The business case for work flexibility is strong, and includes increased productivity, cost savings, improved employee wellbeing, higher morale, access to a wider talent pool, better retention, and disaster preparedness. Flexibility is great for employees, but employers should take note: it's also a strategic business imperative.
A few entire industries stand out for the potential to benefit wide swaths of the workforce by exploring opportunities in flex.
Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, CEO of Mirvac, leads a discussion on the face of flexible work today in a video called "Workplace Flexibility: The Business Case."
Emma Plumb, director of 1MFWF, recently spoke at Stanford about work flexibility and the diversity problem in Silicon Valley.
In this video, Ray Baumruk, employee research leader at Aon Hewitt, highlights for Bloomberg BNA what employers need to know about workplace flexibility.
Sophie Wade is the Founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network and the author of Embracing Progress. Next Steps for the Future of Work.
In this video, the American Psychological Association Center for Organizational Excellence outlines the many reasons for companies to embrace work flex.
Several businesses that have experimented with shorter work weeks are finding that both morale and productivity are boosted by the arrangement.
When it comes to generational conflict in the workplace, there may be at least one thing that can help all generations find common ground: flexibility.
Having more women in the U.S. labor force boosts the economy and improves working conditions for all, according to Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen.
Several employers are embracing the positive impacts of work flexibility and opening up their doors to happier, more loyal, more productive employees.


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Friday 11 Nov 2022 @ 15:10
Insolvency Service
Seafood supplier boss hit with 11-year ban after failing to pay nearly £1m tax
Director misappropriated over £2 million from company funds, resulting in the public purse losing out nearly £1 million.
Adrian Nunn, 55, from Orpington, has been disqualified as a director for 11 years after he falsely accounted over £2.3 million in his company, The Upper Scale Limited, over a period of 6 years up to 2017.
The business supplied seafood to restaurants and cafes across the London region but the firm ceased trading in February 2021 and went into liquidation shortly afterward.
The company's liquidation, however, triggered an investigation by the Insolvency Service and identified significant tax abuse.
Investigators uncovered that as a result of Nunn's actions, the business owed £940,000 in unpaid tax at the point of liquidation.
The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy accepted a disqualification undertaking from Adrian Nunn, after he admitted to misappropriating company funds to the detriment of the public purse. His ban is effective from 14 October 2022 and lasts for 11 years.
The disqualification undertaking prevents him from directly, or indirectly, becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of the court.
Elizabeth Pigney, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service said:
Adrian Nunn fell well short of the standards required of a company director and has therefore been removed from the corporate arena for a significant amount of time.
His 11 year ban should serve as a clear warning that if you fail to adhere to the tax regime, we will use our full powers to bring you to account.
Adrian Nunn is of Orpington, Kent and his date of birth is December 1966.
The Upper Scale Ltd (company reg no. 06955445).
Disqualification undertakings are the administrative equivalent of a disqualification order but do not involve court proceedings.
Persons subject to a disqualification order are bound by a range of other restrictions.
Information about the work of the Insolvency Service, and how to complain about financial misconduct.
Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/insolvency-service
Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/seafood-supplier-boss-hit-with-11-year-ban-after-failing-to-pay-nearly-1m-tax
London letting agent hit with 11-year ban after repeat abuse of Bounce Back Loan scheme
Letting agency boss claimed multiple loans totalling £100,000 from two different banks, and attempted to claim a further £50,000 through the scheme
Investors lose £8 million in care home scheme
Director from Ringwood banned for a decade after he secured investments to fund a scheme to build care apartments despite not having planning permission.
Essex property developer banned for falsely claiming Bounce Back Loan
Director of Brentwood property development company disqualified for 11 years after overstating his company's turnover in order to claim £50,000 that the business was not entitled to.
Construction and coaching bosses banned for Covid loan abuse
Directors of construction and sports coaching companies falsely claimed a total of £73,000 in Bounce Back Loans
Software developer banned for abusing £850,000 of investments
Salford software developer in 12-year disqualification after securing £850,000 of investments for company only to receive money directly into personal account.
Restaurateurs disqualified after abusing Bounce Back Loans
3 restaurateurs have been banned from running businesses for a total of 26 years after abusing £150,000 worth of government-backed loans.
Laugharne hotel investment scheme lands director with ban
Director behind luxury Carmarthenshire hotel has been disqualified for eight years after he allowed company to mislead investors
Courts ban scaffolder for tax abuse
Scaffolder from Berkshire has been disqualified by the courts for 6 years after failing to pay close to £210,000 of tax.
Cryptocurrency trading firm shut down after scamming investors
Company named as part of the Praetorian Group International Trading Inc, which has been shut down by US authorities.

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Measuring the usefulness of e-newsletters - Sinickas Communications, Inc.
This article was originally published in Strategic Communication Management , Volume 12, Issue 5: August/September 2008. Melcrum Publishing Limited, London, UK (2008).
Angela Sinickas explains which online analytics are useful to track for e-publications and which can either be misinterpreted or over-valued.


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Because your data matters
Privacy Policy in German
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.
Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator's contact details
can be found in the website's required legal notice.
Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.
Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.
When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
Notice concerning the party responsible for this website
The party responsible for processing data on this website is:
Jessica Lohmann
Stadtfeldstraße 12
Email: info@ethicalbrandmarketing.com
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.
SSL or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of
confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an
encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the
lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.
Encrypted payments on this website
If you enter into a contract which requires you to send us your payment information (e.g. account number
for direct debits), we will require this data to process your payment.
Payment transactions using common means of payment (Visa/MasterCard, direct debit) are only made via
encrypted SSL or TLS connections. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's
address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon in your browser line is visible.
In the case of encrypted communication, any payment details you submit to us cannot be read by third
parties.
Information, blocking, deletion
As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.
Opposition to promotional emails
We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.
3. Data collection on our website
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a caseby- case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically
transmits to us in "server log files". These are:
These data will not be combined with data from other sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including
the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share
this information without your permission.
We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6
(1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is
sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent
for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any
mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain
unaffected by this provision.
Leaving comments on this website
If you use the comment function on this site, the time at which you created the comment and your email address will be stored along with your comment, as well as your username, unless you are posting anonymously.
Storage of the IP address
Our comment function stores the IP addresses of those users who post comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before they go live, we need this information to be able to pursue action for illegal or slanderous content.
Subscribing to the comment feed
As a user of this site, you can sign up to receive the comment feed after registering. Your email address will be checked with a confirmation email. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time by clicking the link in the emails. The data provided when you subscribed to the comments feed will then be deleted, but if you have submitted this data to us for other purposes or elsewhere (such as subscribing to a newsletter), it will be retained.
How long comments are stored
The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the content commented upon has been completely deleted or the comments are required to be removed for legal reasons (slander, etc.).
The comments are stored based on your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
We collect, process, and use personal data only insofar as it is necessary to establish, or modify legal relationships with us (master data). This is done based on Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract. We collect, process and use your personal data when accessing our website (usage data) only to the extent required to enable you to access our service or to bill you for the same.
Collected customer data shall be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
Data transferred when signing up for services and digital content
We transmit personally identifiable data to third parties only to the extent required to fulfill the terms of your contract with us, for example, to banks entrusted to process your payments.
Your data will not be transmitted for any other purpose unless you have given your express permission to do so. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties for advertising purposes without your express consent.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
Share content via plugins (Facebook, Google+1, Twitter, etc.)
The content on our pages can be shared on other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
This page uses the eRecht24 Safe Sharing Tool. This tool establishes direct contact between the
networks and users only after users click on one of these buttons.
This tool does not automatically transfer user data to the operators of these platforms. If users are logged into one or more of the social networks, the Like, +1, and Share buttons for Facebook, Google+1, Twitter, etc. will display an information window in which the user can edit the text before it is sent.
Our users can share the content of this page on social networks without their providers creating profiles of users' surfing behavior.
Our website contains functions of the Instagram service. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button to link the content of our pages with your Instagram profile. This means that Instagram can associate visits to our pages with your user account. As the provider of this website, we expressly point out that we receive no information on the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.
For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
5. Analytics and advertising
Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.
You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An optout cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Google Analytics deaktivieren.
For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
We have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
This website uses the WordPress Stats tool to perform statistical analyses of visitor traffic. This service is provided by Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street # 343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA.
WordPress Stats uses cookies that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about the use of our website is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address will be anonymized after processing and before storage.
WordPress Stats cookies remain on your device until you delete them.
The storage of "WordPress Stats" cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a caseby- case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. The functionality of our services may be limited when cookies are disabled.
You can object to the collection and use of your data at any time with future effect by clicking on this link
and setting an opt-out cookie in your browser: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/.
If you delete the cookies on your computer, you will have to set the opt-out cookie again.
This website uses Google AdSense, a service for including advertisements from Google Inc. ("Google"). It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google AdSense uses so-called "cookies", which are text files stored in your computer that enable an analysis of the way you use the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). Through these web beacons, information such as the visitor traffic on these pages can be evaluated.
The information generated by cookies and web beacons relating to your use of this website (including your IP address), and delivery of advertising formats, is transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. This information can be passed on from Google to contracting parties of Google. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data you have stored.
AdSense cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Please be aware that in this case, you may not be able to make full use of all the features of this website. By using this website, you agree to the processing of data relating to you and collected by Google as described and for the purposes set out above.
Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
Each Google AdWords advertiser has a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be tracked using the website of an AdWords advertiser. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for the AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, advertisers do not obtain any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. In doing so, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
Conversion cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
Our website measures conversions using visitor action pixels from Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").
These allow the behavior of site visitors to be tracked after they click on a Facebook ad to reach the provider's website. This allows an analysis of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimization.
The data collected is anonymous to us as operators of this website and we cannot use it to draw any conclusions about our users' identities. However, the data are stored and processed by Facebook, which may make a connection to your Facebook profile and which may use the data for its own advertising purposes, as stipulated in the Facebook Privacy Policy. This will allow Facebook to display ads both on Facebook and on third-party sites. We have no control over how this data is used.
Check out Facebook's privacy policy to learn more about protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
You can also deactivate the custom audiences remarketing feature in the Ads Settings section at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen deaktivieren. You will first need to log into Facebook.
If you do not have a Facebook account, you can opt out of usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance:
If you would like to receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive this newsletter. No additional data is collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You can revoke consent to the storage of your data and email address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. through the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until you cancel your subscription when said data will be deleted. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remain unaffected.
Diese Website nutzt die Dienste von MailChimp für den Versand von Newslettern. Anbieter ist die Rocket
Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
This website uses the services of MailChimp to send newsletters. This service is provided by Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
MailChimp is a service which organizes and analyzes the distribution of newsletters. If you provide data (e.g. your email address) to subscribe to our newsletter, it will be stored on MailChimp servers in the USA.
MailChimp is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the European Union (EU) and the US to ensure compliance with European privacy standards in the United States.
We use MailChimp to analyze our newsletter campaigns. When you open an email sent by MailChimp, a file included in the email (called a web beacon) connects to MailChimp's servers in the United States. This allows us to determine if a newsletter message has been opened and which links you click on. In addition, technical information is collected (e.g. time of retrieval, IP address, browser type, and operating system). This information cannot be assigned to a specific recipient. It is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of our newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better tailor future newsletters to your interests.
If you do not want your usage of the newsletter to be analyzed by MailChimp, you will have to unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a link in every newsletter we send. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.
Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time by unsubscribing to the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until you cancel your subscription when said data will be deleted from our servers and those of MailChimp. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remains unaffected.
For details, see the MailChimp privacy policy at https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/.
Completion of a data processing agreement
We have entered into a data processing agreement with MailChimp, in which we require MailChimp to protect the data of our customers and not to disclose said data to third parties. This agreement may be viewed at the following link: https://mailchimp.com/legal/forms/data-processingagreement/sample agreement/.
7. Plugins and tools
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you're logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555
West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our website or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.
When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the "Like" or "Share" buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud's privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.
Our website accepts payments via PayPal. The provider of this service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l & Cie, S.C.A. (22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.
If you select payment via PayPal, the payment data you provide will be supplied to PayPal based on Art. 6 (1) (a) (Consent) and Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO (Processing for contract purposes). You have the option to revoke your consent at any time with future effect. It does not affect the processing of data previously collected.


ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) The Anaheim Ducks are looking for a strong finish to a lost season.
Daniel Sprong scored for the third consecutive game, and Anaheim beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Ryan Getzlaf and Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the disappointing Ducks (28-34-9), who have won four of their past six games. John Gibson made 32 saves.
"We're playing some pretty good hockey here," Silfverberg said. "There's 11 games left and we might as well make the most of it and keep playing the way we are."
Nashville (39-27-5) could have passed Winnipeg for first place in the Central Division with a win. Instead, the Predators were stymied by another slow start.
Anaheim was able to spring several odd-man rushes on Nashville in the first period, starting when the Ducks jumped in front at 3:39 on Getzlaf's 12th goal. Getzlaf had a breakaway set up by Josh Manson's stretch pass, and he scored on a wrist shot from the left circle.
Silfverberg made it 2-0 at 10:56, extending his point streak to six games. He has four goals and four assists in that span.
"It's been a tough year so it's nice to have maybe a little bit of brightness at the end of the year getting some goals," Silfverberg said. "It's the same for me as for the whole team, we're just trying to create good habits here and try to build for the future."
Sprong put the Ducks up 3-0 at 13:59 of the second. He sped down the right wing and cut inside before burying a backhand from the slot for his 12th goal in 53 games.
The Predators finally showed some fight in the third.
Forsberg got Nashville on the board at 14:16, with Rinne pulled for a three-man advantage after Manson put the puck over the boards for delay of game. Jaycob Megna was already in the penalty box for holding the stick of Mikael Granlund.
Forsberg cut the deficit to 3-2 at 15:14. But the Predators could not come up with a tying goal despite peppering Gibson in the final minutes.
Rinne said the inability to mount a charge earlier in the game was more frustrating knowing Nashville could have moved ahead of Winnipeg.
"It's just a sleepy game, not much going on," Rinne said. "It's a situation in the season where we have a lot of things in our own hands and considering that it's disappointing."
NOTES: Rinne saved a penalty shot by Max Jones at 11:47 of the second period after the Ducks rookie was pulled down from behind by Nick Bonino. ... The Predators were 2 for 5 on the power play. Nashville was 6 for 80 on the power play over the previous 25 games. ... Predators D Roman Josi had an assist to extend his point streak to four games. . Granlund had two assists.
Predators: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.
Ducks: Visit the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night.


Physical activity is a great way to boost your heart health.
Engaging in regular physical activity will keep you younger and better able to keep up with your children.
You'll lead your child to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Children learn by example. If you make exercise part of your routine, chances are they will, too.
Whether it's taking a walk or tossing a ball, you'll find new opportunities to bond with your child.
The good news is, creating a more active family lifestyle can be done anytime, anywhere. Family walks after dinner, weekend excursions like hiking or skiing, a trip to the local indoor pool (we'll save the outdoor swims for summer!), a game of pickup basketball – these are all inexpensive and easy ways to get you and your kids up and moving. Or, if you need a goal to stay motivated, find a local 5K and fun run that you and your child can train for and complete together.
The bottom line is, get up and get moving. Your heart, and your kids, will thank you!
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Here's what could happen to America's hundreds of dead malls
Fireworks for the opening weekend of the Bon Marche at Northgate Mall in Seattle, Washington, on April 30, 1950. Macy's is now where the Bon Marche was.
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Virtual reality is about to unleash the greatest wave of human creativity ever seen
Not too long from now, entertainment is about to get as real as real life and nothing is ever going to be the same. This is happening thanks to the combination of two forces that you would never expect to overlap. Together, they form a staggeringly potent combination.
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Time Inc. wants to produce 10,000 videos this year
Using a mix of new entertainment, news and lifestyle-themed shows drawing from its varied portfolio of titles, Time Inc. is planning to produce 10,000 videos this year. Continue reading… "Time Inc. wants to produce 10,000 videos this year"
Analysis, Business, Economy, Entertainment, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Video Games
The video game industry is growing 4 times faster than the U.S. economy
An Electronic Arts employee works on a character for "MySims."
The U.S. economy is on the upswing. Unemployment is down to 5.8 percent, and we're adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs every months — and the video game industry is partially responsible for that.
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The mobile world by the numbers
Smartphone users found they use their smartphones for 221 tasks consuming three hours and 16 minutes per day.
Here are a few stats that were pulled together for the Code/Mobile conference that provide a snapshot of just how pervasive mobile technology is today.
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'Robot Land' – South Korea's robot theme park to open in 2015
Robot Land
Since 2007, South Korea has been planning a robot-centric theme park. "Robot Land" is back on track after missing its initial opening date of 2012. Now slated for a 2015 opening, this place won't be like any other theme park on Earth. (Pics)
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Here Auto: Nokia's connected car platform
Here Auto
Nokia announced last week its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle after years of being the auto industry's mapmaker. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system, which it hopes to sell to the world's car manufacturers.
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Emerging trends inside iTunes
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu has a very smart point regarding the real impact of shifting media consumption patterns on legacy gatekeepers.He estimates that iTunes' average revenue per user (ARPU) has fallen from over $100 in the fourth quarter of 2007 to about $39 by the fourth quarter of 2012. Over that same time, the number of total iTunes accounts has roughly doubled, from around 250 million to roughly 500 million.
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The death of the R-rated action movie
The dependable mid-budget, R-rated action movies that Hollywood once relied on are now anything but dependable.
Hollywood has had a series of tent-pole and more modestly budgeted movies that have collapsed at the box office this winter. Revenue and attendance are both down 15 percent from the same period last year, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The industry got some surprise relief this weekend from Oz the Great and Powerful despite middling reviews. It's also one of the few big new movies of 2013 so far clearly marketed toward kids. If you were to look at the state of the box office in the past few months, you might come away with two impressions: One, the dependable mid-budget, R-rated action movies that Hollywood once relied on are now anything but dependable. And two, Hollywood is basically just for kids.
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Cost per hour a pivotal metric for paid content
Time spent consuming information and entertainment goods is an important element of the overall satisfaction.
Netflix released all 13 episodes of House of Cards last week, allowing subscribers to watch the series in marathon sessions. "The efficiency that makes binge viewing so compelling also accelerates the time a consumer spends with Netflix," Variety noted. This novel release schedule highlights the question of how consumers value paid content relative to consumption time.
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Netflix's plan to kill the cable industry
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Netflix is guaranteed to make the cable industry nervous with its plan to disrupt the industry. "The traditional entertainment ecosystem is built on (managed dissatisfaction), and it's a totally artificial concept," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tells GQ's Nancy Hass. "The point of managed dissatisfaction is waiting."
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Video games should be consider an 'experience, not just a product
Thatgamecompany's PlayStation 3 exclusive game, Journey.
Video games are the most interactive form of entertainment we have but they have been slow to achieve the kind of experiential status that is often associated with art, music, literature, and film. Last year there were many titles released that challenged this notion. Among them was Thatgamecompany's PlayStation3 exclusive, Journey, which has received heaps of praise and made many video game enthusiasts' Game-of-the-Year lists.
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Are Bluetooth hardware add-ons worth it? Take a bite from each one, and see for yourself.
Amanda C. Kooser
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This story appears in the August 2003 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Ah, Bluetooth, we knew you when you were being called the latest and greatest innovation in wireless technology. You were going to bring devices and their data together within short ranges. You were going to be everywhere, from supermarkets to office buildings. Well, Bluetooth, you haven't really exploded like the hype suggested. But you have been quietly growing up and making low-key appearances in a slew of devices, ranging from mobile phones to PDAs to printers.
We've rounded up a sampler plate of Bluetooth hardware add-ons. It's a hodgepodge of devices, but that's just a testament to the variety of uses the technology is finding. Bluetooth works in the 2.4GHz spectrum at ranges under 10 meters and can transfer data at rates of up to 721Kbps. It acts as a complementary technology to a Wi-Fi wireless network solution and can help keep your portable equipment connected on the go.
Bluetooth isn't a necessity for every entrepreneur, but it makes more and more sense as more and more Bluetooth-enabled devices seep into the market. It does take some investment to really enable your business, so it's particularly suited for companies with a high percentage of laptop- and PDA-carrying workers. For example, when employees can pop into the office and print straight from their notebooks without plugging in, they're saving time and increasing productivity. The Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter lets you do this with any compatible Epson printer. Belkin and 3Com also make printer-related devices. Of course, you'll also need a device like the $89.90 Belkin Bluetooth PC Card to set up the laptop if it doesn't already have the capability built in.
Bluetooth adapters aren't just for laptops. A USB adapter-like the $64 (all prices street) Mitsumi Class 1 USB Adapter Model WML-C51APR-K-can be hooked up to a desktop computer to allow data exchange with portable devices or a printer. A variety of adapters are available for many Palms and Pocket PCs currently on the market. These may come in the form of an expansion card, like the $129 Palm Bluetooth SDIO Card. Often, they are specific to a particular model or models, so check with the manufacturer to see what's available.
Not every business is going to need or want to equip their computers with Bluetooth. But the technology's ability to make wires disappear finds a use in certain niches. One of the hottest niches is mobile phone headsets. If you've ever used a wired headset on the go, you know how they can get tangled or snagged. An add-on like the $99 Jabra FreeSpeak Bluetooth Headset uses Bluetooth for hands-free and wire-free phone operation. They also have a $179 model designed for phones that don't have built-in Bluetooth capabilities. It's in creating these small-but-important conveniences that Bluetooth can excel.
In the same vein, Logitech takes the tail off the mouse and makes presentations easier with the $200 Cordless Presenter. It keeps you untethered from the computer you're making a presentation on. This is particularly handy for a sales force that works extensively out on the road and is looking to make a good impression on potential customers.
To really get a handle on all the Bluetooth products that are out now, visit the technology's official Web site at Bluetooth.com. There, you'll find an extensive list of products as well as general news and information.
Sifting through all those Bluetooth add-ons can put anyone in a tizzy, so check out these first. you might like what you see.
MODEL CONTACT TYPE FEATURES STREET
Bluetooth pc card (800) 2-BELKIN
www.belkin.com Pcmcia card adapter Works with most laptops $89.90
Bluetooth print
adapter c1200bt (800) GO-EPSON
www.epson.com Print adapter Attaches to printer parallel port $129
Freespeak bluetooth headset (800) 327-2230
www.jabra.com Mobile phone headset For bluetooth-enabled phones, up to 30-foot range $199
Cordless presenter (800) 231-7717
www.logitech.com Mouse/presentation tool built-in laser pointer, optical mouse $200
Class 1 usb adapter
Model wml-c51apr-k (800) MITSUMI
www.mitsumi.com Usb adapter Plug-and-play,folding design $64
Bluetooth sdio card ((800) 881-7256
www.palm.com Pda adapter Compatible with certain palm models $129
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At Stifel, Satterfield explained what Old Dominion does with all that cash
John Paul Hampstead, Director, Passport Research Thursday, February 14, 2019
Old Dominion Freight Lines (NASDAQ: ODFL) had a stellar performance in 2018. Sub-80 percent operating ratios in the last three quarters of a year – Stifel's David Ross called the company's results "that '70s show" – when gross revenues grew 20.4 percent over 2017 meant that the best-in-class less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier generated record earnings per share.
On Tuesday at Stifel's Transportation and Logistics Conference in Miami Beach, Old Dominion chief financial officer Adam Satterfield explained exactly what the company does with all that cash.
"Pricing discipline and a consistent philosophy with respect to yield allowed us to strengthen financial position and allowed us to further invest and drive operating efficiencies," Satterfield said.
The short answer is aggressive capital expenditure – more than two times the LTL industry average rate as a percentage of revenue. Ross projects ODFL gross revenues of $4.39 billion in 2019, and the company says it plans to spend about $590 million in capex, though this year the investment will be weighted more toward technology than tractors and trailers.
About that equipment – Old Dominion has a fleet of 9,254 tractors and 35,729 trailers. The low tractor-to-trailer ratio represents a significant investment in 'trailer capital' that pushes up the velocity of Old Dominion's network and allows it to absorb surges in freight smoothly. By using twin 28-foot trailers, ODFL can flex up its trailer capacity relatively inexpensively.
The other component of the carrier's capex spend is its vast empire of service centers (235 facilities nationwide), a network that grew 18.8 percent between 2007 and 2017, a decade when ArcBest (NASDAQ: ARCB), FedEx Freight, UPS Freight, XPO (NYSE: XPO) and YRC (NASDAQ: YRCW) all saw the number of their service centers decline. From 2008 to 2018, ODFL spent $1.5 billion building service centers. Satterfield said that the company plans to add 10 more this year.
"We like to maintain 20 to 25 percent excess capacity on average, which ensures that our network never limits growth," Satterfield explained, pointing out that less-efficient competitors are forced to constantly adjust capacity to match volumes.
ODFL's door count is up about 75 percent within the last 10 years, meaning that not only are the number of service centers growing, but average service center size is growing even faster.
What have those capital expenditures done for Old Dominion's customers? The carrier says on-time delivery rates have been at 99 percent since 2012, up from 94 percent in 2002, and its cargo claims ratio has dropped from 1.5 percent in 2002 to 0.3 percent in 2018. Cargo claims ratio – the percentage of shipments that have insurance claims levied against them – is an especially important metric for LTL carriers due to the nature of palletized freight. LTL freight is handled much more intensively than truckload freight is, as pallets are loaded and off-loaded multiple times; significantly improving damage control and insurance claims is an unmistakable sign of a smooth operator.
One of the things that ODFL does not spend money on is acquisitions – the company hasn't bought another company since 2008. Instead, Old Dominion has started returning cash to shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks, beginning with a small dividend in 2014, significant buybacks in 2015 and 2016, a substantial dividend in 2017, and both buybacks and dividends in 2018.
Rewarding investors has made Old Dominion a favorite trucking stock on Wall Street, and its shares are currently priced at $144.69, about 18.5 times Stifel's estimated 2019 diluted earnings-per-share of $7.81. The rich valuation caused Ross to rate ODFL a "Hold."
( Chart: Stifel )
The chart above from Stifel shows ODFL's average price-to-earnings ratio for the forward two years since 2002. Ross points out that currently ODFL is trading above its long-term average, and therefore the stock may have more downside than upside at its current price. However, a closer examination of the chart reveals a long-term trend upward – it could be the case that as more investors buy into Old Dominion's growth story, they've become willing to pay progressively higher multiples for the company's earnings.
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John Paul Hampstead, Director, Passport Research
John Paul conducts research on multimodal freight markets and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan. Prior to building a research team at FreightWaves, JP spent two years on the editorial side covering trucking markets, freight brokerage, and M&A.
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The Department of Film Design is divided into four majors such as Film Design and Directing, Editing-Sound and Cinematography, Film Design and Screenwriting, and Animation Film Design and Directing.
The courses taken in the first year are common for each student and aim to create a general cultural infrastructure. In the early years of educational programs of these majors at the Department of Film Design, there are common intensified departmental courses, and in the following years, each major has been adding the courses related to its own educational programs for their majors.
In the second year, many common theoretical courses as well as field related courses have been given. On the basis of film theories, specialized courses in the field are added to the program, and educational programs provided by field based specialization are created.
At the beginning of the fourth year, each student chooses a practical or theoretical thesis topic, develops his / her work with his / her advisors during the year, presents it on the date determined by the department chair, and when he or she gets the qualification, he or she graduates. The Film Design Department benefits from various areas that belong to the department while performing educational activities.


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I am failure
I have these wonderful memories of being ten and eleven years old, me and my friends hanging out in the local high school sports stadium, wondering eagerly what it would be like to be grown up kids. We played indoor volleyball. We would run through our team plan for the games. I had a motto for us, if we lose, we learn. I had that motto, though, because we always lost. We lost every game. Every week. For a whole year. We lost if we tried. We lost if we didn't. We lost if we had six players rotating or if we had five. We lost if we'd eaten beforehand or if we had plenty of water during the match. We lost when my friends' little brothers formed a team and played against us. We lost every single time. But every week we would turn up, we would hit the court, and we would play like it was possible to win.
When I was sixteen, I ran for the position of school captain. There were all these hoops to jump through - initial essays, interviews with the school principal and eventually, the popularity contest of the cohort vote. The school liked me. But they thought I was a bit too quirky and bookish. I probably still am exactly those two things, though they've ceased to be negative features. After we gave our speeches, I had several people I'd hardly spoke to come up and congratulate me. A fabulous speech, they said, you made us feel special. We know you'll do well. We know it won't be about being on stage for you, it'll be about making a difference to the school. I remember being astounded by these things. It's possibly one of the more humbling moments in my life where I've felt entirely respected for being myself. But the popular vote came out and another girl got the badge. Oddly enough, the school decided that they liked me too much to sit by the wayside and invented a new captaincy for myself and another student who were passionate about student welfare. We became the social services captains and, given the general distaste from all of the other captains at our non-popularity-contest positions, we became an almost ineffectual body. We organised meetings and raised money for charity. We had grand ideas, almost none of which we supported by the school. We tried to instigate change and hit brick walls on every turn. When we ran innovative fund-raising challenges, we raised paltry amounts that felt so unsatisfying given the calamities we were trying to help solve. I wanted to make our school better but instead felt like nobody wanted to take a seventeen year old school girl seriously.
Even educationally, I've faced failure after failure. I set myself a stupidly, almost unachievable Year 12 score challenge. I studied like mad. I studied so hard that, when our chaplain ran a mental health day and sat us down to do meditation, all I did was cry silently in the corner with exhaustion I didn't know I had. At the end of the year, results came out and I failed myself by two whole points. I was dismayed. All that suffering for nothing. My mum, excited by the score, called all of her friends who then wanted to congratulate me on how well I'd done. It hammered those painful nails in even further. The next year, I went back to my high school, wanting to see my name on the honour roll, a huge plaque with gold-embossed names of students getting above a certain score. The ladies in administration, despite six years of seeing me scout the halls, had no idea who I was. Even that chaplain, who had had a significant role in assisting my social service projects, couldn't remember who I was. Only months after finishing school, I was invisible.
In medicine, I found myself constantly questioning the status quo and wanting to push boundaries. I devoted hours and days and months to projects and innovations that lead nowhere. The first, I had designed an educational enterprise to challenge health students, scholars, academics and health users to identify and create solutions for problems that exist in our current systems. I wanted to bring together the fresh perspective, or vuja de as it is sometimes called, on old systems that doe-eyed students have, with the knowledge of how systems function and what has failed in the past that our old-hats possess. I wanted health users to have a way of interacting with all of that to say, we hate these parts of the system and we like these other parts. I wanted to involve everyone on a level playing field. I wanted to be at the heart of what solves many things - communication, understanding and analytics. And then I wanted to partner with groups who could actually get this stuff done: NGOs, health services, universities. I had a whole plan and I had a co-founder. The problem was that I was meant to be studying medicine. I was meant to be learning from textbooks and preparing for exams. And, inevitably, those dates loomed closer and something had to give. I slowed things down, and then I stopped. My co-founder moved to Edinburgh and then back to the US, where she started her own residency program and became inundated with work. We never lost our passion for change. We just never had the resources to achieve what we wanted.
I did youth advocacy and youth government policy work on a volunteer basis while I was in medical school, as if I wasn't already busy enough studying, working for actual money and trying to get a start-up rolling. While I was in this space, I noticed this huge gap in available mentoring services for young people living in rural areas. At the same time, there were widely publicised difficulties attracting and maintaining rural students in tertiary studies, in part because of distance, but also because of cost, unfamiliarity and social circumstances. I wanted to help change that. I wanted to harness the power of the Internet to connect geographically disparate communities. It wasn't actually so important to me that these young people studied at university; it was important to me that they felt as valued and respected as their city cousins. I didn't want young people in rural, regional and remote areas to think that they were second-class citizens. And, with the growing use of Internet and the availability of fast connections to most towns and even in some remote regions, I saw a huge opportunity to bring twenty-something-year old mentors together with high school students to guide them through some of life's biggest teenage struggles. The tyranny of distance could be dissolved, to some degree, through the magic of our screens. The mentors would learn more about themselves and their own country. The students would have someone slightly older who didn't have the stigma of being their teacher to take them through modules on life, managing finances on a tight budget, health and education. I had it all laid out. I had the beginnings of partnerships with organisations who could provide content and legitimacy to the program. The problem was that schools weren't keen. Schools said they already had mentoring programs. Schools said their students wouldn't participate. Schools said they didn't want help or they couldn't afford help, even though I'd never mentioned a cost to the program. They said there was no room in the curriculum for extra help. And so, again, I failed. I failed to make a change that wasn't even for myself. And I feel like I failed all of those rural young people to whom I wanted to give an extra ray of hope.
I failed at love. That same day that I got my Year 12 academic results, I got a call from one of my mum's best friends. Find a good boy at university, she said, because after that all of the good ones disappear. I ignored this advice entirely - I spent almost all of my university career gunning after extra-curricular opportunities, academia, work opportunities and scholarships to foreign placements. In my meagre experience, men don't come with signs on their heads saying, "I'm one of the good ones," either. I've made so many friends, but romantic love has always seemed like a time-consuming inconvenience comparative to the many other singularly intellectual pursuits I could chase after. In the words of one of my insightfully realistic friends, in love you either break up or you die. Neither of these are particularly desirable.
Yesterday, I failed at the biggest dream I've had for myself since I was a tiny little five year old. I failed to Match in the US surgical residency offers. The dream, since I was little, was to move to the country where my cousins and their (now growing) families live. To a place where there are those many family things with which I'm so unfamiliar: the rough and tumble, the arguments, the barbeques, the thicker-than-water bond that binds us. I spent the better portion of last year intently devoted to that goal, studying hours and hours on end end, sacrificing seeing my friends, travel opportunities and research in an attempt to make things happen. And then, when it all came to a head, there were no offers on the table. The subsequent rounds of offers are still pending. But I failed myself on this one.
I could have painted all of these stories in the opposite light. I could have told you of all the ways I've succeeded. The scholarships I won, time and time again. The fact that I got into medicine. That I ended up on the honour roll. That I have had all of these opportunities to live and breathe innovation. That I've loved and been loved. That I've got a whole big wonderful, whacky, amazing family across the Pacific who make me laugh and cry with their blind love for a cousin so far away. But I didn't tell it this way because I don't think we talk about failure enough. And, as I said encouragingly every Friday afternoon when I was eleven, if we lose we learn.
Failure isn't the end. We learn from every one of these setbacks. We learn to try harder, or sometimes not to try at all. We learn from the experience of being there. We learn what not to do next time. Sometimes, we learn that team sports are never going to be our forte. We learn that the time isn't right. We learn that we need priorities, and sometimes the things that set our soul on fire the most aren't the number one for a little while. We learn that we have to make choices and that those choices are often really hard. Perhaps I've given up too early in the past. The worst thing about failure is if you start having regrets. If you regret that you tried. Trying isn't the thing to regret. Because if you'd never tried, you instead live with the regret of what if you'd made that bit of extra effort. But if you gave it your all and it still didn't work, then it doesn't necessarily mean a no forever, it just means a no for now. Park it. Come back later. See if it still makes your eyes twinkle. Try a different angle. If you've been running into brick walls at every turn, you either need a bulldozer or a map.
I am failure. But I am also success. And exciting things are on the horizon.
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Last month, I traveled back there for work with Elissa, the kids and their nanny and poppy Kate and Jeff, also meeting up with my mum and David.
We stayed in an AirBnB in Shin-Okubo (aka Korean Town – not the best intro to Tokyo!), spent a night up in the mountains of Nikko Yuumoto, a week in a Totoro-themed apartment (!) near Shinsaibashi in Osaka with day trips to Kyoto and Nara, before spending a final couple of days back in Tokyo in trendy Naka-Meguro.
As you can imagine with 2 crazy kids in tow (1 and 3), trying to take meaningful photos without one of them stepping out in front of a cyclist or bullet train proved rather difficult. Even with multiple sets of helpful hands, trying to control them on the busy streets of Tokyo was arduous to say the least.
Speaking of taking photos, mid-way through the trip, Harry (3) decided he'd like to take over my responsibilities as primary photographer. Despite having my heart in my mouth as he sped around with $4k worth of camera around his neck, I was pleasantly surprised at his pictures, and included some of them below for their Harry's-eye view of the world.
Multiple train, taxi and pram journeys later, it was time to take the kids back to our slow-paced life in Sydney, but not before one final kiddie-meltdown at Haneda airport, where all Elissa and I wanted to do was eat ramen in peace, but instead, were forced to use the straps of the pram as a form of straightjacket.


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Volunteers spent more than two years turning the former Children's Aid Home in Somerset into a faith-based community center replete with classrooms, a library and a shiny new chapel.
This weekend, many will get to see the fruits of that labor for the first time.
The people behind the upstart Somerset Community Training and Outreach Center, 574 E. Main St., have scheduled a dedication service for 7 p.m. today. The event will be followed Sunday by a two-hour open house that begins at 2 p.m.
"We're happy. Everybody's happy" with the progress we've made, said center president, the Rev. William J. Dodson. "It's a great accomplishment considering the short period of time that we've been here."
Dodson is pastor of the Somerset Christian Fellowship. In July 2002, the tiny 125-member church took a leap of faith and purchased the former Children's Aid Home building at the corner of East Main Street and Berlin Plank Road.
"We paid the church off one weekend, and the following weekend went into debt here," Dodson said.
Volunteers immediately set about transforming the 125-year-old building into Dodson's vision of a faith-based community center. More than two years later, the center remains a work in progress.
"It's been a lot of remodeling, carpeting, wall-papering and interior decorating," Dodson said.
Currently, the center offers a high school diploma program, a clothing ministry for families who have lost their belongings to floods or fire, and an adult-level Bible school called the "Somerset International School of Bible Theology."
The classes are taught by a multi-denominational group of pastors and community members, with one idea remaining central throughout, according to Dodson.
"Our aim is to make people feel good about themselves," he said.
The center also offers classes in domestic hobbies such as baking, canning and candy-making, with plans to add quilting to the mix. Sometime in the near future, organizers hope to begin offering classes in Christian counseling and missions training.
Dodson said center's other purpose is to spread the faith.
"Even Jesus needed the Word of God, so that's how much more important it is for us," he said.
Sunday's open house will include refreshments and a piano recital by Stoystown resident Vera Lohr. Both of this weekend's events are free and open to the public.


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Jane Boleyn and the Fall of Anne Boleyn
Posted By Claire on January 18, 2010
"The Lady Parker" a portrait once thought to be Jane Parker but which is probably Grace Newport, Jane's sister-in-law
I thought I'd start my series of articles on the fall of Anne Boleyn by looking at Jane Boleyn (also referred to as Jane Parker and Lady Rochford), wife of George Boleyn and the woman who is known for telling Thomas Cromwell that George and Anne Boleyn had committed incest. But what exactly was her role in Anne Boleyn's downfall and should she be blamed in this way?
I have already considered Jane Boleyn's role in the fall of Anne Boleyn in one of my posts on George Boleyn – see George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Part 2 – so some of the information here is also in that post, but it's great to have the opportunity to look at Jane's role and her personality in more detail.
The Jane Boleyn of Fiction
Many people's opinions of Jane Boleyn are based on novels like "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "The Boleyn Inheritance" or TV shows like "The Tudors". If we are to base our opinions of Jane Boleyn on those and other fictional portrayals then we would conclude that:-
Jane and George Boleyn's marriage was unhappy and loveless.
Jane was treated badly by her homosexual/bisexual husband and that he even raped her and forced her into "deviant" sexual acts.
Jane was jealous of the close relationship between George and Anne Boleyn.
Jane hated George (and/or Anne) and was motivated into lying about him and Anne by her hatred and jealousy.
Jane was a voyeur, meddler and mad with jealousy.
Who was the Real Jane Boleyn?
In Georgian and Victorian times when sympathies swung towards Anne Boleyn, historians felt that Jane Boleyn had got her come-uppance when she was executed for her involvement in Catherine Howard's affair with Thomas Culpeper. One historian, C.Coote, wrote:-
"the infamous lady Rochford… justly deserved her fate for the concern which she had in bringing Anne Boleyn, as well as her own husband, to the block."
Many present day historians also see Jane Boleyn as a nasty piece of work and someone who gave false evidence against George and Anne. Lacey Baldwin Smith, in "Catherine Howard: The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII", says of Jane:-
"the lady was a pathological meddler, with most of the instincts of a procuress who achieves a vicarious pleasure from arranging assignations."
In "The Lady in the Tower", Alison Weir writes of how Jane Boleyn had "a talent for intrigue" as not only was she involved in Catherine Howard's affairs in 1541 but she also plotted with Anne Boleyn in 1534 to remove the King's mistress and replace her with Madge Shelton, Anne's cousin and a Boleyn sympathiser.
Even Jane's contemporary George Cavendish had no great opinion of Jane, writing in Jane's voice:-
"Withouten bridle of honest measure,
Following my lust and filthy pleasure,
Without respect of any wifely truth,
Dreadless of God, from grace also exempt,
Viciously consuming the time of this my youth."
(George Cavendish in "Metrical Visions")
George Wyatt, son of poet Sir Thomas Wyatt who had been friends with the Boleyn, said of Jane:-
"wicked wife, accuser of her own husband, even to the seeking of his own blood"
and 17th century historian P Heylin said that Jane had an "inveterate hatred" of Anne Boleyn because her husband enjoyed his sister's company more than hers and because Anne had superior social skills. It would have been natural for Jane to have felt in Anne's shadow with Anne being queen and always being the centre of attention with her sex appeal, intelligence and flirtatious nature.
Signature of Jane Rochford (Jane Boleyn)
However, historian Julia Fox, author of "Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford", has a very different opinion of Jane Boleyn. Fox writes of Jane's friendship with Anne and makes the point that there is no evidence that George and Jane's marriage was not happy and successful. The fact that they were childless and that the marriage was arranged does not necessarily mean that they were unhappy.
Fox also writes of how William Foster, a scholar, wrote warmly of Jane, describing her as the "most special patroness" of his studies. The fact that Anne Boleyn chose her sister-in-law to help her get rid of Henry's new mistress in 1534 and that she later confided in Jane about Henry's erratic sexual prowess suggests that the women were close, rather than being enemies or just tolerating each other.
What was Jane's Role in the Coup Against the Boleyns?
Whatever our opinion of Jane and her character, did she actually give Cromwell crucial evidence against the Boleyns? Did she lie about Anne and George's relationship and could she be held accountable for their deaths?
Eric Ives in his biography of Anne Boleyn, "The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn", writes of Jane Boleyn:-
"It was she [Jane] who had told the Crown of Anne's remarks about Henry's sexual capacities, and according to de Carles, Rochford said to his judges, "On the evidence of only one woman you are willing to believe this great evil of me, and on the basis of her allegations you are deciding my judgement." A foreign visitor to London in May 1536 wrote of "that person who more out of envy and jealousy than out of love towards the king did betray this accursed secret and together with it the names of those who had joined in the evil doings of the unchaste queen". The lost journal of Antony Antony also referred to the role of Lady Rochford and probably included words to the effect that "the wife of Lord Rochford was a particular instrument in the death of Queen Anne.""
Ives continues to back this up with the words of Bishop Burnet, a man who was not alive at the time but who had access to primary sources in the 17th century. Burnet claimed that Jane Boleyn "carried many stories to the king or some about him" and gave evidence "that there was a familiarity between the queen and her brother beyond what so near a relationship could justify." However, any contemporary primary sources that gave evidence of Jane's involvement in the fall of Anne Boleyn are now lost and Ives certainly does not hold Jane accountable for Anne's downfall.
In "The Lady in the Tower", Alison Weir writes of how Jane Boleyn was Thomas Cromwell's best informant and that "the evidence against Lord Rochford was said to have been laid soley by his wife of twelve years, Jane Parker." Weir backs this up with four main sources:-
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, who, in his biography of Henry VIII in the seventeenth century, wrote of Jane being the "particular instrument" in the falls of both Anne and George Boleyn.
The dispatches of Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial Ambassador.
An anonymous Portuguese account from the 10th June 1536 which refers to "that person who, more out of envy and jealousy than out of love towards the King, did betray this accursed secret, and together with it the names of those who had joined in the evil doings of the unchaste Queen".
Lancelot de Carles – De Carles reported that "a single woman" gave the most damaging evidence against Anne and George, but de Carles hinted that this woman was Lady Worcester, not Jane Boleyn. Weir and some other historians think that he was confused, as Jane was interrogated at the time.
Jane's confession at the block on the 13th February 1542 that she had falsely accused her husband of committing adultery with his sister Anne Boleyn.
Alison Weir may be right, Jane Boleyn may have been instrumental in the fall of Anne Boleyn and the execution of George Boleyn. She may well have been jealous and spiteful but is there any evidence that she definitely 100% told lies about them to Cromwell?
Historian John Guy, husband of Julia Fox, is critical of Alison Weir's sources and her opinions. Regarding Chapuys and the anonymous Portuguese gentleman's evidence, Guy writes:
"Chapuys, she[Weir] says, tells us that Jane had divulged the "accursed secret" in a letter. The Portuguese gentleman, she says, also identified Jane. Knowing sensational discoveries when I see them, I went to check for myself. Chapuys said no such thing. Only the Portuguese gentleman mentions an "accursed secret", and he merely talks of "that person" who disclosed it: he doesn't name anyone."
Then, regarding Lord Herbert of Cherbury's words, Guy writes:-
"Weir makes much of the fact that Lord Herbert of Cherbury wrote in his Life and Reign of King Henry VIII in 1649 that "the wife of Lord Rochford [ie Jane] was a particular instrument in the death of Queen Anne". She thinks he was quoting from a lost chronicle of Henry's reign and cites the notes left by a late-17th-century don who'd been mugging up on Anne's fall. But Weir is mistaken, although I had to go to Oxford to be sure. Like all good historians, the don cites his sources, so we know that he'd been reading a dozen or so works, among which were the now lost chronicle and Herbert's own book. His note about Jane is taken from the latter — it even comes complete with the page number."
Regarding Jane Boleyn's execution confession, Guy writes that that Jane's confession is a forgery and the work of Gregorio Leti, a man know for making up stories and inventing sources. Concerning de Carles, John Guy points out that there is no historical evidence to say that this woman was Jane Boleyn and that de Carles may well have been right in thinking that it was Lady Worcester.
As you can see, the world of historical sources is a minefield and I'm not having a dig at Alison Weir in any way as I respect her and love "The Lady in the Tower", I'm just suggesting that we don't know the truth about Jane Boleyn and her involvement in Anne Boleyn's fall. Julia Fox, Jane's biographer, writes:-
"By the time he got round to interviewing Jane, Cromwell's dossier was getting thicker…Jane Rochford found herself dragged into a maelstrom of intrigue, innuendo and speculation. For when Cromwell sent for Jane, he already had much of what he needed, not only to bring down Anne and her circle, but to make possible the king's marriage to Jane Seymour… The questions to Jane would have come thick and fast. There is no word-for-word transcript of what they were, but the record of the trials of both Anne and George give us a plethora of clues. How often did George and Anne meet? Who was present on these occasions? Were they ever totally alone? Did he ever go into her bedchamber? Was she in bed at the time? Was he ever alone with her? How did they behave when they were together? What did they talk about? Did either of them speak about the King?… Faced with such relentless, incessant questions, which she had no choice but to answer, Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her. This was not the moment for bravado and, in any case, the arrests had been so sudden and unexpected that there was no time to separate out what testimony might be damaging, what could be twisted… Jane had not been quick to tell tales, but she had buckled under the pressure of relentless questioning… She had repeated to Cromwell Anne's indiscretion about Henry's sexual inadequacies…And it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors – happy to find a scapegoat to exonerate the king from the heinous charge of callously killing his innocent wife – the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed Anne and George. She had repeated Anne's secret to her own husband, which in itself implies a relaxed rather than a failed union, and she had confessed the same to Cromwell. However, she had done no more than that."
Perhaps Fox is right, perhaps Jane simply told the truth and her words about Anne and George's relationship were twisted by Cromwell to give him ammunition against the Boleyns. It would be easy for a scared young woman to repeat Anne's words and then regret doing so later when she realised how they could be used against the Queen. The fact that Jane sent a message via Kingston, the Constable of the Tower of London, asking how George was and saying that she would "humbly [make] suit unto the King's highness" for him shows that she was concerned for her husband. George responded by saying that he wanted to "give her thanks" and in a letter wrote "for I think I [may not] come forth till I come to judgement" which Fox takes to mean that he knew that he needed Jane's aid if anyone were to listen to his case before his trial.
"Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford" by Julia Fox
Julia Fox also points out that Jon Hussee, in a letter to Honor Lisle, wrote that three women had accused Anne Boleyn of infidelity: "the lady Worcester, Nan Cobham and one maid mo[re]". Hussee did not name Jane Boleyn, which seems strange if she was such a key witness.
While it seems clear that Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, told Cromwell that Anne had spoken to her of Henry VIII's sexual problems, a matter that came out in court when George Boleyn was handed a piece of paper detailing this and then unwisely read it out, it is not at all clear that Jane Boleyn accused her husband and her sister-in-law of incest or gave Cromwell any evidence of this whatsoever. It is easy to pin the blame on Jane Boleyn when you see her as the spiteful meddler of fiction and television, but could it be that we are maligning her in the same way that history has maligned Anne Boleyn and her brother George?
It is so easy to judge people and I do like the saying "Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes". We don't know what pressure Jane was under when she was interrogated and she may well have been in fear of her life. As I said earlier, Jane may well have spoken first and thought later, she may have gabbled hysterically like Anne did in the Tower. Who knows? Whatever Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, said to Cromwell it would have been most likely twisted and the success of the cases against Anne and George did not hang on Jane's evidence. As Julia Fox points out, Cromwell had a whole dossier of information before he even spoke to Jane, and Anne and George had already been arrested. The fall of Anne Boleyn and the Boleyn faction was a done deal whatever Jane had to say.
I guess that what I am saying is that I'd like to give Jane Boleyn the benefit of the doubt and I certainly don't feel that she was responsible for either Anne's death or for George's death, that responsibility lies firmly with the person who framed them and let them be executed on false charges, whether you think that was Cromwell or Henry VIII.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII – Found online at British History Online
"Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession" by Elizabeth Norton
"The Lady in the Tower" by Alison Weir
"The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn" by Eric Ives
"The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn" by Retha Warnicke
"Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford" by Julia Fox
"The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir – a Sunday Times Review by John Guy"
4 May 1536 – Lady Rochford seeks to comfort her husband – The Fall of Anne Boleyn 4 May 1536 – Lady Jane Rochford writes to her Husband Jane Boleyn – History's Scapegoat 4 May 1536 – Jane Boleyn sends a message of comfort to her husband 4 May 1536 – Jane Boleyn's promise to George Boleyn George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Part 2
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