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Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. She is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Early life and education
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Vreeland and Carolyn Jones. Her father was a building superintendent who later became a lawyer after becoming the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Her mother worked as a cosmetologist. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. Her parents bought a house on Martha's Vineyard, where Jones met those who influenced her life and art, such as sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, composer Harry T. Burleigh, and novelist Dorothy West.

From 1919 to 1923, Jones attended the High School of Practical Arts in Boston. During these years, she took night classes from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts through an annual scholarship. Additionally, she apprenticed in costume design with Grace Ripley. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard. Jones began experimenting with African mask influences during her time at the Ripley Studio. From her research of African masks, Jones created costume designs for Denishawn.

From 1923 to 1927, Jones attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to study design, where she won the Susan Minot Lane Scholarship in Design yearly. She took night courses at the Boston Normal Art School while working towards her degree. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she received her graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston in 1928. Afterwards, she began working at the F. A. Foster Company in Boston and the Schumacher Company in New York City. During the summer of 1928, she attended Howard University, where she decided to focus on painting instead of design.

Jones continued taking classes throughout her lifetime. In 1934, she took classes on different cultural masks at Columbia University. In 1945, she received a BA in art education from Howard University, graduating magna cum laude.

Career and life
Jones's career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She worked with different mediums, techniques, and influences throughout her long career. Her extensive travels throughout Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean influenced and changed how she painted. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". She wished to be known as an American painter with no labels. Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.

1928–1936
Jones' teaching career began shortly after finishing college. The director of the Boston Museum School refused to hire her, telling her to find a job in the South where "her people" lived. In 1928 she was hired by Charlotte Hawkins Brown after some initial reservations, and subsequently founded the art department at Palmer Memorial Institute, a historically black prep school, in Sedalia, North Carolina. As a prep school teacher, she coached a basketball team, taught folk dancing, and played the piano for church services. In 1930, she was recruited by James Vernon Herring to join the art department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Jones remained as professor of design and watercolor painting until her retirement in 1977. She worked to prepare her students for a competitive career in the arts by inviting working designers and artists into her classroom for workshops. While developing her own work as an artist, she became an outstanding mentor and strong advocate for African-American art and artists.

In the early 1930s, Jones began to seek recognition for her designs and art work. She began to exhibit her works with the William E. Harmon Foundation with a charcoal drawing of a student at the Palmer Memorial Institute, Negro Youth (1929). In this period, she shifted away from designs and began experimenting with portraiture.

Jones developed as an artist through visits and summers spent in Harlem during the onset of the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement. Aaron Douglas, a Harlem Renaissance artist, influenced her seminal art piece The Ascent of Ethiopia. African design elements can be seen in both Douglas and Jones' paintings. Jones studied actual objects and design elements from Africa.

In her works Negro Youth and Ascent of Ethiopia the influence of African masks are seen in the profiles of the faces. The chiseled structures and shading renderings mimic three-dimensional masks that Jones studied. Jones would utilize this style throughout her career.

During this period she occasionally collaborated with poet Gertrude P. McBrown; for example, McBrown's poem, "Fire-Flies," appears with an illustration by Jones in the April 1929 issue of the Saturday Evening Quill.

1937–1953
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian. She produced more than 30 watercolors during her year in France. In total, she completed approximately 40 paintings during her time at the Académie, utilizing the en plein air method of painting that she used throughout her career. Two paintings were accepted at the annual Salon de Printemps exhibition at the Société des Artists Français for her Parisian debut. Jones loved her time in Paris as she felt fully accepted in society as opposed to the United States at this time. The French were appreciative of paintings and talent. After she was granted an extension of her fellowship to travel to Italy, she returned to Howard University and taught watercolor painting classes.

In 1938, she produced Les Fétiches (1938), an African-inspired oil painting that is owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Jones painted Les Fétiches in a Post-Cubist and Post-Primitive style. Five African masks swirl around the dark canvas. She was able to view and study many different African objects and masks at the Musée de l'Homme and galleries through her fellowship in Paris. In Les Fétiches, masks from Songye Kifwebe and Guru Dan are visible.

In 1941, Jones entered her painting Indian Shops Gay Head, Massachusetts into the Corcoran Gallery's annual competition. At the time, the Corcoran Gallery prohibited African-American artists from entering their artworks themselves. Jones had Tabary enter her painting to circumvent the rule. Jones ended up winning the Robert Woods Bliss Award for this work of art, yet she could not pick up the award herself. Tabary had to mail the award to Jones. In spite of these issues, Jones worked harder notwithstanding the racial biases found throughout the country at this time. In 1994, the Corcoran Gallery of Art gave a public apology to Jones at the opening of the exhibition The World of Lois Mailou Jones, 50 years after Jones hid her identity.

Jones' Les Fétiches was instrumental in transitioning "Négritude" — a distinctly francophone artistic phenomenon — from the predominantly literary realm into the visual. Her work provided an important visual link to Négritude authors such as Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. She also completed Parisian Beggar Woman with text supplied by Langston Hughes. In 1938, Jones' first solo exhibition was hung in the Whyte Gallery and would later be exhibited at the Howard University Gallery of Art in 1948.

Jones painted "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrenees" in France during one of her many trips to France between the years of 1945-1953 where she shared a summer studio with Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France While in France apart of her inspiration was Tabary, also a painter, whom she worked with for many years. Tabary submitted Jones' paintings for consideration for jury prizes since works by African-American artists were not always accepted. Jones traveled extensively with Tabary, including to the south of France. They frequently painted each other. They taught art together in the 1940s. Arreau, Hautes-Pyrenees which is an oil on canvas landscape that stars a hillside in the South of France. The french influence along with post impressionist influences are highlighted as Jones employees uses rich oranges, yellows, tans complemented with clean blues and delicate greens while remaining tonally warm palette. The geometric houses echo and asymmetric composition echos the post-impressionist influences on Jones at the time. This is influence can be recognized through her landscape and documentary portraits of people and landscapes in France and in America between the years of 1948-1953.

Over the course of the next 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France. At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris Group."

Alain Locke, a philosophy professor at Howard University and founder of the Harlem Renaissance, encouraged Jones to paint her heritage. She painted her striking painting Mob Victim (Meditation) after walking along U St Northwest in Washington, DC. She saw a man walking and was prompted to ask him to pose in her studio. She wanted to depict a lynching scene. The man had seen a person being lynched before and mimicked the pose that the man held before being lynched. The painting illustrates a contemplation of imminent death that many male African Americans were facing during the 1940s. Other paintings that came out of Locke's encouragement were Dans un Café à Paris (Leigh Whipper), The Janitor and The Pink Table Cloth.

Previously in 1934, Jones met Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, a prominent Haitian artist, while both were students at Columbia University. They corresponded for almost 20 years before marrying in the south of France in 1953. Jones and her husband lived in Washington, D.C. and Haiti. Their frequent trips to Haiti inspired and impacted Jones' art style significantly.

1954–1967
In 1954, Jones was a guest professor at Centre D'Art and Foyer des Artes Plastiques in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the government invited her to paint Haitian people and landscapes. Her work became energized by the bright colors. She and her husband returned there during summers for the next several years, in addition to frequent trips to France. Jones completed 42 paintings and exhibited them in her show Oeuvres des Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël, which was sponsored by the First Lady of Haiti. As a result of her paintings, Jones was given the Diplôme et Décoration de l'Ordre National "Honneur et Mérite au Grade de Chevalier." In 1955, she unveiled portraits of the Haitian president and his wife commissioned by United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Jones's numerous oils and watercolors inspired by Haiti are probably her most widely known works. In them her affinity for bright colors, her personal understanding of Cubism's basic principles, and her search for a distinct style reached an apogee. In many of her pieces one can see the influence of the Haitian culture, with its African influences, which reinvigorated the way she looked at the world. These include Ode to Kinshasa and Ubi Girl from Tai Region. Her work became more abstract, vibrant, and thematically after moving to Haiti. Her previously impressionist techniques gave way to a spirited, richly patterned, and brilliantly colored style.

In the 1960s, she exhibited at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cornell University, and galleries in France, New York and Washington, D.C. In 1962, she initiated Howard University's first art student tour of France, including study at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and guided several more tours over the years.

1968–1988
In 1968, she documented work and interviews of contemporary Haitian artists for Howard University's "The Black Visual Arts" research grant.

Jones received the same grant in 1970 as well. Between 1968 and 1970, she traveled to 11 African countries, which influenced her painting style. She documented and interviewed contemporary African artists in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Dahomey (today known as Benin), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. Her report Contemporary African Art was published in 1970 and in 1971 she delivered 1000 slides and other materials to the University as fulfillment of the project.

On May 22, 1970, Jones took part in a national day of protest in Washington, DC, that was created by Robert Morris in New York. They protested against racism and the Vietnam War. While many Washington DC artists did not paint to be political or create their own commentary on racial issues, Jones was greatly influenced by Africa and the Caribbean, which her art reflected. For example, Jones' Moon Masque is thought to represent then-contemporary problems in Africa.

In 1973, Jones received the "Women artists of the Caribbean and Afro-American Artists" grant from Howard University. In the same year, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State Christian College.

Her research inspired Jones to synthesize a body of designs and motifs that she combined in large, complex compositions. Jones's return to African themes in her work of the past several decades coincided with the black expressionistic movement in the United States during the 1960s. Skillfully integrating aspects of African masks, figures, and textiles into her vibrant paintings, Jones became a link between the Harlem Renaissance movement into a contemporary expression of similar themes.

On July 29, 1984, Lois Jones Day is declared in Washington, DC.

1989–1998

Jones continued to produce exciting new works at an astonishing speed. She traveled to France and experimented with her previous Impressionist-Post-impressionist style that started her career in Paris. Her landscapes were painted with a wider color palette from her Haitian and African influences.

On her 84th birthday, Jones had a major heart attack and subsequently a triple bypass.

The Meridian International Center created a retrospective exhibition with the help of Jones herself. 1990 exhibition toured across the country for several years. The exhibition was the first exhibition of Jones that garnered her nationwide attention. Despite her extensive portfolio, teaching career, and cultural work in other countries, she had been left out of the history books because she did not stick to typical subjects that were suitable for African Americans to paint.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton collected one of her island seascapes, Breezy Day at Gay Head, while they were in the White House.

In 1991, The National Museum of Women in the Arts held an exhibition that showcased some of Jones' children's books illustrations.

In 1994, The Corcoran Gallery of Art opened The World of Lois Mailou Jones exhibition with a public apology for their past racial discrimination.

In 1997, Jones' paintings were featured in an exhibition entitled Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris 1945–1965 that appeared at several museums throughout the country including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem. The exhibition also featured the works of Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, and Larry Potter. The exhibition examined the importance of Paris as an artistic mecca for African-American artists during the 20 years that followed World War II.

In 1998, Jones died with no immediate survivors at the age of 92 at her home in Washington, DC. She is buried on Martha's Vineyard in the Oak Bluffs Cemetery. Howard University hosted the exhibition Remembering Lois.

Legacy
Lois Mailou Jones' work is in museums all over the world and valued by collectors. Her paintings grace the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Palace in Haiti, the National Center of Afro-American Artists among others.

After her death, her friend and adviser, Dr. Chris Chapman completed a book entitled Lois Mailou Jones: A life in color about her life and the African-American pioneers she had worked with and been friends with, including Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, Josephine Baker, and Matthew Henson.

The Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel Trust founded a scholarship in her name at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a scholarship fund for the Department of Fine Arts at Howard University.

In 2006, Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927–1937 opened at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition showed 30 designs and paintings from the beginning of her career.

From November 14, 2009, to February 29, 2010, a retrospective exhibit of her work entitled was held at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. The traveling exhibit included 70 paintings showcasing her various styles and experiences: America, France, Haiti, and Africa.

Jones is featured in the 2017 publication, Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. She was included in the 2018 Columbus Museum of Art exhibition and catalogue of I too sing America: the Harlem Renaissance at 100.

Pupils of Jones included Georgia Mills Jessup, Martha Jackson Jarvis, and David Driskell.

Awards and honors
 Robert Woods Bliss Award for Landscape for Indian Shops Gay Head, Massachusetts (1941)
 Atlanta University award for watercolor painting Old House Near Frederick, Virginia (1942)
 Woman of 1946 award from the National Council of Negro Women (1946)
 John Hope Prize for Landscape for Ville d'Houdain, Pas-de-Calais and award from the Corcoran Gallery of Art for Petite Ville en hautes-Pyrenées (1949)
 Atlanta University award for Impasse de l'Oratorie, Grasse, France (1952)
 Oil painting award from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Coin de la Place Maubert, Paris (1953)
 Chevalier of the National Order of Honor and Merit from the government of Haiti. (1954)
 Award for design of publication Voici Hätii (1958)
 Atlanta University award for Voodoo Worshippers, Haiti and America's National Museum of Art award for Fishing Smacks, Menemsha, Massachusetts (1960)
 Elected person of The Royal Society of Arts in London. Received the Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for Peasants on Parade (1962)
 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State University (1973)
 Howard University Fine Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (1975)
 Honored by President Ronald Reagan at the White House for outstanding achievements in the arts (1980).
 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Suffolk University in Boston (1981)
 Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1982)
 3rd Annual Art Awards, Washington, DC (1983)
 Lois Jones Day, Washington, DC (July 29, 1987)
 Outstanding Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, Women's Caucus of Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY (1986)
 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (1986)
 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Howard University (1987)
 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The Atlanta College of Art (1989)
 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran School of Art (1996)

Selected collections
 Men Working, not dated, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Negro Youth, 1929, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Brother Brown, 1931, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Les Fétiches, 1938, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Place du Tertre, 1938, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 Dans un Café à Paris (Leigh Whipper), 1939, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
 Seated Man in Yellow Overalls, 1939, Smithsonian American art Museum, Washington, DC
 Cauliflower and Pumpkin, 1938, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
 Self-Portrait, 1940, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Les Clochards, Montmartre, Paris, 1947, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Coin de la Rue Medard, 1947, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 Jardin du Luxembourg, ca. 1948, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées, 1949, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
 Mme. Feugeront à Cabris, AM, 1950, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
 Jeune Fille Française, 1951, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Eglise Saint Joseph, 1954, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Shapes and Colors, 1958, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Challenge—America, 1964, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
 Moon Masque, 1971, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Ode to Kinshasa, 1972, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
 Ubi Girl from Tai Region, 1972, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
 La Baker, 1977, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
 The Green Door, 1981, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 Suriname, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 Glyphs, 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
 Untitled (Portrait of Léopold Sédar Senghor), 1996, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Selected exhibitions
 Solo exhibition, 1937, Howard University, Washington, DC, sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
 Solo exhibition, 1946, Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
 Solo exhibition, 1947, Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 Solo exhibition, 1948, Whyte Gallery and Howard University, Washington, DC
 Solo exhibition, 1955, Pan American Union Building, Washington, DC
 Solo exhibition, 1961, Galerie International, New York, NY
 Solo exhibition, 1966, Galerie Soulanges, Paris, France
 Solo exhibition, 1967, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
 Forty Years of Painting, 1972, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 Reflective Moments, 1973–1974, MFA, Boston, Boston, MA
 Six Distinguished Women Artists, 1976, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
 Solo exhibition, 1979, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 The World of Loïs Mailou Jones, 1990–1996, The Meridian International Center, Toured throughout the nation
 The Art of Loïs Mailou Jones, 1991–1993, Bomani Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones, 1994, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 Loïs Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927–1937, 2006, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
 Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, 2009–2010, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
 Full Spectrum: The Prolific Master within Loïs Mailou Jones, 2014–2015, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Partnership with the Loïs Mailou Jones Trust, The I Street Gallery, Washington, DC
 The Life and Work of Lois Mailou Jones, 2015, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA

References

Further reading

 Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes. "Jones, Lois Mailou. November 3, 1095-June 9, 1998."

 Rowell, Charles Henry (2016). "Loïs Mailou Jones." Callaloo, vol. 39 no. 5, 2016, p. 1017-1101. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cal.2016.0142.
 Seamon, Donna (2017). Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. New York: Bloomsbury USA.

 Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy Lorraine (2004). "Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century". Harvard University Press, 1st edition. .

External links

 Archive of Official website
 "An Interview with Lois Mailou Jones", Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo, Vol. 12 No. 2, p. 357–378
 Baltimore Museum of Art. Contemporary Negro Art: On Exhibition from February 3–19, 1939, the Baltimore Museum of Art. [Baltimore]: [The Baltimore Museum of Art], 1939.
 Lois Mailou Jones papers, memorabilia, and archives from Howard University
 Lois Mailou Jones on the African American Visual Artists Database
 Artist Friendships: Loïs Mailou Jones and Céline Tabary from National Museum of Women in the Arts blog
 Unsung History Podcast, Lois Mailou Jones, December 6, 2012

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They can't manage exchange rate fluctuations but like all airlines, they bank the benefit and also take a hit when it moves against them .... other airlines, even with exchange rate movement in their favour, can't make a profit, so good luck to them !!
Seems like the consolidation measures worked. I expect we will see JU grow again next year.
Hope so. I think we will see YYZ launched and maybe a few new regional routes. Hopefully those A320neos will come.
On what? False news? Etihad is pulling out of the partnership with AirSerbia. Why do you think that is, too much profit?
I hope the moderator will delete the comments of this serial troll. Stop spreading misinformation.
You are obviously illiterate, or selectively literate. And, most obviously with underlying agendas.
They are not pulling out completely as they can not afford another PR disaster. Etihad has already made a healthy return on its 40 mil $ investment so now they can just sit with their 49% stake and still exploit all lucrative aspects of the partnership.
Interesting to see that passenger numbers were not affected greatly last year despite the gloom and doom scenarios we read in the comments.
So it turns out they had the largest profit and people were writing that they are about to go bankrupt. Also interesting that state aid halved.
They actually had a LOSS.
Yes, a loss that was greatly diminished compared to any previous year.
You just said that they had the "largest profit". Now you realise that it was actually a loss?
Take your medicine and stop with your hysterical rants. "LOL!"
Eat your sandwich and stop with the propaganda.
But if the results are so good why did they switch to a hybrid business model?
No need to be sarcastic or nasty. The fact is almost all airlines are going hybrid.
Even if they fixed their results, you do realize state aid was halved while overall results improved?
We still need to see if it was really half of that in 2016. More comprehensive analysis of the financial report is needed.
Charters seem to be a cash cow for them.
+1 easy money. No wonder they took a B737 out of retirement so they could have an extra plane for charters this summer.
So, the state aid has to be deducted from those figures, which would translate into some 4 million loss?
That they made money and that they didn't lose it like many predicted.
The math I've learned taught me that 16-20,8=-4,8.
Seems like you stopped at Math 101 and didn't reach accounting.
Anyway, it's tragic how you NEVER wrote such comments when it's OU and their own accounting wizardry in question.
Also, do you mind telling me how they performed last year and let me know if they are actually improving or not?
Since I knew you gonna either call me a hater or call out OU, let me just refresh your memory: People ARE calling out OU for their books cooking and only few of them are, just like you when it comes to JU - are cheering for them and ignoring the facts that that wasn't a clean profit. In one case it's selling the slots and in the other it's the states' aid.
Now go back to your cheer routine and Math 101 teaching.
How are slot sale and state aid the same? They are not. JU isn't selling family silver to stay alive. They still have it in case they might need it down the road.
Now go and learn some common sense 101. I expect you to start commenting the same on OU the next time they present their results.
They don't have to sell a thing since they have bottomless funds from the state and cash to throw it in.
Expect away. Couldn't care less. Buh bye!
Why don't you inform yourself before commenting on here? They are just terminating the consultancy agreement, they are still keeping their 49%.
"At the end of 2017, Air Serbia mainline had 1.488 employees, including 226 pilots and 323 cabin crew members. Together with its subsidiaries Air Serbia Catering and Air Serbia Ground Handling Services, the company counted 2.339 employees."
This is way too much for an airline of its size.
I think Aegean has similar number of employees but carries 6 times more pax!
Yep, a worrying factor in future profitability.
They'll need to let go few companies or reduce workforce across the board.
Was looking recently at Air France, KLM and Ilitalia workforce size, and wonder how can they afford to maintain such large workforce,same goes with the SAS, Lufthansa and BA.
In case of Alitalia,they need to let go at least 5000 staff, if not more.
No wonder Alitalia is loosing money left, right and center.
No idea how many staff air serbia would need to lose,but if OU has 950 staff, about the same size airline, perhaps this should be an indicator. 1400 staff need to go.
Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines are not the same size since Air Serbia handles half a million passengers more and has 6 more aircraft (8 for six months of the year). Also Croatia Airlines does not have a catering division and its catering is outsourced, unlike Air Serbia.
That said I do think its workforce is too large. and should head towards OU levels.
I think they actually transferred ground staff to the airport. Wonder how much is airport charging for these services as that is a form of subsidy as well.
Congratulations to JU. Seems like things are looking up now that Dane is gone.
I think it also helped that since last year Dinar got stronger by some 3% compared to the Euro and some 22% compared to Dollar. This means that costs in the US related to JFK went down.
Well this result was achieved during Dane's tenure.
Imagine what will happen now that he is gone!
Good to see LF improving with added capacity.
Air Serbia is trolling everyone.
When they completely cut catering, no wonder they made such big savings in this sector.
1. Dane negativity which he was still around to achieve this result.
JU's subsidies are nothing compared to what they give foreign investors or other failing government businesses.
Why would you give 10 million to LCCs instead of National Carrier that employs 2500 people who are citizens of this country and support their families with that $$$?
If we, taxpayers, are to fund someone, I would rather fund Air Serbia than Wizz.
1. LCC would also employ people.
2. The less employed people could use their skills in other industry.
3. The traveller would have better prices.
4. The rest of the fund could be used on other causes.
Please stop with that, that an national carrier is needed. Only case where it's so, is when there wouldn't be a LCC who would close the gap (even with subsidies).
Yes - Hungarian, Irish or German people - not Serbian.
Oh cut the crap with "we need to provide aid which will keep xyz jobs". Tax money should go to supporting connectivity, opportunities for passengers, ability to travel at affordable prices.
This is definitely a big improvement in financial results, even though results are negative when you exclude state aid.
The question is, given the cuts in network, can the model sustain the results as the effects of network cuts will take some time to fully trickle down. If JU can operate with subsidies of 5-10 million , that would OK.
So JP is the only airline out of the 'big Balkan three' that is not making profit, but somehow JP is considered to be the most stable?
Big Balkan Three? You mean ex YU three?
Some dodgy accounting done by KPMG!
As much as we love our carriers and our region we have to admit that there is still too many carriers in Europe and we need further consolidation. All our carriers are in the red and the big question remains: should be air transport excluded from government subsidies or should air transport be regarded as public transport and be open for state control? Its defimitely distorting the markets but on the other hand OU JP JU are not much than a water drop on a hot stone. And i am pretty much sure that if LH wld get in serious troubles, Germany would not let them fall.
Well if those results are true, they won't have a problem taking delivery of their new aircraft!
Ok, so in 2016 they lost about 40 million and in 2017 about 4 million. That is a good improvement indeed. I hope they manage to get their act together and in 2018 or, at the latest, in 2019 finally make a real profit.
In the financial report it says that they have made a codeshare agreement with Hainan in November 2017, although that it is still waiting for approval from Chinese government.
Loss of 4.8 million is surprisingly good result ("profit" - state aid)!
Now they should reconsider their network, shameful new "products" that have degraded the brand and find the way to be a decent company without subsidies. This actually looks promising. Positively surprised!
Ne znam cemu sve to. Ni 40 miliona jura nije neki znacajni gubitak jos manje 4 miliona gde se razbacuju milijardama na nepotrebne infrastrukturne projekte kao autoput do Bugarske koja ga ne gradi prema Srbiji vec prema Rumuniji. Samo jos da cujemo rasplakane poreske neplatise.
It's a good overall result. The state subsidies are going down. They still made a loss (this year) but everything is predicting they will indeed next year make a profit without state subsidies. Good work Air Serbia - greetings from Croatia.
+1 for "who the f**k cares about flags"
And what about some 250.000 people who lost their jobs at the same time and there was nobody to help them?
Glad for Serbia that state aid is still possible without barriers towards their flag carrier - unlike in all EU member states.
Even with the aid this is a significant improvement in results.
Veoma raduje ova objava na ovom portalu da Er Srbija ide uzlaznom linijom. Obzirom da je nasledila sve nedace Jata i dugove koje je preuzela drzava, razvija postepeno pozitivan nacin poslovanja. Nazalost, vece investiranje u prosirenju flote i novih linija za sada je tesko moguce. Zbog pomenutih dugova ostavljenih drzavi. Sto je u proslim vremenima i sama kriva.
Naravno da nastoji postepeno prosiririvati flotu za servisiranje sest do sedam destinacija u dugolinijskom saobracaju. U srednjorocnom perijodu. Sa ojacanjem regionalnih i Evropskih linija, stvorice se prilika za privatizaciju. tek tada bi nacionalni prevoznik u rukama renomiranih investitora, Er Srbija bi bila vidljiva na sirem trzistu. Posebno je dobro sto su krticari naziva, imena Air Serbia, zaboravili na staru 'zabrinutost'. Eto hvala Bogu, brend Er Srbije stremi uzlazno. Verujem da i Dane Kondic je dobar deo te price. Negde izmedju stare Otadzbine i juznog Pacifika gradi novu uspesnu pricu. Postujuci Er Srbiju. Sto i sam cinim.
what particularly pisses me off is this masked state aid.
One way or another, net loss is shrinking. That is good and deserves some credit.
And I see nothing bad in providing some reasonable amount of state aid to a state-owned airline.
Čeliku da li si ti uopšte pročitao šta si napisao ? Pa gdje tu piše AirSrbia je primila 1.4 miliona ? Zašto kopiraš od nekoga nešto šta nema nikakve veze i postavljaš izmišljene statistike koji ni mala deca ne bi napisala. Stvarno ovdje ima svašta. Ja ću samo reći da su ovo dobri rezultati i da samo tako nastave.
1.431 million RSD je 1.431.000 RSD ili 1.431.000.000 RSD?
Mislim jel ovde tačka decimalna ili ne?
Constant currency reporting is non-GAAP. There is no 9mil eur line item.
Legal and widely acceptable. Also reported by Ryanair, Wizzair and many other airlines.
oh yes it is legal and nobody is going to jail, but i am pointing out mechanism with which they are covering up their losses.
this is why you have all the "oh it looks better" reactions.
if there as no state aid, company would have massive loss and people would be crying end of the world here.
You object when Air Serbia does it but you don't when others do? Why single out Air Serbia? Oh please don't tell me you are just a concerned taxpayer!
sorry i don't understand your argument.
is that some last resort pathetic try when you cannot continue against simple facts?
its a simple argument. i didnt see you comment in a negative matter when others use the same type of subsidies. what do you have against air serbia in particular, but doesnt bother you when W6 gets subsidy in SKP or BUD, or when YM gets it in TGD? double standards?
3. Lot is sending E95 and E70.
4. LH is increasing MUC to A320.
5. RO is sending its Atr-72 in stead of the 42.
I can't wait for June numbers to be out.
I am really surprised how well Tarom is doing. Not only have they increased BEG to 9 weekly but they have sent a larger plane today!
This whole week JU flight to Dubrovnik is either sold out or has a few empty seats! I hooooope and pray to all Gods out there that they keep it throughout the year.
Six weekly flights with great prices for transfers. Not really surprising!
Are there any new routes planned to open for Air Serbia? Considering they are recovering financially, now might be the time to start thinking of new routes.
I was certain they would post a loss. Interesting.
Are these numbers with or without their AirSerbia Long Haul division included? Mr President said few weeks ago that he thinks they might be green if you exclude ASL LH from calculations.
O bože otkud ti sada ta priča ? Vučko je rekao da je teško napraviti profit na liniji za JFK i to je to.
Sta se desava sa novim a320neo? Dali JU moze da ocekuje novu flotu?
Admin, Petar Celik posted almost identical comment three times. Your own rule about it says: Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by a single or multiple readers.
Admin please follow your own rules, thank you.
OK so basically they have spend 1.1 mil on catering which is roughly 1/3 of what they used to spend before. It means that all this brand degradation and bad press received, stagnating passenger numbers since they introduced the new "possibilities" were to save some 2 -2.5 mil eur?! Incredible!


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Q: Calculation of Array size using sizeof() Excerpt from TopCoder article:

The expression sizeof(data)/sizeof(data[0]) returns the size of the array data, but only in a few cases, so don't use it anywhere except in such constructions.(C programmers will agree with me!)

To get array size, I've been using this expression sizeof(data)/sizeof(data[0]) all the time for all primitive types.
Does anyone know about any such case in which the above expression should not be used?

A: If data were declared like so:
int *data;

And then space for it allocated like so:
data = malloc( NUM_ELEMENTS * sizeof(int) );

Then your technique will not work, because sizeof(data) is the size of a pointer, not the content of the array.

A: The sizeof approach compiles but doesn't work when giving it a pointer or an array of indeterminate size. Just use the proper C++ approach:
template <typename T, std::size_t N>
constexpr std::size_t size(T(&)[N]) {
    return N;
}

Using size() on an array works correctly. It will be a compile-time error to use it in a case where it is not applicable, e.g., on a pointer.

A: The sizeof technique work correction for static array, it will not have any issue. As mentioned in the above for dynamic array and pointer data it will not work correctly.

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Brexit: What's Next for the China-UK Relationship?
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During her recent visit to China, Prime Minister Theresa May emphasized one fact: after leaving the EU, "we - the United Kingdom - will be free to strike our own trade deals". As a first step towards a post-Brexit commercial agreement, the UK and China signed a "joint trade and investment review", which is quite different from a trade agreement (hardly possible while the UK remains part of the EU). Meanwhile, £9 billion deals were signed.
Macron's decision to start off the year with a trip to China carries a symbolic weight, which adds a special aura to his arrival in Beijing. Elected in May by 66% of the French electorate and supported by a strong parliamentary majority, the President was able to assert his power and authority. A quality much appreciated by Chinese leaders, who are astounded by Angela Merkel and Theresa May's fragility, despite their respective successes in their countries' parliamentary elections.


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The theft of a University of Minnesota professor's laptop, portable scanner and external hard drive last February resulted in a data breach of the personal information of 119 victims and witnesses of violent crimes. Law professor Barry Feld and several law students were researching interrogation techniques in violent crimes prosecuted in Hennepin and Ramsey County District Courts during January and February 2005.
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While an attempted robbery of a student Thursday adds to a list of violent crimes prompting alerts this year, University of Minnesota police announced Friday they arrested several suspects in other crimes. This week, University police arrested the last two of three suspects of a Nov. 20 assault and robbery of a student.
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Since Eric Kaler began his presidency at the University of Minnesota in 2011, all but four administrators on his 18-person senior leadership team have left their old posts. It's an unspoken rule in higher education that when a new president comes in, key administrators offer their resignation so the new leader has the opportunity to choose his or her new hires. After Kaler was hired, eight administrators retired or returned to teaching, six got promotions at other universities or companies and one took another position in the senior leadership team.
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Researchers from the universities of Wisconsin and Washington reportedly falsified data. A social psychologist in the Netherlands fabricated more than 50 scientific articles over the course of his career. While reports of research misconduct at other universities have had an uptick this year, University of Minnesota officials tout the institution's ethics program as an example for other schools. Proactive measures Most University research oversight exists to prevent research misconduct from occurring in the first place.
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Home » Sport » How Frank Lampard could line Crystal Palace up if he becomes boss with huge changes along with Tammy Abraham transfer
How Frank Lampard could line Crystal Palace up if he becomes boss with huge changes along with Tammy Abraham transfer
CRYSTAL PALACE are favourites to be Frank Lampard's next destination.
And amid what is set to be a huge summer of upheaval at Selhurst Park, the former Chelsea boss could mould an exciting new team for next season.
On Tuesday, veteran boss Hodgson, 73, confirmed he will quit Crystal Palace at the end of the season.
The ex-England manager took over at the Eagles – his boyhood club – in 2017, since taking charge of 160 games.
His final game at Selhurst Park will be Wednesday night's game against Arsenal.
Lampard, 42, was sacked by the Blues in January after 18 months at the helm and replaced by Thomas Tuchel. But he hasn't been short of offers since.
And the latest Premier League Hall of Fame inductee recently said: "I've had some opportunities that have come up in the last six weeks, two months, that have been flattering but not the right thing.
"The opportunities weren't quite right but I think about it. It would be something I'm keen to do, at the right time, at the right place."
With Betfair placing Palace as 1/3 favourites to be Lamps' next club, let's imagine what he could do with the Eagles next term.
The former England star, who played under Hodgson for the Three Lions, would likely use the 4-3-3 he tended to favour while at Stamford Bridge,
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Vicente Guaita would continue in goal, although back-ups Wayne Hennessey and Stephen Henderson are among 15 players set to be out of contract.
Exciting young full-back Nathan Ferguson arrived from West Brom last summer, but hasn't been able to take to the field yet after suffering a serious knee injury.
Lampard's arrival could perfectly coincide with the exciting 20-year-old's return – and he can take stalwart Joel Ward's place in the team – with Nathaniel Clyne also expected to leave.
Gary Cahill, Mamadou Sakho, Martin Kelly and Scott Dann are among those set to be out of contract – but Lampard could pull some strings to recruit Marc Guehi from Chelsea to replace them.
The young defender was handed his Blues debut by Lamps last season, and has impressed enough on loan at Swansea this term to suggest that he could make the step up to partner James Tomkins next year.
Left-back Tyrick Mitchell was linked with a move to Arsenal, but could cement himself in the team after signing a deal, following possible exits for Patrick van Aanholt and Jeff Schlupp.
Jairo Riedewald has had a breakthrough year at Selhurst, and could anchor a new-look midfield featuring a talented up and comer and a familiar face.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek impressed enough at Palace during the 2017-18 season to earn a place in Gareth Southgate's England squad for the World Cup.
And after a stuttering spell at Fulham, he could return to Selhurst in order to rekindle the magic next year.
Another Chelsea star to arrive could be midfielder Conor Gallagher, who has impressed on loan at West Brom this season.
Midfielders James McCarthy and James McArthur are expected to leave.
If Palace can keep Wilfried Zaha for another year, the Ivorian international could thrive on the left flank under Lampard, as Christian Pulisic did at times last season – while Eberechi Eze is a great option.
And on the right side, Lampard may look to reunite with Harry Wilson, who scored 18 goals for his Derby side on loan from Liverpool in the 2018-19 campaign.
With Christian Benteke and Connor Wickham set to leave, and Jean-Philippe Mateta to depart following the end of his loan, Palace will have a gap to fill upfront.
And who better to do so for Lampard, than Chelsea's No9 Tammy Abraham.
The talented England striker scored 18 goals for the Blues last season.
But he appears to have been cast aside by Tuchel, opening the door to a potential exit.
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On Thursdays in September and October, as part of the Gardens & Wine Experience Package, there are guided viewings of the Versoaln vine at Katzenzungen Castle, located in Prissiano (Prissian) near Tesimo (Tisens), together with a wine tasting. The package also includes guided tours of Katzenzungen Castle and the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle, where a golden replica of a 8,000-year-old grape seed – a gift from the nation of Georgia – and newly found 2,400-year-old grape seeds from South Tyrol can be seen.
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You explained about segmenting solutions in great detail. Thanks for the great review of step by step guides on how to work on complex segments.
However, often when I use system dynamics in Economic analysis, there are a few variables of particular segment structure which affects other stocks or flows of other segments.
Is there any special way to treat this?
Take a case with a Large-customers segment and a Small-customers segment - but some Large customers become small each period and some Small customer become large.


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by Lloyd Carroll • December 14, 2013 • Comments Off on 2013 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
The holiday season is certainly a joyous time but it can be stressful when it comes to finding a gift for the special people in your life. Here are some last-minute gift ideas that will hopefully inspire.
Electronics and technology have become the marquee items in the world of consumer goods. As is generally the case with electronics, prices have tumbled rapidly. The 52″ high definition Sony Bravia television that you paid around $2,500 four years ago is now selling for a third of that, at most, these days. The same can be said of laptops and tablets. Lenovo's ThinkPads, Acer's Aspire Notebooks and Sony Vaio Ultrabooks run anywhere from $750 to $1400. A less costly alternative is an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet that is easy to carry and extremely useful if you simply want Internet access away from home.
Three-dimensional television appears to be a bust but 3-D printers such as the one developed by Dynamism is attracting attention. Instead of using paper, 3-D printers use plastic and can produce molds of objects. Those who are old enough to remember the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park will probably recall the Sinclair Oil pavilion where you got a mold of the company's green dinosaur logo. The bad side of these printers is that they can create replicas of very realistic guns.
Just as the old computer battle between Microsoft and Apple yielded those famous PC vs. the Mac commercials, smartphones are divided between the Android operating system and the iPhone. Apple users prefer the latter while PC users will prefer the former. The Samsung Galaxy S III has become the most popular Android because of its slightly larger size that makes it easier to text and yet is still small enough to be easily carried in your pocket. Keeping portable devices well charged is obviously important and iHome makes a variety of docking stations for cellular phones and tablets.
One of the time-honored traditions of the holiday season is mailing out greeting cards to friends and family. If you don't have the time to buy cards, write messages in them, put on return address and stamps, and finally mail them out, an e-commerce company, www.postables.com, will handle those chores for you.
Sports fans are a fairly easy group to please. Starter, New Era, Nike and Reebok make plenty of apparel for fans of pro and college teams. Sports Illustrated has a pair of books that make for delightful presents, the "Sports Illustrated 2014 Almanac" which can quickly settle almost any bar bet and the coffee table-sized "Baseball's Greatest" which looks at the sport's most memorable games and players. David's Bridal has strayed quite a bit from its wedding gown beginnings and is now offering NFL beer mugs and shot glasses. When it comes to autographed athletics memorabilia no one has more merchandise than Steiner Sports.
Getting in better shape has long been the most popular New Year's resolution. Radio Shack's Fitbit line of products tracks activity and calorie-burning, wirelessly. Gyms such as the New York Sports Club, Equinox, Crunch, and New York Health & Racquet generally have good membership deals this time of year, particularly since the economy still isn't what it should be. There is no shortage of quality running shoes to use on the treadmill as Altra, Brooks, Reebok, New Balance, and Ryka (women only) all have comfortable footwear at a variety of price levels. A new company from Switzerland, simply named On, is attracting attention with its Cloudsurfer shoe. Everlast made a name for itself in the world of boxing equipment but it has expanded into the non-fisticuffs world as it manufactures reasonably priced warm-up jackets, thermal t-shirts, and yoga pants that are sold exclusively at Sears.
If you know both the sizes and tastes of the people for whom you are shopping, clothing is an excellent gift option. Lands End has a wide array of winter outerwear ranging from heavy coats to socks and underwear. Gap's Twill plaid shirts and Buffalo plaid shirts are worn by men of all ages. Other retailers who have both a strong presence on the web and in traditional brick and mortar retailers and offer clothing and merchandise in almost every conceivable category are Desigual, Aeropostale, Fossil, and Paul Frank.
While it is certainly more comforting for a lot of us to buy higher priced clothing in a familiar retail store there are bargains to be had on the Internet for savvy consumers. Beckett Simonon (www.beckettsimonon.com) makes the kind of high end men's dress shoes that you would find at an Allen Edmonds or Johnston & Murphy store but at a third of the price. Guys and gals looking for a more casual shoe should log onto www.oceanminded.com. If you are looking for oddball clothing stocking stuffers for a guy, Dalys 1895 (www.dalys1895.com) sells pocket squares and bow ties while you can purchase small metallic rods that you can place in shirt collars to keep from wrinkling and curling up at www.swissstays.com.
Women seeking fashionable coats should check out the inventory of designer Leslie Tessler (www.leslietessler.com). Just as Harry & David has a "fruit of the month" club, a website, www.mjprojectidy.com sends a different clothing accessory every month if they subscribe to the service.
It's hard to watch television without seeing commercials for Zales, Kay, and Jared so you know that the holiday season is crucial in the jewelry business. There is no shortage of websites that sell intriguing and inexpensive jewelry. Long Island designer Nancy Rosen has created numerous necklaces, earrings and other costume baubles that have been used by cast members of the Bravo Network's various "Real Housewives" series. In fact her company is called Housewives Jewelry (www.housewivesjewelry.com). This year she has created a bracelet called the Vanderpump cuff in honor of Bravo's new reality series about attractive and vapid Southern Californians. Other jewelry websites worth checking out are www.liasophia.com, www.wrenglory.com, www.charmedcircle.com, www.clarisonic.com and www.montier.com.
If you are serious about jewelry pieces that start in the four-figure range, Charles & Colvard's Forever Brilliant line (www.foreverbrilliant.com) should capture your attention.
Watches are the most popular and functional forms of jewelry and they come in all price points. Long Island City-based Armitron, Dakota Watches, Bertucci Watches, and the granddaddy of them all, Timex, all make timepieces that look a lot more expensive than their sales price. Forest Hills High School alum Lawrence Leyderman created a company, House of Horology (www.hohwatches.com), that sells watches that have the craftsmanship of expensive brands as Tag Heuer and Movado but at half of the price. HOH has a store in SoHo.
Metallic jewelry runs the risk of tarnishing over time. Colle is a mousse that keeps your valuables looking as if you just bought them. Log onto www.colleproducts.com
Contrary to popular belief, sunglasses are just as necessary in the winter as in the summer, if not more so, because the sun's rays come are at a lower angle and this makes driving particularly difficult in the late afternoon. Safilo's Carrera division is renown for their classic aviator styles that make anyone look cool by wearing them. For those on a tighter budget, Polaroid, which is also now owned by Safilo, makes sunglasses with a huge choice of fashionable frames. The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination has caused a renewed interest in all things relating to President John F. Kennedy including his Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses that he was fond of wearing. If you want to look like an athlete who just signed a multi-million dollar contract, pick up a pair of Oakley wraparounds. Zeal Optics, ICU Eyewear, Flutter, and See Saw Seen Eyewear also make affordable and stylish shades with prescription and non-prescription lenses. Shauns California makes sunglasses that resemble the kind worn by a young Robert Redford and the late Audrey Hepburn.
Cosmetics are popular gift ideas for women looking for items for other women. Sephora has surprisingly only been manufacturing bronzes, eye shadow, brushes, and lipsticks in the United States since 1998 (the company started in France in 1970) but it has quickly become known for its high quality. Well aware of consumer demand for the holiday season, Sephora is selling gift sets of its products through a line called the Sephora Collection. May Kay Cosmetics is an iconic name in the beauty supplements business and it has just celebrated its golden anniversary.
An Australian company, NVEY has a line of organic makeup. One of its biggest fans is Aussie actress Naomi Watts. Two more moderate priced companies, Wet N Wild and Essence, offer nail polishes and lipsticks in splashy colors aimed towards a younger consumer. For those who like the best in shampoos, try a gift set from Philip B. Botanicals or Black 15 in 1's travel set.
Women outnumber men when it comes to purchases of skin care products but the difference in market share between the sexes is getting smaller every year. Juice Beauty's Ageless Radiance and Obagi's Luxe Hydrate, and Wilma Schumann European Skin Care are popular age-fighting moisturizers/skin creams/serums. Clarins and Burt's Bees were pioneers in creating skin products aimed at the burgeoning male market while Jack Black was one of the first companies to make moisturizers and scrubs just for guys. There is a pair of new competitors in the men's grooming market; Menaji (www.menaji.com) sells tubes of masque and face &body scrub for men while Columbia Skin Cares makes healing cream to smooth out various dermal wrinkles and cuts.
There are countless items that fall under the beauty/personal care umbrella. A social media website, www.pampadour.com, gives public critique to a lot of them. It's as close to Consumer Reports for beauty industry as you can find.
Luggage, whether it be for a business trip, a long vacation, or a long weekend is very useful. Briggs & Riley's Torq line is perfect for those big trips while Beckett Simonon's Potenza is just right for the quick getaways. LXR & Company (www.lxrco.com) must have a relationship with Louis Vuitton because they sell the products of the famous French luggage and handbag company at discounted prices. Indiana's Vera Bradley is known for its decorative and spacious light totes that can hold a lot of material. Sears' Threshold line of home goods includes useful items as small jewelry boxes, towels, and dinnerware, and wine stoppers.
Wines and spirits are always popular gifts any time of the year. New Zealand has become a major exporter of Pinot Noir and its Nobilo Icon Pinot has a mild, easy-to-finish taste, as does Oregon's Benton-Lane. If you like a sparkling red wine from Italy, try a bottle of Ruffino Prosecco. If you are fan of California Cabernet Sauvignon you can't go wrong with Woodbridge from Robert Mondavi or Sterling Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon. Red wine has more cardiac benefits than white but if you like Chardonnay and other whites, the Rueda region of Spain is your nirvana (www.winesofrueda.com).
For those who enjoy harder spirits, Johnny Walker Black Label and its more expensive sibling, Johnny Walker Blue Label, along with Macallan, Glenfiddich, Grant's Blended, and the Balvenie, are the top names in whisky and scotch. For those who like the white spirits, Bombay Sapphire East Gin, Smirnoff Vodka, Stolichnaya Vodka, Tequila Don Julio 70, Milagro Tequila, Ty Ku Sake and Martini Gran Lusso Vermouth should get the job done. Aficionados of liqueurs and aperitifs will enjoy Bailey's Old Irish Creme (which now comes in a variety of flavors), Tequila Don Julio Reposado, Godiva Liqueur, Unicum Liqueur, and Cointreau are all solid choices.
Reference books were always my favorite holiday presents when I was growing up. I eagerly awaited the new World Almanac. Even in this Internet world there is something enjoyable about turning the pages to find facts quickly. Unlike most encyclopedia companies, the World Almanac continues to thrive and the 2014 edition has just hit bookstores. Other fun reference books are "Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide" (Plume Books) and "The 2014 Guinness Book of World Records."
There is a trio of books that should please music fans.
Lisa Johnson's "108 Rock Star Guitars" is a coffee table book of the "axes" used by Sting, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Eddie Van Halen, and many others. The 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the United States for the first is two months away so it is not surprising that a pair of books on how they changed the world have hit the shelves and you can be sure that more are coming. "All The Songs" (Black Dog & Leventhal) by Philippe Margotin is a scholarly tome that examines the stories behind every Beatles song that was ever released in the United States. Mark Lewisohn's "The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions" (Sterling Publishing) gives all the details of who played which instruments on their recordings.
Fans of pop culture will enjoy Deborah Norville's "The Way We Are" (CBS). The current "Inside Edition" host takes a look back at the 25-year history of what many believe to be the first national TV tabloid news show.
If you know someone who does not subscribe to HBO but has heard about their terrific original shows, you can purchase DVDs of such fare as "Eastbound And Down," "Game Of Thrones," "Girls," and "Boardwalk Empire" for them.
Discovering or rediscovering New York City can be a gift in its own right. CityPASS and New York Pass are competing companies that make booklets and cards that allow you to see a virtually limitless number of museums and other attractions for one low fixed price. The catch is that you have to do it in a number of consecutive days so you may want to use these passes when the weather warms up.
A great way to discover New York's spectacular waterways is to take a dinner cruise on either World Yacht or Spirit Cruises. Both have their berths on the Hudson River. World Yacht is located near the end of 42nd Street while Spirit is a mile south at Chelsea Piers.
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EGA Tour Updates
Week 21 – EGA Rankings
We are now in the quarterfinal round of the Champions League knockout bracket. Let's take a look at our matchups
-Deji Adebiyi will be re-playing a group stage match against Brandon Harris. Brandon got the W the first time around but who comes out on top when it matters?
-Brendon Phelan gets a bye straight to the semifinals, an early wedding gift
-Brandon Fiting and Nick Ludka, our two lowest handicappers, will be squaring off
-Billy George and Will Bass are currently 2/3 of the way through their match. They started play at Hilltop on Tuesday and got hit with some heavy rains starting on the 4th hole. They stuck it out for as long as they could but ended up calling it quits after 14. The match currently stands all square with 4 holes left to play
Awesome to see that we have 4 players in contention to win it all in the standings. Nick now has a firm grasp on 2 of the 3 King of Courses after shooting even par 72 at Devil's Ridge and now sits within 400. Brice is over 50 rounds on the season with some huge handicap improvement. But Billy, Nick and Will are still in contention for match and event points in the Champions League. With just 2 months left this could come down to the wire!
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Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture. Collectively they're integral to the college fulfilling its research mission. "Behind the Research" explores their individual roles. Each academic year, we profile six people whose work supports the College of Agriculture's global reputation for developing innovative, multidisciplinary solutions to challenges and then putting those solutions into action.
Nathan Deppe, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA)
Maintains the HLA greenhouses and College of Agriculture growth chambers so researchers, educators and Extension staff can carry out their work.
Has implemented advanced lighting technology, including new LED fixtures (in collaboration with Jon Guenin, energy group manager).
Has improved growth chamber capabilities for better function.
Nathan Deppe describes a greenhouse —only a little jokingly — as "a thin metal structure with a thin pane of glass that wants to come crashing to the ground and return to the earth." His job is to ensure these unique facilities in the College of Agriculture are well maintained and equipped for current and future research.
Deppe supports plant science research in the college by managing the 50,000-square-foot HLA greenhouses and overseeing growth chamber facilities in coordination with Agronomy and Botany and Plant Pathology. Each year approximately 50 research projects occur in the greenhouse, and 80 to 100 research projects are conducted in growth chambers.
Deppe has been HLA's plant growth facility manager since September 2017. He and his team help set up facilities and experiments for undergraduates as well as for faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars and in many Agriculture departments.
"They're experts in their fields, and I'm trying to be the best resource I can for them," Deppe says.
He can't remember a time he didn't love horticulture. Growing up in central Illinois, he looked forward to the arrival of each spring's seed catalogs and enjoyed gardening.
After earning a BS in forestry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002, Deppe landed a job managing growth chambers, greenhouses and field plots at the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Peoria, Illinois, from 2004 to 2011. Along the way, he returned to his alma mater for a master's degree in urban forestry. He left the USDA-ARS in 2011 to become the University of Illinois' plant care facilities coordinator.
After six years in the job, he was excited when a position at Purdue opened up. "Purdue historically is the premier site for advancements in horticultural technology like LED illumination," he notes. "I also liked the idea that separate departments were doing their own research but people were also working together doing interdisciplinary research."
Deppe hired technician Dan Little and employs undergraduates to ensure that users have what they need to carry out their research, teaching or outreach. Deppe finds his work especially satisfying because it supports the three core objectives of the land-grant mission.
He also manages smaller growth chambers across three buildings that are designed for research with specific environmental parameters. "This is a college resource, so I work with many departments," he explains, including Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Agronomy, Biochemistry, Botany and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Natural Resources, and HLA.
Deppe's own small research projects often support other researchers' work. "Right now I'm testing different soils to see what works best with certain plant materials," he explains. "I also like new irrigation design and new sensors — the technology piece."
Deppe chairs the Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Curators, a network of professionals employed in controlled environment agriculture facilities at research and educational institutions.
As he looks ahead at what's coming in the next five to 10 years, Deppe is thinking about how Purdue's greenhouses can be ready: "We have a great strategic plan, but things are always evolving in the research field. You have to be able to adapt."
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Q: Mac OS X: Cancel VPN connection on password prompt breaks all VPN connection attempts until reboot If I try to connect to a VPN and then at the user / password prompt I press cancel (for instance, when I accidentally select the wrong VPN), it cancels the attempt, and then any further attempt to connect to any VPN just fails and asks me to check my settings.
Any ideas?
Thanks for advice!

A: Figured out that killing the process /usr/sbin/racoon forces the VPN system to reboot without having to restart the entire OS.

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*Open Terminal and run sudo ps -ef|grep racoon

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*Requires sudo

*Identify the process number for /usr/sbin/racoon in the 2nd column of the following output (in this case, 289)
0   289     1   0   0:00.04 ??         0:00.07 /usr/sbin/racoon
501   452   224   0   0:00.00 ttys000    0:00.00 grep --color racoon

*Run sudo kill -9 289 to end the process
UPDATED:
Since the migration of services to launchctl I've found that the above solution is no longer reliable (although I don't think it's entirely useless yet). I often resort to the below however:
killall racoon
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.racoon
sudo launchctl start com.apple.racoon


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Q: Pass SSRS parameter to SQL query I've built an SSRS report that is supposed to look at data from one of several tables with similar names - i.e., table001, table010, table011, etc. When I was building the report, I was only including three of the tables, out of more than a dozen. Everything worked fine until I added all the rest of the tables to the query, using multiple SELECT statements UNIONed together; it was trying to sort through so much data that it was taking almost half an hour to render the report. That's not going to work.
Is there a way to pass an SSRS parameter to the SQL query, specifying which table to access?

A: Based on your comments, you could do the following
DECLARE @Parameter NVARCHAR(15) = 'Foo'

SELECT CASE
WHEN @Parameter IN ('Foo', 'Bar')
    THEN (
            SELECT *
            FROM table001
         )
WHEN @Parameter IN ('Foobar')
    THEN (
            SELECT *
            FROM table002
         )
ELSE
         (
            SELECT *
            FROM table003
         )
END

Alternately
SELECT CASE @Parameter
WHEN 'Foo'
    THEN (
            SELECT *
            FROM table001
         )
WHEN 'Bar'
    THEN (
            SELECT *
            FROM table002
         )
WHEN 'Foobar'
    THEN (
            SELECT *
            FROM table003
         )
ELSE
    (
        SELECT *
        FROM @table004
    )
END

A: Have you followed the MSDN tutorial? This is good too: http://sql-bi-dev.blogspot.com/2010/07/report-parameters-in-ssrs-2008.html
Please share what you have tried and where you are having trouble. Essentially, you define a parameter in the report and include it in your query. SSRS provides the parameter value (or it is received through user input), and then the final query is passed off to the database.


months old, you were never without a smile, my precious little man your presence is our trial.
baby boy–Always missed and always in my heart.
Our two beautiful twins. I only carried them to 17 weeks but what a blessing. They are now sitting with Jesus. We will see them again.
We had you for a few minutes here, and we will have you for eternity in Heaven. We love and miss you dearly.