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@yoonyoung People don't know facts, people are unaccountable, people need leadership period. As a IBO with prior military service and had spent 5 years in the service building soldiers into leaders this business is dynamic. If the plan is not followed it will fail, but only fails if the IBO does not follow the blue print laid out by the upline who has fruit on the tree. Thank you for your post!
Group distribution. Amway will deliver bulk orders to where their Platinum level representatives are (or greater) completely free. This encourages all representatives to maintain relationships with their clients. At one factor clients were able to receive free shipping by getting on their own if they exceeded a certain dollar quantity, but this is no more the case as a result of policy changes.
Today, 16 years after the DeVoses' failed constitutional amendment, this constant push has totally remade Michigan education. The cap on the number of charter schools eliminated and attempts to provide public oversight have been defeated, making Michigan's charters among the most-plentiful and least-regulated in the nation. About 80 percent of Michigan's 300 publicly funded charters are operated by for-profit companies, more than any other state. This means that taxpayer dollars that would otherwise go to traditional public schools are instead used to buy supplies such as textbooks and desks that become private property. It is, essentially, a giant experiment in what happens when you shift resources away from public schools.
That vision is played out daily as the company helps people everywhere discover their potential and achieve their goals by offering great brands and opportunities. Amway is guided by six enduring values: partnership, integrity, personal worth, achievement, personal responsibility and free enterprise. Sharing generously with the local communities in which the company and its business owners operate is an important part of this.
So, after hearing the Amway rhetoric on an endless loop, recruits start to make disastrous decisions, and each one is applauded by their peers. In Kyritsis' case, his "friends" at Amway even encouraged him to give up on his education. "They would actually compare having an Amway business with getting royalties, like from a book or a song. That you build a network once, and it pays you forever, even if you stop working. So, why go to college when I can make a successful Amway business without any degrees? For me, as a 21-year-old idiot who never had a full-time job and lived with his parents, that was reason enough to drop out of college, and I never got my degree."
The centerpiece of any Rally is the life-story told by the guest of honor, emphasizing the depths of his pre-Amway rut and his resurrection through The Business. That evening's featured guest, Executive Diamond Bill Hawkins, however, was too arrogant even to feign the requisite humility in his testimonial. He had been great all his life: a talented musician in one of Minneapolis's best bands, a brilliant school teacher, a voracious reader, a charming companion with hundreds of loyal friends, and an unbelievably prodigious drinker of beer (about which he was now "ashamed"). When he saw The Plan and realized that he was much smarter than the guy showing it, he knew that his ship had finally come in: Here, at last, was something that would adequately reward his greatness[16].
"Thought our kids came out," Smart said after the win. "We were sloppy at times, organizational, as far as substitution on defense, and we got some stupid, silly penalties early on offense. But they came out fast, they came out physical, and they answered the challenge which was to understand that we challenged them and said 'hey, we are creating a standard here, that we play to this level, regardless of who you play.' You have to go own the standard. I really thought the players really tried to do that. Sometimes holdings and things like that are an aggressive penalty. But that is frustrating and as an organization, we have to do a better job defensively of having the right people on the field."
Usually in such sophisticated and well orchestrated system, all the investors & family members of the organizers (forerunners) place themselves into the tree such that they form the initial 7 or 8 levels at the top. With just 200 members, their tree is already 8 levels complete. Next, they start referring friends who form the 9th level. The 9th level requires 2^9 = 512 members. Now the exponential function starts showing its real colors. For the 10th level, you need 1024 new members. By the time it reaches your neighborhood, it might be in the 15th level and that level alone has 32,768 members. To add another level into it, it needs 65,536 new people. Just to give you an idea, in order to add the 25th level, you need 33 crore (330 million) new members into the system and you already have 33 crores (330 million) inside the system (number of nodes in a tree of height N is 1 less than '2 power N+1').
High-ranking Amway leaders such as Richard DeVos and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a producer of movies and books geared toward conservative Christians, as well as co-owners (along with Salem Communications) of a right-wing, Christian nonprofit called Gospel Communications International.[74][85][87][88][89] Yager, interviewed on 60 Minutes in 1983, admitted that he promotes Christianity through his Amway group, but stated that this might not be the case in other Amway groups.[90][need quotation to verify]
In 2011, Nutrilite brand of vitamins and dietary supplements led Amway's sales, totaling almost $4.7 billion.[41] According to Euromonitor International, in 2014, Nutrilite was the world's No. 1 selling vitamins and dietary supplements brand.[35] In 2015, it was reported that according to Euromonitor International, Amway was the largest vitamin and dietary supplement vendor in China, with 11% of a market that generated 100 billion yuan ($15.6 billion) in annual sales.[46] In 2015, it was reported that according to China Confidential consumer brands survey, Amway Nutrilite was the most popular vitamin and dietary supplement brand in China.[47]
Occasionally, though, it can be useful to mention poverty in a certain context. Inspired by the personal and business philosophies of DeVos and Van Andel, Cross spent the ten years after writing Commitment to Excellence researching the two men, culminating in his 1995 self-help book Choices with Clout: How to Make Things Happen – by Making the Right Decisions Every Day of Your Life. Much of the book is compiled from interviews with the Amway founders and top-level distributors. In a passage about excellence, Van Andel outlines the proper way for an Amway distributor to rationalize the issue of poverty:
Amway has one the world's largest market shares for water treatment systems, which are widely purchased in Asian nations. For these products, the reliability of the products is critical. "In a direct sales business, an agent is selling their neighbors." And for an Asian consumer, these are expensive products, from $600 to $1,000 dollars. "We don't want our agents to have to explain why these products don't work – so we do everything we can to make sure they keep working."
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Visited the Norcross GA location and a few employees were complaining to the supervisor concerning harassment from another employee. The supervisor was defensive and unprofessional. Will not return because i saw the supervisor was being bias toward the black employees. This is not a place i would want to work. This was apparently a situation that happened at night so i believe the real daytime supervisors are unaware of his demeanor. Planning on contacting other agemcies to help my fellow race at that location. Will never return.
Even so, among the DeVoses' skeptics, there are those who strike a hopeful, if cautious, tone. "I think Mrs. DeVos could potentially be a really good secretary of education if she allowed parents and school districts to make policy at the local level," says Daniel Quinn, executive director of the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, a nonprofit that receives a portion of its funding from the National Education Association. "But at the same time, I'm concerned."
I can promise you will lose friends and lovers. If that's worth it to you then go forth, but be aware that for the participant (or victim) in this, your loss of friendships will sometimes be invisible, and occasionally worth much more than you ever thought. It's an honest decision - you shouldn't be friends with someone who treats you this way. Every single person who has fallen into this trap I have seen lose friends in the long run, even if we tried to see past it. It's a black mark of a terrible person. When someone tells you who they are, you should listen to them.
Thanks to the DeVoses, Michigan's charter schools enjoy a virtually unregulated existence. Thanks to them, too, the center of the American automotive industry and birthplace of the modern labor movement is now a right-to-work state. They've funded campaigns to elect state legislators, established advocacy organizations to lobby them, buttressed their allies and primaried those they disagree with, spending at least $100 million on political campaigns and causes over the past 20 years. "The DeVos family has been far more successful not having the governor's seat than if they had won it," says Richard Czuba, the owner of the Glengariff Group, a bipartisan polling firm in Michigan. "They have, to some degree, created a shadow state party. And it's been pretty darn effective."
There is some movement in the top 10, as a pair of teams, Wisconsin and Auburn, each lost at home. Georgia still has a pair of upcoming opponents in the top 25, with Auburn dropping to No. 11 and LSU moving up to No. 6 after beating Auburn 22-21 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Georgia will face LSU in Baton Rouge, La. on Oct. 13 and will host Auburn in Athens, Ga. on Nov. 10. Here is the rest of the top 25:
The successful ones? You mean those that are already on the top of the pyramid? 99% of IBOs lose money. The average income is only around $150 a month, IF that, and I believe I'm overstating. I almost fell for this trap back in the early spring. Buying almost $300 of overpriced stuff just for $9 back...? I don't think so! That's not a profit or even savings. That's a complete loss
We took photographs of one another inside our dreams: Here I am, a skinny nine-year-old posing proudly next to a kidney-shaped pool. Here's my mother in a pair of khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt descending a marble staircase. And my father, two thumbs up, lying on a king-sized canopy bed. We visualized, yes – but then we went one step further and made visual. We stepped inside our dreams, literally.
Amway Center has an assortment of mid-level luxury seats and club seating, located below the upper bowl.[21] This contrasts Amway Arena's design as its luxury boxes are above all seats and suspended from the ceiling. The arena's design was unveiled at Amway Arena on December 10, 2007, with an official press release the next day.[22] The floor of Amway Center is designed with arena football in mind, as it features more retractable sections that will permit squared end zone corners, a feature previously not possible for Orlando Predators games.
When I told my parents about the business, they were immediately skeptical, but since my dad is a salesman he was supportive. The next week I was in the middle of teaching and got a phone call from the girl. She claimed that she had gotten a "last minute ticket" to their Thursday night meeting. She tried to describe how exclusive it is and basically hinted how honored I should feel to be invited. Unfortunately, it was so last minute we just couldn't do it. We were too tired after a long day at work. The following Thursday we went to the meeting. It was the strangest experience, and it was WAY too long. We didn't get home till 11 o'clock, and my husband had to be at work by 7:15. We were exhausted. Every few days we were having to meet for training with our mentors as well as watching videos and listening to CDs. They make sure to consume your life with a little bit of positive Amway, so you don't listen to the negative Amway. Guys, this literally can be described as a brainwashing method.
But it turns out to be so much more complicated. In 1979, the F.T.C., after investigating Amway, a multilevel marketing company with a vast product line, decided that the company's business model passed muster — even though recruitment was at the heart of it — because it claimed to take certain steps that (among other things) supposedly showed that its recruits were selling the company's products to real customers, not just to other recruits. Very quickly, other multilevel marketing companies adopted the "Amway rules" to stay on the right side of the F.T.C.
Dream Night was not the first Amway event I had been to, but it was the most hallucinatory. It began with the triumphal entrance of the Amway Diamond couples, half-jogging through a gauntlet of high-fives to the theme from Rocky, as the audience whooped and hollered and twirled their napkins over their heads. When the standing ovation finally tapered off, the emcee offered a prayer thanking God for (a) the fact that we lived in a free enterprise system, where there were no government agents kicking down the doors of meetings like Dream Night and (b) His Blessed Son. As dinner wound down, the video screens displayed a picture of what the guy next to me was quick to identify as a $20,000 Rolex watch. (He went on to tell of a fellow he knew who had a $30,000 Rolex and who couldn't tell the time for the glare of the gold and diamonds.)
My husband rides in the front of the golf cart with Dale; I ride in the back. We strike out over the gently rolling fairways. 'We're a longer course,' says Dale. 'Total length, if you play from back tees, seventy-one hundred yards. No one, not even the younger guys, play from the tips. I'm just going to show you the prettiest part and then head back so we stay dry.'
By the 30th level, the entire population of the earth will be in the system and the last 3 billion people who just entered the system into the 30th level have nobody else to refer. If each member is allowed to refer 6 friends, then the entire world population will be covered by the time it reaches 13th level itself (as illustrated in the chart below). Everybody they try to approach is already a member. The forerunners would have made huge amount of money by now and would go absconding, leading into a fraud.
On one fateful evening in December 2014, I went on Kijiji (I live in Canada) to look for a job and one particular ad caught my attention. This job ad was so vague, and yet so loaded that I filled in my contact details so the person who posted the ad could get back to me. This guy got back to me via the email I filled in and he told about brand new exciting business opportunity. He also sent me a couple of videos showing me people in mansions, beach houses and the rest by exploring this business opportunity in another city.
Outside the Capitol, state police donned riot gear while officers on horseback pushed protesters away from the building. Loudspeakers blared Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," and as the wind picked up, four 20-foot-tall inflatable rat balloons skittered from side to side. Each rat represented one of the key players protesters blamed for right-to-work's hasty adoption: the governor, the House speaker, the Senate majority leader, and—the only unelected member of the rat pack—Dick DeVos.
The Sales & Marketing Plan is based on what Scott called "the revolutionary business strategy of duplication." To illustrate the idea he pointed to an imperfect example: McDonald's, which succeeded so phenomenally, Scott explained, thanks to duplication—not because it served particularly good food (people who "hadn't spent a lot of time around millionaires" always amused Scott with their idea that successful businesses required quality products). Ray Kroc had figured out a better way to flip a burger, but instead of hiring employees to do it, he taught it to franchisees, people fired up with the zeal of business ownership. While they willingly slaved to make what they owned more valuable, Kroc made his money by "taking a penny for teaching others how to make a dollar." His was truly a magical income, expanding whether he worked for it or not, growing whether he lived or died. Long after Kroc had "taken a dirt bath," Scott joked, duplication still supported his widow to the tune of $200 million a year!
From time to time the absurdities and contradictions of The Business would surface in Josh's conversation. In one of his many unguarded moments, he voiced a preference for Amway Scrub Rite because it ran out more quickly than the "superconcentrated" Amway cleaners, enabling him to buy it more often. Catching himself, he quickly added, "Of course, it still lasts a long time." This puzzled me. Why was Josh so eager to shovel money at Amway? The rational thing would be to minimize his own purchases while strong-arming his downlines into buying as much as possible. But, of course, if everyone did that, the whole business would evaporate. This is Amway's central dilemma.
Inefficiencies were everywhere, since the supply chain rigidly followed the line of recruitment. Some of the items I ordered had to be sent by mail all the way from Seattle, since that was where Scott and Shelley Coon, our upline Direct Distributors, happened to live. Others could be shipped from a regional warehouse in Michigan—one of Amway's attempts to make the system more workable—but still had to be ordered through the Coons. Some items—unavailable from the warehouse—could be sent directly to me via UPS, but my building didn't have a front desk to receive them. Jean suggested I have them sent to her apartment to be picked up with the rest of my order.
For Magic games, there are two main sections -- the Terrace (101-118) and the Promenade (201-232) -- which are divided by the Club Level: an area of suites as well as club seats and Loge seats. Some floor seats are also available, although this "Courtside" seating costs a bit extra. It's incredibly comfortable though, and one neat perk at the Amway Center is that you can have food and drinks delivered directly to your seat if you're courtside or an ultimate seat holder.


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French President Emmanuel Macron Wins New Term After Fierce Battle
by Linda Amiani
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to begin efforts to unite a deeply divided nation after winning re-election on Sunday in a battle against rival Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power.
Centrist Macron won around 58.6 percent of the vote in the second-round run-off compared with Le Pen's 41.4 percent, according to official results from the Interior Ministry.
Macron is the first French president in two decades to win a second term, but his latest victory over his far-right rival was narrower than their last face-off in 2017, when the margin was 66.1 percent to 33.9 percent.
The historic gains for the far right dampened the French leader's celebrations on Sunday night. Addressing supporters in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, he vowed to heal rifts in a deeply divided country.
The 44-year-old president will start his second term with the challenge of parliamentary elections in June, where keeping a majority will be critical to ensuring he can realise his ambitions.
Several hundred demonstrators from ultra-left groups took to the streets in some French cities to protest Macron's re-election and Le Pen's score. Police used tear gas to disperse gatherings in Paris and the western city of Rennes.
– 'New era' –
In his victory speech on the Champ de Mars in central Paris, Macron promised his next five-year term would respond to the frustrations of voters who backed Le Pen.
"An answer must be found to the anger and disagreements that led many of our compatriots to vote for the extreme right," he told thousands of cheering supporters.
"It will be my responsibility and that of those around me."
He also pledged a "renewed method" to governing France, adding that this "new era" would not be one of "continuity with the last term which is now ending".
In a combative speech to supporters in the capital, in which she accepted the result but showed no sign of quitting politics, Le Pen, 53, said she would "never abandon" the French and was already preparing for the June legislative elections.
"The result represents a brilliant victory," she said to cheers.
"This evening, we launch the great battle for the legislative elections," Le Pen said, adding that she felt "hope" and calling on opponents of the president to join with her National Rally (RN) party.
– 'Count on France' –
For Le Pen, a third defeat in a presidential poll will be a bitter pill to swallow after she ploughed years of effort into making herself electable and distancing her party from the legacy of its founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Critics insisted her party never stopped being extreme-right and racist while Macron repeatedly pointed to her plan to ban the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in public if elected.
The projections caused immense relief in Europe after fears a Le Pen presidency would leave the continent rudderless following Brexit and the departure from politics of German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi called Macron's victory "great news for all of Europe" while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said French voters "sent a strong vote of confidence in Europe today".
European Council president Charles Michel said the bloc could now "count on France for five more years" while European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen also congratulated Macron, saying she was "delighted to be able to continue our excellent cooperation".
In another election Sunday, Slovenia's three-time Prime Minister Janez Jansa, criticised by opponents as an authoritarian right-wing populist, was at risk of losing power to a party led by political newcomer Robert Golob.
– 'Ocean of abstention' –
Macron will be hoping for a less complicated second term that will allow him to implement his vision of more pro-business reform and tighter EU integration, after a first term shadowed by protests, then the coronavirus pandemic and finally Russia's invasion of Ukraine
But he will have to win over those who backed his opponents and the millions of French who did not bother to vote.
Polling organisations estimated turnout of just 72 percent, the lowest in any presidential election second-round run-off since 1969.
Meanwhile, 6.35 percent of voters in the election voted for neither candidate in blank ballots while 2.25 percent spoilt their papers.
The third-placed candidate in the first round, hard-left Jean-Luc Melenchon, had refused to endorse Macron.
Melenchon also has his eyes set on the June elections.
While he welcomed Le Pen's defeat as "very good news for the unity of our people", Melenchon pointed out that the two leading candidates had barely managed to win a third of support from registered voters.
Macron "is submerged in an ocean of abstention and spoilt ballots", he said.
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Linda Amiani
Linda Amiani is The Kenya Times' Editor-in-Chief. She focuses on News and stories of national importance, including highlighting Africa and Global News. She can be reached at linda.amiani@thekenyatimes.com
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00:28 <Tronic> Very wet and quickly melting snow, but snow nonetheless.
00:30 <DrakeAnubis> Where are you that it is snowing?
02:11 <Pogonip> Added mythtv to Ubuntu, but mythconverg isn't getting created, has anyone seen this?
03:33 <justinh> so does that basically ensure the card gets a reset every time myth goes for it?
04:34 <rooaus> gbee: Was there an agreement about exiting/ignoring on unrecognised theme elements?
04:36 <rooaus> gbee: ok, you thought he was cool with the change then.
04:38 <rooaus> Could the theme version stuff address that (when it is implemented)?
06:18 <rooaus> I just updated the Coding Standards to a minimum of QT 3.2 on the wiki as per , hope that is ok.
06:46 <rooaus> janneg: Yes. How would you word it, I just changed the point release and updated the link. Could add that "qt4 is not supported yet"
07:06 <gbee> is it correct, in the transcoding profiles, that the "Maximum Quality" defaults to 2 and the "Minimum Quality" to 15? Isn't that contradictory?
07:53 <gbee> "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."
07:54 <stuarta> did some people not get out of the 3rd grade?
07:56 <justinh> which was... ?
12:13 <bradd> ERROR! You must have the Lame MP3 encoding library installed to compile MythTV.
12:36 <gbee> Chutt: there is a check in LayerSet::Draw() - "if (m_context == context || m_context == -1)", I want to remove it, any reason that I shouldn't?
13:49 <SanMehat> hey gbee, Chutt.
16:36 <laga> did they announce their project on -dev?
16:41 <justinh> what the heck?!
16:43 <laga> what does it do?
16:53 <laga> i think something is gonna break if you use internal, isn't it?
16:56 <dr_lulz> i refuse to continue reading that code.
16:59 <dr_lulz> do you really believe they do the rest better?
16:59 <laga> i'm young and naive?
17:03 <laga> are they building a complete distro around that or is that juse a random plugin which will break stuff?
17:03 <janneg> who wants to write the "heliocreek contains several root holes" mail to bugtray?
17:03 <justinh> but... but .. but.. it's got youtube!
17:07 <janneg> so claiming that you wrote the code would be ok?
17:08 <dr_lulz> "dr_lulz perforced a full source code audit and was fully satisfied, no space for improvements"
17:08 <gbee> hmm, so we've got a lazy fork?
17:09 <dr_lulz> gbee: i believe their goal is to replace all the myth code bit by bit to present the "rock solid myth"
17:11 <dr_lulz> gbee: what about forking from half-rotten-but-still-usable code?
17:12 <jams> they have several build scripts that reference ubuntu packages.
20:56 <hads> mcgillic: Incorrect channel.


New camera features updated electronics, Super 35 4.6K HDR image sensor, 15 stops of dynamic range, 300 fps high frame rate shooting, Blackmagic RAW and more.
Blackmagic Design is releasing the new URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2, a second generation URSA Mini Pro camera offers church filmmakers fully redesigned electronics and a new Super 35mm 4.6K image sensor with 15 stops of dynamic range that combine to support high frame rate shooting at up to 300 frames per second. In addition, URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 supports Blackmagic RAW and features a new USB-C expansion port for direct recording to external disks.
The new URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 (List price: $5995) is a dramatic advancement over the original model, according to the company announcement. It now features entirely new electronics for higher speed processing and a new Super 35mm 4.6K image sensor that captures up to 4608 x 2592 pixels with 15 stops of latitude at up to 3200 ISO. This allows customers to record full sensor 4.6K images at up to 120 frames per second, windowed 4K DCI at up 150 frames per second, and windowed 1080 HD at up to 300 frames per second --- specs that lend themselves well for fast action documentary work, nature photography, sports and more.
In addition, URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 can capture Blackmagic RAW images in both film and extended video modes for feature films, television shows, commercials, and indie films, including content for churches, as well as broadcast news, studio and even live multi camera production and IMAG.
Blackmagic RAW is a revolutionary, next generation codec, according to the press release. It gives customers visually lossless images, extensive metadata support and highly optimized GPU and CPU accelerated processing. Blackmagic RAW combines the quality and workflow advantages of traditional RAW formats with the speed and ease of use of standard video codecs. With Blackmagic RAW, customers can choose compression levels up to 12:1 and still get professional images that can be used for feature films, documentaries and broadcast programming. Blackmagic RAW settings such as 12:1 are important to allow customers to get the highest frame rates from the camera.
URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 also uses Blackmagic Design Generation 4 Color Science for superior imaging that results in extremely accurate skin tones and lifelike colors. Blackmagic RAW images are encoded using a custom non-linear 12-bit space designed to provide the maximum amount of color data and dynamic range. These formats can be recorded onto CFast or SD cards, as well as direct to flash disks using the new USB-C expansion port.
URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 is designed to be extremely durable and full featured. It includes everything customers need in a compact handheld magnesium alloy metal body that's light enough to use anywhere. There's an external high visibility backlit LCD status display for viewing critical shooting information, a foldout touch screen for reviewing shots without needing an extra on-set monitor, professional connections such as 12G-SDI, XLR audio, built-in high quality stereo microphones and more. Plus, every control on the camera is redundant, including the power, so if anything should go wrong in the field, the camera can still be used.
Featuring both dual C-Fast 2.0 recorders and dual SD UHS-II card recorders, customers can choose the media that works best for their projects. C-Fast cards are ideal for full-resolution Blackmagic RAW 12 bit recording, while UHS-II SD cards are inexpensive and commonly available, making them perfect for recording Blackmagic RAW 8:1 or 12:1 for Ultra HD and regular HD files. With dual slots for each media type, the camera never has to stop recording because when the first card is full, it automatically continues onto the next card. Full cards can be swapped for empty ones, all without stopping the camera.
URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 includes the full DaVinci Resolve Studio software, giving customers a complete post-production solution. This powerful software combines professional nonlinear video editing with advanced color corrector for importing, editing, color correcting, finishing and delivering projects shot on URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2. DaVinci Resolve Studio works natively with Blackmagic RAW files from the camera, so customers can take them directly into post production without having to convert or change them. Every bit of quality is preserved because it is a true lossless workflow.
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• Lightweight and durable magnesium alloy body.
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Blackmagic URSA Mini AccessoriesThe Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 is compatible with the full range of URSA Mini accessories available from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide: • Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro PL, B4 and F lens mounts each sold separately.
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• Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder featuring 7" screen, variable tension mounting points, grab handles, external controls and more.


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Holy Prophet was neglectful in appointing a caliph but the Sahabah were intelligent?!
Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) was neglectful in appointing a caliph but the Sahabah were intelligent?!
Muslims accuse the Shias of lowering the position of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and raising the status of Imams (a.s.). This is of course a result of their poor understanding of Prophethood and Imamat and their own personal prejudices.
But one way the Muslims have raised their own leaders / Sahabah over Allah's Prophet (s.a.w.a.) is in the matter of appointing a successor. When it comes to the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) the Muslims maintain that he (s.a.w.a.) was neglectful in this regard and failed to appoint a successor. However, the Sahabah were more dutiful and intelligent in this regard and appointed a successor to shepherd the nation. This view is clear from reports like these:
Abu Bakr more intelligent than the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) outlining to Ibn Abbas how the rulers engineered the usurping one after another:
Then Abu Bakr made Umar as caliph and in this he did not follow the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) who (according to Muslims) left without appointing a caliph.
Abu Bakr was asked in this connection, so he said:
Should I leave the nation of Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) like an old shoe? Would I leave it without appointing a caliph over the Muslims?!
This was his taunt against the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) as (apparently) he (s.a.w.a.) was heedless in appointing a caliph.
Kitab al-Sulaim (r.a.) trad 14
Behar al-Anwar v 30 p 152
Umar more intelligent than Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
Umar is reported to have said:
One who does not leave behind a successor squanders the affairs of the nation.
Tarikh al-Madinah v 3 p 885-896
According to this report, Umar believes the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) squandered the affairs of the nation.
Abdullah Ibn Umar more intelligent than Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
Abdullah Ibn Umar urges his father to appoint a successor:
I heard something from the people and took an oath that I will communicate it to you. They presume that you are not going to nominate a successor. If a grazer of camels and sheep that you had appointed comes back to you leaving the cattle, you will (certainly) think that the cattle are lost. To look after the people is more serious and graver.
Sahih al-Muslim Book 20 trad 4,486
Abdullah Ibn Umar had basic common sense which the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) lacked, when it came to appointing a successor.
Non-Muslims more intelligent than Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
Even those Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) was inviting towards Islam were concerned about successorship of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and used it as a bargaining chip to accept Islam.
When the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) invited Bani Amir Ibn Saasah tribe to Islam, one of them asked:
If we follow you and Allah makes you victorious over the opponents, would successorship be there for us after you?
The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) replied: The matter (of successorship) is with Allah and He places it wherever He wants.
Life of Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) by Haikal p 132
Incidents like this show that even outsiders were thinking about successorship and leadership and sought it for themselves and the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) clearly mentioned that it was for Allah to decide. So how can then Allah and His Prophet (s.a.w.a.) ignore or neglect it at a later stage. It puts a question mark on the prophethood of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) who had all along maintained that a successor would be appointed by Allah.
Going by these reports, according to the Muslims, the companions of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and even non-Muslim tribes appreciated the urgency to appoint a successor but Allah who sent forth his last Prophet (s.a.w.a.) with a Shariah till the Day of Judgment was neglectful in appointing a caliph! Also Muslims will have to concede that by appointing a successor, the Sahabah have distanced themselves from the Holy Prophet's (s.a.w.a.) Sunnah – which in their view is to leave the nation without a caliph.
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The list of Sigma lenses for Canon EOS is missing the Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX APO DG OS HSM . It shares the same value 174 with the Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM and some other lenses.
I cannot provide a manufacturer link, as the lens is discontinued by Sigma and replaced by the new Art series 120-300.
Attached are sample images of the two 174 lenses I own. They are both correctly detected with the provided patch. For the lens name, I used the same name scheme as in the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO OS HSM , which also shares the 174 value in canonmn.cpp.
#1252 Patch submitted. Thank You to Markus for the patch and test files. Test suite updated appropriately.
Patched exiv2 results with the images.
Thanks for the patch. I have reviewed and submitted your patch as it passes the test suite. r4684.
Please read #1251 for a discussion about lens recognition in v0.26.
I've update the test suite appropriately as a "regression detector" should your patch be broken by a future change in canonmn.cpp.
Thank you for using Exiv2 and contributing to its development.


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Q: SQL LEFT and patindex I am trying to write a select query that takes off the leading zeros and takes of all characters that are not numeric.  I figured out how to do one or the other just not both at the same time.
So far I have:
SELECT
    Substring(rt_VehicleName, patindex('%[^0]%', rt_VehicleName), +4),
    [rt_Odometer],
    [rt_CumHours],
    [Date],
    [Emco]

FROM
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and the results are 28 S. I want to get rid of the S

A: This query seems overcomplicated but it works in my data.
select top 10 SUBSTRING(LEFT(SUBSTRING([Your Column Here], PATINDEX('%[0-9.-]%', [Your Column Here]), 8000), PATINDEX('%[^0-9.-]%', SUBSTRING([Your Column Here], PATINDEX('%[0-9.-]%', [Your Column Here]), 8000) + 'X') -1), PATINDEX('%[^0]%', [Your Column Here]+'.'), LEN([Your Column Here])) as 'No 0s or Letters', * from [Your Table Here]

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GetFit - January 9, 2022 at 2:37
Canada's chief public health officer is urging those who have yet to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to take that step as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to strain health-care systems across the country.
"Currently, we still need millions more Canadians to increase their protection with #COVID19 vaccines, including almost 7 million eligible people who need a 1st or 2nd dose," Dr. Theresa Tam tweeted on Saturday.
Tam also urged those who have had both shots to book a booster dose if they're eligible, citing "accumulating evidence" that a third shot provides protection against severe illness from Omicron.
"This may feel like a double marathon we didn't sign up for, but we can draw strength knowing the ground we've covered so far to stay on track and work together to get where we need to go," Tam said.
5/5 Stay the course:
•#COVID19Vaccines/#BoosterDose as eligible
•limit contacts to your household members as much as possible,
•use layers of personal protection to reduce risk of exposure/spread#AVOID3Cs #MaskFit #GoodVentilation
—@CPHO_Canada
Her comments come as provinces struggle with Omicron-driven surges.
In Ontario, the number of people hospitalized continued its upward trend, reaching a new pandemic high of 2,594 on Saturday.
Health officials reported 13,362 new lab-confirmed cases, although the actual daily count is likely much higher given that the province has reduced access to PCR testing for most people.
The province also reported 31 additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Saturday.
A total of 385 people were undergoing treatment for the illness in intensive care units, up by 47 from the previous day.
People leave with COVID-19 antigen test kits after lining up at a mall in Ottawa on Friday. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
New Brunswick also saw a record for hospitalizations, with that figure reaching 80 on Saturday, up 11 from the day before.
In Quebec, the number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations rose by 163 for a total of 2,296 on Saturday. Health officials reported 245 patients in intensive care, an increase of 16 from Friday.
The province also reported 44 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus on Saturday, the highest daily death toll in nearly a year.
What's happening across Canada
With lab-based testing capacity deeply strained and increasingly restricted, experts say true case counts are likely far higher than reported. Hospitalization data at the regional level is also evolving, with several provinces saying they will report figures that separate the number of people in hospital because of COVID-19 from those in hospital for another medical issue who also test positive for COVID-19.
For more information on what is happening in your community — including details on outbreaks, testing capacity and local restrictions — click through to the regional coverage below.
You can also read more from the Public Health Agency of Canada, which provides a detailed look at every region — including seven-day average test positivity rates — in its daily epidemiological updates.
A person checks in at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Montreal on Saturday. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
In British Columbia, officials announced children will return to in-class learning on Monday, despite a surge in transmission caused by Omicron. Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside said there will be enhanced safety measures in place and schools will have access to three-layered masks, despite calls from the B.C. Teachers Federation to distribute N95s instead.
In the Prairies, the Saskatchewan government is declining to limit gatherings despite a warning from the chief medical health officer; more than 900 health-care workers in Manitoba tested positive over the holidays, according to the provincial health organization; and projections from Alberta Health Services' early warning system suggest the current wave could, within a couple of weeks, send more people to hospital than at any point in the pandemic.
In the Atlantic provinces, visitor restrictions have been expanded to in-patients and long-term care residents at several hospitals in Nova Scotia's northern zone, as the province continues to report high daily COVID-19 case counts. The new restrictions in N.S. come as Prince Edward Island announced an outbreak at a care facility in Miscouche that has so far affected three staff and eight residents. Meanwhile, labour groups in Newfoundland and Labrador are demanding 10 days of mandatory paid sick leave for workers as thousands across the province are sick with COVID-19 or self-isolating.
In the North, there's a mixture of relief, resignation and disappointment from students, parents and teachers as schools across the Northwest Territories return to online learning this week.
What's happening around the world
As of Saturday, more than 303.5 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University's coronavirus tracking tool. The reported global death toll stood at more than 5.4 million.
In Europe, U.K. government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital.
PHOTOS | Britain surpasses 150,000 coronavirus deaths:
In the Americas, Mexico set a new record for daily cases on Saturday with 30,671, according to official data. Mexico has confirmed more than 4.1 million cases since the start of the pandemic and has the world's fifth highest confirmed death toll at more than 300,000.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has agreed to impose stricter COVID-19 measures at its military bases in Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday, amid concerns that outbreaks at bases have fuelled infection in local communities. Japan reintroduced coronavirus restrictions in three regions that host U.S. military bases, the first such emergency controls since September.
In Africa, the African Cup of Nations — the continent's top soccer tournament — will finally open in Cameroon on Sunday after a three-year delay, with only fully vaccinated fans and those with proof of a negative test allowed to attend.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Women have made great strides in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But in non-Western countries, huge gender gaps remain in both representation and opportunity.
That reality drove a vigorous discussion during a special luncheon sponsored by 23andMe and Johnson & Johnson Innovation on 27 October at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2017.
Three prominent international female leaders in STEM shared their perspectives on who will—and should—do science in the 21st century. Women will only make more progress in science if their nations recognize them as equals and support them with opportunities, they said.
The next generation of scientists "must be women—and black people have to be a part of that," said Naledi Pandor, South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology. Pandor is working toward this goal in South Africa in several ways, such as providing research and educational grants targeted at women at all education levels.
The challenges facing potential women scientists in Japan are mainly cultural, said Miyoko O. Watanabe, deputy executive director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency and vice president of the Science Council of Japan. Women play many leadership roles in Japan, but not in the sciences, she said. Opportunities for female leaders in the STEM fields are not common—and are not often sought out. Young girls growing up in traditional Japanese families are not encouraged to explore these fields.
All three leaders spoke of their dissatisfaction at the number of successful scientists—particularly females—who leave their home countries to perform their research in the U.S. and elsewhere, where financial and institutional support is deeper. They are working to change that by advocating and promoting STEM activities for all genders and races within their countries and around the world.
Kimberly Hickok is a freelance writer and graduate student in the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz. Find her stories at www.kimberlydhickok.com and follow her on Twitter @kimdhickok.


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La historieta, tebeo o cómic español es una de las tradiciones de historieta más importantes a nivel europeo, gozando de sus años dorados en los años cuarenta y cincuenta, además de un boom entre finales de los setenta y mediados de los ochenta. Por lo demás, ha sufrido la estrechez e incluso crisis de su mercado, como en la actualidad, donde su facturación no llega al 6% de la producción editorial del país, y solo alrededor de un 10% de ella cuentan con autoría y producción autóctona.

Históricamente, sus mayores centros de producción han sido Barcelona, Valencia y Madrid, por este orden, aunque muchos de sus dibujantes han tenido que trabajar para el extranjero. Carente de las ayudas públicas de que gozan otras artes icónicas como el cine, se puede decir, como el crítico Jesús Cuadrado, que «lo casual es condición sine qua non para que la Historieta, la Historieta española, se manifieste y sobreviva».

En su trayectoria se inscriben revistas tan emblemáticas como Cairo, Chicos, En Patufet, Jaimito, El Jueves, Madriz, Rambla, Pulgarcito, TBO, El Víbora o Trinca; series como El Capitán Trueno, Cuto, Makinavaja, Makoki, Mortadelo y Filemón, Pumby, Torpedo 1936 o Zipi y Zape, y autores como Josep Coll, Mauro Entrialgo, Carlos Giménez, Jordi Bernet, Josep Maria Beà, Miguel Ángel Martín, Max, Miguelanxo Prado, Daniel Torres o Manuel Vázquez, incluyendo a pioneros como Apeles Mestres.

Su evento más importante es el Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona y cuenta con un Premio Nacional del Cómic, además de una red de alrededor de 150 librerías especializadas.

Denominaciones

En España, a la historieta se la ha llamado también tebeo. Dicho término, puramente local, tiene su origen en la revista TBO, y designa sobre todo a la publicación que contiene historietas, siendo consagrado su uso en la edición de 1968 del Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española. Además de historietas, el tebeo de la postguerra española recogía «material diverso destinado genéricamente a la infancia» como concursos, juegos recortables, pasatiempos, secciones instructivas, etc.

A mediados de los años 70, una parte del medio empezó a defender el uso del término de origen anglosajón comic (escrito al principio sin tilde) para potenciar una historieta de grafismo más realista, pretensiones esteticistas o experimentales y temas considerados más adultos, con abundantes dosis de erotismo, en detrimento de la más habitual en la postguerra, que se dirigía preferentemente a un público infantil. Como explica el historietista Carlos Giménez:

El nuevo término se extendió con rapidez, llegando a aparecer en la denominación de los eventos de historieta que surgían por el país. A pesar de ello, las últimas revistas del boom del cómic adulto en España (Cairo y Madriz) y otras más recientes, como Viñetas intentaron recuperar el término tebeo, o variaciones del mismo, como neotebeo, puesto que como afirma Joan Navarro en el editorial del primer número de esta última revista: «Nosotros no estamos dispuestos a renunciar a nuestras palabras siguiendo el papanatismo vergonzante que ha imperado en las décadas precedentes».

Historia

Industria

Desde la aparición del primer tebeo, Dominguín, en 1915, Barcelona ha sido la principal productora de los mismos. Esto se atribuye a causas económicas, así como a su mayor disponibilidad de artistas (los cuales trabajaban ya para otros semanarios) y a su carácter más «europeo» en comparación con otras ciudades. Bien es cierto que Madrid produce tebeos de calidad, como Chiquilín (1924), Pinocho (1925) o Macaco (1928), pero también más minoritarios.

Durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo pasado, sin embargo, la distribución se limitaba a la región de procedencia, siendo bajas las tiradas:

Es en los años 30 cuando se populariza por fin el medio, logrando TBO una tirada de  en 1935. Muchas de las empresas, sin embargo, nunca dejaron de ser familiares, como testimonian sus propios nombres: Bruguera, Calleja, Marco, Parent, Vives.

Durante la Guerra Civil, muchas editoriales desaparecieron, mientras que otras se subordinaron a los intereses partidistas en lugar de los comerciales. Hubo sin embargo una relativa abundancia de papel, merced a las importación desde Alemania, lo que permitió tiradas de más de cien mil ejemplares.

Entre 1940 y 1950, la precaria situación económica obligó a recurrir a cupos de papel, llegándose a usar el original como «el cliché directo que iba a la imprenta». Además, la mayoría de los tebeos no consiguieron autorización como publicación periódica, lo que les obligaba a renovar continuamente su permiso de edición y a no incluir la numeración, la fecha ni idéntico título en la portada. Solo a partir de 1946, los tebeos comerciales empezaron a mejorar su periodicidad, desarrollándose un auténtico mercado nacional, en el que vuelven a dominar los productos barceloneses, más comerciales. Durante los años cincuenta sus editoriales más importantes fueron Bruguera, Cliper, Hispano Americana de Ediciones y Toray.

A finales de los años 50, el aumento de la capacidad adquisitiva permitió que las editoriales pudiesen empezar a desdoblar sus publicaciones, lanzando varias revistas dirigidas a un mismo público con la garantía de que lograrían compradores.

Según el padre Jesús M. Vázquez, Secretario General de la Comisión de Información y Publicaciones Infantiles y Juveniles, a mediados de los años 60 se vendían anualmente más de 85 millones de ejemplares (78 de autoría nacional) de unos 100 títulos de revistas infantiles. Entre 1969 y 1970, la difusión media de una revista femenina como Lily, alcanzaba los 42.430 ejemplares por número.

En 1973, las principales revistas tenían las siguientes tiradas: 35 000 ejemplares, Jaimito; 40 000, Pumby; 150 000, TBO, y 240 000, Pulgarcito. Un año después, la tirada conjunta de los 76 tebeos editados al mes en el país era de, aproximadamente 7 030 000 ejemplares mensuales.

En 1976, se editaban ya 80 tebeos, de los cuales solo «veinticuatro publican material español específicamente producido para ellas, y aun así, en una proporción del 40% del total de la revista, dejando el resto o bien para material extranjero o bien para material español antiguo». Debido a ello, la mayoría de profesionales españoles, unos 250, trabajaban para el extranjero.

En 1981, el sector del cómic produjo ocho millones de ejemplares, exportando cuatrocientos millones de pesetas en derechos de autor.

A partir de la década de los 90, pueden consultarse los sucesivos informes del Comercio Interior del Libro en España, de los que se ha extraído la siguiente información:

Según apuntaba en 2009 Julio Martínez 'Mart', vicepresidente de la Asociación de Autores de Cómic de España (AACE), las tiradas serían todavía menores: "Una media de 2000 el de tapa dura y de 5000 si viene de fuera o ya tiene un éxito detrás", volviéndose "ridículas si las comparas con Francia u otros países". La mayor cantidad de novedades se concentra en torno a las Navidades y el Salón Internacional de Barcelona.

Según el tamaño de las empresas, los títulos editados se reparten de la siguiente forma:

Sigue ahora un gráfico con los porcentajes de venta en sus diferentes canales de comercialización, basada en las mismas fuentes:

Hay que sumar, a este respecto, el número de ejemplares prestados en las bibliotecas. En una red de bibliotecas como la de Barcelona se pasó de 264305 e 2004 a 288679 en 2005, "lo que supone un incremento del 8,4 por ciento".

Sigue ahora un gráfico con el número de títulos producidos por Comunidad Autónoma:

Según su procedencia y atendiendo a los datos de Breixo Harguindey para AACE, el material editado se distribuye de acuerdo a los siguientes porcentajes:

Según los datos del Anuario de Glénat, en 1993 se publicaron 116 títulos (libros o álbumes) de autores españoles.

El soporte más habitual es el libro en papel (95,0% en 2007).

Sociología
Los primeros tebeos de principios del siglo pasado, igual que los periódicos para la infancia decimonónicos, difundían una ideología burguesa y tenían una intención moralizante, dirigiéndose a los hijos de las clases altas, aunque ya no exclusivamente de dirigentes, sino también de la alta burocracia y grandes negocios. Pocas familias en los años 20 se gastarían los 10 céntimos que costaba Dominguín, TBO o Pulgarcito.

Es en la década siguiente cuando el tebeo inició su popularización en España, al compás de la disminución del analfabetismo y la mortalidad infantil, mientras aumentaba la concentración urbana.

La Guerra Civil contribuyó a difuminar las barreras entre el mundo infantil y el adulto, preparando el camino para las publicaciones que en la posguerra se dirigirán a todos los públicos. En este último período, cumplió una función catártica, además de lúdica, al permitir la evasión de la dura realidad.

Política institucional y mecenazgo

Durante los primeros años del franquismo, fray Justo Pérez de Urbel resolvía las solicitudes de autorización de nuevos tebeos que llegaban a la Vicesecretaría de Educación Popular de FET y de las JONS, clasificándose la mayoría como publicaciones unitarias, lo que perjudicaba su periodicidad. Solo una docena consiguieron tal permiso: Flechas y Pelayos, Maravillas, Biblioteca Maravillas, Chicos, Mis Chicas, Chiquitito, Clarín, Leyendas Infantiles, El Gran Chicos, ¡Zas!, Junior Films y Bazar.

A partir de 1946, con la conversión de la Vicesecretaría en Subsecretaría de Educación Nacional, aumentaron las facilidades para la edición.

Sus ejemplares, junto a periódicos y revistas, se guardaban en la Biblioteca Nacional de España y el resto de hemerotecas, pero era frecuente que los archiveros sustrajesen el material para sus propios fines, por lo que la mayoría se ha perdido. En 1976, el Ministerio de Información y Turismo lanzó la campaña "Donde hay un tebeo habrá un libro", la cual fue criticada por alguna asociación de profesionales debido a que denigraba al medio, ignorando su verdadera naturaleza.

Con el triunfo del PSOE en las elecciones de 1982, Jesús Cuadrado se preguntaba si "el cambio" afectaría también al sector, resolviéndose por fin sus cuestiones pendientes: Abandono de colecciones, manipulación del original y rotulación mecánica por parte de las editoriales; incumplimiento de los derechos de autor y piratería; ausencia en las aulas, y carencia de tebeo tecas.

Pronto fue evidente, sin embargo, que Se recuerda, a este respecto, que Carmen Alborch, ministra de cultura entre 1993-1996, llegó a afirmar del cómic «que no sabe si es arte, y, si lo es, es menor». Miles de originales de Editorial Bruguera, Editorial Valenciana y el TBO siguen sin devolverse a los autores o a sus herederos.

Esta inoperancia de las autoridades provocaría pronto una desilusión en el sector, que convertiría en una constante su reclamación de un Centro de Documentación de la Historieta y la Cultura Popular que evitase la «irreparable pérdida de nuestra memoria gráfica».

Por el contrario, sí ha aumentado la presencia del cómic en las escuelas y bibliotecas públicas, y las diferentes Administraciones han financiado algunos tebeos: El Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo ("El Pato Verde"); Editoras regionales, como la de Extremadura; diputaciones, como la de Ciudad Real ("Línea y Mancha"); Ayuntamientos de La Línea de la Concepción ("Tuboescape"), de Madrid (Madriz), de Langreo (Caja de Dibujo), de Granada (La Granada de Papel). Otros gozaban de patrocinio privado, como la sevillana "Rumbo Sur" (1984), respaldada por El Monte de Piedad.<ref>El cómic desde Sevilla para ABC Sevilla, 20 de diciembre de 1984, p. 71.</ref> En 1984, por ejemplo, se produjeron 6 de estos tebeos subvencionados, número, por otra parte, muy inferior al de películas que gozaron de la misma.

La mayoría de los festivales y salones cuentan con subvenciones públicas (véase más abajo). También ha habido algunas exposiciones financiadas con dinero público, como "Una historia democrática", "València Còmic" o "El rastro del cómic" (Biblioteca Nacional, 2012) y una serie filatélica dedicada al cómic autóctono emitida por Correos y Telégrafos entre los años 1997 y 2001.

Mención aparte merecen tres exposiciones de dibujantes noveles financiadas con dinero público a través del programa de Radio 3 "Rock, cómics y otros rollos" en las que se participaron más de 70 autores y en las que se dieron a conocer algunos de lo que hoy son grandes nombres de las artes plásticas: Ana Juan, Ana Miralles, Carlos Pacheco, Joan Mundet, Carlos Puerta,  Joaquín López Cruces, Manuel Almela, José Antonio Calvo Téllez, José Luis Prats (Ozeluí), Roberto Carrillo, Goval,  José Manuel Nuevo, Roser Odúber, Carlos Ortin ....

Se ha premiado a Karpa (medalla de oro de la Generalidad Valenciana), y a Miguel Quesada, Francisco Ibáñez y Purita Campos (medallas de oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes en 2000, 2001 y 2010, respectivamente). Excepcionalmente, se ha llegado a dedicar alguna estatua al cómic autóctono, como la del El Capitán Trueno que el pueblo de Albuixech erigió en honor de Ambrós, paisano suyo y dibujante más célebre del personaje. Finalmente, el Ministerio de Cultura estableció el Premio Nacional del Cómic en 2007.

 Política asociativa
Durante el franquismo, los profesionales carecían de «las mínimas condiciones de contratos, seguridad social, seguro de desempleo» y «la propiedad intelectual de sus obras no es reconocida con la eficacia que lo son otras obras de otros sectores». Tuvo lugar, sin embargo, la Primera Reunión Nacional de Dibujantes de la Historieta en el marco del Festival de Cine de Sitges de 1969 y hubo reuniones de dibujantes en las ciudades de Barcelona y Madrid en los años inmediatamente posteriores.

En 1977, más de cien profesionales de la historieta y el humor gráfico se integraron en la Asociación de Artistas Plásticos, buscando un mayor reconocimiento de sus derechos. Un año después, se creaba una sección de Dibujantes de Historietas en el Sindicato de Información y Artes Gráficas de la CNT.

En 1986 surge la Asociación de Profesionales del Cómic. El 17 de noviembre de 1987 se publica la Ley 22/1987, de 11 de noviembre, de Propiedad intelectual, que confirma que la propiedad de las obras corresponde a los autores.

En 2002 se creó la Asociación de Autores de Cómic de España, con la intención de proteger los derechos de los autores, dibujantes y guionistas de historieta españoles. En 2010 entablaron, en el Festival Internacional de la Historieta de Angulema, Francia, un primer contacto con el Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs, para mejorar las condiciones laborales entre España y Francia.

 Festivales y otros eventos
Actualmente, proliferan festivales de cómic en cada comunidad autónoma. El más antiguo de ellos es el Salón de Asturias, cuya primera edición se celebró en 1972.

En 1981, se creó el Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona, pronto convertido en el más importante del país

No fue hasta los 90 que se crearon el Salón Internacional del Cómic de Granada (1994), las Jornadas Internacionales del Cómic Villa de Avilés (1996) y Expocómic y Viñetas desde el Atlántico, ambos en 1998. Para entonces, se había producido un auténtico boom de salones del manga, empezando por el Salón del Manga de Barcelona (1995), también organizado por Ficomic.

Nuevos salones se inauguraron en 2002: Salón del Cómic y del Manga de Getxo y Salón del Cómic de Zaragoza.

 Presencia en otros medios de comunicación
Ha habido multitud de programas específicamente dedicados al tebeo en la radio, siendo seguramente el primero el de Pedro Tabernero para la delegación en Sevilla de la Cadena Ser en 1971. En los ochenta, la oferta se multiplica, no solo en la privada ("Los Artistas de la Viñeta", 1986), también en la radio pública: "De Comix" (1981, Elías García y Moncho Cordero, Radio Juventud), "Nocturno" (1981), Rock, cómic y otros rollos (1982 a 1984) de Elías García y José Antonio Maíllo, "Historietas y Tebeos" (1985) de Moncho Cordero, "Tebeos, Historietas, Cómics" (1985) de Antonio Lara y "Viñeta firofa" (1986).

En la TV su presencia se ha reducido a miniespacios en programas como Pista libre (1982-85) y a proyectos que no llegarían a realizarse como "La Historieta" de Luis Conde Martín y Jorge Riobóo.

 Adaptaciones a otros medios
Una de las primeras adaptaciones animadas basada en historietas españolas fue Mortadelo y Filemón de los que realizaron una serie de cortometrajes entre 1965 y 1971. Estos personajes también conocieron en 1994 una serie de televisión, al igual que Zipi y Zape en 2003.

Las series de imagen real han corrido una suerte dispar, desde el éxito de Historias de la puta mili (1994) y sobre todo Makinavaja (1995) al fracaso de El botones Sacarino (2002). Proyectos como Historias de taberna galáctica"Beà. Psiconauta de la historieta", entrevista al autor realizada por M. Barrero, J. Mora y D. Belmonte para Tebeosfera, Sevilla-Barcelona, 20-VI-2009, disponible aquí. o Torpedo 1936 no llegarían siquiera a buen puerto.

Aparte de las adaptaciones fílmicas de las historietas de Ivà como Historias de la puta mili hay que destacar La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón dirigida por Javier Fesser, que se convertiría en la película española más vista de 2003 (4 852 056 espectadores), gozando de una secuela cinco años después, María y yo, basada en el relato homónimo de Miguel Gallardo o la película de la versión fílmica de El Capitán Trueno, acariciada desde hace tiempo.

También se han realizado largometrajes animados como los dos festivales de Mortadelo y Filemón, El armario del tiempo, Las monstruosas aventuras de Zipi y Zape (comercializado en DVD) y Arrugas.

 Notas y referencias

 Bibliografía
 ALARY, Viviane (ed) (2002). Historietas, comics y tebeos españoles. Presses Universitaires du Mirail: Hespérides Espagne, Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail.
 ALTARRIBA, Antonio (2001). La España del Tebeo: La historieta española de 1940 a 2000, Espasa Calpe.
 ALTARRIBA, Antonio y REMESAR, Antoni (1987). Comicsarias: Ensayo sobre una década de historieta española (1977-1987), Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias.
 CUADRADO, Jesús (2000). Atlas español de la cultura popular: De la historieta y su uso 1873-2000, Madrid: Ediciones Sinsentido/Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez. 2 v. ISBN 84-89384-23-1.
 DOPICO, Pablo (2005). El cómic underground español, 1970-1980, Ediciones Cátedra.
 GUIRAL, Antoni (2004). Cuando los cómics se llamaban tebeos. La escuela Bruguera (1945-1963), Ediciones El Jueves.
 LLADÓ POL, Francisca (2001). Los cómics de la Transición, Ediciones Glénat.
 MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio (01/1968). Apuntes para una historia de los tebeos II. La civilización de la imagen (1917-1936). Madrid: Revista de Educación, n.º 195.
 MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio (02/1968). Apuntes para una historia de los tebeos III. Tiempos heroicos del tebeo español (1936-1946). Madrid: Revista de Educación, n.º 196.
 MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio (03/1968). Apuntes para una historia de los tebeos IV. El tebeo, cultura de masas (1946-1963). Madrid: Revista de Educación, n.º 197.
 MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio (1978). Historia del Cómic español 1875-1939. Editorial Gustavo Gili.
 MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio (2000). Los inventores del cómic español. 1873-1900. Planeta DeAgostini.
 MERINO, Ana (2003) El cómic hispánico, Cátedra.
 PORCEL, Pedro (2002). "Clásicos en Jauja. La historia del tebeo valenciano", Edicions de Ponent.
 RAMÍREZ, Juan Antonio (1975). El "comic" femenino en España. Arte sub y anulación Madrid: Editorial Cuadernos para el Diálogo, S. A. Colección Divulgación universitaria, Arte y literatura, número 78. Depósito Legal: M. 8.752 - 1975 ISBN 84-229-0177-3.
 RAMÍREZ, Juan Antonio (12/1975). La historieta cómica de postguerra. Madrid: Editorial Cuadernos para el Diálogo, Colección Memoria y Comunicación. Depósito Legal: M. 38.325 - 1975 ISBN 84-6010-9.
 VÁZQUEZ DE PARGA, Salvador (1980). Los comics del franquismo. Editorial Planeta.
 Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Cultura (2010), Los Tebeos de postguerra''.

Véase también
 Anexo:Revistas de historieta de España
 Artículos sobre historietistas españoles
 El humor en la prensa española

Enlaces externos

 Guía del Cómic, fichas y novedades por José A. Serrano;
 Tebeosfera, revista electrónica dirigida por el teórico Manuel Barrero;
 Tebeosclásicos, revista dedicada al cómic español de la edad dorada;
 La Cárcel de Papel, críticas y reseñas de Álvaro Pons;
 Mandorla, por Santiago García;
 Dreamers.com, portal español con especial atención al cómic;
 La T.I.A.com, animado foro dedicado a Ibáñez y la escuela Bruguera.

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Washington, DC - In less than a month an overwhelming majority of Aer Lingus Flight Attendants mobilized to unify their work group for union representation with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA). AFA today filed with the National Mediation Board (NMB) the signed authorization cards seeking AFA representation.
"The U.S. based Flight Attendants working for Aer Lingus perform the same essential first responder duties as their Irish counterparts and 25,000 United Flight Attendants, without the same pay, benefits and work rule protections afforded by a legally binding contract. This joint venture was dreamed up by management for the sole purpose of avoiding the legal obligations of a contract and a commitment to workers. It is a failed labor model and the U.S. based Aer Lingus Flight Attendants are making that clear today by calling for an election to gain a voice at work and the right to collective bargaining," said AFA International President Veda Shook.
"We are excited to gain democracy and the right to collective bargaining at work, just like our counterparts who are based in Ireland. Aer Lingus operates differently than most U.S. airlines - it is a European Carrier. Our Irish-based flying partners have been happily unionized for many years and the collaborative worker/management relationship is a benefit for everyone. We, 'Unite Aer Lingus IAD,' look forward to the same benefits at work: collaborating on improvements that will benefit our airline and Aer Lingus Flight Attendants," said AFA supporters at Aer Lingus.
In 2009, Aer Lingus Limited and United Airlines entered a joint venture for a flight between Washington DC and Madrid. Aer Lingus employs the workers based in Washington, DC.
Shay Cody, General Secretary of IMPACT, the union that represents Flight Attendants at Aer Lingus in Ireland and England sent the following statement to AFA, "I am writing to convey the full support of the IMPACT Trade Union for your organizing drive for Aer Lingus Flight Attendants based in Washington Dulles."
"The right to join a union is a human rights issue that is understood around the world," stated Shook.
The Association of Flight Attendants is the world's largest Flight Attendant union. Focused 100 percent on Flight Attendant issues, AFA has been the leader in advancing the Flight Attendant profession for over 65 years. Serving as the voice for Flight Attendants in the workplace, in the aviation industry, in the media and on Capitol Hill, AFA has transformed the Flight Attendant profession by raising wages, benefits and working conditions. Nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 23 airlines come together to form AFA, part of the 700,000-member strong Communications Workers of America (CWA), AFL-CIO. For more information go to yourafa.org.


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Reorienting people and culture to support business recovery
Stephanie Matthews - Principal, Culture
This is a potent moment for humanity, and for businesses everywhere. The world's companies are re-opening their doors to begin their recovery. Furloughed and home-working staff are starting to return to their workplaces. But when health and safety are paramount concerns, the trepidation is palpable.
Every brand says they want to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis stronger and more resilient. This means an engaged and productive team is absolutely crucial.
If you're facing this challenge, the rule of thumb is simple: start as you mean to go on. Aside from keeping customers and colleagues safe, one big question you could be asking is this: "Based on our brand ideals and how the business will look post-COVID-19, how can we make our team's return to work experience as good as it can possibly be?"
This isn't just a job for HR. Getting it right requires CEOs, Brand and Marketing, HR and other operational leaders to work in concert, and in full knowledge that the way we choose to engage people at this time – what we communicate, the experience we give them and how we make them feel – will set the cultural tone for years to come.
Embracing new working realities
It could be easy to overlook the importance of culture in the planning process. Setting up safe, post-pandemic workplaces is a serious logistical headache. Whether we're in offices or stores, warehouses or airports, there's a raft of new technology, equipment, routines, policies and guidelines to roll out. But there's also a soft side to manage.
Millions of us are facing a new working reality: the companies we left are not the companies we are coming back to. This pandemic has forced us to make changes we never could have anticipated. While some businesses are thriving in this crisis and scaling quickly to meet new demands, countless others have made deep internal cuts. Culture and engagement will have taken a hit. And how could it not? Workplaces were shuttered overnight. Mass furloughing, redundancies, hiring freezes, pay cuts and the suspension of bonuses, dividends and supplier contracts have been rolled out on an unprecedented scale. At this point, low morale, engagement and poor mental health is a serious concern.
But the picture is not entirely bleak. This crisis has tested our mettle, and many have surprised themselves with the speed at which they have been able to evolve. We've flipped the switch to become fully remote teams overnight, drawn deep on our core values and capabilities to help our communities, overhauled our policies and processes at pace, achieved digital transformation to continue serving customers and even pivoted to entirely new business models.
Culture-wise, many positive trends have accelerated, proving that we can – if we choose to – meet the demands of new generation talent. A recent research study conducted by Yonder (formerly Populus Group) called Home Truths showed that while we are missing aspects of working life pre-COVID, we are also keen to embrace new work patterns.
The genie is well and truly out of the bottle on flexible working. Traditional hierarchies and information flows have been disrupted. Tired corporate rituals have been replaced with different and better ones. The lines between personal and professional and have become blurred, paving the way for more authentic modes of engagement and leadership. And while too many of us have grappled with grief and loss, others have glimpsed silver linings. Gifted time, we have reconnected with nature, played with our children, learned new skills and invested in self-care and exercise. Some have stepped off the treadmill only to notice what they've been missing.
Tapping the power of liminality
The lockdown process forced us to surrender to, even embrace liminality. From the Latin for threshold, limen, this concept from anthropology – defined as "in-betweenness" or "being on a threshold" – describes the state many of us have been inhabiting. First coined by the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in 1909, it was developed by Victor Turner in the late 1960s to explain how the middle phase of any rite of passage (after the initial 'separation' and before 'reassimilation') helps people make important changes in their lives.
Observed across cultures in situations as diverse as marriages and bereavements, carnivals and revolutions, this phenomenon can also be seen when a person returns to work after an extended leave of absence. In the COVID-19 crisis, we are experiencing this phenomenon en masse, as whole companies and societies.
Treating our return to work as a mass ritual sets the stage for engagement. The liminal state of lockdown is disorientating. As we prepare to transition back to work, fear and uncertainty accompanies excitement. The security of the past has been lost but the future has not yet materialised. Turner described liminality as "a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise." In this highly charged, receptive state, anything is conceivable. Transformation beckons, if we decide to pursue it.
Crossing the threshold
Our Home Truths study highlighted nervousness around how the return to work process will be managed by employers. Top-of-mind was the safety of working environments and commutes, but respondents also expressed a desire for reassurance around what they can expect in the future. So, we may have a new outlook on our lives, but we are also hungry for clarity on the changes we must now contend with.
In this context, we don't just need to reengage, we need to reorient and reboard people.
To instil confidence, employers must go further than the formalities to make this a positive, energising and empowering experience – one that reignites pride in who they are as a company, what they stand for and why what they do matters.
So, instead of getting back to business as usual – let's take this opportunity to welcome people back to our companies as we now wish them to be and invite them to play a role in shaping the future. With a little extra care, we can make this a great return.
If you're mapping out your company's return to work experience, remember there is no single, magic formula for success. That said, solid plans will always address the emotional and psychological dimensions of the reboarding process, not merely the functional.
Start by getting an insight into what employees are thinking or feeling, and what matters most to them. The views expressed will be diverse, so look for patterns in the data. What are the most important cultural outcomes you need to achieve at each stage? Do some teams need more targeted help?
In the example below, the process has to deliver a range of cultural outcomes. A cultural assessment is shown as a key activity before and after the return to work, to understand baseline views, monitor changes and guide decision-making in the future.
If you're planning your return, here are a few pointers to support your conversations:
Listen to understand – What's important to our people now? What do they hope for, and what do they fear? What do they want working life to be like in the future, and what will we do to show we're listening?
Galvanise with brand – How will we use our brand to drive cultural engagement and inspire a sense of shared identity, pride and belonging? How will we deliver a return to work in our own inimitable style, with our purpose and values at the heart?
Bring people together – How can we mark this moment, and bring people together? What's the uniting story we want to tell, and how will we tell it? How will we make sure everyone is included?
Clarify your focus – What do we want people to focus on now, and why is this exciting? What are the biggest change priorities to rally behind, and what difference will it make to our business, customers and to each of us individually if we achieve them?
At Yonder, we help organisations to set their future direction and create the positive culture and momentum needed for long-term success. Bringing a blend of insight, strategy and imagination, we offer a range of culture consultancy services including talent research, culture evaluation and development, employee engagement, employer branding and business transformation.


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