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Sing Street Review: Teenage Irish Rockers. Not The Movie
Author: New York Theater Published Date: December 20, 2019 Leave a Comment on Sing Street Review: Teenage Irish Rockers. Not The Movie
Brenock OConnor as Conor Jakeim Hart as Larry, members of Sing Street, a 1980s band
"Sing Street" is a stage musical based on the sweet, funny "happy-sad" 2016 Irish movie by writer/director John Carney about a teenager named Conor growing up in Dublin during the economically depressed but musically vibrant 1980s, who forms a band to impress a girl name Raphina.
The musical has its pleasures, especially for those nostalgic for the era of made-for-MTV, New Wave synthesized tunes. A talented group of young adult actor-musicians, ages 16 to 25, perform mostly original pastiche songs by Carney and Scottish singer-songwriter Gary Clark, who was part of the 80s scene and continues his hit-making now. But "Sing Street" the stage musical is likely to disappoint anybody who has seen "Sing Street" the movie (which is currently available for viewing online, through IMDB TV, for free.)
This comes as something of a surprise given the pedigree of the creative team. Carney has enlisted as the stage musical's librettist the same playwright, Enda Walsh, who turned Carney's 2007 Irish movie "Once" into a Tony-winning musical. The show's scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley won one of his several Tonys for "Once." The show's director, Rebecca Taichman, won a Tony for helming "Indecent."
Yet none of them are doing their best work in "Sing Street," which loses much of the quirkiness of the film, and feels broader and, despite self-consciously minimalist stagecraft, more commercial — closer to, say, "School of Rock" than "Once."
The change is evident from the get-go. The movie begins with Conor playing the guitar while in the background his parents bicker. He repeats their argument as if their words are lyrics, setting them to music.
"If we didn't share a mortgage, I would leave," he sings in falsetto imitating what his mother has just said.
"Go on and leave any time you like," he sings absurdly deep-voiced in imitation of his father.
It's hilarious, and also pointed, telling us all we need to know about the tensions in the family before we even meet them, and why a smart boy would want to escape his life through music.
There is no such opening scene in the musical. Instead there's something more artificial. We see Conor (Brenock O'Connor) emerging from a dollhouse, and somebody turning on a radio that is broadcasting an interview with a teenager who says he's leaving Ireland because there are no jobs. Then we see Conor listening to and trying to play along with a recording of Depeche Mode's "I Just Can't Get Enough." He soon gets the hang of it and is joined by the rest of the cast, playing the song hard-edged, yes, but also professionally — as if they are entertaining a paying audience at a musical, which of course they are.
The two "Sing Streets," movie and musical, tell the same story: Conor, forced to leave a good private school that his family can no longer afford, is sent to the rough-and-tumble school run by the Christian Brothers on Synge Street. From the first day, he's tormented by the priest in charge, Brother Baxter (Michael Moran), and bullied by an abused classmate Barry (Johnny Newcomb.) He sees Raphina (Zara Devlin) across the street from the school, and bravely goes up to talk to her. She tells him she's a model; "I almost shot a music video last month." He then and there invites her to star in the music video of his band. And then seeks out his brand new friend Darren (Max William Bartos) to help him put together a band. Happy-sad lessons in love and life ensue.
In the movie – and in Broadway musicals like Bandstand and Gettin The Band Back Together – much of the initial action is the recruitment of the band members, whom we meet one by one and in that way get to know as individuals. But we've already seen the band together in the opening number of "Sing Street" the musical, doing the Depeche Mode number, and we never see them recruited, or, in truth, learn much about them as individuals. This is too bad, because the performers are good enough that we want to know them more.
The show does better with Conor's sister Anne (Skyler Volpe) a wit and wise ass who is studying to be an architect, and with his big brother Brendan (Gus Halper), a college drop-out and a shut-in who starts off advising Conor in music and love, and ends up admiring him for his willingness to try to escape. Brendan is given the rousing 11 o'clock number "Go Now," the main effect of which is to wonder why we didn't notice him more during the rest of the show.
The band, which decides to call itself Sing Street (a pun on the location of their school), spends much of their time making music videos. This kind of begs for there to be projections of the possibly funny fruits of their labor. But the only projection in "Sing Street" is of the Irish Sea, always rolling, never-changing. I know there's symbolism here – the sea as both come-on and barrier to a more fulfilling life for the Irish characters — but still….
Similarly, there is great humor in Conor and his Sing Street adolescent rockers adapting the makeup and androgynous costumes of each star band of the era as he learns about them from his brother. The movie's costume designer Tiziana Corvisieri and a 13-member makeup department and costume go whole hog in the kids' transformations, while the designers of the musical go….piglet?
Speaking of animals, there is one thing the musical has that the movie lacks – a live baby rabbit. It doesn't hop though.
Jakeim Hart, Max William Bartos, Zara Devlin, Sam Poon, Brenock O'Connor, Brendan C. Callahan & Gian Perez i
New York Theatre Workshop
Book by Enda Walsh ; Music and lyrics by John Carney and Gary Clark. Based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney
Directed by Rebecca Taichman. Choreography by Sonya Tayeh. Scenic and costume design by Bob Crowley, lighting design by Christopher Akerlind, sound design by Darren L. West and Charles Coes, hair and makeup design by J. Jared Janas.
Cast: Max William Bartos, Brendan C. Callahan, Billy Carter, Zara Devlin, Alan Eskenazi, Gus Halper, Jakeim Hart, Martin Moran, Anne L. Nathan, Johnny Newcomb, Brenock O'Connor, Gian Perez, Sam Poon, Skyler Volpe and Amy Warren
Running time: Two hours and 15 minutes including an intermission
Tickets: $129
Sing Street is on stage through January 26, 2020
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Q: CURL_RETURNTRANSFER downloding large files I use a funtion to download files trough a private API.
Everything goes fine to download small/medium files, but large files is impossible beacause it uses too much memory.
Here is my function:
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How could i optimize this to download files to disk instead of memory ?
Thanks

A: use CURLOPT_FILE . It will ask for file pointer where download will be saved.
code will be like
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A: You can use CURLOPT_FILE, like this:
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The Problem With A Shops Baby Grow That Left A Woman Furious
A British mum has accused a discount store, Poundland, of sexism after she spotted a baby grow for sale in their store.
The problem with the baby grow is that it said 'Lock up your daughters' on the front of it.
Rebecca Roache, a senior lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University in London believes the garment teaches young boys to be 'sex pests'.
She said she saw the item at a store in Oxfordshire, where it was retailing for £1.50 ($2.74).
The mother-of-two shared a photo of the baby now on Twitter saying they are contributing to 'everyday sexism'.
She wrote: "It's never too early to start training boys to be sex pests, eh @poundland? #everydaysexism".
When speaking to Mail Online, Roache went on to say "It sends out this message that boys will be boys – they can just run wild and do not need to take responsibility for their actions or whatever they do.
"It is a subtle message but implicitly there is a sexual context to it that men dominate women.
"It is just inappropriate and sends out a misogynistic message when they cannot even speak or walk yet."
However, replies to her tweet have not favoured here, with users saying "Lol no. Stop being offended by everything."
Another said: "Get over yourselves, you insensitive snowflakes. It is just a bit of fun and nothing else. The world really has gone mad."
A third added: "I think it's cute. There are far worse things going on in the world than implying your child is handsome."
The store has stuck by the decision to sell the product, saying "While we appreciate the feedback, it's one of our best selling baby grows, so it appears most customers appreciate the humour."
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Today I took a big first step.
Realistic Brain: "Come on. You wrote a solid fantasy novel. It's well written and entertaining, and it's fine that it's not going to win any literary prizes. Some people will love it, others will hate it, and your life will go on. Also, your next book will be better because now you know what writing a complete novel is like.
In my heart, I know that Realistic Brain is also the Smart Brain. It would be easy to view this book-publishing thing as a path either to complete validation or utter repudiation as a writer, but down that path lies madness. Realistic Brain says: enjoy the ride, learn from your mistakes, don't stop writing, AND FOR GOD'S SAKE STOP HITTING AMAZON'S LITTLE SALES TRACKER GIZMO EVERY NINETY SECONDS. IT WILL STILL BE THERE TOMORROW.
If you want to get on my mailing list to receive (very infrequent, I promise!) updates about how the series is progressing, click here.
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With Playoffs Approaching, Giante Hicks Wants To Lead By Example
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The Dixie Heights Colonels/Edgewood, Kentucky have a chance to make some noise in the Kentucky 5A District 5 playoffs this year. Giante Hicks wants to be the guy to lead them to a championship.
The Colonels finished the 2016 season at 6-5 overall (2-1 District). They have their first crack at a state championship at home against the Southern Trojans 5-6 (4-2 District) / Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, November 4 at 7:30 pm.
Giante Hicks, a senior wide receiver for Dixie Heights, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio but also calls Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky home.
"…My dad lives in Cincinnati and my mom lives in Ft. Mitchell. I could say both because Ft. Mitchell is basically like Cincinnati. It means a lot to me because football is big over here and around this area. I just like the atmosphere of it and I've been here my whole life so I don't really know anything else different," he said.
Hicks is playing for his family. His motivation for playing the sport is making sure that his parents don't have to worry about paying for his education. His grandfather is someone he looks up to and wants to emulate.
"My grandad. He has always had an impact on me. He's like a person I grew up with and [have been] looking up to. A person I want to be like because he's successful and he always tells me the right things to do."
The 5'11, 206 pound, wide receiver holds offers from Kentucky Christian University, Robert Morris and Cincinnati Christian University. His top three schools at the moment are Montana, Robert Morris, and Ohio University.
So what does Giante Hicks do well on the football field? Well for one, he's not afraid to get physical with a defender and block him. A wide receiver that can help the running game is an even more valuable commodity for an offense and only adds to the wide receiver's value as a whole.
"I think the best part of my game is I'm more physical than a lot of people I play against. I think that's the best part of my game and I just go hard pretty much every play. That makes up for a lot of stuff on the field," he said.
He admitted though that he needs to get faster on both sides of the ball because he also plays linebacker and makes plays on both sides.
Giante Hicks is a hard worker, a leader on the field and he leads by example.
"I'm always doing the right things. I don't go out on nights and do all that partying stuff, that's not me."
He wants to be ranked in the top 10 or top 20 in all-purpose yards, one of the top outside linebackers and tacklers in Northern Kentucky and make the All-City and All-District teams on offense and defense.
His ultimate goal and the goal of the Dixie Heights Colonels is to win a state championship. The playoff push begins Friday, November 4.
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Infinite Beauty has again added to its roster of high-tech beauty technologies, now bringing HydraFacial MD® Highlights to its Maryland-based spa.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., August 24, 2018	(Newswire.com) - The boutique beauty brand Infinite Beauty is well-known for its tech-focused approach to beauty, with its eight locations boasting innovations such as high-frequency, microcurrent, ultrasonic and LED light therapy. Previously only available at two of the brand's New York locations, HydraFacial MD® Highlights is now available to clients at its Bethesda, Maryland, spa.
"Our ongoing investment in technology and innovation," says Eric Inbar, the company's vice president of operations, "makes Infinite Beauty a forerunner in the world of high-tech beauty treatments."
The timing for such investment couldn't be better. LED therapy, for example, is enjoying a massive surge in popularity according to the vice president of operations. "Numbers are definitely up among clients this year," he points out.
The non-invasive, pain-free light-based therapy soothes and helps in rejuvenating skin of any age, according to the beauty brand. "Utilizing waves of colored light to trigger collagen production, for example, the process has many benefits," Inbar adds.
As a luxury beauty business, Infinite Beauty requires the ability to address a large variety of clients' needs, and its array of technologically advanced aesthetic solutions is specifically tailored to cater to this.
Alongside more traditional treatments such as Infinite Beauty's signature facial, exclusive gold facial and red carpet treatments, as well as a microdermabrasion detox, bio-brightening, vitamin C infusion, collagen treatment procedures and oxygen therapy, HydraFacial MD® Highlights is now in particularly high demand.
The award-winning process claims to increase skin hydration, help to reduce lines and wrinkles and improve the appearance of hyperpigmentation or redness. It does so, says the brand, while simultaneously tackling oily or congested skin and assisting in the elimination of dark patches.
Combining advanced medical technologies with traditional spa therapies, the process takes just 30 minutes to complete and promises immediate results. Treatment involves exfoliation of the skin, a peel, mechanical lymphatic drainage and coordinated LED light therapy. The process continues at home, with clients provided with a supply of peptides, serums and brightening agents as part of a straightforward ongoing routine aimed at extending and amplifying the effects of the initial procedure.
HydraFacial MD® Highlights is currently available at Infinite Beauty's White Plains, New York; Garden City, New York; and Bethesda, Maryland, locations.
The brand's five other spas can be found in New York City, New York; Santa Clara, California; Roseville, California; Boca Raton, Florida; and Key West, Florida. Clients may also sign up for a VIP membership card, providing access to a range of exclusive benefits, special offers and more.
To discover more about Infinite Beauty, please visit http://www.infinitebeautyusa.com/.


The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Prof Isaac Asuzu, has warned the union leaders against stoking the fire of crisis that could pit the management against the entire workforce, saying the university authority would not hesitate to wield the big stick against unruly staff.
The unions were: Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union and National Association of Technologists, which had gone on strike over non-payment of the allowances to the 1,469 workers in the university.
Asuzu, who was reacting to the sit-down strike embarked on by the three major unions in the university in recent time, described the agitations for immediate payment of hazard and relocation allowances as practically impossible as of now, in view of paucity of funds in the four-year old university.
Asuzu also dispelled the impression by striking union leaders that the hazard allowance could be defrayed through the funds from pre-degree programme, saying university realizes a sum of N21 million annually from the programme , while it requires a sum of N37.1 million monthly to pay the allowance.
He also denied the insinuation milling rounds that the university is owing five months salary of workers, describing the information as an attempt by some recalcitrant union leaders to discredit the management.
The Vice Chancellor, who rated the university high compared with other eight universities established by ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, said all the 29 courses being run in the institution have been accredited by National Universities Commission.


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I installed all avaible texlive packages in the CentOs7, but the error persist.
Thank you for the help.

A: The problem is with the outdated version of tcolorbox installed by CentOS 7.
I encountered the same problem on CentOS 7.8:

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The problem can be "fixed" by downloading version 3.96 of tcolorbox from  https://github.com/T-F-S/tcolorbox/releases/tag/v3.96 and copying it over the texlive installation under /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tcolorbox (later versions of tcolorbox introduce other unmet dependencies).


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Emotional support from female co-workers plays a major role in whether or not new moms choose to keep breastfeeding after returning to work, according to a new study by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and Texas Christian University (TCU).
The study is the first to focus specifically on the effect female co-workers have on colleagues who want to continue breastfeeding by pumping milk at work.
The findings, published in the journal Health Communication, show that the more support women received from their colleagues, the more empowered they felt to continue breastfeeding. In fact, support from coworkers had an even stronger effect than support from partners, family or friends.
"In order to empower women to reach their goals and to continue breastfeeding, it's critical to motivate all co-workers by offering verbal encouragement and practical help," said Dr. Joanne Goldbort, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at MSU, who collaborated with lead author Dr. Jie Zhuang at TCU.
According to Zhuang, people may assume that women in the workplace automatically encourage one another, but that often may not be the case.
The study involved 500 working mothers. Of these, 81 individuals reported they had never breastfed, and 80 had stopped breastfeeding before returning to work. Of those who continued breastfeeding after returning to work, more than half chose to give it up between the first and sixth month.
While the specific reasons for stopping weren't tracked in the study, it did measure the women's thoughts and feelings around co-worker perception and stigma, as well as how uncomfortable they felt about pumping milk at work.
Overall, the findings suggest that the act of simply returning to work played a major role in a woman's decision to quit breastfeeding but that receiving colleague support was very influential for those who continued.
The study also found that more than a quarter of the women who originally decided to breastfeed made the decision because their place of employment created a helpful environment, such as providing a place to pump.
In addition, around 15 percent of the participants chose to continue breastfeeding after returning to work because they had co-workers or supervisors who directly motivated them to do so.
Goldbort indicated that multiple factors could play into why co-worker support is viewed as equally important, if not more important, to working moms.
"One factor could be that simply spending the majority of their time during the day with co-workers necessitates more support for breastfeeding success," she said.
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest exclusive breastfeeding for the first six to 12 months and then continuing with supplementary feeding of solid foods up to two years of age or longer. Yet the number of moms who choose to continue to breastfeed remains lower than these recommendations.
Recently, the Trump Administration opposed the World Health Assembly's resolution to promote the use of breast milk over formula. But years of research has shown that breastfeeding has significant nutritional benefits for babies and their development. It also has many advantages for the mother.


The Swiss derivatives market with the first fully electronic trading system in the world, now called Eurex Zurich AG.
The first fully electronic exchange in the world. It became defunct in 1998 when it merged with Deutsche Terminborse to form Eurex.


Among the following whose aim is to create profit from the business?
The main aim of the trading business is to earn profit and maintain the business with more profitable one. The service business provides services to the customers. In trading business goods are purchased and sold it out without any further process.
Where are the personal accounts of suppliers from whom goods received on credit found?
Personal accounts of suppliers were written in the purchases ledger from which goods received on credit. The ledger contains all account of suppliers. The Purchase journals are used for all credit purchases of goods made during the year.
John maintains a provision for doubtful debts at 5 % of the trade receivables (debtors) at the end of each financial year.
The Provision for Bad and Doubtful debts account shows a balance of $2000 on 1st January 2008. The Bad debts during the year 2008 amount to $1600. The Sundry debtors on 31st December 2008 are $32,000.
How much will appear in John's income statement (profit and loss account) for the year ended 31 December 2008?


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Pragmatism dictates how many young Tanzanians view a Chinese education: A Chinese education was seen as a logical pathway to securing well-paying reliable employment.
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On a recent research trip to Tanzania, I interviewed an undergraduate student of the University of Dar es Salaam. Soon our conversation descended into a general discussion about life and the future. He, unlike me, was unfazed by life after graduation, having set his sights firmly on employment with the most visible partner throughout Tanzania. "The director of the Confucius Institute said he'd recommend me for a Masters scholarship in China because I've been interning in the department; I've been learning Chinese there for a year so he knows I'm serious."
I asked him why he had chosen China over postgraduate courses in Europe or the United States, traditionally the route for ambitious African students: "China is reasonable" was his simple answer. He continued, "and the opportunities are everywhere."
"Opportunity" was a rationale that dominated many conversations about China I had had both within the university, and amongst young professionals in offices clustered near Dar's city centre. It is easy to see why, in Dar at least, China had become synonymous with economic opportunity: it feels as if one cannot walk down a street in the city without passing another Chinese backed construction project, often great monoliths which stretch their concrete limbs across the skyline.
China's growing presence in Tanzania has been replicated in the field of education, with two Confucius Institutes founded in the country since 2013; one in Dar es Salaam, and another in Dodoma, seven hours by car from Dar. CIs are bases from which Chinese language and culture can be promoted in many forms, both within universities by offering elective and BA language courses, and throughout a select number of secondary schools to which CI teachers are sent. Moreover, the growth in Chinese educational investment into Tanzania has been matched with significant increases in the providence of short and long term scholarships for academic study in China.
It is easy to mistake the distinct growth of scholarships offered to African students by China (an estimated 30,000 a year from 2015) as a repeat of policies undertaken by the erstwhile Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War; programs that sought to educate African leaders of the future, and in the process align these students with their ideological leaning. While there are undoubtedly soft power connotations to this growing influence, China's educational programs in Africa differs by its overt pragmatic motivations: China requires a new generation with Chinese language and cultural knowledge to facilitate the growing political and economic relationship.
Pragmatism dictates how many young Tanzanians I spoke to view a Chinese education. Despite voicing unflattering accusations about Chinese workers and Chinese products, a Chinese education was seen as a logical pathway to securing well-paying reliable employment. This is evidenced by Chinese firms employing students directly through the Confucius Institutes for a growing number of available positions in marketing, sales, architecture, quantity surveying, and law. Many more Tanzanians are returning from China after their undergraduate or postgraduate degrees and setting up businesses which directly trade with the Chinese in a number of capacities. The financial benefits of a Chinese education in the private sector are becoming increasingly obvious, shown not just by the institutional growth of Chinese language education, but also through the advertisement of unofficial language classes taught by Chinese immigrants across Dar.
In short, a generation of young Tanzanians are approaching China's growing investment with a nuanced mindset, simultaneously swayed by the latent benefits of learning Chinese for future career prospects while continually aware of the unsavory implications of Chinese presence. Perhaps it was this pragmatic perspective that my interviewee in the basement of the University of Dar es Salaam was alluding to when he described China as reasonable: an understanding that the demands of Chinese influence are, at least for now, outweighed by the benefits of cooperation.
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Gilead is counting on CAR-T cancer treatment Yescarta to help restore the company's top-line growth. (Gilead)
Just one month after naming a new head of corporate development, Gilead is beefing up its top management team again—this time plucking an oncology vet to head up its entrance into the burgeoning market for CAR-T cancer treatments.
Gilead unit Kite, which won FDA approval for the CAR-T drug Yescarta last year, has hired Michael Amoroso as SVP and head of worldwide commercial efforts in cell therapy. He'll oversee sales and marketing, doctor and patient services, and "market access"—aka payer negotiations—Kite said in a Monday statement.
Underscoring the Yescarta rollout's importance, Amoroso will report directly to Gilead CEO John Milligan. James Meyers, Gilead's previous head of worldwide commercial operations, unexpectedly retired in February.
When he jumps into the new job next month, Amoroso will face some tough challenges—including a lag in payer coverage. Gilead rolled out Yescarta to treat lymphoma last October, but pickup was slow, as Medicare and commercial payers stalled on billing procedures for the personalized cell therapy. Gilead didn't hit the $10 million in sales analysts were expecting for the product last year, and this year the $373,000 treatment has taken in $40 million, making dreams of a blockbuster still a bit elusive. It didn't help when rival Novartis won FDA approval for its CAR-T, Kymriah, to treat lymphoma in May—and then matched Kite on price.
RELATED: Gilead to build its EU CAR-T manufacturing facility at Amsterdam airport
Gilead is counting on Yescarta to pull the company out of what has been a tough 2018 so far. Hepatitis C blockbusters Sovaldi and Harvoni have been declining for some time, beset by competition and a general shrinking of the patient population. The company surprised investors late last year when it warned that hepatitis C sales for this year would be between $3.5 billion and $4 billion—missing the $5 billion analysts were expecting.
The company could very well be planning another big acquisition to boost its top line and pipeline, given that the executive who spearheaded Gilead's $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite, Andrew Dickinson, has been entrusted with even more responsibility. Dickinson was promoted to EVP of corporate development and strategy and named to Gilead's senior leadership team in June. Gilead has $32.9 billion in cash, giving it plenty of resources to pour into another big deal. In fact, Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges recently named Gilead one of only two companies that could afford to buy a company as large as Biogen or Regeneron. (Amgen is the only other company with that kind of buying power, Porges suggested.)
RELATED: CAR-T race heads to Europe as Gilead, Novartis drugs score CHMP backing
As for Kite's new chief of commercial, he brings a deep résumé in oncology to the company. Amoroso previously served as SVP of Eisai's oncology business group in the U.S. Before that, he worked for Celgene as commercial lead of global marketing for CAR-T programs, where he developed a commercialization strategy for patients with lymphoma and myeloma.
"This experience will help us as we seek to build on our existing portfolio, expand our commercial presence in cell therapy in the United States and around the world, and advance new products to market," said Milligan in a statement.
There was one recent development that will ease Amoroso's transition to his new job at Kite: The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) endorsed Yescarta to treat diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and mediastinal B-cell lymphoma in late June. Gilead will still be in competition with Novartis, which also got the CHMP's backing, but the endorsement sets Yescarta up for a likely approval from the European Commission. And Gilead is already preparing for a launch there, building out a 117,000-square-foot CAR-T manufacturing facility at a Netherlands airport.
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Early treatment could prevent over 138,000 breast cancer deaths in West Africa –Study
By Lara Adejoro
Artificial Intelligence for breast cancer detection
Lara Adejoro
A new study has revealed that at least one-third of the 416,000 deaths from breast cancer projected to occur in sub-Saharan Africa during the next decade could be prevented with early detection and treatment.
The study noted that a projected 416,000 women will die from breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa between 2020 and 2029.
According to the researchers, this is an excessive mortality toll for cancer that is potentially curable if diagnosed and treated early.
A third of the projected 416,000 cancer deaths is over 138,000.
"The results of our study suggest that, through downstaging of symptomatic disease and treatment improvements, a substantial proportion (at least a third) of deaths from breast cancer could be averted."
The study published in The Lancet Global Health involved 2,313 women from eight hospitals across five sub-Saharan African countries (Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia), of whom 85 did not have breast cancer.
Of the remaining 2,228 women with breast cancer, 58 women with previous treatment or recurrence, and 14 women from small racial groups (white and Asian women in South Africa), were excluded.
Of the 2,156 women analysed, 1,840 (85 per cent) were histologically confirmed, 129 (6 per cent) were cytologically confirmed, and 187 (9 per cent) were clinically confirmed to have breast cancer.
The study led by Valerie McCormack showed that 2,156 (97 per cent) women were followed up for up to 3 years and up to this date, 879 (41 per cent) of these women had died, 1118 (52 per cent) were alive, and 159 (7 per cent) were censored early.
The researchers said "3-year overall survival was 50 per cent (95 per cent CI 48–53), but we observed variations in 3-year survival between different races in Namibia (from 90 per cent in white women to 56 per cent in Black women) and in South Africa (from 76 per cent in mixed-race women to 59 per cent in Black women), and between different countries (44–47 per cent in Uganda and Zambia vs 36 per cent in Nigeria).
"215 (10 per cent) of all women had died within 6 months of diagnosis, but 3-year overall survival remained low in women who survived to this time point (58 per cent).
"Among survival determinants, improvements in early diagnosis and treatment were predicted to contribute to the largest increases in survival, with a combined absolute increase in survival of up to 22% per cent in Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda, when compared with the contributions of other factors (such as HIV or aggressive subtypes)."
The researchers added that large variations in breast cancer survival in sub-Saharan African countries indicate that improvements are possible.
"At least a third of the projected 416,000 breast cancer deaths that will occur in this region in the next decade could be prevented through achievable downstaging and improvements in treatment.
"Improving survival in socially disadvantaged women warrants special attention," they said.
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Q: Merge unaligned DataFrames while filling with empty string I have multiple DataFrames that I want to merge where I would like the fill value an empty string rather than nan. Some of the DataFrames have already nan values in them. concat sort of does what I want but fill empty values with nan. How does one not fill them with nan, or specify the fill_value to achieve something like this:
>>> df1
    Value1
0       1
1     NaN
2       3

>>> df2
    Value2
1       5
2       Nan
3       7

>>> merge_multiple_without_nan([df1,df2])
    Value1    Value2
0       1
1     NaN       5
2       3       NaN
3               7

This is what concat does:
>>> concat([df1,df2], axis=1)
   Value1  Value2
0       1     NaN
1     NaN       5
2       3     NaN
3     NaN       7

A: After using concat, you can iterate over the DataFrames you merged, find the indices that are missing, and fill them in with an empty string.  This should work for concatenating an arbitrary number of DataFrames, as long as your column names are unique.
# Concatenate all of the DataFrames.
merge_dfs = [df1, df2]
full_df = pd.concat(merge_dfs, axis=1)

# Find missing indices for each merged frame, fill with an empty string.
for partial_df in merge_dfs:
    missing_idx = full_df.index.difference(partial_df.index)
    full_df.loc[missing_idx, partial_df.columns] = ''

The resulting output using your sample data:
  Value1 Value2
0      1
1    NaN      5
2      3    NaN
3             7

A: Well, I couldn't find any function in concat or merge that would handle this by itself, but the code below works without much hassel:
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'Value2': [1,np.nan,3]}, index = [0,1, 2])
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'Value2': [5,np.nan,7]}, index = [1, 2, 3])
# Add temporary Nan values for the data frames.
df = pd.concat([df1.fillna('X'), df2.fillna('Y')], axis=1)
df=
  Value2 Value2
0      1    NaN
1      X      5
2      3      Y
3    NaN      7

Step 2:
df.fillna('', inplace=True)
df=
  Value2 Value2
0      1
1      X      5
2      3      Y
3             7

Step 3:
df.replace(to_replace=['X','Y'], value=np.nan, inplace=True)
df=
  Value2 Value2
0      1
1    NaN      5
2      3    NaN
3             7


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Aleph Book Company to publish Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History by Sudeep Chakravarti in January, 2020
The best account yet of Plassey, the battle that changed Indian history forever.
'Sudeep Chakravarti's book on the battle of Plassey is popular history writing at its very best. He has looked at all the relevant sources and books and then constructed an analytical narrative that is lucid and therefore accessible to anyone who is interested in history. Plassey was a turning point but the battle and its background have not received the attention it merits. Chakravarti's book fills a significant gap and does so in an enviable manner. This book will stand the test of time.' —Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Chancellor and Professor of History, Ashoka University
'Sudeep Chakravarti has brought to life a decisive historical moment as also a cast of characters (Indian and British) who made that moment emotional, villainous, and transforming.' —Rajmohan Gandhi
Pic courtesy: Aleph
The Battle of Plassey, fought on 23 June 1757, changed the course of Indian history forever. When the short, sharp hostilities between the forces of the nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah, and East India Company troops led by Robert Clive, an ambitious soldier of fortune, ended, Britain was on its way to becoming the dominant force in the region. The eighteenth century was a time of great political churn in the subcontinent. After the death of Emperor Aurangzeb, the Mughal empire began to slowly fracture. In the east, the nawabs of Bengal, who ruled in the name of the Mughals, took the opportunity to break free. By the middle of the century, Siraj-ud-daulah succeeded his grandfather, Alivardi Khan, to the throne of Bengal. e young nawab clashed frequently with the Company as it looked to aggressively expand and safeguard its interests. Their skirmishes led inexorably to Plassey, a decisive battle in a mango orchard by the banks of the Bhagirathi-Hugli.
But what was Plassey all about, besides a young nawab who stood in the way of a company's business plans and a country's dreams of conquest? Was it really a battle or was it won before it began? What were the politics of the time that permitted Plassey? Why did the British so desperately want Bengal? Who were the faces beyond a callow Siraj and a crafty Clive, the two main combatants? What are the stories behind the spurned general, the ambitious and hateful aunt, the rude and covetous cousin, the insulted banker, the grasping merchant? And how was—is—Plassey seen? By the victors and the vanquished? The colonizer and the colonized? Why does Plassey remain such a fascinating story even today?
Using multilingual sources and a multidisciplinary approach, Sudeep Chakravarti answers all these questions and a myriad others with great insight and nuance. Impeccably researched and brilliantly told, Plassey is the best account yet of one of the turning points in Indian history.
Sudeep Chakravarti Pic courtesy: Aleph
SUDEEP CHAKRAVARTI is an award-winning author of bestselling works of narrative non-fiction including The Bengalis: A Portrait of Community (shortlisted for e Hindu Prize 2018, and Tata Literature Live! Award 2018). His other notable non-fiction works are Red Sun, Highway 39, and Clear.Hold.Build. He has written three critically acclaimed novels (Tin Fish, The Avenue of Kings, and The Baptism of Tony Calangute) and short stories.
His work has been translated into various languages including Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
An extensively published columnist, he has over three decades of experience in media. Sudeep has worked with major global and Indian media organizations including the Asian Wall Street Journal, where he began his career, and held leadership positions at Sunday, the India Today Group, and HT Media.
Sudeep read history at St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He is co-founder of Coastal Impact, an organization of divers and scientists, which conducts research for institutions, and evangelizes marine conservation to school and university students. He lives in Goa.
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Parks Tile & Stone, LLC and owner Dean Parks are synonymous with the finest tile installations in the greater Phoenix area. Excellence to craftsmanship and attention to details are the company's mantra. We can meet your expectations with an attitude of partnership and vision. With 36 years of custom tile design and installation, Dean is always available to offer expert direction, whether it's to "Mrs. Smiths" kitchen backsplash in center city, or "Mr. Jones" 25,000 square foot luxury home in North Scottsdale.
Parks Tile & Stone, LLC has partnered with some of the most prestige's custom home builders in the valley. Earning the trust and respect of our clients is our ultimate goal. We are dedicated to providing unsurpassed value and quality. Expect the personal touch that comes from a sole proprietor. We know our limits, and maintain a small and efficient company. Our craftsman have been handpicked, and are the best artisans in the business. We will provide you the attention you deserve. We will never over extend ourselves.
We look forward to the opportunity of helping you turn your expectations into reality.
Dean graduated high school from New Mexico Military Institute (N.M.M.I.) in 1976 and by February 1977 found his niche as a tile setters helper, then setter, then owner. In 1983 Parks Custom Tile Company was created.
In 1993 Dean put his business on hold and accepted an offer for a position with Stockett Tile Co. to manage the tile division, while the owner focused on growing a slab department.
In 2001, Dean accepted a general managers position with Bell Stone Company to build a tile division on the existing slab business.
After 11 years with Bell, directions once again changed and he found himself ready to write the next chapter of his tile career. In January 2013, Parks Tile & Stone, LLC was formed.
Dean is a charter member and past president of the Ceramic Tile and Stone Association of Arizona. He continues to participate with this local association to stay current with trends in the industry as well as keeping up with the latest installation technologies.


German is spoken by roughly 95 million people worldwide. It is the most spoken language in Europe, the second most common language for scientific publications and one of the most popularly taught second languages. The first book ever printed was also printed in German! These all make German a practical and rewarding language to learn.
German belongs to the Indo-European family of languages along with English, Dutch, and Icelandic. This means that despite a lot of outward differences, German is really quite similar to English. Grammar rules are similar and it is estimated that over a third of vocabulary is shared between the two languages. German spelling is very phonetic and every word can be pronounced exactly as it is spelled. Don't let the use of compound words scare you!
Whether you are dreaming of spending Oktoberfest in Munich, aspiring to work for BMW, or just want speak the language of Beethoven and Kant; German is one of the most useful and fun languages to learn!


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Q: Image alternate text for html 1 Is it possible to use alternate text in an  tag in html in a way that is compatible with html 1(ignoring tags it doesn't understand).  Would  alt text  be valid?  More importantly, would it display correctly?

A: I figured it out.    works.  The space between  are so Internet Explorer doesn't think that they are broken conditional comments and try to display the alt text.
A modern browser sees the same thing as:

Old(html 1) browsers see:
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If You Haven't Heard of Multi Stem, It's Time That You Did.
I don't like fussy pattern. And I'm not a huge fan of floral. But I love Orla Kiely's Multi Stem. And I'm not entirely sure why. Actually, I do know why. It's refreshing. It's uplifting. And it's fun.
It's also got a little bit of funk going on and if you want to inject a little bit of the 'retro' but in a fairly polished and in a not too zany-flowers-in-my-hair-incense-burning-lava-lamp way then Multi Stem is your friend.
Don't believe me? Then feast your eyes on this.
This is (unintentionally) continuing with my previous grey and yellow theme but as you can see a little bit of pattern can go a long, long way. One wall is more than ample for this type of eye-catching pattern and as long as everything else is fairly muted it will happily stand to attention. It has a 60's vibe and therefore I've suggested mid-century side tables (painted white to keep things airy and fresh). I've also added lamps that have blue tinted glass stands that not only underpin the retro theme but also complement the blue colour in the Multi Stem pattern. I've chosen yellow as the accent (cushions) and have repeated the Multi Stem pattern in the cushions but in a more subdued way. I love this look. But I'm biased.
There's also another very important reason why this type of pattern with its various colours is useful. If you find yourself bored with yellow, you can easily change the colours of accessories by picking out a different colour in the pattern. Genius.
Admittedly I was a little slow on the Multi Stem uptake but it's been around for quite a while and has become somewhat iconic. To the extent that even public transport has been given the Multi Stem treatment. Now that's pretty cool.
I wouldn't for one second recommend that everyone goes out on the rampage and fills their homes with all sorts of lovely things pertaining to the Multi Stem pattern; one or two considered purchases would be more than enough. I love that blinkin purse. Love it.
And just because colours, textures and design schemes can look very different depending on the environment lighting, I've included a daytime shot. I also wanted to show off my progress in rendering now that I've learned how to create a heavily textured rug (yes, I'm showing off but it only took countless gut-wrenching hours to work out how to do it; cut me some slack!).


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Brewers fans tailgate like no others in baseball, and the smell of grilled brats and sausages fills the parking lots surrounding Miller Park before, and often after, games. To take in a game on the cheap, fill up at the tailgate, then get the $1, obstructed view 'Uecker seats,' named for longtime Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker. And while Miller products are highlighted at the park, there's also a fine selection of local micro-brews on tap.
Road Trip / Miller Park Itinerary
Tailgating may be more associated with football than baseball, but no one in Milwaukee seems to know that or care. Miller Park is by far the best spot in the Majors to do some pre-game partying in the parking lot. So, plan to get to the game early and fire up the grill, throw the brats on and crack a brew. You won't be alone. … Couldn't get the tailgate organized? No problem. Hit Klement's Sausage Haus on the edge of the east parking lot where they have brats, sausages, beer and other items for an impromptu tailgate. … Encased meats are the stars inside the park, too, including brats, Italian, Polish and Chorizo sausages, as well as hot dogs. All should be smothered in the Secret Stadium Sauce. … While Miller products are obviously plentiful inside, beer drinkers will be happy to learn that there's also a wide assortment of imports and excellent local microbrews, too. Try a Sprecher or New Glarus, both Milwaukee favorites. … Be in your seat in the middle of the 6th inning for the Klement's Famous Racing Sausages. Choose between the Bratwurst, Hot Dog, Polish, Italian and Chorizo, and bet your buddy on the outcome. Pick the right sausage and the next round's free. … Check out Bernie Brewer hanging out in his 'Dugout' above the left-field bleachers. He still goes down a slide whenever a Brewer hits a home run, but gone is the stein of beer he used to end up in. Contemplate that as you choose from the wide variety of beer at Miller Park. … After the game, retire to the parking lot, fire up the grill again and crack open those beers you wisely left on ice. Many fans wait out the traffic with some post-game tailgating. … Another good option is to head to Bluemound Road north of the park just across I-94, where there are various restaurants and taverns to choose from. Many of these establishments run shuttles to and from the game, which is nice. Try Kelly's Bleachers or Long Wong's, which touts itself as "the world's greatest Chinese-American sports bar." … Milwaukee may have an impressive art museum downtown on the lakefront, but beer lovers seeking some culture will want to stick close by. The Miller Brewery is just north of the park, and tours are offered.
Klement's Sausage Haus, Miller Park east parking lot, (414) 902-4700
Kelly's Bleachers, 5218 W. Bluemound Rd., (414) 258-9837
Long Wong's, 5230 W. Bluemound Rd., (414) 454-0400
Miller Brewery, 4251 W. State St., (414) 931-2337
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YOKOHAMA F MARINOS official Web site
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HAYS BECOMES "OFFICIAL RECRUITMENT PARTNER" OF YOKOHAMA F.MARINOS
Yokohama F.Marinos has signed Hays Specialist Recruitment Japan K.K. (Hays Japan) as their Official Recruitment Partner. Hays Japan is one of the largest foreign recruitment companies in Japan, recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people across a wide range of industries and professions.
Hays is also the Official Recruitment Partner of Manchester City men's and women's teams and New York City Football Club.
Marc Burrage, Managing Director - Hays Japan, said:
We are delighted to be extending our powerful relationship with City Football Group by partnering with one of the J-League's most popular teams, Yokohama F.Marinos. We believe that a presence in the J-League will be very beneficial to Hays, providing us with a strong platform to grow our brand and our business, whilst also helping the Club accomplish their goals on and off the pitch.
Ryoji Kurosawa, President - Yokohama Marinos Ltd., added:
It is with great pleasure to announce that Yokohama F.Marinos signs with Hays as our official global recruitment partner. On behalf of everyone at the organization, I would like to warmly welcome Hays to our family. Talent, diversity, teamwork and performance. With such common values that Hays and F.Marinos share, I truly believe the two brands represent each other perfectly. As a part of City Football Group, it is also an exciting moment for us to join with Hays in Yokohama and to build on their long-standing successful partnership with our sister clubs in Manchester and New York.
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2018 the Group employed 10,978 staff operating from 257 offices in 33 markets across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2018:
- the Group reported net fees of £1.072 billion and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £243.4 million;
- the Group placed around 77,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 244,000 people into temporary assignments;
- 19% of Group net fees were generated in Australia & New Zealand, 26% in Germany, 24% in United Kingdom & Ireland and 31% in Rest of World (RoW);
- the temporary placement business represented 58% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 42% of net fees;
- Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA
Please visit the website for more details. https://www.hays.co.jp/en/
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We will present nine habits to take to develop its creativity. Although for many creativity is a gift, in reality, it is possible to stimulate and strengthen creativity, to be able to invent more things and to give birth to new ideas, thoughts or solutions on a daily basis. This is particularly important for people whose profession is closely related to ideas and where there is a constant need to innovate as this is part of their work.
"If you want different results, do not do the same thing. This is one of the most famous phrases of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein. Indeed, if you want to take habits to be more creative, it is clear that staying in one's comfort zone and staying in your routine will not help you, far from it.
Experiencing new experiences is essential for having different and innovative ideas. Try to read different kinds of books, try to enjoy different kinds of cinema, stroll in new places, talk to people who do not look like you, browse a place where you never set foot before, Practice a sport that you have never done and you never close to new things. In short, take risks! Fill your head with new things and good ideas will quickly begin to flock.
Always having a notebook on hand is perfect for noting all the good ideas when they come to mind and allows you to write creative solutions to examine them calmly thereafter. Although you can also use your phone or tablet, a good notebook will allow you to review your notes and save any good idea that may have passed through your head.
One of the nine habits to be more creative is to cultivate your ability to learn. Knowledge is power and the more knowledge you have, the more you will be able to structure your ideas, link several solutions and find answers to the problems you have on a daily basis. We invite you to read more, keep you informed and cultivate your intelligence by all possible means.
Wisdom can often be a source of inspiration: this is why we must not be content with superficial knowledge and go beyond it. We assure you that this approach will be very useful to you.
Keeping your brain active is not enough, physical activity also significantly influences our ability to create and innovate. After a long day of work or trying to find solutions to a problem, a good walk and take the fresh air or an intense exercise routine will allow you to emptiness in your mind, reduce stress and find solutions that are more creative.
Integrate physical activity into your routine and you can enjoy the benefits of it on your health and mind.
Observe the world around you, look at what others are doing and how they behave: this attitude is essential if you want to have good ideas. Numerous publicity campaigns, programs or modern inventions have emerged because their author has been inspired by the behavior or needs of his entourage.
Your own experiences are not enough, knowing others is also important. If you want to be more creative, there is nothing better than staying on a square or in a park to watch, notebook in hand, whatever happens around you and let your thoughts rush. Many good ideas will surely pass you by the head.
A boat response does not satisfy creative people: in addition to knowing the basis of certain aspects, these people want to learn more! Curiosity has a role in creativity and often allows to take the first step towards inventions or the elaboration of some different and out of the ordinary solutions.
Ask yourself about what to observe as an essential step in the creative process. This is also a habit you should take if you expect to have good ideas.
Among the nine habits to take to develop one's creativity, knowing how to relax is as important as working hard to find good ideas. Your body and mind need rest, and it is often during these moments of recovery that the best ideas appear. Indeed, you give your mind space the time and space necessary for the thoughts to circulate freely, connect, which often allows you to create something new.
Do not shun rest or relaxation, something good also arises from these moments.
If you want to be smarter, one of the main recommendations to follow is to surround yourself with smart people, and it is the same for creativity. If you are in a creative environment , surrounded by people with wit, imagination and a capacity to see beyond, you will have much easier to have good ideas.
Your environment strongly influences your inspiration, so the more creative your friends are, the more likely you are to be creative and have bright ideas.
It is during our sleep that the brain treats all that we have learned during the day and that our body and our mind recover and fill up with energy for the next day. Sleeping well is very important to be creative: so do not underestimate the rest, as this will help you produce more idea during the day.
Sleep at least seven hours, completely disconnect during your rest hours and give yourself the chance to really relax and you will find that if you practice these tips you will be much more productive.


Spending by UK consumers abroad rose by £3.7 billion to £35.5 billion last year over 2010, according to latest calculations.
This represented an 11.7% increase in the four-year period with Spain being the major benefactor.
British travellers spent £6.14 billion in Spain in 2014 – the most for any country in the world � and £3.91 billion on visits to the US.
Some £3.51 billion was spent across in France, whilst Italy was fourth with £1.68 billion.
The research by the travel money business Centtrip also showed that Romania had seen a 114% increase in spending by UK residents between 2010 and 2014. This equated to an extra £102 million.
Lithuania and the UAE saw increases of 74% while Norway and Mexico saw increases of 69%, 60% respectively.
Analysis by the company found that Britons took more than 60 million trips abroad, with an outlay of £35.5 billion in spending money.
As the river cruise market continues to boom, some in the travel industry might be feeling that very sentiment about river cruising. They might have a little case of river cruise envy as it were — "If only I had thought to start building riverboats several years ago," the regretful might muse.
But rather than bemoan the fact that they aren't among the pioneering companies that built up the river cruising market, several factions of the travel industry have instead been working to benefit from the myriad of business opportunities that have arisen in light of the the river cruise industry's success, and their piggybacking strategy is working.
For instance, the wholesale tour operator Avanti Destinations has been promoting its customizable FIT offerings as pre- and post-cruise city-stays that agents can tack onto a river cruise to increase their earnings.
"We encourage agents to ask their cruise clients about adding extra days — or even a week — to their itinerary," said Harry Dalgaard, president and founder of Avanti.
"We've had clients, for example, who start with a Danube cruise, add a few nights in Vienna, continue on to Salzburg and then head to Florence, the Tuscan countryside and Rome before returning home," he added.
The result is that Avanti is seeing big booking windfalls in destinations linked to river cruising. In the past year, the company has seen bookings for Bordeaux and Lyon in France increase 85% and 100%, respectively; bookings for Budapest, Hungary, have grown 30%; and for Nuremberg, Germany, bookings have jumped a whopping 175%.
Consequently, Avanti has developed new pre- and post-cruise suggested itineraries geared specifically toward river cruisers, including a three-day Bordeaux package (from $725 per person), a three-day Amsterdam itinerary (from $595 per person), a three-day Nuremberg package (from $329 per person), and a three-day Vienna package (from $515 per person).
Travel agents too are getting in on the action. Several years ago, it was difficult to find any agents that were dedicated solely to the river cruise market or who knew very much about it. But today, there is a growing roster of river cruise specialists, including several that have been featured in Travel Weekly, that have built up an entire agency business and/or website focused only on river cruising.
Sometimes it doesn't matter whether you had the good idea in the first place. What matters is whether you can make someone else's good idea work in your favor. The river cruise industry isn't just one business, it is a ripple effect of businesses and opportunities for those who choose to ride the wake.
Holidaymakers forced to abandon their cruise ship after it collides with oil tanker off the coast of Turkey leaving huge dent in hull.
More than 850 passengers had to be evacuated after their Mediterranean cruise ship collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Turkey, leaving a huge dent in its hull.
Authorities said a huge disaster was averted after emergency service quickly responded to reports that the Celestyal Crystal and the tanker STI Pimlico had crashed at 1.30am on Saturday morning in the Dardanelles Strait.
Cruise operators said two crew members and a passenger suffered minor injuries in the accident as the vessel, registered to Malta, made its way from Greece to Istanbul.
All of its 853 passengers and 382 staff were taken to safety by a sea bus to Gallipoil, and the rest of their journey was cancelled while structural damage to the front of the ship is being fixed.
Emergency services moved quickly to douse the tanker in water to prevent a fire or explosion after fuel spilled out of the 182-metre long tanker, which had been travelling from Russia to Malta carrying flammable naptha fuel.
It has not yet been established how the collision took place.
A statement from the cruise line published on travel website www.cruisecritic.co.uk said Celestyal Cruises, which operates the ship, will arrange for passengers to continue their holidays on other boats.
'With the safety and care of our passengers as our utmost priority, we will ensure the smoothest possible disembarkation for those on board since the current cruise will have to be cancelled', it said.
Mayor of Çanakkale, Ahmet Çınar, told Turkish television channel NTV a huge disaster was prevented just in time and potential danger has been minimized thanks to 'intensive' work by emergency crews, the Daily Sabah reported.
Ferry services along the Strait were cancelled for several hours during the clean-up operation.