"How do we recognize the effects of life on an extrasolar planet, and how do we discriminate life processes from the rest of the environment?" she asked, noting that there are ways that a planet could have an eyebrow-raising amount of oxygen in its atmosphere that don't involve life, like photochemical reactions caused by light from nearby stars.
An alien emits a gas into the atmosphere.
A good biosignature — one that might reasonably provide evidence of life — has three requirements. The first is reliability. That's essentially the main question: can life create this signature in the first place, and is it more likely to have originated from organic life than from a planetary or geologic source? The second is survivability — does the biosignature get a chance to linger, or is it destroyed or consumed by other planetary processes? Finally, there's detectability — does the sign build up to the point where us far-off humans would be able to notice it?
As scientists identify more potential biosignatures they can be on the lookout for, the greater likelihood that they might find something. Oxygen is an excellent (but not foolproof) biosignature, but Meadows says researchers can look to Earth's current environment or its past for other gasses that fit the bill.
There's more to searching for biosignatures than just looking for life, Meadows added. If scientists aren't taking the possibility of life into consideration when they study a planet, they might not be equipped to fully understand the environment.
"If we just suppose that the planet is sterile, we might not be able to interpret it correctly," she said.


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Cuore è il nono album di Antonello Venditti, pubblicato nel 1984. Si tratta del secondo lavoro uscito per la Heinz Music, ristampato su CD dalla stessa casa discografica agli inizi degli anni novanta.

Il 33 giri, i cui testi e le musiche sono dello stesso Venditti, contiene alcuni brani che affrontano temi politici, come Qui e L'ottimista, mentre a partire dal disco successivo questa tendenza andrà scemando.

Dall'album fu tratto il 45 giri Ci vorrebbe un amico/Notte prima degli esami.

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Formazione
 Antonello Venditti – voce, pianoforte
 Alessandro Centofanti – pianoforte, sintetizzatore
 Fabio Pignatelli – basso
 Derek Wilson – batteria, programmazione, batteria elettronica
 Renato Bartolini – chitarra elettrica, chitarra acustica
 Marco Colucci – pianoforte, sintetizzatore
 Claudio Prosperini – chitarra elettrica
 Marco Rinalduzzi – chitarra elettrica
 Mario Schilirò – chitarra elettrica
 Roberto Giuliani – pianoforte, sintetizzatore
 Fratelli Balestra – cori

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Classifiche settimanali

Classifiche di fine anno

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Album al numero uno in Italia


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Home biography Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy Biography
Facts of Andrew McCarthy
1962 , November-29
Birth Nation:
Andrew Thomas McCarthy
Gene Garlin
Carole Garlin
Film, television, stand-up
Married to
Dolores Rice (m. 2011), Carol Schneider (m. 1999–2005)
Working For
Justin McCarthy
Special Title
Affair with
Ariana Grande,Ashley Argota (2009-2010)
Jasmine Richards (2005-2008),
Warpaint (2004 – 2008)
Curbing It
Quick Timeline of Andrew McCarthy
1962 Born in Westfield, New Jersey
1983 Began his acting career
1985 Made his Broadway debut in The Boys of Winter
1989 Appeared in the movie, Weekend at Bernie's
1999 Married to Carol Schneider
2002 First child, Sam McCarthy
2005 Divorced with Carol Schneider
2006 Began dating Dolores Rice
2006 Second child, Willow McCarthy
2011 Married to Dolores Rice
2005 Won Sedona International Film Festival
1987 Won Fantafestival
2012 Published his first book, The Longest Way Home
1974 Became alcohol addict
Detail Timeline of Andrew McCarthy
November 29 , 1962
Born in Westfield, New Jersey
Andrew was born as Andrew Thomas McCarthy in Westfield, New Jersey, United States of America in upper class family. He is an American and is of white ethnicity. He is five feet and nine inches tall.
Began his acting career
He began his acting career since 1983. He made his acting debut by starring the role of Jonathan Ogner in the movie, Class. Two years later, he appeared in the movies like Heaven Help Us, St. Elmo's Fire and The Beniker Gang.
Made his Broadway debut in The Boys of Winter
After appearing in several movies hit movies in 1985, he also made his Broadway debut that year. He appeared in the Broadway, The Boys of Winter. Then in 1986, he portrayed the role of Edwin in the TV series, Amazing Stories.
Appeared in the movie, Weekend at Bernie's
He got his rise in fame after her appeared in his debut movie Class. His fame as an actor kisses the pinnacle after he starred the role of Larry Wilson in the 1989 movie, Weekend at Bernie's.
Married to Carol Schneider
After having romantic love affairs with his college sweet heart Carol Schneider, Andrew got married to her on 9th of October 1999. Carol Schneider is also an actress. As a married couple, they also became parents once.
First child, Sam McCarthy
He became father for the first time in his life in 2002. He and his ex wife, Carol Schneider welcomed their first child together after being married for about three years. Carol Schneider gave birth to a son that year and they named him Sam McCarthy.
December 19 , 2005
Divorced with Carol Schneider
He got married to Carol Schneide in 1999. As a married couple, they welcomed their only child together in 2002. But this sweet married life didn't last that long as their love life, they got divorced on 19th of December 2005.
Began dating Dolores Rice
It seems like Andrew's extra affairs with Dolores Rice was the main reason that dissolved his first married life. Soon after his divorce, he began dating her. As a loving couple they also welcomed their first child together in 2006.
Second child, Willow McCarthy
He became father for the second time in his life in 2006. He and his loving partner, Dolores Rice welcomed their first child together that year and that time it was a baby girl and they named her Willow McCarthy.
August 28 , 2011
Married to Dolores Rice
After having romantic love affairs for several years, they decided to enter into the new stage of their love life and they got engaged in 2011. They finally got married on 28th of August 2011. At the end of 2013, the couple announced that they were expecting their third child together.
Won Sedona International Film Festival
In 2005 for starring his role in the short movie, he got his one and only nomination in Sedona International Film Festival. He was kind of lucky that year as he won this award for Best Short Film.
Won Fantafestival
Till now he has been nominated in lots of prestigious awards and he has also won several of them. In 1987, he got nominated in Fantafestival for the first time in his life. He was also honored with this award that year.
Published his first book, The Longest Way Home
Besides acting, Andrew is also a well known travel writer. He also works as an editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine. As an author, he published his first book, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down in 2012.
Became alcohol addict
When he was just 12 years old, he took the first taste of alcohol. As he grew up, he became more addicted towards alcohol. However, in 1992 he took a detoxification program and has been sober since then. He revealed this thing in 2004.
After having romantic love affairs with his college sweet heart Carol Schneider, Andrew got married to her on 9th of October 1999. Carol Schneider is also an actress. As a married couple, they welcomed their only child together in 2002. But this sweet married life didn't last that long as their love life, they got divorced on 19th of December 2005.
It seems like Andrew's extra affairs with Dolores Rice was the main reason that dissolved his first married life. Soon after his divorce, he began dating her and they also got married on 28th of August 2011.
Though Andrew was born in Westfield, he grew up in Bernardsville. There he attended Pingry School. He was also enrolled at Bernards High School for about a year. He began his acting career since 1983. He made his acting debut by starring the role of Jonathan Ogner in the movie, Class. Two years later, he appeared in the movies like Heaven Help Us, St. Elmo's Fire and The Beniker Gang. Then in 1986, he portrayed the role of Edwin in the TV series, Amazing Stories. His net worth is said to be around $10 million dollars.
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Two potentially contentious issues regarding this new recording are frankly addressed by Aapo Häkkinen in the notes: the use of a harpsichord with 16′ stop – a copy of an instrument from 1760 – and the employment of organ continuo. A later note even admits that the date painted on the Hass original, 1710, is a forgery, presumably committed by someone who wanted to convince everyone that JSB would have used such an instrument; the instrument actually post-dates Bach's death.
The weight of evidence adduced for instruments with 16′ tone seems conclusive, though I can't pretend to scholarly knowledge in the matter and I generally dislike bottom-heavy sound in Bach's keyboard music for harpsichord or organ. In the matter of the use of organ continuo the evidence seems less convincing: the best that Häkkinen can claim is that 'it does not seem too far-fetched'.
I look forward to the rest of this series – at least, I assume that 'Volume 1' contains the promise of more to come – but with rather less enthusiasm than to the next volume of Matthew Halls' series on Linn (Volume 1, CKD410 – see review: Recording of the Month – and review). Where that recording overlap with Häkkinen's, in BWV1052, my preference is marginally for Halls. The Linn is also available in SACD and Studio Master download formats.


The chief of the Wahgoshig First Nation, near Timmins, Ontario, has banned the Timmins and District Children's Aid Society and provincial youth workers from entering the reserve.
"Wahgoshig First Nation issued a statement Friday announcing its intention to restrict Child and Family Services of Timmins and District, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services and "any other representatives from the Ministry from entering the First Nation Territory or Wahgoshig First Nation for the purpose of performing business related to the provincial legislation known as the Child and Family Services Act."
Chief Babin accuses the outsiders of kidnapping their children and making money off them. Members of the community say the children are taken from their community, and are raised by non-Natives. The Nishnawbe Aski Nation supports the Wahgoshig community's decision to lock out the workers.
On CTV news Richard Lambert-Belanger, Executive Director Child and Family Services in Timmins said the allegations are not true and children have never been used to make money.
The Wahgoshing community believe the best solution is keeping Native children at home.


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MUMBAI: Global IT and BPO services major Patni Computer Systems (Patni), on Tuesday said it has appointed Steve Correa as chief human resources officer.
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Rockets midseason evaluation: Discussing the growth of Kevin Porter Jr., Jalen Green and rest of Houston's young roster
By Kelly Iko and Sam Vecenie
It's been an uphill climb for the Rockets this season. Just past the halfway point of the season, the Rockets are 11-31 and have lost three straight, the latest a 111-91 decision at home to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Houston once was 1-15, then rallied late November and early December with a seven-game win streak. Since then, the Rockets have won only three of 19 games.
The Athletic's Kelly Iko teamed up with colleague Sam Vecenie to discuss the first half of the season, evaluating Houston's young players and their development, plus more.
Kelly Iko: What's up, Sam? Happy New Year! Hope you've been well.
We're essentially at the halfway point of the NBA season. That's still not a whole lot of data if you're looking at a rebuild on the macro level, but it's enough of a sample size to begin to form some opinions, establish trends, etc. Jalen Green is the most important right now, but he's not the only young Rocket trying to develop this season. What have you seen from Houston and their rookies so far?
Sam Vecenie: Great to hear from you, and that's a great question, Kelly. Think the Rockets' rookies are a complicated evaluation in large part due to context. And before answering about the rookies, I do want to at least lay out why that's been the case.
The team was basically a disaster coming out to start the season. As Rockets fans will remind you at every turn when you try to evaluate their rookies, the team played a ton of two-big looks through the first quarter of the season with Christian Wood and Daniel Theis. That led to spacing issues and a dumpster-fire offense. The Theis signing was meant to bring stability on defense, and that just hasn't happened to the extent that the team hoped. While the Rockets' defense is better with Theis on the court, it doesn't outweigh the mess the offensive spacing brings. It also doesn't help that Wood's effort level hasn't been consistent throughout the year on defense while he's slumped a bit on offense. The key with Wood is the offense far exceeding the defense, and because that hasn't happened, he's been something of a net negative out there. All of this leads to a team that is 29th in defense on a per-possession basis.
On top of that, I don't really love the Kevin Porter Jr. experience on offense in terms of being a developmental tool for the rookies, specifically. While Porter himself is seen as a developmental piece for the Rockets — and I think it's reasonable to get him game time and experience to work through his flaws — I don't think he makes life easy on the other Rockets youngsters. His mix with Jalen Green hasn't been particularly good because, while Porter is a capable passer, they're both much more comfortable looking to score. That leads to a lot of over-dribbling and things kind of happening on Porter's terms out there. Right now, he's not efficient enough as a player in terms of his decision-making to make his teammates better. He's a walking turnover, as he has the second-highest turnover rate in the NBA among the 220 players to have played at least 600 minutes so far this season. On top of that, he has a 47.0 true-shooting percentage that is eighth-worst among all of those 220 players. Genuinely, I'm not sure there is a player in the NBA who has been more harmful to his team's bottom line in terms of playing positive offensive basketball than Porter this season. The team is 26th in offensive efficiency over the full season, and I think Porter and the early-season spacing are the prime reasons why.
Things changed around the quarter mark of the season, as they dumped that specific two-big look. The only problem? In the game where they changed the starting lineup, Jalen Green got hurt. While Green was hurt, Garrison Mathews entered the starting lineup, and his ability to space the floor was critical in helping them take a leap on offense and win some games in the second quarter of the season. The team also started to feature more Armoni Brooks, who despite only hitting 32 percent from 3 so far this season gets treated as a shooter by defenses and helps to at least get bodies out of the paint. The team won eight of 10 games during that little stretch and looked like they'd at least be frisky for opposing teams.
Alas, that was short-lived. They've lost 10 out of their last 11 games, with Green finally coming back for the last eight — giving them a reasonable facsimile of what Rockets fans could have seen in an ideal world, lineup-wise, to start the year. In those eight games with Green back, they've won once — on a buzzer-beater from Porter in Washington — and haven't really even played all that many close games.
In all, the team is 11-31. In the preseason, I got a lot of flack from Rockets fans for saying that I thought the team's Las Vegas over/under win total of 27.5 was the best price on the market, with the under being a clear bet. I thought the number should have been closer to 20.5. We're halfway through the season, and the team largely looks like I thought it would: horrible on defense and inefficient on offense while it develops young players.
OK, I think that helps to set the table here before we start the actual evaluations. Does all of that sound right to you, Kelly?
Iko: The Porter-at-point conversation is one that's going to be an all-season thing, at least from what I perceive the national perspective to be (our John Hollinger had similar sentiments).
Personally, I still don't think there have been enough games to make definitive calls on the experiment. I've seen games where he's looked uncomfortable just like I've seen games where he's looked poised and mature on the ball. I think for young players, especially ones like Porter, you'll have those peaks and troughs. The turnovers have been high, but I really think their spacing affected decision-making more than what advanced stats can tell us. He's up to 5.8 assists and 2.3 turnovers per game in the new year — an improvement from the 5.3 turnovers in the first month. I'm not saying he has to be Chris Paul in Year 4 of the rebuild, but if he's giving out 6-7 assists and can keep the turnovers reasonable — and Green's playmaking improves — they might be OK. Maybe it's just me, but the Rockets looking bad has had a spillover effect on all parties involved. Porter's scoring is down, which tends to make other parts of his game — confidence, decision-making, shot selection — amplified. His ejection during last night's blowout loss to Philly says that internal frustration.
Let's get to your evaluations, though!
Vecenie: Yeah, and let me be clear: I think it's completely reasonable for the Rockets to continue with the experiment of Porter at the point. Again, the team is bad, they should be trying to get their talented players with future upside as much game time as possible. They shouldn't abandon him. I just also think it's worth acknowledging that Porter has been really ineffective thus far in the time he's gotten. Because of that, I'd probably experiment at times with Green getting even more reps with other guys at the lead spot just to see what works and what doesn't. But the key for Porter really is the shooting and decision-making, and that stuff seems fixable. The gifts he has — the herky-jerky ability to create separation, the innate creativity he has in his game off the bounce — are things you can't teach and are translatable to the NBA. He just needs to fix the final product. Whether or not that happens is up to him and his work ethic.
Iko: With Porter and Green, I really think Houston should stagger them more rigorously to really see how they operate alone, much like the team did with James Harden and CP3.
Vecenie: In terms of evaluating the rookies, you mentioned Green first, so let's start there. I don't think Green has been an effective NBA player thus far, but I also don't really care because the Rockets are bad, and the contextual matters laid out above are real hindrances. The flashes have been there. I think that it's two separate things — saying that Green has been an ineffective NBA player as a rookie and saying that he's a bust. I absolutely, unequivocally still believe in Green long-term for reasons I'll lay out as I write this.
But let's explain why I don't think he's been an impactful NBA player in the first half of his season. First, I don't love his shot selection and general decision-making, which isn't all that surprising for a teenager playing at the NBA level who has been given all of the freedom in the world. I don't think he's a good enough shooter or quite polished enough with his footwork at this stage of his development to take some of the shots he takes. He seems to get sped up and misses a lot of shots at the rim even after he's turned the corner. That leads to some real inefficiency. That's why we see some of the inconsistency we've seen from him so far. When he's feeling it and the shot is falling, great! When he's not, it looks bad. On top of that, I also don't think he's a particularly effective passer yet, missing reads pretty regularly that are open to his teammates. These are the kind of things that lead to losses and poor offense.
The bigger problems come on defense, though. I think he's been pretty horrible on that end. He misses rotations and doesn't seem to really see what's happening out there. His recognition and awareness are bad. I don't think he navigates screens well because he's skinny and seems to have not been taught all that much about how to technically get around screens and play in screen coverages. Again, Houston is a pretty abysmal defensive team as it is, and I think that makes it even harder on him. I'm not at the games like you are, and maybe you could speak better to this, but the communication seems questionable to me just given the lack of cohesion. Wood's effort has been hit or miss. Alperen Sengun isn't good on that end despite the deflections. I know there has been a narrative that Porter has been better on defense, and I think his effort on the ball and getting around screens certainly has improved. But his off-ball lapses often end up being pretty crippling. I think the only two guys I would say I feel confident with on defense are Eric Gordon and Jae'Sean Tate. But again, that lack of recognition from Green has been really poor.
Here's the good news, though: All of Green's flaws to this point? They're totally fixable with experience and work! I think, as a scouting community, we often underestimate the ability of shooters who are already good when they enter the league to get even better. It's not just projecting "which non-shooters have a chance to get to passable, or which passable shooters could reach above average?" Guys who are good shooters entering the league, like Green, also get better. The problem for Green right now is that it's almost impossible to make a living in the NBA taking the quality of shot that he takes. You have to not just be a good shooter, but an utterly elite one. As Green gets this rookie experience and takes it into the lab with him this offseason, and goes from being 19 years old to 20, and from 20 years old to 24, he's going to drastically improve. The elite athletic tools aren't changing, barring injury. But his polish and skill level will.
It's why we see many of the elite-level wing/guard creators across the NBA struggle with efficiency a bit in their rookie seasons. Zach LaVine was similar. Devin Booker was similar. Anthony Edwards last year was similar. And it's a similar boat with all of those guys as passers, too. As they become more effective scoring weapons and defenses have to pay even more attention to them, passes to teammates open up even more. On top of that, they get more comfortable with the speed of the game. How much he improves on the defensive end will be wholly dependent upon how much effort he improves to learning about the reads on that end, because he has every athletic tool to be fine. I'd even argue that all of Edwards, Booker, and LaVine have improved within the last year on that end, and they're all at different stages of their development. Defensive improvement isn't really linear for these guys — it's often more of a light going off — so it's harder to project that.
But I say all of this to say I'm still a pretty firm believer that Jalen Green is going to be a fairly efficient, 25-point, five-assist-per-game guy at some point in his career. Nothing I've seen this year really worries me on that evaluation, even if I don't think he's been a particularly effective NBA player thus far. The timeline for these guys tends to be a bit longer, because the margin for error in their games is more minimal.
Iko: I agree with you on where he is right now. He was never expected to be a finished product at 19, and he's going to be just fine in this league. His defense right now is bad and definitely needs work, but he was also defending high school players not too long ago. I think at least some percentage of the shot selection stuff comes down to being a young guy trying to figure it out amidst a really bad team, lineup inconsistencies, his own health, etc. It's been a wacky year already.
Do you think improvement will come (at least defensively) by him getting bigger and stronger?
Vecenie: Yeah, getting bigger and stronger will definitely help. But to me, the biggest leaps will come with experience and just recognizing what opposing teams are trying to do. Also, I think having a better defensive culture around him — one that is based around communication and leadership — will help. I think it's why Theis got such a long leash early this year. They needed an adult out there on the back line to help not only with the results, but with the development of their young players. Unfortunately, the adverse effects on offense were just too great to stomach.
Josh Christpher (Photo: Brad Mills / USA Today)
Iko: Moving to the other parts: You've gone into great detail already about the main course, so the sides can be brief. Where do you see guys like Josh Christopher and Alperen Sengun? What's their development been like from your vantage point?
Vecenie: I've liked what I've seen from both in the time they've gotten. I've recently done a bit more of a dive on Sengun, so I'll keep it briefer on him. His offensive mobility and versatility are real. I've thought he's actually had a better season in a vacuum than Green, as his presence just makes the Rockets' offense hum a bit more because of his passing and movement. He's constantly looking to go and screen and make life easier for his teammates. His ballhandling and passing combination is a legitimate marginal advantage for the team, giving them another playmaker on the court in a position that often doesn't have them. I'm totally in on him offensively to the point that I would move Wood at the first chance possible — then again, I've been pretty clear about saying I'd do that since the preseason — in order to get as many minutes into Sengun as possible as a developmental project.
The reason I think it's important to get as many minutes into Sengun as possible, though, is because he needs the reps on defense. He is really, really bad there right now, despite tallying a staggering number of deflections due to his innate basketball sense and reactivity. He gets hit out on the perimeter a ton with teams trying to switch onto him, and his lateral agility is a genuine hindrance. Figuring out angles and positioning will be critical to his success, which is why I think experience is essential for him. He needs to figure out how to survive out there in the same way that bigs like Nikola Jokic and Nikola Vucevic do. The issue for Sengun in comparison to those guys, though, is that they're just way bigger and longer than him. This was always the potential trade-off with Sengun: can he survive on defense enough to thrive on offense? The jury is still out, but the signs on offense are great enough to where he has a real shot to be awesome on that end.
Christopher has been fun, too. He's much more ready to play than I expected after his disaster season at Arizona State. His defensive effort has been there consistently. He's finished well on a limited basis as a straight-line driver and transition threat. A lot of the same polish stuff said above about Green could be said about Christopher (he needs to improve as a shooter and add some versatility off the bounce).
But one thing I will say is that I absolutely love that Christopher, and the Rockets' staff seems to have a plan about how to get him on the court and make him effective long-term. Back in his high school career, Christopher was a midrange assassin who settled in as a tough shot maker. However, I don't really think he's athletic enough or dynamic enough as a creator to consistently do that at the NBA level. So instead of trying to just make that work at all costs, he and the team seem to be trying to reshape him as a 3-and-D wing to start, who then can hopefully add some of the prior midrange shooting stuff to his game. They're trying to make him an effective player first then work at the tough stuff, as opposed to trying to make the really crazy, difficult-to-master stuff happen first. That's really smart from everyone around, and I think Christopher deserves an immense amount of credit for being willing to reshape his game in that way. Not all players are as willing as he is.
Iko: I've kept you long enough but wanted to ask you one last thing. With the focus on the rookies, is there anything to glean from the development of guys like Jae'Sean Tate and K.J Martin? What about the long-lost Usman Garuba?
Vecenie: It was nice to see the extended run Garuba got before he entered the health-and-safety protocols a week ago. And by extended run, I mean it was nice to see him play like six straight games in a row. Obviously, he's just such a significant project on offense. The skillset there has never been refined or developed, despite his high-level experience in Spain. But for a team that could desperately use smart, intelligent, active defense more often, I'd very much appreciate Stephen Silas playing him more. I do think he can help there, and I think he can do it right now. Again though, this is where the whole "Christian Wood existing on this roster" still plays a significant role in blocking the young guys. But hey, Silas and Co. see Garuba every day in practice and must think he's not ready. Think that oftentimes, we overcomplicate things: If he's not playing, it's probably because he's not ready. Although, that sentiment does require trust in the coaching staff that I'm not totally sure this staff has earned.
I honestly don't even think of Tate as a young player anymore. I think he's basically a vet because his attitude and basketball intelligence is so positive. I don't really think he's a high-upside player because I don't buy the shot as trustworthy long-term, but as a seventh or eighth man, I think he can be valuable to a good team. Typically, that's the kind of guy I'd look to move if I was Houston, but I actually would keep him around because I think the Rockets could use more of these high-energy, high-effort, great-attitude guys.
Martin is still a fascinating project worth investing time and developmental effort into, but I'd still label him as a project at this stage. He's an elite athlete who has real potential defensively as a difference-maker, but it's all going to come down to the shooting and comfort on offense for him. He's a great smaller four-man option due to his explosiveness. But for that to work, I think he'll need to shoot long-term or be able to use his driving ability to pass and make plays for others. He doesn't really have either of those things in his repertoire now at a high level. The good news is that they have him for two and a half more years under contract at a bargain-basement rate, so it's worth continuing down this road with him. I think I'd rank him below Garuba currently in terms of guys I'm interested in on this roster, because Garuba is more polished on defense already, in my opinion, from having watched him at different levels pre-draft, but I think the Martin pick has gone well for the Rockets given where they took him. Most guys taken in the back 10 picks of the draft end up off rosters or never coming over. Martin has stuck as a developmental project proven to be worth continued investment.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is not messing around with polio. The foundation has been a major funder of global eradication efforts since the late 1990s, beginning with a $50 million grant to the United Nations Foundation. Over many years, Gates has not strayed from its plan to rid the world of polio, which calls for accelerating "targeted vaccination campaigns, community mobilization, and routine immunizations." The foundation is also partnering with like-minded organizations to improve polio surveillance and outbreak response endeavors.
Since GPEI's early days, major progress has been made toward elimination and eventual eradication. The number of polio cases has been reduced by around 99 percent due to increased immunization efforts, with a drumbeat of good news in the past few years. Now, there are only two polio-endemic countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
We're in the endgame here with polio, but Gates is still making big grants—most recently, a $38 million grant to Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
Takeda and Gates have entered into a partnership in which Takeda will "develop, license, and supply at least 50 million doses per year of Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine to more than 70 developing countries." The $38 million grant will leverage Takeda's vaccine manufacturing platform to make the doses available and affordable to poor countries that are currently receiving support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
This is some serious cash, but it's a mere drop in the bucket compared to the nearly $4 billion Gates has contributed to various polio elimination and eradication causes over time.
We should add that Gates is not the only big private player in this space. Rotary International is also a major force behind the anti-polio drive, and it's not unusual for Gates and Rotary to join forces in this regard.
In 2014, Rotary International made a $75 million donation toward polio eradication efforts, focusing its fight in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Gates reinforced and grew Rotary's big give by agreeing to a dollar-for-dollar match Rotary's commitments toward its self-imposed 2018 deadline for polio eradication. Rotary International has had polio eradication in its crosshairs since the late 1980s. Since then, the organization has committed over $1 billion to the fight.
The money, progress, and the commitment from world leaders including the G7 all point to polio elimination and eradication sooner rather than later. One reason that Gates is still pouring so much money into polio is to ensure that these hopes really come true.
Back in 2000, it seemed that the global polio eradication campaign was reaching its conclusion. At the time, wild poliovirus type 2 had all been decimated and the types 1 and 3 of the virus were limited to just a couple of hundred cases worldwide. Then a setback occurred—a child in Hispaniola was paralyzed due to the administration of a live virus vaccine. Outbreaks have occurred across 16 countries since then.
Suddenly, eradicating polio became much more complex. Organizations realized the world could not be rid of polio if it did not stop using live virus vaccines, a standard practice for decades.
Which brings me back to Gates' $38 million grant to Takeda. That money is being used to manufacture and produce a Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine. These efforts speak to the WHO's polio eradication endgame of not only eliminated polio, but polio paralysis due to live virus vaccines as well.
And just to give you an idea of just how big Gates and Rotary are as players in this arena, world governments and their partners have committed some $9 billion over 25 years toward polio eradication according to GPEI. Over that same general time frame, Gates and Rotary have contributed $5 billion toward the cause.


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No bills, invoices for 2020 elections cases can be found at AG's Chambers
By Editor On Jan 4, 2021
Police investigators have been asked by Auditor General Deodat Sharma to probe the hefty spending in legal fees on private lawyers by the former APNU+AFC administration in a series of political cases.
But that may prove to be an uphill task with no paper trail left at the Attorney General Chambers for several cases that were mounted following the March 02 2020 elections.
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Senior Counsel Anil Nandlall made the disclosure on Monday, one day after it was made public that the Auditor General had asked the police to conduct an in-depth investigation and institute charges where necessary for a series of procurement breaches.
Nandlall said for the period between March to August 2020, when the APNU+AFC and its supporters mounted a series of court battles to stave off its exit from government, no bills or invoices can be found.
"I refuse to believe that all these lawyers, both local and international, offered their services pro bono. They must have been paid and one is left now to speculate how that payment was made," Nandlall told the News Room.
Nandlall said since assuming the post as Attorney General back in August 2020, he has repeatedly asked for the bills for private lawyers retained during the period spanning Guyana's protracted 2020 elections and none can be found.
He described the situation as incestuous and said the police will now have to decide how they will go about investigating in the absence of important materials.
The Attorney General suggested that the lawyers may have to be contacted individually and interrogated.
Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, S.C (Photo: News Room/December 18, 2020)
Speaking generally on the Auditor General's report into the former government's legal fees of over $170million between 2015 and 2020 and a series of breaches in the procurement of external lawyers, Nandalll said it was not an isolated incident of corruption.
"It is widespread and permeates every sector of central government… I don't think under any government in Guyana we have seen this magnitude of nepotism and squandermania.
The AG said following the revelations in the AG report Cabinet will have to meet and decide on how it addresses the situations before moving forward.
Nandlall also pointed out that the majority of the political cases were lost by the government. He said the taxpayers for funded the cases benefited nothing.
In the audit report it was found that in many instances the contracts were entered into with the Attorneys but the posts were not publicly advertised.
With many of the cases dating back to the No-Confidence Motion, this resulted in a breach of the Procurement Act.
In addition to the police probe, the Auditor-General said disciplinary action should be taken against those culpable of breaching the Procurement Act and the ministry must ensure that there is full compliance with the Procurement Act with respect to the awarding of contracts.
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On April 6, 2016, the Department of Labor introduced a long-awaited ruling which requires advisors to put the interests of their clients above their own, adhering to a fiduciary standard of advice.
The Best Interest Contract Exemption (BICE) allows advisors to receive commission and other sales fees while still complying with the fiduciary standard. All of which means commission stays, but how easy this will be for advisors to implement is uncertain.
The rigidness of the BICE guidelines has eased significantly since conception. Originally, the exemption limited the scope of permissible assets to recommend (non-traded REITs were not permitted for example) and required extensive disclosure on fees and costs. The implementation period of the rule has also changed, with the full compliance deadline extended one year until January 1, 2018.
These developments should ease some of the concerns over the regulatory costs of the rule but will not fully eliminate them. The financial industry has warned the cost of the rule will make advice more expensive and that the financial burden will fall upon consumers — as was the case when similar regulation was introduced in other countries.
Opponents of the rule argue smaller clients will be faced with unaffordable fees, thereby limiting the access that middle-class investors have to advice. Previous CoreData analysis revealed that about seven in ten advisors in the UK said the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) had made it more challenging to work with low balance clients. To combat this, a third said they would consider adding an execution-only service for low balance clients.
Indeed, similar regulation in the UK and South Africa has steered middle-class investors away from advice. Previous CoreData studies show about one in five advisors in the UK and one in four in South Africa reported a decrease in the number of clients they advise. Regulation has also impacted investment products. About four in ten advisors in the UK and South Africa said regulation had influenced the investment products they advise on.
Advisory firms in the US are expected to hire new staff to help implement the rule. This would mirror the example of advisors in the UK and South Africa who reported taking on new staff (and the associated costs) to help comply with regulation. About one in five in the UK and South Africa cited regulation as reason for hiring new people.
Under the new rules, the BICE heightens brokers' liability risk. This impacts the cost-benefit analysis of the commission model. If advisors want to continue earning commission, they must sign a legally binding contract with clients detailing their fiduciary responsibilities, revealing any potential conflicts of interest and stating firm policies to mitigate conflicts of interest. While the contract aims to hold advisors accountable, the cost of implementation is high.
If advisors are to demonstrate the advice they give is in the best interest of clients, they will have to develop a solid understanding of client needs in order to justify their recommendations. Many think this will result in advisors spending more time meeting clients. This certainly holds true for the UK, where four in ten said they met with clients more following regulatory change.
Even though commission-based advice is still allowed under the new US rule, many firms with revenues heavily derived from commission will look at redressing the balance between upfront fees and commission. Although the DOL rule has evolved into a more diluted version of the original proposal, advisors should nevertheless reconsider their compensation policies for the long-term in light of increased regulation and scrutiny of the industry.
How President-elect Donald Trump will approach the fiduciary rule remains uncertain. Before the election, the rule was set to progress forward.
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Jazz look to get a much needed win against the Wolves
The Utah Jazz are desperate for wins. Can they get one against the Wolves?
By ElijahHam1 Jan 30, 2022, 4:28pm MST
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The (30-20) Utah Jazz will look to pick up a much-needed victory tonight when they head to the Target Center to take on the (24-25) Minnesota Timberwolves.
The month of January has been rough for the Jazz losing four of their last matchups and 10 out of their last 12. The Jazz is also dealing with some major Injuries throughout the month including all-star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell who has been out with a concussion and has been listed as questionable for tonight's Matchup along with Rudy Gobert who is out with a Calf injury.
In their previous matchup, the Jazz lost to a surging Memphis Grizzlies team despite a great performance from Danuel House who scored 21 points. While for the Timberwolves, they lost their last two against some major Western Conference foes in the Suns and Warriors.
The Jazz has dominated this series this season against the TImbewolves winning three out of the four matchups however picking up a win without two of their best players will be a great way to get back on track. for Utah whose struggled mightily this month. Here are some major keys to ger the victory.
The Jazz will have to lean on their elite-rank defense to slug this one out. The Wolves are one of the better offenses in the league ranked eighth in points per game and fourth in pace according to Basketball-Reference. They are led by their deadly trio of Center Karl Anthony Towns, Second-year forward Anthony Edwards, and D'Angelo Russell. Each player has proven they can prove they can put big-time scoring performance clamping up on the Wolves big three would ground their offense significantly.
The next-man-up has been the motto for a Jazz team whose been without team-leading scorer Donovan Mitchell. Throughout the month we have seen some big scoring performances from the likes of Bojan Bogdanovic, Danuel House, and Jordan Clarkson. If the Jazz have any hope to pick up a win against a Hungry Minnesota Timberwolves team a big performance another performance from any of these unlikely heroes can be the thing to along with names such as Mike Conle.
The Jazz is still a top-five seed in a rough Western Conference. Picking up a win against Minnesota Timberwolves will be great to get


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This marinade makes flank steak tender and full of robust flavors. The longer it marinades the better it tastes, so give yourself 24 hours for this one.
Mix all ingredients, including halved onion, garlic, jalapeno and lime quarters, in a zip-top bag. Add flank steak and marinade in the refrigerator for 12-24 hours. Make sure that you flip the bag over every so often so that the flavor get into all of the steak.
After 12-24 hour, discard marinade and grill flank steak until it begins to really brown and caramelize. We use this meat for making street tacos or just plain served with rice and corn.