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Rebecca Kerswell
Position: Founder, owner and head Chocolatier, Coco Chocolate.
What is a Chocolatier: Chocolatiers make chocolates. Chocolate makers (and ours are in Belgium) create chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients including milk, sugar and vanilla. We use orchid vanilla but a great deal of chocolate uses vanillin, you'll see it on the back of the packet. The chocolate maker then stirs the chocolate for varying lengths of time, anything from 5 hours to 3 days, depending on how fine you want your couverture chocolate to be. Ours is "conched" (the old term for the process because the paddles used to mix the chocolate resembled conch shells) for 3 days.
Bondi born Rebecca Kerswell finds the idea of creating and designing a product fascinating. Her dream has been to take a raw food from plant to plate. Two foods tempted her: olive oil and chocolate.
"Once you fall in love with an olive oil the last thing you want to do is experiment with it. Chocolate offers the full experience. I know where our supplier sources the beans – The Caribbean, Madagascar and Dominican Republic. It's ethically taded and Organic. They're important points to me. I know how the beans are dried: by the sun and not machine blast dried. I know how the chocolate is blended and mixed by the chocolate maker.
"When it comes to me, it's couverture chocolate. I then hand temper it on marble, choose the flavour mixes, make the chocolates, package and present the final product in pouches and boxes I designed for sale in my shops."
The benefits of control
We are in the presence of the ultimate chocolate control freak, but if taste is anything to go by, that control has brought many awards. Coco won Gold at the Great Taste Awards in the UK for its Organic Dark Chocolate with Rose and Black Pepper, an old Spanish recipe Rebecca found reading a history book. In Australia Rebecca's chocolate business has won high praise from foodies and patrons alike, as well as a number of local business awards.
"Everything I've done makes up who I am now," Rebecca says of her life path. "I've worked in cafes washing dishes and I still do that running the cafes attached to the chocolate shops. I've been a teacher, and with the chocolate schools and tasting nights, I still use those skills. I studied design and still design. Nothing I've done has been wasted. It's all part of who I am."
The path began early. Rebecca left school and home at 16, which she explains was for various reasons to do with her personal sense of justice and perfection.
Finding a job in a local café in Bondi she quickly came to terms with the hard work of self-reliance. Then, in 1988, when all her friends had their HSCs, she thought to herself, "I really want one of those too." She enrolled at East Sydney TAFE and, while still working, did the HSC in one year. From there, she went to university and did economics. On the advice of her brother, she also "got into education because you can use it anywhere".
Teaching may have been transportable but it was not something Rebecca really hankered to do. It was when she enrolled in postgraduate studies in design she knew she'd found her thing… well, half of it. Discovering chocolate joined the dots.
Chocolatier to royalty
How did a Bondi beach girl, who readily admits to loving the thrill of being the furthest out the back in the surf, end up a Chocolatier with shops, warehouses and factories on two island nations (the UK and Australia), as well as the job of supplying chocolates to Britain's famous Harvey Nichols department store while also manufacturing Harvey Nichs own brand?
It all began with a ticket to Europe, $2000, her desire to product design, and the fearless go-getter nature evidenced by her beach swimming ways.
"I was in France. There's a chocolate school in Lyon, Valrhona, so I enrolled to learn how to temper chocolate, which is what you need to do with couverture chocolate to then use it to make fine chocolate.
"Tempering is about movement and heat, where you are the movement with your palette knife and the marble surface you work on is the heat control," explains Rebecca.
The $2000 she arrived with to live on didn't last long and, with traveller's luck, she landed a part time job with the BBC.
"I worked in design part time and that kept me financed. I wanted to learn more about chocolate so I went to Manchester to Slattery's, which is a very famous chocolate school with a very unglamorous name."
From there, and working part time teaching design, Rebecca went to Edinburgh to open a store and really give her chocolate a go with customers.
Edinburgh appealed because the rents were approachable while still being a big enough European city – without the incumbent language difficulties for her – in which to try the business idea.
Coco opened in 2004 using the 10,000 pounds Rebecca had saved while working for the BBC. Making the chocolates at home, running the shop, teaching design on the side to bring in some much needed cash, made the early days a struggle.
"My partner, who lived in London, paid the mortgage on the one bedroom flat we had, which had also been fully certified for food production, and that was a major support. But he didn't want to live in Edinburgh so I only saw him on weekends. It left me time to concentrate on the chocolate," Rebecca notes drily.
In 2007 she landed the Harvey Nichols account through dogged persistence with the stores head buyer for the food hall, catapulting Coco into a different league. Four years on, and the relationship remains solid.
"We made the process easy for Harvey Nichols and that's been our edge," explains Rebecca of the ongoing contract, which allowed her to expand her business premises to a large warehouse factory in Edinburgh and now employ 5 Chocolatiers as well as herself.
"Being real and honest in our dealings with customers – being myself – is what I've discovered is important. Having a plan, doing your homework, they are necessary. It's translating what you say you'll do into what's done that makes the difference."
Rebecca goes onto admit the harder work has come in financing Coco, never having been able to secure a formal loan.
"I've funded the business on credit cards, which means, I don't think my terms have ever been less than 14 percent. I would work and save; pay things off and invest any leftover back in the business. Everything is in the business.
"Luckily, my husband has a job outside chocolate so I know my children will always be okay and it allows me to do this thing I love."
Moving back and opening in Australia is what's currently keeping Rebecca busy. Much of the product for the Kirribilli and Mosman shops is shipped out from Edinburgh but once the planned August opening of the Balmoral factory, chocolate school and cellar door happens that will change.
On the finance front, Rebecca has just received her first business loan, which will support getting the Sydney operation up to speed and, for the first time, Coco's 'bean counters' are predicting turning a profit. It's cause for celebration.
The best sellers in Kirribilli are the milk chocolate bar with caramel, pine nut and sea salt, and the dark with ginger and date. The café also does a rose and black pepper hot chocolate with cream. It's very popular.
The more a chocolate is conched the finer the grain of the chocolate – the smoother it is. If you eat a chocolate where the texture is grainy you know the maker has scrimped on the mixing time.
I can hand temper about 500 bars in a day. I never get bored splashing that chocolate out onto the marble and watching it transfigured in the tempering. Using a machine, and we have one in the kitchen, you can get 2000 bars done.
We make these liqueur cherries to a recipe from El Bulli, the restaurant in Spain. They're really labour intensive: dipping them in the fondant and then the chocolate and making sure the stem doesn't break. I can get 600 of them done in a day.
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Kate Meinck 8 years ago
What an amazing story! I love chocolate, and the flavours you create sound awesome, I hope I win the competition, I am such a foodie and as a chef I'm always interested in new flavour combinations. Rebecca are you planning on opening a store in Perth in the near future? I could do with some quality gourmet support over here.
Rachael McKenzie 8 years ago
As a regular customer of Coco Chocolate (my husband is a chocoholic) I can say that all of the chocolates we have tried are divine ! The packaging is beautiful and I regularly take some as gifts to friends who all love the presentation and of course the wonderful chocolate! As a foodie I intend to take one of the courses on offer at the new chocolate school! great article- next time I am going to try those liquer cherries!

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Portland plans to get rid of the city's leaf blowers from 2021
The city of Portland has about 300 leaf blowers that run on gas and officials expect to get rid of them in 2021 and will instead deploy electric and battery devices.
The Portland City Council voted 4-0 on Wednesday to create a working group that would plan how to eliminate gasoline-powered devices starting January 1, 2021. Advocates said the transition would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the noise and would improve the air. quality. City officials said the ban also aligns with the goals of Portland being 100% powered by renewable energy by 2050.
Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty was not present during the vote.
The working group will begin meeting in 2020. The ban on the gas leaf blower would not apply to privately owned devices.
The city's fire departments, parks, transportation, water and environmental services have leaf blowers, said Asena Lawrence, chief policy director for commissioner Nick Fish, who introduced the resolution. They range from 156 in the parks office to three for the environmental services office. It is not immediately clear how much the city spends each year to maintain its 305 leaf blowers or how much they will cost 300 cleaner and quieter.
She said gas leaf blowers require more maintenance than alternatives, they are more expensive and have a lower lifespan, usually around 1.5 to 3 years.
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Portland has leaf blower regulations that have been in effect since 2001 that allow devices not exceeding 65 decibels to be used throughout the year and not used more than 70 decibels from November to February. The city code allows the use of the leaf blower between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. in residential areas and until 9 p.m. in other areas
The city also has a list of dozens of approved models of gas, electric and battery powered leaf blowers that can be used in Portland.
An Oregon House bill that died without a vote in the 2019 session proposed banning leaf blowers throughout the state starting in 2023.
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Imbas forosnai, is a gift of clairvoyance or visionary ability practised by the gifted poets of ancient Ireland.

In Old Irish, Imbas imeans "inspiration," and specifically refers to the sacred poetic inspiration believed to be possessed by the fili (Old Irish: inspired, visionary poets) in Early Ireland. Forosnai means "illuminated" or "that which illuminates". Descriptions of the practices associated with Imbas forosnai are found in Cormac's Glossary and in the mythology associated with the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the Táin Bó Cúailgne, the woman poet Fedelm uses her imbas forosnai to predict the outcome of a battle. Imbas forosnai involved the practitioner engaging in sensory deprivation techniques in order to enter a trance and receive answers or prophecy.

In the Celtic traditions, poetry has always served as a primary conveyance of spiritual truth. Celtic texts differentiate between normal poetry, which is only a matter of learned skill, and "inspired" poetry, which is seen as a gift from the gods.

Some Celtic Reconstructionists are involved in the revival of the practices connected with Imbas forosnai.

Bibliography

 Nora K. Chadwick: Imbas forosnai. In: Scottish Gaelic Studies, Volume 4, 1935, p. 97—135.
 James MacKillop. "Imbas forosnai." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004.

References

External links
  Imbas Forosnai by Nora Chadwick
 Imbas forosnai by James MacKillop

Irish mythology
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Arguing against a recent Chinese court decision to ban sales of older iPhones for infringing on Qualcomm patents, Apple says the injunction would force a settlement in its worldwide legal battle against the chipmaker.
The admission came in a court filing lodged with a Chinese court on Dec. 10, and subsequently noted by Bloomberg on Thursday.
"Apple will be forced to settle with the Respondent, causing all mobile phone manufacturers to relapse into the previous unreasonable charging mode and pay high licensing fees, resulting in unrecoverable losses in the downstream market of mobile phones," the filing reads.
Apple goes on to take stock of the Chinese court's ruling, saying an iPhone ban in the country would cost the company millions of dollars a day, money taxable by China's government. Specifically, the filing estimates China "may suffer hundreds of thousands of tax losses" if the injunction is authorized. The calculation is based on some 50 million iPhone unit sales in China during 2017, the report said.
Beyond taxes, a ban would impact Chinese companies currently involved in iPhone manufacturing. Apple said it has created five million jobs in China, including app developers.
Apple and Qualcomm are embroiled in a wide-ranging legal war over licensing, patents and alleged nefarious business practices. Apple kicked off the scrum when it filed a $1 billion suit against Qualcomm in January 2017, claiming the chipmaker abused its "monopoly power" of the wireless modem industry to demand excessive royalties.
Qualcomm filed a counter suit three months later, claiming Apple was in breach of contract. The chipmaker also lodged complaints with international regulatory agencies including the U.S. International Trade Commission, seeking to halt the import of iPhones powered by Intel modems.
Qualcomm won a key ruling this week when a Chinese court found certain iPhone models -- iPhone 6S through iPhone X -- in infringement of owned patents. The court granted Qualcomm's request for a preliminary injunction, while the company urged the ruling be extended to include Apple's latest iPhone XS and XR handsets. Apple has appealed the ruling.
For its part, Qualcomm on multiple occasions has said the legal battle comes down to favorable IP pricing, and that it expects the fight to end in a settlement. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf last month said the companies were "on the doorstep" of a resolution, a notion echoed by company president Cristiano Amon this month.
Apple previously relied solely on Qualcomm modems in its iPhone and iPad lines, a supply decision that resulted in a windfall of revenue for the chipmaker. Qualcomm's royalty rates, which are also at issue in Apple's lawsuits, are calculated based on whole device value, not per-component. With the iPhone 7, however, Apple diversified sourcing to include modems made by Intel.
Apple completed the switch away from Qualcomm this year, with iPhone XS and XR relying solely on modems manufactured by Intel.
Interesting that while Apple purports to lose millions a day from a full ban, the Chinese government may lose hundreds of thousands. Sounds like Apple pays tax in China like they do (or did?) in Ireland. Apple's impact on China's economy is likely negligible.
But it makes me sort of sad that they are using a modified "too big to fail", as in "too important to penalize", argument as to why they should not face sales ban - just like all the rest of the multinational corps would do.
Qualcomm, an American company hurting another American company and China wins - shame on you Qualcomm. And Apple put all its egg in one Chinese basket - now the government can hold them hostage. Next ...they will start messing with Foxconn.
5 million jobs are negligible ?
Hopefully this would also force Apple to move half of its supply chain to elsewhere.
Not if you go beyond the title. Apple reminding the costs, even for China, to ban iPhones.


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Q: In Windows, how can I restore original characters to a csv file that have been replaced with hex ASCII? I have a csv file that contains names Like O'Brien that appear as O%27Brien or St. Something that appear as St%2ESomething.  I don't have access to generate a new csv of this data, and I need the names in a correct format because I'm writing a PowerShell script to search for the names on another server.
I tried implementing something similar to the answer to this but I can't get it to work for the problem I'm experiencing.
It doesn't matter to me if the solution is in PowerShell as long as I can run it on Windows 7.

A: Use the Uri.UnescapeDataString method which you can call from powershell like this:
# > [Uri]::UnescapeDataString("O%27Brien")
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Paul D. Hudson
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Paul chairs the firm's Appeals group and focuses his practice almost exclusively on appellate matters in the state and federal appeals courts.
He has argued more than 40 appeals in appellate courts across the country, including in the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits. He serves as a lead appellate counsel for a large automotive OEM in appeals throughout the Midwest, and lead appellate counsel for a large insurer in the Michigan appeals courts. He also represents individual clients in cases ranging from property and probate disputes to federal criminal and habeas appeals. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and has represented clients at the writ of certiorari stage. Paul also maintains an active amicus curiae practice, and serves as amicus counsel for the Michigan Manufacturers Association, a leading trade organization and a prominent voice in the Michigan appellate courts.
Paul uses this deep and varied appellate experience to defend our clients' hard-fought victories on appeal and to overturn unfavorable decisions from the lower courts.
Active in the state and federal bar associations, Paul was appointed by the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit to serve as the chair of the Advisory Committee on Rules, one of just three Michigan lawyers on the Committee. He also serves on the State Bar of Michigan's Appellate Practice Council, and has held leadership positions on the American Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee. Paul was the Editor-in-Chief and Publications Chair of the State Bar of Michigan Litigation Journal, and co-authored the Michigan chapter of a leading treatise on commercial disputes, "Business Torts: A Fifty State Guide."
In addition to his busy practice, Paul serves the community as a member of the Board of Directors for Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan.
Before joining Miller Canfield, Paul served as a law clerk for the Honorable Raymond M. Kethledge on the Sixth Circuit.
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In the frame of the research projects, the scientists of the Wolf Science Center (WSC) pursue their major research questions. These projects are the core purpose of the WSC; they provide the organizational and financial frame to integrate students, masters, PhDs and also Post Docs in science.
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Incooling
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"I don't know how I would have found them. How unlikely is it you hit the jackpot when you just start?" _____Incooling CEO Rudie Verweij on team-building
venture building
knowledge institutes
Sometimes the stars align to create a stellar startup, one based on top tech combined with top talent addressing a global challenge in a ready market. Incooling hit the floor running, sealing a promising partnership with a global tech giant. And it all started in Eindhoven.
In The Valley, a startup going in one year from an idea to announcing a collaboration with a global company is a beautiful moment, but not unheard of. In Europe, with its shortage of early-stage capital, such a turn of events is nothing less than miraculous.
Rudie Verweij, the 22-year-old CEO behind that miracle, attributes Incooling's rapid journey to the Big Leagues to two elements – HighTechXL's deep-tech venture approach and to his team.
"In this program, you're given perfection from the start; tech with lots of research behind it. There's a lot of knowledge to soak up in the beginning. If you get caught up in that soaking up mode, you won't be able to convert the action into building stuff.
"So, you don't get stuck in the 'soaking up' mode," says Rudie.
Unlike conventional startup accelerators, HighTechXL scouts the tech from top global research centers such as CERN, then recruits the best talent in assembling the teams to take that tech to market. Incooling started developing technology to cool computer chips with two-phase cooling technology from CERN but quickly developed its own proprietary technology inspired by CERN research.
That technology uses specialized refrigerants circulating in a controlled loop.
But the greatest technology goes exactly nowhere without the right team. In the conventional startup world, teams tend to come to accelerators in situ.
In the HighTechXL venture-building model, individual talents are sourced locally – people who don't necessarily know each other – and brought together. They might not even be the people you'd naturally want to hang out with, Rudie said. Fortunately, Incooling's four founding team members soon developed real chemistry.
Now, Rudie says, he can't imagine what his life would be without them. "I don't know how I would have found them. How unlikely it is you hit the jackpot when you just start.
"I don't know how you would do that any other place."
The approach also guarantees a diversity that a closed group in a startup wouldn't necessarily have, Rudie added. Incooling team members are from the Netherlands, Latvia, Iran, Mexico, and Guatemala.
Since the early days, the Incooling team has expanded to seven people from four:
Rudie, Helena Samodurova, Rony Sian, Hejran Mehrtak, Hossein Beikaii, Karen Magaña, and Guus Frericks.
It also has a long list of accomplishments.
Founded at the September 2018 FasTrackathon, by the end of 2019 Incooling had:
• announced at the Beyond Tech conference they had raised 630,000 euros, 30,000 of it from the Eindhoven Startup Alliance and the rest from undisclosed private investors.
• was chosen to attend Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in The Hague.
• won the "wild card" to pitch at the Get in the Ring Global Meetup in Berlin.
• won Innovation Origin's Gerard and Anton Award and 10 Startups to Watch in 2019
• won third place in the Elektor Magazine Startup Games, Best Startup in Benelux
• won the pitch competition at VentureCafe Rotterdam, claiming the grand prize: a plane ticket to InnoVEX in Taiwan. Garage+ selected Incooling to go to Computex (InnoVEX is a part of Computex) so they had booths at InnoVEX and Computex.
This was a pivotal moment, which resulted in two extended trips to Taipei and that partnership with GIGABYTE.
Recent tests with the Taipei-based hardware giant showed Incooling's approach lowered core CPU temperatures up to 20-degrees Centigrade, resulting in a 10-percent increase in boosted clock-speed while lowering power consumption dramatically.
This is especially impressive considering Rudie had no past experience in technology.
In the earliest days, team members were "a bit timid on the technology side, trying to learn as much as we could. Now, we are coming out of shells, converting what we learned into reality," he said.
"If I would give myself advice, I would say do that earlier."
The most fun during this brief but intense ride, Rudie said, has been getting the team together and assessing the skills, "and also the most headaches have come from getting the team together and finding out the skills."


A recent study out of Syracuse University doesn't seem to think so. Chemists have demonstrated that a hormone involved in making the body feel satiated after eating can be introduced into the bloodstream orally. This finding may lead to a chewing gum designed to help you lose weight.
eating and exercising by allowing the body to use up more calories for energy. It has been demonstrated that some over-weight humans have a lower concentration of the hormone in their bloodstream, allowing them to eat more than an average-weight person before getting full.
This recent study shows that when the hormone is administered to obese and normal weight people, both groups consume fewer calories.
bloodstream. Fortunately, vitamin B12, often used to increase metabolism and one's energy level, assists the movement of the PYY hormone into the bloodstream. his new "B12-PYY system" helps the majority of the PYY hormone function more effectively when taken orally.
This is where chewing gum comes into play. The next step for this study is to insert the B12-PYY system into a piece of gum or "oral tablet," which will be used to deliver the hormone into the body. Once this is achieved, it may be possible to produce commercially available gum that assists in the process of losing weight.
physiological efects in the body. Although we are all aware of several brands of whitening gum, gum has been shown to assist in many other aspects of life, such as thirst-quenching gum for athletes, cafeinated gum, and nicotine-carrying gum to help smokers quit. In 2003, the chewing gum company Wrigley's patented Viagra-carrying gum, but has displayed no intention of releasing it.
Although eating healthier and exercising are the best options to maintain optimal weight, this new study engenders hope for people who are genetically predisposed to obesity and may have diiculty limiting their amount of food intake.


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One Last Look: Capitol Park's Crumbling, Vibrant Loft Spaces
[Photography by Chris and Michelle Gerard]
The countdown continues for the residents at 1217 Griswold, who now have two weeks before they must vacate their apartments. Their building, purchased a few months ago by a company connected to Dan Gilbert, has been accused of hosting a multitude of safety issues that can only be addressed through an all-out renovation.
And it's true. Take a few steps up the winding, creaking interior stairway, and you'll realize that 1217 Griswold is about as prepared to pass a building safety inspection as the Packard Plant is ready to host an elementary school. But these unique lofts aren't just low-rent living spaces, they're evidence of a vibrant community of art, innovation, and Detroit's proud DIY mentality. It'll be sad to see it all disappear.
Between the historic facade and the downtown location, 1217 Griswold's loft spaces feel almost too good to be true. The building could be a movie set. The residents, many having lived there for years, built bedrooms and kitchens into their individual loft spaces, renovating them as they saw fit. One has a screen printing facility. Another doubles as a skate park. Musical instruments are visible in most of them.
At the same time, years of negligence from the previous ownership has left the structure in frightening condition.The roof leaks badly. An abandoned unit on the uppermost floor is in such terrible shape, you can see the sky through holes in the ceiling. There are rumors of an unpaid DTE bill worth thousands of dollars. One resident claims to have encountered a Bedrock employee in the entry area, who immediately accused him of trespassing. It took some convincing for the worker to realize people actually lived in the building.
There's little doubt that the magnitude of required repairs necessitates the removal of the residents. And Bedrock's compensation of $2,000 in moving expenses and discounted temporary housing is generous. But, as the Metro Times explains in a recent article, it's ironic that Dan Gilbert's goal of turning Capitol Park into downtown's arts district doesn't involve a plan to retain its established artists.
If you want to check out the building before renovations begin, residents are hosting an open house/estate sale on SUNDAY. Links to the work of individual residents can be found at 1217Griswold.com
· More Capitol Park Residents Receive Eviction Notices [Curbed]
· Letter Reveals Gilbert Controls This Capitol Park Loft Building [Curbed]
· Capitol Park Artists Get the Boot [Metro Times]
13 haunted places in Detroit The creepiest and spookiest locales in and around the Motor City.
16 dormant buildings in Detroit awaiting life An incredible number of historic buildings have been redeveloped in recent years, but there's still plenty of left worth saving. Here are the ones we'd most like to see.


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Stock ETFs Tumble Amid Stimulus And Vaccine Worries
Ian Young September 17, 2020
Troubled by stalled stimulus talks, post-Fed meeting jitters, and potential vaccine delays, stocks and index ETFs are tumbling on Thursday, as the Nasdaq tests its recent lows, leading the other indices lower.
While the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive earlier in the session, the 30-stock index quickly tumbled, losing 1%. The S&P 500 followed suit, declining 1.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite tumbled to its lows, down over 2.11%, and back into correction territory on Thursday, despite a tepid FOMC announcement that briefly drove markets higher Wednesday.
The major stock index ETFs are sinking Thursday along with their underlying benchmarks, with the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), and Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) all declining. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) fell over 1.45% Tuesday as well.
Technology stocks like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Facebook, have attempted to rebound over the last week, but all lost at least 2% Thursday, with Amazon down over 3%, as vaccine concerns and stimulus package woes stymied stocks from rallying.
Thursday's decline follows mixed messages about the timeline for a coronavirus vaccine, with President Trump stating late Wednesday that the U.S. could disseminate a vaccine as soon as next month, which conflicts with the director of the CDC, who told lawmakers earlier Wednesday that vaccinations would be available in limited quantities this year and there would likely be a six to nine-month wait for more substantial quantities.
Traders were also conflicted over the state of stimulus talks after President Trump mentioned Wednesday that he could approve a more significant package. However, Politico was reporting that Senate Republicans appeared hesitant to follow suit without more specifics on a bill.
"If we get a stimulus package and you're out of the market, you will feel awful," CNBC's Jim Cramer said on Thursday.
"I do feel the stimulus package is very hard to get," he said. "But if we do get it, you can't be out of this market."
Meanwhile, investors considered the results of the Federal Reserve's interest rate comments, where the central bank indicated rates could stay tethered to the zero-bound through 2023 in an effort to generate inflation. Fed Chair Powell also urged lawmakers to continue with stimulus.
Powell said in a news conference that loose monetary policy will continue "until these outcomes, including maximum employment, are achieved."
Unfortunately, the thought of lower rates for a prolonged time was not enough to drive markets higher but instead resulted in a selloff Thursday, suggesting that markets are still fragile, according to financial pundits.
"The major indices dipped back to their short-term trading range following the Fed's announcements, confirming that bulls are still not out of the woods," said Ken Berman, founder of Gorilla Trades. "While there was nothing scary in today's Fed announcements, stocks reacted in a bearish fashion, especially in the tech sector."
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A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown's first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true.
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A comics memoirist in the slightly worn-out quotidian mode pioneered by Harvey Pekar, Brown has already produced a series of books about his relationships with women. This one's a bit more scattered—it's a collection of short pieces about the last two years of Brown's life, including some medical troubles, a camping trip, various interactions with his cat and a lot of not-particularly-momentous conversations with friends. It doesn't quite cohere into a narrative, although the final section, A Little Piece of Myself, gives his relationship stories some closure, showing Brown as a new dad meeting his girlfriend's father. Like his earlier autobiographical books, Little Things is drawn in quick pen doodles—Brown's big-headed, stubbly, emotionally fraught self-caricature appears in almost every panel, and he loads his images with evocative physical details. The ultra-casual style occasionally pays off in comedy, as when he captions a scribbled sketch of a driver who hit his friend's car actual expression may have been smarmier than appears. But a handful of his anecdotes veer into tedious accounts of his life as a cartoonist, and most of them ramble aimlessly for too long; his ability to minutely recall his experiences of various kinds of day-to-day ennui doesn't make them interesting. (Apr.)
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Joe Root has steered West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel mentioned one thing he "would possibly be apologetic about" throughout an on-field trade.
England's captain looked as if it would inform Gabriel "there may be not anything fallacious with being homosexual" whilst batting on day 3 of the 3rd Take a look at in St Lucia, with the feedback it sounds as if picked up on tv by way of the stump microphone.
Gabriel's a part of the dialog didn't appear to be audible however the Trinidadian was once spoken to by way of no less than some of the on-field umpires, Kumar Dharmasena and Rod Tucker, about his language.
Following the shut of play, Root was once requested to provide an explanation for the tussle with Gabriel.
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Aliens aliens aliens... and Mrs Darcy
There are some books that I know I am going to love reading. There are other books I pretty much know that I won't. And then there are the third and possibly most delightful kind, the unknown unknowns, the ones that come at you from left field and - BAMM - you are smitten! Such a book is one Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by one Mr Jonathan Pinnock, just published by Proxima Books, an imprint of Salt Publishing. I thought "mashups", I thought "aliens", I thought, "oh my goodness, no!".
I giggled. I chortled. I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this an utterly wonderful story and oddly fitting with Jane Austen's characters (Lady Catherine de Bourgh, an alien? Of course, silly me for not knowing that). I can't help but feel that Jane would be quite pleased.
I am delighted to have the alien...um, sorry, author here today. Let me tell you a little about Mr Pinnock. He studied Maths at Cambridge University (a fact that endears him to me already, without the aliens). Then, as his bio says, "he drifted into the world of software and has remained there ever since. He has written one book on software development and co-authored a further dozen, most of which are now almost entirely obsolete. In the last few years he has turned to writing fiction and poetry and has won a number of prizes and has had work read on BBC Radio 4. Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens is his first full-length novel."
I already knew I enjoyed Jon's short stories, having (anonymously) highly commended his story, Advice re Elephants, when I judged last year's Sean O'Faolain short story competition and was part of the judging team who shortlisted his story rZr and Napoleon for the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize. It's clear from these that he has a rather wicked sense of humour and a sly wit. So, I have asked him a few tricky questions, on your behalf:
Tania: Welcome, Jon. I recently met a very interesting biologist, Rachel Rodman, who also writes, and she has come up with a whole theory about literary mash-ups, of which I believe your book is one. Her article is published in LabLit. She calls you and your kind (!) "literary geneticists" and, using Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as her example, says:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in this sense a genetically modified organism, derived from the ancestral Pride and Prejudice by the introduction of new (genetic) material taken from the unrelated "monster" genre. A small-scale comparison of the two texts supports this idea: all Grahame-Smith's modifications have parallels with genomic modifications performed (or harnessed) by laboratory scientists. Here, I examine six classes (Insertions, Duplications, Insertions with Duplication, Replacements, Over-expression, and Gain-of Function Mutations) of these modifications, and draw parallels with biological examples.
Her thesis is lengthy and erudite! So we will skip to her final thoughts:
These six sections consider only a few of the classes of Grahame-Smith's modifications. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is also marked by DNA inversions (in the form of transposed words and phrases), silent mutations (in the form of synonym replacements), and missense mutations (in the form of deliberately misspelled words), and so on. The molecular techniques used by Grahame-Smith have also been applied to other works, enabling the production of a range of genetically modified texts: Android Karenina, The Meowmorphosis, Jane Slayre, and others. These modified texts possess new phenotypes. Some are merely new twists of humor, curious for their own sake, like a mammal engineered to possess fluorescent skin. Others, more utilitarian, render the text appealing to new audiences, like a plant engineered for cold-resistance, enabling it to grow at new latitudes. The success of these variants – some commercial, some aesthetic – sets the stage for a new generation of literary geneticists, whose experiments will force the field in new directions. This new dynamic, converting the writing desk to a laboratory and the classic text to a model organism, may in addition pose its own ethical questions. We exist in a new era, exciting and disturbing, in which neither text nor genome is immutable, and in which humans, armed with new technologies, can force their evolution. [My emphasis]
Any reactions to this?
Jon: Right, here goes...*deep breath* Firstly, a confession: I've never actually read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This was partly because I was miffed about its unexpected appearance at a time when I was struggling to find a way into my own book and also because I didn't want to be accidentally influenced by it. I did feel obliged to refer to it in my book, because it would have felt odd not to acknowledge its presence, and it did provide an opportunity for going off at an interesting tangent with Jane Austen herself featuring as a disenchanted writer of cheap zombie novels. And I swear I never knew there were ninjas in P&P&Z until I read that article, although one of Jane Austen's supposed novels that I refer to also has ninjas in it!
However, having read the article, I am actually quite tempted to buy the book now because it makes it sound like an avant garde literary exercise worthy of Georges Perec or Tom Phillips. I like to think that what I'm doing is slightly different, because what I've written is an entirely logical sequel to the original book, rather than a mash-up of it. I originally described it as the bastard offspring following a drunken one-night stand between Pride and Prejudice and the X Files, which I guess in genetic terms means that it's less the result of gene splicing than the outcome of some dubious experimental breeding programme.
T: Dubious experimental breeding, love it! Entirely logical sequel? Ha! Okay, we'll keep this short: I couldn't stop laughing when I read the book, did you have that problem while you were writing it?
J: You're far too kind! Well, I know you're not supposed to laugh at your own jokes, but I did let out the occasional guffaw, usually when something completely unplanned emerged. Or at one of Lord Byron's double entendres. I have a weakness for those, I'm afraid.
T: And: I know you wrote it Dickens-like (or soap-operatically) in instalments, do you think your process/the end product would have been different if you'd attempted to do it all in one go, whatever that might mean?
J: Good question. It's a bit hypothetical, because I can't really think of any other way to write. I didn't have any sort of plan at all when I started writing the serialisation - although a plot of sorts did present itself once I'd got a chapter or two in. The thought of having a pin board with colour-coded timelines on it - well, it's just too weird to contemplate. Some of my favourite bits of Mrs Darcy... came about because I found myself at midnight on the day before the next episode was due to go live with nothing to publish. However, as a way of working it can be more than a little stressful.
T: Well, stress keeps us going, doesn't it? I say, Whatever works!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Jon. To whet your appetite, here's a pic I took of the book in the horror section of Waterstone's in Cork... Find out more, including how to buy it, excerpts and other crazy stuff, at Mrs Darcy And the Aliens and more about Jon and his other writings at jonathanpinnock.com.
Random thoughts by Tania Hershman on Thursday, September 29, 2011
Labels: biology, blog tour, books, fiction, humour, jane austen, jonathan pinnock, mashups, mrs darcy and the aliens, novels, publication, salt publishing
Wow. That's only one step away from Pinnock vectors; they should be marketable,they'd go viral.
Interesting post!! I really like this site, and hope you will write more, thanks for your information.
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Losing that baby fat may seem like the priority immediately after birth, but the female body is storing this fat for a reason. In addition to the basic bodily functions powered by the fat stores, they are strategically placed throughout the body in order to make you comfortable and easy to cuddle with, providing yet another reason to keep those fat stores and give the body a bit of time to enjoy motherhood before returning to the gym.


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Giuseppe Iannotti was born in 1982, the year in which the Italy beat Germany 3 to 1 and won its third FIFA World Cup.
It started playing with the kitchen tools already at 6 and, over time, he kept his passion alive enough to start a series of projects, first in Castelvenere and then in Telese Terme, including the most important one: the Krèsios restaurant.
In 2013 the first Michelin star and two forks strengthened a career built through the capability to achieve goals; the "Young chef of the Year", "Innovative Cooking" by l'Espresso and the "Twenty Years" awards, as well as the "San Pellegrino Cooking Cup 2013" and the admission to the restaurant association Le Soste represent the real confirmation.


Program: Recently, so-called quantity implicatures have received considerable attention in the semantic and pragmatic literature. Prototypical instances of such implicatures arise when the speaker uses a relatively weak scalar expression, like "some", where a stronger one might have been employed. Thus, according to the standard pragmatic story, "Some of the kangaroos are sick" conveys, inter alia, that not all the kangaroos are sick, and this is not as part of the meaning of "some" but rather because the speaker should have said that all the kangaroos are sick, if that is what he believed to be the case. One of the issues in the recent literature is whether this standard story is on the right track, in the first place, or whether a radically different, semantic treatment is called for. Other, and related, issues concern the interpretation of scalar expressions in embedded positions, free choice permission, the acquisition of scalar terms, and how adults process these expressions.
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Department of philosophy, University of Nijmegen.
Lecturer experimental pragmatics. UCL division of psychology and language sciences.


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'Steven Universe' Isn't Just for Kids, and It's Coming Back in January
Rebecca Sugar's sci-fi cartoon is a pleasant, optimistic respite from animation with darker themes
By Emily Gaudette
Steven Universe returns to Cartoon Network with new episodes in January. The show's creator, Rebecca Sugar, worked as a collaborator on Adventure Time for several years before branching off. The Emmy-nominated Steven Universe has a broader appeal than its marketing suggests; it's a rare cartoon written for children with an interesting enough plot to keep adults engaged. It manages to be smart without being smarmy, and it has amassed a huge following on Tumblr, due partly to its work in gender politics.
Sometimes shows about gender make you want to do this.
Pleasing social justice warriors can sometimes mean that a show is preachy or saccharine, but Steven Universe avoids this. It's a complex, unfolding story with its own sci-fi mythology, making it reminiscent of the Dragonball franchise, though its frenetic energy and swiftly-moving plot structure also resemble Space Dandy.
So why bother watching if you're not a kid?
The boundary between adult animation and children's programming is blurring
Years ago, the number of animated shows meant for adult audiences surged, and The Simpsons was joined by shows like Daria, King of the Hill, and all of the repetitive shows Seth MacFarlane excreted into our culture. Adult Swim grew in popularity, becoming not a late-night fringe series but a source for quality television.
Steven Universe is not the first of its childrens'-animation-collective to do well; Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Uncle Grandpa each employ their own sense of comedic timing and challenge kids to keep up with plot twists and dramatic irony. These programs are neither a commentary on low income families (King of the Hill) nor based on gross-out humor (The Rugrats), but are something else entirely. Steven Universe, for example, is not quite a children's show that appeals to adults as a secondary demographic; it satisfies both groups the way Dragonball Z did. It's an adventure, a family drama, and a well-thought-out sci-fi sitcom that never falls too far down the rabbit hole of zaniness.
Some awesome people are already involved
Nicki Minaj voices Sugilite, a morphed-combination of two characters. Pop star Estelle voices Garnet, a deadpan hero with both male and female traits, who sometimes sings while in combat.
T-Pain is an obsessive Steven Universe fan, and Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater, voices the town's mayor. Tom Scharpling, a writer for both Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tom Goes to the Mayor voices Steven's hippie dad.
Steven Universe has given adult animators and voice actors a place to use their creativity
The show has a deep respect for the classics
In July, Cartoon Network began releasing short companion films online, which featured the Steven Universe characters as chibis (cutesy little versions of themselves), explaining the show's lore to the audience in simple terms. These videos are funny and useful, given that the show explores young Steven's exploration of a larger, alien culture, but they're also a direct homage to omake clips from classic anime like Gunbuster and Super Sentai. The "Classroom Gem* shorts are Rebecca Sugar's confirmation that her program exists in a larger canon of Western/Japanese fusion animation.
The show's lore is complicated, and fun to think about
On the surface, Steven Universe is about three female aliens, called Crystal Gems, who co-raise their half-alien nephew Steven alongside his human father in a town by the beach. The show unabashedly tackles topics like feeling ashamed of your parents, the paradox of time travel, nature vs nurture, queer relationships, consent, and the stigma and complications which surround sex.
Steven Universe employs a sense of nostalgia, which has been analyzed by PBS as a narrative tool utilized by Adventure Time, although Steven Universe treats the past differently. The show's hero, Steven, was conceived by his alien mother and human father, when his mother's body and consciousness morphed into his. He wears her gem, a rose quartz, on his belly button, and the audience learns about his mother through flashbacks, or through the narration of characters who knew her, like the other Crystal Gems.
Steven is an effective entry point into the show's mythology, as child audiences easily identify with his awe of the Crystal Gems. The Gems themselves, however, are interesting characters, written with such care that adult audiences have begun studying them critically. Garnet, a permanent fusion between two seemingly-female gems in love, is voiced by and sings songs about the relationship she embodies while fighting enemies.
Amethyst, the stocky and hot-headed comedic relief, was created on earth by Gems who sought to overthrow the planet and wipe out humanity. Pearl, the most uptight of the three Gems, resents Steven for effectively ending his mother's life. In flashbacks, we learn Pearl may have been in love with Rose Quartz, and was resentful of Rose Quartz' connection with Steven's father.
It has a sensual undertone
The role sexuality plays on Steven Universe is complicated. The audience is never sure how much of the fusion process is overtly sexual, although certain cues seem to suggest it is. First of all, the Gems' fusion process always begins with a romantic, or suggestive, dance, depending on the nature of the Gems involved.
The experience of fusing with another Gem is pleasurable, and the Gems argue about who gets to do it when. If a Gem is tricked into fusing under false pretenses, this is treated as a perverse and reprehensible act. When Steven realizes he's able to fuse (as a half-Gem), the Crystal Gems decide to give him a "talk" that very much resembles a "sex talk," although they stress the importance of intimacy, consent, and trust.
The very fact that Steven Universe treats fusion, or sex, as a complicated concept that requires forethought and an emotional connection, though it doesn't deny that it's fun, is a huge step forward for children's programming. As far as adults go, any person interested in contemporary media can appreciate Rebecca Sugar's innovation. She frames her look at sexuality in such a way that it's fun to parse out what her characters want, and Steven Universe never talks down to its audience, which makes it a great watch for viewers of any age.
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But I figured those kinds of riders might sound weaselly. And, if I lost the bet but Obama were impeached for just cause, losing 500 bucks to charity would be a small price to pay for justice. So I'll leave it as it is. My 500 smackers against Chait's that under no circumstances will Obama be successfully impeached by the House. Pure, simple, clean — like an Amish bachelor party.


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The numinous, the transcendent, the cosmic—these are like trauma, in that they occur in a constant state of immediacy. Even to say "constant" is to introduce, then capsize, an image of time as a steady line, which, let's face it, was a leaky vessel from the start. The numinous, the transcendent, the cosmic—they are everywhere. Now. They transcend daily understandings of space and time: They are spacetime. This is going to make choice of verb tense real tricky. So just give up on making sense in any practical terms right now, or just give up on getting any sleep. Once you start placing words in sequence to be read over linear time about mysteries that swamp the idea of time, you are already sunk. In the best possible way.
The Domestic in the Epic: Advice on Structure
Naomi J. Williams' historical novel Landfalls, which recounts the travails of a French scientific voyage begun in 1785, offers many treats to love, among them this sentence: "Who among us does not have the odd friend whose virtues we admire, but whom we do not wish to impose on others?" But the craft lessons this book has to offer go far beyond the strategic use of dry wit. Williams' story is grand in scope: it's a voyage into the unknown that covers danger, fear, loss, and violence–both violence suffered and violence enacted. Its characters bond through struggle, and struggle with each other. If it were a movie, the poster would probably feature one of the commanders staring bravely out to sea, wearing a weathered and courageous expression. You know: it's an epic.
But where does Williams' story begin? Not with any dudes staring bravely out to sea. Not with anyone toting a sword, or hauling on an oar. Not with any Master-and-Commander-style leaping about in the riggings in dress uniform. Not even with the carnage European expeditions created in the New World.
Landfalls begins with the ships' stoves. The two vessels–the Astrolabe and the Boussole–attempted to install imported English stoves before their voyage, with mixed success. Much bashing with tools. Much cursing when the stoves wouldn't fit, followed by much MacGyver-ing to make them fit. Much swearing when the sailors barked their shins on the knobs that protruded into what should have been their walkways through cramped galleys. Much smoke, followed by jokes about the imminent possibility of explosion.
Williams' strategic decision to begin her epic in the domestic offers a lesson for other writers. Think about it: if you are preparing for an epic voyage, what is among your first concerns? Food. You aren't posing with your chin's best angle prominent over the railing. No way. You are accompanying your carpenter down into the hold to make sure your new stove gets installed.
The lesson here, I think, is to consider the large in terms of the small. To tell even a story of global scope in terms of individual daily concerns. I've been carrying this thought around for the past week, pondering how to apply it to my own projects. Maybe you will, too?
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Poet James Wright, in a letter to poet James Dickey, discussing and quoting poet Stanley Kunitz on August 12, 1958:
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Poetry in Davis Reading Report: I Love This Town
On February 16, I had the honor to give a poetry reading as part of the Poetry in Davis series, held at the lovely Natsoulas Gallery in downtown Davis. While there, I read a new piece containing the lines, " . . . who gladly / roast dessert upon an oleander spear"–and people laughed. Not just one person: plural people. Because more than one person in the room knew that oleander is so poisonous that it's dangerous just to roast your marshmallows on it. Maybe you, reader, also know this? But it was a delightful surprise to get a laugh in response to a joke I thought I was only amusing myself with. Further proof that a town with this many master gardeners in it is the town for me. I love it here.
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Twice Daily: Helping Employees and Customers Live Healthier
Partner spotlight from PHA's 2016 Annual Progress Report
As people often do, Tammy Moore made a New Year's resolution to lose weight. She dutifully started her diet at the launch of 2017 and began looking for meals that met her 1,500-calorie maximum for the day, without giving up taste or nutritional value. It wasn't easy.
But then Twice Daily made it easier.
Tammy's husband, Mike, is District Manager for Twice Daily in the Lebanon, Tennessee area. As Tammy was starting her diet, Twice Daily was switching to healthier options as part of its commitment to PHA to offer healthier, more affordable food to its customers. Fried foods were being replaced with options such as grilled chicken salad on whole wheat bread, granola parfaits and fruit shooters made with fresh pineapple, melon and grapes.
So when Tammy asked her husband to bring home some lunch, he grabbed one of the store's new and more balanced choices: a Bistro Box that included toasted almonds, three kinds of cheese, wheat crackers and red grapes. The box covers all four food groups at just 389 calories for the meal.
"I just loved it," said Tammy. "I'm trying to eat healthier and make better choices every day. This was a great lunch for me."
The chicken salad was also a hit for Tammy, along with the fruit shooters, which she eats for breakfast. And at $3.99 for the Bistro Box, she said, "It's a great value. You're going to spend more than that on fast food and you won't be eating healthy. I eat it now a few times a week."
Tammy said she's lost 25 pounds and credits the healthier options from Twice Daily along with the frequent walks she now takes with her husband. As for Mike, he's starting to eat healthier as well.
"I do my share of eating those fruit shooters," he said. "It's good to have those things available at the store so I'm not just eating junk food all the time."
Twice Daily helps Tammy and Mike live healthier in other ways, as well. The company newsletter offers exercises and healthy eating tips. "There's always something about wellness or exercise," said Mike. "Our company definitely wants to support the health of our team members."
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Drink Up Makes Los Angeles Thirsty for More
Partnership for a Healthier America's (PHA) Drink Up marketing campaign promotes greater water consumption across the United States. The campaign was launched in Los Angeles, California with its H2O Claro advertising billboards, social media and magazine ads.
FNV Year in Review
The FNV "fruits and veggies" national marketing campaign to promote fruits and vegetables is promoted in new markets and includes new celebrity spokespeople including actress Regina Hall, Washington Wizards' Bradley Beal, and TJ Oshie of the Washington Capitals.
PHA's Food Assistance Partnerships: Nourishing Communities Most In-Need
Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) partners with food banks, food pantries, and retailers to create steps to implement healthier food and beverage guidelines essential for providing healthier food options to vulnerable communities and populations through the charitable food system.
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With 20 years of business under his belt, we spoke to Damien from The Blue Lion Band to find out a little more about the band and share their wedding business success tips.
A: The Blue Lion band is a collective of musicians across the UK. We play regularly together, and tour together, as well as with some big names in the music industry. Using different combinations from our collective we can appear as anything from an acoustic duo to a 25 piece big band of top tier musicians.
Q: What was your business idea?
A: We provide bespoke music solutions for weddings, parties, and corporate functions, aiming to provide an excellent music service without an agent between us and the the client. Using a clever internet interface, we can update information in real time between individual clients and the musicians during the preparation phase of each event. We also designate a music planning consultant for every event; a point of contact for ideas and advice for the client, who is able to liaise with the venue and other service providers personally. We have consistently excellent reviews of our customer service.
Q: Why did you want to do this?
A: While the big headline gigs are fun, they can also become impersonal, so it's great to be able to perform at more intimate settings. Because we're able to get to know couples through their engagement and planning phase, it's a real treat to put on a performance that's tailored to their taste and style, adding the perfect soundtrack to their big day!
A: The life of a working musician is always varied – touring, festivals, recording, etc. – but other than a brief time as a music teacher straight out of university it's what I've always done.
A: I've worked in the music industry for over 20 years, and have no plans to retire!
A: We've been advertising with Guides for Brides for about a year now. The analytics have consistently shown that a reasonable amount of users of the GfB site are continuing on to our website to make an enquiry.
Q: What has been your biggest lesson learnt?
A: Weddings are a unique type of work. Often couples have never organised anything on this scale before, so it's a daunting task for them. No matter how many weddings we've done, it's important to respect that this is a once in a lifetime thing for the couple. We are very clear from the first enquiry about what we can offer, the different ways we can work with the formalities of the day, and set pricing for basic packages as well as any extras. This makes it easy for us to follow through with the promised services, as well as for each couple to balance the budget and get what they want.
A: We've been able to continue to be a group of musicians without an agent, but still able to provide a great service to our clients. Since we started listing with online directories rather than just trying to direct potential clients directly to our website, we've had many more people find us online and doubled our business without compromising our service.
Q: What would be your biggest tip to anyone looking to start a wedding business?
A: Focus on being the best at what you do, and remember your service or product is never going to be the right choice for everyone. Be honest with your clients and refer them on to other service providers if you know it's not going to work out – you will get plenty of referrals in return, and you'll have more time for the clients who love what you do.


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Medicine Woman Band
A few years ago, Cher Hunter, our lead vocalist, was at a jam session with a bunch of musicians in a cosy shack in Glen Dunne. She was moved by the sound of a lead guitarist's crazy hand-made machine, little did she know this was the legendary Roger Briggs of American Blues Exchange. He too heard something that day that wrenched him out of band retirement, and with that, he bestowed the name Medicine Woman to our gal.
After having sold his guitar to pay rent more than 20 years prior, Daz, Cher's husband, joined the band as rhythm guitarist. There were also a few fine musicians to credit in getting Medicine Woman off the ground playing covers around Nelson over the next couple of years, and you boys know who you are!
In 2015, Roger sadly announced he was hanging up his guitar after 50 years of playing shows. Cher's philosophy of following her head, heart & gut led her to write original music as she felt compelled to continue the journey. As you can imagine, finding a replacement for Roger was going to be tough. Medicine Woman had quite a few forward bookings, so Cher pulled on her big girl pants and started auditioning musicians. Little did she know, the Universe had bigger plans and sent her Chaos, quite literally, a loveable, crazy, unorthodox, fingers have minds of their own, lead guitarist, lyricist and song writer.
In 2016, it was evident Cher and Chaos, both free spirits, now needed a solid rhythm section. That's where Daz, who knew how to handle live wires with respect, (especially since he'd been married to one for over 25 years), decided bass was his next challenge. At which point his Christmas list would include a solid drummer who shared the vision of the band! A few months early, Daz's wish was granted with Geoffrey Douglas K joining the band. Geoffrey's solid time keeping and dance inducing beats led him to become the 4th key member of Medicine Woman Band.
Musical medicine was made over the next year, and we wouldn't have kept it up without the massive support from our Medicine Woman Tribe, made up of friends, family, venues with heart, and great people like you! We feel like we are in the prime of our lives, and we are enjoying every energy exchange that takes place when you join us for a listen and a boogie.
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Brooklyn Scott
Wow we have secured this amazing up and coming talent. Local, Garin College Student, Brooklyn began her singing career in 2015 at aged 12, winning both the novice section and junior open section, taking out the overall junior section at the Nelson Sun City Country Music Festival.
Sonoraw
Sonoraw is a Nelson four piece band that play an eclectic mix of covers by artists such as Adele, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Fleetwood Mac, Alanis Morrisette and Queen.
NZ Army Band
They have performed at the Edinburgh's Military Tattoo on more than one occasion and are attracting a lot of attention.
So then, Kramit in a nutshell. Covers band and Original Music as required.
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