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in praise of family existentialism
When it comes to the cultural injunctions of the Guardian and Radio 4, I'm pretty obedient. In the past couple of weeks, I've seen Richard Linklater's film Boyhood and ploughed through most of the second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle. The parallels are very striking, as many have noticed. On a superficial level, they include an attention to minor, arguably banal details of everyday life; a preoccupation with family and the parent-child relationship; a length that runs the risk of boredom; an absence of plot, conventionally understood; and above all, a heroic commitment on the part of their creators, that is perhaps more life-affirming than anything actually represented in the artwork itself.
It cannot be a coincidence that these two epics of the everyday were being created concurrently. Linklater's project begins in 2003, while Knausgaard's didn't start until 2008. But the desperation to convert ephemera into something monumental through sheer artistic commitment is very similar. In that sense, both can be seen as acts of rage against the torrent of social media and digital content, which render creation and 'consumption' of the aesthetic so easy, as to become pointless and worthless. Converting writing and filming back into something difficult, something involving major economic and emotional costs, is almost a raison d'etre in its own right. Linklater and Knausgaard reject the Clay Shirky/Jeff Jarvis insistence, that there is no alternative but to live in a world of free-as-in-worthless data flows. The rise of social media is a constant sub-theme within Boyhood: Linklater would not have known that 2003 would later become marked as the turning point from 'web 1.0' to 'web 2.0', with all of the commodification of social connection that went with that. Given that, his film - concerned with friendship, family, love, failure of relationships - represents a thrilling act of resistance.
Whether or not it is deliberate (and one suspects that Knausgaard himself regards social media with a similar disdain that he regards bad writers and parent-and-baby groups), it is not irrelevant that both Boyhood and My Struggle concern themselves with issues that we many of us now document remorselessly, thanks to facebook and instagram. Babies, poached eggs, children, holidays, grandparents, man on the bus is annoying me, on the swings, best curry eva, more babies, perfect holiday... We are mostly all doing what Linklater and Knausgaard have done, just with considerably less effort or artistic grace.
Their version represents a challenge to 'our' version of it, in a number of ways. Firstly, 'our' version is crippled by narcissism and dishonesty. We put up the photo of the sunset, the cuteness, the beautiful poached egg. They document the arguments in the airport, the vomit, the yoke that has spilled all over the cooker spawning an argument. They stop our self-branding in its tracks, and say: this is what honesty would look like, if you were brave enough to confront it. Knausgaard comes across as an arsehole most of the time. But who's to say that most of us wouldn't, if we used facebook in the same way he uses novels?
In that respect, this is a (for want of a better word) normcore aesthetic. In an age when people are desperately trying to distinguish themselves through being special and beautiful, the epic is found in the mundane and the occasionally ugly. Linklater and Knausgaard are leaving the 'genius' rat-race to the likes of Dave Eggers and Christopher Nolan, ducking out, and achieving far more by doing so.
Secondly, Linklater and Knausgaard are resolutely modernist, in quite an old-fashioned sense. Social media has arrived two stages after modernism, that is, after post-modernism. Boyhood and My Struggle are epics of two early 20th century artforms, which they seize and apply to our current instagrammed preoccupation with the banal. One of the most extraordinary things about both Knausgaard and Linklater is quite how seriously they take the possibilities for the novel and the feature film respectively. Is the novel dead? Is cinema dead? They render these sorts of cheap panel debates wholly laughable.
As the publishing industry has become more commercialised, but the capacity to publish less commercialised, one outcome has been the tired old format of doing something every day for a year, then writing a book about it. I photographed my dog every day, then turned it into a short film. Alan Rusbridger spent a year trying to play Chopin, then published a book about it. I begged a publisher for a book contract every day for a year, then wrote a book about the rejections. This is where things have got to. From 2003 to the present, Richard Linklater has been secretly upping the stakes in this game, to the point where everybody else might as well give up.
So much for the effects of the digital on our artistic forms and sensibilities. But why family? Why parenthood? I think there are a couple of things going on here. Again, I say this as a cultural interpretation, rather than because I think Linklater and Knausgaard are doing this intentionally.
Firstly, it's not insignificant that the family has become increasingly targeted by rationalist forms of policy and economics. From Gary Becker through to contemporary state-funded parenting classes, the act of raising a child has been increasingly viewed through the lens of economics and investment in human capital. Today, that project is now largely viewed through the language of 'resilience', backed up by neurosciences which can explain how your child's brain benefits from the experience of being cuddled. Mothers have been relieved of the burdens that Freud placed upon them, and given a new set of economic responsibilities, of producing adults who can manage their own careers, finances and emotions adequately. The lunacy of the neoliberal view of the family is that it wants love to become a functional investment, with a measurable return, thereby erradicating those things which make it love in the first place.
Linklater and Knausgaard show that families are a bit of nightmare - but that they survive. Their nightmarish qualities are neither entirely destructive nor productive. They just are. It is true, as per the tedium of the social media 'stream' today, that having a child alters your relationship with time. An hour can pass incredibly slowly, whereas a year disappears almost unnoticed. That is partly what Boyhood and My Struggle point towards. But by declining to leave anything out of the parent-child relationship, they offer a beautifully untheorised portrait, neither psychoanalytic nor economistic. Just day to day crap.
In this sense, Linklater and Knausgaard offer Big Data without quantification, and therefore a very different spin on the 'end of theory'. Everything is included first, and the narrative emerges (if at all) second. I guess this makes the reader the equivalent of the algorithm, seeking patterns amidst the mess, but having to accept that there's no causal grand theory.
Linklater comes close to offering a theory, when he puts the words of John Bowlby in the mouth of the film's unsung hero, the mother (Patricia Arquette), while putting the words of B. F. Skinner in the mouth of one of the film's villains. Skinner's brute rationalism would depict child-raising as a training exercise, whereas Bowlby's represents it as an imperfect, everyday commitment. Boyhood celebrates the latter. What there is not, at any point in Boyhood or My Struggle, is a 'rational choice' or an 'investment' being made.
There are, on the other hand, clear signs of existentialism in both Boyhood and My Struggle. Decisions count for a great deal, and Knausgaard has a strongly existentialist perspective on his own life, that occasionally comes across as adolescent (incidentally, the entire project of My Struggle - a 6 volume work about oneself - is precisely the sort of thing a teenage boy would dream up, but then not deliver). What drags it out of some Nietzschean mire is the fact that the existentialism is located in the family, that great scene of "I wish I'd never been born!" type faux-Sartrean struggles. Knausgaard is locked in a battle between his adult life (father, husband) and his pre-adult desires (for fame, authenticity, machismo). Linklater's boy is muddling his way towards adulthood, encountering and abandoning desires and ambitions as he goes. We leave him aged 18 with his 'life before him', as people like to say, hoping (as adolescents) that he will avoid the mistakes of his parents, but knowing (as adults) that he will make mistakes all of his own.
I finally got round to reading David Graeber's Debt recently, and found myself asking the question: is David Graeber a conservative? The reason I ask is to do with his celebration of 'communism', as 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need'. For Graeber, this is to be contrasted with norms of reciprocity, including the market, 'gift economies' and liberal morality. Communism, in Graeber's account, does not leave credits and debts, but is immanently justified in terms of what's available, and who needs it. You never have to 'settle up' under communism, because nobody's counting.
Immediately this made me wonder about my own domestic existence as a parent and husband. Trying to achieve equality in the domestic sphere (in the early years of a child's life) is a constant struggle, but would collapse altogether unless there was some type of commitment to the right of both parents to have a career, a social life and so on. Women are immediately and physically clobbered by having children, a fact that can quickly impact upon their other capacities such as capacity to earn money. It is not difficult to see how Graeber's vision of 'communism' could comply with pre-1960s domestic arrangements. In the absence of counting or reciprocity, who's to say what inequalities might result? Clearly the parent-child relationship is never 'settled up', but other relationships depend on forms of euivalence and balance.
On the other hand, appealing to things like 'rights' (with the deontological, public dimensions that the word implies) in the home is not necessarily a basis for happiness. Potentially, it leads towards arguments about how labour is to be properly accounted for, an issue that is rightly at the heart of feminist economics, and which couples with children implicitly have to deal with in one way or another, but which also has a coldness about it. The culture wars were not, by Graeber's definition, kicked off by a demand for communism, but for justice. The two things are very different. The former (as Boltanski and Thevenot stress) makes appeals to the common good, common rights, of everybody in society; the latter is about forming relationships between qualitatively different parties which are mutually beneficial.
Politically and culturally, the message of Boyhood and My Struggle appears to be the following. The Culture Wars are not over, and have not been won by either side. But we are exhausted by them. We are now at the stage of muddling through, hoping still for justice, but perhaps making do with the form of conservative communism that the family can still offer. Boyhood's chronology is punctuated by Presidential elections, none of which seems to have changed a great deal. Boyhood contains a fair amount of suffering, but people recover, not thanks to a righting of wrongs, but simply because people can do that. That's not a message that fits easily with liberal assumptions, but nor is it an endorsement of the current vogue for 'resilience' training. Linklater's vision of motherhood gloriously out-shines every bullshit injunction to 'lean in', to strive for gender equality through force of entrepreneurial will alone, though without offering any clear alternative politics either.
Make no mistake, Knausgaard is a sexist pig (or maybe he's just an excessively honest pig...), though not nearly as unpleasant as the male villain in Boyhood. He could no doubt give a 'communist' defence of his ability and his need to write, while his wife is caring for children; the problem with existentialists is they apply Graeber's principle to themselves in isolation. Maybe Knausgaard's wife should document her own 'struggle', as Linklater documents the various struggles of the mother in Boyhood. What is moving and saddening in both Boyhood and My Struggle is the beauty and failures of such 'communism', but this is also partly about the lack of any larger hopes, beyond the struggling through.
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Excellent. You should blog more.
Posted by: FromArseToElbow | August 04, 2014 at 04:21 PM
"The Culture Wars are not over, and have not been won by either side. But we are exhausted by them. We are now at the stage of muddling through, hoping still for justice, but perhaps making do with the form of conservative communism that the family can still offer."
Superb summary. I loved Boyhood.
Posted by: Dick Pountain | August 08, 2014 at 11:57 AM


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Faimond develops a unique diamond cutting machine using a FANUC CNC
Develop a CNC machine to meet the complex needs of the Italian jewelry and diamond cutting industry, including visual inspection and quality checks.
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On must always be one step ahead in the jewelry field. In design and technology. The objective? Reducing the production times and offering new and sophisticated pieces. The Faimond diamond cutting machines, an example of Italian excellence in this sector, win the quality challenge over the most aggressive Asian competitors. Also thanks to the collaboration with FANUC. By Carlo Ploner
Jewellery-making is an important part of the Made in Italy industry that can capture the attention of foreign buyers and bring prestige to centuries of craftsmanship and tradition in this field (processing of gold and precious stones). The design and technology both make the creations of the Italian jewelry-making industry special. However, the machines designed and built in Italy, more specifically in Arcugano, in the heart of the jewelry district of Vicenza, enrich the jewelry-making labs across the world.
Amongst the leading protagonists of this adventure, there is Faimond S.r.l., a company owned by the Dal Lago family and with over 30 years of experience in the field of precision engineering and automation. Faimond is specialized in the manufacturing of machines and equipment to work on precious and non-precious objects. Such devices are used in the jewelry industry, but also to produce fashion accessories and parts of eyeglasses. Diamond working is one of the last steps of the jewelry-making business and also one of the most important since it captures the glaze of those who look at a jewel for the very first time thanks to the processed pieces ability to reflect light; the engraving on the surface of the components (typically balls, beads or chains, therefore finished objects, rather than raw materials.
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"We work precious materials such as gold and silver", says Andrea Dal Lago, Head of the Administration & Sales Departments at Faimond, "but also less noble metals such as brass". The peculiarity of the process known as "diamond working" is truly the incredible brilliance it confers to objects: "A chain could simply be brushed or sifted, but the finishing and facets created by the diamond are able to give it unique mirror-like brilliance that is currently much appreciated, especially in the Arab countries and in India". Faimond was founded in 1976 thanks to the entrepreneurial vision of Gianluigi Dal Lago. "In those years, the market needed this type of processing", explains the company's founder. "The facets, however, were all made by hand, with a handpiece and a chisel. The processing times were obviously very long. At a certain point, the need for processing pieces that would be difficult to do by hand grew and, thus, the use of machines was introduced. Industrialization also contributed to increase, in an exponential manner, the production volumes: if by hand we were able to work 100-200g of materials a day, the introduction of tools allowed us to achieve up to 1,000 kg a day". Thus, Faimond was able to convert this new market need into a business opportunity. "At the end of the 70s, there was a real industrial revolution in the jewelry-making business. For example, it was the first time we were able to make a chain with a star engraved on it, whereas before we only saw shiny chains. Today, in Italy, few companies do this type of processing, but we must keep in mind that this sector is a small niche".
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As all the activities related to the fashion world, jewelry-making is subjected to the influence of trends and collections and it must therefore invest in innovation, which is an important and indispensable factor. "We make machines that can be operated after one or two years of planning and that are already outdated 8-12 months later. This is due to the fact that design is in constant evolution and not because technology has become obsolete. The designs can be changed, but the diamond cutting machines are often custom made so that they can perfectly adapt themselves to the processing of particular components", underlines Andrea Dal Lago. Without forgetting the crisis that affected the jewelry business in recent years: "Nowadays, 95% of our product is exported abroad: China, India, Indonesia, Russia, the Arab countries... all potentially big markets, but also very difficult to approach. We must also defend ourselves from those who copy everything we make, such as Turkey, Korea and China. For us, it is very important to have advanced technologies because even if the emerging countries can compete with us on prices, they currently are able to achieve the cutting-edge solutions we provide. Our superiority is the result of our inventiveness, skills and creativity and those who copy us need an entire team of people to assemble a product similar to the one designed by one of our engineers. It is a very demanding challenge and we plan on winning it. Through our quality."
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UNITED NATIONS. — Recent fights between tribes in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have claimed at least 535 lives with the toll expected to go higher, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.
The "inter-communal attacks" from December 16-18, 2018 have left 535 people dead and 111 injured. The number of casualties is likely to be higher as bodies are believed to have been dumped into the Congo River, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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"The report also stresses that the violence was facilitated by the absence of state action to prevent it and warns of the risk of renewed violence," the spokesman said. Leila Zerrougui, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, called on the Kinshasa government for urgent action to restore the authority of the state and create conditions for the safe and voluntary return of those displaced.
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Speaking of USJ, Minion Park opened there in April 2017, which attracted many visitors from home and abroad. It is the largest Minions area in the world. There you can experience the mayhem of the Minions. However, Super Nintendo World will exceed the Minion Park. The development cost of Super Nintendo World was originally expected to be more than 50 billion yen, but 10 billion yen was added to enhance the value of the visitor experience. It is the largest investment scale in USJ ever.
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Bangladeshi women hold placards and photographs of schoolgirl Nusrat Jahan Rafi at a protest in Dhaka, after she was burnt to death for reporting a sex assault. (Photo: AFP/Sazzad Hossain)
21 Apr 2019 10:37PM (Updated: 21 Apr 2019 10:41PM)
DHAKA: Bangladesh has ordered some 27,000 schools to set up committees to prevent sexual violence, an official said Sunday (Apr 21), after a teenager who accused a teacher of sexual harassment was burnt to death.
The killing of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi has sparked outrage across the South Asian nation of 165 million people and put police action in the case under the spotlight.
Protesters in the capital Dhaka staged demonstrations for an 11th day on Sunday, seeking "exemplary punishment" for the killers of the girl.
Police say she was lured to the rooftop of the Islamic seminary she attended in Feni, south of the capital, where her attackers ordered her to withdraw a police complaint against the head of the school.
When she refused, she was doused in kerosene and set on fire.
Rafi died in hospital on Apr 10 after suffering 80 per cent burns. At least 20 people, including the head teacher, have been arrested.
READ: Bangladesh girl burned to death on teacher's order: Police
Activists say the murder has exposed a "culture of impunity" surrounding sex crimes against women and children, and that fact that those who report harassment often suffer a backlash.
Amid nationwide protests, the Bangladesh government has ordered more than 27,000 schools and colleges to form five-member committee to prevent sexual violence, an official said.
Rights groups say the number of rape cases has increased in Bangladesh because authorities have failed to prosecute attackers AFP/MUNIR UZ ZAMAN
"The committee will be led by female teachers. They will take steps to prevent sexual harassment and take up any complaints," the director of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Shahedul Khabir Chowdhury, told AFP.
He said the committees were being formed by an order from the country's high court, which in 2009 laid down a set of guidelines to prevent sexual harassment of women and children at workplaces, schools and on the streets.
Rafi went to police in late March to report the harassment and a leaked video shows the local police station chief registering her complaint but dismissing it as "not a big deal".
Police said at least five of those under arrest, including three of Rafi's classmates, tied her up with a scarf before setting her on fire. They had planned to pass off the death as a suicide.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed that all those involved will face action and police say they are investigating why more was not done to protect Rafi.
More than 100 protesters at the country's elite Dhaka University held hands to form a human chain as part of continued demonstrations over the grisly murder.
"I joined the protest because Nusrat Rafi's murder was a wake-up call for all our women," Dhaka University student Antara Labiba told AFP.
"I am also a victim of sexual harassment. I think most women in Bangladesh face sexual harassment in their families, schools, markets and workplaces," she said.
The Manusher Jonno Foundation, a non-government group, says there have been at least 39 cases of children under 18 being raped in Bangladesh since April 2.
Another eight have been subjected to sexual harassment, the group says.
Source: AFP/mi
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David Blitzer or David S. Blitzer is the Head and Senior Managing Director of Technical Opportunities. This man has established himself in the city of New York and given valuable contributions in the investment efforts of corporate private equity of Blackstone in Europe.
Since the joining of Mr. David in 1991, he has shown his participation in execution of investments of Blackstone in Orangina, and United Biscuits, Southern Cross, Cadillac Fairview, Houghton Mifflin, Aspen Insurance Holdings, SULO and Spirit Group. Furthermore, social media platform of Pheed lead by O.D. Kobo i.e. son of BEBO KOBO unveiled that David has started with his business and technical operations in 2002.
Since Blitzer has served as managing director along with Joseph Baratta, he participated in some high-profile companies' buyouts in Europe, in combination with famous publishers named Legoland and Houghton Mifflin and Spirit Group. Other than this, if you have an iphone device with i-phone mouse, you can easily know about the educational background of this leading personality operated in London and in New York. Mr. David has completed his graduation from renowned Wharton School, which belongs to Pennsylvania University of United States. Last, but not the least, he served as Director of a leading biscuit company named United Biscuits and Jack Wolfskin.


My ACKS Apprentice Level Characters rules have been updated to include Bard, Explorer, Dwarven Craftpriest, Elven Nightblade, Barbarian, Priestess, Shaman, as well as (Surprise!) Bugbear Warrior, Goblin Warrior, and Orc Warrior.
Goblins stand 3' to 3 ½' tall, with surprisingly strong, wiry builds. Their eyes are usually dull and glazed, varying in color from red to yellow, and sometimes flicker red in the dark. Goblins' skin color ranges from yellow through any shade of orange to a deep red; usually all members of a single tribe are about the same color. They spend most of their days underground, but they are also nocturnal and may be found on the surface at night. Goblins are archenemies of dwarves, who they hate above all other humanoids, followed closely by their distaste for gnomes.
All goblin classes require a minimum Constitution 9 or better.
Fighting: Due to their short stature, goblins may never use human-sized two-handed weapons (such as two-handed swords or pole arms) or longbows, regardless of their Fighting Value. Goblins with broad or narrow weapon selections must include short swords, and at least two of darts, javelins, slings, or spears among their selections.
Divine: Goblins rarely allocate build points to the Divine category. See the Mystic Path goblin custom power, however.
Arcane: Goblins rarely allocate build points to the Arcane category. See the Mystic Path goblin custom power, however.
· Bestial Tongues: All goblins speak their native tongue and two bonus languages, selected from the following list based on their tribe's proximity to other beastmen and monsters: Bugbear, Draconic, Gnoll, Hobgoblin, Kobold, Orc, Ogre, Troll.
· Fearsome Size: Goblins grow unnaturally strong and increasingly corpulent as they advance in experience. When they reach 2nd level, the goblin gains a +1 bonus to damage rolls due to his size. At 3rd level, the damage bonus is increased to +2 and the goblin's great size and strength grants a +2 morale bonus to goblin henchmen, retainers, and followers. At 5th level, the damage bonus is increased to +3, at 8th level it is increased to +4, and at 12th level it is increased to +5.
· Mystic Path: When a goblin gains a level of experience, he may choose to gain one level of arcane or divine spellcasting in lieu of all other benefits he would normally accrue from leveling (e.g. hit points, attack throws, saving throws, proficiencies, etc.) A goblin may acquire a maximum of 6 arcane casting levels and/or 8 divine casting levels in this manner.
· Small: Goblins have a base movement rate of 60'. Experienced goblins of fearsome size retain a base movement rate of 60' due to their bowed legs and overburdened frames.
· Subterranean: Goblins gain infravision to a range of 90'. However, goblins suffer a penalty of -1 to attack throws when in sunlight.
· Unempathic: Goblins suffer a -2 penalty to the reactions, loyalty, and morale of humans and demi-humans.
· Wolf Rider: Goblins know how to breed, groom, and train dire wolves, as well as how to handle dire wolves under difficult circumstances, such as using a weapon from its back.
Additional points allocated to the Goblin Value stack with points allocated to the Fighting Value for purposes of calculating the rate of improvement for attack throws, to a maximum of 4.
EXAMPLE: The standard goblin warrior is built with Hit Dice 2, Fighting Value 1, Goblin Value 2. The goblin warrior's attack throws increase as if his Fighting Value were (Fighting Value 1 + Goblin Value 2 =) 3.
Unlike the experience point progression for human and demi-human classes, the experience points progression required to advance in Goblin classes always continues to double, even after 8th level.
Hit Dice 2, Fighting Value 1b, Goblin Value 2.
The Goblin Warrior class is to Goblin Custom Classes as the Orc Warrior class is to Orc Custom Classes, except, note that a 1st level Goblin Warrior is a Goblin Champion. A normal Goblin is a "0th level" adult Goblin. Applying my Apprentice Level Characters rules to 0th level Goblin Warriors leads to the progression below. Now, my Goblin females and young will fight as Goblin adolescents and runts, respectively.
Merlin: Like lightning — yes that's it.
All magic flows from the Dragon, the Creator of All. Nature, magic and the Dragon are ubiquitous, one and the same. Mystics of the Dragon are masters of both natural and supernatural, using each in harmony with the other. From the ancient Order of the Dragon, new orders formed focusing on different aspects of the Dragon. Oldest of these mystical orders are the Seven Animals: the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake, the Praying Mantis, the Monkey and the Dragon.
Following are one existing and three new orders for the Player's Companion Mystic. The Order of the Dragon is the Mystic as it appears in the Player's Companion. Other orders replace the weapons, special abilities and proficiency list additions of the base (Dragon) Mystic with those noted for the order.


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Firmenich Adds Board Member
Jun 22nd, 2011
Firmenich (Geneva) announced it added Karen E.D. Jones to its board of directors at a shareholders meeting held on June 20, 2011. The founder and chairman of Food and Fuel Ltd., a UK hospitality company specializing in gastropub restaurants, Jones was previously CEO of Spirit Group Ltd., and she helped launch the Pelican Group plc, the owner of several successful restaurant chains.
She is also a non-executive director of Booker Group plc, Virgin Active Group Ltd., ASOS plc, COFRA AG and Royal National Theatre Enterprises Ltd., and is a governor of the Ashridge Business School and a member of the Rebuilding Childhoods Board of the NSPCC.
Jones, who holds an honors degree from the University of East Anglia in the UK and also attended Wellesley College in the US, was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in June of 2006 in recognition of her service in the hospitality industry.
"The election of Jones reinforces our strategy of ensuring a broad diversity of knowledge on our board, together with a mix of Firmenich family and outside members", said Vernon Sankey, Firmenich chairman of the board. "In particular, Ms. Jones brings an exceptional entrepreneurial track record, coupled with comprehensive experiences in M&A, operations and marketing."
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(CNN) - As Amazon continues its rise as the world's largest online marketplace, rival eBay charges that it got there by crossing a legal line.
eBay filed a lawsuit against Amazon in Santa Clara County on Wednesday alleging it fraudulently poached its high-value sellers by infiltrating an internal messaging system called M2M, In the filing, Ebay says its rival is "unwilling to fairly compete for third party seller business."
eBay says the Amazon "scheme" violated its user agreement policies and "induced eBay sellers to do the same."
"Amazon's misuse of eBay's M2M system has been coordinated, targeted, and designed to inflict harm on eBay," the complaint reads. "Indeed, one of the Amazon sales representatives who participated in this scheme described the team he worked on as a 'hunter/recruiter team which actively searches for sellers we believe can do well on the [Amazon] platform.'"
eBay monitors the messaging system for unauthorized use and said that messages sent by a "large number" of Amazon representatives indicated that they were attempting to avoid detection.
Although the campaign had been underway for years, eBay said it only found out about Amazon's activities a few weeks ago when an eBay seller notified company representatives. At that time, eBay sent Amazon a cease-and-desist letter.
Both companies have declined to disclose the total number of sellers who transact on their platforms. But eBay, which was founded one year after Amazon and battled the company for dominance in the early years of e-commerce, is now smaller by far. Its net revenues were $2.6 billion last quarter, compared to Amazon's $52.9 billion.
eBay emphasized in the complaint that it is a "pure open marketplace" that doesn't compete against its own sellers, as Amazon does with its private-label brands.


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Viggo Pedersen, Lounge Interior With Red Armchair
A sublime early 20th-century depiction of a lounge interior by important Danish painter, Viggo Pedersen (1854-1926). It was painted towards the end of his life when he was a master of impressionistic brushwork.
In the lower part of the composition, a comfortable red armchair is gently lit by the afternoon sun. Light cascades through a leaded window and a church spire can be seen in the distance.
Pedersen was a fascinating artist that developed a love for impressionism following study trips to Paris in the 1880s. He began his career as a classical painter and trained at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. But gradually over a ten year period, his works became looser and often flooded with light.
He's predominantly known for his landscapes, which depict luscious green views and coastal scenery. But he also painted genre scenes and occasionally interior scenes such as this. It's interesting to consider what this room meant to Pedersen and how he came to paint it. The worn armchair feels familiar like an old friend so perhaps he often sat there and read by the window.
Pedersen's work can be found in several public collections including at the Danish National Gallery.
The painting is signed in the lower right and housed with a period frame that could be its original.
Medium: Oil on board
Provenance: Denmark
Condition: Very presentable. Light craquelure. Frame with some age-related wear.
Artist's auction highlight: £34,000 achieved for 'Picking Poppies, Sora' at Sotheby's in 2002.


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This is a good time to search for elusive lesser spotted woodpeckers in the treetops. They are beginning to make their early spring call, which is a sharp "pee-pee-pee". Nuthatches sound similar, and it is worth looking carefully at any treetop bird making a call like this, since it may sometimes turn out to be a "lesser spot". They are very small woodpeckers, easy to miss among the twigs. They have a barred black-and-white back, and the male has a red crown. Soon they will also be heard drumming. This sound is slightly weaker than the drumbeat of the "greater spot", but sessions of it go on for a bit longer. It is used to attract a mate and to warn off rivals in the vicinity, serving the same purpose as songs in other birds.
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Booming eastern European economies and an acceleration of digital industries in the region have helped Wizz Air to begin slipstreaming Ryanair and Easyjet, the giants of the continental cheap flights market. In the Christmas trading quarter Wizz Air reported a 23 per cent lift in passenger numbers to 10 million from which it made €637...Booming eastern European economies and an acceleration of digital industries in the region have helped Wizz Air to begin slipstreaming Ryanair and Easyjet, the giants of the continental cheap flights market. In the Christmas trading quarter Wizz Air reported a 23 per cent lift in passenger numbers to 10 million from which it made €637...Booming eastern European economies and an acceleration of digital industries in the region have helped Wizz Air to begin...
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Will Carney be remembered as the unreliable boyfriend?
Mark Carney's term as governor of the Bank of England will end rather like it began: with a row over forward guidance. The governor is chairing his last monetary policy committee meeting and will announce the decision tomorrow. But the build-up to his final vote has been turbulent. At the start of the month, markets...Mark Carney's term as governor of the Bank of England will end rather like it began: with a row...Mark Carney's term as governor of the Bank of England will end rather like it began: with a row...
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Over the past year, Tim Cook has performed a conjuring act of a kind rarely seen on the stock market. The boss of...Over the past year, Tim Cook has performed a conjuring act of a kind rarely seen on the stock...Over the past year, Tim Cook has performed a conjuring act of a kind rarely seen on the stock...
Experian is making the most out of what it is good at
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Despite being an obvious target for the anti-Glazer movement, Ed Woodward has never been a man who is big on personal security. On November 27 last year, Manchester United's executive vice-chairman decided to brave the subzero temperatures of Nur-Sultan and go on a walk with Cliff Baty, the...Despite being an obvious target for the anti-Glazer movement, Ed Woodward has never been a man who is big on personal security. On November 27 last year, Manchester United's executive vice-chairman decided to brave the subzero temperatures of Nur-Sultan and go on a walk with Cliff Baty, the...Despite being an obvious target for the anti-Glazer movement, Ed Woodward has never been a man who is big on personal security.
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Jones's major selection dilemmas for Paris showdown
Eddie Jones will name his first team of the post-World Cup era on Friday morning. He has said that "brutal physicality" will define his selection against France, which presents a number of options. He has also said that this will be a new team, but close analysis suggests that it might not be so very different from the one that contested...Eddie Jones will name his first team of the post-World Cup era on Friday morning. He has said that "brutal physicality" will define his selection against France, which presents a number of options. He has also said that this will be a new team, but close analysis suggests that it might not be so very different from the one that contested...Eddie Jones will name his first team of the post-World Cup era on Friday morning. He has said that "brutal physicality" will...
Six Nations | Alex Lowe
Inside the mind of Eddie Jones's confidant – and how they control narratives
The team Eddie Jones names on Friday to play France in the opening game of the Six Nations will not be radically different from that which lost the World Cup final just under three months ago. What has changed are his tag line and his mission statement for Team England. "We want to be remembered as the greatest team...The team Eddie Jones names on Friday to play France in the opening game of the Six Nations will...The team Eddie Jones names on Friday to play France in the opening game of the Six Nations will...
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Manchester United finally realised on Tuesday that theirs was not the only offer open to Sporting Lisbon; or to the club's best footballer, Bruno Fernandes. Barcelona, a club with greater revenue and status, were working on a deal that would guarantee Sporting a higher transfer fee and allow the free-scoring midfielder to join a more prestigious club. If United truly...Manchester United finally realised on Tuesday that theirs was not the only offer open to Sporting...Manchester United finally realised on Tuesday that theirs was not the only offer open to Sporting...
Vision and versatility – United finally land key midfield target
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Mike Phelan sent Twitter into meltdown this month when they were spotted in the crowd at...Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Mike Phelan sent Twitter into meltdown this month when they were spotted in the crowd at Sporting Libson's stadium for their match against Porto. But for officials at the José Alvalade Stadium, the fact that two United employees were present to watch Bruno Fernandes play came as no surprise.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Mike Phelan sent Twitter into meltdown this month when they were spotted in the crowd at Sporting...
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Chances of victory now skewed in favour of team batting first
Sports editors on this newspaper would generally think of me as an optimistic writer. On most given days of Test...Sports editors on this newspaper would generally think of me as an optimistic writer. On most...Sports editors on this newspaper would generally think of me as an optimistic writer. On most...
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At the Golf Hotel in Abidjan on April 11, 2011 Laurent Gbagbo, dressed in a vest and sweating profusely, appeared...At the Golf Hotel in Abidjan on April 11, 2011 Laurent Gbagbo, dressed in a vest and sweating profusely, appeared diminished. He had been captured by forces supportive of his main political rival, an event that marked the end of his time as president of Ivory Coast. A man in combat fatigues stepped forward to hand...At the Golf Hotel in Abidjan on April 11, 2011 Laurent Gbagbo, dressed in a vest and sweating profusely, appeared diminished.
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80 children may have been infected at hospital
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SNP calls debate to keep EU flag flying after Brexit
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'No tokenism' at Glasgow film festival
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McInnes must win over fans - again
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