What can one buy for $130?
With the State of Hawaii's climbing need for money to support its endless projects to keep paradise in check, and in addition to keeping our tourists touring and our taxpayers paying, it is only law enforcement's duty to issue citations. In recent times, however, the public complains of tickets being issued for what seem to be the least severe of offenses.
Traffic and parking is not a cakewalk here in Downtown-Chinatown. All too often do people come back to their cars only to see a gut-wrenching yellow slip of paper tucked under a windshield wiper. Or one may be so unfortunate as to be pulled over and cited for a rolling stop, and in the case of Hotel Street, for driving at all.
The vague and sporadic signage that indicate when-and-when-not-to-park are not exactly the easiest puzzles to decipher either. And people in the morning rush to get to work will begrudgingly pay a hefty $12+ fee for a spot in a parking garage, just to escape the unforgiving watch of the meter maid.
In addition to this copious enforcement of parking rules, jaywalking seems to have broadened as a term, with offenses such as merely walking outside the designated crosswalk lines or standing in the road as cause for citation. This has only been exacerbated with First Friday's Hotel Street road closure no longer in affect, leaving patrons, residents, and Chinatown workers hit with the $130 fine(though comparatively, this is not as horrific as the $250 jaywalking stubs one might be given in Los Angeles and New York City).
Naturally, these crackdowns exist to benefit the people. In 2014, Dangerous by Design, a report released by the National Complete Streets Coalition highlighted that between 2003-2012, a national epidemic of pedestrian deaths reached over 47,000 fatalities. In more than 60% of the cases, speed was a factor. The reason for such a number is that many roads were not designed for anything besides high-speed traffic. The NCSC says that pedestrian deaths are preventable through better policy, design, practice, and regulation. And with America's oldest Chinatown (ours!) home to a dense population of 5,350 per square mile, regulate they do.
Here is a guide for some parking tips and a few violations commonly cited.
- Parking in the same metered stall in Downtown-Chinatown is good for one hour. Because of a time sensor, the car has to be moved before more money can be added.
- Downtown-Chinatown has three municipal parking lots (I think correct, I can't thnk of more than three...), offering the best parking rates. Most are $3 after 5 p.m. on the weekdays. All day on weekends is just $3 as well. The catch is that you need to retrieve your car before midnight or will be locked in overnight.
- Another great parking resource is a mobile app called BestParking which tells you where and how much parking will cost depending on arrival and how long you stay parked.
- The best place to catch a cab (or Lyft or Uber) downtown is anywhere alone Merchant Street.
- Parking in most yellow painted loading zone areas is free after 4 p.m. Check the signs for restrictions as the rules vary from street to street.
- Meter parking is free after 5:30 p.m., on Sundays, and state holidays.
- Regular cars are not allowed on Hotel Street at anytime. Only buses, emergency vehicles and bicycles are allowed. One would be cited for a moving violation if caught.
- Pedestrians may step into a marked crosswalk ONLY when the white walking man is showing on the traffic light. If the red hand is blinking, you may not enter the crosswalk as it will be considered a jaywalking offense.
- It is illegal to cross or stand in the street outside of a marked crosswalk and is also considered a jaywalking offense.
- Jaywalking tickets are $130.


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Не плутати з генерал-фельдмаршалом!

Ебергард Герварт фон Біттенфельд (; 16 травня 1890, Гера — 15 січня 1957, Мюнхен) — німецький офіцер, генерал-майор люфтваффе.

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Син Вернера Фрідріха Герварта фон Біттенфельда і його дружини Жозефіни, уродженої баронеси фон Штайн-Лібенштайн цу Бархфельд. 13 березня 1909 березня поступив на службу в 5-й гвардійський гренадерський полк. Учасник Першої світової війни. Після демобілізації армії залишений у рехйсвері.

1 квітня 1934 року перейшов у люфтваффе, офіцер для особливих доручень Імперського міністерства авіації. З 1 січня 1935 року — керівник інструкторської групи військового училища 2-го авіаційного округу (Берлін-Гатов), з 1 жовтня — командир училища. З 1 жовтня 1937 року — командир Імперського інституту повітряної оборони. З 1 квітня 1938 року — начальник штабу Німецької асоціації повітряної оборони. 15 листопада 1938 року переведений в інспекцію військового поповнення в Берліні. З 3 січня 1939 року — командир 1-го військового району Бреслау. З 1 квітня 1940 року — комендант аеродромної області Варшави.

3 листопада 1942 року заарештований гестапо за звинувачення в «дружньому ставленні до поляків» і «саботажі наказів фюрера»: Герварт виступав проти діяльності нацистської цивільної адміністрації в генерал-губернаторстві. 7 грудня 1942 року 4-й сенат Імперського військового суду на чолі з Роландом Фрайслером за «військовий непослух» засудив Герварта до трьох років ув'язнення, позбавлення звання і нагород. 31 січня 1943 року Адольф Гітлер затвердив вирок. Герварт відбував покарання у фортеці Цінна в Торгау. 31 грудня 1943 року звільнений і відправлений на фронт. Наступного дня призначений солдатом в 11-й запасний авіаційний батальйон в Мюнстері. Співробітники гестапо знову спробували засудити Герварта через його політичне минуле, проте до суду справа не дійшла — імовірно, завдяки впливу його друзів з Імперського міністерства авіації. 11 липня 1944 року направлений в 1-й зенітний батальйону 1001, який діяв на Західному фронті. Співробітники Імперського міністерства авіації домагались відновлення Герварта у званні, посилаючись на те, що він «спокутував провину в бою», проте у метушні останніх місяців війни прохання не було розглянуте.

9 травня 1945 року взятий в полон американськими військами, в липні того ж року звільнений.

Звання

 Фенріх (13 березня 1909)
 Лейтенант (27 січня 1910)
 Обер-лейтенант (25 лютого 1915)
 Гауптман (16 вересня 1917)
 Майор (1 квітня 1929)
 Оберст-лейтенант (1 жовтня 1932)
 Оберст (1 вересня 1934)
 Генерал-майор запасу (1 січня 1938)
 Генерал-майор (1 квітня 1940)
 Солдат (1 січня 1944)
 Єфрейтор (1 лютого 1945)
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 Залізний хрест 2-го і 1-го класу
 Орден дому Саксен-Ернестіне, лицарський хрест 2-го класу з мечами
 Нагрудний знак «За поранення» в сріблі
 Почесний хрест ветерана війни з мечами
 Медаль «За вислугу років у Вермахті» 4-го, 3-го, 2-го і 1-го класу (25 років)
 Нагрудний знак спостерігача

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Resolution Honoring Leonard "Len" Herzstein
Adopted: August 10, 2017
Whereas, Leonard "Len" Herzstein left a successful career in business to start a new career as a member of the faculty at Skyline College, where he was instrumental in implementing the College's Co-operative Work Experience program;
Whereas, Len Herzstein introduced early innovations into the business department curriculum that were designed to help students better understand many practical aspects of business operations;
Whereas, Len Herzstein was elected by the faculty to multiple terms as Skyline College's Academic Senate President, serving from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1982 to 1984;
Whereas, Len Herzstein served on the statewide Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, where he was recognized as providing a unique perspective on the value and role of career education for students;
Whereas, Len Herzstein was respected and appreciated by faculty, staff and administration for his constructive, optimistic, friendly, humorous, and level-headed approach to a wide range of issues and concerns;
Whereas, Len Herzstein continued his support of students after retirement by helping raise funds for scholarships, including endowing a scholarship in his name for business students; and
Whereas, Len Herzstein's service at Skyline College, where he often brought joy to others, prepared him upon retirement for his third career as Ball Dude #1 for the San Francisco Giants;
Resolved, that the Skyline College Academic Senate recognize Leonard "Len" Herzstein's important contributions to Skyline College from his arrival in 1972 to his retirement in 1992, including his spirit of positive participation which has provided a lingering influence on others; and
Resolved, that Skyline College express its deepest condolences to Len Herzstein's family at this time of his recent passing.

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The Forgotten Massacre that Ignited the Kashmir Dispute
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir 06 Nov. 2017 (AlJazeera News)
The family of Israr Ahmad Khan lived through the massacre of Jammu in what was then part of the princely state of Kashmir. He recalls that many of his relatives were killed during the violence that followed months after British rule over Indian sub-continent ended.
"My father was young then and other immediate family members were in Kashmir at that time. But many of my relatives were brutally killed," the 63-year-old told Al Jazeera.
"To be honest that was a mad period. There was no humanity shown at that time," Khan, who retired as senior police officer, said at his home in Jammu.
In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by mobs and paramilitaries led by the army of Dogra ruler Hari Singh.
The exact number of casualties in the killings that continued for two months is not known but estimates range from 20,000 to 237,000 and nearly half million forced into displacement across the border into the newly created nation of Pakistan and its administered part of Kashmir.
Khan said many of his relatives had escaped to Pakistan, where they continue to live. "The incident divided families. There were a lot of Muslims in Jammu but now you won't find many," he said.
The killings triggered a series of events, including a war between two newly independent nations of India and Pakistan, which gave birth to Kashmir dispute.
The killings took place when millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were crossing the border from the one side to the other, as part of British-designed plan to partition the subcontinent into India and Pakistan.
"The immediate impact (of partition) was in Jammu. The Muslim subjects from different parts of Jammu province were forcibly displaced by the Dogra Army in a programme of expulsion and murder carried out over three weeks between October-November 1947," Idrees Kanth, a fellow at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, who researched the 1940s history of Kashmir, told Al Jazeera.
In mid-October, the Dogra Army troops began expelling Muslim villagers from Jammu province. The refugees were sent on foot toward West Punjab (later to form part of Pakistan), where most were accommodated in refugee camps in the districts of Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat and Rawalpindi.
On November 5, Kanth said, the Dogra Army soldiers began another organised evacuation of the Muslims but "instead of taking them to Sialkot, as they had been promised, the trucks drove them to forest hills of Rajouri districts of Jammu, where they were executed".
Kanth added that there may have been a systematic attempt by the dying Dogra regime to ensure that records of the incident are destroyed and made it a lesser known massacre of the partition.
"I guess as happens with certain events, they got lost to history and resurface at a later time and in that sense they sort of rewrite our memory of the past. I would say the particular incident was sort of lost on us to a great extent until the post 1990s when the event was resurrected as yet another example of Dogra regime's communal politics," Kanth said.
'Demographic changes'
The historians say that the killings carried out by the Hindu ruler's army and Sikh army was a "state sponsored genocide" to bring out demographic changes in Jammu – a region which had an overwhelming population of Muslims.
"The massacre of more than two lakh (two hundred thousands) Muslims was state-sponsored and state supported. The forces from Patiala Punjab were called in, RSS (a right-wing Hindu organisation) was brought to communalise the whole scenario and kill Muslims," said PG Rasool, the author of a book The Historical Reality of Kashmir Dispute.
The Muslims, who constituted more than 60 percent of the population of Jammu region, were reduced to a minority after the killings and displacement.
He said that when the then Indian Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdullah met a delegation of Muslims in Jammu, they were told about the "tragic events" but they preferred to remain silent.
"They didn't want that people in Kashmir – which had a Muslim majority from the beginning – should know about it because it could have led to demonstrations. The state from the beginning has tried to cover up it. I don't call it massacre but it was a staged genocide that is unfortunately not talked about," he said.
"They thought even if they lose Kashmir at least they should get Jammu and the only way was to have a Hindu majority."
Muhammad Ashraf Wani, a professor of History at the University of Kashmir, said that the Muslims in Jammu "do not talk about it because they fear for their survival".
"This is the worst tragedies in the history of Kashmir but unfortunately no one talks about it because the state doesn't want anyone to remember it," Wani said.
Khurram Parvez, a noted human rights defender in Kashmir, told Al Jazeera that the perpetual conflict in Kashmir has its roots in 1947 massacre. "It is deliberately forgotten. Actually, the violence of that massacre in 1947 continues. Those who were forced to migrate to Pakistan have never been allowed to return," he said.
Five days after the Jammu killings, tribal militias from Pakistan's North Western Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), where many of the Jammu Muslims had family ties, invaded Kashmir.
As the army of tribesmen rushed to Kashmir, the army of Dogra monarch fled to Jammu. The king Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession with New Delhi, which sent its army to fight the tribesmen.
The fighting of several weeks between tribesmen and Indian Army eventually led to first India-Pakistan war. When New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire in January 1948, the formerly princedom of Jammu and Kashmir was divided between the two countries.
The conflict born in 1947 has led to three wars between India and Pakistan. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed in the violence in past three decades since the armed revolt against Indian rule broke out in the region in 1989.
November 6, 2017 / Current Affairs


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October 18, 2011 weblog
Research group finds ancient deep sea mud volcano as possible site for origin of life
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
Isua Supracrustal Belt Isua, south-west Greenland. Credit: University of Washington.
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international consortium of scientists and researchers has been studying some ancient rocks found on the southwestern coast of Greenland. They believe the rocks were once part of a deep sea mud volcano, similar to those found today near the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean and that they were likely part of an environment conducive to the synthesis of amino acids, which are believed to be necessary for life. What's most intriguing about them though is that their age indicates that they are from roughly the same time period as what is thought by many scientists to be when the first living creatures appeared here on Earth; i.e. some four billion years ago.
The group has published its findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Deep sea mud volcanoes, unlike those that grow to form islands, tend to be much cooler than other volcanoes (and deep sea hydrothermal vents) due to the cool ocean temperatures in which they exist. It's for this reason that many scientists consider them ideal environments for the beginning of life. Any new life that arose would need a consistently warm environment, but one that also didn't get too hot. Also helpful would be an environment that is alkaline, rather than acidic (unlike hydrothermal vents). Deep sea mud volcanoes appear to fit the bill.
In studying the rocks, the team found that they were once saturated with reasonably warm alkaline fluids that had a lot of carbonates. Such fluids can be found today in existing deep sea mud volcanoes such as those near the Mariana Islands, which the researchers say would have been very nearly the perfect environment for the continued existence of newly formed living creatures. Because of this, the team believes that similar mud volcanoes existed off the coast of Greenland around the time that life was getting started, and if so, the area would have made an exceptionally good place for life to not only get going, but for it to thrive.
Deep sea mud volcanoes are rather rare today, but many scientists believe they were more abundant billions of years ago when oceans covered more of the Earth's surface. And of course, finding an environment conducive to supporting life once it's been started, still doesn't explain how it got started in the first place.
Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
More information: Early Archean serpentine mud volcanoes at Isua, Greenland, as a niche for early life, PNAS, Published online before print October 17, 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1108061108
The Isua Supracrustal Belt, Greenland, of Early Archean age (3.81–3.70 Ga) represents the oldest crustal segment on Earth. Its complex lithology comprises an ophiolite-like unit and volcanic rocks reminiscent of boninites, which tie Isua supracrustals to an island arc environment. We here present zinc (Zn) isotope compositions measured on serpentinites and other rocks from the Isua supracrustal sequence and on serpentinites from modern ophiolites, midocean ridges, and the Mariana forearc. In stark contrast to modern midocean ridge and ophiolite serpentinites, Zn in Isua and Mariana serpentinites is markedly depleted in heavy isotopes with respect to the igneous average. Based on recent results of Zn isotope fractionation between coexisting species in solution, the Isua serpentinites were permeated by carbonate-rich, high-pH hydrothermal solutions at medium temperature (100–300 °C). Zinc isotopes therefore stand out as a pH meter for fossil hydrothermal solutions. The geochemical features of the Isua fluids resemble the interstitial fluids sampled in the mud volcano serpentinites of the Mariana forearc. The reduced character and the high pH inferred for these fluids make Archean serpentine mud volcanoes a particularly favorable setting for the early stabilization of amino acids.
via Livescience
© 2011 PhysOrg.com
Citation: Research group finds ancient deep sea mud volcano as possible site for origin of life (2011, October 18) retrieved 19 January 2022 from https://phys.org/news/2011-10-group-ancient-deep-sea-mud.html
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Game Scores #1 Debut With R.E.D. Album
Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne drops to #2 on Billboard chart.
After more delays than a space shuttle launch, Compton rapper the Game will finally have his reward next week when his endlessly pushed-back fourth effort, The R.E.D. Album, debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. According to figures provided by SoundScan, the disc moved just under 98,000 copies, enough to grab the top spot but well below the first-week figures for his 2008 album LAX, which opened with 239,000 in sales.
Either way, it's just enough to beat out Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne, which drops to #2 in its third week, as sales dove 47 percent to 94,000 for a three-week total just north of 707,000. Among the new entries in the top 10 is a Barbra Streisand collection, What Matters Most — Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman (#4, 66,000), the debut from country supergroup Pistol Annies, Hell on Heels (#5, 44,000), which consists of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, and Muppets: The Green Album (#8, 30,000), with modern interpretations of the lovable puppets' songs by OK Go, Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Amy Lee of Evanescence and the Fray.
The rest of the top 10: Adele's 21 (#3, 82,000), NOW 39 (#6, 44,000), Luke Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines (#7, 35,000), Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party (#9, 29,000) and Eric Church's Chief (#10, 24,000).
Further down the line, Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks come in at #43 with Mirror Traffic (8,000), and 30 Seconds to Mars land at #76 with their new Unplugged set (6,000).
Lil Wayne immediately jumped to the top of the iTunes album charts after Tha Carter IV dropped digitally following the VMAs on Sunday. He was followed by the Pistol Annies, Game, Adele, Jay and Kanye, Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' I'm With You, the Muppets album, Foster the People's Torches and Rihanna's resurgent Loud.
Maroon 5 continue to dominate the singles chart with "Moves Like Jagger," while Foster the People are right behind with "Pumped Up Kicks," Gym Class Heroes make a strong showing with "Stereo Hearts" (featuring Maroon's Adam Levine) and Rihanna has plenty to toast as "Cheers (Drink to That)" comes in at #4. Rounding out the tally: Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters," LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," Wayne's "She Will," Lady Gaga's "You and I," Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" and OneRepublic's Good Life."
Things will surely be shaken up next week when Wayne's Tha Carter IV crashes the charts with estimates that it could sell nearly 1 million copies. Also debuting are the Chili Peppers, as well as David Guetta, VMA pre-show performers Cobra Starship and Lenny Kravitz.


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Ho Ching (; born 27 March 1953) is a Singaporean businesswoman who has been serving as the director of Temasek Trust since 2021. She is the wife of incumbent Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Ho joined Temasek Holdings as a director in January 2002. She became its executive director in May 2002 and was appointed as the chief executive officer by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in January 2004.

As of 2020, she is listed as the 30th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes.

Early life and education
Ho was born on 27 March 1953 in Singapore. She attended Crescent Girls' School and National Junior College—where she became one of the top students for the A Level examinations in her cohort and was named Student of the Year, before graduating from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours degree in electrical engineering.

She subsequently went on to complete a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1982.

Career
Ho started her career as an engineer with the Ministry of Defence of Singapore in 1976. In 1983, she became the Director of Defence Materials Organisation, the procurement agency of the ministry and concurrently held the position of deputy director of Defence Science Organisation.

Ho joined Singapore Technologies in 1987 as deputy director of engineering and took on various senior responsibilities before becoming its president and chief executive officer in 1997. She is credited with repositioning and growing the group in the five years that she led it. For instance, she was the architect for the formation and listing of Singapore Technologies Engineering in 1997 and served as its first chairperson.

Ho joined Temasek Holdings as a director in January 2002 and became its executive director in May 2002.

Ho assumed the role of chief executive officer of Temasek on 1 January 2004. She is widely credited with transforming Temasek, an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore, from a Singapore-focused firm into an active investor in Asia and the world.

Ho has served as chairperson of the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, and as deputy chairperson of the Productivity and Standards Board, and the Economic Development Board.

Ho stepped down as CEO and executive director on October, 1 2021, being succeeded by Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, who will continue to concurrently hold his current appointment as chief executive of Temasek International. The same day, she was appointed as a director of Temasek Trust, and will succeed S. Dhanabalan in the following year as chairperson on 1 April 2022.

Honours

National
For her public service, she was conferred the

  Public Administration Medal (silver, 1985)
  Public Service Star (1996) award by the Singapore Government.

Foreign

  First Class of The Most Exalted Order of Sultan Ibrahim Johor – Dato' Sri Mulia Sultan Ibrahim Johor (SMIJ), which carries the title Datin Paduka (May 6, 2022)

  First Class of The Most Distinguished Order of Paduka Seri Laila Jasa – Darjah Paduka Seri Laila Jasa (PSLJ), which carries the title Datin Paduka Seri Laila Jasa (July 16, 2022).

Academic

 In 1995, Ho was conferred the National University of Singapore's Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award.
 She is also an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

Others
Ho has appeared in many rankings of the most powerful and influential people in the world. In 2007, Ho was picked as one of the "100 most influential men and women" who shaped the world by Time magazine. In 2007, Forbes magazine ranked her 3rd in its annual list of the world's most powerful women, behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel and China's Vice-Premier Wu Yi. Ho had climbed 33 spots from 36th place in the previous year's list.

In 2011, Ho was included in the '50 Most Influential' ranking by Bloomberg Markets magazine.

In 2013, Ho was ranked ninth on the Public Investor 100 ranking compiled by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

In 2014, she was listed as the 59th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In June, Ho was also awarded the 2014 Asian Business Leaders Award. The annual Asia House award recognises individuals who embody the 'Servant Leader' – economic success and professional excellence accompanied by moral leadership and service to society. Asia House is a centre of expertise on Asia and the leading pan-Asian organisation in the UK. She became the 30th most powerful woman in 2016.

In 2019, she ranked No. 23 in the Power Women 2019 of Forbes list, while in 2020 she ranked 30th again.

Philanthropy
In her personal capacity, Ho supports various community service and charitable organisations.  She has particular interest in special needs education, healthcare and the welfare and development of children.  She is the patron of Assisi Hospice, and the founding chairman of Trailblazer Foundation Ltd, an IPC charity which provides funding for education, health, sports and community welfare. In March 2014, Ho was inducted into the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations' Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, which honours outstanding women of Singapore.

In August 2016, Ho received a positive reception when on a state visit to the White House to mark 50 years of bilateral relations between the US and Singapore, she carried a pouch designed by an autistic student from Pathlight School (under its Artist Development Program). Ho is an advisor to the Autism Resource Centre (ARC), a non-profit charity in charge of Pathlight School, and had acquired the pouch at an ARC fundraising event. Ho is also a patron of the Autism Association of Singapore.

Personal life
Ho is the eldest of four children of businessman, Ho Eng Hong (born 1926) and Chan Chiew Ping (1931-2005). She has two brothers and a sister. Her sister, Ho Peng, is the chairperson of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board, while her brother, Ho Sing, is an executive director of Starhill Global REIT She met her husband, Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, while starting out in her career at the Ministry of Defence together with former prime minister Goh Chok Tong. They married on 17 December 1985 and have two sons, Hongyi and Haoyi. Ho is stepmother to Lee's two children from his first marriage—daughter Xiuqi and son Yipeng.

References

External links
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew | Articles Speeches and Interviews – Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀

1953 births
Living people
Lee family (Singapore)
National Junior College alumni
National University of Singapore alumni
President's Scholars
Recipients of the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam
Recipients of the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat
Singaporean chief executives
Singaporean engineers
Singaporean people of Cantonese descent
Spouses of prime ministers of Singapore
Stanford University alumni
Temasek Holdings people


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I was just thinking: since Mechagodzilla was built to fight the much smaller Godzilla of the past, won't the future Godzilla tower over it? I mean, if was built to be the same size as Godzilla then it'd be buzzing around Godzilla Earth (his name, right?) like oh-so-many fighter jets of the past - unless they made Mechagodzilla ridiculously large in the first place.
Here's a theory: the new Mechagodzilla has size changing technology (like Jet Jaguar). Since I'm making such a bold prediction howsabout another: there's a time limit on this ability, adding a countdown clock element to the drama.
lhb412 wrote: I was just thinking: since Mechagodzilla was built to fight the much smaller Godzilla of the past, won't the future Godzilla tower over it? I mean, if was built to be the same size as Godzilla then it'd be buzzing around Godzilla Earth (his name, right?) like oh-so-many fighter jets of the past - unless they made Mechagodzilla ridiculously large in the first place.
You know, one aspect of Mechagodzilla and other giant robots built for the express purpose of fighting and killing giant monsters in general that makes less sense the more you think about it (like so much genre fiction in general, and that's part of what makes it so wonderful!), is that they're always built to match the size of the monster(s) damn near exactly.
From an in-universe point of view, if you live in a world where it's possible for things like this to exist and you have the technology and resources to construct a machine like this that's actually functional, and where the entire point is for it to serve as a giant monster killer; why not make it at least twice, maybe three times the size of the monster(s)?
It could be pretty fun if, this time, they subverted that by building a Mechagodzilla that had a massive size advantage on its side - but then Godzilla conveniently ended up growing until he matched or even dwarfed it anyway!
Ultra T-Rex wrote: From an in-universe point of view, if you live in a world where it's possible for things like this to exist and you have the technology and resources to construct a machine like this that's actually functional, and where the entire point is for it to serve as a giant monster killer; why not make it at least twice, maybe three times the size of the monster(s)?
I'm guessing... budget? It's probably easy to convince the moneymen that your robot needs to be at least the size of its opponent, but once you start trying to bump it up they probably get sheepish.
Mechagodzilla has always been just a little taller than Godzilla. I guess the black hole aliens, G-Force and JXSDF all thought it was enough.
MG with size-changing abilities is something that needs to happen, if not in the anime sequels then in a future live-action movie.
Finally got around to watching this......It wasn't bad IMHO. I didn't enjoy it on the same level that I did Shin Godzilla but nevertheless.....I didn't mind it as others here seem to be tearing it apart. Perhaps I'm just to easy going on movies anymore.......I'll watch the next two features for sure to see how a fight between a thousand foot Godzilla and a thousand foot Mechagodzilla pans out without the earth collapsing from underneath their weight.
KaiserGhidorah wrote: how a fight between a thousand foot Godzilla and a thousand foot Mechagodzilla pans out without the earth collapsing from underneath their weight.
The 'Godzilla' aspect of this Mechagodzilla does not come through facing, but it's easy to see in profile and from above.
^I can kinda look at it and imagine which spikes will be left out or consolidated or nerfed of whatever to make the toy.
Movie's only a week away and we're just now getting our tiny pixilated looks at the metal boy!
It almost looks more like a new moguera than mechagodzilla.
It looks like a bunch of scrap metal junk hastily welded together. I don't like it.
I'm really not into this Mechagodzilla design. It's pretty much just scrap metal, fins, and spikes welded into a Godzilla-shaped mess. (I guess I could've just quoted DannyBeane, but I digress.) I doubt it will come off better in motion, but I'm willing to be surprised.
how long till toho gets off the bizarro juice.
Henry88 wrote: how long till toho gets off the bizarro juice.
You mean experimenting with different takes, different mediums, and different creative teams?
Hopefully not for a while. The MonsterVerse is serving up the meat-and-potatoes Godzilla, so Toho doing that would be rather pointless.
Much as I'd rather literally punch myself in the face than sit through the anime again, and found Shin Godzilla to be Meh-tacular, I agree.
^And if they continue to experiment, they're bound to end up creating at least one thing you'll like! I mean, eventually!
how about they just make Godzilla an actual king with robe and crown.
I'd love a fantasy themed Godzilla movie. Something like a fusion of Godzilla, Daimajin, and a peppering Lord of the Rings.
I want a series of Godzilla films that take place in space on different planets. Think Planet Hulk but with Godzilla. Then a film that depicts space Godzilla and King Ghidorah battling on a planet and Godzilla takes on a Yojimbo like role. Then the conclusion would be Godzilla gets expelled into a star but absorbs enough radiation on the way there and basically turns into Godzilla Galactus. I think a trilogy in space can get away with being really "out there" and fun.
lhb412 wrote: ^And if they continue to experiment, they're bound to end up creating at least one thing you'll like! I mean, eventually!
...but there has been one thing common to both Shin and the Anime, and it's the general depiction of Godzilla as a monolithic mountain with no personality.


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Broking in the regions
Tas Bindi 10:00 AM, 8 Feb 2019 8 minute read
Broking in regional, remote and rural areas comes with many advantages, but it can also be challenging at times. Tas Bindi chats with brokers about what it's like to run a business in regional towns.
The grass is greener, the air is cleaner, and the community is more connected. While some believe strong opportunities only exist in the city, there are many perks to running a broking business in regional areas.
For example, Doug Bohmer, founder of Bfinance who moved interstate from Melbourne to Alice Springs nearly five years ago, says one of the greatest benefits is that "word-of-mouth travels fast" in regional towns.
"In a small town, everyone relies on [word of mouth] for everything from where to eat and where to go camping to which mortgage broker to use," he says.
"If you do a consistently good job that people appreciate, then they will tell [others]."
Deborah Ebert, South Australia-based credit adviser and partner at Directional Finance, agrees, saying that there's the additional pressure to do an excellent job for clients because "it's very hard to walk up the main street [of a regional town] or be in a neighbouring town without bumping into them".
"Part of our job is to educate people. We spend quite a bit of time [helping clients with] budgeting and letting them know what the banks require these days. A lot of people don't understand what the implications [would be if, for example], they wanted to buy a property but they've actually spent most of their money on buying a car [to avoid] getting a loan," the Riverland-based broker adds.
"Then [they] come to buy property and find out they need a minimum 5 per cent genuine savings and an extra 5 per cent to cover the fees."
Out in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Timothy Gibbons is managing director at AgLend Finance and he suggests that the ability to develop "a strong point of difference" is one of the key benefits of broking in regional areas.
"We live near some of the best farming land in Australia, so our industry knowledge is high. With regional banks closing down, we can attract some extremely talented and experienced staff," he explains.
"I believe there is a high demand [from] people in rural areas with no access to a good local banker that require help, so now they can have an agri-broker speak to them via video call or similar."
Another upside, especially given the ongoing scrutiny of loan serviceability assessments, is that regional clients tend to borrow smaller amounts and stay within their means, according to Mr Bohmer.
"It's very, very rare that a client of mine [in Alice Springs] is borrowing anywhere near their serviceability limit because they're borrowing $200,000 to $400,000, [compared to] my Melbourne clients who tend to borrow $1 million," the Bfinance broker says.
The downsides
On the other hand, as property prices are notably lower in regional towns than in CBDs, so are average loan sizes, which means the commissions paid for servicing regional customers are also smaller, Mr Bohmer adds.
"In order to get a similar amount of commission [to an average broker in a bigger city], you probably need to write double or triple the amount of loans, because [clients] are borrowing significantly less," the Bfinance broker explains.
Similarly, Ms Ebert further notes that a million-dollar deal and a $150,000 deal require about the same amount of work.
Limited support from lenders is also a challenge for regional brokers, Mr Gibbons says.
"We tend to get forgotten about until our volumes get someone's attention or we go chasing updates," the AgLend managing director comments.
"With a heavy focus on commercial agri-lending, the lack of communication in an already difficult space can make things more interesting."
He also laments the lack of understanding of what is considered a regional area, explaining that when a lender claims to provide regional support, the support service may not necessarily be available to all regional operators.
"We are four hours from a major city in a town of 6,500 people (including surrounding areas). I have had BDMs say they are regularly in contact with regional brokers, but on checking locations, their brokers operate within populations of 100,000-plus, or a short distance from major CBDs," Mr Gibbons says.
"Brokers that operate in small regional areas can at times have a unique set of problems… It can be difficult knowing who we can turn to that can fix our current problems."
In the aftermath of the Hayne royal commission and ongoing inquiries from the regulators, the AgLend managing director suspects some brokerages may find it more difficult to write loans in regional towns.
"With local branches closing, industry in a state of confusion, I find most bigger brokerages will struggle with writing business in small country towns as it requires a lot of local knowledge, including product knowledge specific to lending in rural areas," Mr Gibbons says.
As such, he says a regional broker could be "a valuable source of direction in these confusing and unstable times".
"But they also need to have good systems to allow them to process deals promptly," Mr Gibbons recommends.
Tas Bindi
Last Updated: 08 February 2019 Published: 08 February 2019
Written by Tas Bindi
Tas Bindi is the features editor for The Adviser magazine.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Tas wrote for business and technology titles such as ZDNet, TechRepublic, Startup Daily, and Dynamic Business.
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Nyack is an undergraduate and graduate-level liberal arts college committed to Christian higher education and educating a diverse student body within major urban centers. The New York City campus is located in a brand new facility with overlooking scenic views of Battery Park and the Hudson River.
Our School of Social Work's mission is to prepare students for competent, just and compassionate service with diverse populations. Building on the academic excellence of our Bachelor's in Social Work program, we launched the Master of Social Work Program in August 2015. The Council of Social Work Education has accredited the program with an official date of July 9th, 2018. The MSW program features an advanced clinical practice specialization, which emphasizes the skills of assessment and diagnosis, evidence-based interventions and treatment, group dynamics, and effect of social justice issues on the practice of social work.
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Stop Speculating, Start Sustaining – Talking About Awesome Things.
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Radiohead's manager talked about a change in the way 'the music industry' managed its business model. As quoted in the piece:
"We're trying to get away from a copyright trading model more towards a venture capitalist approach with artists," says Message. Think of it as Dragons' Den with guitars – with Message as the thoughtful-looking entrepreneur sitting with fingers interlocked while some young beat combo pitch their wares ("So, we're kind of like The Smiths meet Funkadelic…").
(thanks to @lykle for the link) Continue reading "Stop Speculating, Start Sustaining – Talking About Awesome Things."
The foolishness of Copying Radiohead (or 'why poor people vote for lower taxes')
[This started out as being my first post for MusicThinkTank.com, a site I've been invited to blog for, but ended up far too long to post there, so I'll put it here, and post something else there… 🙂 ]
So Trent Reznor has gone one step further than he did with Ghosts, and is giving all of his new album away TOTALLY for free. No high dollar packages – at least for now – just free downloads, including putting massively hi-res versions on Bit Torrent, with a CD/Vinyl release to follow in July. (No mention yet of extra tracks on the physical release)…
Since Radiohead and Prince 'gave albums away' last year, we've all been talking endlessly about whether or not all music should be 'free', whether this is the new model that we should all adopt.
Two things are clear about Radiohead, Prince and Trent Reznor – (1) they're all massively wealthy, and (2) all could guarantee massive press coverage for a move as 'bold' as giving a record away.
From those two points, I think it's easy to see why modeling our marketing strategies against these artists is a non-starter. Unless you're independently wealthy, or have the kind of day-job that affords you both the time and resources to tour heavily to symbiotically promote YOU via the free downloads and the tour, there's not really a comparison financially.
And as anyone knows who's ever paid for print advertising, column inches are incredibly valuable – the value of the coverage that Radiohead got for 'giving their music away for free' must've run into millions of pounds worldwide – a new Radiohead album is frontpage news in Q and Spin, but not in all the national newspapers around the world that covered it as a lead story, or on the television news programmes that led with it.
Copying the actions of celebrity millionaires is a bizarre kind of aspirational living – similar to that which drives Grazia-buying women to copy the fashions of the wives of sportsmen, and which causes millions of Americans vote for a political system that will leave them considerably financially worse off, 'just in case they ever get rich' – the myth of the American Dream, that anyone can get rich, keeps a lot of poor people voting for low taxation & lower government spending, because they'd hate to have their money taken off them when they get rich, despite the statistics showing that a minute number of people ever make the kind of quantum leaps in earnings that take even middle-income workers into the world of the super-rich. [I know there are a lot of other reasons why people might vote Republican or Libertarian, so please, no political comments on this one 😉 ]
Musicians are following suit, taking at face value the idea that Radiohead, NIN et al. gave away their music for 'free' and not looking at the massive value it carried as a press-generator for them in a way that just doesn't work if you haven't already had millions spent on you over years and years to get you to the place where your 'free' album is front page news.
Clearly, me 'giving my music away' and Radiohead 'giving their music away' are not comparable situations. Not at all.
For one thing, I'm a solo bass player. In a world where 'pop' music is driven by two main things – singing and drumming – I play instrumental music without a drummer, often without a fixed rhythm at all. Copying the broadcast-focussed actions of a bunch of zeitgeist-defining millionaire pop-stars is about as useful to me understanding my audience as putting videos of me reading Shakespeare on Youtube would be, just because a lot of people like Shakespeare.
Getting sidetracked by the aspiration to be a rock 'n' roll superstar is career suicide for an artist still needing to generate an audience to be monetized. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, in the new music economy, any strategy that relies on Broadcast media but doesn't have millions of dollars to invest to get that rolling is doomed to failure.
Yes, there's the chance that something you 'give away' will 'go viral'. There's also a chance that you'll win the lottery and be able to pay for all that lovely broadcast airtime you so crave. Neither happen anywhere near frequently enough to be statistically significant when planning how to build an audience and connect with them.
[this is the point that this post becomes 'Social Media Thoughts Pt 5']
No, we need to think differently, and the bit that we do have control over is the conversation. The back-and-forth with our audience, our friends and our peers about what we do and why we do it, framing out art in a dialogue about what it is, why it exists and the ways that people who like it have to support it.
That's what social media presents us with. I can answer in-depth questions about what I do on the forum, I can invite comment about what I do, here on the blog via comments, I can answer one-line questions and field comments about gigs via twitter, creating a buzz about it amongst those people who get to hear about it.
Last Tuesday I did a gig at Darbucka, with Lobelia, and with the Lawson/Dodds/Wood trio (apparently we're changing the order of the names in the band name – it's getting very Spinal Tap! 🙂 ), and with special guests Lloyd Davis and Miriam Jones. Almost everyone there got in for free. The guestlist was HUGE. We made so little on the door as to be insignificant. However, the audience were, for the first time in AGES, largely people who'd never seen me play before, and as a result I sold more CDs at the gig that I have in ages at a Darbucka show. Miriam sold some CDs too, and the buzz afterwards on Twitter was huge – way more people talking about that gig via Twitter than any previous gig I've done. I got a lot of messages from people who were really sorry to have missed it, wanting to know when we're playing again, and a lot of people downloading the free albums, and others buying Cds and downloads from the shop off the back of the gig. And there's a LOT of talk about the forthcoming albums from both Lobelia and I and the trio…
So am I anti-free? Clearly not, the gig was essentially 'free', for most of the audience, but it was a different kind of free. It was free with context, free with value, in that everyone who was put on the guestlist was grateful, came with a sense of excitement and expectation, and went home talking about the gig. The music became a social object, something with value and cache, all of which is there to be monetized at a later date.
The bottom line is Don't give it away for nothing, but the currency you trade in doesn't have to be money
The gig, the music and my relationship with the people there was framed within the context of a series of social media-enabled conversations. I'm not suddenly going to fill Wembley by doing this, but the desire to fill Wembley is a destructive greedy pipe dream that ignores the beauty and value in where my music, career, and relationship with my audience is at NOW. I may one day fill Wembley, but I may also one day meet a benevolent billionaire on a plane who decides to sponsor my music to the tune of £200,000 a year, expecting nothing in return. Neither are a good plan to base a marketing strategy on.
So, forget about the mis-use of the word 'free' as applied to the 'music in exchange for press coverage and gig promotion' that already-successful multi-million-selling Rock stars do, and start focussing on the conversation you can have with your audience, using your music as a social object around which to build value, cache, excitement, events and value added product/scarcity-based revenue streams.
(A LOT of the stuff in this post is talked about in the Creative Coffee Club podcast That I recorded with Penny Jackson – If you're interested in this stuff, you really ought to listen to it… )


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Superconductivity of Bismuth Observed at .5 mK
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Scientists from India report that pure Bismuth (Bi) is superconducting at ultralow temperatures, a discovery that cannot be explained by standard models of superconductivity.
For more than a century, researchers have studied Bi, the 83rd element of the periodic table, and it continues to draw enormous scientific interest due to its unusual electronic properties. Bulk Bi at ambient pressure is a semi-metal and it remains in a normal state down to 0.010 K.
Unlike metals where there is roughly one mobile electron per atom, in a semi-metal like Bi the concentration of mobile electrons is extremely low. In Bi, 100,000 atoms share a single mobile electron. Due to this extremely low carrier density and earlier studies showing Bi resistant to superconductivity at 10 mK, scientists thought its superconductivity in bulk was unlikely.
Such thinking has changed, however, in light of the findings published in Science by a research team at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Led by Professor S. Ramakrishnan, the TIFR researchers discovered superconductivity of a high-quality single crystal of Bi (99.998 percent pure) at 0.53 mK with a critical field of 0.000005 Tesla (nearly 1/8 of earth's magnetic field). The team used a homemade ultra sensitive magnetometer housed in a copper nuclear refrigerator to observe the experiment's diamagnetic signal.
The finding makes Bismuth one of the two lowest carrier density superconductors to date and suggests, according to the TIFR team, that a new standard model in superconductivity is needed since its assumption that electronic (Fermi) energy is much larger than lattice (vibration) energy fails in Bismuth.
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How 'vice' industries have worked their way back into public favour
How have alcohol and fast food brands made themselves respectable? By behaving better and marketing more ethically for a start.
By Harry Lang	 9 Mar 2021 5:00 pm
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception," wrote Aldous Huxley.
As I sit with my daughter at 5am on a morose Covid Monday, time moves ever so slowly.
Switch to the start of the working day. A short commute up the stairs, second coffee in hand, and open the calendar. Suddenly it's half past one, time to cobble together a toastie before – boom – it's 6pm. There's simply no consistency, measure nor reason. Time is slipping by like an eel in a lubricant factory.
Lockdown in midwinter is a cruel mistress. It plays with your ability to track time. It meddles with your mood and it fiddles with your perception. Maybe this is why so many people are eschewing rational thought and backing loony conspiracy theories around Covid vaccinations, the environment and American politics.
Take Trump voters as a case in point – nearly 50% of the American (active) voting public. These aren't imbeciles, in the medieval sense. They're bright enough to accrue the dollars required to fly to MAGA rallies, co-ordinate a tactical barnstorm of the Capitol, purchase extravagant weaponry, drive gas-guzzling monster trucks and pay for weddings to their cousins. For some, their beliefs are true while, for everyone else, they project some of the most absurd lunacies of the modern age. It all relates to individual perception.
It was on a walk last weekend that I came to think about perception, specifically the broader negative sentiments about 'vice' industries – a hedonistic void I've worked in, on and off, for over 20 years (the last 16 of which have been in online gambling). It's hard to defend gambling as a holistic business. By definition, it involves significant risk and there are certain cohorts of bettors who are at risk of developing problem gambling tendencies. It's a vice industry with an image problem, and despite significant efforts to clean up its act, gambling is considered by its detractors as being akin to Kim Jong-Un trying to sneak covertly into a nuns' tea party.
Esports is a huge but immature industry that needs to grow up fast
That said, regulated gaming operators aren't exclusively run by evil plutocrats. Most care about their customers and are wholeheartedly behind the majority of pragmatic initiatives that protect players who may be susceptible to gambling addiction. So why is the industry so universally villified?
Reformed image
To answer that, I looked back to my early career. I spent my formative agency years working for British American Tobacco, Allied Domecq and Budweiser. Booze and Fags. Tier 1 vice industries. The Pros.
Add to these fast food, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals and you've got the full house of 'naughty' businesses, perceived as the antithesis of contemporary, holistic commercial behaviours.
However, over the last 30 years, the vice group split. One direction became two. Booze, drugs and fast food peeled away and somehow shed their cloaks of negative perception, leaving the indefensible Big Tobacco, apathetic petrochemical and perennially slow-to-react gambling industries languishing in the sewers – to profit, pollute and wager at leisure.
The booze industry (led by brand-builder-in-chief Diageo) took control of its own destiny by forming The Portman Group – a voluntary body designed to self-regulate the marketing of Big Alcohol. By taking the reins and neutering government regulators, the industry and associated brands were able to recapture their destiny, and today, despite the obvious dangers associated with drinking, they can advertise to adults at will (with health warnings), sponsor sports and cherish a glowing reputation as marketers extraordinaire.
Look at Brewdog. It built a billion-dollar business by not giving a shit about what anyone thinks.
Product focus, customer centricity and high spending on a relentless public perception mission appear to be the required ammunition.
Fast food took a different path; one driven by product, PR and lobbying as much as brand marketing. Salads joined the menus, dietary information received prominent (although not too prominent) placement on burger wrappers, and category leaders McDonald's and Burger King joined sugar chiefs Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in aggressive lobbying, both in the USA and Europe.
One such pan-sector effort came in 2004, following the release of Morgan Spurlock's documentary 'Super Size Me'. A harrowing and amusing film in equal measure, Spurlock spent a month eating nothing but extra-large McDonald's meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The burger chain had to respond with a PR charm offensive that eventuated in 'healthier' items being given more prominence on the menu, whilst its rivals hid behind the counter to avoid the storm of negative perception.
BK went on a mission to reduce the volume of salt in its meals and KFC did eventually introduce its chicken salad. The chicken floggers have since sat on the subs bench for many of the more newsworthy debates around fast food and childhood obesity, but that's not to say they don't have a bucket of ethical batter to dispose of, not least around littering (as I've frequently witnessed first-hand).
Cleaning up their act is something McDonald's has taken beyond the perceptual (lobbying, PR) and product (lower salt content, salads, fruit with kid's meals) and into their customer experience strategy. Famously, one of its key product differentiators in the US was to have bogs cleaned thoroughly and religiously every hour. Older patrons, being in need of a tinkle more frequently than younger, nugget-munching customers, would see their pristine khazis on an emergency stop-off on road trips, buy some food by means of a 'thank you' and remember both experiences fondly – stopping for repeated visits in the future.
The McDonald's philosophy is proudly displayed on its website: "Ray Kroc wanted to build a restaurant system that would be famous for providing food of consistently high quality and uniform methods of preparation. He wanted to serve burgers, fries and beverages that tasted just the same in Alaska as they did in Alabama."
To that, the brand might well have added "consistently pristine shitters" if the juxtaposition of turds and burgers didn't put its gross sales at risk. (It does remain, subtly, in its mantra, 'QSCV' – quality, service, cleanliness and value.)
Change on an 'atomic' level
So time is legitimately a great healer, but on its own it's not powerful enough to create the seismic shifts in public perception required to turn a vice business into a fluffy, acceptable, kiddie-friendly brand. In order to achieve Whopper-levels of paradigm shift, you have to change on an atomic level. Product focus, customer centricity and high spending on a relentless public perception mission appear to be the required ammunition. Turn the negatives into positives, grimy products into clean ones, make bad opinions good.
Sure, there are plenty of brands out there faking it with great fiscal success but many of those that are making the most significant strides are also leading their sectors in ethical standards, at least according to 'The World's Most Ethical Companies' 2020 report, which put a five year value premium of 13.5% on honourees. Most modern brands derive significant brownie points from a strong ethical and environmental stance.
The online gambling industry is either going to be sunk beneath a raft of well intentioned (but sometimes misguided) regulation, or it needs to act as one and follow the lead of fast food and Big Alcohol by bettering itself through improved marketing, customer education/protection, enhanced product, tactical lobbying and public perception – and fast.
Behaving well, marketing ethically, protecting customers, doing some good – brand purpose with a commercial engine under the hood. It might sounds like some fluffy self-help bullshit, but things have changed. People have changed.
Imagine if all of us marketing vice businesses started our strategies with a mantra to 'make things better'. As a result, public perception would inevitably change for the better. Then you'd realise that this would almost certainly improve your (or your client's) brand performance. For once, you wouldn't feel sordid about your contribution. You'd feel proud.
Harry Lang is marketing director of Buzz Bingo, the UK's biggest bingo operator. You can find him on LinkedIn or read his previous Marketing Week articles here.
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