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Eric Lagier, Managing Partner, byFounders and Marta Sjögren, Principal, NorthZone.
55 bike riders from 12 countries, half of them VCs, gathered for breakfast at Founders House in Startup Village, Copenhagen, on Friday September 15. Four lycra-clad VCs gave their views on the startup ecosystem in Copenhagen and in the Nordics in general, before going on a charity ride from Copenhagen to Berlin with Techbikers.
In between the croissants, the coffee and the bicycle pumps, Marta Sjögren (Northzone), Eric Lagier (byFounders), Benjamin Ratz (Nordic Makers) and Ricardo Sequerra Amram (Cherry Ventures) compared the startup ecosystem in Copenhagen to the one in Stockholm – and shared their views on what can improve the Nordic startup scene.
The VCs agreed that Stockholm is the more mature ecosystem in comparison to Copenhagen, because of it's more experienced founders and better access to funding – but maybe that's not carved in stone anymore.
"During the past few years we have seen a positive change in Denmark. As the tech ecosystem has grown, the politicians have started taking us seriously, says Eric Lagier, Managing Partner," byFounders.
This development seems to be noticed outside of the Nordics as well.
"There's a lot of hungry founders and creative business models in Copenhagen. All the pieces of the puzzle are in place here: Talent, capital and entrepreneurial mindset. We're super positive about Copenhagen and the Nordics in general. It's just a matter of time before we do our first investment here." - Ricardo Sequerra Amram, Investor, Cherry Ventures.
55 cyclists from the Nordic and European startup and venture community cycled to from Copenhagen to Berlin in a Techbikers charity event. Here they are pictured at Founders House, Copenhagen.
The strict immigration laws in Denmark, and in the rest of the Nordics for that matter, have some damaging impact on the ecosystem, because the demand for talent is way higher than the supply. Thus, the employers enter a wage war making the existing talent unaffordable.
"No doubt that we can create the next unicorn but access to the right resources is essential and this is already a limiting factor," says Eric Lagier, Managing Partner, byFounders.
Another consequence of the strict immigration laws is that scale-ups is either acquired by international venture funds or move their headquarters out of Denmark to countries with better access to talent.
"We need to get our politicians to be more supportive on scalable talent-focused immigration laws, so we can get high growth tech companies to keep their HQs in the Nordics," says Marta Sjögren, Principal at Northzone.
The second challenge the VCs highlighted is better access to early stage funding. In Denmark it seems as if early stage startups are of less interest to the investors, compared to the rest of the Nordics. The consequence: Promising Danish startups leaves the country before they become scale-ups.
Still, the limited access to early stage funding may have left some positive impact on the startup community, forcing the founders to constantly develop.
"We see very hot companies in Copenhagen pushing forward with their visions. Maybe because access to good early stage funding historically has been poor, we see a lot of great companies bootstrapping, proving that they are resilient and really making headway, says Benjamin Ratz, Operating Partner, Nordic Makers.
Sweden's startup ecosystem is built on a number of successful startups from the early 0's, but now Copenhagen boasts a large group of entrepreneurs with exits behind them.
"The positive news is that a growing number of founders are re-entering the startup scene as investors, mentors and even serial entrepreneurs, bringing in critical knowledge to the ecosystem, says Marta Sjögren," Principal at Northzone.
This group can help new startups and attract investors – and some even reinvest their exit-money in early stage startups. The byFounders fund is the latest and most prominent example of this trend.
Aside from the challenges with immigration laws and access to early stage funding, the structure of the Danish society, and the Nordics in general, has a positive effect on the startup ecosystem.
"Denmark has a lot of key ingredients to foster unicorn startups; big pool of highly educated talent, a support system that includes free healthcare, and a continued focus on gender equality, says Eric Lagier, Managing Partner, byFounders."
These factors combined with great focus on work-life balance makes Copenhagen and the rest of the Nordics very attractive seen from a people perspective.
"Being a mother and a VC is a rarity anywhere, but luckily somewhat less so in the Nordics. We are significantly more gender balanced at Northzone than most funds in Europe and the US, which I believe is a core strength for deal flow and investment decisions. The Nordics are leading the future of employer branding," says Marta Sjögren, Principal at Northzone.


VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Klean Industries Inc. ("Klean") a leading manufacturer of advanced thermal processing technologies that designs and builds plants and equipment that utilize processes known as gasification, pyrolysis and carbonization to thermally convert waste into valuable commodities is pleased to announce that it's CEO, Mr. Jesse Klinkhamer will be a featured speaker at the European Tyre Recycling Conference ("ETRA") on March 22nd, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.
The world is currently facing significant environmental challenges based on the massive population growth of the 21st century. Energy and commodity (raw materials) costs are rising along with the volume of waste and pollution being produced globally. Solutions to problems related to waste and energy are becoming more pressing for every developed and developing economies around the world.
Managing waste properly is essential for building sustainable and livable cities, but it remains a challenge for many developing countries and cities. Effective waste management is expensive, often comprising 20%–50% of municipal budgets. Operating this essential municipal service requires integrated systems that are efficient, sustainable, and socially supported.
Klean is company that pays special attention to the implementation of resource recovery and recycling solutions which aid in the development and creation of the circular economy we all want and need. The Klean Team have been industry leaders in providing environmentally beneficial solutions to energy and waste-management challenges since the 1960's and are well positioned to be a major player in this industry for the coming decades. As a result of building a vast number of projects focused on renewable energy, resource recovery and recycling, Klean has accumulated a significant amount of market and project data throughout its global operations that span a multitude of industries and over-lapping supply chains. By leveraging this wealth of industry data, knowledge and expertise Klean Industries believes that the last mile of technology is upon us which will enable a paradigm shift in recycling and resource recovery.
Jesse Klinkhamer, Chief Executive, commented, "The global scrap tire problem, offers a massive opportunity to create a shining example of what a circular economy can look like using a specific and problematic waste stream that is highly abundant and in desperate needs of a more transparent recycling solution. Scrap tires are the perfect poster child, because if scrap tire were being managed properly there would not be billions of them littering our planet annually. The solutions to today's scrap tire crisis require us to re-think the problems at hand and the solutions available. Critically important are the policy and regulatory drivers that support the infrastructure for waste recycling and material recovery, and here in the European Union these topics could not be more important".
This year at the annual ETRA Conference Klean will address the problems of transparency and accountability within the tire recycling industry as a whole and will enlighten the participants on the ongoing issues with regulations that are stifling innovation and preventing the growth of new opportunities within the sector. Klean will address the conversation on what's holding back a truly integrated approach needed to radically change the tire manufacturing and recycling industry and create a tokenized, incentivized, and trusted market place.
Klean comprises an international team of award-winning experts with decades of experience in the design, manufacturing and deployment of alternative energy solutions, including clean power production, waste management, recycling, and resource recovery. The company currently boasts an impressive portfolio of clean technologies and patents that have been successfully deployed in hundreds of operating reference facilities. Klean uses proven technologies to rapidly develop projects that produce the highest quality fuels, recovered carbon blacks ("rCB") and green energy from various kinds of carbon-based wastes. Klean Industries specializes in building projects that use thermal technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and carbonization which convert scrap tires, waste plastics and municipal solid waste into domestic energy, sustainable green commodities and new cleantech jobs.


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Come use your imagination in this vivid and worldly art camp. Campers will learn to mix of art techniques to increase their current knowledge of art skills and styles.
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Campers will learn a variety of baking techniques and traditions, covering goods like cookies and bars, breakfast pastries, classic desserts, and more, with a special focus on creating beautifully decorated cakes...
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Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money?
Forthcoming: Management Science
80 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2014 Last revised: 14 Oct 2016
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Utpal Bhattacharya
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - HKUST School of Business and Management
Weiyu Kuo
National Chengchi University (NCCU) - Department of International Business
Tse-Chun Lin
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
Jing Zhao
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance
Date Written: October 12, 2016
Do superstitious traders lose money? We answer this question in the context of trading in the Taiwan Futures Exchange, where we exploit the Chinese superstition that the number "8" is lucky and the number "4" is unlucky. We find that individual investors, but not institutional investors, submit disproportionately more limit orders at "8" than at "4." This imbalance, defined as "superstition index" for each investor, is positively correlated with trading losses. Superstitious investors lose money mainly because of their bad market timing and stale orders. Nevertheless, the reliance on number superstition for limit order submissions does decrease with trading experience.
Keywords: superstition, limit order clustering, investment performance, individual investors
JEL Classification: D14, G02, G14, G15
Bhattacharya, Utpal and Kuo, Weiyu and Lin, Tse-Chun and Zhao, Jing, Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money? (October 12, 2016). Forthcoming: Management Science. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2478124 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2478124
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George Savage Martin
Awarded the compensation for eleven enslaved people on Antigua in his own name, and also the compensation for the enslaved people on a group of six awards on Antigua and Montserrat involving the Willock family in which he did not appear as claimant or counterclaimant, suggesting his role was administrative or as trustee. In addition he counterclaimed as executor of Samuel Martin (identified as his father) on the Nibbs estate in Antigua, and was awarded the residual compensation if any after a long list of prior claims was satisfied. Unsuccessful claimant for High Point estate in Antigua, also as executor of Samuel Martin. Resident on Antigua in the 1830s but attributed a London address in his will proven in 1849.
In an extract of a despatch from governor W.M.G. Colebrooke to Lord Glenelg from Antigua 08/02/1838, Colebrooke reported that the Honorable George Savage Martin, Member of Council Antigua, had been elected as one of five members for Montserrat in the General Assembly of the Leeward Islands convened by Colebrooke.
George Savage Martin married Anne Willock 1823 at St John, Antigua. He lived with his wife at 'Mount Pleasant' in the parish of St John, Antigua. George Savage Martin was buried in St Peter, Jersey, Chanel Islands, 02/05/1849 aged 55. The will of George Savage Martin of 45 Cambridge Terrace Hyde Park proved 14/09/1849. His executors were his wife Ann, his brother William of Antigua and Francis Shand of Liverpool.
Documents for the contested claim for Nibbs estate identify his father as Samuel Martin (q.v.), who was also the father of John Halliday Martin (q.v.).
John Halliday Martin was baptised in Marylebone, London in May 1782 at the age of 1 month, parents Samuel Martin Esqr and his wife Grace. Amongst others, Samuel Savage Martin was baptised in Marylebone to Samuel Martin Esqr and Grace in 1789. An unsourced genealogical site give Samuel Martin and Grace Savage marrying in Antigua in 1778; the same site gives his wife as Anne Willock but date-of-death as 1823.
Anne Margaret, daughter of George Savage and Anne Martin of Antigua, was baptised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1827. Anne Margaret Martin, age 23, spinster, daughter of George Savage Martin, merchant, married Francis Hastings Baxter, age 31, in St Saviour, Jersey, in 1850.
T71/877 Antigua claim nos. 24, 359, 360, 365 and 1050; T71/888 Montserrat claim nos. 42, 71, 174 and 178.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, 16 January-11 August 1840 Vol. XXXIV.
Mike Ball (2013) 'Samuel MARTIN Esq.', unpublished manuscript; PROB 11/2099. The will, dated July 1846, describes him as of the Island of Antigua 'now residing at Number Forty five Cambridge Terrace Hyde Park'. Burial record: Ancestry.com, Jersey, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1940 [database online].
T71/1622 Antigua no. 360: includes the arbitration by the Commission, dated 15/05/1837. The enslaved persons were subject to: (a) payment of an annuity of £400 per annum to Elizabeth Martin, a widow, by indenture of 16/11/1816 between (1) Samuel Martin (deceased) (2) John Halliday Martin (deceased, the son of Sam. Martin) and Elizabeth Martin, then the wife of John Halliday Martin (3) Robt. and Archibald Kelso; (b) a mortgage of £5000, of 1828, between Sam. Martin, George Savage Martin (the son of Sam. Martin) and Francis Thwaites, James Trecothick junior and J.H. Roper; (c) a mortgage of £3000, of 1829, of Anna Maria Wightwick. James Trecothick, of London; the Kelsos, of the county of Ayr, Scotland; and Wm. Martin were trustees for Elizabeth Martin as first priority (and Elizabeth Martin could force the sale of capital for arrears). Then the residue goes to James Trecothick etc., then to Anna Maria Wightwick, then to George Savage Martin as claimant.
Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/r/g/Evelyn-Arguedas/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0021.html [accessed 15/03/2013].
Ancestry.com, Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1913 [database online]; Ancestry.com, Jersey, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1940 [database online].
We are grateful to Peter Selley for his assistance with compiling this entry.
Ann Willock
Anne Margaret
Antigua 1050
Antigua 24 (Mount Pleasant)
Antigua 359 (High Point)
Unsuccessful claimant (Executor or executrix)
Antigua 360 (Nibb's)
Unsuccessful claimant
Antigua 365 (Blizard's)
Montserrat 174 (White's and Windward)
Montserrat 42 (Webbs)
Montserrat 178
Montserrat 71 (Tar River)
1824 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
Blizard's [ Antigua ]
Mount Pleasant [ Antigua ]
John Halliday Martin
Samuel Martin of High Point
45 Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London, Middlesex, London, England
'George Savage Martin', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/771/ [accessed 19th January 2022].


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This page lists perfume houses with names starting with the letter M. Perfume houses are alphabetized by first name, so that "Marc Jacobs" is listed under M. Some perfume houses have their own pages — if the name is a link, click on it.
Jump to: Perfume Houses A-B :: C :: D-E :: F-G :: H-J :: K-L :: N-O :: P :: Q-R :: S :: T :: U-Z.
The page was last updated on 7 December 2019.
French fashion house established by Belgian designer Martin Margiela, who has since left the brand. John Galliano was appointed creative director in 2014.
The fragrance license is held by L'Oreal. Fragrances were introduced in 2010 with Maison Martin Margiela Untitled.
Subsequent fragrances include Untitled L'Eau (2011), Replica Flower Market, Beach Walk & Funfair Evening (2012), Replica Jazz Club, Lazy Sunday Morning & Promenade in the Gardens (2013), At the Barber's & Tea Escape (2014), By the Fireplace & Lipstick On (2015), Replica Filter Glow & Blur (2016), Dancing on the Moon, Across Sands, Soul of The Forest & Flying (2016), Sailing Day (2017), Music Festival (2017), Wicked Love (2017), Mutiny (2018), Under The Lemon Trees (2018), Whispers in the Library (2019), Coffee Break & Springtime in a Park (2019).
Where to buy: in the US at Sephora.
Website: Maison Martin Margiela
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier was established in Paris in 1988 by Jean Laporte, the founder and former owner of L'Artisan Parfumeur. For his new perfume house, LaPorte was inspired by the French tradition of master glove-makers, who became perfumers by necessity to supply the perfumed gloves that were all the rage in 17th century Paris: "I wanted to do something different and my concept is tied to the past. I was seduced by the tradition of the parfumeur-gantiers, who were located mostly in Paris and served the king and, later, the emperor." (Women's Wear Daily, 9/6/1991) Jean Paul Millet Lage, who apprenticed with Laporte, is the current house nose.
See reviews for Sanguine Muskissime (1988), Route du Vetiver (1988) and Bahiana (2005).
Recent releases include La Reine Margot (2007), Bois de Turquie (2008), Les Eaux Extravagantes (Eau Pour Le Jeune Homme, Fraîcheur Muskissime, Vocalise; 2011), Cuir Fetiche (2011), Ambre Doré (2012), Ambre Précieux Ultime (2014), Ambre Mythique (2016).
Where to buy: at Aedes, Four Seasons Products, Luckyscent in the US.
Website: Maître Parfumeur et Gantier
Majenty
Small perfume house established in 2006 by Jennifer Auspitz. The line debuted with 3 fragrances: Embrace The Day, After Hours and Hidden Cove. Secret Meadow launched in 2007.
Website: Majenty
Malie Kauai / Malie Organics
Hawaiian line of fragrances, home fragrances, bath & body items.
See reviews for Plumeria Room Spray, Plumeria Organic Body Cream, Organic Coffee Macadamia Body Polish.
Recent releases include six organic perfumes (2011).
Website: Malie Kauai
New York-based apothecary line established in 2004 by Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, both formerly of Kiehls.
Fragrances include Synthesized Musk, Lime Tonic, Synthesized Lotus Root and Rum Tonic. There is also a range of perfume oils.
See reviews for Peppermint Shampoo & Cilantro Conditioner, Rum Hand Wash, Vitamin B5 Hand Treatment.
Recent releases include Synthesized Geranium Leaf and Petitgrain Tonic (2009), Citron Vert and Moroccan Fig (2014), Bergamot (2016), Vetiver (2016), Leather (2018), Stem (2019).
Website: Malin + Goetz
Mancera is the Paris-based line of Pierre Mancera; the scents are reportedly "inspired by the Art Deco period". Fragrances include Wave Musk, Sand Aoud, Roses Vanille, Musk of Flowers, Cedrat Boise, Roseaoud & Musc, The Aoud, Aoud S, Wild Fruits and Black Intensive Aoud.
Recent releases include Roses Greedy (2012), Kumkat Wood, Black Line, Aoud Black Candy (2013), Roses & Chocolate & Aoud Café (2014), Indian Dream, Wind Wood, Lemon Line & Aoud Violet (2014), Wild Leather, Wild Rose Aoud, Aoud Line and Amber & Roses (2014), So Blue & Aoud Blue Notes (2015).
Italian leather goods & accessories company established in 1997 by design team Paolo Trento and Piero Mannato. Fragrances were introduced in 2004 with Mandarina Duck for women, followed by Mandarina Duck Man in 2006.
Recent releases include Mandarina Duck Rouge Intense (2007), Cute Pink (2007), Scarlet Rain (2008), Pure Black (2009), Mandarina Duck Blue (2011), All of Me (2012), Cool Black (2013), Pink Is In The Air (2013), Black Extreme (2014), Oh Bella (2014), Mandarina Duck M+ (2014), Black & Red (2015), So Bella! So Chic! (2016).
Where to buy: in the US at Dillards.
Website: Mandarina Duck
Spanish fashion retailer; fragrances are created under arrangements with Puig. Scents include Mango Adorably (2004) and Mango Delirium (2006).
Recent releases include Lady Rebel (2009), Lady Rebel Rock Deluxe (2011), Lady Rebel Dance Queen (2013), Rebel Hero (2013), Rebel Hero Wanted (2014), Violeta by Mango Rêve de Méditerranée (2014 or 2015), Rebel Hero Night Out & Lady Rebel Night Out (2015).
Where to buy: at Mango boutiques; at Escentual in the UK.
Website: Mango
French textiles company founded by fabric designer Manuel Canovas in 1963, and purchased by British firm Colefax & Fowler in the late 1990s. The firm currently produces bedding, swimwear, accessories, fashion and home fragrance items.
Personal fragrances were introduced in 2007 with Les Fantaisies Parfumees, including Pink Riviera, Anse Turquoise, L'ile Bleue, Ballade Verte, Route Mandarine.
Website: Manuel Canovas
Italian perfumer who attended the Grasse Institute of Perfumery before launching her own line in 2009. Fragrances include the Classic Collection (Cinabre, Gershwin, Barry Lyndon, Hanbury, Exultat & Sideris) and the Exclusive Collection (Burlesque, Gentile, Luberon & Lady Day).
Recent releases include Finisterre & Noir Tropical (2013), Leucò, Kitrea & Syconium (2014), Elephant & Roses (2015), Rrose Sélavy (2016), Lankaran Forest (2016).
Where to buy: at Indiescents, Indigo Perfumery, Twisted Lily or Parfum1 in the US, First in Fragrance in Germany.
Website: Maria Candida Gentile
American pop singer. Fragrances were introduced in 2007 with M by Mariah Carey, followed by a collector version, M Gold by Mariah Carey, and a new fragrance, Luscious Pink, in 2008, followed by yet another collector edition, Luscious Pink Deluxe Edition (2009).
Recent releases include Ultra Pink (Walmart exclusive, 2009), Forever (2009), Lollipop Bling Honey, Ribbon & Mine Again (2010), Lollipop Splash the Remix Inseparable, Never Forget You & Vision of Love (2011), Mariah Carey Dreams (2013).
Fragrances are produced under arrangements with Elizabeth Arden.
Where to buy: at department stores and online discounters.
Website: Mariah Carey
Chicago-based cosmetics, skincare and fragrance company founded by former dancer and model Marilyn Miglin. Best known for their Pheromone fragrance (1978), other scents in the line include Mystic, Goddess and Destiny.
Recent releases include Seven Sacred Oils (2006).
Website: Marilyn Miglin
Marjorie Midgarden
Niche line with one fragrance, Summersent, launched in 2006.
Where to buy: in the US at Von Maur department stores; in London at Liberty of London.
Website: Summersent
Mark was established in 2003 as Avon's direct sales label for younger consumers.
Recent releases under the Mark label include Sassy Mark (2007), Instant Vacation Greek Isles (2007), Jewel (2007), Instant Vacation Caribbean, Pure Mark (2008), Earth (2008), Rebel Rose (2009), Instant Vacation Costa Rica (2009), Sophistique (2009), Citrus Bloom (2010), Instant Vacation RioRhythms & RioBikini (2010), Celebrate (2010), White Vetiver (2011), Ibiza Sol (2011), Night Iris (2012), Instant Vacation Hamptons (2012), Very Sassy (2012), Jewel Shine (2013), Instant Vacation Marrakesh (2013), Saint Barts Soleil (2014), Wonderfleur (2014), Sparkle (2015).
Where to buy: from Mark consultants or the website (see below).
Website: Mark
Mark Buxton Perfumes
Perfumer Mark Buxton's line, which debuted in 2008 with 7 fragrances under the name By Mark Buxton (see review for Wood & Absinth).
In 2012, the line was relaunched under the name Mark Buxton Perfumes. New fragrances include Sleeping With Ghosts, Sexual Healing & Devil In Disguise (2012), Emotional Rescue (2013), Message In A Bottle (2014), A Day In My Life (2016).
Where to buy: at Beautyhabit or Woodley and Bunny in the US, at Jovoy Paris in France, First in Fragrance in Germany, Escentual or Rouillier White in the UK.
Website: Mark Buxton
Italian fashion brand established by Consuelo Castiglioni in 1994 and best known for their bright colors and bold patterns; they are often described as 'quirky but wearable'. The Marni fragrance license is held by Estee Lauder; fragrances were introduced with Marni in 2013.
Later releases include Marni Rose (2013), Marni Spice (2015).
Website: Marni
Where to buy: at department stores.
Mary Greenwell
British celebrity makeup artist who launched her debut fragrance, Plum, in 2010.
Recent releases include Lemon (2013), Fire & Cherry (2014).
Where to buy: in the US at Luckyscent and Parfum1.
Website: Mary Greenwell (site no longer active)
Mary-Kate and Ashley (now Elizabeth and James)
The beauty line of fraternal twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who achieved stardom after a long-running role on the sitcom Full House, followed by the book and video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley.
Fragrances were introduced in 2003 with Mary-Kate and Ashley One & Mary-Kate and Ashley Two, produced under arrangements with Coty. Subsequent fragrances include L.A. Style (2005, aka coast to coast LA), N.Y. Chic (2005, aka coast to coast NY), London Beat, Tokyo Fusion, South Beach Chic & Hamptons Style (2007).
In 2013, they released their first fragrances under their Elizabeth and James brand, Nirvana White and Nirvana Black. Nirvana Rose and Nirvana Bourbon followed in 2016, then Nirvana Amethyst and Nirvana French Grey in 2017.
Website: Elizabeth and James
Direct sales of cosmetics, skincare and fragrance; company founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash.
Recent releases include Affection (2006), High Intensity (2007), Bella Belara (2007), Simply Cotton, Exotic Passionfruit, Sparkling Honeysuckle & Warm Amber (2008), Forever Orchid (2010), Thinking of You (2010), Dance to Life & True Original (2012), Belara Midnight (2013), Journey of Dreams (2014), High Intensity Sport (2014), Thinking of Love (2014), Forever Diamonds (2016).
Where to buy: from Mary Kay consultants; see website.
Website: Mary Kay
Japanese fashion designer who introduced his line in Paris in 1992. Fragrances include mat; (2000), mat; Le Parfum (2003), mat; Le Rouge (2003) and mat; Le Vert (2003). Fragrances are created under arrangements with Panouge (see).
See review for mat; Very Male (2005). Other recent releases include mat; M (2005), mat; Yellow (2005) and Mintea (2006), M; Men (2006), mat; Cherry (2007), Masaki Masaki (2007), Aqua Mat Homme, Masaki SUu (2008), M;OºC for men (2009), Art by Masaki (2010), Fluo (2010), Aqua Platinum (2010), Shiro & Art Homme (2011), Tokyo Smile (2012), Art Mosaic (2012), Snowing Rose (2013), Aqua Earth (2013), Tokyo Days (2013), Mat; Limited (2014), Matsu (2014), Mat; Stone (2015).
Where to buy: Sephora in the US carries a limited selection.
Website: there is a section for Masaki Matsushima at the Panouge site.
Masik Collegiate Fragrances
Line of "signature fragrances" for various colleges & universities in the United States.The line debuted in 2008 with Penn State & University of North Carolina.
Recent releases include Louisiana State University/LSU (2009), University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Alabama and Auburn University (2009), University of Georgia, Florida State, University of Oklahoma & Waseda University (2010), University of Mississippi, University of Kentucky, Texas A&M, University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Virginia Tech & North Carolina State (2013), University of Texas (2014), University of Arkansas (2014).
Website: Masik
Italian niche brand established by Alessandro Brun and Riccardo Tadeschi. They debuted in 2013 with three fragrances: Terralba, Montecristo and Luci Ed Ombre. Tango followed in 2014.
Recent releases include Russian Tea (2014), Romanza (2016), L'Attesa (2016), Times Square & Mandala (2017), Hemingway (2018), Kintsugi & Love Kills (2019).
Where to buy: In the US at Luckyscent or Twisted Lily. In France, try Jovoy Paris. In Germany, Essenza Nobile.
Website: Masque Milano
British fashion designer who launched his own label in 1996. His first foray into fragrance was Incense, a much-loved limited edition (now discontinued) created by Miller Harris (see below). His first mainstream offering was Matthew Williamson (2005).
2007 introductions include The Matthew Williamson Collection (Incense, Lotus, Jasmin Sambac & Warm Sand) and Matthew Williamson Sheer.
Where to buy: at department stores and online fragrance discounters.
Website: Matthew Williamson
French high-end jeweller founded in 1827. Fragrance launches include Mauboussin (2000), Histoire d'Eau (Topaze, 2000), Histoire d'Eau Amethyste (2003) and Mauboussin Homme (2003).
Recent fragrance launches include M Moi (2007), Emotion Divine (2007), M Generation (2010), Mauboussin Pour Elle (2011), Mauboussin Rose (2012), Mauboussin Pour Lui (2012), à la Folie & Lovely à la Folie (2013), Elixir Pour Elle (2013), Mauboussin Pour Lui Time Out & Pour Lui In Black (2015), Promise Me (2015), Le Secret d'Arielle (2016), Aequalis (2016), Promise Me Flower (2017).
Website: Mauboussin
Mäurer & Wirtz
German company best known for their 1955 men's fragrance Tabac Original. They also own the licenses or marketing rights to the brands 4711, Betty Barclay, Carlo Colucci, s. Oliver, among others.
Recent releases include Gin Tonic (men's & women's versions, 2008), Tabac Man Silver (2009), Tabac Gentle Men's Care (2015), Tabac Man Fire Power (2017).
Website: Mäurer & Wirtz
Italian fashion house established by Achille Maramotti (d. 2005) in 1951. The first fragrance, Max Mara, launched in 2004.
Recent releases include Max Mara Silk Touch (2007), Max Mara Gold Touch (2007), Max Mara Le Parfum (2008), Kashmina Touch (2008), Le Parfum Zeste & Musc (2009).
Milan-based Italian perfumery chain founded in 1967 by Augusto Mazzolari. In 1993, Mazzolari introduced a house brand with three perfumes named after Mr. Mazzolari's children (Carolina, Alessandro & Marina), and other scents followed.
See reviews for Vetiver, Patchouli and Alessandro.
Recent releases include Fleurs d'Oranger (2007), Sofia (2014), Nero, Elena, Augusto, Oud & Vaniglia (2014).
Where to buy: in the US, at Luckyscent; in Germany try First in Fragrance.
Website: Mazzolari
Indie line established by Anne McClain, a graduate of the Grasse Institute of Perfumery. They debuted with Humanity, a 2010 fragrance created for a "perfume fountain" in a Brooklyn park.
Recent releases include Noble, Hunter, Garden & Maine (2010), Maui (2010), Kept (2011), Love & Phoenix (2011), Savann & Amara (2012), Dude No. 1 (2013), MCMC x Mociun (2014), Monoi de Tiare, American Beauty & Crowned in Victory (2015), Talon (2015), Mociun #2 (2015), E.d'E. Black & E.d'E. Blue (2016), Monoi & White Temple (2018), Mociun #3 (2018).
Where to buy: at Indiescents, Woodley & Bunny, or from the website.
Website: MCMC Fragrances
Melissa Flagg
See Clementine Perfume.
Memento Made in Italy
Italian niche line established in 2007 by beauty company/distributor Eurocosmesi, a division of Burani Holdings. As of 2009, they seemed to be going under the name Made in Italy: Emotional Olfactive Landscapes.
The Italian Olfactive Landscapes series includes 22 Settembre 2007, ore 8 Vaporetto per il Lido, Venezia (2007) and 6 Marzo 2008, ore 11 - Piazza Duomo, Ortigia, Siracusa – Sicilia (2008), 1 Ottobre, ore 18 - Belvedere, Villa Borghese – Roma and 28 Gennaio, ore 15 - Hotel Cristallo – Cortina (2009).
Niche line established in 2007 with four fragrances under the name Les Echappées: Lalibela, Sundance, Siwa and Inlé.
Recent releases include Jannat (2008), Moon Safari (Moon Fever) (2009), Manoa (2010), Shams (2011), Granada (2011), Quartier Latin (2012), Luxor Oud (2012), Irish Leather (2013), Lalibela Oud & Inlé Iris (2013), Italian Leather (2013), Kedu (2014), French Leather (2014), Shams Narcissus (2014), Moon Leather (2014), Ilha do Mel (2015), Irish Oud (2015), African Leather (2015), Marfa (2016), French Leather Rose (2016), Russian Leather (2016), Eau de Memo (2017), Kedu Sesame (2017), African Rose (2017), Marfa Spices (2017), Tamarindo (2018), Tiger's Nest (2018), Moroccan Leather (2018), Winter Palace (2019), Oriental Leather (2019), Rose Paris Rose, London Tweed, Siberian Golden Wood & Desert Orange Blossom (2019).
Where to buy: In the US at Aedes and Luckyscent. Also at Harvey Nichols in the UK, at the Memo boutique in Paris.
Website: Memo
Memoire Liquide
Custom perfume line that launched in 2006. You can read a description of Memoire Liquide's initial offerings here, or a review of the custom perfume process at the Memoire Liquide counter at Henri Bendel.
Recent releases include Memoire Liquide Reserve Encens Liquide, Fleur Liquide, Amour Liquide, Soleil Liquide & Vacances Liquide (2009).
Website: Memoire Liquide
Japanese cosmetics company founded in 1959. Fragrances include L'Eau de Ryokuei (2003) and L'Eau de Kasaneka (2004).
Recent releases include Menard For Men (2008), L'Eau de Taoyaka (2009).
Website: Menard
Netherlands-based clothing and design chain founded in 1980 and later owned by Liz Claiborne; in 2011 Claiborne sold Mexx to The Gores Group.
An eponymous fragrance launched in 1996; subsequent releases include Mexx Diversity (2002), Waterlove Woman and Waterlove Man (2004), Ice Touch Man (2005).
Recent releases include Ice Touch (2006), Amsterdam Spring Edition (2007), Fly High (2007), XX by Mexx Nice & Wild (2008), Berlin Summer Edition (2008), Mexx Black (2009), XX by Mexx Very Nice & Very Wild (2009), XX by Mexx Lovesome and XX by Mexx Mysterious (2010), First Sunshine (2010), Mexx Magnetic (2011), Mexx Summer Edition (2011), Mexx Fresh (2011), Mexx Pure (2012), Mexx Summer Edition 2013 (2013), Mexx Energizing (2013), Mexx Summer Edition 2014 (2014), Spring Is Now (2015), Life is Now (2015), Summer is Now (2016), Summer Cocktail (2017).
Website: Mexx
Mi Angelic
Niche line established by Danielle Igbanugo and Ashleigh Moss, the founders of Cameo Beauty Lounge in Minneapolis. There are two fragrances, Siren & Gypsy.
Website: Mi Angelic (Cameo Beauty Lounge) (Website no longer operational)
See Parfums M Micallef.
Michael Storer
Los Angeles-based niche line which debuted in 2006 with three fragrances for men: Monk, Djin and il Giardino.
Recent releases include Yvette, Stephanie & Genvieve (2007). In late 2007, Michael Storer repackaged and relaunched all six fragrances, and released Winter Star as a special edition fragrance.
Website: Michael Storer
Niche house of Canadian Michel Germain, a former electrical engineer who launched his first fragrance, Sexual for women, in 1994. As of 2007, there were three versions of Sexual (Sexual Femme, Sexual Classique and Sexual for men) and two of Deauville (for women & for men).
Recent releases include Sexual Secret (2007), Sexual Fresh Pour Homme (2007), Sexual Star (2009), Sexual Secret Man, Sexual Blush, Tattoo for women & Tattoo for men (2009), Sexual Sugar & Sugar Daddy (2010), Sexual Fresh for women & Sexual Nights Pour Homme (2011), Sexual Fleur & Sexual Noir Pour Homme (2012), Sexual Noir & Sexual Steel Pour Homme (2013), Very Sexual & Very Sexual Pour Homme (2014), Sexual Paris & Sexual Paris Pour Homme (2015), Sexual Paris Tendre & Sexual Paris Tendre Pour Homme (2016).
Where to buy: at Macy's stores.
Website: Michel Germain
Parisian design house established in 1985.
Fragrances include no. 1 Parfum Trouve, no. 2 Spiritus/Land, no 3 Green, green, green and green (2006), and Close Your Eyes And... aka Bois de Gaiac et Poire (2006), A Quiet Morning & Shanti Shanti (2008), Om (2010), Oh, ooOoh …oh (2012), In, (2013), Study #17 (2015), Study #23 (2016), New Study (2017), Indian Study (2017), Tulsivivah! (2018), Menta y Menta (2019).
Where to buy: at Aedes, Four Seasons, or at selected Barneys stores.
Website: Miller et Bertaux
Miriam Mirani
Niche line. Miriam Mirani launched Aqaba, a fragrance inspired by "the legendary love of King Solomon for the Queen of Sheba", in 1998. She followed with Aqaba Spring, a lighter version of the original Aqaba, then a trio, Jewels of Aqaba (2005).
Recent releases include Aqaba Men (2008).
Where to buy: in the US at Luckyscent.
Website: Miriam Mirani - Aqaba
Italian fashion house best known for their knitwear designs. Three fragrances were introduced starting in the 1980s under arrangements with Max Factor; those are all now discontinued. Their first fragrance under new arrangements with Estee Lauder, Missoni, was launched in 2006. It was followed by Acqua in 2007, then the Missoni Colori Collection (2008). In 2015, the Missoni license went to Euroitalia.
Recent launches include Missoni by Missoni (2015), Missoni Parfum Pour Homme (2017).
Website: Missoni
Italian jeanswear and fashion line. The first fragrance, Miss Sixty, launched in 2005, and was followed by Miss Sixty Elixir (2006).
Recent releases include Miss Sixty Flower Power (2007), Miss Sixty Rock Muse (2007), Miss Sixty Summer Collection 2008 (2008), Miss by Miss Sixty (2008).
Fragrances are created under licensing arrangements with Coty.
Website: Miss Sixty
California-based line of soaps and fragrance products established by Matthew Tilker in 1994. As of early 2008, there were five Eaux de Parfum: Lychee Rose, Grapefruit Red Currant, Verbena Flower, Wild Blackberry and Balinese Vanilla.
Recent releases include South Seas (2008), Gardenia (2009), Lavender Flower (2010), Atelier Perfume Collection (2010), Côte d'Azur & White Flowers (2014).
Where to buy: online at b-glowing, Hampton Court.
Website: Mistral
Japanese perfumer who studied in Tokyo and Paris, and now teaches perfumery in Japan. See review for Sakura.
Website: Miya Shinma
UK-based skin & bath care company established in 1971 by Caroline & Harvey Collis. There are over 20 boutiques in the UK; the first free-standing stores in the US opened in 2004. The line is also carried by specialty and department stores.
Molton Brown makes a plethora of scented bath & body products, and home fragrance items. See review for Naran Ji Air room spray; there are also 2 Eaux de Toilette for Men: Cool and Black Pepper.
Recent releases include Intoxicating Davana Blossom (2007), Celestial Maracuja (2008), Navigations Through Scent (2011), Londinium (2012), Valbonne (2012), Paradisiac Pink Pepperpod (2012), Mahina (2013), Caju & Lime (2014), Shisur (2014), Blossoming Honeysuckle & White Tea (2015), Mesmerising Oudh Accord & Gold (2015), Tobacco Absolute (2015), Dewy Lily of the Valley & Star Anise (2016), Rosa Absolute (2016), Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel (2017), Russian Leather (2017), Jasmine & Sun Rose (2018), Muddled Plum (2018), Suede Orris (2019), Geranium Nefertum (2019), Vetiver & Grapefruit (2019), Flora Luminare (2019), Bizarre Brandy, Vintage with Elderflower (2019).
Where to buy: Beautyhabit, Molton Brown boutiques or department stores.
Website: Molton Brown
Molyneux Paris
The fashion house, which is no longer active, was founded in Paris in 1919 by British designer Edward Molyneux. The perfume license has changed hands several times; as of 2012 it was held by Parfums Berdoues. Well known fragrances include Quartz (1978), Quartz Pour Homme (1994), Modern Quartz (2000).
Recent additions include Quartz Pure Red (2008), Quartz Je T'aime (2012), Quartz Addiction (2013), Rue la Boétie (2014).
Website: Parfums Molyneux
Mona di Orio worked in Edmond Roudnitska's factory in the south of France, then launched her own line in 2006 with Lux, Carnation and Nuit Noire. Mona di Orio passed away in 2011.
Recent fragrances include Oiro (2007), Amyitis (2008), Chamarré (2009), Jabu (2009), Les Nombres d'Or Ambre, Cuir & Musc (2010), Vétyver, Vanilla & Tubéreuse (2011), Rose Etoile de Hollande (2011), Oud (later renamed Oudh Osmanthus; 2011), Eau Absolue (2013), Violette Fumée (2013), Myrrh Casati (2014), Bohea Bohème (2016), Suède de Suède & Dõjima (2017), Santal Nabataea (2018).
Where to buy: In the US at Luckyscent, in London at Les Senteurs, or in Germany at First in Fragrance.
Website: Mona di Orio
Paris-based niche perfumery of Pierre Montale. There are two lines: an oudh line based on the precious oudh (or agar) wood frequently used in Middle Eastern fragrances, and a regular perfume line.
See reviews of Aoud Roses Petals, Intense Tiare, Patchouli Leaves, Vanille Absolu, Blue Amber, Black Aoud, White Aoud, Jasmin Full, Fruits of the Musk, Red Aoud, Full Incense, Red Vetiver.
Where to buy: at Luckyscent, Smallflower or Twisted Lily in the US, in Canada at The Perfume Shoppe, in Germany at First in Fragrance.
Website: Montale
French fashion house of designer Claude Montana, established in 1979. Montana was known first for his designs in leather, later for his big-shouldered designs for women. He was the couture designer for Lanvin for several years in the early 1990s.
Fragrances were introduced in 1986 with Parfum de Peau; subsequent launches include Parfum d'Elle (1990), Just Me (1997).
Recent launches include the Mood trio (2006), Parfum de Femme (2007), Montana en Turquoise (2008), Montana 80 (2010), Graphite (2011), Montana Initial (2015).
Website: Montana
German line of watches, pens & accessories, established in 1906. Fragrances were introduced in 2001 with Presence for men. Subsequent releases include Presence d'Une Femme and Femme Individuelle.
Fragrances were produced under arrangements with Proctor & Gamble; in 2010 Montblanc signed a new agreement with Inter Parfums.
Recent releases include Starwalker (2005), Femme de Montblanc (2006), Femme Individuelle Soul & Senses (2007), Homme Exceptionnel (2008), Montblanc Legend (2011), Montblanc Legend Special Edition 2012 (2012), Legend Pour Femme (2012), Legend Intense (2013), Legend Special Edition 2014 (2014), Emblem & Emblem Intense (2014), Legend Pour Femme Special Edition 2014 (2014), Lady Emblem (2015), Legend Spirit (2016), Lady Emblem Elixir (2016), Lady Emblem L'Eau (2017), Emblem Absolu (2017), Legend Night (2017), Explorer (2019).
Where to buy: Montblanc boutiques and online fragrance discounters.
Website: Montblanc
Montgomery Taylor
New York based fragrance company. Scents include Ambra di Venezia for women and Paratus for men.
Website: Montgomery Taylor
Monyette Paris
California-based independent perfume house of Tristan Brando. Two fragrances, Monyette Paris and Coquette Tropique.
See also review for Monyette Paris Cashmere Body Mist.
Where to buy: b-glowing, Beautyhabit, Luckyscent.
Website: Monyette Paris
See Parfums Morgan.
New York-based fashion house established by Liliana and Carlos Casabal in 1982. Fragrances include Morgane Le Fay Classic and Morgane Le Fay Blue.
Recent releases include Morgane Le Fay Collection 2008 (Pink, Green, Yellow, Blue).
Website: Morgane Le Fay
Fashion house established by Franco Moschino (d. 1994) in 1983, and currently under the design leadership of Jeremy Scott.
The first fragrance, Moschino, appeared in 1987; subsequent releases include Cheap and Chic (1995), L'Eau Cheap and Chic (2001), Couture! (2004) and I Love Love (2005).
Recent releases include Moschino Friends Men (2005), Moschino Funny! (2007), Cheap and Chic Hippy Fizz (2008), Moschino Glamour (2008), Cheap and Chic Light Clouds (2009), Toujours Glamour (2010), Moschino Forever (2011), Pink Bouquet (2012), Chic Petals (2013), Forever Sailing (2013), Cheap and Chic Stars (2014), Moschino Toy (2014), Fresh Couture (2015), Pink Fresh Couture (2017), So Real Cheap & Chic (2017), Gold Fresh Couture (2017), Toy 2 (2018), Toy Boy (2019).
Where to buy: department stores and online fragrance discounters.
Website: Moschino
Musgo Real
See Claus Porto.
Fragrances for the Mustang car line, produced by Estee Lauder's Aramis division in collaboration with Ford Motor Cars and the Sarantis Group.
Fragrances were introduced in 2007 with Mustang for men, followed by Mustang Blue in 2008.
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Chrissy Teigen Shows Breast Implant Removal Scars To Prove Surgery Was Real
Chrissy Teigen posts her surgery scars as proof that she had her implants removed.
Last month, Chrissy Teigen told the public that she had her breast implants removed, but her announcement was met with some doubts.
To prove that she really underwent the procedure, Teigen posted pictures of her post-op scars.
"A few of my friends keep having to tell people that I really got my implants out because no one believes it…these are the scars," she said in an Instagram Story video on Sunday.
Screenshot via Chrissy Teigen's IG Story
Earlier this year, Teigen revealed that she got the implants at the age of 20. She was prepping for the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue at the time: "I thought if I'm going to be posing, laid on my back, I want them to be perky! But then you have babies and they fill up with milk and deflate and now I am screwed."
Following the video, Teigen posted a censored picture of her surgery to her Instagram Story. "Trust me lol," she wrote in the caption.
She assured fans that the decision to remove her implants was not a big deal when she first announced: "They've been great to me for many years but I'm just over it. I'd like to be able to zip a dress in my size, lay on my belly with pure comfort! No biggie! So don't worry about me! All good. I'll still have boobs, they'll just be pure fat. Which is all a tit is in the first place. A dumb, miraculous bag of fat. "
Teigen was met with support from both friends and family. Her friends threw her a party to celebrate the successful surgery and Luna, her 4-year-old daughter, penned a get well card that said "BYE BOOBIES."
Young Buck Dashes Hopes Of Reuniting With G-Unit One Day: "I'm Not Considering It"
[Music Video] Sheek Louch – ONYX (feat. Lil Fame)


A packed service saw the inauguration of The Spire Church on Sunday 2 September. The service, led by The Spire Church ministers, Revd. Michael Hopkins and Revd. Conrad Hicks.
The church also welcomed Revd. Dr. Chris Blake, Superintendent Minister of the Hants-Surrey Border Methodist Circuit, Revd. John Hellyer, Chair of the South East Methodist District, Revd. Ray Stanyon, Development and Support Officer of the Wessex Synod of the United Reformed Church, and representing the Synod Moderator, Mr Alan Yates, immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, and Cllr. David Attfield, Farnham Town Mayor.
During the service, the church's constitution was formally adopted and signed, the Church Leaders elected and commissioned, the ministers affirmed, the congregation made a covenant with each other and with individually with God, and keys to the two buildings were exchanged. The congregation then shared Holy Communion together.
Listen to a recording of the service here.


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Melania Trump VS Jill Biden
Former first lady Melania Trump has fired back at a historian who criticized the renovations she made to the White House Rose Garden last year, calling his remarks "misleading" and "dishonorable" before questioning his credibility.
Melania tweeted, "[email protected] has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian."
The message was in response to a tweet from Michael Beschloss, presidential historian for NBC News and a frequent critic of former President Trump, who said that the "evisceration" of the White House Rose Garden was finished a year ago this month.
"And here was the grim result — decades of American history made to disappear," Beschloss wrote.
The Trump White House revealed the newly renovated Rose Garden, which was spearheaded by the then-first lady, last August. Her office said she wanted to make the area more closely resemble the original 1962 design by Rachel Lambert Mellon during the Kennedy administration.
The changes sparked criticism among many who attacked the historic garden's new look.
A petition surfaced this April, which has received more than 80,000 signatures, calling for first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff to reverse the changes to the Rose Garden.
"We want Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff to take this on and restore the Rose Garden to [former first lady Jackie Kennedy's] original design," the Change.org petition said.
The petition argued that the renovations made by the Trump administration "ripped away" Kennedy's legacy.
Neither Biden, Emhoff, nor their offices have responded to the petition.
Veterans and Ex Officials Take on Biden
How Many Americans are Still Trapped in Afghanistan?


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Detailed Investigation on Heat Transfer and Fluid Interaction over Non-uniform Roughened Surface in Jet Impingement Cooling Applications
Andres Curbelo, University of Central Florida
The main objective of this study is to fundamentally investigate the flow physics and the relationship to heat transfer in the presence of roughened surfaces undergoing jet impingement cooling mechanisms in a confined channel. Thermal and fluid dynamics characteristics are directly related to the surface condition. The surface roughness is proven to play a significant role in the surface heat transfer and skin friction coefficient. In combination with the surface finish, the flow condition plays a particular role in the turbulence behavior near the wall. The magnitude of these engineering quantities tends to deviate from a smooth surface compared to a rough surface scenario. The development of accurate lower and high-fidelity models is essential in the engineering world. Predicting the heat transfer and fluid mechanics behavior inside a component is essential for a designer, such as improving wall functions within the CFD community. Usually, literature only includes well-defined rough surfaces driven by some geometric parameters, non-uniform and irregular surfaces like the one found in additive manufacturing and other physics forming phenomena is somewhat lacking. The basic geometric configuration of a single jet impingement was chosen due to the ability to create a wall jet from a stagnation region. The experimental facility was designed under no crossflow configuration, where fluid enters from the plenum passing through the orifice hole (jet) and exiting in the radial direction of a confined channel. The current research investigated the fluid dynamics associated with jet impingement over rough surfaces using non-intrusive experimental methods. Multiple jet Reynolds numbers were investigated, ranging from 21,000 to 110,000 for three different jet diameter to roughness ratios. The current research study investigated heat transfer and fluid behavior using non-intrusive experimental methods. Temperature-sensitive paint (TSP) was utilized to obtain scalar temperature field over smooth and rough surfaces. These experimental results will be compared with available literature. The flow physics was investigated by performing stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry. The velocity fields were further analyzed using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and tested versus the wall similarity theory. High accuracy microphones were utilized to obtain unsteady pressure values at different rough surfaces.
Kapat, Jayanta
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Doctoral Dissertation (Campus-only Access)
Curbelo, Andres, "Detailed Investigation on Heat Transfer and Fluid Interaction over Non-uniform Roughened Surface in Jet Impingement Cooling Applications" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-. 843.


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What is cultural Marxism?
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 7:38PM by Azra Raza
Sarah Manavis in New Statesman:
Cultural Marxism is a theory that started in the early 20th century, which was popularised in the aftermath of the socialist revolution (this great piece in the Guardian explains it in depth). The idea was that Marxism should extend beyond class and into cultural equality and that, through major institutions like schools and the media, cultural values could progressively be changed. The theory was later adopted by the philosophers at the Frankfurt School who posited that the only way to destroy capitalism was to destroy it in all walks of life; where, not just classes, but all genders, races, and religions could live in society equally.
While this may seem unimportant, the Frankfurt School's adoption of – and modifications to – cultural Marxism is where the conspiracy theory truly begins. The Frankfurt School's predominantly Jewish members of the school were forced to flee to America by the Nazis in the 1940s, where many went on to teach, write, and commentate in mainstream institutions. This, conspiracy theorists claim, is when cultural Marxists began to poison the West – and when cultural Marxists began their attempts to undermine its values.
Eric Hobsbawm: A 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 2:33PM by S. Abbas Raza
David Kynaston in the Times Literary Supplement:
"A NEW SORT OF HISTORY: NOT A THREAD BUT A WEB" confidently hailed the headline for an article on trends in historical writing included in the TLS's special issue in October 1961 on "European Exchanges", itself marking in the paper's eyes the end of Britain's long cultural isolation. The unidentified author – anonymity still the house rule – was the forty-four-year-old Eric Hobsbawm, a Marxist historian of growing reputation but far from a household name. Noting with satisfaction that "the established if unofficial orthodoxies of academic conservatism" were "increasingly on the defensive", he accused those orthodoxies of having "confined the field of general history to the chronological narrative, supplemented here and there with ad hoc explanations, of the upper ranges of politics, diplomacy, war and to some extent cultural life". Instead, he looked forward to the flourishing of a radically different approach, one forged on the terrain "where history, economics and sociology meet" – and where "ideologies have replaced nations as the chief disturbers of scholarly equanimity". He did not promise it would be easy. For the historian, "to explain the changing texture of a web is technically much harder than to trace a thread"; while for readers, the new history was likely to be "a very much more difficult subject" than for "their fathers and grandfathers".
A superposition of possible facts causes quantum conflict
Chris Lee in Ars Technica:
"More than one reality exists" screams the headline. Cue sighs of tired dread from physicists everywhere as they wonder what otherwise bland result has been spun out of control.
In this case, though, it turns out that the paper and the underlying theory are much more interesting than that takeaway. Essentially, modern physics tells us that two observers of the same event may never agree on the result, even if they have all possible knowledge. This is already accepted as part of special relativity, but now we have experimental proof that it applies to quantum mechanics as well.
Let's start with the simplest possible example of how we typically resolve conflicting measurements. I am standing on a platform and measure the speed of an approaching train to be 180km/hr. You are on the train and measure the speed of the train to be 0km/hr. We can resolve the difference by making an additional measurement on our relative speeds. Afterward, we both know that we've measured the speed correctly relative to our own motion.
The situation gets more complex for very fast-moving objects.
Pakistan is betrayed by its blasphemy laws
Farzana Shaikh in UnHerd:
On 6 January, 2011, the world watched aghast as sections of Pakistan's modern legal fraternity took to the streets of the country's capital, Islamabad, to shower petals on the self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri. He had arrived in court to hear charges against him for the murder of Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, who had campaigned for changes to Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the release of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In his confession Qadri, a member of Taseer's security team, justified his actions saying they were required to defend Islam. He was found guilty of 'terrorism' and handed the death penalty. At his appeal hearing before the Islamabad High Court in 2015, Qadri was again feted by hundreds of lawyers who declared they were acting to meet their 'Islamic obligations'. His defence team which included two retired Justices – one of them the former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court – also claimed to be doing their 'religious duty'.
Qadri was finally executed in 2016 after Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. He has since been canonised by his followers and his grave in Lahore transformed into a shrine. The 700-strong lawyers' forum which rose to his defence has vowed to continue his struggle against blasphemy.
The Sabri Brothers sing "Tajdar-e-Haram"
Is this the end of the American century?
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 1:27PM by Robin Varghese
Adam Tooze in the London Review of Books:
On 13 October 1806 a young German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, had an encounter with world history. En route to their annihilation of the Prussian forces 24 hours later, Napoleon and his army were marching through the East German university town of Jena. Hegel couldn't disguise his terror that in the ensuing chaos the recently completed manuscript of The Phenomenology of Spirit might get lost in the mail. But neither could he resist the drama of the moment. As he wrote to his friend Friedrich Niethammer, 'I saw the emperor – this world-soul (Weltseele) – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.'
Two hundred years later, in rather more sedate circumstances, the Berkeley historian Daniel J. Sargent, addressing the American Historical Association, also evoked the world spirit. But this time it came in the person of Donald Trump and he was riding not on horseback, but on a golf cart. Trump can be compared to Napoleon, according to Sargent, because they are both destroyers of international order. In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon wrecked what was left of the legitimate order of Europe. Trump, in turn, has apparently ended the American world order, or, as Sargent prefers to call it, Pax Americana.
Sargent's is an extraordinary suggestion, even though overenthusiastic historic comparisons have now become commonplace.
How John Berger Restores Our Relationship to Art
Elisa Wouk Almino at Hyperallergic:
As early as the mid-1950s, the art critic John Berger complained about the ways in which art was shown, taught, and written about. The art world — a term he deplored — was too insular, and the art historians and critics did very little to mitigate this. Perhaps most crucially, they failed to share art's profound connections to human experience. It was no wonder that people expressed little interest in artworks, Berger said in a 1956 article for the New Statesman, because they've been led to believe "that such works as do exist have nothing to say to them." Today, Berger's demands appear more urgent and his criticisms only truer.
A new biography on Berger — the first published since his death in January of 2017 — reveals a writer who to this day speaks most eloquently and passionately to our frustrations, fears, hopes, and desires. The book, authored by Joshua Sperling and published by Verso, is titled A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. At Sperling's Los Angeles book launch, where I led a conversation with him, he explained that the title is a riff on Berger's first novel, A Painter of Our Time. But the label of "a writer of our time" is also earned.
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland & Blake McShane in Nature:
When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was 'no difference' between two groups because the difference was 'statistically non-significant'?
If your experience matches ours, there's a good chance that this happened at the last talk you attended. We hope that at least someone in the audience was perplexed if, as frequently happens, a plot or table showed that there actually was a difference.
How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not 'prove' the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome)1. Nor do statistically significant results 'prove' some other hypothesis. Such misconceptions have famously warped the literature with overstated claims and, less famously, led to claims of conflicts between studies where none exists.
We have some proposals to keep scientists from falling prey to these misconceptions.
Why we must build a new economics from the ground up
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 1:08PM Sunday, March 31, 2019 by Robin Varghese
James Meadway in Open Democracy:
There is a wonderful metaphor in Alastair Macintyre's After Virtue, in which the philosopher asks us to imagine a world hit by some terrible calamity that caused scientific and technical knowledge to be almost destroyed. What was left was smashed into thousands upon thousands of disconnected pieces, and the inhabitants of this world had to piece together their understanding of science and technology from what was lost, trying to line up the remnants of the earlier age as best they could.
Scrabbling, ignorant, and in the darkness, they would sometimes get things right. More often, however, they would get things seriously wrong. Most of all, they had lost any sense of science as a system, depriving them not only of the existing knowledge, but how to generate new ideas and make new discoveries.
It's an image that haunts me, repeatedly, when surveying the state of the left today.
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 9:54AM by Jim Culleny
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee
I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows
I am an eagle playing with the wind
I am a cluster of bright beads
I am the farthest star
I am the cold of the dawn
I am the roaring of the rain
I am the glitter on the crust of the snow
I am the long track of the moon in a lake
I am a flame of four colors
I am a deer standing away in the dusk
I am a field of sumac and pomme blanche
I am an angle of geese in the winter sky
I am the hunger of a young wolf
I am the whole dream of these things
You see, I am alive, I am alive
I stand in good relation to the Gods
I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to everything that is beautiful…
by Navarre Scott Momaday
from Modern American Poetry
"My name is Tsoai‐talee. I am, therefore, Tsoai‐talee; therefore I am. The storyteller Pohd‐lokh gave me the name Tsoai‐talee. He believed that a man's life proceeds from his name, in the way that a river proceeds from its source." —Scott Momaday
"The Twice-Born," A Searching Memoir About India's Identity Crisis
Posted on Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 9:22AM by Azra Raza
Shaj Mathew in The New Yorker:
The Twice-Born," a new memoir by Aatish Taseer, is troubled by a single plaintive question: Does a city steeped in tradition have a future in modern India? The setting is Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, where more than five million pilgrims flock each year to worship, bathe, and burn their dead. Dying while in Benares, it is said, will release a Hindu from the cycle of reincarnation, and Taseer discovers an industry of death that's alive and well in the city. He describes corpses that "sizzled away on funeral pyres," as dinghies drifted on the Ganges amid smoke and marigolds. Taseer, to be clear, has not come to Benares to die. He's in his thirties for most of the memoir, and, anyway, he's not religious. His pilgrimage is secular; he seeks to filter the contradictions of present-day India through his life story. In the process, "The Twice-Born" becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern. For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical. The book's charm resides in the way the author orbits this tension between faith and rationality. He yearns to make sense of how "the laws of reason and the laws of magic . . . reached an easy harmony" in contemporary India.
Taseer attempts to focus the book on his interactions with Brahmins, Hinduism's priestly caste. (They are the twice-born of the memoir's title, because they are considered to be born a second time upon their scholarly initiation.) But Taseer is foremost a wanderer, and the roving form of the book echoes his penchant for circularity. He writes as though Benares, in all its many dimensions, can be apprehended only through overlapping, fractal perspectives, one of which is his own.
Taseer's relationship to himself is distinctly spectatorial; he cannot stop looking at himself looking at himself. "I saw everything as an Anglicized Indian watching an imaginary European or American visitor watch India," he writes. "I wished I had a more direct relationship with my country. But any attempt to do so only made the self-observing selves multiply."
Ethicists are no more ethical than the rest of us
Posted on Saturday, Mar 30, 2019 1:30PM by S. Abbas Raza
Olivia Goldhill in Quartz:
For all their pontificating and complex moral theories, ethicists are just as disappointingly flawed as the rest of humanity. A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed stricter moral views, they were no better at behaving ethically.
The paper, by philosophy graduate student Philipp Schönegger from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and philosophy professor Johannes Wanger from the University of Graz in Austria, surveyed professors' views on a range of moral topics, including organ donation, charitable giving, and even how often they called their mother. They then asked the professors about their own behavior in each category.
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
Larry Cahill in Quillette:
Imagine your response to picking up a copy of the leading scientific journal Nature and reading the headline: "The myth that evolution applies to humans." Anyone even vaguely familiar with the advances in neuroscience over the past 15–20 years regarding sex influences on brain function might have a similar response to a recent headline in Nature: "Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains" subtitled "the hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice."
Turns out that yet another book, this one with a fawning review in Nature, claims to "shatter" myths about sex differences in the brain while in fact perpetuating the largest one. Editors at Nature decided to give this book their imprimatur. Ironically, within a couple of days of the Nature review being published came a news alert from the American Association for the Advancement of Science titled, "Researchers discover clues to brain differences between males and females," and a new editorial in Lancet Neurology titled "A spotlight on sex differences in neurological disorders," both of which contradict the book's core thesis. So what in the name of good science is going on here?
The emerging 737 MAX scandal: It's more than bad software
Matthew Yglesias in Vox:
Boeing executives are offering a simple explanation for why the company's best-selling plane in the world, the 737 MAX 8, crashed twice in the past several months, leaving Jakarta, Indonesia, in October and then Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March. Executives claimed Wednesday, March 27, that the cause was a software problem — and that a new software upgrade fixes it.
But this open-and-shut version of events conflicts with what diligent reporters in the aviation press have uncovered in the weeks since Asia, Europe, Canada, and then the United States grounded the planes.
The story begins nine years ago when Boeing was faced with a major threat to its bottom line, spurring the airline to rush a series of kludges through the certification process — with an under-resourced Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seemingly all too eager to help an American company threatened by a foreign competitor, rather than to ask tough questions about the project.
Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Posted on Saturday, Mar 30, 2019 12:58PM by Robin Varghese
Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris
Posted on Saturday, Mar 30, 2019 9:28AM by Azra Raza
Gary Greenberg in The Atlantic:
In 1886, Clark Bell, the editor of the journal of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, relayed to a physician named Pliny Earle a query bound to be of interest to his journal's readers: Exactly what mental illnesses can be said to exist? In his 50-year career as a psychiatrist, Earle had developed curricula to teach medical students about mental disorders, co-founded the first professional organization of psychiatrists, and opened one of the first private psychiatric practices in the country. He had also run a couple of asylums, where he instituted novel treatment strategies such as providing education to the mentally ill. If any American doctor was in a position to answer Bell's query, it was Pliny Earle.
Earle responded with a letter unlikely to satisfy Bell. "In the present state of our knowledge," he wrote, "no classification can be erected upon a pathological basis, for the simple reason that, with slight exceptions, the pathology of the disease is unknown." Earle's demurral was also a lament. During his career, he had watched with excitement as medicine, once a discipline rooted in experience and tradition, became a practice based on science. Doctors had treated vaguely named diseases like ague and dropsy with therapies like bloodletting and mustard plasters. Now they deployed chemical agents like vaccines to target diseases identified by their biological causes. But, as Earle knew, psychiatrists could not peer into a microscope to see the biological source of their patients' suffering, which arose, they assumed, from the brain. They were stuck in the premodern past, dependent on "the apparent mental condition [his emphasis], as judged from the outward manifestations," to devise diagnoses and treatments.
a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia
Salman Rushdie in The New York Times:
Something is happening in African literature: The women are coming. For decades now, a river of original and important writing by female authors has been flowing out of that continent — books by writers such as Marlene van Niekerk, of whose second novel Liesl Schillinger wrote in these pages, "books like 'Agaat' … are the reason people read novels"; Tsitsi Dangarembga ("Nervous Conditions"); and, of course, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Now that river has burst its banks and become a flood. Namwali Serpell's extraordinary, ambitious, evocative first novel, "The Old Drift," contributes powerfully to this new wave.
Interestingly, many of the contemporary books overlap with and even echo one another. Petina Gappah's forthcoming novel, "Out of Darkness, Shining Light," takes on the subject of the explorer David Livingstone and his African companions; "The Old Drift" also begins with Livingstone (but then moves on). Serpell's novel is a multigenerational exploration of Zambia's past, present and even its near future; another recent debut, "Harmattan Rain," by Ayesha Harruna Attah, looks at the story of Ghana through the lives of three generations of women. And in September Maaza Mengiste's "The Shadow King" will take on the subject of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, moving beyond history to a kind of modern mythmaking, and looking at history primarily through the eyes of its female characters. "The Old Drift," too, incorporates elements of fabulism into the history of Zambia, and, again, sees that history mostly through women's eyes. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's "House of Stone," published in the United States in January, has already been highly praised in The Guardian for summing up "not only … Zimbabwean history, but also all of African colonial history" — a large claim on behalf of any novel. Equally large claims have already been made for "The Old Drift," which early reviewers have garlanded with comparisons to Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez. Meanwhile, another recent novel, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's "Kintu," has been called a Ugandan "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Trailing clouds of glory do they come.
Posted on Saturday, Mar 30, 2019 8:55AM by Jim Culleny
At the Crossing
The tall guy in a green T-shirt,
vanishing past me as I cross
in the opposite direction,
has fairy wings on his shoulders:
toy ones, children's fancy-dress wings,
cartoonish butterfly cut-outs.
Do they say gay? No time for that.
He flickers past the traffic lights –
whoosh! gone! – outside categories.
Do they say foreign? They say young.
They say London. Grab it, they say.
Kiss the winged joy as it flies.
Traffic swings around the corner;
gusts of drizzle sweep us along
the Strand in the glittering dark,
threading to and fro among skeins
of never-quite-colliding blurs.
All this whirling's why we came out.
Those fragile flaps could lift no one.
Perhaps they were ironic wings,
tongue-in-cheek look-at-me tokens
to make it clear he had no need
of hydraulics, being himself
Hermes.
Wings, though; definite wings.
by Fleur Adcock
from Glass Wings
publisher: Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 2013
TMI: Confession and Performance
Posted on Friday, Mar 29, 2019 12:12PM by S. Abbas Raza
Brian Glavey in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
Is confessional poetry still interesting in our age of oversharing? Is it even confessional? If my students are any indication, readers immersed in multiple platforms of never-ending self-disclosure might not find the poetry of Robert Lowell or Anne Sexton particularly exhibitionist. Lowell's Life Studies is personal, certainly, but not nearly as personal as your average Instagram story, not as revealing as the anecdotes my students are apt to volunteer in and after class, maybe not as real as the Real Housewives. Lowell famously described his turn toward the personal as a movement away from a rarefied and bloodless commitment to craft, "a breakthrough back into life" that promised to reenergize the writers of an entire generation. A half-century on, the subversions of their self-exposure can be harder to recognize. In the full thrall of TMI, it might be that the strangeness of confessional poetry has more to do these days with its being poetry than its being confessional. This development is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, I often try to highlight something like this dynamic by playing for my classes a recording of Sylvia Plath reading "Daddy" a few months before her death. It is an electrifying performance that completely reconfigures the way my students approach her poems. Plath brings to the text a theatrical intensity far flung from the rhetoric of therapeutic unburdening that the "confessional" label seems to suggest. As Plath declaims it, "Daddy" sounds more like the soliloquy of an Elizabethan villain than a straightforward exercise in self-expression. It is not so clear that such words unearth any sort of inner truth about the speaker, but they are certainly dramatic.
In The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV, Christopher Grobe makes a powerful case that this connection between confession and performance is no coincidence.
A Brief History Of That Most Noble Tuber, The Potato
Rebecca Earle in Literary Hub:
All 4,500 named varieties of potatoes trace their ancestry to the Americas. Wild potatoes grow along the American cordillera, the mountains that run from the Andes to Alaska. People living on its slopes have been eating potatoes for time out of mind. Stone tools and preserved potato peels show that wild potatoes were being prepared for food in southern Utah and south-central Chile nearly 13,000 years ago; similar evidence dates their domestication from at least 7800 BCE on the northern coast of Peru. They formed an important part of the diet of many of the cultures inhabiting the 9000 kilometers between Utah and Chile.
Together with foods such as quinoa and maize, they provided a robust, starchy backbone to cuisines also enriched with chile peppers, beans and other vegetables. Each variety can be propagated from a "mother potato." She sounds like an ancient deity but in botany the term refers to the mundane tuber or seed potato that provides the genetic material from which additional plants are cultivated.
One difficulty with potatoes is that they are difficult to store. Anyone who has ever lost track of a bag of potatoes knows this.


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Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Reader's Edition
List Price: 6.99*
"Highly recommended for high school and ambitious middle school readers." —School Library Journal
"A valuable addition to STEM-themed collections." —VOYA
An in-depth look into the extraordinary life of the world's most important entrepreneur, Elon Musk. This middle grade book is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.
This fascinating and easily accessible paperback young readers' adaptation of Ashlee Vance's New York Times bestselling Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future features black-and-white photographs throughout and an epilogue.
The version for adults has been praised as "riveting" (The Financial Times), "spirited" (The Wall Street Journal), and "masterful" (Vice). Now younger readers can read about this innovative leader who is revolutionizing three industries at once: space, automotive, and energy.
There are few people in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive and vision. A modern combination of famous inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs, Elon is the man behind companies such as SpaceX, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and PayPal that are transforming the way we live.
Written with exclusive access to Elon, his family, and his friends, this book traces Elon's journey from a kid in South Africa to a young man in the United States, his dramatic technical inventions, and his world-changing companies. Elon has sparked new levels of innovation in the world, and this book gives young readers a detailed but fast-paced look at his story.
A Junior Library Guild Selection!
Praise For Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Reader's Edition…
"Along with views of youth and early geekdom…[Vance] relates suspenseful accounts of technical and financial crises, conducts tours of Musk's factories…and brings his story up to early 2016. Overall, the author offers a picture of a brilliant, driven man…A modern American success story, neither overly earnest nor unreservedly adulatory."
"An informative and easy-to-follow biography of one of today's top innovators for young readers."
"Vance maintains a lively pace and explains the groundbreaking technology in a way that is accessible and exciting....Highly recommended for high school and ambitious middle school readers for its insights into Musk, technology, and venture capitalism."
"Musk may not be as instantly recognizable to teens as Zuckerberg or Jobs, but given his work with PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, he should be. Vance delves into all of his work with detailed passion.
— Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"A valuable addition to STEM-themed collections."
— Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
HarperCollins, 9780062862433, 288pp.
ASHLEE VANCE is the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk and a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. He's also the host of Hello World, a travel show that centers on inventors and scientists all over the planet. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register.
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Search engines use links to crawl through websites. Putting relevant links onto your site (either from your own site, or external websites) helps search engines find your website. The more quality links you have, the higher your chances are of appearing on searches.
Google favours websites with a clean link profile, those with links to and from reputable or authoritative sources. In the early years of the internet, SEO specialists in Brisbane and across the globe used link building to gather "votes" and rank high on search results.
However, not all links are good links. In the same way links can boost rankings, they can also do the opposite.
If you stuff low-quality and irrelevant links onto your site, search engines may find your website spammy. If you receive a warning message from Google with a header or subject that reads "Unnatural Inbound Links", you have a problem.
What are the benefits of link cleanup?
A Google penalty can greatly affect your rankings and your reputation. Link removal or cleanup helps you recover from a penalty and gain a fresh start for your SEO or online marketing initiative. It may take time, but patience will lead you to your goals.
Regular link audit and cleanup should be part of your reputation management program or plan. These allow you to maintain a clean backlink profile and avoid a Google penalty. Your dedicated Brisbane SEO company can help you do this.
Whilst Google provides clues regarding the next algorithm update, you can never tell when it will hit your website. Having a spotless link profile is your safety net. It keeps your website ready for upcoming Penguin updates, which are likely to continue targeting unnatural links or poor linking structures.
Decreased or lost rankings are among the most serious effects of a Google penalty. You may eventually earn back your rankings after disavowing or removing bad links from your site.
What is the link cleanup process?
Export all your website's backlinks using Google Search Console or Open Site Explorer from Moz. It is important to monitor links and make sure you are not missing any of them. Once you have the data, you still need to gather SEO metrics and other information to identify the bad links and the good ones.
If your website has few backlinks, manual auditing would be a breeze. If you are dealing with a huge number of links, you may use any of the audit tools available today. Your SEO service provider may also do the job for you. This will help you prepare for the cleanup process. Read more about SEO Auditing.
Once you identify the bad links, you can start the cleanup process. Send an email to the owner or webmaster of the site (source of bad links) and ask for removal of the link. Be polite and make the email as professional as possible. Provide clear instructions and details of the backlinks you need removed.
You may also add nofollows to or stop paying for paid links, and remove directory submissions. Never pay for link removal. Some webmasters may ask you to pay before they completely remove those bad links. You still have an option: disavow.
You may disavow links you could not remove. Add those links to your site's "disavow list" and send the report to Google. By doing so, you are informing the search giant that the links are not part of your SEO initiatives and are beyond your control. Google will then ignore all links from the domain/s you specified in your disavow report. It may take a few weeks to see the result.
Link cleanup is often an overwhelming task, especially for business owners who are new to SEO. As one of the foremost Brisbane SEO companies, Bambrick Media will provide the knowledge, tools and assistance you need throughout the process. We would love to share our SEO expertise with you. Call us at 1300 719 835 or send us a message through our Contact Form.