When most people think about Greece the Acropolis in Athens is the first thing that jumps to mind followed by the idyllic Greek islands with the white and blue architecture of Santorini creating a stunning backdrop for your island getaway. Greece, however, has a lot more, lesser-known destinations to discover including Kalamata, a port city located on the Peloponnese peninsula, and which of course is synonymous to many with the Kalamata olive, and with new destinations to discover come new luxury hotels to spend lazy days in, soaking in the sun and taking in Greek hospitality.
Besides being home of the best Greek olive, Kalamata is home to the airport closest to the town of Pylos where The Westin Resort Costa Navarino is sprawled along the Dunes beach. A luxurious resort, The Westin is an ideal destination for families or couples looking to escape big cities and simply enjoy the best Greece has to offer, great weather, better food and friendly service, making up an unforgettable relaxing summer holiday.
Designed in the spirit of old Messinian mansions, the resort encompasses old world elegance and new world comforts, bringing guests the best of both worlds, transporting you to a land of royal arches and a setting of tranquility that poetically lets the birds' chirping guide you through the maze of the resort's gardens.
With the resort nestled along the Dunes beach, you can throw your beach towel on the sand and dive into the sea or opt to laze about one of the resort's many pools sipping on cocktails served at the bar. If you are a more active guest, looking to do more than just tan, the resort organises many activities including yacht cruises, waterskiing and even cooking classes where you can learn to make authentic Greek dishes. And for wine and olive oil connoisseurs you can take part in olive oil and wine tastings. The resort also boasts two golf courses, which have catapulted The Westin to becoming a luxury golf destination in Greece and so for avid golf players this resort is the ultimate destination, combining a summer holiday with the love of teeing off.
The resort's heart is the Agora, inspired by the Greek's word for meeting place, the Agora here groups a number of eateries that cater to all tastes. A standout restaurant if you are in the mood for Italian cuisine is Da Luigi. Serving wood fired pizza, pasta and freshly prepared salads, this restaurant will take you to Italy while enjoying the sweet sea breeze in Greece. The Agora is where you will also find the Branco Bar, a cocktail bar where you can enjoy a drink or two to end a perfect evening.
While the Agora is an inviting and convivial square nothing says summer holiday more than lunch on the beach and The Westin's Barbouni restaurant is the whole package. Overlooking the Ionian Sea on the Dunes beach, this seaside eatery serves fresh seafood with a breathtaking view. The restaurant is open from 12 to 5.30pm and is where you can enjoy a guilt-free midday cocktail and mouthwatering dishes including halloumi cheese served on a bed of salad and of course the traditional Greek salad tossed with juicy Kalamata olives.
For dinner make sure you reserve your table at Flame, the resort's fine dining eatery that overlooks the golf course and serves contemporary Greek cuisine. The food here is amazing, with very generous portions keeping you at the table long enough to really take in every inch of the spectacular view the restaurant offers, with the sunset making for a magical moment here.
Of course no stay at a luxury resort is complete without a spa experience and here at The Westin the Anazoe Spa has put together a menu of different treatments that will guarantee to leave you in pure bliss. The spa menu includes facials and massages that use natural ingredients sourced locally and internationally to bring you the benefits of ancient Greek health and beauty practices, which the treatments are based on. The spa menu includes classic treatments as well as signature ones including the Oleotherapy Trilogy massage that uses olive oil to detoxify your body while leaving you feeling relaxed and ready for cocktail hour.


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The difference is, this album would have cost a lot more to make that a compilation of pre-prepared tracks. There was the cost of the orchestra for five days, the cost of Richard's trip to London, the hire of Abbey Road studios and then post-production back at Capitol Records.
Oh undoubtedly, this was a more expensive album to create than those previous UK compliations, but the UK market has been so saturated with Carpenters compilations that I don't know if the twist of these being recorded with an orchestra was going to be enough to really give this a big sales boost over the numbers they usually do, particularly when the orchestra isn't that present in the songs. The fact that pretty much every compliation has sold 60,000-100,000 units in the UK since the early 1990s (even The Singles 1969-1981 achieved that figure despite never being treated as anything other than a back-catalogue compilation and given no promotion in the UK), with a couple selling way more, is quite an achievement in itself, albeit that it may have created buyer fatigue and a sales ceiling for continuing new releases in the same vein.
They released a Cilla Black compilation with the Royal Liverpool Philamonic Orchestra at around the same time as the Carpenters CD and that had even lower sales. Granted, Cilla never moved album units like the Carpenters did, but it shows that the gimmick of adding an orchestra isn't a guarantee of attracting buyers.
Do you know what the sales figures were for Cilla's album? It's one of my favourite RPO collaborations, but you're right, she's not exactly well known in either Japan or the US so you'd expect sales to be more limited. Maybe the novelty of RPO collaborations is just wearing thin.
I also wonder what the impact of streaming is on physical sales. For £9.99 a month you can stream and save unlimited albums, which must hurt sales figures.
Do you think if Richard chose a premier orchestra from Tokyo or Osaka for release in Japan and the Asian markets it may have had a bigger impact? Just not sure how much excitement there would be for a Carpenters release in that part of the world with an orchestra from London.
It hasn't been certified in the UK so definitely under 60,000 and looking at its UK chart run, it peaked at #26 and spent only 4 weeks in the Top 75, so I'd imagine 15-20,000 maximum.
I was disappointed by the sales response to the album. In the UK, I thought that there should have been more promotion. Richard decided to go to Japan instead. I really only know of two instances of media promotion on the UK. There was the Graham Norton radio show interview, which was an edit of the host's comments and Richard's that were most likely recorded at his home and were edited with the host's dialogue. They were never in the same room or on the phone together having a direct interaction. There was also a UK morning show segment shot at Richard's home. I think he had travelled to the UK, been interviewed in person, made more appearances, that might have helped. I do get that to do Japan and UK in the same week would have been physically a lot, but it was an RPO project at Abbey Road. I would have focused more on the UK first and then Japan.
I think he had travelled to the UK, been interviewed in person, made more appearances, that might have helped. .
Had he done one of the high profile daytime talk shows here in the UK like Lorraine, This Morning or Good Morning Britain, I think it would have sold a lot more. A lot of women and older generations watch those shows, two big captive Carpenters audiences.
I am surprised at the lack of promotion in the USA. Why not a spot on CBS Sunday morning, a show that many Cs-generation fans would possibly watch.
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Yes, someone else mentioned a point in a different thread - it makes you wonder if Richard just feels gun-shy about the abuse the Carpenters have faced for so long, in terms of musical judgement, and opts not to stir that pot, as it were. I find that hard to believe, actually, but it is strange that little promotion by him was done here in the USA. I would suggest his age and the strain of that kind of marketing effort, but then, he traveled to Japan so I doubt that's it either.
Your #3 is a head-scratcher - nowhere is it implied this is an instrumental album.
I agree. CBS Morning, or a QVC or HSN shopping network, or a PBS special tied to their fundraising would help. With the 50th Anniversary coming up, there is still an opportunity for some additional sales.
Now, if only a song or two from the RPO album could be strategically placed on an episode of a highly rated TV drama in the right scene, that could go viral.
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it makes you wonder if Richard just feels gun-shy about the abuse the Carpenters have faced for so long, in terms of musical judgement, and opts not to stir that pot, as it were.
I think it's fairly widely documented by now and acknowledged by the music industry and general public alike that Richard is a musical genius who was the brains behind the duo, so I'd be surprised if he shied away from publicising the album for that reason.
I think what was meant is that people may have looked at the cover title and thought it was an instrumental album. I posted earlier on this thread that the UK CD jewel cases include a large sticker on the front cover which specifically says "Conducted and Arranged by Richard Carpenter and featuring the voice of Karen Carpenter". So I think at least in the UK, this may have been the label's fear too.
and, is quite the sleeper, even allowing for the RPO "enhancements."
Its choice for inclusion on this album is a head-scratcher (imho).
we have a stellar song like "Something's Missing"
that needs to be completed, and included, instead.
I was just looking at Billboard's Top Classical Albums chart, and Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic is at #4 for the week of February 2, 2019. Last week it was #2 on the chart and it's been on the chart for 7 weeks.
Just comparison, the Beach Boys RPO is at #19 on the same chart.
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I wouldn't consider 'I Believe You' to be an over-used track on compilations - it's been on some, but absent from quite a few too - and I don't think it's a song the public are overly familiar with (particularly here in the UK, where it wasn't a single). There are other album tracks like 'When It's Gone' and 'Little Girl Blue' whose appearance on compilations in my opinion has been far more baffling.
My only real criticism of the inclusion of 'I Believe You' on the RPO album is the changing of the lead vocal. I know some people seem to like it, but to me it sounds like a deserved outtake compared to the lead on the original single.
I wouldn't disagree with you that having something like 'Something Missing' on the album would be preferable (and of course a bigger selling point from a marketing point of view), but that's straying into unreleased songs and solo songs territory, both points that were clearly not in contention for this release.
Having listened to the UK Radio 2 interview that was broadcast before Christmas to support this release (and which I have to say was excellent), given that Richard was either asked about or flagged up a number of stronger album cuts ('Eve', 'Love Me for What I Am', 'The Uninvited Guest', etc.), it might have been nice to have included some of these on the album in order to give it a 60% hits/40% album cuts balance or something like that.
given that Richard was either asked about or flagged up a number of stronger album cuts ('Eve', 'Love Me for What I Am', 'The Uninvited Guest', etc.), it might have been nice to have included some of these on the album in order to give it a 60% hits/40% album cuts balance or something like that.
we have 16 titles (correct me if I make an error).
Of those 16 titles, 10 of those songs appear on album The Singles 1969-1973 (in their earlier incarnations).
This Masquerade (also, USA Interpretations, Love Songs, Yesterday Once More, among others).
I Need To Be In Love (There is no lack of exposure for this great song as it appears elsewhere frequently).
are (imho) the outstanding additions to this particular album.
Thank you for your detailed analysis @GaryAlan. This comes back to what a few people have already concluded: the tracklist was way too safe and virtually replicated many other compilations out there.
100% agree. They're the only two tracks from the collection I have moved to my regular Spotify playlists. It's a shame Baby It's You is spoiled by the segue from Merry Christmas Darling. I would have preferred a clean opening.
It's a shame Baby It's You is spoiled by the segue from Merry Christmas Darling. I would have preferred a clean opening.
I just found a copy of the Carpenters RPO album yesterday at my local Walmart here in Ontario, and it was the only one they had. I must say, amongst the other CD's on the shelf, the white cover really stood out. Sure the others has white in them, but they all kind of blended together. I think I'll nickname the RPO album the "White" album just like their 1971 album is nicknamed the "Tan" album.
The sticker on the front of it clearly states that it features the "iconic vocals" of the Carpenters. On the back I see that it was manufactured and distributed here in Canada by Universal Music Canada. I also see that Universal considers this a full studio album, and not a compilation album, as the word "Compilation" does not appear in the copyright notice.
Opening the disc, I see that the label is reminiscent of the pre-1974 albums and disc 1 of the PBS CD package, with the brown background. And the booklet is nice and glossy.
As I put the CD into my PS3, which is hooked upto my Yamaha HTR-5630 by optical, I hear the sweeping orchestral opening of "Overture" and it reminds me of the LP that was put out in the 1980's by the OLG called "Santa Claus Is Canadian" and it's opening track. Then it flows into "Yesterday Once More (which doesn't have the harp that I think the opening is suppose to have, so Universal Canada seems to be using an early copy of the master for this disc) however the stereo piano is really great. I've heard the digital single of YOM on my iPhone speakers, but this is the first time that I've heard it on my surround system and really good speakers and not coming from a compressed MP3, but an Uncompressed CD, possible an HDCD. Do the drums ever sound good, and even the orchestra gives the song a different sound. Reminds me of the Beach Boys RPO and how the core sound was kept but the orchestra flourishes gave each song a different sound.
Next up is "Hurting Each Other". This one I always found the instruments had sounded packed and could not breath because they were mixed into a very tight stereo or even mono mix. I still remember when I first heard the "Dreamsound Orchestra" version and how if Karen's vocals were on that it would've been a lot better. Well, now it does sound a lot better. No longer are the drums and piano in mono, but the drums play across the stereo stage and really give the song its punch, which it was lacking due to technical issues of 70's recording technology.
Next is "I Need To Be In Love". This starts out sounding like the video from the 2000 Video Biography DVD, with just piano. Unfortunately I could not finish the track, because the power decided to go out half way through the song, and the power company has posted on Facebook that there is no ETR (they say it's from a loss from Hydro One's power grid), so I can't even put the CD in my truck's CD player, since I've got no power to my PS3.
But so far, "Hurting Each Ither" has benefitted greatly from the RPO.
IUnfortunately I could not finish the track, because the power decided to go out half way through the song, and the power company has posted on Facebook that there is no ETR (they say it's from a loss from Hydro One's power grid), so I can't even put the CD in my truck's CD player, since I've got no power to my PS3.
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This kind of thing has always been a puzzlement to me. If you look at the popularity gauge on individual songs on iTunes and what-not whenever a new compilation album comes out, you will find that the biggest hits are always the most-downloaded or streamed from the new compilation. People just seem to always prefer the hits, rather than songs they haven't heard a thousand times.
When the Tijuana Brass albums came out after many years of not being available on CD, the Whipped Cream album immediately jumped and stayed at the head of the pack for the new releases, even though it was the one album that had been the most prominently available beforehand. You'd think everyone who wanted that CD already had it.
So it's no surprise that they packed the RPO album with hits. If they hadn't, it probably would have had weaker sales than it has had.
Yeah I've got power back, but I'm not going to finish the review till sometime over the weekend, when I have a chance to play it on my PS3, rather than in my truck.
I have only listened in my car.... I need to listen on the computer with my headphones....one of these days.


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One of the most interesting perspectives I garnered from an academic tome called Evil Incarnate by Dr. David Frankfurter was how one of the universal characteristics of state/civil societies is to redact and rigidly codify the "supernatural" or "magical" beliefs of its subjects. That in and of itself was an obvious phenomena to me long before I read said book — the interpretatio romana, for instance, is one of the most salient examples of such a practice, of the authorities of a conquering state appropriating the local gods of conquered/subjugated peoples and equating them to a Roman god that generally, at best, was a poor approximation, and at worst was complete error and obfuscation of the deity's original functions. The purpose behind said-practice is primarily propaganderial, a power ploy — the gods of a particular, autonomous tribal people, and the sociopsychological and political identity and freedom of said distinct group that such gods guarantee or embody, are absorbed into or subsumed by the idols of another state. All the juicy bureaucracy built upon tithes and the shows of grovelling/worship that said idols demand in proving your submission which were formerly directed to the people's own ruler/chieftain/holy men, if not being entirely absent (as in the case of more-egalitarian tribes or bands), are appended onto the cult and treasury of the imperial state, marking the end of a conquered people's own independence of culture and destiny.Read More »
The Somatic Coma
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Stigmergy is an interesting phenomenon, and also something very informative to the
understanding of modern human society. In short, it is the appearance of intelligence or coordination based purely on instinctive or automated reaction to an external stimuli; there is not actually a conscious or cognitive decision involved on the part of the reacting organism, or so it is assumed. Ants are one of the best models of the behaviour — they are capable of achieving very impressive feats that look, to the human estimation, like they would require some intelligent decision and coordination to accomplish, be it building bridges, ladders, rafts out of their own bodies, creating complex tunnel systems within a variety of substrates, or practicing kinds of agriculture.Read More »
Faux-Radicals and How to Find Them
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Generally when you come across an "anarchist" or "radical" on the internet, you are rarely wrong to automatically assume it is a liberal — that is, a left-centre, aspiring young capitalist and a bootlicker. They are merely temporarily confused about their political identity and psychology. It is particularly a safe bet for younger people, from the natural artefact of their not having been alive long enough to really think their way out of their confusion, if any truly profound thought has occurred to them yet at all. They might also merely be claiming the description as part of their small, fairly-sanitary act of social rebellion, spurred on by the angst of the prolonged adolescenthood enforced by modern societies. It might upset their parents and parish, after all, with the scandal of it, and any of the aesthetics that go with their politic scene, be it punk clothing or unnaturally-dyed hair. Oh, that wild and crazy rascal!
Alates and Elites
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Much of the scientific study of human social behaviour — human behavioural ecology, sociobiology, and its various associates — owes a great deal to the study of the insect world. There is of course much to readily criticise such for; humans and insects are very diverse forms of life, much of their physiology and life history quite alien to the other. Indeed, because of a matter of scale — their size — it is not unreasonable to assert insects occupy a world apart from ours. More properly: it is a world within our own, a world that exists within the indeterminable nooks and crannies of our own place of inhabitance, teeming within the countless cracks and crevices of all the places on earth except for its deepest, darkest oceanic trenches, the bittermost cold of the polar reaches, and the intolerable, molten heats of the earth's depths. Even so, it is a world that is far more expansive than what we know. We live on a thin surface, the edges of a heavily-folded, ecological sheet, our size, tolerances, and senses forbidding us from personally squeezing our way down in to its prohibitive folds, where only little, extraordinary things, of diverse shapes and incredible abilities, may slip into. Like the figurative sheet, once it is stretched out — dissecting and spreading open the countless secret passages through soil, wood, and skies — its true surface is revealed to be an area of unchartered vastness, an infinitude of microcosms among which the occupancy of man winds about as single thread.
The Hollow Gospel
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This is something of intuitive speculation, given that I have limited experience, and hence knowledge, with the subject matter — though I usually find I am rarely wrong when it comes to intuition. At any rate, a very influential thinker in primitivist circles, John Zerzan, recently took a jab during his podcast (May 29, 2018): "Space: The Final Socialist Frontier?" [1]) at a relatively late branch of anarchist thought known as "ontological anarchy." If you have never heard of it, you have done well for yourself and it is quite natural, given that I, and I imagine most people, never heard of it and would never have heard of it until they happened to twist their ankle in a dark little internet rabbit hole while jaunting about on the fantasyscape of social media. Read More »
Know Thyself
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What follows are some of my thoughts concerning an article I read some months ago — with the thoughts likewise having being jotted down then, only in a truncated form. The article's assertions I found very interesting, on a number of grounds. The paper is somewhat renowned in the field of sociocultural anthropology: "Knowledge of the Body" (1983), by Michael D. Jackson, published in the journal Man, 18(2). In it, Jackson details some of the observations he made whilst studying the Kuranko, a tribal people of Sierra Leone (Africa). He especially was concerned with the supposed "symbolic" nature of the Kuranko's rites and dances, from which he comes to a number of conclusions that I would recommend be read and digested in the original article, which would do it far greater justice that my shorthandedly summarising all of it. I will at length focus on one assertion in particular: that in "preliterate" societies, there is a greater immediacy of the mind with the body and ultimately the environment, and this immediacy results in moral character — morality itself —being regarded as intimately tied to action and the actual structure of the body instead of words, written or spoken. Read More »
Glory is Godhead
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"Here, then, on all sides, this irreducible affinity, this tragic proximity between the warrior and death becomes clear. Victorious, he must immediately leave again for war in order to assure his glory with an even greater feat. But in ceaselessly testing the limits of the risk confronted and forging ahead for prestige he invariably meets this end: solitary death in the face of enemies. …There is no alternative for the warrior: a single outcome for him, death. His is an infinite task, as I was saying: what is proven here, in short, is that the warrior is never a warrior except at the end of his task, when, accomplishing his supreme exploit, he wins death along with absolute glory. Read More »
By the Weak, For the Weak
y the Weak, for the Weak.
Practically all modern or post-modern political philosophies — the "isms," if you would — can be tagged with such an epithet. For the philosophy that vocally professes to concern itself with an exaltation of power and strength, fascism ironically doesn't escape the pandering to and critical foundation upon the Weak, either. But first, to clarify: what is weakness? Who is "weak?" You of course will find various subjective definitions wherever you may turn; different cultures, sub-cultures, and philosophies have had their own standards for what qualifies as a vulnerability, a weakness, and who is Weak, by their very nature. We all have weaknesses, some the plain frailties of mortality, others a perceived physical inadequacy, others a moral failing in the eyes of society. And therein might we identify what weakness transcendently is, regardless of its diverse cultural incarnations and the mere condition of being mortal. A failing or an inadequacy, of which the inverse — adequacy — indicates something of necessity. That which is necessary, needful, to society and to the wider political sphere of "nature" — to the entirety of relations and interactions that defines one's face, one's honour. That which is born of decadence, moral and material — that which is not needful, and especially instead burdensome, and that which is not mindful of honour — that is transcendent weakness, with a greater decadence being a measure of greater decay and the diminishment of a society.

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Ailee – 'Vivid' Album Review
By Angela on December 23, 2015 in Music
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Korea's top vocalist Ailee has finally released her first full length studio album, Vivid. Since her debut, Ailee's powerful vocals, lively stage performance, and superb rapping skills has earned her the title of "Korean Beyonce". As a Korean American, Ailee's music also tends to be more western influenced, as is evident through Vivid. Though surprisingly, more than her fast songs, the best works on Vivid turned to be the ballads that perfectly marry Ailee's westernized groovy vocals with heartfelt emotional expressions that eastern cultures appreciate.
Track 1 – 너나 잘해 (Mind Your Own Business)
In true Ailee style, Mind Your Own Business is a super high energy album opener. It's got shuffle rhythm drum beats, nifty saxophone riffs, funky electric guitar bass lines, and of course, Ailee's explosive vocals — all harmoniously mixed together to create one dynamic track full of Ailee's confident diva attitude.
Track 2 – Insane
A classic 90's R&B inspired number with simple piano and drum accompaniments, Insane is the perfect song to showcase Ailee's incredible vocals and smooth ad libs. Props to Ailee for bringing back this nostalgic music style for me as it's been a good while since I've heard a pure R&B song in today's electro-fied pop scene.
Track 3 – 미워도 사랑해 (I Love You, I Hate You)
What I love about I Love You, I Hate You is that despite being an acoustic guitar and piano backed ballad, it masterfully changes tempo several times throughout to keep things interesting and unpredictable. There are soft intros, bluesy verses, and powerful chorus to accurately convey the two polarizing emotions of love and hate.
Track 4 – Second Chance
Second Chance is a mid-tempo pop song with a hard-hitting, stop and go rhythm to the verse and a slower chorus. It's one of those songs that can easily showoff Ailee's vocal abilities, yet its overall melody is a bit flat and doesn't have an obvious hook to imprint in the listener's memory.
Track 5 – Symphony
True to its name, Symphony has a constant violin imitation synth in the background coupled with rhythmic percussion beats. Though the chorus is relatively straightforward, the rest of the track is much more interesting with Ailee's vocals effortlessly traversing between low and high notes to give this upbeat dance number even more dimension.
Track 6 – 사람이 왜 그래 (Why Are People Like This)
Here is a minimalist retro-soul influenced ballad with not much besides the acoustic guitar, weighty drums, and Ailee's groovy voice. Yet Why Are People Like This is far from being plain; the beautifully winding melody is full of flavor and the lyrics full of emotion. In fact, I appreciate how uncluttered this track is and that it focuses my attention on the clean vocals as opposed to an earful of instruments, synths, and beats.
Track 7 – Letting Go
Letting Go is as pop as it comes, but what makes it less boring than a lot of standard pop songs is that there are many layers of harmonies, ad libs, and raps to break up, repackage, and refresh the simple melody. In particular, Amber's low-pitched rap is full of attitude and a nice contrast to Ailee's high-pitched belting vocals.
Track 8 – Love Recipe
Love Recipe is a funky pop rock number with an interesting electric guitar bass lines commonly found in American country music. It's without a doubt a lively and sassy track full of power. But personally, Love Recipe can get a bit overwhelming with the constant high-energy instrumentals and vocals.
Track 9 – 잔을 채우고 (Fill Your Glass)
Sentimental rock ballad best describes Fill Your Glass. Once again, Ailee does a perfect job of starting low and soft in the verse and culminating to a full emotional climax during the chorus. As if to unleash all the sadness from the breakup, she shouts out the pain of filling and emptying the glass with tears.
Track 10 – 한걸음 더 (One More Step)
The final track is also the slowest ballad of the album where the orchestra-like instrumentals try to create a sense of awe, a feeling of hope and aspiration. One More Step seems draggy and lackluster. It doesn't fit well with the overall spirit of Vivid and can be easily forgotten compared to other tracks.
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I had some unsweetened chilled ice tea with it, too. Yum!
By the way, this sort of meal could easily be made vegetarian by drizzling the arugula with olive oil instead of fish oil, or even just lemon juice. I ate it with the egg and it was a really interesting mix of flavors.


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Targi Kantońskie, oficjalna nazwa: Chińskie Targi Importowo-Eksportowe (China Import and Export Fair, chin. trad. 廣交會, chin. upr. 广交会, pinyin Guǎng Jiāo Huì) – największe targi w Chinach, odbywające się od 1957 w Kantonie dwa razy do roku, wiosną i jesienią, o znaczeniu międzynarodowym.

Organizowane są przez Chińskie Centrum Handlu Zagranicznego (China Foreign Trade Centre), pod auspicjami Ministerstwa Handlu oraz władz prowincji. Do 2007 ich nazwa była inna – Chińskie Targi Towarów Eksportowych (Chinese Export Commodities Fair).

Istota targów
Udział największych chińskich eksporterów, fabryk, instytucji badawczych, przedsiębiorstw o kapitale zagranicznym, przedsiębiorstw prywatnych itd.

Funkcje targów
Targi są głównie proeksportowe. Pozostałe funkcje to m.in. współpraca ekonomiczno-techniczna, sprawy ubezpieczeń, transportu, reklamy, konsultacje.

Podstawowe dane
 Pierwsza edycja: kwiecień 1957
 Częstotliwość: dwie edycje rocznie, trzy fazy w edycji
 Edycja wiosenna – faza 1: 15–19 kwietnia, faza 2: 23–27 kwietnia, faza 3: 1–5 maja
 Edycja jesienna – faza 1: 15–19 października, faza 2: 23–27 października, faza 3: 31 października – 4 listopada
 Czas trwania: 5 dni każdej fazy, 3 fazy w edycji
 Miejsce: Chinese Export Commodities Fair (Pazhou) Complex (adres: Xingang Dong Rd, Haizhu, Guangzhou, China)
 Całkowita powierzchnia targów: 560,000 m²
 Liczba stoisk: 28,010 stoisk (97 edycja)
 Różnorodność towarów: ponad 150,000
 Obrót handlowy: 29,230 mln dol. USA (97 edycja)
 Liczba prezentowanych krajów i regionów: 210 (97 edycja)
 Liczba odwiedzających: 195,464 (97 edycja)
 Wystawcy: 12,279 wystawców (97 edycja)

Linki zewnętrzne
 Chinese Export Commodities Fair
 Rejestracja targowa – przewodnik
 Targi w Kantonie

Imprezy targowe
Gospodarka Chin
Kanton (Chiny)

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Gold holds steady ahead of Jackson Hole
Black hole of debt
From The Daily Times
LONDON: Gold prices edged higher in Europe on Thursday, but were kept in a narrow range by uncertainty over how far the Federal Reserve will satisfy market speculation that it is set to unveil another round of measures to stimulate the US economy.
A speech by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke at a central bankers' symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday will provide clues on the chances of the Fed embarking on another asset buying programme, known as quantitative easing.
Spot gold was up 0.1 percent at $1,657.14 an ounce at 1141 GMT, while US gold futures for December delivery were down $2.90 an ounce at $1,660.10. Inflows into gold exchange-traded funds have risen sharply this month, with holdings of the largest, New York's SPDR Gold Trust up nearly 38 tonnes so far this month, their largest monthly inflow since November. The precious metal rallied to a 4-1/2 month high on Monday as expectations grew that the Fed was willing to launch more stimulus measures, but it has failed to sustain those gains. Barclays Capital technical analysts said they too were neutral in the medium term. "We would buy gold dips toward $1,640, and stay bullish above $1,620," it said. "Above $1,700 signals further upside potential toward $1,768/88."
Spot silver was up 0.2 percent at $30.73 an ounce. The gold/silver ratio, which measures the number of silver ounces needed to buy an ounce of gold, dropped to its lowest early May at 53.9, as silver made up some lost ground against gold. In a weekly note, precious metals house Heraeus said that made it vulnerable to a correction if Bernanke disappoints.
SGT Report interviews Ranting Andy
Aug 26, 2012 by SGTbull07
Brother JohnF - Silver Update: Banana Republic
Aug 30, 2012 by BrotherJohnF
CrossTalk: New World Disorder
Aug 29, 2012 by RussiaToday
What has changed since the end of the Cold War? Does the world today match what was envisioned decades ago by some prominent Western leaders? Have we reached the 'end of history?' Will borders remain untouched as sectarianism and nationalism take root across the world? Or are we living through a paradigm shift, where the status quo is unlikely to prevail? And how painful will this shift be until a new order is established? CrossTalking with George Szamuely, Alan Kuperman and Ryan Mauro.
Jim Rogers - Gold, China and the commodities super cycle
Jim Rogers discusses gold, silver, government stimulus and the future of commodities with Geoff Candy of Mineweb. Listen to the interview here
Jim Willie - Firestorms & Currency Twisters
The latest report from Jim Willie on possible issues with Morgan Stanley and interest rate swaps. Read the report here or click on the image below.
SA Platinum miners charged with murder
I can't imagine this is going to improve the situation any. We could be looking at ongoing mining disruptions at this platinum mine and the trouble could spread to other platinum and gold mines.
From Reuters.com
(Reuters) - South African prosecutors on Thursday charged 270 striking miners with murder of 34 co-workers seen being shot dead in a hail of police bullets captured in videos broadcast around the world.
Prosecution have filed papers invoking a measure called "common purpose" seldom used since the dying days of apartheid, arguing the miners were complicit in the killings since they were arrested at the scene with weapons.
Legal experts said the move will likely collapse when a court hearing bail applications for the 270 near the mine resumes sessions next week and lambasted prosecutors for inflaming a tense situation by seeking a mass indictment that will eventually be rejected.
"This is bizarre and shocking and represents a flagrant abuse of the criminal justice system in an effort to protect the police and/or politicians," Pierre de Vos, a law expert at the University of Cape Town, wrote in a blog entry.
"The apartheid state often used this provision to secure a criminal conviction against one or more of the leaders of a protest march, or against leaders of struggle organizations like the ANC." Read more
Aug 30, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
Mine strike update:
JOHANNESBURG (MINEWEB) -
The National Union of Mineworkers spokesperson, Lesiba Seshoka, has confirmed reports of a renewed standoff at Lonmin's Eastern Platinum operations - part of the broader Marikana mine.
In a move that is indicative that tensions are still running high, Seshoka said that the union has had reports that a group of approximately 30 people are harassing workers and threatening them that if they return to work they will be killed.
A caller into a local radio station has made the same claims and said that the group was based at one of the hostels at the mine.
Lonmin has confirmed that preliminary attendance figures for Monday are on average 13% across all shafts. "We understand that employees are waiting for the environment to be safe before returning to work. There have been incidents of intimidation towards bus drivers overnight as well as intimidation of Eastern's workers this morning, preventing them from coming to work. Management is appealing to all stakeholders to remain calm," said the miner's press release.
Martin Armstrong - The Economic Confidence Model and the Future
Inflation adds to Spain's woes
Aug 30, 2012 by Euronews http://www.euronews.com/ There is more economic pain for the people of Spain in the form of higher inflation.
Keiser Report: Monopolies, Military, Mayhem
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss panic alarms for the population and medieval screeches about persecution from the corporate welfare class. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute about the role of speculation and ethanol in rising food prices and the tipping point to revolution that, when it happens, could happen in a matter of days or weeks.
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The Yeatman hotel opens in the historic port-making town of Oporto in Portugal, near the vineyards of the Douro valley, in early August. Wine features heavily throughout the hotel, from the enormous wine cellar to the decanter shaped swimming pool.
This unusual 82-room hotel has the feel of a private Portuguese manor house. Rooms are designed as a series of terraces that echo the layout of the Port wine vineyards in the Douro valley, boasting incredible views over the UNESCO World Heritage centre of Oporto and the Douro River.
Each room has been individually decorated with objects and pictures contributed by a different Portuguese wine producer. "The large rooms have been decorated to create an elegant space, but also to provide some individuality, says Bridge, "the process of decoration and design has been great fun.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the hotel is the wine-themed Caudalie Vinotherapie Spa. A range of signature face and body treatments – using Caudalie's exclusive products based on natural ingredients and containing antioxidants drawn from the vineyard – will be available. Guests will also be able to enjoy barrel bath immersions, aromatherapy steam rooms and a Roman bath relaxation area.
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Q: When I edit my R snippets in the Tools tab, why are they not available in the console? Question:
I have navigated to Tools>Global Options...>Code --> Edit Snippets... and can see the available snippets that I should have access to, edit the file to add more of my own. I have added a snippet
snippet tryCatch
    ${1:variable} <- tryCatch({
        ${2}
    }, warning = function(w) {
        message(sprintf("Warning in %s: %s", deparse(w[["call"]]), w[["message"]]))
        ${3}
    }, error = function(e) {
        message(sprintf("Error in %s: %s", deparse(e[["call"]]), e[["message"]]))
        ${4}
    }, finally = {
        ${5}
    })

but it fails to be recognized in my interactive() R session. How do I add a snippet, any ideas why editing isn't working?
Background:
I have recently been introduced to R snippets, pre-written sections of code to retrieve with a string while on the R console. I have seen multiple people on YouTube do this with no issue. I am trying to edit the file to customize my own snippets to speed the writing process up of commonly used calls to assert::assert() and tryCatch(). I have looked at the file location of the snippets to see the content in ~\AppData\Roaming\RStudio\snippets\r.snippets. I have edited the file in both places and resarted the IDE and my R session to no avail and the only snippets I can access are the one preloaded from shinysnippets.

*

*r.snippets file;

snippet module
    ${1:name}ui <- function(id){
        ns <- NS(id)
        tagList(
        ${0}
            )
        }

    ${1:name} <- function(input, output, session){
        ns <- session\$ns
    }

    # Copy in UI
    #${1:name}ui("${1:name}ui")

    # Copy in server
    #callModule(${1:name}, "${1:name}ui")

snippet observe_event
    observeEvent( ${1:event} , {
    ${0}
    })

snippet with_progress
    withProgress( message = "${1:message}" , {
    ${0}
    })

snippet aa
    ${1:dataset} <- ${1:dataset} %>% ${0}

snippet sidebar_page
    library(shiny)

    ui <- fluidPage(
      titlePanel( "${1:title}" ),

      sidebarLayout(
        sidebarPanel(

        ),
        mainPanel(

        )
      )
    )

    server <- function(input, output, session) {

    }

    shinyApp(ui, server)

snippet tryCatch
    ${1:variable} <- tryCatch({
        ${2}
    }, warning = function(w) {
        message(sprintf("Warning in %s: %s", deparse(w[["call"]]), w[["message"]]))
        ${3}
    }, error = function(e) {
        message(sprintf("Error in %s: %s", deparse(e[["call"]]), e[["message"]]))
        ${4}
    }, finally = {
        ${5}
    })

snippet checkData
checkmate::checkDate(
                from,
                upper = today(),
                len = 1
)

snippet assert
assert::assert(
            ${1},
            msg = "\n\033[31mx\033[39m Error:\n ${2}"
        )

When typing observe_event into the cmd-line, you are greeted with a choice to input the above chunk of code, with the cursor automatically switching between the $ anchors.
Session Info
devtools::sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
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other attached packages:
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A: The snippet file is sensitive to spaces, use tabs instead.

The first snippet should work correctly. The second one will show up in autocompletion but won't do anything.
New snippets are recognized by RStudio on saving the snippets file, restarting RStudio is not needed. This can also be done programmatically if you want the tryCatch snippet to be populated with specific content for different use cases.

A: R Snippets are notorious for being sensitive to spaces vs tabs as @DonaldSeinen has pointed out. You need to ensure that there are no red spaces in the text fields when editing your R snippet, this will render the snippet useless.
TIP
when writing snippet code, please use tab in order to remedy this problem.


Today, Olson offers four models — SJ (small jumbo), Jumbo, Dreadnought and Parlor — but the majority of the guitars he makes are the SJ model.
Many fingerstyle players favor Olson guitars for their exceptionally responsive characteristics. Olson says that's a result of several important elements, including a cedar top, light construction, and his distinctive bracing pattern.
While Olson's $12,500 entry price is higher than many other independent luthiers' starting prices, it includes a wide variety of options that he tailors to each buyer's preference. Some are available at an additional cost; among them are Brazilian rosewood back and sides (which Olson now only sells and ships domestically due to the Lacey Act) and intricate custom inlays that he or Larry Robinson create. Olson builds a single run of approximately 40 guitars annually, delivering the instruments after a construction period of about nine months.


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Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe, Fashion Photography Archive. Valerie Steele (Ed), Bloomsbury Publishing Pictures
Eicher, J., 2016, Fashion Photography Archive. Valerie Steele (Ed), Bloomsbury Publishing Pictures. Oxford, U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing
High-Performance Agent-Based Geo-Spatial Modeling and Simulation
Shook, E., 2016, Encyclopedia of GIS. Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. & Zhou, X. (eds.). Second ed. Switzerland: Springer Publishing
SAGE Encyclopedia: Design-Based Research
Crippen, K. & Brown, J. C., 2016, (Accepted/In press) SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation. Frey, B. (ed.). Sage Publications
Citizen Media and Journalism
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Foreword. In A. Lynch & M. Strauss, Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia
Eicher, J., 2015, Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia . London: Roman and Littlefield, p. ix-x
Snapshot: Film and Fashion in Post-Mao China: East Asia
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Clothing, Costume, and Dress. In V. Steele (Ed.), The Berg Companion to Fashion (Reprinted from Steele, 2005)
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Africa, SubSaharan: History of Dress. In V. Steele (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
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Theories of Fashion
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Two works examining antisemitism and the scapegoating of minorities by the founder of the world's oldest institution dedicated to studying the Holocaust.
The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books.
These two pamphlets, "Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful" and "German Judaism in Political, Economic and Cultural Terms" mark the first time that Alfred Wiener, the founder of the Wiener Holocaust Library, has been published in English. Together they offer a vital insight into the antisemitic onslaught Germany's Jews were subjected to as the Nazi Party rose to power, and introduce a sharp and sympathetic thinker and speaker to a contemporary audience. Tackling issues such as the planned rise of antisemitism and the scapegoating of minorities, these pamphlets speak as urgently to the contemporary moment as they provide a window on to the past.


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Jeremy Corbyn's first meeting with Carwyn Jones 'positive'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-34257723
The first meeting between First Minister Carwyn Jones and new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was "positive", a spokesman for Mr Jones has said.
Elections, party reform and the UK constitution were discussed.
The spokesman added that the first minister "looked forward" to seeing Mr Corbyn in Wales "soon".
Before the meeting Mr Jones said MPs - including Mr Corbyn - were "welcome to help" in the 2016 assembly election.
Mr Jones said Labour's UK leader would "of course" be involved in the campaign.
Media captionBefore the meeting Mr Jones said MPs - including Mr Corbyn - were "welcome to help" in the 2016 assembly election
Voters go to the polls in Wales, Scotland and London in May, in what will be the first electoral test for Labour since Mr Corbyn took over.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales: "In the elections of course I'll be, as leader of Welsh Labour, leading the campaign, with help of course from colleagues in London who are welcome to help.
"But it's a Welsh election, Welsh manifesto, Welsh Labour will produce, and that would be true whoever was the leader here in London and has been true in years gone by."
It is understood Mr Jones was keen to discuss the prospect of greater autonomy for Welsh Labour.
The first minister has described Mr Corbyn's win as "incredible", but previously called him an "unusual choice" for leader.
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Image caption Jeremy Corbyn visited the memorial to NHS founder Aneurin Bevan in Tredegar in August
Mr Corbyn praised Welsh Labour during the leadership campaign and in his victory speech for its record in office, in particular for ending the internal market in the NHS.
He was the only one of the four leadership contenders not to meet the first minister during the campaign, although it was said to be a matter of availability.
Political commentators have asked whether Mr Corbyn becoming UK Labour leader will help or hinder the party's chances of winning the assembly election.
Prof Richard Wyn Jones of Cardiff University has said Labour could find it harder to hold onto key marginals such as Gower and Vale of Clwyd, which the Tories captured at the general election.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has said the assembly election will now take on an "even greater significance", accusing Labour of "abandoning mainstream politics in favour of a hard left agenda".
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Jeremy Corbyn leadership 'may hinder' Welsh Labour
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Corbyn would be unusual choice for Labour, Carwyn Jones says


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The Evolution of Ted Danson, Mr. Mayor of Television
Cheers / CSI / Curb Your Enthusiasm / Editorial / FX / Holly Hunter / Jason Schwartzman / Larry David / Michael Schur / NBC / Robert Carlock / Ted Danson / The Good Place / Tina Fey / TV / Vella Lovell
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If it feels like Ted Danson has always been on our television screens, well, it's because that's more or less true. He's been around since at least the mid-1970s, cropping up in one long-running sitcom after another, buoying that with everything from prestige dramas to procedurals to a brief stint as a movie star in the '90s (Three Men and a Baby, anyone?) He's one of the hardest-working, and most ubiquitous, people in show business, cultivating a very specific persona that has itself morphed and changed as Danson's hair has turned from brown to gray.
Now, fresh off a four-year stint on the critically-acclaimed The Good Place, Danson finds himself as yet another bumbling man of power in a crisp suit, although a bit less openly demonic this time: Mayor Neil Bremer on NBC's latest show, Mr. Mayor. Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, the LA-set sitcom centers on Danson's Bremer, a goofy, clueless billionaire widower who decides to run for mayor of LA during the chaotic COVID-ridden times of 2020, and actually wins. There's just one problem: He doesn't know what he's doing. (A rich, powerful white guy running for office on nothing but charisma and winning? Color me shocked!)
While the first two episodes leave a bit to be desired — Fey and Carlock's writing to date is far from the absurd-joke-machine highs of 30 Rock or The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — at least Danson is great in it, a warm, affable presence tempered by his complete lack of understanding of how the world, or government, works. But it's those strengths that help elevate the show beyond its dismal pilot and an as-yet-underutilized cast (including Holly Hunter as a firebrand liberal deputy mayor and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Vella Lovell as a cynical social media manager). Like so many shows he's in, Danson is the secret sauce that keeps it going. This isn't surprising: Over literal decades of non-stop exposure on our television screens, he's cultivated an infectious mixture of charm, irascibility, and whimsy in everything from sitcoms to procedurals to prestige dramas. He's basically the Mr. Mayor of Television; Fey and Carlock simply handed him the official title.
Looking back, Danson technically got his start in 19 episodes of the 1970s medical soap The Doctors (and guest spots on shows ranging from Mrs. Columbo to Benson, not to mention the '70s Amazing Spider-Man series). But it was Sam Malone on NBC's Cheers that endeared millions to Danson's chiseled jaw and straight talk. (Not to mention netting him two Emmys and as many Golden Globes in the process). In many ways, Sam is the prototypical Danson role, the one he'd spend a career playing variations on in sitcom after sitcom: the friendly macho guy who masks deep loneliness behind a veneer of no-bullshit swagger. He may smirk with every bon mot or witty joke he throws to Shelley Long's Diane or Kirstie Alley's Rebecca Howe, but Sam was a sex addict and a former alcoholic whose attempts to address those issues became some of the stronger episodes of the show's later years.
Cheers (NBC)
It's interesting to go back and watch Sam now, with his casual womanizing and not-so-secret disdain for the women's movement, and follow that thread to the Ted Danson we know now: the one who's been happily married to Mary Steenburgen for decades and gets arrested alongside Jane Fonda at climate change protests. And yet, that feels extremely fitting for the roles Danson would come to play. He's funny, but he also captures the regret of age, those sad eyes twinkling with lost potential even as he fluffs himself up with his own patented bluster. If comedy is tragedy plus time, Danson's handsomely-worn age and capacity for pathos make him one of the funniest guys on TV.
You can see that trajectory of the angry, bitter guy who eventually gives way to an inescapable warmth throughout Danson's career on TV. Take Becker, where Danson spent six seasons as the irascible Dr. John Becker, a cantankerous doctor in the Bronx who's constantly fed up with the state of the borough and its oddball residents. And after that, he carried that over to the short-lived Help Me Help You, where he played a group therapist who — you guessed it — is an asshole because of his huge ego. And, of course, he's spent a quarter of a century now tormenting poor Larry David on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, as a fictionalized version of himself who taunts Larry with his fame, money, and largesse.
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Of course, that tightrope act between the friendly bartender and stone-cold nemesis comes through in Danson's frequent dips into the dramatic. He spent 23 episodes on FX's Damages as an unscrupulous billionaire CEO named Arthur Frobisher, who similarly taunts and manipulates through that beaming, Cheshire-cat smile. That arrogance he'd fostered over years of playing sitcom assholes suddenly twists into sheer narcissistic calculation, and Danson plays it with razor-sharp precision. (And, of course, this would effectively usher in the era of Silver Fox Danson, his hair — or hairpieces, rather, given Danson's openness about his male-pattern baldness — forming into the high-and-tight white business cut he's enjoyed ever since.)
Danson has even tried his hand at the police procedural — it's easy to forget that he was the lead on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for four years, playing D.B. Russell, the sharp, grandfatherly son of hippies who takes over for Laurence Fishburne as the lead of the Las Vegas crime lab in the show's twelfth season. (He carried over the character into the second and final season of Internet-based spinoff CSI: Cyber too, but who really remembers that?) It's hardly high art, but it's evidence of the man's indelible range and longevity.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS)
Unlike the bluster and cynicism of Cheers and Becker-era Danson, the 2010s saw him softening his on-screen persona to something more whimsical and curious, turning away from dressed-down, working-class cynics to whimsical elder statesmen in tailored suits. There's HBO's Bored to Death, of course, where he plays George Christopher, a rich socialite tired of the WASP scene who turns to Jason Schwartzman's author-cum-private detective Jonathan Ames to chase his own privileged midlife crisis.
And we can't forget Michael Schur's incredible NBC sitcom/existential morality playThe Good Place. There, Danson plays Michael, a demon tasked with torturing souls in their own personalized versions of hell, who ends up transformed by his imperfect but inspiring subjects into someone who earns his own way into heaven. It's that role that has really defined Danson's current era of TV dominance, morphing the younger Danson's machismo into a mercurial impishness. It's honestly one of Danson's most childlike turns to date, Michael manically fizzing with possibility one minute and curled up in an existential fetal ball the next. He's spent decades playing the know-it-all, whether in the crime lab or behind the bar. With Michael, paradoxically an immortal creature with fearsome knowledge of the universe, Danson got to be more vulnerable than he's ever been.
The Good Place (NBC)
This brings us back to Mr. Mayor, a role that absolutely bounces off his potential energy on The Good Place. Like Michael, Mayor Bremer is doddering, flighty, prone to absurdities. Sure, he's not a literal demon, but he does act as though he's on another planet at times. He wants to solve LA's problems but isn't sure how to do it. Instead of solving the homelessness problem, he piggybacks off her teenage daughter's school president run and proposes a plastic straw ban, or gets way too high off a weed gummy offered to him at the 10,000th dispensary he's opened that day. There are plenty of opportunities for Danson to show off the bright-eyed goofiness he cultivated as Michael; we've just got to wait for Fey et al. to catch up to him.
What nearly 800 episodes of television over 40-some years of TV has shown us is that, for all of Danson's workmanlike consistency, he's also deeply cognizant of who he is, how he looks, and what he can play. There's something deceptively complex in Danson's ability to flit between bravado and vulnerability, humor and pathos, childlike whimsy and the wisdom of years.
Mr. Mayor (NBC)
A character with the popularity and ubiquity of Sam Malone has the potential to pigeonhole you into a certain subtype of handsome, flawed leading man. But Danson refreshingly zigs where most careers zag, staying on the path of television relevance by playing characters who age along with him. There's an effortlessness to his on-screen presentation that belies all the little, smart, naturalistic choices that make him feel vibrant and alive, whether he's a realistically down-and-out bartender or a million-year-old hellbeast. And watching the growth of those roles — Danson continuing to calibrate the televisual shrug in one genre after another without skipping a beat — has been really exciting to see.
Time will tell whether Mr. Mayor is another Cheers for Danson, or if it'll be a flash in the pan like so many other of his one-season wonders. (Lord knows the timing of the show's release, in a week where a similarly unqualified government leader led a violent insurrection against his own Congress, is supremely poor.) But if Danson's longevity in the television landscape tells us one thing, it's that he basically can't fail the shows he's in. He can only be failed.
Source: https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/ted-danson-mr-mayor-television/
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All news / Agri innovation expo to come to the Netherlands
The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) will be launching its European edition in the Netherlands from 9-10 May 2017 at the Jaarbeurs Expo Centre, Utrecht.
The GFIA is held in cooperation with Proagrica, a global division of Reed Business Information (RBI), specialising in the agriculture industry. Proagrica has 4 pillars: media, software, integration & connectivity and data & analytics. Amongst other titles, Pig Progress (and its sister publications All About Feed, Dairy Global and World Poultry) are part of the media pillar.
Globally significant dialogue
When GFIA was launched in Abu Dhabi in 2014, it was born out of the passion of 40 influential organisations including the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank, that wanted a platform to start a globally significant dialogue on how we can feed nine billion people.
In 2015, GFIA in Abu Dhabi was held at the same location and time as VIV MEA. All About Feed was present at this show and also visited the GFIA to report on some of the latest agricultural research, such as the study from Margareth Øverland on new feed ingredients.
Sustainable agriculture innovations
Since 2014, GFIA has evolved into the world's largest dedicated showcase of sustainable agriculture innovations. It not only comprises a forum for key stakeholders to discuss policy, strategy and solutions for a food secure future, but also a large exhibition where 300+ suppliers meet thousands of farmers and procurement managers from government, food producers, agri businesses, NGOs and cooperatives.
The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world (after the US), exporting €65 billion of agricultural produce annually. But with land at a premium, the Dutch agriculture sector has had to focus on sustainability to remain competitive. "No organisation alone has the ability to solve food production challenges," said Nicola Davison, project director of GFIA.
She added, "The key is to bring public decision-makers, private sector champions and civil society leaders together , through cross-sector collaboration, we can bring about a food-secure future, and the prominent role the Netherlands has taken on this issue makes Utrecht a perfect stage."
Source: PigProgress
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New seventh-generation Vauxhall Astra revealed ahead of Frankfurt debut
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Vauxhall has revealed the first images and details for the seventh-generation Astra, which will reach production later this year after its world premiere at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
Astra is a very important model for Vauxhall with over 2.9 million units sold in the UK over the last 36 years with over 50,000 last year.
New Astra is up to 200kg lighter than its predecessor depending on the model specification. For example the body shell weight alone was reduced by 20 per cent from 357kg to 280kg.
Chassis-related measures resulted in a further 50kg weight loss.
Engine line-up includes petrol and diesel units ranging from 98bhp to 197bhp.
The most important engine is the all-new 143bhp 1.4-litre ECOTEC Direct Injection Turbo, delivering maximum torque of up to 250Nm.
Design is inspired by 2013's Monza Concept, making the new Astra look more athletic, while the most significant design cue is the divided C-pillar, creating the impression of a floating roof.
The new Astra is smaller not just visually, but also in numbers with a total length of 4.37m it is almost 5cm shorter than its predecessor. With a height of 1.46m it is also 2.6cm lower.
The wheelbase may have been reduced by 2cm but the amount of space inside increased. The passengers in the rear can enjoy an additional 35mm legroom.
Making its debut in new Astra is the new generation IntelliLink infotainment system that is compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
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Canscan, SparkCharge take home gold at Startupfest pitch competition
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By Ryan Holmes Canadian Startup News, Technology December 11, 2017
Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on the ultimate test for business ideas
Tech to remove CO2 from oceans. Spent coffee grounds repurposed as body scrubs. A peer-to-peer toilet marketplace. Glucagon-injection kits for diabetics. Real-life networking apps. Bluetooth-shoe inserts for foot pain.
Since launching a Facebook Live series for young entrepreneurs, I've gotten thousands of business pitches like these. Contestants have 200 characters (just a bit more than a Tweet) to pique my interest. The best of the bunch then face off with me live, to get grilled and sell me on why I should invest.
I faced the same kind of third-degree when I was getting Hootsuite off the ground as a young founder. Each time we re-upped my funding, I'd have to plead my case again. Later, as an angel investor, I got to be the one asking questions. After pitching and evaluating ideas for more than a decade, I've gotten pretty good at pattern recognition. Some startups, you just sense, are going to make it. Others are dead in the water.
So, how do you tell which businesses will thrive and which will fail?
It's not rocket science. It doesn't necessarily require an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. Most of the time, it comes down to three words: talent, technology, and traction. This is a framework I use myself, and it's how my company evaluates its acquisitions.
Businesses that check these three boxes are more likely to get funding and, more importantly, more likely to succeed. Whether you're an entrepreneur pursuing an idea or an investor thinking about funding one, it helps to keep these simple criteria in mind.
The talent
Great business ideas are everywhere. Great implementers are one in a million. I always start assessing a business by gauging the entrepreneur and the team behind the effort. Paramount to me is evidence of fanatical dedication. Part-time entrepreneurs, those who might be starting a business as a side gig, or maybe have a bunch of pots on the boil really don't cut it.
The reality is that entrepreneurs face a monumental task: to create something out of nothing. To succeed in this primal act of creation, you need cult-like devotion to your cause. Weekdays and weekends make no difference. Ditto for job titles. An effective entrepreneur must be willing to wear multiple hats — from salesperson and designer to customer service rep and even dishwasher.
You'll notice that the sharks on Shark Tank inevitably circle back to the same questions: Do you have customers?
Above all, I look for an ability to get things done. Great entrepreneurs find a way to move the needle, fast. Rather than passing the buck to someone else, they race to track down a solution themselves — and don't rest until they've found one. This is one reason why I feel that having a critical mass of "can-do" entrepreneurs — an entrepreneurship golden ratio, so to speak — is critical inside any business, whatever stage you're at.
This happens to me all the time. An entrepreneur presents a solid business idea, runs through an awesome pitch, then concludes by saying, "…and all I need is to find someone to handle the tech part."
Tech is not an afterthought. Especially in the online space, it's the underpinning of most every successful company today. And it's not easy to get right. Behind all those tools and platforms we use and take for granted — from social media networks to Uber to Airbnb — is game-changing technology. The nuts and bolts of code and engineering itself is just as important as the "business idea," if not more so.
For that reason, I'm a fan of a co-founder model for startups or some variation on it. One classic formula is to have one individual dedicated to technology (who eventually becomes CTO) and another dedicated to everything else (who goes on to be the CEO). This model ensures that technical considerations are tackled early and tackled head-on. The alternative is to race forward with a concept — securing funding, initiating marketing, lining up customers — without any real assurance that you can "walk the walk" and deliver a viable, scalable product when the time comes.
The traction
There's no greater validation that you're onto something than having actual users. If people are willing to choose your app or widget or service over the countless other options out there, that says something — and better still if they're willing to pay for it. That's why you'll notice that the sharks on Shark Tank — after patiently listening through all those canned pitches — inevitably circle back to the same questions. Do you have customers? How much money have you made?
There are no million-dollar ideas — only million-dollar executions. Without the right talent, technology, and real traction, even a brilliant vision is bound to flounder.
For an investor, the right answers to these questions can drastically reduce risk. Betting on a known quantity, an idea that's already proved itself is always safer than betting on a concept that might look good on paper. I often get approached by entrepreneurs developing apps who insist they'll have a few thousand people signed up in no time. Really? The Apple Store now has two million-plus apps. You think it's going to be a cakewalk to battle through all that noise and get noticed?
Indeed, part of traction is having a viable plan to get the word out to customers. Especially in software, building a viral sharing mechanism right into your product, or at least into your marketing efforts, is a key to achieving scale. (This is quantified as K-factor — a figure that takes into account the number of new users that each existing user invites.) When Hootsuite was getting off the ground, for example, we'd give users access to new features if they sent a Tweet to friends. This encouraged word-of-mouth adoption and let us grow rapidly right out of the gate.
A dose of humility is needed here. These criteria aren't foolproof. I've seen ideas that check all the boxes go on to flop. And I've listened to pitches that didn't satisfy this threshold that met with runaway success. (Case in point: Years ago, my agency, Invoke, had a chance to help build out a fledgling ride-sharing app in exchange for equity. We passed because it didn't tick the boxes. Today, of course, that app, Uber, is worth well north of $50 billion.)
All in all, however, bearing these three criteria in mind should steer you toward smart investments and viable business ideas. Most important to remember may be something that my friend, entrepreneur Lewis Howes, is fond of repeating. There are no million-dollar ideas — only million-dollar executions. Without the right talent, the right technology and real traction, even a brilliant vision is bound to flounder.
This article was syndicated with permission from Ryan Holmes' @invoker Medium account
CEO @hootsuite, Founder @invoke. I like social, startups, grownups, cycling, am learning to walk on hands and addicted to yoga.
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