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Is Bitcoin's Promise Going Up In Smoke?
Vivek Wadhwa 7 years
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Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University.
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Not long ago, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police monetary transactions. Now the cryptocurrency seems to be fighting for survival.
The new reality came to light on January 14, when an influential Bitcoin developer, Mike Hearn, declared the cryptocurrency a failure and disclosed that he had sold all of his Bitcoins. The price of Bitcoin fell 10% in a single day on the news — a sad result for those who lost money on it.
Bitcoin did have great potential, but now it is damaged beyond repair and a replacement is badly needed.
It's still true that most currency and transaction systems today are opaque, inefficient, and expensive.
Take the North American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, as an example. It is amongst the most technologically advanced in the world. Yet if I buy or sell a share of Facebook on the NASDAQ, I have to wait several days for the trade to finalize and clear. This is unacceptable; it should take milliseconds.
In Venezuela, citizens wishing to buy anything of value on supermarket shelves wait all day in lines to do so, because hyperinflation causes the paper currencies in their pockets to lose significant value every day.
When migrant workers there send money back to their families in places such as Mexico, India, and Africa, they are gouged by money-transfer companies — paying as much as 5%–12% in fees. And even in the U.S., payment processors and credit-card companies collect merchant fees of 1–2.5% of the value of every transaction. This is a burden on the economy.
Bitcoin aimed to change this, but it was born with serious flaws. It was unregulated and provided anonymity, so it rapidly became a haven for drug dealers and anarchists. Its price fluctuated wildly, allowing for crazy speculation. And, with the majority of Bitcoin being owned by the small group that started promoting it, it has been compared to a Ponzi scheme.
Exchanges built on top of it also had severe security vulnerabilities. And then there were the venture capitalists who got carried away.
Several of them purchased considerable coinage and then began to hype it as a powerful disruption that could underpin all manner of financial innovation, from mobile banking to borderless, instant money transfers. They also poured millions of dollars into Bitcoin startups hoping to reap even greater fortunes.
But Bitcoin was not ready for prime time. Hearn's criticism has laid bare the nightmarish reality — a list of negatives that is both long and frightening.
Chinese Bitcoin miners control more than 50% of the currency-creation capacity and are connected to the rest of the Bitcoin ecosystem through the Great Firewall of China. This slows down the entire system because, as Hearn explained, it is the equivalent of a bad hotel WiFi connection. It also gives the People's Army a strategic vantage point over a global currency.
The Bitcoin distributed network can process only a handful of transactions per second. That causes unpredictable transaction-resolution times and other behaviors that one really does not want as part of a monetary system. Bitcoin fees can, at peak times, exceed credit-card fees, for example.
As if all this weren't bad enough, the Bitcoin community appears to be engaged in open civil war. Its members have been censoring debates and attacking each other's servers. A tiny committee of five core developers that controls the Bitcoin codebase has become the Star Chamber that guides the future of Bitcoin.
This has been a severe blow to the reputation — and wallets — of VCs. Yet some of them are still staunchly defending Bitcoin.
It's time to admit that the current Bitcoin needs to be scrapped and to take advantage of the innovations behind the technology that underlies Bitcoin: the blockchain.
The blockchain is a transparent ledger of transactions—concurrently hosted on numerous computers around the world — allowing the creation of digital currencies and virtual banks.
Implemented correctly, it will, I believe, prove to be a better transactional and verification model that we presently use for the global financial system and for many other types of activities such as voting, public registries, provenance of works of art, and real-estate transfers.
In the beginning, Bitcoin was a noble experiment. Now, it is a distraction.
From Bitcoin's failures, we have learnt how digital communities shouldn't operate. We have seen how ledger systems can be hijacked. And we have seen the wastage in a mining system that consumed gigawatt–hours of electricity and spawned giant server farms in China solely to crunch numbers to "mine" Bitcoins.
We need to learn from successful open-source technology projects such as the Linux Foundation, which is thriving largely because it has proven its worth as a neutral body to govern all manner of open-source projects that grew too big for small groups to manage in a casual manner. We also need to rethink aspects of the blockchain, along the lines that Hearn and Bitcoin loyalists have suggested.
Let's also bear in mind what it is that makes some venture capitalists Bitcoin zealots: pure greed. That is the reason clearest to me for Bitcoin's failure. Intended as a level playing field and a more efficient transaction system, the Bitcoin system has deteriorated into a fight between interested parties over a pool of money.
In the beginning, Bitcoin was a noble experiment. Now, it is a distraction. It's time to build more rational, transparent, robust, accountable systems of governance to pave the way to a more prosperous future for everyone.


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By sam_webmaster
June 23, 2010 in Ramble On
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Location:Great White North
Any of you guys in Ontario/Quebec feel that earthquake?
Dandu
Location:Toronto, Canada
I felt it. I am on the 31st floor of an office building in downtown Toronto. At first I thought it was a bomb or something to disrupt the G20 but then when the shaking kept going I figured it was an earthquake. A few tense moments.
I felt it. It was kind of exciting actually. I was the only one in my office who noticed it really.
It even made CNN... (I feel strangely proud!)
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It was felt here in 'Rochester NY. Top story.
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Earthquake-in-Ontario-Canada-Shakes-Rochester/oSugJ1Qfd0Oma7fueeJ27Q.cspx
Location:Enumclaw, WA--USA
Amateurs! (San Francisco native speaking here)
But a 5.0 is getting up there.
Everyone here felt it but me. Must be that good English beer!! You are right, we are amatuers. Its a rare event here. People including my wife are telling me they felt the building shake. I was wrapped up in the World Cup. You know, more important stuff!
I was wrapped up in the World Cup. You know, more important stuff!
Are the San Jose Earthquakes in the game?
I will have to keep my eyes on the local news to see where the center of this was? I wonder if it was a displacement below Lake Ontario?
http://www.13wham.co...a7fueeJ27Q.cspx
GeorgeC
Location:The land of the Ice and Snow, and Maple Syrup
I live in northern Ontario. The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake, and the children of the sun began to awake, but I didn't feel any seismic disturbance. Must have been a Zeppelin-related phenomenon.
It's not like y'all have any big buildings or anything. Canada still trying to make the news? Take off, eh.
Funny, I was at work while it happened and didn't feel a thing. My sister, however, was not too far south of me and said it was quite brief but got so bad she thought the roof would cave in. It's only the second earthquake I recall in all our time in Canada. The first one I definitely felt -- we lived on the 22nd floor at the time and when the building swayed
ledzepfvr
Location:Where the hell is Wild Omar?
5.0....thats a ride in the kiddie section of the park.
Footsteps of Dawn
Location:San Diego, CA
I thought for sure this was going to be about Southern California again, and I was going to say, gee, I didn't feel a thing! Guess there was a reason I didn't feel it - now you people on the opposite side of the continent are having one!
Gotta agree with ledzepfvr...5.0's just a nice little rumble. We had a 5.7 the other day, and that was just an aftershock of the 7.2 we had on Easter.
China could only wish.

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We start by introducing and explaining the Quantitative Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, a strengthened version of Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz. This theorem has very many applications. It is often used to prove that combinatorial problems with a trivial solution (but bounded "complexity") also must have a non-trivial solution. We will briefly explain that, but then turn towards a problem with no trivial solutions – Alon and Tarsi's conjecture that every non-singular n × n matrix A , over a finite field F_q with q > 3 elements, has a nowhere zero point. Here, a nowhere zero point of A is a vector x in F_q^n such that neither x nor Ax has a zero entry. Alon and Tarsi could prove their conjecture for all non-prime cardinalities q . We give a new short proof of their partial result. Afterwards, we discuss a connection between nowhere zero points and the four color problem.
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Disclaimer: This amount doesn't include flights, and I only spent £30 of the £300 on a deposit for a hostel in Dubrovnik- the rest came out of other money.
I was talking to some 'friends' (long story) last summer and somehow we ended up talking about the very riveting topic of rent deposit. I mentioned that I'd gotten all £300 of mine back about a week before and they were all gobsmacked that I hadn't spent it on pointless crap yet. I decided that, partly because of that conversation and partly because I'd just had a relaxing yet unsatisfying trip to Tenerife I would spend it on an adventure.
That adventure was a three week solo trip around Croatia and Slovenia.
Like I mentioned in my disclaimer at the top, this £300 didn't include flights or my hostel (besides the deposit) in Dubrovnik. Neither did it include what I spent in Slovenia. My flight to Dubrovnik from Birmingham, England was £39, and my flight from Ljubljana to London Luton was around £90. I also went at the end of August so, whilst things like accommodation were still being sold at summer prices, once September hit the prices went down ever so slightly.
On this trip I started in Dubrovnik, which is notoriously the most expensive place in Croatia- but that doesn't mean budget trips aren't doable! I did everything I wanted to do; I went out for dinner with my new Canadian friend every night, went for drinks every night, did a boat trip to a nearby island, walked the walls and even did a Game of Thrones tour. Yes, I could have done that without the guide but I'm a strong believer in not missing out on things that you want to do to save a bit of money.
I then headed to Split, where I went out for dinner and drinks with new friends every night. I even went out for breakfast one morning. Then I headed off to Zadar, where it was slightly easier to save money as most things of interest are free. That being said I didn't not do things that cost money either; I climbed the bell tower, which some would say is a pointless expense, because I wanted to.
I ended my trip in Zagreb. As it's the nation's capital I expected it to be expensive but it was actually the cheapest place I visited! Food was cheap, both in restaurants and in the bakeries, and, again, a lot of the things I wanted to see were free. The only thing that added up in Zagreb was museum entry fees.
I noticed it was easier to save money the further north I went as things became considerably cheaper.
I wanted to go to Plitvice or Krka but because I changed plans and stayed longer in places I didn't have the time. I was also a little bit worried about running out of money but that was me being overly paranoid- not going was more to do with time than money.
By being savvy in other areas I saved enough to do what I wanted when it came to having fun.
Travelled on coaches instead of trains or boats– Trains are notoriously expensive in pretty much every country you visit these days so a bus is usually the better option. In Croatia buses are also more likely to get you directly to where you want to go than trains are anyway.
Another popular way of getting around Croatia are boats, as there are quite a lot of islands and all of the popular places on the mainland are on the coast. However, boats are usually more expensive than coaches (especially in the summer as they know they become very popular) and they usually run at obscure times, or only a couple of times a day.
Didn't get a coach at a popular time– I think this is pretty common knowledge but at peak times coach prices go up in price. In Croatia they seemed to run pretty frequently (i.e a few times per hour) in the summer so, unless you have really specific plans, you could easily wait a while for an obscure timed bus and pay less.
Stayed in hostels– I know a lot of people have an issue with hostels but they're really not that bad- in fact I've stayed in some hostels that were nicer than some hotels I've stayed in (shout-out to HI NYC!).
Before I arrived in Croatia I planned on staying in the nicest hostels I could find as I'd heard horror stories about hostels in Europe, but that went out of the window as soon as I arrived; I put in where I wanted to go in Hostelworld and booked the cheapest. It worked out okay for the most part (except for the one in Zadar). I even ended up staying in one of the nicest hostels I've been to in Zagreb (Palmer's Lodge if you're interested) and only paid around £30 for two nights.
You also meet some great people in hostels.
Apps, apps , apps!- Apps for cheap stuff are life-savers when you're abroad- and generally in life to be honest. I had apps for cheap flights, for cheap accommodation, and for free walking tours. I also screenshot blog posts, map locations, and information that I might need about the city I'm in so that I can access the information when I'm out exploring without needing to use data. Skyscanner, Expedia, Airbnb, Hostelworld, GPSmycity are all great to have.
Made use of supermarkets and bakeries– Stock up on cheap fruit and snacks in supermarkets so that you've always got some healthy food on the go. Croatia is also full of farmer's markets where you can get cheap fruit, and there's a bakery on every corner. I made use of bakeries for breakfast as they sell a wide range of delicious pastry based goods. You don't need to have breakfast, lunch and dinner in a café/restaurant, and, buying breakfast from a bakery frees up money to have dinner at a nice restaurant.
Filled up water bottles around town– I loved Dubrovnik for this. They have a fountain just outside of Pile gate, and one just inside the old town, where you can fill your water bottle up with water straight from the bay. The fountains are round, and they have lions heads carved around the outside in stone and the water comes out of the lion's mouths. I was apprehensive at first thinking it'd make me ill, but the water was fresh and cold. I bought one bottle of water in Dubrovnik and that was it. Split and Zadar also have fountains dotted around- you just need to do a little bit of searching but it can save you a lot of money.
Walked or used local buses instead of using trams or taxis– Okay, this wasn't in Croatia but I walked for half an hour through the town with a heavy bag on my shoulder to get to my hostel in Ljubljana. Once I got used to the heaviness and the heat it was a cute walk. It also helped me to get my bearings more so than taking a taxi would have done.
Taking the Atlas shuttle from Dubrovnik airport to the old town cost me 40 Kuna as opposed to 200 Kuna for a taxi. Walking through Split's Riva saved me money and I got to see the nice part of town. In Zadar, the bus to the old town cost around 10 Kuna instead of a taxi which would have cost more. Trams are frequent in Zagreb but at 2 Kuna for a one way journey it was cheaper to walk everywhere. Of course, 2 kuna may not seem a lot but if you take lots of tram rides then it adds up.
I'd love to add a little breakdown or infograph of exactly how much I spent on what just here but, unfortunately, I'm not that organised when it comes to tracking money. All I know is that I used £30 of my £300 rent deposit to pay for a hostel deposit, withdrew the rest, changed it into Kuna, and only spent that. I'm going to try and do a breakdown of average prices I paid soon and add it to this post soon. So watch this space!
Has anyone else done a super budget trip before? Do you have any other money saving tips or do you do any of these things listed? Let me know in the comments!
definitely helps 🙂 I really want to visit Croatia!
Thank you! Yes walking saves you lots of money and it's good for you! Aha you should visit one day, it's a beautiful country.
cheap way to get places, but it gets you there safely. And you can see some cute sights on the way!
Yes definitely! Even at home I'll choose a coach over a train most of the time because it's so much cheaper!


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Linda Malnati (1855–1921) was an influential Italian women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and educator. She is remembered for her efforts to improve the working conditions of teachers from the 1890s, for her contributions to magazines calling for improved conditions for working women and, in the 1900s, for her support for votes for women. She was an active member of various women's organizations.

Early life and education
Born on 19 August 1855 in Milan, Linda Malnati was the daughter of Giacomo and Carolina Pedrioli. Educated in the city's democratic environment, she acquired an interest in social justice and women's emancipation, strongly influenced by the feminists Laura Solera Mantegazza, Alessandrina Massini Ravizza and Anna Maria Mozzoni.

Professional life

Her first article, published in the Republican journal Libertà e associazione was Alle donne e specialmente alle donne italiane (To Women and Specially to Italian Women). In 1875, she was employed by the Municipality of Milan as a schoolteacher for the lower grades, and in 1888 for the higher grades. She was dedicated to teaching, believing that education and emancipation were behind the regeneration of society, leading to democratic development. She was also committed to improving the living and working conditions of teachers, including equal pay for men and women, a topic she wrote about in a variety of journals and newspapers.

With a view to encouraging women workers to organize themselves, together with Anna Kuliscioff and Carlotta Clerici, in 1890 she established a women's section at Milan's Camera del lavoro, forming a kind of trade union. In 1893, she established a section for schoolteachers while revitalizing and chairing the Lega per la tutela degli interessi femminili (League for Protecting Women's Interests) which had been created by Mozzoni in 1881. In the late 1890s, she took part in the workers demonstrations, especially in the events of May 1898.

Writing in Vita femminile (Women's Life), she commented on the relationship between socialism and feminism, calling on women to combine the class struggle with the gender struggle. Among the women's organizations in which she was active, in 1903 she established a Comitato per il risveglio dell'attività femminile (Committee for Awakening Women's Activity) under Milan's Teachers' Association. This caused a number of male teachers to form their own Men's Society. She also promoted pre-school education and supported the Milan Popular University as a member of the steering committee.

In contrast to the dogma of the socialist party, Malnati considered women's suffrage the cornerstone of women's emancipation and development. After Roberto Mirabelli had raised the matter of universal suffrage in parliamentary discussions in 1904, together with Mozzoni she established the Comitato milanese Pro Suffragio (Milan Suffrage Committee) in 1906 as well as a national coordination committee. At the Milan Convention in April 1907 organized by the Catholics, she stressed the importance of votes for women. The following year, at the National Congress of Italian Women, she went as far as tabling a motion to ban religious education in primary schools, replacing it with comparative religion classes. After the motion was adopted, the Catholics broke off their collaboration with secular women's associations, creating their own women's organization.

In 1914, together with Clerci she proposed establishing a league for neutrality. During the First World War, she helped with civil assistance work and cared for refugees. From 1914 to 1920, she ran the Le Stelline orphanage with which she had long been associated. In 1917, she once again took up the cause of peace, promoting international involvement.

Suffering from a serious illness, Linda Malnati retired to Blevio on the eastern shore of Lake Como where she died on 22 October 1921.

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As we enter the New Year, I thought it a good time to reflect on the past year and look forward to what 2015 holds in store for us.
I'm thankful that my entire family, 16 strong, was able to gather together in Snowmass for the holidays and to ring in the New Year together. 2014 has been an anxiety-filled year for our clan, what with a couple of serious medical issues requiring expert intervention but happily leading to positive outcomes in both cases. We're all glad to see this year come to a healthy and peaceful end.
The clan's next group adventure comes in March. The entire family will reunite along with a few close friends and travel to Israel to celebrate the Bar Mitzvahs of three of my grandsons who turn 13 around the same time.
My wife's been working on detailed plans for over a year, and for some unexplained reason I was instructed to maintain a low profile in the planning process but was eagerly encouraged to participate when it comes time to write the checks and lay out the credit cards — a bit like my role during our two recent excursions to New York City.
Although it will cut into our ski season, we're anxiously awaiting this family adventure and the memories that will endure forever.
As to my forward look for Snowmass Village, 2014 was fraught with anger and dysfunction at its highest governance levels, but happily due to several key changes in staff leadership as well as elected representation, we seem to be back on track for a more peaceful and collegial way forward in addressing several key issues that will be confronting us in the year ahead.
That being said, I can't resist throwing in my two cents as to one of these issues.
Notwithstanding our new and experienced staff leadership, I'm starting off the New Year disappointed that they seem unable to move more expeditiously with their review of Related's recently submitted application for the completion of Base Village. Related has promised that construction would get underway next summer as long as the town's review was completed by the end of May. But the town staff appears to be dragging its feet for no apparent good reason and won't even schedule its first public meeting on the application until sometime in February, which unless they advance their scheduling will ensure that the land-use review will not be completed until sometime in late summer. Thus no commencement of construction until the spring of 2016, and 2015 will be a lost year.
God only knows what the town staff has up its sleeve, but at this point in the multi-year process of trying to get this monster project completed, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's needed and to work diligently and expeditiously with Related so that construction will still commence next summer.
Most of what's in Related's application has been bouncing around this community for many months; there are no big surprises. The only contentious item to be addressed is that of finding a new community benefit to replace the previously approved aqua center, which is now becoming primarily an amenity for the new Limelight Hotel and the condo owners of Base Village — clearly no longer a community benefit.
On the positive side, Related and Snowmass Discovery have begun discussions to convert the original community benefit to one that will have broader appeal to the entire community and our guests. Related has offered to provide a permanent exhibition facility to house actual artifacts and replicas of the prehistoric discoveries that were uncovered in Snowmass a few years ago during the excavation of Ziegler Reservoir.
These discussions appear to be progressing well, but at the end of the day the final decision on this critical community benefit element is solely in the hands of the Town Council. However, just an exhibition facility alone is not likely to be sufficient to fulfill Related's community-benefit obligations. The addition of a multi-use community performance facility in Base Village that would be available for all manner of film, music, dance and theater as well as an essential adjunct to the proposed Discovery Center for lectures, seminars and audio/visual presentations would be the icing on the community benefit cake.
A mostly unused conference facility that could be converted to this use currently exists in a building adjacent to that being proposed for the Discovery Center. The space is owned by Related, and with a bit of design work and their contribution toward its conversion and renovation we could wrap up this item quite quickly and move on with the work of completing Base Village.
Many of the new town staff members are not steeped in the tortured history of Base Village that most of us have been living through for a long time. We're not interested in going back and starting all over again, even if that was possible. Hopefully the staff will not let any artificial barriers or red herrings stand in the way of moving forward expeditiously so that we begin to see some light at the end of the tunnel and make 2015 a year of productive progress.
I wish all of you a happy and healthy New Year.


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Yemen's Houthi rebels have launched an attack on Abha civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia that killed one person and wounded seven others, the Saudi-led coalition battling the group in Yemen has said. According to the Houthi-run Almasirah TV, the movement targeted Abha and Jizan airports in southern Saudi Arabia with drone attacks on Sunday.
"A terrorist attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia took place at Abha international airport … A Syrian national died and seven civilians were wounded," the coalition said in a statement issued by the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The coalition did not provide details on how the airport was attacked, but Iran-aligned Huthi rebels have repeatedly struck the civilian facility this month with drones and missiles.
Earlier, at least 26 civilians were injured in a missile attack as Yemeni Houthi forces launched a missile strike on an airport in southern part of Saudi Arabia on June 12. Three women and two children were among those hurt when the arrivals hall at Abha airport, according to a statement.
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Most abandonment solutions annoy buyers with incorrectly sent abandonment emails.
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Launch your sale with a bang or finish on a high. Instant notifications 19% average click rate makes it the perfect way to quickly increase engagement for the start or end of a promotion.
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Checkout Tracking will capture email addresses on your checkout page. Most of the "almost-buyers" abandon their cart here, at the final stage. It's crucial that your store has something in place to capture email at the final hurdle.
Recart captures visitor emails in real-time as they're typing it in so you don't need to worry about them changing their mind at the last second.
This is one of the most powerful tools your store will ever have.
When your customers log in, Recart captures their emails and pairs to their cookie. When they abandon their cart, your abandoned emails are shot right away. Its simple, but an incredibly powerful method to bring cart abandoners back.
Conversion rates reign supreme. And to increase conversions, you need to make buying as easy as possible.
Once your customers enter their email anywhere on-site, they'll never have to enter it again. Ever.
Form Autofill keeps track of their details and completes every form on-site for them.
Recart pairs with all your on-site tools and shares email information. We capture the details entered into other tools (Privy, Sumome, Justuno and hundreds more) and pair it to customer cookies so every data entered on-site can be used for autofill on the checkout page.
Recart's real-time Dashboard shows you how much money you're losing through cart abandonment.
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It will become your most important analytics dashboard ever.
See All Abandoned Carts. One-by-One.
Recart's the only app that gives you individual information. You can see each abandoned cart and the detailed cart data.
Shopify only shows your checkout abandoners and WooCommerce doesn't show you anything by default.
We give you all the tools you need to understand how to make more money.
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Recart already made $23,000,000 extra sales.
It substitutes 6 different apps.
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It tracks emails from your list builder tools, your user logins and your checkout page.
Add to Cart popup identifies ALL cart abandoners. This popup asks for email upon add to cart.
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How do you capture cart abandoners' email address?
It's a secret. If we told you, we'd have to kill you.
OK, maybe that's a little harsh. Alright. We'll tell you.
We have two ways of doing this. The first is using our Track & Trigger technology, which captures their email address as it's typed into the checkout page.
As long as they've completed the email field, we can send them a cart recovery campaign if they abandon the checkout.
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By the way, we can also capture phone numbers, which your sales team can use to follow up on prospects directly. We're also working to integrate automated text messaging as well!
What happens after I activate Recart? Do I need to do anything else?
You need to thank us for being so ridiculously awesome!
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ust keep in mind… we have an entire team dedicated to constantly testing the emails we send, and we've pre-scheduled your campaigns to provide you with the highest number of recovered orders.
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How can I make sure Recart drives back the abandoners?
Do you want the long or the short answer?
Short answer: You can keep track of this stuff in your Recart dashboard, and with a Google Analytics account.
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I have tried to install this tool in my site, I haven't seen any sale in 6 days. I asked them to check the messenger checkbox, so if someone lands on product detail page, we get the conversion. They told me, it is available in the paid version, if I can not truly evaluate recart, how can I go for the paid version. You only give us 7 days trial and total piece of crap app.
I love this plug in. Has absolutely everything you need for abandoned carts, all in one place! Before I discovered this I used to have numerous different plug ins, however Recart helped me cut everything down to just one place! As well as that, the staff are very helpful and friendly!
I have already generated a sale just one day after activating. Must test.
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Killington's 'Bachelor Auction' to Benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports
The Foundry at Summit Pond will once again play host to the ultimate Ladies' Night Out on Sunday, March 30, as Killington's annual Bachelor Auction returns for a second year, offering a very special evening of food and flirtatious fun, with proceeds to benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports. Admission is $20, and attire is formal. The event opens at 8 p.m., with a cocktail reception and tasting menu, followed by live music and dancing. The highlight of the evening kicks off at 9 p.m., when some of Vermont's most eligible bachelors hit the block for much-anticipated Bachelor Auction. Each gentleman offers bidders a deluxe Date Package, including dinner and a specially-designed activity or adventure. All the enticements are not limited to single ladies — there will be plenty of packages for everyone – single, married or committed – to bid on, including some luxurious spa and salon packages. This year, free shuttle transportation will be available between Table 24 in downtown Rutland and the Foundry in Killington. Guests can enjoy cocktails and appetizers at Table 24 starting at 6 p.m., while waiting for shuttle transportation; several trips will be made to be sure guests get up the mountain and back to Rutland safely.
The Killington Bachelor Auction was founded in 1995 by Cristin and Billy Morlock at the Bates Mansion in Cavendish,Vt. and has been held in the past at the Cortina Inn in Mendon and the Wobbly Barn. It has become a rite of passage for Killington's most eligible gentlemen to participate in this event, and over the years many famous and infamous personalities have strutted their stuff on the auction block to help raise money for charities. The Foundry at Summit Pond is located on the Killington Road. For details, call 802-422-5335.
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Posters pace the evolution of a thespian tradition.
by Jonathan Shaw
Five years after the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club in 1795, in the dorm room of Nymphas Hatch, A.B. 1797, the then-secret society staged its first performance: a courtroom drama in which a club member was charged with "insolence." This proved so entertaining, the membership enshrined the practice in the club's constitution. Later, the group began trying historical figures: Marcus Brutus, for example, was held accountable for killing Caesar. In 1837, the poet James Russell Lowell, A.B. 1838, then Pudding secretary, described the first instance of a performance in drag. The evolution continued: the first real play, its script written by a professional in England, was staged in Hollis 11 in 1844, and described in the club secretary's records (rendered in verse as tradition required) as "…a theatrical representation/On Pudding rules an innovation/And of College regulation/A most flagrant violation."
Although the plays continued to be performed for members only for another decade, the first posters celebrating the club and its performances began to appear in the years bracketing the Civil War. Harvard's collection of this artwork, spread between the University Archives and Houghton Library, contains many unusual rarities, including the only known depiction of the College outhouse, "University minor," that stood behind grand, granite, Bulfinch-designed University Hall. These posters, known as shingles, were hung on the walls of student rooms, and then of theaters, during performances.
Return of the Puds, from 1866 (at left), is full of the "Oriental iconography"—from the sphinx to the alligator (the title for an officer of the club whose role is to recite poetry)—"that became part of club mythology," says Dale Stinchcomb, assistant curator of Harvard's Theatre Collection. Atop an elephant, the alligator serves hasty pudding from the familiar pot. The 1910 Diana's Debut (at top), one of the most beautiful illustrations in the collection, was the cover for the musical selections from club member (and later communist) John S. Reed's play satirizing the "coming-out" of a Boston society girl. Seeing Red (1952) spoofed McCarthyism. (Reed, A.B. 1910, a hero of the Bolshevik revolution buried in the Kremlin wall necropolis in 1920, would no doubt have approved.)
Once all-male, the club is now fully integrated, and perhaps poised to reinvent itself again. In the current era, "the novelty of a drag performance has worn off almost entirely," Stinchcomb points out, but there will always be a need for "clever social satire." There is no shortage of subjects.
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Your Nickel's Worth Publishing / 28 June 2013
Black Fury, Help Me, I'm Naked: Book One by Donna Miller Published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing Review by Catherine Fuchs $19.95 ISBN 9781894431798 This riveting book takes the reader to knee level to peer into the keyhole of the marriage of the author's parents. Outwardly they were a good looking and glamorous couple who both tried to hide the abuse that was always smouldering beneath the veneer of their image as "a happy couple." Their young daughter, Saskatchewan author Donna Miller, gives us a first hand account of what it was like to grow up watching her father physically abuse her mother. Her father, Joe, was a very socially intelligent yet insecure man who was extremely jealous and controlling of her of mother. He was also a textbook abuser, who would explain away his behavior with his unenlightened remarks such as, " I admit I've slapped her, but only when she deserved it." Worse, he would mock her bruises by saying to her, "You look so beautiful in blue." His actions did always seem to come back to haunt him though, like the time he slapped her so hard she fell into a coma and lost the twins boys…
Riot Lung
Thistledown Press / 20 June 2013
Riot Lung by Leah Horlick Published by Thistledown Press (New Leaf Series) Review by Justin Dittrick $9.95 ISBN 978-1-927068-08-3 Leah Horlick's debut collection of poems, Riot Lung, offers its readers an inspired celebration of urban and small town experience that will perplex, transfix, enlighten, but also move, those coming of age in a radical time. Most of the poems (except one) are written in the confessional mode, that is, in the second-person. The poems are highly evocative, written with a keen eye for imagery and with a rhythm and free stanza structure that the poet has made her own. The range of subjects varies widely, from sex education in a Saskatchewan town to what the lights in St. Louis reveal in a transient moment of wishing. The poems in this collection demonstrate the complexity of feeling that the confessional poem can bring to those with a longing for life in their poetry. The poems blossom with the senses, with breaks that seldom truncate their line, but rather, extend an image's duration and resonance. This causes the poems to flow without breath, without an inclination to pause or withhold. Yet, the poetic is somehow controlled. The images are free to arise…
Rink Burgers
Rink Burgers by Todd Devonshire Published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing Review by Keith Foster $19.95 ISBN 978-1-894431-74-3 Stompin' Tom Connors sang about "The Good Old Hockey Game." Todd Devonshire, in his Rink Burgers memoir, elaborates on what made the good old hockey game so darn good. When his mother calls to say the family home has been sold, Todd realizes he must rescue his childhood possessions before they are gone forever. He and his wife Dawn sort through boxes of memorabilia and souvenirs as Todd reminisces about his glory days as both a player and fan. The memoir is set in the 1980s in Big River, SK., a community where "news travelled like cops going for donuts." Todd's memoir is replete with humour, and his robust imagination realistically recreates the antics of his childhood. His exaggerations are so typical of a youngster. He recalls when, as a six-year-old, he scored his first goal and lost his first tooth on the same day. This coincidence could mean only one thing – he was now a real hockey player! Todd describes his coming of age and explores his relationship with his father, from whom he developed his love of hockey. A…
The Angelic Occurrence
Pio-Seelos Books / 6 June 2013
The Angelic Occurrence by Henry Ripplinger, Published by Pio-Seelos Publishing Review by Gail Jansen-Kesslar $21.95 ISBN 9 780991 710225 Experiencing an "angelic occurrence" may mean different things to different people, but to those fans following Henry Ripplinger's Angelic Letter series who are eagerly awaiting the release of Book 4 in the six-part series, the angelic occurrence in this case could be the release of the book itself. Released nearly a year after Book 3, Angel of Thanksgiving, The Angelic Occurrence continues to follow the relationship between Henry and Jenny whose paths have taken opposite turns. While books 1 through 3 of the series focused on the relationships that developed first between them as teenagers, and then between them and the other supporting characters, Book 4 looks to highlight a different sort of relationship :the relationship between what actions we take in our lives and the trickle down effect those actions have on not only our lives, but on the lives around us — the relationship between coincidence and serendipity. How influenced are we by the actions of people we may never have met before? How connected are we with one another? And how do our own actions affect those around…
Bone Sense
Thistledown Press / 5 June 2013
Bone Sense by Laurie Lynn Muirhead Published by Thistledown Press Review by Catherine Fuchs $9.95 ISBN 978-1-927068-07-6 Bone Sense grabs the reader right from the start. Laurie Lynn Muirhead's poetry is voiced in a rich texture of metaphors in an up-close and frank look at life on a cattle ranch. Laurie Lynn Muirhead tells her story through poetry as she weaves words with an unvarnished truth about the hard life of a rancher's wife. She rolls out of her "warm dry bed" and takes you along on her early morning walks to the dugout as she begins a long day of daily chores and obligations. Ms. Muirhead's poetry has the ability to touch all the senses. You can feel the frost on your skin and hear the coyotes howl in the dark as they wait to steal new life from the weak. Author Laurie Lynn Muirhead ranches in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan and she writes her poetry between the calving, the slaughtering, the 4H Fund Raiders and auctions. You will follow her story in poetry as it unfolds through the seasons. Ranching life is certainly not a life for the faint-hearted, but the poetic telling of the tale is for everyone who…
Blood and Salt
Coteau Books / 5 June 2013
Blood and Salt by Barbara Sapergia Published by Coteau Books Review by Alison Slowski $21.95 ISBN 978-1-55050-513-9 Barbara Sapergia's latest novel, Blood and Salt, tells the story of Taras Kalyna. Taras, a young Ukrainian man from Halychyna province in Austrian-occupied Ukraine, never expected to wind up on this train. Upon his immigration to Canada in 1914, he finds himself a job at a brick plant in Southern Saskatchewan and plans to find his sweetheart, Halya, and marry her. Suddenly, Taras is pulled from his job and sent on a train to an internment camp in remote Castle Mountain, Alberta. The days are long, work is hard and wearying, and the food is disgusting slop. The wind and cold are biting and fierce, a constant reminder of a crime these immigrant Ukrainian men don't remember committing. The ever-present guards watch over the poorly dressed prisoners labouring through a harsh Canadian winter. The Canadian government, in an act of incredible injustice, has decided these Ukrainians are "enemy aliens", and should be in this camp because Canada is at war with Austria. All is not lost, though. As Taras begins to build friendships with the other Ukrainian prisoners, he begins to see life…
Voiceless by Caroline Wissing Published by Thistledown Press Review by Justin Dittrick ISBN 978-1-897235-98-0 $15.95 What is it like not to have a voice? To be unable to share one's thoughts and feelings with the people one cares about? What is it like to be alone "Out There" and voiceless? Caroline Wissing's stunning young adult novel, Voiceless, is narrated by Annabel, who was placed in foster care at Noble Spirit Farm. As the witness of a traumatic event, she has lost the ability to speak and must convey her thoughts and feelings with signs and emotional expression. The first half of the novel takes place at Noble Spirit Farm, where Annabel and her foster siblings live in a world once-removed from the violence, alcoholism, and drug-abuse that have had an effect in shaping them. Annabel recalls in shimmering detail what makes a teenager's life on the farm so special, so formative. She lovingly describes her relationships with her companions, both animal and human, whose idiosyncrasies will seem poignant and familiar to readers of all tastes. Due to an unexpected event, Annabel must leave Noble Spirit Farm with Graydon, her first lover. The second half of the novel is set in…


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Join the Orchard Alumni Heritage Association for the April Happy OWLer. Socialize with fellow Orchard alums and meet Orchard's new Head of School, Dr. Sherri Helvie. Special guest appearance by Marcia Fidler!


Not so surprisingly, pre-production for the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes is underway. Andy Serkis will return in his captivating role as Caesar and director Rupert Wyatt will again sit in the director's chair. The newcomer? Scott Z. Burns, the man who wrote the epidemic thriller, Contagion, will pen the screenplay.
The sequel will deal with the apes' uprising in society while the virus outbreak from the first film diminishes the human population.
Burns involvement in the story is a smart move; considering his work on Contagion. He has the potential to form the plot around the break down of human society and the rise of the apes' — and with a level of growing paranoia. It'd certainly add tension.


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Artists September 2020
Doric Quartet: 1 Sept
Maggini Quartet: 4 Sept
Solem Quartet & Anthony Friend: 10 Sept
Hill Quartet: 15 Sept
"The Doric String Quartet led a spellbinding series of concerts, rich in variety, impeccable in execution."
Firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, the Doric String Quartet receives enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics worldwide. The Quartet performs in leading concert halls around the world including Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Louvre, Carnegie Hall and Kioi Hall Tokyo as well as regular performances at Wigmore Hall.
Alongside main season concerts the Quartet has a busy festival schedule and has performed at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Grafenegg, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzingen, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, West Cork, Cheltenham, Delft, and Risør Festivals, collaborating with artists including Ian Bostridge, Mark
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Since 2010 the Doric Quartet has recorded exclusively for Chandos Records, with recent releases including Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, John Adams' Absolute Jest and the complete Britten String Quartets.
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The Asia Fashion Collection show at the Salon at Lincoln Center for New York Fashion Week allowed for promising young Asian designers to display their designs. The designers ranged from various areas of Asia including Tokyo, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The show included the collections of TSUBASA SHINYO, ZOKUZOKUB, Old honey, Noirer, Athena Chuang and Nelson Blackle.
The show started with ZOKUZOKUB, designed by Takuma Hoshi. When explaining the concept of his brand, Hoshi translated what ZOKUZOKU means as a feeling of thrill in Japanese, while Bi means beauty. Vivid patterns and vibrant colors were present in all pieces of Hoshi's line. Models wore oversized quilted coats paired with matching skirts or pants paired with silver platform sandals and socks. Using white as a base, Hoshi combined purples, reds, blues, pinks and greens in unique symmetric graphics in all pieces.
Noirer by Lee Younggon focuses on the intricacy of perfect layers and drapes. The use of just black and white does not limit the design but rather allows for the pieces to stand out more. Younggon styled models in long military-like coats with silver belted buckles. Black leather boots complimented the loose-fitting trousers. Younggon's shearling leather jacket was sculpted to perfection including caped sleeves, which helped epitomize the intricacy yet simplicity of his brand.
Athena Chuang designed by Athena Chuang told a story of femininity with the help of various shades of greens. The collection included a white chiffon blouse paired with green and black printed shorts along with a silk olive green jumpsuit with mesh inserts near the shoulders and a black belt around the waist.
Yellow Submarine from The Beatles' album Revolver may have been playing as the models walked down the runway but there may have been some inspiration from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the immense amount of color used in Nelson Blackle. Designed by Nelson Leung, Nelson Blackle displayed an array of bright primary colors, often all together or combined with more monotone selections. Leung paired a bright red jacket with an electric blue graphic shirt. Another model wore a striped orange shirt with a pair of grey shorts and long grey jacket. Leung's line played with vivid colors on plaid jackets and square-patterned sweaters.
Old Honey design partners Marina Hara and Yu Suzuki used playful patterns, layers and asymmetric cuts in their line. Tribal-like prints using gold, blue, green and other colors were seen in a majority of the collection, including a two-piece pantsuit paired with a long sleeve crop top. The same print was noted in a long sleeve dress with a high-waisted, big skirt. Hara and Suzuki also included a black dress with a peculiar asymmetric cut towards the mid-length of the dress.
Tsubasa Shinyo's collection made statements with graphic prints, pretty pinks and text. Models wore black laced boots as they bared their legs in t-shirt dresses with collage-like designs in colors like navy blue and pink.
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These days, the life of the average student can get pretty busy. Not only that, but many of today's college students are people who are trying to balance a full-time job with the responsibilities of getting an education. The increased need for health administration professionals has caused a spike in the popularity of online Master of Health Administration degrees. But students are still being particular about the online programs that they are using.
Many students feel that a long and successful history of developing a health administration curriculum will give them an advantage in the job market. That is why students are choosing online MHA programs from the top universities in the country as opposed to entrusting their education to an institution that only exists in the virtual world. When you decide that it is time to pursue your MHA degree online, there are certain schools that have developed a reputation for excellence.
GW's Master of Health Administration is for aspiring leaders with at least two years of full-time health sector experience or three years of full-time experience in any industry. With the program's interactive design, students learn from each other's experience as much as they learn from faculty. The curriculum focuses on developing the leadership and ethical skills needed to create highly effective health care organizations, as well as core health care content areas such as quality improvement, decision science, quantitative methods and community health. Request admissions information today.
Ohio University was founded in 1804, which was well before the creation of the Internet. The school spent two centuries developing a program in health administration that became known all over the United States. While Ohio University is a well-respected college with a physical campus location, it has also become known for its online Master of Health Administration degree program.
The requirements to get into the online MHA program are strict and include a healthcare related bachelor's degree with a minimum of a 3.0 GPA and a minimum of two years of practical healthcare related work experience. The school also requires all students to demonstrate a proficiency in economics and statistics.
Rankings & Accolades: Ohio University is ranked in the top 2% of public universities in the US.
The Seton Hall University online Master of Healthcare Administration degree program is one of the most respected online programs in the country. The school was founded in 1856 in South Orange, New Jersey. The school has several health related curriculums including studies in nursing, healthcare finance and marketing. The Seton Hall Law School is recognized as one of the finest educational institutions in the world.
Seton Hall has always had a reputation for being focused on its students and that carries over into the online programs as well. The online classes are set up as work groups where students collaborate to study and understand the material. The online program is also known for its comprehensive leadership training elements.
The University of Missouri is the only learning institution in the state of Missouri which is affiliated with the Association of American Universities. It was founded in 1839 and has grown to become the largest single educational institution in the state. One of the reasons that the MHA program at the University of Missouri is so popular is because it was ranked at number 21 by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top programs in the country.
The online MHA program also has an element that is done on campus. But the entire program is structured to allow people with full-time employment or other commitments to still achieve their MHA goals. There is an Executive MHA program that can be completed in two years or less and offers many of the same courses as the full MHA.
The University of Cincinnati has an MHA program that has been regarded as one of the best in the country for many years. It is considered to be a tier one caliber university by the business and educational publications in the United States. The online MHA program at the University of Cincinnati has an extremely limited on-campus element, which makes it ideal for working professionals trying to juggle an already busy schedule.
This MHA program is mostly known for is diverse focus on topics such as leadership, management skills economics and human psychology. The program also trains students to utilize important skills such as quality enhancement and the ability to identify new opportunities.
Rankings & Accolades: US News and World Report ranks this university as one of the top 200 in the US.
One of the elements of the Penn State University online MHA that attracts so many students is that this degree is offered completely online. There is no on-campus element at all, which allows students to create a schedule that fits their already hectic day. Penn State is regularly regarded as one of the top-25 colleges in the United States. The online program is offered through the Penn State World Campus, which is the school's virtual offering.
The program is offered directly through the Penn State Department of Health Policy and Administration as well as its world renowned School of Public Affairs. Penn State has dedicated significant resources to perfecting its online offering for more than 10 years.
The online MHA program offered by St. Joseph's University is specifically designed for people who are already in the healthcare industry but want to move into managerial or executive positions. The school has been offering health related curriculums for over 150 years and has repeatedly been included in the list of the most popular and respected health administration programs in the country. This program dives deep into the needs of an administrator and includes courses on such topics as law, ethics and marketing. Financial accounting and statistics are also significant parts of these programs.
Rankings & Accolades: US News and World Report ranked this university in the top 15 master's degree universities in the north.
Sullivan University is a private school located in Louisville, Kentucky which also has campuses in Lexington and Fort Knox. It is accredited by the School Commission on Colleges as well as the Southern Association of Colleges. The school offers an innovative online MHA curriculum that combines elements of analytical management skills as well as theoretical suppositions.
The school prides itself on offering a quality online MHA program for an affordable price. It has been revered not only for the affordability of its programs, but also for the comprehensive nature of its curriculums.
Bellevue University is an on-campus and online university that is based in Bellevue, Nebraska. It is a smaller not-for-profit private college that has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. In order to qualify for the school's online MHA program, a student must be currently working at least 20 hours per week in a healthcare facility and have two years of healthcare related work experience.
Grantham University is located in Kansas City, Missouri and was founded in 1951. It has a rolling schedule for its online MHA program which allows it to accept new students on a weekly basis. Each term is made up of eight consecutive weeks of classes, but not each class is offered every week. Students are encouraged to speak to a Grantham counselor about admissions and class schedules.
This is a 100% online Master of Health Administration that will prepare you for upper level management roles in many types of health care facilities. This program has 10 classes that cover the most important aspects of the health care administration field. You can take your classes online either full or part time. It is possible to finish your degree in a single calendar year – full time. You can finish the entire degree without visiting the Shreveport campus.
This Master of Healthcare Administration offers you an advanced opportunity to further your education in health care leadership. It is set up to provide you with a chance to assume dynamic, upper level management roles in the health care delivery environment. This program is designed to be taken either full or part time, and most of the program can be completed without visiting the campus. However, an on-site orientation is mandatory.
This is a highly flexible, online MHA program that can be taken full time, part time, or even a single course at a time. You can complete approximately 75% of the degree online. There are three, 5-day residency sessions on the Des Moines campus throughout your program. At the executive residency, you will be able to meet your fellow students and program faculty. You also will be able to network with health administration professionals.
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Christian Zugel (* 6. Juni 1960 in Stuttgart) ist ein deutscher Unternehmer und ehemaliger Autorennfahrer. Zugel nahm 2012 an der FIA-Langstrecken-Weltmeisterschaft (WEC) teil. Er ist CIO und Gründer des Vermögensverwaltungsunternehmens Zais Group.

Karriere
Zugel war schon in jungen Jahren am Motorsport interessiert, allerdings konnte ihm seine Familie nicht die notwendige finanzielle Unterstützung für den Rennsport zukommen lassen. Zugel arbeitete stattdessen in der Finanzdienstleistungsbranche. Zunächst arbeitet er für JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Frankfurt am Main und London, 1991 zog er nach Singapur. In Asien machte Zugel erste Erfahrungen im Amateurrennsport. Nachdem er 1995 beruflich in die Vereinigten Staaten gezogen war, machte er sich 1997 selbstständig und gründete die Zais Group, ein Vermögensverwaltungsunternehmen.

2004 nahm Zugel seine Motorsportkarriere in den Vereinigten Staaten wieder auf und trat in einem Porsche zunächst zu Amateurrennen an. 2006 nahm Zugel beim 24-Stunden-Rennen von Daytona erstmals an einem großen Motorsportrennen teil. Zusammen mit John Burke, Ryan Eversley und Gunnar Jeannette erreichte er den 38. Platz von 70 Startern. In der nächsten Zeit fungierte Jeannette als Fahrlehrer für Zugel, der an historischen Autorennen teilnahm.

2010 entschied sich Zugel, im professionellen Motorsport anzutreten. Zusammen mit Jeannette und Elton Julian trat Zugel in der LMPC-Klasse der American Le Mans Series (ALMS) für das Green Earth Team Gunnar an. Während der Saison wechselte Zugel zu Genoa Racing, da Jeanette und Julian ohne ihn bessere Chancen auf den Gewinn der LMPC-Wertung hatten. Zugel wurde mit zwei Podest-Platzierungen Sechster der LMPC-Wertung. Zudem ging er bei drei Rennen der Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Championship an den Start. 2011 blieb Zugel bei Genoa Racing in der ALMS und schloss die Saison auf dem elften Platz der LMPC-Wertung ab. Darüber hinaus nahm er in Europa an der Le Mans Series teil. Dort startete er zusammen mit Julian und Jens Petersen für Genoa Racing zu drei Rennen in der FLM-Klasse, dem Pendant zur LMPC-Klasse. Die standen dabei zweimal als Zweiter auf dem Podium und wurden in der FLM-Wertung Dritter.

Zugel hatte in den zwei Jahren in LMPC-Fahrzeugen eine Begeisterung für Le-Mans-Prototypen entwickelt und bemühte sich zusammen mit Julian um ein Cockpit in der neugegründeten FIA-Langstrecken-Weltmeisterschaft (WEC). Nachdem Zugel mit acht Rennställen in Kontakt war, entschied er sich für ein LMP2-Cockpit bei Greaves Motorsport in einem Zytek Z11SN-Nissan. Zugel und Julian erhielten dort Ricardo González als Teamkollegen. Bereits beim ersten Lauf der Saison 2012 erreichte das Trio den siebten Platz. Beim 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans 2012 erzielten die drei Rennfahrer den zwölften Gesamtplatz. Während der Saison wurde Ricardo González einmalig durch seinen Bruder Roberto González jr. vertreten, sodass Zugel am Saisonende zusammen mit Julian den 26. Platz in der Fahrerweltmeisterschaft belegte.

Zugel besaß einen Lotus T125, ein als Kundenprogramm deklariertes experimentelles Formel-1-Fahrzeug, mit dem Lotus die Testrestriktionen in der Formel-1 umgehen wollte.

Persönliches
Zugel ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Er lebt in Holmdel, New Jersey, Vereinigte Staaten.

Statistik

Karrierestationen
 2010: ALMS, LMPC (Platz 6)
 2010: Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Championship, L1 (Platz 23)
 2011: ALMS, LMPC (Platz 11)
 2011: Le Mans Series, FLM (Platz 3)
 2012: FIA-Langstrecken-Weltmeisterschaft (Platz 26)

Le-Mans-Ergebnisse

Sebring-Ergebnisse

Einzelergebnisse in der FIA-Langstrecken-Weltmeisterschaft

Weblinks

 Karrierestatistik von Christian Zugel bei speedsport-magazine.de (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Rennfahrer der 24 Stunden von Le Mans
Rennfahrer (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1960
Mann
Langstrecken-WM-Rennfahrer
Rennfahrer der 12 Stunden von Sebring


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Mohawk releases 2018 Sustainability Report
Mohawk Flooring's sustainable EverStrand carpeting is made with up to 100% recycled content using the Continuum process to recycle plastic bottles into strong and beautiful yarns.
Calhoun, Ga.—The power of handprints over footprints is the focus of the 2018 Sustainability Report released online by Mohawk Industries today. This year's report illustrates how a growing commitment to sustainability is shaping business decisions that positively impact the company, its customers, employees and communities. Through innovative product design and manufacturing—and a company-wide passion for making a difference—Mohawk is broadening the definition of corporate social responsibility to both "believe in better" and "believe in beautiful."
"Mohawk is committed to investing in processes, products and, most importantly, people to do the right thing for our customers and communities," said Jeff Lorberbaum, Mohawk's chairman and CEO. "The philosophy of sustainability informs everything we do and is embedded deeply in our culture. We are a global leader in recycling and offer hundreds of products with repurposed content that also provide differentiated features with broad appeal."
The 2018 Sustainability Report reinforces Mohawk's continued progress in doing more with less and its intent on growing its global business while reducing its environmental footprint. Across Mohawk, the company is closing in on its 2020 goals (set in 2010) to decrease energy, GHG, water and waste-to-landfill intensity by 25%. In 2018 alone, the company recycled 6.6 billion plastic bottles into yarn fiber, 136 million pounds of foam trim and yarn waste into carpet cushion and almost 42 million pounds of rubber tires into welcome mats.
"As part of our commitment to reducing our environmental footprint we continuously decrease our consumption of natural resources and create our own energy from wind, solar and manufacturing waste," Lorberbaum said.
The report notes that in 2018 Mohawk saved $4.3 million on landfill and haul-away costs as well as the costs of treating and discharging water to public sewer systems. To achieve this, it certified two new zero waste to landfill (ZLF) sites in Mexico and Alabama, bringing its total number of sites to 48 around the world. ZLF certification requires facilities to recycle or reuse 90% or more of their manufacturing process waste, which not only helps Mohawk build a resource-responsible culture site by site but also reduces the company's capital and maintenance costs of equipment.
"As we continue to shrink our footprint while expanding our handprint, there is so much excitement around the Mohawk organization," said George Bandy Jr., chief sustainability officer. "Sustainability is not only about believing in better for the communities where we live, work and play, but it is also about believing in beautiful products that are manufactured in a responsible manner. At every juncture, we place humankind at the center of the product development and design process for our residential and commercial solutions."
These solutions, as highlighted in the report, help customers live sustainably in every area of the home and workplace. Sustainable choices for homeowners range from soft, stain-resistant SmartStrand, which is made with renewably sourced polymers that require less energy to manufacture than other fibers, to EverStrand, a fiber made with up to 100% recycled content, using Mohawk's Continuum process to recycle plastic bottles into strong and beautiful yarns, to rugs and mats made of recycled rubber tires.
Commercial solutions include Mohawk's Living Products. The International Living Future Institute's Living Product Challenge is a broad certification program that requires manufacturers to consider the full life span of their products and challenges them to think beyond the products themselves and find ways to give back. In 2018, Mohawk expanded its portfolio with the debut of carbon-neutral Living Products Nutopia and Nutopia Matrix carpet plank, Sunweave broadloom and area rugs and Pivot Point, the first Red List-free enhanced resilient tile.
Reaching out to communities, organizations
Sustainability does not happen in a vacuum—it is a community undertaking. The report explores how Mohawk worked in several capacities to reach out to the communities where its employees live, work and play as well as to partner with other organizations to further create a positive impact. Individually, Mohawk employees responded to communities in need with food drives and hurricane relief. In terms of corporate sponsorship, the report spotlights:
The donation of flooring and ceramic tile through the Tunnel to Towers Foundation for 75 smart homes built for injured service members returning home.
A three-year, 10-unit SmartFlower solar energy collaboration with Groundswell to benefit underserved communities and schools with STEM programs and offset the energy used in the manufacturing of the latest Living Products.
The ReCover carpet recycling program, which has given new life to 32.6 million square yards of carpet in the last decade, including Durkan Definity rugs used at a Carrie Underwood event and later auctioned off to support local nonprofit organizations.
A partnership with the Georgia United Credit Union School Crashers program to provide much-needed facility improvements in 33 schools over the past five years.
The 2018 Sustainability Report also features the importance of workplace diversity and developing talent in hometown communities. "Because our people are our greatest resource, we are dedicated to ensuring that they live healthier lives, work safely, develop professionally and plan for better futures," said Lorberbaum.
Mohawk's Apprenticeship Program is nationally recognized. Since its launch in 2014, the program has attracted more than 43 apprentices at 17 locations worldwide, with 80% of apprentices securing jobs with Mohawk full time after completing the program. The program builds up a base of talent, contributes to a trained workforce and increases local economic development. It not only advances the future of the company, but also advances the lives of people in the communities where Mohawk operates.
Mohawk's 2018 Sustainability Report is available online: mohawksustainability.com.
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Kids for a Quid tickets available for Exeter City
Christian Parry
Tickets for our upcoming Carabao Cup First Round home tie against Exeter City are now available for purchase, including under-14's for just £1.
We will host fellow League One side Exeter City at the Completely-Suzuki Stadium, for the our opening Carabao Cup tie on Tuesday, 9 August (7:45PM KO).
You can purchase your tickets for the game online now, or at the ticket office during it's opening times.
In order to take advantage of Kids for a Quid, you must purchase the tickets online in advance of the game.
We'll also reduce the price of Under-14 tickets to just £1 for three League One matches at the Completely-Suzuki Stadium as well.
This season we will extend the offer for the home games against Morecambe (Tuesday, October 25), Lincoln City (Saturday, December 17) and Accrington Stanley (Saturday, February 11).
Almost 4,000 young supporters took advantage of the promotion last year and enjoyed watching the Robins win five of the seven matches that made up the promotion.
We have also agreed to lower the prices for the Walsall and West Ham United Under-21s fixtures in Group C of the Papa John's Trophy, in addition to our Carabao Cup First Round fixture against Exeter.


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Leroy Automation, Garos Avionique and NEOTEC Choose Québec as They Expand into the North American Market
Québec, the Main Gateway for Companies Seeking to Grow and Prosper in North America
Victoriaville, June 12, 2014 –Jacques Daoust, Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Exports, is proud to announce, on the occasion of the Rendez-vous du transport 2014, organized by the Pôle d'excellence québécois en transport terrestre, that Leroy Automation, Garos Avionique and NEOTEC are establishing operations in Québec. These three new subsidiaries of French companies were guided in their expansion by Investissement Québec, which helped promote the advantages of Québec as an excellent place to invest to ensure the growth of their North American operations.
"With its advanced expertise and vigorous industrial base, Québec is a global hub for the aerospace and land transportation sectors," Minister Daoust stated. "These new start-ups are the result of close collaboration with the key players in economic development, with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of Québec's manufacturing sector. In addition to contributing to creating direct jobs, these companies will help stimulate economic activity throughout the value chain."
LEROY AUTOMATION
With an established reputation going back more than 30 years, French company Leroy Automation specializes in the design and manufacturing of embedded electronic products for the railway and energy sectors. Based near Toulouse, it has 45 employees and a prestigious client list that includes Alstom, Siemens, Thales and SNCF. Leroy Automation recently signed manufacturing agreements with Québec company M2S, leading firm in the electronic design and manufacturing services industry. This investment will enable Leroy Automation to enter the supply chain and create eight new high-quality jobs. Support from Investissement Québec, the Pôle d'excellence québécois en transport terrestre and Kassar International consultants was essential in making this start-up a reality.
GAROS AVIONIQUE
Garos, founded in 1988, specializes in the design and installation of force sensors for high-value-added niche markets such as aerospace, shipping, energy, nuclear power and land transportation. Its expertise in extensometry enabled it to win an initial contract in Québec and launch its plans to set up a business here. The Québec subsidiary, Garos Avionique, will manufacture force sensors for the U.S. and Chinese markets and create 10 new jobs in the Dorval area.
NEOTEC is a maker of road-rail vehicles and motorized vehicles for the rail and land transportation sectors. Created in 1991, the company develops innovative patented technologies, particularly vehicle transmission systems, axles and rail bogies, and construction machinery. NEOTEC's clients include major prime contractors, among them Airbus, Alstom TGS, Balfour Beatty, Colas Rail and Caterpillar. With support from Investissement Québec, the Québec subsidiary, which is located in Beloeil with local partner F. Drapeau consultants, is building a facility to design and manufacture railway machinery and axles for the North American market. The project is expected to create 12 new jobs in the next three years.
About Investissement Québec
Investissement Québec's mission is to foster the growth of investment in Québec, thereby contributing to economic development and job creation in every region. The Corporation offers businesses a full range of financial solutions, including loans, loan guarantees and equity investments, to support them at all stages of their development. It is also responsible for administering tax measures and prospecting for foreign investment.
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