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Matt Morgan of FUN
[1] Fun, February 27, 1864.
MATTHEW SOMERVILLE MORGAN ('Matt' Morgan to his associates) was born in Camden town, London, on April 27, 1839 to a theatrical family. He studied scene painting in the studio of Telbin and Grieves and was employed at Drury Lane where his father led the orchestra in several theatres. He was taught drawing by the well-known engraver Thomas Hicks and Royal Academicians Absalom and Coxe Smyth. He married early in life and began working as a book illustrator before working as a traveling sketch correspondent for The London Illustrated News, traveling through France, Italy, Spain, and Algiers. He was in Africa in 1858 and covered the Franco-Prussian war in 1859. Morgan was a member of the Prince of Wales set.
[2] Fun, July 23, 1864.
Matt Morgan contributed volume covers, political cuts and 'socials' (technical term used for gag cartoons) to London Fun between 1862 and 1867 although he was not the only artist providing the big cuts.
[3] Fun, Vol. IV, 1863.
In 1867 he was the sole cartoonist on The Tomahawk ('A Saturday Journal of Satire', 11 May 1867 - 27 Aug 1870), a satirical paper edited by Arthur À Beckett with the assistance of his older brother Gilbert À Beckett. Their father was the famous Gilbert À Beckett of Punch. Gilbert Jr. was a playwright. Morgan's signature was a miniature tomahawk. The Tomahawk was similar to Punch but was mostly text with a one or two page color tinted woodcut in each twopenny issue. Matt Morgan was the first cartoonist on Judy (1867) at the same time he labored on The Tomahawk. Morgan was sole cartoonist for a Tomahawk spin-off, the monthly literary periodical Brittania (1869-1870).
[4] The Tomahawk, October 24, 1868.
Sir F.C. Burnand snidely recalled in "Mr. Punch"; Some Precursors and Competitors, that
'…he made no secret of the fact that he went to Tenniel's pictures for his models, and, as he said to me, "You couldn't find better anywhere." This was absolutely true. Matt also showed me what was his method of serving in statu pupillary to John Tenniel. He took one of his master's cartoons, some tracing-paper and a pencil, – that was all. Then he got on the tracks of Tenniel's lion and traced him; then he worked on Brittania's lines in the same manner. Result – a Matt "Morganatic marriage" in artful cartooning.'
[5] The Tomahawk, May 9, 1868.
According to stories told by Morgan himself, two of his Tomahawk cartoons ran afoul of the Royal family, a 'Brown Study' showing the Scottish gilly, the Queen's favorite servant, rumored to be Victoria's lover, standing behind the throne of England, and another featuring the Prince of Wales as Hamlet following the ghost of George IV. Apparently these scandals necessitated Morgan's banishment from the country. Morgan was not the author of the cartoons; the subjects were chosen by his employers. According to Richard Scully the truth was more mundane, Tomahawk went bankrupt (Morgan as well) and he had no choice but to accept Frank Leslie's timely offer of American employment. He may also have been running from a disgraceful affair with a Covent Garden actress.
[6] Matt Morgan in America, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 8, 1873.
'He then went to sunny Spain, and led a wild roving life with the gipsies. He sent some sketches to Frank Leslie, who at once recognizing their merit, and needing a man to beat Nast, sent for Matt. The latter reached New York by the first steamer, and strolling up to Frank Leslie's publishing house, was met by John, the dignified English porter. Matt at that time was a curious sight to see. He wore Spanish pantaloons, loose and flowing and slit at the bottoms, a short gilt-spangled velvet jacket, a bright-colored scarf and wide brimmed sombrero. Several daggers and poniards hung from his belt, and his mustachios were fierce enough for a Rinaldo Rinaldini or bold buccaneer of the Spanish Main.' – St. Louis Globe Democrat, March 30, 1876.
[7] Fun, July 9, 1864.
Whatever the truth of this Barnumesque newspaper account, Morgan found employment in America with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun. Leslie hired Morgan in August 1870 to replace the late William Newman (died July 1870).
[8] The Tomahawk, July 4, 1868.
Morgan left Leslie's employ in 1875 and worked on stage scenery in New York. In 1880 he was engaged as manager by the Strobridge Lithographic Company in Cincinnati where he stayed until 1885 painting canvas dioramas and lithographic posters. He painted dioramas of Jerusalem, Pompeii and Christ Entering Jerusalem taken from a scene in the stage-play Ben Hur. At the time of his death he was working on scenery and decorations for the new Madison Square Garden. He founded the Matt Morgan Art Pottery Company and the Cincinnati Art Students' League.
Matt Morgan was the chief political cartoonist for St. Stephen's Review in London from January to August 1885. He was the first art director of and chief cartoonist for Collier's Once a Week (1888-1889), later Collier's Weekly.
[9] Fun, Vol. VI, 1864.
His work appeared in many illustrated newspapers including covers for the Dramatic Mirror Christmas Numbers. Morgan died June 2, 1890 at his residence at Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. He had been married twice and had sixteen children. He had married his second wife in the 1880's in Canada. His most famous child was Fred Morgan, political cartoonist for a quarter century on the Philadelphia Inquirer. Fred also contributed illustrations to Once a Week. Another son, Reginald Morgan, took a career as a scene painter and a daughter, Miss Bertie Morgan, drew caricatures for Truth, Life, and Once a Week.
[10] Matt Morgan, June 15, 1890.
[11] The Tomahawk, December 26, 1868.
[12] The Tomahawk, August 8, 1868.
[13] Fun, April 2, 1864.
[14] Fun, endpiece, Vol. VI, 1864.
[15] February 22, 1888.
[16] Fun, June 25, 1864.
[17] Fun, March 19, 1864.
[18] Fun, July 2, 1864.
[19] Matt Morgan's caricaturist daughter, 1890.
[20] The Tomahawk, October 26, 1867.
'The Epitheatrical Cartoonist': Matthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian London by Richard Scully, Journal of Victorian Culture Vol. 16, No. 3, December 2011, 363–384
Sex, Art, and the Victorian Cartoonist:
Matthew Somerville Morgan in Victorian Britain and America,
by Richard Scully, IJOCA (International Journal of Comic Art),
Vol. 13, No.1, Spring 2011, pp.291-325.
Thanks to Richard Samuel West for corrections.
Labels: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Fun, Matt Morgan, Tomahawk
Frederick Barnard and John Gordon Thomson of FUN
[1] February 7, 1877.
FUN began on September 21, 1861, in London and lasted until 1900, second in longevity only to Punch. The periodical was said by David Anderson to have been begun by 'a speculative shopkeeper named M'Lean, who sold looking-glasses in Fleet Street.' Mark Bryant, writing in History Today, says the founding editor was London playwright and actor Henry J. Byron. Thus, Thomas McLean or one of his sons was probably once the proprietor or printer.
McLean was a Haymarket print publisher who began publishing in 1821. By 1830 he was publishing comic broadsheets consisting of cartoon vignettes by William Heath, Robert Seymour, and Charles Jameson Grant under the title McLean's Looking Glass. Richard Scully, who provided much of the background information for this post from his own research, writes: 'According to my records, the paper was printed by Charles Whyte (1861), MacLean (1861-65), Edward Wylam (1865-69), the Dalziel Brothers (1870-93), and M. Elton & Co. (1893-1900).'
[2] August 13, 1870. Fun cartoonist Frederick Barnard was replaced by John Gordon Thomson on September 10, 1870.
Anderson went on to name the first editors of Fun as 'a Mr. Urquhart, with the assistance of a son of the proprietor.' Tom Hood Jr. was the second editor followed by Henry S. Samson, proprietor and editor of the Referee. Richard Scully again: 'The editorial succession was as follows: Henry J. Byron (1861 to 13 May 1865), Tom Hood, Jr. (20 May 1865 to Nov. 1874), Henry S. Sampson (5 Dec 1874 to 1878), Edward Dalziel (1878-93).'
Among the distinguished writers during Tom Hood's time were George Augustus Sala, Ambrose Bierce, W.S. Gilbert, Francis Burnand, Tom Archer, William Brough, Tom Robertson and Clement Scott. This group of writers were known as 'the Gang' and met in a tap-room at Ludgate Station. Matt Morgan, Boyd Houghton, William Brunton, Paul Grey, J.F. Sullivan, Frederick Barnard, John Gordon Thomson and Wallis MacKay were some of the artists.
"July 1868.- Amateur Morning Performance at the Haymarket, for the benefit of the widowed mother of Paul Gray, the artist, when a new burlesque written by the contributors to "Fun", was produced, entitled Robinson Crusoe; or, the Injun Bride and the Injured Wife." -Era Almanack, 1868.
[3] September 10, 1870. First Fun cartoon by John Gordon Thomson.
Frederick 'Fred' Barnard was born in London on May 16, 1846. Barnard was one of the few Victorian cartoonists to have his cartoons published in all the major London comic periodicals including Punch, Fun, and Judy (under Charles Henry Ross). In the 1880s he contributed to Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday. During the 70s Barnard illustrated the works of Dickens for Chapman and Hall and painted portraits for the Royal family. In 1883 Chatto & Windus published Behind a Brass Knocker by Frederick Barnard and Charles H. Ross, engraved by the Dalziel brothers. Barnard died on September 28, 1896.
[4] January 8, 1870. Fun cartoon by Frederick Barnard.
Barnard's succesor on Fun was John Gordon Thomson, who drew 'big cuts' (as Punch termed the central cartoons) for Fun from 1870 to 1893 when he was succeeded by Wallis Mackay. Thomson was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, on September 2, 1841, and had moved to London by the time he was 20 to work as a civil servant. Thomson contributed to Punch in 1861, The Graphic in 1870, and moved to Fun the same year. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878, illustrated books and magazines for Samuel Beeton and others. It's presumed Thomson died sometime in 1911.
[5] August 24, 1872.
[6] September 19, 1874.
[7] December 17, 1879.
[8] June 29, 1881.
[9] February 21, 1883.
[10] September 8, 1886.
[11] October 26, 1887.
Labels: Frederick Barnard, Fun, John Gordon Thomson
American Comic Book Chronicles 1960-64
John Wells, American Comic Book Chronicles 1960-64. TwoMorrows Publishing, 2012.
When this entertaining history begins I was ten years old, when it ends, fourteen – my peak comic book reading years. Other than perennial favorites Superman and Batman, superheroes had been in decline. Funny animals and westerns were the most prolifically published comic genres. Walt Disney, "creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck," was building a theme park. By 1964 superheroes, ressurected antiques from the thirties and forties as well as fresh faces, dominated sales lists across North America. American Comic Book Chronicles sifts through this period year by year, exploring publishers, artists, writers and distributors, who, contrary to our boyhood visions of 'the cartoonist's life,' worked in an often cut throat business environment. Stan Lee was not far off the mark when he coined "The Bull Pen" to describe Mighty Marvel's New York offices.
A shadow industry of scribes and amateur cartoonists sprang forth, working in their bedrooms and studies late into the night with spirit duplicators, mimeographs and hectographs, producing comic fanzines and waking at dawn, blear-eyed, to prepare for the school day ahead. The relationship between fans and professionals was beneficial to both parties in a decade of swift changes that contained freeways, jet planes, television, radio, movies, transistors, and a Cold War.
The real story of the sixties was the rivalry between DC and Marvel begun with the appearance in 1960 of The Brave and the Bold No 28 featuring The Justice League of America. Marvel (as it would come to be known) brought out Fantastic Four in 1961 and the company was dominant by the end of 1964. All of the sixties companies are detailed here, including Dell/Gold Key, ACG, Charlton, Archie Comics, Harvey Comics. That 'Sick Humor' was drifting in the sixties air, inspiring the "satire" magazines MAD, HELP, SICK and CRACKED. John Wells delivers his unblinking gaze on the creators, the publishers, the fans and the industry, stripping back the shadows with the aid of direct quotes from the people involved in the sixties superhero revival.
American Comic Book Chronicles 1960-64 is a good start to this colorful historical series, which includes a second volume by John Wells covering comic companies up to 1969. Also promised are 1970s by Jim Beard, 1940-44 by Roy Thomas, 1945-49 by Roy Thomas, 1950s by Bill Schelly. I'm looking forward to reading the entire series. A three part interview with author John Wells is HERE.
Labels: American Comic Book Chronicles, John Wells
Quackery, self medication and reckless advertising in the gaslight era
[1] PFDA Commemorative Stamps.
Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Lard and soap we eat for cheese;
Butter is but axle-grease.
[2] Neuralgine Advertisement.
When considering the dreadful state of sanitation and the commonplace adulteration of foodstuffs in Nineteenth-Century North America, coupled with a vast medical ignorance, it is a wonder that anyone survived to adulthood. That they did is a testament to the hardy constitutions of our forebears. Nevertheless, survival came at a painful cost. Visitors from abroad noted that Americans seemed a sickly lot – sallow, dyspeptic and plagued by a variety of health disorders. The heyday for patent medicines, ranging from worthless to downright toxic, coincided with the first boom in the advertising industry. Early advertisements were barebones items in unrelieved columns of newspaper typography. But by the mid-Nineteenth Century, advertisers had an arsenal of color lithographs, "trade cards," newspapers, magazines, "medicine shows" and other venues to catch the eyes of potential customers. On the plus side, many dedicated healers used a variety of beneficial minerals and plants to treat patients, notably quinine, foxglove and iodine. The potential market for miracle cures was so vast that an army of quacks and charlatans emerged to profit from the demand.
[3] London Morning Post, May 16, 1777.
Before passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, there was no government oversight of the thousands of quack patent nostrums peddled by showmen, grocers, reputable pharmacists and medical practitioners. Likewise, legal penalties for peddling bread whitened with plaster, vegetables brightened with verdigris, "swill" milk from diseased cows, spoiled beef and other toxic groceries, were sporadic and local. Saloonkeepers sold stale beer and camphene-laced "whiskey." Cosmetics contained Arsenic and Belladonna. Even in "clean and wholesome" rural areas, people drew water from wells contaminated by runoff from pigpens and chicken runs, and contracted "summer complaint" from spoiled food simmering on the back burners of wood-fired stoves. Lack of refrigeration caused people to preserve meats in salt and nitrites. Shellfish were consumed raw. Many existed on a diet consisting of "hog, hominy and corn whiskey" from earliest childhood. The steady exodus from rural to urban areas led to overcrowding and stress as the tempo of city life quickened. The term "Neurasthenia" was coined to describe the enervation and debility brought on by these unrelenting pressures.
[4] Holloway's Ointment Pot.
With this in mind, it is easy to understand why most Americans turned to narcotics and alcohol to ease the very real pain of their lives. This had nothing at all to do with recreational drug use – people in all walks of life and of all degrees of morality suffered the agonies of aching teeth, neuralgia, rheumatism, digestive problems and aching joints, not to mention cancer, tuberculosis and STDs. Medical literature at the time made little distinction between palliative and curative treatments. If the pain disappeared, the patient was "cured" – for the time being. The so-called "placebo effect" also played an important role. A harmless preparation of soft wax and perfume, sold as "Holloway's Ointment," was essentially a moisturizer, yet thousands valued it as a cure-all for skin problems. People who faced the horrors of surgery, either without anesthesia or exposed to the dangers and wracking aftereffects of Chloroform and Ether, suffered not only post-surgical pain, but also serious infection and fever. Opiates, such as Morphine, were hailed as a blessing to humankind, allowing enough freedom from pain to let convalescents sleep and heal. Various derivatives of the Opium poppy have been used successfully in healing for thousands of years.
[5] Snake Oil Advertisement.
Residents of South America's Andes Mountains were accustomed to chewing on Coca leaves to overcome the fatigue of hard labor at high altitudes. In low concentrations, the active ingredient – Cocaine – acted as a mild stimulant. In Asia, people chewed the Areca or "Betel" nut for the same reason. Only when chemists refined and concentrated substances like Opium and Cocaine did their toxic and addictive properties become hazardous to health and society. Ironically, the "impurities" in these drugs were thought to be habit-forming and injurious, thus "purifying" them would make them safer and more beneficial! Sigmund Freud and many colleagues advocated Cocaine as a "brain food."
[6] Cocaine Toothache Drops.
Unfortunately, since narcotics attach directly to the brain's chemical receptors at the molecular level, causing both the release of natural Dopamine, (and physical changes in the brain itself,) the overuse of concentrated opiates in a legitimate medical setting can prove just as addictive as frivolous recreational drug taking. During the Civil War, thousands of wounded soldiers found themselves in the grip of drug addiction. By 1868, there were perhaps 100,000 addicts in the U.S.; one Ohio physician claimed that drug addicts outnumbered alcoholics in his town!
[7] Dr. J. H. McLean's Cordial.
The available over-the-counter remedies of the day compounded the problem (pun intended), hooking additional thousands through "soothing syrups" to calm teething babies, "toothache drops," "cough suppressors," "appetite stimulators," "nerve tonics," liniments "to be taken internally or externally: good for man or beast." Besides a few harmless herbs, perfumes and coloring, many of these contained Opium, Cocaine, Laudanum or Morphine, dissolved in a base of 30 to 40% alcohol. Because these nostrums were cheap and readily available, people could take them for years without having to go through withdrawal. However, the ailments that prompted them to begin taking palliative drugs usually proved fatal in the long run, without proper treatment.
[8] Parker's Tonic 1882.
Narcotics were so commonplace that little or no social stigma attached itself to various habits, with the exception of those associated with suspect minority groups. Swallowing pills of Opium or chewing Hashish in one's drawing room was perfectly fine – frequenting "Heathen Chinee" opium dens was taboo. Cocaine soon became linked with black longshoremen in New Orleans, and Cannabis (Marijuana) with Mexican migrant workers – groups beyond the pale of polite society. The development of the hypodermic needle ratcheted the narcotics problem up several notches and dropped "mainlining" addicts down many degrees in public opinion. Sherlock Holmes and his "seven per cent solution" of cocaine was the last of the popular drug-addicted literary heroes.
[9] Heroin Cough Sedative.
It is amusing – and somewhat frightening – to reflect that major policy decisions were made by people stoned on drugs. The craze for gothic horror and phantasmagoria that pervades Victorian literature may be partly explained by the opiate haze in which many artists and writers lived. Thomas de Quincey, the English Opium eater," and FitzHugh Ludlow, the American "Hasheesh" eater, brought experimental and recreational doping into the literary mainstream. The humor magazine Vanity Fair advertised a Hashish candy during 1862, no doubt inspired by Ludlow's writings. This confection was marketed by the "Gunjah Wallah" Company, (i.e.: "Ganja Man!") Similar ads appeared in Harper's Weekly.
[10] FitzHugh Ludlow.
Quack nostrums to treat STDs, on the other hand, were always considered disreputable, and merely advertising them for sale in a publication was grounds for losing one's second-class bulk postal license and prosecution under various obscenity codes. Publisher Frank Leslie narrowly avoided prosecution by reformer Anthony Comstock for certain ads in his mildly racy Day's Doings in 1870. Somehow, Richard Kyle Fox's National Police Gazette got away with running similar ads for many years, coupled with ads for "manhood restorers," male enlargement preparations, male and female contraceptives (sold as "rubber goods,) abortifacients, such as Pennyroyal, and other "female regulators." The Police Gazette also reveled in illustrations of "swell actresses" and their Opium-smoking orgies, and Cocaine-maddened maniacs on the rampage, despite advertising products that contained these drugs.
[11] Vanity Fair 1862.
Narcotic substances even found their way into soda-fountain treats. Atlanta's John Stith "Doc" Pemberton formulated Coca-Cola to assist him with his own Morphine habit, contracted following his wounding in the Civil War. His intent was to create a non-alcoholic version of French Coca Wine. Compounded of the stimulants Cocaine and African Kola nuts, plus Damiana – a reputed aphrodisiac – and his famed secret flavoring syrup in carbonated water, Coke was only available at drugstores. It first appeared in bottles in 1894, and was referred to as "dope" for many years, until the Cocaine, Damiana and Kola nuts were removed from the brew. Only then would it become the beloved global "pause that refreshes," spread by American G.I.s in World War II.
[12] The Day's Doings, April 23, 1870.
Although it is in many ways more addictive than Heroin (marketed as a cough syrup by the respected Bayer Pharmaceutical Co.) Tobacco has somehow avoided being classified as either a food or a drug, and its processing and additives have remained mostly unregulated. The Nineteenth Century seems to have been fueled by its own "five basic food groups": Fat, Sugar, Salt, Alcohol and Tobacco. Tobacco was chewed, snuffed and smoked almost everywhere. Its use became a rite of passage for boys and the mark of the "he-man," with the exception of cigarettes. "Coffin Nails" were regarded as effeminate. They also were sometimes laced with Opium or Coca extract and linked with decadence. Alcohol, although consumed in prodigious quantities, because it was safer than water, was treated with more ambivalence. Social drinking was fine – public intoxication was not. The various "temperance" (i.e.: abstention) movements gained power throughout the Nineteenth Century and eventually pushed through the Volstead Act that amended the U.S. Constitution and imposed national Prohibition. Ironically, many patent medicines still sold over the counter, contained alcohol. A trip to the pharmacy soon replaced a visit to the saloon between 1920 and 1933.
[13] The Day's Doings, August 17, 1870.
To overcome the stigma of boozing in public, an ingenious Philadelphia manufacturer marketed "vinous rubber grapes" in the 1880s, filled with one's tipple of choice. A "grape" could be popped into the mouth discreetly, bitten to release the beverage within, and daintily removed under a hanky. These were a boon to alcoholic theatergoers who couldn't wait until the intermission for their next shot, much as Nicotine patches ease long air trips for today's ostracized smokers.
These unabashed advertisements from long-vanished magazines evoke a far different state of mind than the current absolutist attitudes of the "war on drugs." Despite their seeming optimistic exuberance, the manufacturers and pitchmen knew full well that they were marketing harmful, toxic products that deluded purchasers who only sought relief from illness and pain. They prove the old adage that "if it seems too good to be true, it's probably not true."
— Otto L. Bettman, 'The Good Old Days – They Were Terrible' (New York: Random House, 1974).
— Barbara Hodgson, 'Opium; A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon' (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999).
— Barbara Hodgson, 'In The Arms of Morpheus; The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine and Patent Medicines' (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2001).
[16] Police Gazette, December 17, 1881.
[19] Police Gazette, March 5, 1898.
[21] Police Gazette, 1898.
[23] Coca Cola Syrup.
[24] J.G. Dill's Best Cut Plug.
[25] Allen & Ginter Old Planter.
[26] Cocarettes Advertisement.
[27] Bull Durham Label.
[28] Vinous Rubber Grape Co. Advertisement.
[29] Malt Whisky Advertisement.
Labels: E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra, Quackery self medication and reckless advertising
Quackery, self medication and reckless advertising...
James F. Sullivan of FUN
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Local-scale distribution of cholevid beetles (Col., Leiodidae: Cholevinae) in the province of León (Spain).
[Results of the use of cholevid for oral cholecystocholangiography].
[Experience in using cholevid for cholecystography].
[Cholevid and its use for peroral cholecysto-cholangiography].


At least, this is the conclusion reached by a study carried out by Forrester Research, in the second quarter of 2001, by means of consumer mail panels of 29.000 respondents surveyed in a total of 13 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). These data were amended according to each of these countries' population.
This study also indicates that eTravel has the lowest cancellation rates: an average of 5%.
and, as a result, to the added value a newsletter might or might not have for an Internet user.
According to this study, the main reason that explains cancellations is poor content and/or information that do not meet users' expectations.
Email frequency and advertising intensity constitute the second element that might prompt users to unsubscribe.
And finally, exceedingly long emails that try and address all their subscribers' possible interests can only lead them to cancel their email subscriptions.
- 77% are rather optimistic as far as technology is concerned.
- 41% think that email is a very good way to get information on new products.
- 36% read most of the mails they receive.
- 9% consider that the information they receive is interesting enough to be forwarded to friends.
And finally, the study indicates, if needs be, that email spamming is falling off and is being replaced by the permission email marketing. Double opt-in (demanding explicit permission by mail) even proves to gain the upper hand, especially when it allows its users to indicate their choices and interests.
Despite the economic slow-down and the terrorist attacks of September 11, Gartner G2, a research unit of the Gartner group, believes that worldwide eCommerce should see its sales increase by 39% in the fourth quarter of 2001 to reach $25.3 billion.
For his economic forecasting, Gartner G2 surveyed 16.449 U.S. respondents in order to find out how they intended to shop online this holiday season.
Among those who already shopped online last year, 80.5% declared that they were going to shop online just as much as what they did last year.
At the same time, 13.6% of these 2000 online shoppers declared that they intend to shop online in a lesser degree than what they did last year.
And finally, 6% of the 2000 shoppers declared that they are not going to shop online at all this year.
Another element proves interesting in this GartnerG2 survey: the United-States that used to account for 50% of worldwide Internet retailing sales in 2000 will only account for 46.9% this year.
This does not necessarily mean that its sales are decreasing but only that American Internet sales are now rising at a slower rate than what can be seen on some other continents.
According to GartnerG2, U.S. Internet revenue is expected to reach $11.86 billion for Fourth quarter 2001 to be compared to $9.13 billion for fourth quarter 2000.
Europe should see its Internet retailing sales rise to $8.58 billion in 2001 compared to $6.15 billion in the last quarter of 2000 and see its market share go from 33.7% to 33.9%.
The main beneficiaries of this eCommerce growth will be Asia/Pacific whose market share should go from 8.8% to 9.7% with sales that should amount to $2.46 billion in the fourth quarter of 2001, not to mention Japan with sales that should reach $1.4 billion and a 5.5% market share for this country alone.
Revenues from e-mail marketing services are expected to triple in 2001 according to Forrester Research that considers the market worth $1.1 billion. A figure that should be compared to the $400 million registered in 2000.
And yet, still according to Forrester Research, usual online advertising should see a 18% drop, to reach $6 billion in 2001 from $7.6 billion last year.
As for the Gartner group, it believes that overall ad sales should reach $7.9 billion this year (e-mail included) from $8 billion last year according to the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau).
- Sales in customer communications whose sales are expected to reach $1.1 billion in 2001 and $1.8 billion in 2002.
- Sales for list and newsletter advertising that are expected to reach $220 million in 2001 and $223 in 2002.


Anyone making any money with hubpages?
I was wondering if anyone is making any significant money from their pages. Or are people just doing this for having fun.
I make about $10 a day from AdSense, and I've done okay from Ebay and Amazon too... This is certainly not a get-rich-quick scheme. But the cash is a nice little bonus for doing what you love... writing!
You doubt someone could make $10 a day?
If that's the case then it's strange that your username would be makemoneyonline.
Have you checked out Maddie's hubs? She has a TON of them, and a TON of fans, so $10 is not unimaginable.
$10 a day wouldn't surprise me one bit. Maddie is a perfect example of both quality and quantity--not to mention she has a LOT of (I'd assume) loyal "fans" who probably visit her pages pretty regularly.
If she has 105 fans let's suppose 50% visit her. If 10 of them click for 1$ each it would be 10$ per day. But one click is more often than not only a few cents than a few dollar especially on subjects that is general and not specialized.
What I would like is the rationale behind or I will have difficulty to imagine it: I'm not a believer in anything especially in webmarketing as there are so many people bragguing enormous gains to attract gullible visitors. I don't say that for Maddie as she has indeed a great hubpages worth visiting it, I say this is a sound attitude when dealing with frequently overestimated earnings .
Her fans would be the least of her visitors.
As Jason has said, there'd be traffic from Search Engines. But there are other ways to promote a persons website/webpage/hub/lens.
I have a lens (not here, obviously) that gets 3,000+ visitors a week through Yahoo.
I had a website that got 4,500+ visitors a day. That was until I dropped out of favour with Google and was no longer present on the first page of results for a nice keyword. It dropped like a rock and plunged to 1,000 to 1,500 visitors a day and my CTR plummeted. More than what you'd expect. The traffic coming via Google were more inclined to click on Adsense ads. I went from almost $10 a day (for that site alone) to mere crumbs.
Well, I for one hope that Paul & Paul and the gang are making decent money here. They've earned it for running a tight ship. You can say it's just another website, but it's not like anywhere else I've found. It encourages creativity and social interaction, it's fun, and if it doesn't pay my bills I'm not going to worry. There's always the day job!
Keep in mind, everyone, that the bulk of your revenue-generating traffic will come from search engines (usually Google and Yahoo). Fellow HubPages visitors are, naturally, welcome too, but Hubbers who are earning serious money, like Maddie, are doing so because their Hubs are getting serious traffic from Google and Yahoo.
More on the steps to getting more search engine traffic here.
Thanks darkside for your explanation, I feel it's a good one. I hope Maggie didn't feel like an offense. As I said on my hub I'm not a webmarketing guru so the question I ask was a newbie question and I think It has helped other newbies.
Don't feel bad about asking questions or questioning what you are reading. You are right it can help others. Sometimes seeing how much others make can blow your notion of what is possible out of the water and help you to strive for something.
"If she has 105 fans let's suppose 50% visit her. If 10 of them click for 1$ each it would be 10$ per day. But one click is more often than not only a few cents than a few dollar especially on subjects that is general and not specialized. "
What I mean by that is you stated suppose 50% visit her. Then 10 of them click. I am not sure where you came up with the 50% visitor her. Many many of my 17 hubs get 100 visitors a day with one of my hubs now getting 400 visitors a day. So if only 1% of one of my hub visitors click it would be 4 clicks a day just for that hub. So you really don't know how many visitors are coming to other people's hubs unless you research the keyword they are working on. From my 17 or so hub now I am earning 2.50 a day and about 1,800 visitors daily. Also earn money from affiliate links int he hubs but this topic is more focused on adsnse which is for me at least about 2.50 a day for 17 hubs. If you multiply that out by 10 times so 17 hubs * 10 I would have around 170 hubs which enters the number range that Maddie Ruud or JimmeyTheJock have then you could also times by 10 the income I make from adsense which would then be about 25 dollars a day! So 10 dollars a day is very possible. Maybe a little TMI but owell. Hope it helps!
I have just taken a huge leap in my understanding of how this all works!!
Marisa, it took me a few weeks. Then, it started as just a few cents a day, if I was lucky. Now, I'm fairly consistent and it's growing, but it took a while. I think you have to do everything Jason says, then you will start seeing it pay off. Some of my hubs now turn up on the first page of google search results. I also have adsense on my blogs and other sites, so I see revenue from there as well. I'm really learning as I go, so I know there are a lot of things I could do to earn more...but, I'm not doing them yet.
Thanks Stacie, it's good to know things are going as they should - I'll hang in there and keep posting!
I make a good deal of affiliate commissions just through hubs alone but I'm now focusing on PPC advertising so the hubs I do now are just for the fun.
For the newbies on this thread you may want to check out How To Make Money With Hubpages which was a hub I did to answer a request for information on making money from hubpages.
Hopefully you'll understand how its done or give you ideas. There is a lot of potential here and I think its one of the easiest ways for anyone to earn good money online.
If you have a passion for writing or if you can do research really well then even better.
I make some... But, my revenues are growing steadily. It just takes time.
I have just started hence there is no chance of getting there YET. But hope to make some at least in the near future.
I think hubpages is a starting point for newbies. For more experienced people it is just another avenue for making money online. Keep up with hubpages, but also look at other ways to make money on line like blogging and creating your own website.
If you need more information on this I would be happy to help. Be careful not to put all of your eggs in the one basket.
I think it all depends what you're aiming for. My experiences with blogging and websites have been negative. Blogging in particular involves a major, regular commitment just to create the posts - not to mention the work needed to promote the thing. And you have to find an empty niche that you find sufficiently interesting to write about day after day.
When I see other writers talking about the other forums and sites they frequent, I wonder if they actually have time for a life outside the computer! And if they counted the time they spend on these forums as work, what their hourly rate would be.
HubPages already has some profile so my work gets attention without me having to spend my whole life on the net. And I can write about a range of unrelated subjects according to where inspiration strikes.
What's depressing me a little is that I'm still not earning anything from HP. It's been 6 weeks now and I know it's early days, but it's still a bit discouraging. I thought I had earned a couple of dollars but looking more closely at Adsense, it says it is mainly from my blog - which is weird as I have had only a tiny handful of visitors there, compared to several hundred on my Hubs.
Wow!! GREAT information everyone!! As a newbie myself it certainly helps put things in perspective!! Maddie, dear, I was sure you were making at least $100 (one hundred dollars) PER DAY!! Your Hubs are delightful and delicious!! Heck, I would pay you $100 a day just to keep writing!! ;-) Earth Angel Blessings Always!!
I think you need to enjoy the work you do on your websites. If it is a chore, you will never succeed. I make websites on things that I enjoy providing information on. I have been at this for nearly 3 years now and I make a decent enough income. The first two years I worked in the evenings while I worked in a regular 9-5 job. It is tough, but I love what I am doing. (Hated the 9-5 which probably also helped).
One of the sites I am working on now I am spending a lot of time researching and producing content. It is very slow going and I am making very little from it, but I take a long term approach with everything I do. I spend very little or nothing on advertising. You need to divide your time between research, producing content and marketing your content.
At the start you spend a lot of time on things that don't go anywhere, but eventually you find your niche. Also when you are starting out you also spend a lot of time with little reward. It is for this reason that most people give up. I have websites now that I don't update at all and bring in around $2000 a month. Of course I spent hours putting them together, but now I can enjoy the passive income they produce.
Yes, retireyoung, you've hit the nail on the head - you have to enjoy what you're doing. I don't think I'm a natural netizen! Tinkering with websites and dropping in on forums etc is interesting, but not fascinating for me.
Most successful people I know of have all started a website on a topic or hobby that they love. Monetization came later.
The first affiliate check is a turning point for many people. Anyone involved in internet marketing remembers the day the got their first affiliate check.
You're quite right Melissa - it does take an inordinate amount of time especially at the start. I've quit my regular job and trying to make this a living same as retireyoung - the difference is he's already making decent money while so far have only been paid out $50 from HP, adsense now owes me the grand total of $18.67 but that's the whole year's earnings! I have negotiated 6 months with my partner working and me basically doing this full-time with the odd cleaning job to pay the rent and get me out doing some exercise. I could be in IT earning 6 figures - but even looking at the job ads makes me feel depressed and cynical so I don't think I will be doing that again! Its about passive income too -you have nice hubs you could walk away from the internet for 6 months and I think you would come back to find a nice little amount of income coming in - so long as your hubs are timeless!
I'm like you - so far I've earned about $40 on Helium in 9 months (with 176 articles, you can work out the return on investment for yourself!). I also started a blog on a topic which was much in demand on Helium, but in spite of that it's made me about 2 bucks.
I have thought of starting a website on flamenco, but at present I'm inclining towards writing a POD book. Why post all my material on a blog, where it's open to being plagiarised, and where I have to rely on people clicking on Adsense or affiliate links to earn anything at all? Whether it's a blog or a book, I'm going to have to promote just as intensively. At least I'll get paid for a book!
Marisa, I can see how you might feel frustrated. You could be onto something with the ebook. I have written a couple. One sells ok, the others don't make much. How to ebooks do well.
Just make sure there is a market there before you start.
For example, go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ From what I have studied you will need to have at least 200 searches a day on the keywords you plan to target.
I had to look up POD I didn't know what it meant - Print on Demand (apologies for my ignorance) - is that the same as an ebook? I think writing an ebook is a great idea. A flamenco website could be a goer too. I've started looking into writing my own ebook, as I have made a little bit of income promoting an ebook using Clickbank, but the ebook I was selling is now no longer available and I think I could produce a decent replacement. Does anyone know of any alternatives to Clickbank for getting an ebook you have written by yourself promoted by affiliates?
You are very brave and I wish you all good fortune, I'm sure that you will do very well, but it does take time to build an income. I'm in a similar position myself. I'm about to give up my job. I'm currently off work due to stress and simply cannot face going back. I originally intended to look for another (less stressful) job, but I'm so enjoying pottering about at home, writing hubs and developing websites, and now the thought of any kind of outside job gives me the heebie-jeebies. All I need to do is convince my partner there's money in it and that we won't starve. I've got about $200 in my Adsense account (mostly from a website which I set up in January, and this has gradually built up from a few cents a week to about $2-$3 a day now. I don't get much Adsense from Hubpages yet, but I do know that articles and websites need time to mature.
Retireyoung...you give us all hope - keep it up!
Print on Demand (I didn't realise that the lingo for it was POD) is something like what www.cafepress.com does.
Whether it be t-shirts (and other fashion items), books and even CD's.
I am currently using both and they each have their own pluses and minuses.
I think it is important to develop multiple streams of income, both on the internet and offline.
I have ebooks, websites, blogs and of course some pages here.
Don't just rely on adsense or hub pages if you want to make money. Try various different options to find what you like and is profitable.
Adsense is ok but affiliate programs and selling advertising directly to businesses is more profitable.
There are several factors involved in making money from hubpages, A lot have been covered before in this thread but I noticed that 3 important factors are missing. If you are are just using hubpages as an outlet for your creative talents then please just carry on with what you are doing. (one of the things I love about hubpages is the mixture of creative and business sites) But if you want to make money online I hope you'll find the following useful. Personally I try to do both.
1. Choose a niche topic with searches and not too many competing pages. It's all well and good writing a hub based on a niche like "Green emeralds" but if no one is searching for it you'll not get any traffic. The same if 1000 people search for it a day but there are 150,000 competing pages. However if 100 people a day look for "Green emeralds" and there are only 800 competing pages about it you will get traffic.
2. Don't build your hub and leave it there promote it via other sites and get links back to it.
3 Your hubpages should only be part of your money making ventures. You should be using websites, blogs and other web 2.0 sources. Google are always tweaking their algo's 6 months ago you would find squidoo lenses at the top of every search, not so many now are there! If you have a variety of sites you'll find that some will rank well then drop and other's will start to rank well at a different time. For a recent product launch I had 6 or the top 10 places in google. Needless to say i made lots of sales without spending any money on PPC.
I wrote a traffic generating guide for some of the members of my site. I've added it to my blog You might find it useful as an overview of 1 way in which you can generate traffic. Using this method I can get any of my sites from 0 visitors to 100 in under a month. So i am sure it will work just as well for hubpages. I've included an east to follow diagram at the end of it.
How long does it take before I am making money with Hubpages?
How long does it take before I am making money with Hubpages?I know I have only been writing for four days but I have almost nine hubs that are of great quality for everyone. please help me get an idea of how long it will take.


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namespace TestBalloonsPopGame
{
    using Balloons.Common;
    using Balloons.Common.ConsoleContext;
    using Balloons.InputHandler;
    using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
    using Moq;

    [TestClass]
    public class ConsoleInputHandlerTest
    {
        private readonly string[] validGameModes = { "fly", "default" };
        private readonly string[] validGameDifficulties = { "easy", "hard" };
        private readonly string[] validGameAnswers = { "yes", "no" };

        private readonly string[] validInputCommands = { "help", "start", "exit" };

        [TestMethod]
        public void GetGameModeShuldCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnceWithValidInputFly()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var writer = new ConsoleWriter();

            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("fly");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.GetGameMode();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void GetGameModeShuldCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnceWithValidInputDefault()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var writer = new ConsoleWriter();

            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("Default");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.GetGameMode();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void GetGameDifficultyShouldCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnceWithValidInput()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var writer = new ConsoleWriter();

            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("easy");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.GetGameDifficulty();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void GetAnswerShouldCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnceWithValidInput()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var writer = new ConsoleWriter();

            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("yes");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.GetPlayAgainResponse();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ReadInputCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnce()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var mockConsoleW = new Mock<IConsoleWriter>();
            var writer = mockConsoleW.Object;

            mockConsoleW.Setup(c => c.WriteLine(It.IsAny<string>()));
            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("top");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.ReadInputCommand();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ReadPlayerInfoCallConsoleMethodReadLineOnce()
        {
            var mockConsole = new Mock<IConsoleReader>();
            var reader = mockConsole.Object;
            var mockConsoleW = new Mock<IConsoleWriter>();
            var writer = mockConsoleW.Object;

            mockConsoleW.Setup(c => c.WriteLine(It.IsAny<string>()));
            mockConsole.Setup(c => c.ReadLine()).Returns("Pesho");
            var inputHandler = new ConsoleInputHandler(writer, reader);
            inputHandler.ReadPlayerInfo();

            mockConsole.Verify(c => c.ReadLine(), Times.Exactly(1));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidGameModeFlyShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameModes[0];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidGameModeDefaulttShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameModes[1];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameModeStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "invalid";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameModeNumericShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "228 invalid s";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameModeEmptyStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = string.Empty;
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameModeWhiteSpacesShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "      ";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameMode(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidGameDifficultyEasyShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameDifficulties[0];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidGameDifficultyHardShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameDifficulties[1];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameDifficultyStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "invalid";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameDifficultyNumericShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "228";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameDifficultyEmptyStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = string.Empty;
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidGameDifficultyWhiteSpacesShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "      ";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidGameDifficulty(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidPlayAgainAnswerEasyShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameAnswers[0];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void ValidPlayAgainAnswerHardShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            var input = validGameAnswers[1];
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidPlayAgainAnswerStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "invalid";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidPlayAgainAnswerNumericShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "228";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidPlayAgainAnswerEmptyStringShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = string.Empty;
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void InvalidPlayAgainAnswerWhiteSpacesShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            var input = "      ";
            var result = Validator.CheckIfValidAnswer(input);
            Assert.AreEqual(false, result);
        }
    }
}

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Q: Why is REST call including  element in JSON response? This is my first attempt at building an Angular app using a REST API written in NodeJS.  No additional frameworks are used beyond native NodeJS modules.  I have a test .html that calls the API, but it has problems processing the API call.  I'm using the HTTP NodeJS module.

The response in my browser wraps the JSON in an
 element like this...

JSON DATA GOEST HERE

I have an app.js module that executes a database query. The database call returns a JavaScript object that is passed to the _sendJSONResponse() function.

I don't know why the
 element is getting added.

The REST call to https://www.w3schools.com/angular/customers.php returns nearly identical format but without the
 wrapping element.

_sendJSONResponse = function(res, data) {
    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    res.end(JSON.stringify(data));
}

A: This is just your browser giving you a 'good viewing experience' - what happens if you call the REST endpoint in your Angular client? If you supply the headers correctly your response should be valid JSON.

A: Well, after lots of snooping and questioning other more experienced folks, it turned out to be a CORS issue in Chrome.  I was loading my index.html directly (file://index.html).  I set my NodeJS service to load the file and things automagically worked.
Thanks for the input.

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Every couple of years another technology trend emerges that immediately has pundits debating the possibility that it will bring an end to the live meetings and events business. As is usually the case though, we see things like video conferencing, web streaming, etc enhancing versus replacing live meetings and events. Its almost as if a force were in play that keeps us seeking that contact.
As it turns out, in-person meetings are good for your health!
There's a recent study performed by Developmental Psychologist Susan Pinker; wherein she examines the physiological and psychological impact of in-person interaction. Susan wrote a great book titled; "The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier" in which she has done an excellent job of defining the actual chemical changes that occur with live interaction and how those chemicals lead to a healthier existence.
We all know that a team with a positive mindset who feels good about their environment are more productive and creative. So when the next great idea comes along and people are pondering whether it will replace live meetings and events ask them a simple question – why replace something that's good for business?


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The half-day seminar will provide information to better equip you in dealing with workplace management issues including managing employee technology access, preparing employees for Obamacare and the potential pitfalls of FSLA.
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Q: Aligning cards in ng-repeat I am showing cards using ng-repeat. The data and all is coming fine but somehow i am struggling to have 3 cards in a row and go to the next row for the other items.
My ng-repeat code is as follows:
<md-content ng-repeat="agent in agents|filter:search" layout="row">
            <md-card>
                <md-card-title>
                    <md-card-title-text>
                        {{agent.RCustId}}
                        {{agent.FullName}}
                        {{agent.ContactNum}}
                    </md-card-title-text>

                </md-card-title>

                <md-card-content>

                        {{agent.address}}

                </md-card-content>

                <md-card-actions layout="row" layout-align="end center">
                    <md-button>Collect {{agent.balance_amount}}</md-button>
                </md-card-actions>

            </md-card>
        </md-content>

I want the card side by side but these are coming one per each line.
Where is the issue and how to resolve it please.

A: Try surrounding md-card with a
 with layout-wrap - you can then use flex=".." - with number corresponding to number of columns you want in row.
See layout options documentation here.

       <md-card flex="33" ng-repeat="agent in agents|filter:search">

See answer here for more detail and examples.

A: Add the content inside section

// your code

Working example http://plnkr.co/edit/hE38nAAJT35UJL71JGoS?p=preview


text:
""" Create coupons for speakers:

    Talk        - 25%
    Poster      - 25%
    Helpdesk    - 25%
    Interactive - 25%
    Panel       - 25%

    Training    - 100%

    Write the created coupons as CSV data to stdout. The script makes
    sure that no duplicate coupons are created. If you want a coupon
    to get recreated, deleted it in the database first and then run
    the script.

    There are several special cases handled by the script, e.g.  when
    setting the admin type to keynote.  Please check below for details.

    Use --dry-run to test drive the script.

    WARNING: This script will create coupons for all speakers,
    including ones which are giving sponsored talks.

"""
import string
import random
from optparse import make_option

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from django.db import transaction
from django.db.models import Q

from conference import models as cmodels
from assopy.models import Coupon

### Globals

# Discounts
#
# See cmodels.TALK_TYPES; this dictionary maps the first char of the talk
# type to a tuple (coupon_prefix, discount_code, include_combined)
#
# The coupon_prefix must have 3 chars.
#
#
#
if settings.CONFERENCE_CONFERENCE in ('ep2021', 'ep2020'):
    # For the virtual events we give out 100% coupons
    TALK_TYPE_DISCOUNTS = {
        't': ('TLK', '100%', False),  # Talk
        'i': ('INT', '100%', False),  # Interactive
        'r': ('TRN', '100%', True),   # Training
        'p': ('PST', '100%', False),  # Poster
        'n': ('PAN', '100%', False),  # Panel
        'h': ('HPD', '100%', False),  # Helpdesk
        }
else:
    # For in-person events we give out 25% discount coupons only, except for
    # trainings
    TALK_TYPE_DISCOUNTS = {
        't': ('TLK', '25%', False),  # Talk
        'i': ('INT', '25%', False),  # Interactive
        'r': ('TRN', '100%', True),  # Training
        'p': ('PST', '25%', False),  # Poster
        'n': ('PAN', '25%', False),  # Panel
        'h': ('HPD', '25%', False),  # Helpdesk
        }

# Coupon prefixes used in the above dictionary
COUPON_PREFIXES = tuple(prefix
                        for ttype, (prefix, discount, include_combined)
                        in TALK_TYPE_DISCOUNTS.items())

# Add special keynote coupon prefix
COUPON_PREFIXES += ('KEY',)

assert 'TLK' in COUPON_PREFIXES

###

class Command(BaseCommand):

    # Dry run ?
    dry_run = False

    def add_arguments(self, parser):

        # Positional arguments
        parser.add_argument('conference')

        # Named (optional) arguments
        parser.add_argument('--dry-run',
                            action='store_true',
                            dest='dry_run',
                            default=False,
                            help='Do everything except create the coupons')

    @transaction.atomic
    def handle(self, *args, **options):

        self.dry_run = options.get('dry_run', False)
        conference = cmodels.Conference.objects.get(code=options['conference'])

        # Find speakers eligible for coupons
        speakers = {}
        qs = cmodels.TalkSpeaker.objects\
            .filter(Q(talk__conference=conference.code),
                    Q(talk__status='accepted'),
                    Q(helper=False))\
            .select_related('talk', 'speaker__user')
        for row in qs:
            talk_code = row.talk.type[0]
            if talk_code not in TALK_TYPE_DISCOUNTS:
                continue
            coupon_prefix, discount_code, include_combined = \
                TALK_TYPE_DISCOUNTS[talk_code]
            admin_type = row.talk.admin_type
            talk_status = row.talk.status

            # Get possibly already existing entry
            if row.speaker_id in speakers:
                entry = speakers[row.speaker_id]
            else:
                entry = None

            # Handle special cases
            if admin_type == 'k':
                # Keynote talk
                coupon_prefix = 'KEY'
                discount_code = '100%'
                include_combined = True
                # Force an override
                entry = None

            elif admin_type:
                # All other admin types are not eligible for coupons
                continue

            if talk_code == 'r':
                # Override existing talk discount with training; this
                # means that someone who does e.g. both a talk and
                # training, will get the higher training discount
                if entry is not None:
                    entry = None

            # Entry already exists, so don't create a new coupon
            if entry is not None:
                continue

            # Create a new entry
            entry = {
                'spk': row.speaker,
                'title': row.talk.title,
                'type': talk_code,
                'admin_type': row.talk.admin_type,
                'duration': row.talk.duration,
                'discount': discount_code,
                'include_combined': include_combined,
                'prefix': coupon_prefix,
                'talk_id': row.talk.id,
                'speaker_id': row.speaker_id,
                'talk_status': row.talk.status,
                }
            speakers[row.speaker_id] = entry

        # Valid fares (conference fares only, no training passes)
        conference_fares = cmodels.Fare.objects\
            .filter(conference=conference.code,
                    ticket_type='conference')\
            .exclude(code__startswith='TRT')\
            .exclude(code__startswith='TRC')
        combined_fares = cmodels.Fare.objects\
            .filter(conference=conference.code,
                    ticket_type='conference')\
            .exclude(code__startswith='TRT')

        # Get set of existing codes
        codes = set(c['code'] for c in Coupon.objects\
            .filter(conference=conference.code)\
            .values('code'))

        # Get coupon emails of already issued coupons
        existing_coupon_emails = set(
            c['user__user__email']
            for c in Coupon.objects\
            .filter(conference=conference.code)\
            .select_related('user')\
            .values('user__user__email', 'code')
            if (c['code'].startswith(COUPON_PREFIXES)
                and c['user__user__email'])
            )

        # Output header
        csv_header = (
            'email',
            'name',
            'prefix',
            'code',
            'discount',
            'donated',
            'amount',
            'title',
            'duration',
            'type',
            'admin_type',
            'talk_id',
            'speaker_id',
            'talk_status',
            'include_combined',
            )

        # Create coupons
        data = []
        for sid, entry in speakers.items():

            # Get coupon data
            coupon_prefix = entry['prefix']
            user = entry['spk'].user
            name = '%s %s' % (user.first_name, user.last_name)
            value = entry['discount']
            title = entry['title']

            # Check for reserved slots
            if (entry['admin_type'] == 'x' or
                'reserved for' in title.lower()):
                continue

            # Check for placeholder entries
            if name.lower() in ('to be announced', 'tobey announced'):
                continue

            # Check if we have already issued a coupon
            if user.email in existing_coupon_emails:
                continue

            # Determine a new code
            while True:
                # Codes: SPK-RANDOM
                code = (coupon_prefix + '-'
                        + ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_uppercase, 6)))
                if code not in codes:
                    codes.add(code)
                    break

            # Build CSV data (see csv_header for order)
            data_row = (
                user.email,
                name,
                entry['prefix'],
                code,
                value,
                '', # donated (date)
                '', # donated amount
                entry['title'],
                entry['duration'],
                entry['type'],
                entry['admin_type'],
                entry['talk_id'],
                entry['speaker_id'],
                entry['talk_status'],
                entry['include_combined'],
                )

            # Create coupon
            c = Coupon(conference=conference)
            c.code = code
            c.user = user.assopy_user
            c.max_usage = 1
            c.items_per_usage = 1
            c.value = value
            c.description = '[%s] %s Speaker Discount' % (
                conference, entry['prefix'])
            if entry['include_combined']:
                fares = combined_fares
            else:
                fares = conference_fares
            if not self.dry_run:
                c.save()
                c.fares.set(fares)
            data.append(data_row)

        # Output CSV data, UTF-8 encoded
        data.insert(0, csv_header)
        for row in data:
            csv_data = ('"%s"' % (str(x).replace('"', '""'))
                        for x in row)
            print(','.join(csv_data))


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ALTER TABLE "C1_ARTICLE" ALTER COLUMN "json_data" TYPE jsonb;

--- sql end ---

ALTER TABLE "C1_NOTICE" ALTER COLUMN "json_data" TYPE jsonb;

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Shive Dagon: the Pilgrim's Rest . A European traveller looks out with a telescope , c.1910 by Vincent Clarence Scott O'Conner.
Our visual content:
The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) holds a collection of over 3/4 million photographic images dating from 1850 and the largest private map collection in the world with over 1,000,000 maps dating from 1486.
We offer a vast array of historic images captured throughout the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, taken in almost every part of the world. Our Collection is also well known for containing some of the most iconic images taken in the field of geographical exploration and discovery.
Our images are highly sort after for use in the publishing, broadcasting, advertising and education industries. Enquiries are dealt with by a highly experienced and knowledgeable team, which prides itself on providing the best possible quality of service.
Historic images of: Discovery
Top left to bottom right: David Livingstone, Henry Stanley, John Speke, Richard Burton, Samuel Baker, Isabella Bird, Kate Marsden, Charles Darwin, Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, James Chuma, Gertrude Bell.
When it comes to geographical discovery our unique Collection enshrines many of the most famous names such as Livingstone, Speke, Scott and Shackleton. Our imagery and mapping provides the first hand visual material that illustrates the stories and events that shaped their great journeys.
Use the Society's professional expertise to secure the perfect images for your product: We offer a free picture search service, test us to find the right image for your project. The Society's collections have proved an invaluable source of imagery for a myriad of illustrated publishers, from international co-editions to specialist bespoke and limited edition houses.
An entire new plan of the cities of London & Westminster., 1817
We hold the largest private map collection in the world and can supply mapping of almost any part of the globe from 1486 to present. If you need a map we can help. From sheets of printed maps to hand coloured atlases and manuscript maps created by some of the most famous explorers and travellers, let us find the right map for you.
The Picture Library is able to offer an on-site scanning service for its sheet maps. Let us know what maps you need and we can provide visuals for mock ups and layouts with our scanning to order service.
Historic images of: Travel
Passengers embarking on an Imperial Airways liner at Malakal, date and photographer unknown. Egyptian guides with European tourists by photographer unknown, 1867.
Our Picture Library also provides an invaluable resource for researchers, publishers and designers looking to source images to illustrate stories of global travel from the advent of photography to the present day. Whether you need to find vintage images documenting stories of early tourism or old photographs of travel to the remoter regions of the world this is the archive for you.
Notable Use: In 2013 a leader in the European art book market, produced '150 years of great journeys'. Using the Society as the sole source of imagery for this book they included over 400 of our historic images, allowing them to produce a unique book which illustrated the people and places of the world from 1850 to present.
Historic images of: British Mount Everest expeditions
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the South-East ridge about to leave for the South Col to establish Camp IX below the South Summit on Everest. The day before they approached the summit of Everest, by Alfred Gregory, 28th May 1953.
Members in camp - 1924 Mount Everest Expedition. Back row (left to right) - Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, Edward Norton, Noel Odell and John Macdonald. Front row (left to right) - Edward Shebbeare, Geoffrey Bruce, Howard Somervell and Bentley Beetham, by John Noel, 1924.
We are the national repository for all official images taken on the nine British expeditions to Mount Everest undertaken between 1921 and 1953. We hold over 20,000 photographs and documents relating to these incredible expeditions cumulating in the historic photographs taken on the 1953 expedition, which was the first to put two people on top of the highest mountain in the world.
Notable Use: In 2013, for the launch of their new Everest range, a luxury footwear company featured a number of our images from the 1953 Mount Everest Expedition for their in-store promotion, print promotion and online marketing.
Historic images of: People
Tent of Fahad Bey, Garah, Iraq by Gertrude Bell , c. 1909-19. Musicians by Max and Bertha Ferrars , c.1890-99.
From the earliest days of photography and on into the twentieth first century, the Society's archive offers a wonderful opportunity to license imagery of people around the world living, working and at leisure within their own societies and communities.
Check out our website: We have over 17,000 images now online via our fully searchable website, www.rgs.org/images. These, however, represent only a tiny fraction of the visual content we have available for use. We're working hard to expand the online collection and are constantly adding images. But if you are unable to see what you require please don't hesitate to contact us.
Historic images of: Polar Exploration
Captain Scott and group taken on return of the Southern Party by Herbert Ponting, 13th April 1912. Endurance frozen in the ice, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, by Frank Hurley c.1914-16.
We have one of the world's finest collections of photography relating to Polar exploration. From the epic photographs taken on the great expeditions of Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton to those taken on the ground breaking journeys of Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen and Ranulph Fiennes; we can provide you with access to an unprecedented collection of some of the most iconic Polar imagery.
Notable Use: In 2012 a major international museum mounted a major exhibition to mark the centenary of the 'Terra Nova' expedition. The Society's images were used for display within the exhibition and licensed for a range of exhibition merchandise.
Historic artwork of: Travel and Geographical Discovery
White Marble Mosque at Baber's tomb, Kabul by Godfrey Vigne, 1836. Street scene by H A Oldfield, 1853.
Our collection of artwork is an important record of travel, geographical discovery and landscape prior to the advent of photography as a practical means of recording the outside world. You can find works by internationally recognised artists such as Thomas Baines, or beautiful unique works by lesser known early travellers. In many cases these pieces can represent some of the first visual records to ever be made of the subjects by Europeans.
Visit the collection to see our visual material first hand: For a personalised service or to find something in our collection that has never been used before, then please come and visit the collection. You can access the material directly and speak to experienced members of staff in our Reading Room.
Historic images of: Place
Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse, via icefall from Pumori by Eric Shipton , 1951
Our images of place tell an incredible story of change and are a wonderful record of past lands and environments. From the Alps to the Himalaya, and from the cities of southeast Asia to the rainforests of South America our Collection records some of the world's great natural wonders and its extraordinary diversity.
Notable Use: Matching images taken in the Himalaya (and held exclusively at the Society) with contemporary shots taken from exactly the same geographical location, GlacierWorks founder and award-winning film-maker David Breashears was able to better illustrate and document the rate of glacial loss experienced on the high Himalayan glaciers. This exhibition is now showing permanently at MIT Harvard.
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#StartupOfTheWeek – Muslim Pro by Bitsmedia
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This week we sat down with Erwan Macé, Founder of Bitsmedia. You might not have heard of the company but they are the publisher of the first mobile application for Muslims, Muslim Pro. Great discussion where we talk passion, entrepreneurship and, well, Islam.
What is your story, Erwan?
I arrived in Singapore 31 years ago with my parents, and I have since been sharing my time between France and Singapore.
I studied at the Lycée Français, then came to France for some time and came to Indonesia for my National Service. After that I came back to Paris in 1999 to join Spray, a startup that made a lot of noise for a year and then sold during the Internet bubble. It was fun and incredible, the giraffe was one of the symbol of the company and I remember parties with Giraffes in the nightclub!
Anyway, I then came back to Singapore to join Soundbuzz as their CTO. The company had been founded by friends of mine. They eventually sold it to Motorola, and then guess what? I came back to France!
I first worked for Akamai and joined Vivendi Mobile Entertainment in 2007. I was their CTO for about 2 years and helped the build a platform to distribute games, music and video content on mobile. My wife then had an opportunity in Singapore so we came back here again. This is where I created Bitsmedia, originally to do a bit of consulting and be able to continue working for Vivendi. I created their first iPhone app, and many others.
So originally you had no plans to develop Muslim Pro?
Not at all. While I was working for Vivendi I also developed lots of apps for personal projects…apps nobody ever heard of 😉!
Then I launched Muslim Pro as a pilot / test project for Indonesia which was home to the largest Muslim population and which I felt was about to become a huge opportunity for mobile internet services.
Now is the interesting part: it was a total failure because people had no smartphones in Indonesia back in 2010. But it was a very big hit in the US, France and in the UK.
Then in 2011 I joined Google. We've had discussions for 2 years, and they made me a proposal. I had a dream job: I was teaching the Google best practices to the developers in the region.
When I joined them they asked me to close all of my apps. All but one: Muslim Pro, because there was no conflict of interest.
Obviously all the best practices I was teaching I also applied them to Muslim Pro, and in July 2012 I made the decision to leave Google and focus solely on Muslim Pro which had reached its first million user.
Tough choice! And where is Muslim Pro today?
We have 70 millions unique downloads. In low season (outside Ramadan) we have more than 3 million daily active users and 15 million monthly active users. As a comparison, Carousell does in 1 month what we do in one day.
The model is simple. We have a freemium version with ads and a premium version without ads. 85% of our revenue comes from ads and 15% from Premium subscriptions.
My first 25 million users were acquired organically. I never raised funds, and my first dollar of advertising was spent in 2015.
During Ramadan we are simply the first app, before Whatsapp, Facebook and the likes!
Was it hard to built this without being a Muslim?
We worked hard to understand the community and its needs. We are the biggest app to address all needs. I think not being Muslim may have helped us become even more successful, let me explain. There are other apps, but they are usually developed by people who are Muslims from a specific country. But Islam is very diverse so these apps may be too specific to a certain vision of Islam (their own) and won't always be helpful to other Muslims in other countries. In the early days, the other existing apps were also not developed by professional developers and were of a rather low quality. This has changed since.
Let me give you one example. For the prayers schedule, there are 15 different methods to calculate them, varying from 1 to 10mn. France is the worst by the way because there is no official religious authority. We were the very first app to support all these methods, precisely because we didn't start from a specific country or school of thought.
What do you think makes an Entrepreneur?
I think there are 3 qualities you need.
Passion. I love technology, I love coding. I started coding at the age of 8. And then I was lucky that IT became mainstream.
Stay down to earth. I am very focused on what I have to do, on the product. I am not a big fan of startups who try to raise funds before they actually have a product.
Finally, knowing how to seize opportunities. It's all about intuition, choice and a bit of luck. When I left Google, that was a hard choice! And focusing on Muslim Pro was risky, but I knew the opportunity was huge.
Today if you asked me if it was hard to get to where I am, I'd say not at all! It was hard work but it wasn't hard.
What's the culture at Bitsmedia?
Today we have 25 people. Half of them are in Singapore, the rest is in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. The development team is based with me in Singapore because I am a big believer that the quality of our product is of utmost importance. I still code with the team here!
I am very proud to say that in 10 years we have only had one resignation. It's incredible to me. We have a strong culture: for instance I can't work with someone if I don't feel like I want to have lunch with them.
Our team is young and we offer things very few companies can offer. We have tens of millions of users so they have a lot of impact, and we are profitable. I am also very involved with the team, which they like as well.
I have just retired as CEO. In July 2017 I sold 90% of my shares to two Private Equity funds, and I have just stepped down to become the non executive Chairman.
Louis-Bernard Carcouet, our former COO, is taking over as our new Managing Director. Louis joined 4,5 years ago, and he was working with me at Vivendi so we have a long history together.
He came to Singapore after a trip here, and he joined PropertyGuru in 2011 to launch their app.
Being based here in Singapore means combining the best of both worlds. Technologically we live in a very advanced place, but we are just 4 hours flight away from 2 billion people who don't have the same life conditions at all. For instance in India the uninstallation rate is huge, simply because people have low-end smartphones with small storage capacity.
Both Louis and myself are very data-driven. We do a lot of A/B testing to see what people are using in the app. We also engage the community a lot to understand them better. Another example where our neutrality is actually an advantage, we are not biased.
What does the future look like for Bitsmedia?
Well Islam is the religion of emerging countries, so we have a natural growth that follows the population growth and the smartphone penetration growth.
Now our markets are very different. They are saturated in Europe and the US. Singapore is our best conversion rate. So we need to do a lot of testing to better know the differences between our markets.
Today Google is very interested in Muslims as an audience, but they don't really know how to go about it. Some things are competing directly, for instance Google has made an app that gives the direction to Mecca.
Even China invests in this industry. They put in a lot of money in one of our competitors. They burnt all their cash and grew quickly but it didn't work out. They disappeared as fast as they appeared.
So the market potential is huge, we'll see how it develops but we are in a very good position anyway.
And what are you going to do now?
I like building products more than building companies and I feel the need to start something from scratch again. Cybersecurity is where I'm heading…
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kyhuangs	in UK Sports	 February 10, 2019 993 Words
Sixty Something
John Calipari had a very good week. Not only is his Kentucky team knocking on the door for a #1 NCAA Tournament seed, but the highly venerated coach of the Wildcats also celebrated a rather momentous personal milestone. Yes, Coach Cal turned sixty today, entering a decade of life known more for vacations rather than victories, retirement rather than recruiting, and time-off rather than time-outs. Whereas many of his contemporaries have already succumbed to the rigors of the cutthroat profession, Coach Cal soldiers on, unfazed by the youthful glut of up-and-comers looking to put him out to pasture.
Kentucky's recent victories over Vanderbilt and Florida gave Calipari—the current dean of the SEC coaches—bragging rights over Bryce Drew and Mike White, two youthful prodigies who only recently joined the coaching fraternity. When asked whether he enjoyed being the old guy teaching these young whippersnappers a thing or two, Coach Cal feigned umbrage and indignation. "I'm allowed to say that (that I'm old), not you," he joked. "We've got terrific coaches in this league. Guys are really committed to their teams and to the game…Mike (White) is a good coach. Bryce (Drew) is a good coach."
Including White and Drew, eleven out of the fourteen current coaches in the league are younger than Calipari. Will Wade of LSU (age 36) is the youngest, followed by White (age 41), Drew (age 44), Cuonzo Martin of Missouri (age 47), Tom Crean of Georgia (age 52), Frank Martin of South Carolina (age 52), Avery Johnson of Alabama (age 53), Billy Kennedy of Texas A&M (age 55), Bruce Pearl of Auburn (age 58), Kermit Davis of Mississippi (age 59), and Mike Anderson of Arkansas (age 59).
That leaves only Ben Howland of Mississippi State (age 61) and Rick Barnes of Tennessee (age 64) as SEC coaches older than Calipari.
Does age matter in the coaching profession? After all, age-wise, John Calipari is technically old enough to be a grandfather to any of his current players. I don't care how much you know about basketball or how physically fit you are at sixty, how in the world can baby boomers as Calipari possibly relate to his current Generation Z all-stars? I'm speaking from experience. It's literally impossible for an old man like me to be properly dialed into the world of video games, shoe fashion, and hip-hop music. Calipari still loves listening to "Soul Sister" for God's sake. The guy wears corduroy shorts and watches TV shows about Alaska.
"Cal, he's a cool guy," said freshman forward EJ Montgomery when I asked him how he relates to his coach off the court. "He tells jokes and he's always hip to the new stuff. Just a good guy." When pressed on how an old guy like Coach Cal could even be hip to the new stuff, EJ gave a very diplomatic answer. "Probably learns from Brad (Calipari)," he said with a chuckle.
Apparently, age in the coaching profession is only a number. And the only number that really matters is your record on the court. Just look at Mike Krzyzewski of Duke—still kicking butt at age 71, believe it or not. Jim Boeheim of Syracuse is a year older and currently clocks in as the oldest active coach in Division I at 72 years of age. Roy Williams of North Carolina is 67. Leonard Hamilton of Florida State is 69.
"If they (your players) know you care about them and they know you make it about them, I don't think age matters," Calipari told me later. "If you're into your own numbers, wins and everything is about the program, the program, the program and it isn't about them and they know it, it doesn't matter; you're not going to connect with those kids or their families. Hopefully these kids feel that we're about them. This is about their success collectively and individually. We try not to leave anybody behind. We're coaching every kid like they're a starter."
Those are poignant words. In addition to being a nice recruiting pitch, I actually think Coach Cal believes what he's preaching. He relishes his role as teacher, father figure, coach, and mentor to his players. He takes pride in ending generational poverty for their families. He lives for NBA draft night when millionaires are made and lives are changed. I applaud him for that with every fiber of my being.
But that doesn't mean he's right. The program does matter. By focusing solely on his "players first" philosophy, he's delivering a subtle slap in the face to the "average joe" fan who's ever lived and died with Wildcat fortunes. Kentucky is a poor state. Its residents don't have a whole lot to be proud of. Having the greatest tradition in the history of college basketball is a source of immense joy and a unifying force throughout all the far reaches of the Commonwealth.
Coach Cal knows that, and yet he still feels the need to constantly prioritize the NBA draft over another national title. He knows the two are not mutually exclusive. Great players make for championships. However, he needs to tone down his NBA rhetoric, at least publicly. Basketball isn't always about the money—legacy should count for something also. Winning Championship Number Nine will do more for the collective mindset of the citizens of this state than a bevy of first-round picks on draft night. The Program matters! Once Coach Cal acknowledges that, the floodgates of BBN will fully open—releasing a torrent of unity, power, and spirit from the soul of everyone who has ever cheered on the Blue and White.
Happy Birthday, Coach!
Dr. John Huang is a columnist for Nolan Group Media. If you enjoy his writing, you can read more at www.huangswhinings.com or follow him on Twitter @KYHuangs.
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Zimplats reports US$65 million profit
18th February 2018 Business
PLATINUM mining giant Zimplats recorded an operating profit of US$65 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, representing a 26 percent increase over the same period last year. Revenue for the period under review was also higher by 32 percent, compared with the prior period, while operating costs were up 36 percent from last year.
"High revenue has been driven by higher sales volumes and improved metal prices," said the company in a report for the quarter ended March 31, 2013.
Production from mining activities was up 7 percent from prior period while it went up 3 percent from December last year and this was primarily driven by improved equipment availability.
"Mining production for the quarter was 3 percent higher than the previous quarter, driven primarily by an improvement in underground equipment availability, but the head grade was 1 percent below plan due to the milling of lower grade ore from Mupfuti Mine which is still under development, as part of the Ngezi Phase II expansion," the company said.
Zimplats said the construction and commissioning of the Ngezi Phase II expansion project had progressed as planned during the quarter.
Zimplats has also advised that it has lodged an appeal with the Special Court for Income Tax Appeals against the Commissioner-General's determination on the levying of a US$1,5 million penalty on the prior years' tax liabilities.
The company has also lodged a review application with the High Court against the Commissioner- General's determination on the levying of US$11 million interest on the prior years' liabilities.
Zimplats argues that its basis for both the appeal and the review application is that the written undertakings issued by Government in 2001, and on which they had placed reliance, constituted special circumstances which warrant the waiver of both penalty and interest.
Last year, the company agreed to pay the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority US$34 million after the two parties had agreed that claims of the capital expenditure for tax purposes for the period 2007-2011 should be recalculated, given that the undertakings made by the Government on the original formula had not been legalised.
But Zimplats has said payment of the prior years' liabilities has continued in terms of the agreed payment plan.


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