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IMD study shows emerging-world firms favour long-term approach to sustainability
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A study by the IMD Global Center for Sustainability Leadership has found that businesses from the developing world are producing more innovative ideas on sustainability than Western businesses. The researchers found the same patterns in Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Korea.
The respective approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are different. Large emerging-market firms are moving beyond the compliance-driven frameworks common in the West. Developing world companies prioritize the social dimension rather than environmental footprint monitoring and the triple bottom line. There are five characteristics of their fresh thinking. They are: A strategy-driven approach, local relevance, innovation, scale and collaboration.
Strategy-driven approach
Emerging-market leaders, such as Wipro, Natura, Bimbo, or Banco do Brasil, have thought hard about how they shape markets. They see sustainability as a business imperative and create long-term programmes. Brazil's Banco Itaú Unibanco, has a designated Sustainability Office which turns trends into business opportunities.
Pressures from regulators and NGOs have driven corporate sustainability models in mature markets. As a result, they focus on reducing impacts rather than creating long-term change. But the dominance of Western paradigms for CSR may not last long. Ideas from emerging-world businesses will increasingly influence the debate as they expand globally.
Local relevance
Emerging-market companies need to operate amid political instability, economic uncertainty and resource scarcity. This encourages them to identify radical and systemic responses to sustainability issues. The Mexican bakery giant Bimbo, for example, needed to find a sustainable solution to meet the energy demands of its production plants so it built a wind farm in the area of Oaxaca. Long-term, the farm will produce enough electricity to power all of Bimbo's operations.
The Brazilian cosmetics group Natura, meanwhile, realized 15 years ago that it could not compete with the big players in the cosmetic industry by "trying to find the right molecule in a lab". Instead, the company learned to identify natural sources for its ingredients in the Amazon, and has developed new ideas to reduce its environmental impact. Natura's 2020 Amazon programme provides a sustainable living for rainforest communities. It plans to involve 12,000 small producers and 1,000 local researchers into biodiversity.
A majority of emerging-market firms favour a long-term approach to sustainability and do not expect a short-term payback. This makes them more innovative than Western counterparts. The Mahindra group, an Indian multinational with technology operations in more than 100 companies, launched an online platform for entrepreneurs called Spark the Rise in 2011. Readers submit projects for feedback and Mahindra funds the best ideas. By the end of last year, nearly 2,000 Sparks had been approved and 238 projects funded.
Scale: Depth and breadth
Companies are seeking to transform critically important local communities and environments. Braskem, a Brazilian sustainable chemistry firm, is one of the most innovative South American companies. In 2007 the company launched green polyethylene, a plastic used in containers and bottles. Braskem also produces polyethylene from sugarcane-based ethanol. Over three years to the end of 2013, Braskem filed 420 patents and obtained 12% of its revenue from green technologies.
China's Elion Resources Group demonstrates the breadth of change. Elion has afforested more than 50,000 km2 of the Kubuqi Desert to create a green resort powered by clean energy. About 130,000 people have benefited from the businesses created for the resort. The income of local farmers has increased by 700% over 10 years. Elion also created a 1,500 km2 liquorice farm at the resort and in the process became China's leading supplier of natural and green liquorice medicine.
Businesses in emerging markets are forming collaborations with NGOs and local agencies to further their goals. In 2010, India's Britannia Foods decided to tackle anaemia in Indian children by introducing iron-fortified biscuits into free meals in state schools. To distribute the biscuits, it teamed up with the municipalities of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Then, it enlisted the help of GAINii, the Clinton Global Initiative and the World Food Programme, to promote it. In its first phase, the project reached 150,000 children.
Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest lender to family farms, wanted to help local farmers to use water sustainably. The bank teamed up with WWF Brazil and the National Water Agency to introduce the Brazil Water Project which gave training on using water more sustainably to tens of thousands of farmers.
These are examples of how emerging-market companies are acting as catalysts for change. Innovative programmes with far-reaching effects are much more common than in mature markets. The Western businesses need to catch up.
Interview with Francisco Szekely, Professor of Leadership and Sustainability at IMD
What is your general impression of the CSR efforts of Western companies?
Sustainability is a topic everyone hears about and everyone uses the definition that suits their interests. But the fact is we are not moving in the right direction. We are not creating a better world, or a lasting business model.
Too many Western companies are using sustainability and CSR as topics to look good on the eyes of society. We need to take a step back and ask why CSR emerged and why we are doing it. Most companies produce annual CSR reports, but the fact is that few people read them. The reason is that a CSR report is just a one-way communication. Companies expose the best they do. It's like asking me if I am a good professor and I say that I am and just tell you the good things I do. Then I say "bye", and hang up the phone. CSR is not a dialogue. Companies formulate answers before we get a chance to say what we want to know. Even when companies win CSR awards, it's usually from business forums run by those businesses.
What is the essence of the problem?
In my view, John Elkington's concept of the triple bottom line has been an unhelpful framework for sustainability. The triple bottom line says a company has to excel in three dimensions – financial, the environment and society. In principle, it sounds good. But companies love it because it allows them to save face. Most strive to do well financially, which is fine. But as far as the environment is concerned, their interpretation has been to do the minimum, rather than the maximum. It has been to pick the low-hanging fruit. So they boast about reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 10%. But does this make the company sustainable? They have to do it anyway. It's as if I said: "Well, look at me, I paid taxes this year". That's my obligation anyway.
On the society side, companies have been doing philanthropic things. That's good, but it's not the only thing the world needs. We need good products, services and processes. The problem with the triple bottom line concept is the three dimensions can't be integrated. So you can't measure how well a company is doing. They could make a lot of profit, but might be bad for the environmental, or not care for society. It's hard to judge their performance on CSR because you can't integrate dollars with environmental compliance and social goods.
It's possible to tick the CSR boxes, whilst doing harm to society. Take PepsiCo. From an environmental point of view, they produce food in a meticulous way with no pollution, but the product itself is linked to high levels of child obesity in countries like the US and UK.
Do you see a different approach in developing countries?
We found much more of a focus on social needs. To succeed, these companies need to look more systemically at the social environment around them. For Tata, in India, to sell more cars, they need good roads and so they have committed to building a lot of them. Helping to build roads is taking a long-term view of sustainability and not just looking at short-term profit.
Brazilian cosmetics company Natura is using the Amazon as a resource, but it knows it needs to keep the river alive to survive long term. So they don't exploit it to the end and move on. They use local people with the know-how to extract the resource without depleting it. They are also researching innovative ways of using natural products to make cosmetics and fragrances. It's about creating a circular economy. You take, you use and you put back.
The bakery company Bimbo in South Mexico realized they were over-dependent on oil as a source of energy to produce bread and they asked themselves why don't we move to a long-term, sustainable source before we run out of oil? So they built a huge wind power plant to power 100% of their manufacturing. They were not regulated and there were no NGOs breathing down their necks. They had a long-term vision.
Some of the rhetoric in the West and developing world is similar, so what is the real difference?
It can sound similar, but the emphasis is different. Businesses in emerging markets know they are there to stay, whereas companies going into those countries from the industrialized world stay there as long as there are profits. They can extract resources and use the local environment and then leave. Take any mining company which goes to South Africa and extract the ore. Once the mineral is depleted, they can just move on. They don't care what happens afterwards. Companies in emerging markets will stay there and have to look to the future.
The Western companies are operating in the developed world to make short-term profits. They brag about what they do there because there are NGOs focusing on them when they do the wrong thing. A typical example is Nike. It was using sweatshops in Indonesia where children were working in bad environmental conditions. After they got a boycott in the USA, they started responding and many Western companies saw the dangers for their reputation of using cheap labour in poor conditions. So now they all say they are doing the right thing and using the right outsourcers. The truth is that it's hard to check.
Most Western companies are going two steps backward from the environmental movement. Most of what they do is reactive, not proactive. They don't do it because they think "here's a great idea that can change the world". They are just reacting to the pressures.
What are the long-term consequences?
It's no longer possible to continue making profits and just paying lip service to sustainability. There is now an issue about resource scarcity. So, if you are a big company in the West and you need to go to the developing countries to extract resources, you need to worry about your future. Take companies like Coca Cola. They manufacture drinks in the developing world where they've been criticized for causing stress on local water supplies. They need to worry about it long term. If they don't protect the resource base there will be no production in future. A second thing Western companies have to worry about is competition. A new competitor in the developing world is China. They are producing food in Africa and shipping it back to China.
Leaders thinking it's enough to pay lip service to sustainability will sooner or later be caught out when someone takes the resource they use. Eventually, a country will develop regulations for resource extraction because they are using the water that should be reserved for their cities. When Coca Colas start competing with water for municipalities, they won't have a long-term future.
Are there Western companies doing great things?
Some companies are thinking beyond short-term profits. Unilever CEO Paul Polman wants to create sustainable tea production, which is ambitious. Everything has to be done within the circular economy, so there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Every time you plant a tree and use it, you plant it again. You only buy from sustainable farms. It's not easy to achieve, but the ambition is good. Nestlé says that to succeed long term they need to participate in world conservation. They are right. If you want to have the coco-bean to produce chocolate, or coffee, you need to worry about water.
Novartis are also doing good things in Africa. They've put together a system to help people on Africa get hold of malaria pills. Many times villagers can't get access to it. So, Novartis put a system in place so anyone can dial a free number in England to get information about where the nearest pharmacy is with a supply of pills. It's long-term proposition.
They are people who are thinking differently and that means not just about their money. The US company Tesla is a good example. They are producing an electric car, but also all the parts required, meaning the batteries, charging stations, plus everything related to transportation. Four months ago they announced that all the patents they have developed for their electric cars are public and free to use. Giving patents to all other car companies is thinking big. Older companies Mercedes, Volkswagen would never give away technology. But Tesla says no, we want the industry to go to the next level. Leadership.
Are Western companies consciously learning from developing world?
Not yet because there is too much arrogance. When the topic of business innovation in the developing world came up five years ago, many Western companies talked about "reverse innovation", meaning it was coming from the developing world. What does reverse mean? It's still difficult for leaders in the West to think they can learn from the developing world, but it will happen.
The thing is when they see success they will start thinking about how it was achieved. The leaders in the industrialized world don't have such a long-term vision as some of their counterparts in the developing world.
Why is that? There are a number of issues. First, the economy is still unstable in the industrialized world so they are conservative. Second, because CEOs don't last more than five years so they think "why the hell should I invest in something that will take 20 years?"
But we need different thinking. Big changes are not made by lots of people, but by a few. Political, economic and technological changes are always made by a few leaders. If we are seriously thinking about how to create a better world, we need to share, and think big and be generous. All these things have to do with mindset. We desperately need inspirational figures.
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The Long Term Capitalism challenge gave me opportunity to describe our efforts as a social purpose business putting people before shareholder value. It began 20 years ago with a question about the purpose of business: http://www.managementexchange.com/story/re-imagining-capitalism-new-bottom-line
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6 TV episodes that were *supposed* to be finales
The TV finale is a delicate object. Hit the right note and everyone goes home happy. Get it wrong and the fans will come for you. After committing to a series and investing emotionally in its characters and conspiracies, you want answers to the big questions and a sense of closure.
But what about the shows that have had more than one ending?
How can something possibly end twice? Trust us, it has happened, and on more than on occasion.
From fan petitions to logistical complications, these are the shows that have technically had two finales, and the reasons why.
When Elementary wrapped up its sixth season, we watched as Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) falsely confessed to the murder of Michael Rowan (Desmond Harrington) so that he could protect Dr Joan Watson (Lucy Liu). Watson had been identified as the prime suspect, despite the fact that Hannah Gregson (Liza J Bennett) was the culprit.
Instead of going to jail, the detective made a deal to leave the United States and move back to London.
But murder aside, one of the most engaging aspects of the episode is when Sherlock tells Joan that he loves her, something that the people behind the show didn't actually have in mind from the beginning.
Showrunner Rob Doherty recently revealed that CBS initially gave Elementary 's sixth season13 episodes, before extending its run to 21: "We got to a point, schedule-wise, where we couldn't wait for an order for more, and just had to assume [episode] 13 was the end of the season, and potentially the end of the series."
Had they known they were going to be given another eight episodes to play with, the action would have unfolded differently. "So as we're approaching what we think is truly the end, we didn't want to focus on Michael. We wanted to focus on Sherlock and Joan," Rob added.
"We wanted their livelihood and their partnership at stake. Taking Michael off the board when we did cleared a path to tell a story that, if it really was the end of the show, would feel like a proper wrap-up for everybody."
And that explains why it was a case of now or never for Sherlock's confessional: "I had to assume this was the end for the series. So I thought it was time for Sherlock to stop beating around the bushes and let the subtext be the text for once.
"When you look at any of our seasons, what you see or feel between them is love. I think that's the way it is for all Watsons and Holmes."
Elementary has been renewed for a seventh and final season. Very little has been confirmed about what we can expect, but Doherty has revealed that some of the action will be taking place in Britain – we should think so, too.
Here's everything else you need to know about the show's final chapter.
2. Scrubs
Scrubs is a prime example of a show becoming a victim of its own success, carrying on when it definitely shouldn't have.
Despite drawing to a close after season nine, creator Bill Lawrence admitted that "season eight was the end of Scrubs and it still is, in my head".
Speaking to TV.com, Lawrence was adamant that the series should have turned the lights off for good after JD leaves Sacred Heart for the final time: "That was without a doubt a series finale and we all thought the show was over… Scrubs was over."
And it definitely would have made perfect sense – the season eight finale is titled 'My Finale' and handles what should have been the Scrubs finale with the love and care it deserved – JD walks through the halls of the hospital where he cut his teeth as a doctor and forged friendships for life, greeting friends old and new through a series of flashbacks, before hopping into his car and driving off to the next chapter of his life.
During the discussions about a ninth season, Lawrence suggested changing the name to Scrubs Med (ABC refused) to acknowledge the key narrative differences – Sacred Heart makes way for Winston University and the OG cast undergoes a major overhaul, JD (Zach Braff) is only a main cast member for six episodes, and The Janitor (Neil Flynn), Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins) and Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) only feature as guest stars. Judy Reyes, who plays Carla, chose not to take part because she wanted to remain a series regular, and that wasn't on the table.
Know when to quit, guys.
3. ER
Season 14 of ER was supposed to be the last. We see the return of Dr Moretti (Stanley Tucci), who wants to make amends after destroying Abby (Maura Tierney) and Luka's (Goran Visnjic) marriage. Steve Buscemi also pops up as a drunk patient whose actions put everyone at County in danger, and there is Greg (Mekhi Phifer), still determined to pursue his dreams of becoming Chief of the ER, and Tony (John Stamos), who is worried about his future with Sam (Linda Cardellini).
But apparently, the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike slashed the episode count so much that NBC decided to bring the show back for a fifteenth and final season to give the fans a proper finale.
The actual finale 'And in the End…' welcomed back some big names for our final visit to County General – Eriq La Salle, Thandie Newton and Noah Wyle.
George Clooney, however, was clearly washing his hair.
4. The Simpsons
Matt Groening's animated sitcom is the longest running scripted TV show of all time. Give yourself a moment to mull that one over.
641 episodes have been broadcast since its debut on December 17, 1989 – a whopping 30 seasons. But it was actually season 23, episode 9 – 'Holidays of Future Passed' – which was written as a potential series finale.
Set during a Christmas 30 years in the future, Bart and Lisa are parents, bringing their own kids to Homer and Marge's house, and Maggie is pregnant, travelling to visit her family before going into labour.
Long before the episode's air date, contract negotiations were taking place and it was reported that Fox was asking certain lead actors to take a 45% cut from their annual salaries. It looked like neither party was going to budge and because of that, The Simpsons would end there, which wouldn't have been a total disaster – yes, we would have significantly less Simpsons to watch, but many people think that it is one of the best ever episodes, balancing emotional maturity with humour.
A solid place to stop, if it had come to that.
5. Car Share
Bolton-born comedian Peter Kay had enjoyed mammoth success with his stand-up arena tours and a number of TV series including Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, as well as appearing in the likes of Coronation Street and Doctor Who. Basically, he was everywhere. Then he took a few years off.
Peter Kay's Car Share, which aired in 2015, really put him back on the map. The show itself does exactly what it says on the tin: supermarket assistant manager John Redmond (Peter Kay) and promotions rep Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson) are thrown together in a company car-pool scheme, and we get to watch their daily commute.
Fans were devastated when it was revealed that the show would wrap up after just two series, with the original finale seeing Kayleigh walk away from John after she bravely professes her love for him, but he doesn't reveal how he feels.
More than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding another finale, and in the end they got one.
Fans were given a standalone, entirely improvised special, as well as 'The Finale', where John finally let Kayleigh into his heart as the pair held hands on the bus.
No, YOU'RE crying.
14 seasons deep and brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) are still kicking supernatural butt.
But according to Misha Collins, who plays Castiel, an angel of the Lord, the show was supposed to end after the fifth season, which see Sam and Dean on the run from Heaven and Hell.
Speaking to TV Line, Collins said that he was "stunned that the show has been going as long as it has", admitting that after he joined the cast, he thought "this is probably somewhere near the end of the show".
Mark Sheppard, who plays the demon Crowley, also confirmed that Supernatural wasn't supposed to continue after that.
"Originally five was going to be the end of it," added Collins. "The story arc was designed to end at Season 5. Now, here we are…"
How different things could have been.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is literally and figuratively everywhere. It is almost impossible to avoid this topic in technology circles – whether from industry research, blogs or company white papers, and expectations are high. Between now and 2022, Cisco estimates that IoT will drive economic value (increased revenues and reduced costs) of $14.4 trillion.
While the amount of noise created on this topic is loud and increasing, the topic itself is not brand new. Industrial and Consumer applications that broadly fit under the IoT banner have been around for several years, but the use-cases are evolving and growing.
It is imperative for technology executives to understand the value of IoT from two perspectives: monetization and revenue growth opportunities offered by IoT (external focus), and efficiency gains of their supply chains and distribution channels (internal focus).
To help frame the value creation opportunities offered by IoT, a use case driven approach is necessary to deeply understand and size the value creation opportunities. Waterstone's analysis of 40 IoT use cases across a handful of industries indicates that current IoT deployments are concentrated in three solution areas: Monitoring & Assessment, Decision Support and Connected Platforms.
Building an Internet of Things roadmap for a technology business with little prior knowledge will feel like a daunting task given the apparent unknowns. But given the perfect storm of conditions to drive momentum, the real and valuable emerging use cases, and the broad applicability across a huge variety of industry verticals, it makes sense to begin thinking – and acting – upon it sooner rather than later.
Bill Bien is a Partner at Waterstone Management Group. Hubert Selvanathan is a Principal at Waterstone Management Group.


Elegant Piazza del Popolo ★★ is haunted with memories. According to legend, the ashes of Nero were enshrined here, until 11th-century residents began complaining to the pope about his imperial ghost. The Egyptian obelisk dates from the 13th century b.c.; it was removed from Heliopolis to Rome during Augustus's reign (and once stood at the Circus Maximus).
The current piazza was designed in the early 19th century by Napoleon's architect, Valadier. The 15th-century Santa Maria del Popolo ★★ is at its northern curve, its facade modified by the great Bernini between 1655 and 1660 in a baroque style. Raphael's mosaic series the "Creation of the World" adorns the interior of the dome of the Capella Chigi inside the church (the second chapel on the left), and Pinturicchio decorated the main choir vault with frescoes such as the "Coronation of the Virgin." The Capella Cerasi (to the left of the high altar), contains gorgeous examples of baroque art: an altarpiece painting of "The Assumption of Mary" by Carracci, and on either side two great works by Caravaggio, "Conversion on the Road to Damascus" and "The Crucifixion of Saint Peter." Opposite Santa Maria del Popolo, standing astride the three roads that form the "trident," are almost-twin baroque churches, Santa Maria dei Miracoli (1681) and Santa Maria di Montesanto (1679).


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For All u Boys Out There, If Any Of u Got The Chance, Who Would u Rather Date?
Jennifer Aniston was named the 72nd ranked Sexiest Woman Alive door Smartasses.Net on Thursday, March 17th 2011, when the online men's magazine revealed their everpopular who's who of the hottest women on the planet. 2011 marked the sixth annual jaar for the increasingly populair Smartasses top, boven 100 Sexiest Women List, which comes out every St. Patrick's Day, to coincide with March Madness. For Aniston, surprisingly it was her first jaar on the list. For more, visit Smartasses.Net.
Jennifer Aniston is set to ster in a movie project about the 1940's western band, The Goree Girls. While promoting her new perfume line in Mexico City, she called the band, which formed in a Texas prison, the "Dixie Chicks of their time."
Smiling broadly as she snuggled up to her musician beau, the couple - both dressed in matching blue jeans and black jackets - strolled back to the 31-year-old's New York home pagina after enjoying a avondeten, diner datum with friends.
beroemdheden have far-reaching and glamorous ways of exacting revenge on their ex-partners. They do it in the pages of glossy fashion magazines and in interviews with Vanity Fair. volgende month's W magazine features link and her co-star in her latest film The Bounty Hunter, Gerard Butler, posing as a couple on the cover and a fashion spread inside.
London, June 22 (IANS) Despite a much publicised breakup early this year, former 'Friends' ster Jennifer Aniston has been sending perfumed notes to ex-beau John Mayer.
The actress, who spleet, split from the singer in April, is reportedly struggling to get over her old flame and has good luck messages delivered to the musician's dressing room before he performs, reports imdb.com.
Just so u know, it's not that common, it doesn't happen to every guy and it is a big deal!
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Prince Harry and the Royal Family Already Have a Plan for Keeping in Touch on Christmas, Apparently
Kayleigh Roberts
December 19, 2020, 10:49 AM ·2 min read
From Marie Claire
This year, like many families around the world, the royal family will be celebrating Christmas apart, observing social distancing guidelines put in place as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and their son, Archie Harrison, will be celebrating from their new home in California, but are said to be on better terms lately with the rest of the royal family than they were even earlier this year.
A source close to the royal family told ET Online that the royals are planning Zoom calls and to play games with each other online since they can't be together at the Queen's estate in Sandringham this year.
If your Christmas plans look much different this year than usual, then you're definitely not alone. The royal family usually gathers at the Queen's estate in Sandringham to celebrate the Christmas holidays, but this year, they'll be celebrating separately from different locations because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Queen and Prince Philip announced earlier this month that they will be celebrating the holidays quietly from Windsor Castle, for example. While it's not known exactly where many members of the royal family will be celebrating just yet, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and their son, Archie Harrison, will be celebrating from their new home in Montecito, California.
The royals might not be able to be together in person, but they'll still be connecting and celebrating the holiday together. A source explained to ET Online that the Firm already has plans in place for their socially distanced celebration.
"The family is planning Zoom calls and games online because they can't all spend Christmas at Sandringham together like they normally do," the royal source told ET.
And even though Harry and Meghan's relationship with the rest of the royal family has been notoriously strained this year, the source says that's changing too and the Sussexes are definitely part of the Christmas plan.
"Everyone is on better terms and have been for quite some time. The relationship has improved and COVID has brought everyone closer together," the source explained. "Harry was very concerned for his brother and father when they both contracted the disease. While there have been disagreements, like there are in every family, the brotherly bond remains intact despite tabloid reports."
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Developing Earth-abundant metal-catalysts for hydrofunctionalisation
dc.contributor.advisor Thomas, Stephen
dc.contributor.advisor Schneider, Uwe
dc.contributor.author Paliga, James Francis
dc.description.abstract The iron-catalysed hydromagnesiation of styrene derivatives has been developed further from previous publications, expanding the electrophile scope to enable the regioselective formation of new carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds (Scheme A1). A commercially available pre-catalyst and ligand were used to give an operationally simple procedure that did not require prior synthesis of a catalyst. This work also investigated the hydromagnesiation of dienes, using a screen of ligands commonly used in transition metal catalysis. An investigation into the magnesium-catalysed hydroboration of olefins was also carried out. Although mostly unsuccessful, it was demonstrated that in the presence of a magnesium catalyst, a small amount of vinyl boronic ester could be formed from an alkyne (Scheme A2). Simple magnesium salts were also investigated for the reduction of carbonyls. Lastly, this work explored the titanium-catalysed hydrosilylation of olefins, using a novel activation method developed within the group (Scheme A3). The results were compared to those published previously using traditional organometallic activation methods and attempts at identifying conditions to improve chemoselectivity were carried out. en
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dc.relation.hasversion Jones, A. S.; Paliga, J. F., Greenhalgh, M. D.; Quibell, J. M.; Steven, A.; Thomas, S. P. Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5964-5967. en
dc.subject catalysis en
dc.subject novel reactions en
dc.subject iron catalyst en
dc.subject magnesium en
dc.subject titanium-catalysed reaction en
dc.title Developing Earth-abundant metal-catalysts for hydrofunctionalisation en
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) is a key enzyme in the 'small glutamate compartment', which constitutes in neural tissues an endogenous neuroprotective mechanism that prevents the accumulation of neurotoxic amounts of glutamate in postsynaptic regions. Under normal conditions, glutamate is taken up by glial cells and converted by the GS enzyme into the non-toxic amino acid glutamine. Glutamine is then released by the glial cells and returns into neurons, where it is hydrolized by glutaminase to form glutamate again. In this way, glutamate neurotoxicity is prevented and the neurotransmitter pool is replenished. This biochemical pathway fails, however, to prevent glutamate neurotoxicity under pathological conditions. Glutamate neurotoxicity has been implicated in the process of neuronal degeneration following injury or focal ischemia and in the pathophysiology of a wide variety of neurological disorders. Considering the role of GS in glutamate detoxification, it has been postulated that glial cells cannot cope with glutamate neurotoxicity, because the level of GS is not high enough to catalyze the excessive amount of glutamate released by damaged neurons. Recent studies by us and others have indeed demonstrated that the removal of glutamate from the extracellular space is ultimately dependent on the level of GS expression in glial cells, and that neuronal injury is often accompanied by a decline in GS expression and/or activity. Most importantly, we have shown that an increase in the amount of GS in glial cells, via induction of the endogenous gene or exogenous supply of purified GS, protects against neuronal degeneration in injured retinal tissue. Based on these findings we postulate that elevation of GS expression in ovo, at the site of neural injury, will protect against neuronal degeneration. The objective of our current research effort is to test this hypothesis.
The significance of GS in neuroprotection led us to investigate the molecular mechanism that underlies the induction of high GS levels in glial cells. Cloning, sequencing and functional analysis of the upstream region of the GS gene identified two major regulatory elements: a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) and a neural restrictive silencer element (NRSE). Studies in the chicken retina revealed that glial specificity of GS expression is achieved by utilizing these positive (GRE) and negative (NRSE) regulatory elements, which are not glial-specific by themselves, but might establish a glial-specific pattern of expression through their mutual activity. We are currently investigating the interplay between the two transcription factors that mediates these activities: the glucocorticoid receptor protein, which is responsible for hormonal induction of GS expression in glial cells, and NRSF/REST, which represses the hormonal response in non-neural cells.


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LAPD officers found not guilty in beating of disabled woman
by City News Service February 22, 2018 October 26, 2021
A jury has exonerated three Los Angeles police officers and the city in a lawsuit filed by a disabled woman who alleged her civil rights were violated and that unreasonable force was used against her during a physical confrontation with the officers in South Los Angeles in 2015.
The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for about 1 1/2 days before rejecting on Feb. 15 the claims of 40-year-old Zennea Foster.
"I guess that means the cops can do anything they want," Foster's grandmother, Lillie Foster, said as her granddaughter was consoled by one of her supporters outside the courtroom.
The plaintiff's lawyer, Carl Douglas, said in his final argument that his client was not a threat to Officers Andre Burton, Marcus Moreno and William Chamberlain, nor a fourth officer who was previously dismissed as a defendant. He said they used more force than necessary to restrain Foster, who was born with Erb's palsy, which limits the use of her left arm and hand.
"Four officers trained to kill were unable to handcuff one woman with one arm," Douglas said.
But Deputy City Attorney Geoffrey Plowden maintained that the plaintiff struck Burton first and that he hit her back in self-defense, all the while trying to avoid slashes from her long fingernails.
Plowden told jurors the officers were unaware at the time that Foster had a disability.
"It's undisputed the officers didn't know she had the disability," Plowden said. Plowden also contended that Foster has far more use of her left arm than Douglas acknowledged.
Foster acknowledged during her testimony that she slugged Burton, saying it was "a natural reaction after he hit me."
Foster said Burton retaliated by hitting her again. She said that after she fell to the ground, other officers joined the melee and began kicking her. She testified she additionally felt pain to her back caused by the officers striking her with either their knees or their elbows.
Douglas alleged his client's legs were hobbled and that she endured the worst beating of a female by police that he has seen in his 37 years as a lawyer.
According to Foster, tenants called her to a home she owns on South Denker Avenue on Feb. 4, 2015, where a stabbing occurred during a dispute between two of her tenants.
About eight officers arrived about 10:45 p.m., some armed with shotguns, she said. They handcuffed her boyfriend, who arrived at the scene separately from her, and towed his motorcycle even though he had nothing to do with the stabbing, Foster said.
Foster said she contacted the tenant being sought for the stabbing and offered her phone to one of the officers so he could talk to the man, but Burton intervened and struck her.
Douglas said Foster had no reason to be the aggressor and hit Burton first.
"This one-armed woman is not going to strike a cop holding a phone and a key in her (good) hand," Douglas said.
But Plowden said Foster intervened at a time the officers did not know whether the assailant might still have been in the house and perhaps armed with a knife or gun.
"This particular situation was extremely dangerous," Plowden said.
Foster filed her lawsuit in May 2016.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:06pm
LifeArts and Entertainment
■ The Redoubt Chamber Orchestra and the Kenai Peninsula Singers present "An Evening of Christmas" on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Kenai Central High School Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. This concert, conducted by Tammy Vollom-Matturro and Simon Nissen, is an evening filled with holiday music such as "Let It Snow!," "Sleigh Ride," "Carol of the Bells," and many more. There will be audience sing-alongs and the "Hallelujah Chorus" performed by all. Tickets available at the door.
■ A holiday flute/violin music concert will be held on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at the Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church by flute students of Tomoka Raften and violin students of Ida Pearson. The students will be performing ensembles and solos of beautiful classical and holiday pieces composed by Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Boccherini, etc. Piano accompaniment will be played by Keri Ann Peek. Flutist Vanessa Willkinson of the Fireweed Flutes will be joining us from Anchorage with the bass flute and alto flute. Admission is free.
■ An exhibit of black and white photography and drawings by Sue Biggs and Mary Broderick is on display at the Kenai Fine Art Center. The show birthed after collaboration began between Sue and Mary to produce visual arts to be displayed as music flowed during Kenai Peninsula Orchestra events. Their show will hang through Jan. 28, 2017 at Kenai Fine Art Center, at 816 Cook Avenue in Old Town Kenai. All galleries are open from noon to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, manned by volunteer artist participation. Call 907-283-7040 for further information.
■ Kenai Performers present a weekly, drama club for youth in grades 7-12. The group meets on Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., in same building as Subway restaurant on Kaliforsnky Beach Road (backside of building). Club dues $50/month. Discount for siblings. Call Terri, 252-6808 or Sally, 394-8104 for more information.
■ ARTspace Drawer is on display at the Soldotna Library, the first annual collection of locally created 2D art. The first of its kind in Alaska, this display is made possible by a partnership between Soldotna Rotary, ARTspace Inc., and the Soldotna Public Library.
■ The Duck in on Kalifornsky Beach Road will host an ugly sweater Christmas party Dec. 17, with prizes for the ugliest sweater in the men's and women's categories. Festivities start at 9 p.m.; contest at 11 p.m.
■ The Kasilof Pinochle Club season is under way at noon on Saturdays. The season runs through April 15, 2017. Call the club's president, Jay Vienup, at 907-252-6397 with any questions.
■ Veronica's in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic on Thursday at 6 p.m. live music at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Call 283-2725.
■ A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski.
■ The Flats Bistro on Kalifornsky Beach Road has live music with Daniel Tuttle Mondays from 6-8 p.m.; Pat Wendt on Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m.; Garrett Mayer on Thursdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m.; and Robb Justice on Fridays from 8-10 p.m.
■ An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m.
■ AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on K-Beach across from Jumpin Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to DJ Roy, and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Frank.
■ Odie's Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.
■ The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m.
■ Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
■ The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays.
■ Michael Shawn and the Graceland Connection will play at the Vagabond Inn on K-Beach Road on Nov. 19 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Markets, fairs and bazaars
■ There will be a regular bazaar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Wednesday at the Blazy Mall in Soldotna through November and December.
■ Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times.
■ Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times.
■ The Pratt Museum in Homer is from noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www.prattmuseum.org.
■ "Inspired by Diaries" is on display at the Pratt Museum in Homer, featuring artwork inspired by personal and historical diaries. Also on exhibit will be numerous excerpts and original historical diaries from the Pratt Collections. This exhibit runs through December 31, 2016.
Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.
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College Sport Ethical Issues
Topic: Family, Life & Experiences Words: 834 Pages: 4 Updated: Apr 6th, 2020
In the contemporary world, sport has become the source and the target for a variety of social issues of different characters. The popularity of sports in contemporary society, their financial and political aspects triggered a number of conflicts and scandals in different fields of sports. The scholars today explore sports ethics from several perspectives.
Some of them are fair play, the use of drugs, and human rights. College sports, as well as professional sports, undergo a series of pressures and tensions related to scandals based on different perspectives on the rights, functions, and roles of the athletes.
It is a well-known fact that college athletes are not professional sports players. Theoretically, they are students of different educational institutions, which frequently engage in sports competitions to represent their affiliations.
College athletes are talented and gifted at sports. This is the source of the main confusion of the public perception of a college athlete. For example, one of the most frequently discussed issues is whether or not college athletes are supposed to be paid for their performance, because being a part of a college sports team is not the main function of a student.
College sports have gained enormous popularity over the last couple of decades. As a result, a number of institutions started to play clever recruitment strategies when it comes to the acquisition of different athletic students. Some of the universities and colleges were even accused of deliberate lowering of their academic requirements and standards to maintain the eligibility of their most popular athletes (Hanson & Savage, 2012).
Among all the ethical discussions and problems inhabiting the world of college sports today the scandal that shook the United States the most was the child abuse case of Jerry Sandusky, Penn State assistant coach, who used the college's charity program for the recruitment of athletes as his own system to find victims to molest. This horrific example of 2011 is, without a doubt, a modern demonstration of the ethical issues existing in the world of college sports today.
The case of Sandusky is an example of human right violation based on the abuse of power and authority from the side of the college towards its students. Sandusky was not the only perpetrator of this scandal. In fact, a number of Penn State executives were accused of ignoring and even covering the signs of right violations and conflicts inflicted by Sandusky (Layden, 2014).
While the role of authorities and power holders in sports is often surrounded by numerous discussions, there is another very important ethical issue in this field. College sports are growing more and more competitive. This creates tensions and pressures on the athletes and causes cases of cheating and performance-enhancing drug-taking.
It goes without saying that intoxications of all kinds clash with the general understanding of sports as the promotion of a healthy lifestyle (Wider Effects, 2014). This issue is exacerbated by the discussion about the payment and reward for the college students participating in sports.
The problem is, if college authorities and leaders start financially rewarding the best athletes and teams, this will most likely increase the pressure and the desire to perform better from the side of the athletes, which, logically, may serve as the cause of even more drug-taking.
In ethics, gamesmanship is often contrasted with sportsmanship. The former is focused on winning at any cost, and the latter represents healthy competition and cultivates such virtues as a strong character, will-power, determination, endurance, and honor.
Gamesmanship approach occurs as a result of vicious desires and qualities such as greed, anger, vanity, revenge, and pride. Since college athletes are very young people, they are likely to slip and start following the wrong path driven by their passion, ambitions, and desire to be popular, appreciated, and respected.
In my opinion, college sports are very important, as they carry a variety of functions among which there is the unification of the students, the necessary feeling of togetherness enhanced by healthy competition, and promotion of the colleges and universities in the state arena. At the same time, college sports today are becoming dangerously popular.
Rivalry and competition between the colleges stop being healthy and obtain many features of gamesmanship that promote unethical behaviors such as bending the rules, cheating, drug-taking, faking injuries and fouls, intrigues, and gossiping.
These behaviors not only distract the students from their main function, which is learning but also clash with the main role of educational affiliations that are supposed to teach virtues, moral and ethical values and standards. This is why the leaders of the contemporary American colleges and universities should come back to the basics and remember the true purpose of their affiliations instead of getting lost in unhealthy competition and the employment of sports as the means of advertising of the institutions.
In conclusion, ethics plays an important role in college sports. Ethics is what stands between sportsmanship and gamesmanship and prevents the leaders, educators, and athletes from getting physically and emotionally hurt by vicious behaviors and practices.
Hanson, K. O. & Savage, M. (2012). Ethics in College Sports. Web.
Layden, T. (2014). Forever changed: Where is Penn State three years after Sandusky scandal?
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Bottom Line: Initial claims fell again after two week of anomalous increases. Several states, including California, reported estimates in the week ending May 26th, though, so expect a bit more volatility related to reporting in the coming weeks. Overall, the trend remains toward modest improvement in labor markets -- the 4-week average, 222k, is still below the 13-week average that is now 224k.
Jobless Claims FELL by 13k during the week ended May 26th, 221k, compared with market expectations for a decline to 228k.The 4-week average ROSE by 2.5k to 222k and the 13 week average ROSE by 0.3k to 224k.
Continuing Claims FELL by 16k during the week ended May 19th to 1,726k, after the prior week was revised modestly lower from 1,871k to 1,742k.The 4-week average FELL by 9k to 1,744k.
On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, Continuing Claims FELL by 25k to 1,579k during the week ended May 12nd.
The Insured Jobless Rate STAYED at 1.2% during the week ended May 19th. The insured jobless rate only reflects the number of people collecting regular state unemployment insurance.


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Search - Eric Johnson :: Tones
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
Soulful Terrain
Emerald Eyes - Eric Johnson, Aaron, Jay
Off My Mind
Trail of Tears - Eric Johnson, Barber, Stephen
Bristol Shore
Victory - Eric Johnson, Beck, Roscoe
All Artists: Eric Johnson
Title: Tones
Label: Reprise / Wea
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Rock Guitarists, Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
Other Editions: Tones
Music of Cole Porter: Jazz Piano Essentials
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Label: Concord Records
That'll Flat Git It!, Vol. 12: Rockabilly From The Imperial Vaults
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock
Label: Bear Family
Ah Via Musicom
Label: Capitol
My Own Prison
Label: Wind-Up
Label: Geffen Import
Passion & Warfare
Label: Relativity
Anna Nalick
Wreck of the Day
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Hard at Play
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Label: Geffen Records
Ou812
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
A really nice album.
sauerkraut | 08/30/2000
"Eric Johnson is a very proficient and impressive guitarist. I've always enjoyed listening to Tones and respect his guitar playing prowess. I also like his singing. Tones consists of nine tracks--four of the tracks are instrumentals. The album's musicianship is tight and skilled. The production and songwriting are also good and solid. My favorite songs are "Friends" and "Emerald Eyes." Both of these tunes are melodious and feature nice vocals from Eric Johnson. The chorus of "Emerald Eyes" is infectious. I'm glad I have Tones in my collection. It's a good piece of music. Worth a listen."
DON'T LISTEN AND DRIVE
"This piece of work is best listened to whilst driving. The power and depth of most tracks are such that make it very difficult to not drive fast. (hence the warning) Don't get me wrong, this is not for those who just want loud "noise", this is for anyone who enjoys clarity of sound and precision guitar work. This man is an outstanding example of a guitar craftsman. He does't just play the instrument. He and instrument become one."
Johnson's Opening Act !
Armando M. Mesa | Chandler, AZ | 05/04/2005
"While Tones is not loaded with the same diversity, edge, or refinement(and lacks just a tad of energy) like Johnson's 1990 release Ah Via Musicom (a cd my brother played over and over) it is still pure musical artistry in the making !I'm no guitar playing expert but the hooks, licks, and atmosphere of Tones kept my attention---it's not hard rock or heavy metal- ear -and -mind- blowing -earth shattering- stuff---but it's great stuff nonetheless! Many have criticized Eric Johnson's vocals (however, I don't buy an Eric Johnson release for the singing. To me, simply put, his vocals are reminiscent of rocker Bryan Adams' without the raspy, grating, sand paper quality---great example is the track Friends)...That said, Tones is like the opening act to a movie or play that is only gonna get better (as is the case with his later releases).Tones is also in essence a teaser or sampler debut. His work on the track Desert Song is incredible and definitely captures a Southwest, Sedona, desert-like atmosphere.Eric Johnson can make his guitar sing, scream, talk, and even whisper. With the diverse tracks on Tones you will be stunned and soothed ! This is an album that definitely gets played from beginning to end without skipping a single track.I also give great credit to his band---especially those drums ! I don't care if a friend or critic says it sounds like 80's pop-rock music(there's absolutely nothing outdated, formulaic or generic on Tones); To me it's timeless and a very important/critical part of my vast music collection. This 1986 release gets five stars because as I said there are quite a few instrumental artists that I cannot listen to their albums in their entirety without skipping a track or tracks; Eric Johnson's Tones is that exception !"
Eric Johnson's 1st Album
john molina | Los Angeles (LAX), California | 02/19/2002
"Tones, Eric Johnson's 1986 debut album, highlights virtuoso performances by one of the most agile, engaging and innovative young guitarists in modern music. I know Eric Johnson's old band back in 1975 with The Electromagnets. Tones features nine original cuts written or co-written by Johnson, including the blistering instrumentals "Victory", "Zap", "Desert Song" and "Soulful Terrain." A great starting place for those not familiar with Eric Johnson's brand of guitar magic. This album was recorded in August 28 through November 17, 1985."
Should have let Eric Produce this one
Greg Martinez | Norman, Oklahoma USA | 02/13/2006
"I've been a fan of Eric ever since i saw his first Austin City limits performance back in the mid 80's. After i saw the performance i was hooked and bought Tones. Needless to say i was disapointed. The album had no energy, and everything seems to be canned and polished, it doesnt breath. The Drums have that horrible gated reverb sound which was the in thing at the time i guess, but sounded weak! This album didnt do Eric and his band justice. Granted it did win a grammy, but i think the production should have been more straight forward. I heard that Eric was supposed to produce the album but the record company had other ideas and brought in a producer who mainly produced new wave and pop groups of that era. I'm against going back and remixing older albums, but i wouldnt mind seeing it done to this one. Long live Eric the Great!!!!!!!!!"


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Kew Garden's remarkable concrete bridge
Posted on 14th July 2018 by Posted in Architecture, History, Transport News — 6 Comments ↓
It doesn't look like much, but the train station at Kew Gardens has a remarkable survivor of early reinforced concrete — and most people have no idea that the shabby looking footbridge is it.
In fact, not many people use the footbridge, as they are directed to use the subway instead, but the footbridge is more interesting.
Although restored in 2004, the white concrete footbridge looks much older with green mosses growing up and plenty of cracks in the steps leading to the overpass.
It's the section that runs over the railway tracks that should give a hint to its unusual heritage though, for the deep chasm caused by the high curving walls was a deliberate design decision.
The high sides and projections over the railway are a legacy of the steam age, and were to protect delicate Edwardian clothing from the soot and grime of the railway below.
The footbridge was added in 1912, just over 40 years after the train station opened. Before that, people got from one side to the other using a level crossing, but that was both dangerous for pedestrians and slowed trains.
So, in 1912, a reinforced concrete foorbridge was built using a pioneering technique devised by the French engineer François Hennebique. The Hennebique system was one of the first appearances of the modern reinforced-concrete method of construction.
As a material, concrete is very strong in compression, such as holding things up, but very weak in tension, and bridge spans sag in the middle thanks to the forces of tension.
By developing a concrete slab with steel bars in its bottom face, Hennebique made it possible to build bridges out of concrete.
Many were built, but few survive.
The footbridge is quite narrow and quite high up, so the subway was added later and is far more heavily used now. But if you are in the area, pay a visit to the footbridge instead and step on a rare survivor of early English concrete.
1] Early reinforced concrete bridge
2] Kew Gardens
3] Musical Museum
4] London Museum of Water and Steam
5] Syon House
6] Hogarth's House
7] Chiswick House and Gardens
8] Museum of Richmond
9] Heathrow Exhibition
10] Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
11] World Rugby Museum
12] Fulham Palace
13] Finucane Court
14] Blue Anchor Alley
15] Sun Alley
16] Patten Alley
17] Russian Orthodox Cathedral
18] St Elizabeth of Portugal
19] Marble Hill House
20] Ham House and Garden
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6 comments on "Kew Garden's remarkable concrete bridge"
Andrew Gwilt says:
Needs a bit of TLC as in a coat of paint. But overall it looks like it has survived. But its not a ideal place for train-spotting as its so high and its impossible for train enthusiasts to take pictures of trains from that footbridge.
Unless those that have selfie sticks and are careful not to drop their phones.
Mr Neutron says:
The southbound platform at Kew Gardens also had one of the last semaphore signals on LU – now sadly replaced with a more modern design.
Picture of banner signal here:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bansig.jpg
It was painted with murals depicting Kew Gardens for several years , to (successfully) stop graffiti. Painted by locals under the guidance of a local artist.
Savid Thomas says:
Note the extra bits directly above the centre of the tracks to deflect steam loco exhausts
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Irma la Douce
Nester Patou, a naive police officer, is transferred to the red light district in Paris and organizes a raid on a dodgy hotel running as a brothel – inadvertently disrupting the corrupt system of the police and the pimps union, and netting his station superior. Fired from his job, Nester goes to the local bar for a drink and befriends a pretty young lady named Irma la Douce. Upon realizing she is a prostitute, Nester invents a crazy scheme to keep her from seeing other men.
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
An orphan boy in search of his origin. A young princess held prisoner in deadly Dragon City. Jim and his friend Luke discovering mysterious lands on the quest of a lifetime.
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Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
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Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her.
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Cannonball Run Ii
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
Country: Hong Kong, United States of America, USA
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Rumor Has It…
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.
Country: Australia, Germany, United States of America, USA
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.
Country: Mexico, United States of America, USA
Genre: Adventure, Romance, War, Western
Elsa & Fred
Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from 'La Dolce Vita'.
Country: Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States of America, USA
The Trouble with Harry
Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death.
The Turning Point
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
The Children's Hour
A troublemaking student at a girl's school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
A Heavenly Christmas
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she's assigned a hard luck case. As she's forced to help solve his problems, she'll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Country: United States of America, USA, West Germany
Sweet Charity
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Harry Dean has a perfect plan to steal a priceless bust. The core of which is Nicole a look alike for his marks late wife. Will the gambit go as planned?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Two for the Seesaw
Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece with a static camera, but reflects the moral climate of the time.
What a Way to Go!
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who finds her mother still treats her like a child. Despite these problems – and further ones to do with the men in in her life – Suzanne can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Salem Witch Trials
The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected – but unproved – presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Country: Canada, United States of America, USA
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.
Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.


For the first year ever, our school district offered an Honors Writing Class for 6th grade. It was a dream for me to write units for this class and work with these kids. We started the year with narratives, and by the time we got around to third trimester, we'd done poetry, expository, and persuasive essays as well. For the last trimester, we created this class magazine. With plenty of practice under their belts and the support of the writing process and peer editors, they were ready for anything.
Each student wrote 3 poems, a narrative, a persuasive article, and an expository article. We voted on the top 3 in each category and created this class magazine with each students' personal best! Students got to pick their own topics, and we used a writing workshop model during class. The results are fantastic!
Mine came this week, and it's AMAZING!!!


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A Saber Madeira é uma revista mensal portuguesa de informação, editada pelo grupo O Liberal, com cobertura e comercialização em todo o arquipélago da Madeira.

Revistas da Madeira
Revistas em português
Publicações fundadas em 1997
Fundações em Portugal em 1997


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The King's dinner for the Nobel Laureates
Motiv: The King and Queen on their way to the dinner for this year's Nobel Laureates at the Royal Palace of Stockholm. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/Scanpix
On Saturday 11 December, The King and Queen hosted the traditional dinner for this year's Nobel Laureates. The guests were received in the customary manner and welcomed by The King and Queen at the Vita Havet assembly rooms, after which the dinner was then held in Karl XI's Gallery at the Royal Palace of Stockholm.
The King escorted Dr Irina Barbolina to the table. The wife of this year's recipient of the Chemistry Prize, Mrs Socorro N. Heck, was seated to The King's left.
The Queen was escorted to the table by the recipient of the Literature Prize, Mario Vargas Llosa. The recipient of the Chemistry Prize, Professor Richard F. Heck, was seated to The Queen's right.
The recipient of the Physics Prize, Professor Andre Geim, escorted The Crown Princess to the table. The recipient of the Literature Prize, Mario Vargas Llosa, was seated to The Crown Princess's right.
Prince Daniel escorted Mrs Socorro N. Heck, wife of this year's recipient of the Chemistry Prize, to the table. Mrs Patricia Llosa Urquidi, wife of this year's recipient of the Literature Prize, was seated to Prince Daniel's left.
Prince Carl Philip escorted Dr Irina Grigorieva to the table, and Dr. Irina Barbolina was seated to his left.
The menu for the evening began with a cognac-fragranced lobster bisque with pilgrim scallop-filled ravioli.
The guests were then served roasted zander with herb sauce, poached pak choi and creamy puy lentils with free-range duck's liver. This was followed by pan-fried fillet of venison with mushrooms from the royal hunt with creamed potatoes, white Alba truffles and vegetable millefeuille.
The dinner concluded with a chocolate planet with milk chocolate ice cream.
Jewellery and attire
The King wore the Order of the Seraphim's light blue ribbon, decoration and grand star, the Order of Vasa's grand cross and star and the Order of the Polar Star's cross in a black sash around his neck. He also wore four memorial medals of Kings Gustaf V, Gustaf VI Adolf, Haakon VII and Olav V of Norway (miniature badges).
The Queen wore a champagne-coloured dress in silk with gold embroidery on tulle. She also wore Queen Sofia's tiara, a brilliant necklace and earrings, and an oval brilliant brooch.
The Crown Princess wore a violet draped dress in pure silk crêpe. This was accompanied with the Processional Jewels. In her hair, The Crown Princess wore pearls, diamonds and rubies.
Prince Carl Philip and Prince Daniel wore the Order of the Seraphim's light blue ribbon, decoration and grand star. Prince Carl Philip also wore three medals in miniature — The King's Commemorative Medal, the National Service Medal and the Karlberg Medal.
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More information about the jewellery
Queen Sofia's tiara consists of a band with close-set brilliants and a palmetto pattern surrounded by rows of plants, all bordered by arcs crowned with large brilliant solitaires. The origin of this piece is unknown, and the first time it is mentioned is in an estate inventory following the death of King Karl XV in 1872. It was probably a jewelled comb that was reworked for the then Duchess Sofia. It is likely that it was made in Berlin. Queen Silvia wore it to her first Nobel Banquet in 1976.
When Victoria of Baden first arrived in her new home town of Stockholm in 1881, she was given a magnificent necklace by her husband, Crown Prince Gustaf (V). This necklace was built up around 16 Ceylon sapphires set in brilliants. To this were added 31 drops with six sapphires and 25 baroque pearls. Since she received this gift from her new husband on arrival in the Swedish capital, this necklace became known as the Processional Jewels.


Daniel Hornbeak of Kansas City, Kan., looks at a display at Arrowhead Stadium honoring Monett's 2016 state football championship team during halftime of the Chiefs' preseason game against the Tennessee Titans.
The Monett volleyball team improved to 3-3 on the season with a three set win over Pierce City on Tuesday.
A fundraising effort is underway by the Wheaton Historical Society to raise approximately $3,000 for restoration work on the railroad caboose at the depot museum.
Local business leaders gathered at Big Baldy's Thursday for a Monett Chamber of Commerce's membership mingle.
Crosslines in Monett found itself inundated with donations for its thrift store over the Labor Day weekend.
Smay Sar, daughter of Tha Kie, owner of Aung, the Asian market located at 309 Kyler in Monett, stocks shelves with tea and beverages with which the local Thai, Micronesian and Burmese refugees favor.
Children at the Melvey Hillhouse Early Learning Center, the preschool for the Verona school district, have a busy regimen under teacher Leigh Ann Self and her assistant, Addie Sialas.


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I can't believe we are already more than halfway through the summer. While most of our students are gaining practical experience during summer sea term on board the Empire State VI, on commercial ships for cadet shipping, or at various shore-side internships, there is also a great deal happening on campus.
Around Europe in 90 Days
Every berth is full aboard the Empire State VI as our cadets sail the Atlantic, the eastern Mediterranean Sea and up the west coast of Europe, visiting Norfolk, Virginia; Trieste, Italy; Dublin, Ireland; Mallorca and Barcelona, Spain; and Valletta, Malta.
At each port, students have been taking advantage of educational and cultural opportunities.
The first port of call was Norfolk, where, in addition to hosting over 150 alumni and friends for a reception on board the ship, students were welcomed for visits at a number of local companies including Colonna Shipyard and CMA CGM, a leading container shipping company. With the assistance of alumni at each location visited, the students received outstanding access and insight into potential career paths.
After transiting the Atlantic and Strait of Gibraltar, the ship arrived in Trieste, the home of the Wärtsilä marine engine factory. There, 100 students and faculty were treated to a half-day of presentations and factory tours. I was lucky enough to join this visit and can say first-hand that it was an outstanding educational experience for all. An extensive agenda was coordinated by Wärtsilä and the college with the aim of offering the cadets the opportunity to learn first-hand how a production facility is managed. Technical presentations highlighted key topics of interest for the students, which among other topics included dual-fuel technologies. We left Wärtsilä's 1.8 million square-foot facility with a greater understanding of the stages involved in assembling a Wärtsilä engine.
I was also honored to host the president and other members of the Wärtsilä Italy management team for a dinner on board the Empire State VI. Our partnerships with Wärtsilä and other leaders in the maritime industry are extremely important to our continued growth as a maritime college.
After Trieste, the ship sailed to Dublin, where 278 underclass cadets who sailed on the first half of cruise made way for the 254 cadets arriving for the second half of cruise. Just over 200 first-class cadets remained on board for the final days of their sea-time license requirements.
The Empire State will return to Olivet Pier Aug. 8. A few days later, the cycle starts again with indoctrination beginning on Aug. 10, and classes Aug. 22.
All is Not Quiet on the Homefront
Back on campus, there is much activity with over 40 renovation and improvement projects. Two of the largest include a new Academic Success Center and renovation of our science labs.
An Academic Success Center is being built in the library with funding made possible through a competitive grant the college was awarded by SUNY administration. This versatile glass-walled classroom will preserve Fort Schuyler's original features and expand the college's tutoring program and create a dedicated space for workshops and guest speakers.
In Marvin-Tode Hall, two marine environmental science labs have been combined to make one large room. Funds for this project were a direct result of donations received to the Sallyport fund by alumni and friends. The new laboratory will accommodate biology, environmental science and oceanography. In addition to state-of-the-art equipment, the lab includes instruments for undergraduates to conduct original research.
Projects such as these are essential to ensuring student success and academic excellence: key elements of our Maritime College core values.
In the coming year, we will be updating the college's strategic plan to set the course for continued success and growth in alignment with our mission, vision and core values. The process will involve faculty, staff, students, alumni and industry partners.
While the outcome will help to define our future, the process is extremely important. In the coming weeks, I will announce our strategic planning committee which membership will consist of a broad and diverse group of stakeholders.
As always, I encourage your engagement and can be reached at president@sunymaritime.edu.