The text below has been excerpted from Running & Being by Dr. George Sheehan, which spent more than 14 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List when it was published in 1978, helping to launch the first running boom. Running & Being has been out of print for decades, but Rodale, the parent company of Runner's World, has reissued a 35th Anniversary hardcover edition. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled "Running."
Every mile I run is my first. Every hour on the roads a new beginning. Every day I put on my running clothes, I am born again. Seeing things as if for the first time, seeing the familiar as unfamiliar, the common as uncommon. Doing what Goethe said was the hardest thing of all, seeing with my own eyes that which is spread before me. Bringing to that running, that play, the attitude of the child, the perception of a poet. Being a beginner with a beginner's mind, a beginner's heart, a beginner's body.
There is no other way to run, no other way to live. Otherwise my runs become dull, uninspired interludes. The running becomes routine, becomes part of the humdrum apathy and indifference that the poet John Hall Wheelock called a shield between us and reality. It becomes a chore, becomes habit. And habit kills awareness and separates us from ourselves.
My awareness begins with my body, my beginner's body. Each day I discover how to breathe. Taste the air. Feel it move through my lungs. I learn to exhale totally and groan and grunt, marking my passage through the fields and trees like some animal.
Each day I search out how to run. Feeling the thrust of the hamstrings. Letting the foot drop below the knee. Arriving at the form the child adopts naturally. The body, a little stronger perhaps, certainly more durable, must come upon these ideas as fresh as if newly thought. And then concentrate on this beginning and bring to it the beginner's joy in doing this tremendously simple yet tremendously complex thing so well.
From then on it becomes more and more difficult. It is relatively easy to return to basics with the body. But to have a beginner's heart and mind is a different matter. To take sight and smell, hearing and touch and become a new Adam in a new Eden is tough going even for a poet. Even for those who live more and participate more in their own existence. And yet like them I must listen and discover forgotten knowledge. Must respond to everything around me and inside me as well.
Poets do this naturally. A really good poet, wrote James Dickey, is like an engine with the governor off. And it's no good for people to say that life should not mean that much to a poet. The really good poet, said Dickey, has no choice; that's the way he is.
The best most of us can do is to be a poet an hour a day. Take the hour when we run or tennis or golf or garden; take that hour away from being a serious adult and become serious beginners. Take an hour away from what Shelley called a life of error, ignorance and strife, and introduce love and beauty and delight.
Those good things began in my beginning. When I was not afraid to respond to my feeling. Before I was taught not to cry. Before I learned that humor had a time and a place and deep emotions had best be concealed, that passion be left unfelt.
When I run, I go back to those better days. Now no emotion is foreign to me. I express myself totally. My body and heart and mind interact and open me to the infinite possibilities only a beginner can envision. And I relive that moment in the beginning of things when, as Yeats said, we understand more perfectly than we understand until all is finished.
And what of that finish? "It is development, improvement and completion that means the deterioration of the creativeness," wrote Berdyaev, the Russian theologian, "the cooling down of the creative fire, decay, old age."
I will have none of that. So each day I take to the roads as a beginner, a child, a poet. Seeking the innocence of the beginner, the wonder of the child and the vision of the poet. Hoping for a new appreciation of the landscape, a new perspective of my inner world, some new insights on life, a new response to existence and myself.
There are times, more often than the good times, when I fail. I never do pierce the shield. I return with a shopping list of things to do tomorrow. The miraculous has gone unseen. The message has gone unheard. I have had one of those loveless days on a lovely day for love.
Still, there is always the chance I'll have beginner's luck. And this run, this hour, this day may begin in delight and end in wisdom.
I am a noonday runner. In the past, and still from time to time, I have run in the morning or evening. But almost always these days, I run in the early afternoon.
You might think this choice of when to run simply a matter of convenience. Of fitting it in when time becomes available. Most people believe that running is running, regardless of when it is done. But I know this is not so. There is a time, as Ecclesiastes wrote, for every purpose under heaven. There is a time for running. Mine is midday. I run at midday because I must. I run at midday because my body and soul tell me to.
My body is at its best in early afternoon. My circulation rhythms at their crest. Like the sun, my energy is at its zenith, my fields of force at maximum. Whatever I do, I do best at this time of day.
But midday has more than physiological importance. When I run at noon, I run at the sixth hour. I run at an hour that has significance that goes back through the history of the race. An hour that reminds me I am participating in an ever-recurring mystery, seeking and making a self I will never fully know. An hour that brings me back to myth and ritual and a feeling for the holy.
In the sixth hour, I am in a time that is recurrent and symbolic. A time that Eliade wrote of as circular, reversible and recoverable. A time that tells me I am a child of the universe born for more than is visible in this world.
Daybreak and sunset have similar implications. The morning run speaks for rebirth and the new life. Just as morning prayers praise the Lord, sing the earth, tell of renewed purpose. And the evening run is for those who have fought the good fight and now desire only the peace an hour's run at a slow, steady pace will give them. When I run in these closing stages of the day, I am a philosopher. I accept life, death, the self, what I have done. I am content.
From this perspective, the morning run is my youth. Running in the morning is to wear the bright morning face. It is for health and fitness and making the team. It is accepting discipline, obeying duty and acquiring self-control.
Midday is adult. The run is in pursuit of goals, the making of the self, the looking for something to leave behind. You must say it is in the Catholic tradition, linking goodness to beauty and proportion and achievement.
If so, the evening run is toward the East, toward that ancient acceptance of things as they are. That mature wisdom with which we see a world that has order and sense. And we know, as Erikson said, that our one and only life cycle was something that had to be and, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions.
One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.
My fight is not with age. Running has won that battle for me. Running is my fountain of youth, my elixir of life. It will keep me young forever. When I run, I know there is no need to grow old. I know that my running, my play, will conquer time.
And there on the roads, I can pursue my perfection for the rest of my days, and finally, as his wife said of Kazantzakis dead at seventy-four, be mowed down in the first flower of my youth.
The fight, then, is never with age; it is with boredom, with routine, with the danger of not living at all. The life will stop, growth will cease, learning will come to an end. You no longer become who you are. You begin to kill time or live it without thought or purpose. Everything that is happiness, all that is excitement, whatever you know of joy and delight will evaporate. Life will be reduced to a slow progression of days and weeks and months. Time will become an enemy instead of an ally.
When I run, I avoid all this. I enter a world where time stops, where now is a fair sample of eternity. Where I am filled with excitement and joy and delight, even with the intensity and inner fire and never-ending search for self of a Kazantzakis. I enter a state that will be man's most congenial environment.
"Play, games, jests, culture," wrote Plato, "we affirm are the most serious things in life." And for the most serious of all reasons, what Kierkegaard called "choosing one's self." Or, to use Plato's thought again, to recapture our original state of perfection.
But isn't that perfection, or at least the bodily part of it, only resident in youth? Not if you persist in your sport, persevere in your play. True, we delight in our bodies in our youth and envy the young as we grow old. But this need not be.
We can continue to keep our bodies in beauty and competence until death claims us. We should know that the fit die young in body as well as in mind and heart. That, like Kazantzakis, whatever their age they will be mowed down in the first flower of their youth.
Running had made me young again. I run now as I did at twenty. I have the same health, the same vigor, the same sensations of power and grace. And I have the strength and speed and endurance of those years younger than me. Not because I am exceptional, but because I do what I do with my whole self. My running is an incitement to energy. It is an outpouring from the very center of my being. It is a vital force that takes me to the peak of my powers and there opens me to myself and to the world and to others.
Running gives me a body and mind and heart willing to follow my own vision, to break the mold, to choose a new course, even perhaps to become the hero that Ortega said we all carry within us. This is a lifelong task. A lifelong of saying, as did Ortega, "That's not it, that's not it." And therefore a life that must be very young and eager and full of enthusiasm, full of sport and play, full of running.
If you would not age, you must make everything you do touched with play, play of the body, of thought, of emotions. If you do, you will belong to that special class of people who find joy and happiness in every act, in every moment. Those to whom leisure is the one thing valuable. Those whom Ruskin called "the proudly idle."
My running and your play may be idleness to those of another mind. But it is the self-awareness, the consciousness, the intensity that is important, however inconsequential the activity. "Come into the kitchen," said Heraclitus. "The gods are there, too." And out on the roads, and whenever you play, there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. There is the theater where we can write and act out our own dreams. Having first, of course, gotten down to bone and muscle, and then come to some understanding of the unique once-in-an-eternity person each one of us is.
Running reminds me that at any age man is still the marvel of creation. With the passage of time, there is little deterioration of our physical or psychic powers, little worth thinking that is lost. The only important issue, as Rollo May said, is not whether a person is twenty or forty or sixty, but whether he fulfills his own capacity of self-conscious choice at his own particular level.
That's a game the playful person almost always wins.
For more about Dr. George Sheehan, including a biography, essays, videos, and photos, visit www.georgesheehan.com.


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Work continues on the Old Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project, turning the structure into a black box theater – a performing space that consists of a large square room with black walls featuring flexible seating for audience members
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Enhancing the arts is the target as construction continues on the South Pasadena Middle School Old Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project.
Workers are turning the old gym on campus into a black box theater, visual arts room, and a flex lab – repurposing a building with a long history while maintaining its historical significance.
Steady progress is being made on both the interior and exterior of the building, say South Pasadena Unified School District officials who add that the estimated completion date will land sometime in late November 2020.
"On the exterior, we started underground waterproofing of the basement walls and continued to plaster the North and East faces," reads a statement issued by the district. "The finish plaster is helping the building to take on its new appearance."
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On the inside of the building, "we've been testing our water, air, electrical and sprinkler systems," continues the statement. "As these each pass inspection, and with thermal insulation already in place, we've been closing up walls with drywall. As we drywall the interior, we'll move into the 'finish' stage of construction."
Along with the black box theatre – a darkened performance space with audience interaction that varies in size in a square room – the finished product will also feature a flex lab to support STEM programs and an arts room.
The theatre portion will provide flexible seating for audience members, allowing for a variety of different configurations. Performances might be held as theatre-in-the-round or in a traditional seating arrangement. Space will be used for everything from lectures to dance performance where only basic technical arrangements are required.
The project is scheduled for completion soon at an approximate cost of $13 million and is being funded through a $98 million bond measure approved by South Pasadena voters.
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L&T Technology Services Dedicates COVID Care Center In Mysuru As Part Of Its CSR Initiative
L&T Technology Services (NSE: LTTS), a global leading pure-play engineering services company, announced that it has dedicated a rural COVID Care Center (CCC) in Saragur, Mysuru as part of its CSR initiative, in partnership with Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM).
The center was inaugurated by the Honorable Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, Dr. C. N. Ashwathnarayan along with Mr. Amit Chadha, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of L&T Technology Services, who was present virtually from Washington D.C.
The CCC will serve a population of over three lakh tribals in the region. The 19-bed center has been built within 12 days using modular prefabricated technology. Each bed is equipped with oxygen supply, critical care medical equipment and all other necessary resources. The technology used here enables the safe management and care of patients, and the infrastructure is expected to benefit the local population for up to 15 years, enabling the people of Mysuru to continue availing the benefits of this key healthcare center.
Other dignitaries to grace the occasion included Mr. S. T. Somashekhar, Mysuru District In-charge Minister (Minister of Cooperation), Mr. Anil Kumar C, Member of Legislative Assembly, and Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Founder-President of the SVYM.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Amit Chadha, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology Services said, "I take this opportunity to compliment the Government of Karnataka for their tireless efforts in containing the present pandemic and would like to thank Dr. Ashwathnarayan and other distinguished leaders of the Karnataka Government for their inspiring statesmanship. A special note of appreciation for SVYM with whom we have worked to transform and uplift the lives of the local rural population. Our association with Mysuru is decades old. We have been taking a lead role in driving technology adoption and employment generation in the region for years now. LTTS is committed to serve the people of Mysuru and the state of Karnataka. I am certain that together we can script the beginning of a new chapter of development for this important region."
This latest initiative further marks LTTS' commitment towards implementing pandemic relief measures in the state of Karnataka, such as providing isolation kits to the Mysuru City Corporation, donating two 24x7 free ICU ambulances for serving the underprivileged in Bengaluru, facilitating vaccination for people with physical disabilities, besides funding medical treatment for the economically weaker segments. The company is also partnering with NGOs to support children orphaned in this current wave, committing to their long-term support in line with established government norms.
LTTS has been focused towards contributing to the cause of tribal population in the region. The LTTS-SVYM alliance has, over the years, transformed over 500 tribal lives and livelihoods through technology adoption and employment generation initiatives.
Mr K.N. Prabhakaran, Head of CSR and Mr. Rabi Rout, Center Head of Mysuru, were present on the occasion from L&T Technology Services.
About L&T Technology Services Ltd
L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited focused on Engineering and R&D (ER&D) services. We offer consultancy, design, development and testing services across the product and process development life cycle. Our customer base includes 69 Fortune 500 companies and 53 of the world's top ER&D companies, across industrial products, medical devices, transportation, telecom & hi-tech, and the process industries. Headquartered in India, we have over 16,400 employees spread across 17 global design centers, 28 global sales offices and 69 innovation labs as of March 31, 2021.


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Member of the European Parliament for Germany
(1955-12-20) 20 December 1955 (age 60)
Hehlrath, West Germany
(now Germany)
Social Democratic Party
Party of European Socialists
Martin Schulz (born 20 December 1955) is a German politician and President of the European Parliament since 2014. Previously he was leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. On 1 July 2014 Martin Schulz was re-elected as European Parliament President.[1]
Schulz went to school in Broich (now Würselen). Originally dreaming of a career as football player, a severe injury to his knee put a hold on his youthful ambitions. He became an apprentice book seller and later opened a bookstore in Würselen. During this time he was already politically active and at the age of 31, he was elected Mayor of Würselen in 1987, a position he held until 1998.
1 Career
2 Education and professional career
3 Political career
3.1 Early beginnings
3.2 Member the European Parliament, 1994-present
3.3 President of the European Parliament, 2012-present
3.4 Candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission, 2013-2014
3.5 Role in German politics
4.1 European integration
4.2 Security policy
4.3 Relations with Russia
4.4 Relations with Israel
5 Other activities
6 Controversy
6.1 Berlusconi incident
6.2 Incident with Godfrey Bloom
6.3 Campaign-related issues
8 Honours and decorations
8.1 Europe
8.2 Asia
1975–1977: Apprentice bookseller
1977–1982: Worked in various bookshops and publishing houses
1982–1994: Bookshop proprietor
1991–1999: Member of the SPD Party Council
since 1995: Member of the Mittelrhein SPD Executive
since 1996: Chairman of the Aachen District SPD
since 1999: Member of the SPD Federal Executive
1984–1999: Municipal Councillor, Würselen
1987–1998: Mayor of Würselen
since 1994: Member of the European Parliament
1994–1996: PES Group coordinator, Subcommittee on Human Rights
1996–2000: PES Group coordinator, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
2000–2004: Chairman of the German Socialist (SPD) delegation, European Parliament
2002–2004: First Vice-Chairman of the PES Group
since 2009: Chairman of the PES and then S&D Group
since 2012: President of the European Parliament
Education and professional career[edit]
Schulz was born in Hehlrath, a district of Eschweiler in western Rhineland as one of five children. His father was a local policeman. After four years at primary school, from 1962 to 1966, Schulz attended the Heilig-Geist (Holy Spirit) grammar school, a private Roman Catholic school run by the Holy Ghost Fathers (or Spiritans),[2] in Broich (now Würselen), a district of the town of Broichweiden, for nine years, leaving without his A-levels. As a teenager, he went on an exchange to France through his school.
From 1975 to 1977 Schulz then trained to be a bookseller.[3] The next two years he worked for a number of publishing houses and bookshops, and in 1982 he opened his own bookshop in Würselen, which he ran until 1994.
Political career[edit]
Early beginnings[edit]
In 1974, at the age of 19, Schulz joined the SPD, became involved with the Young Socialists and in 1984 was elected to the Würselen Municipal Council, remaining a member for just over two electoral terms, to 1998, from 1987 onwards as mayor. At 31, he was then the youngest mayor in North Rhine-Westphalia. He held that office until 1998. As a municipal counselior he initiated the twinning of Würselen with the city of Morlaix in French Brittany, where he became friends with Marylise Lebranchu, who was the mayor and is now the French Minister for Public Services.
Member the European Parliament, 1994-present[edit]
Martin Schulz with the former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in 2014.
In the 1994 European elections Schulz was elected to the European Parliament and between 2000 and 2004 was chair of the SPD delegation. Schulz has served on a number of committees, including the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He led the German delegation of the Socialist group (SPD members) from 2000 and was also a vice-chair of the Socialist Group in the EP. He was elected group leader in 2004, of the PSE Group, succeeding the Spaniard Enrique Barón Crespo, a position held until he was elected EP president. Since 2009, Schulz has also acted as the representative for European Affairs for Germany's SPD party and his views have deeply influenced his party's pro-European politics.
In 2004 as Leader of the S&D group, Schulz introduced a motion in the European Parliament to refuse to give approval/consent to the Barroso Commission on the basis of the proposed appointment of Italian nominee Rocco Buttiglione and his publicly expressed homophobic views. A large majority of MEPs from the other political groups followed and consequently Buttiglione was withdrawn and replaced by Franco Frattini.
President of the European Parliament, 2012-present[edit]
Following the 2009 European elections Schulz came to public attention when he insisted that his group should not immediately approve a second term of office for European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and instead, together with the Chair of the Green Group in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, proposed the Belgian Liberal Guy Verhofstadt as a candidate for that office.[4] Following reassurances by Barroso, Schulz dropped his categorical opposition to him, insisting only that he should make certain political concessions to the Social Democrats.[5] As a result, the majority of the group abstained on the confidence vote to Barroso.
On 15 September 2011, members of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament unanimously nominated Schulz as their candidate for the President of the European Parliament. On 17 January 2012, Schulz was elected as President of the European Parliament, with 387 votes in favour out of 670 cast.[6] Other candidates were Nirj Deva (142 votes) and Diana Wallis (141 votes).[6]
Together with EU Commission President Barroso and EU Council President Herman van Rompuy, Schulz collected the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the European Union. The Prize, honoring "over six decades [having] contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe", was awarded by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission, 2013-2014[edit]
On 6 November 2013, Schulz was nominated as "candidate designate" by the Party of European Socialists – at the time the second-largest group in the 750-seat parliament –, with the aim to become the first candidate to be elected President of the European Commission by democratic elections.[7] He was unopposed, as no other candidate stepped forward to challenge him in the race to be the socialist campaign figurehead.[8] This kicked off a tour to all member states and particularly all member parties.
On 1 March 2014, Schulz accepted the nomination of the Party of European Socialists in Rome. He was elected by 368 PES members out of 404, with only 2 votes against him. Prior to the vote, in what was widely seen as a clear signal to its European partners on the left that there are limits to their support for the EU, Britain's Labour Party had publicly spoken out against Schulz as the left's candidate, instead favouring Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark's Social Democrats. Schulz launched his European campaign on 17 April in front of 1,600 socialist activists in Paris, promising to tackle taxes and social dumping.[9] He ran against Conservative Jean-Claude Juncker, then Prime Minister of Luxembourg, and Liberal Guy Verhofstadt.
However, when the Socialists came second in the European election behind the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), Germany's Social Democrats announced that they would accept one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives taking the German post on the European Commission if Schulz remained president of the European Parliament.[10] The decision to back Juncker for the Commission's presidency instead was later endorsed at an informal meeting in Paris of eight Social Democratic leaders, including Thorning-Schmidt, Sigmar Gabriel of Germany and Werner Faymann of Austria.[11] Accordingly, Schulz did not join the European Commission but remained in his current position.
Role in German politics[edit]
Since 2009, Schulz has been part of the SPD leadership under party chairman Sigmar Gabriel. Within the party, he serves as co-chairman of the Commission for International Politics, alongside Niels Annen.[12] Schulz was a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2013 federal elections, he was part of the wider leadership circle chaired by Angela Merkel, Horst Seehofer and Sigmar Gabriel. He also led SPD delegation in the working group on European affairs; his co-chair of the CDU/CSU was fellow MEP Herbert Reul.
In 2015, German newspapers speculated that Schulz is interested in running for the chancellorship of Germany in the 2017 federal elections.[13]
European integration[edit]
Schulz meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran
Schulz is widely considered an ardent EU supporter.[14] In 2014, however, he argued it was also essential that responsibility was delegated away from Brussels and down to national, regional and local authorities, allowing the EU to focus on the big issues.[15]
Security policy[edit]
In front of the European Council on 19 December 2013, Schulz took responsibility for the initiation of the Cox-Kwaśniewski mission to the Ukraine.[16] In the same speech, he noted that Europe was still militarily dependent on the USA, and that in many cases Europe would be quite incapable of carrying out a military operation without the support of the USA.
Schulz was quoted in a newspaper report of his speech as having said: "If we wish to defend our values and interests, if we wish to maintain the security of our citizens, then a majority of MEPs consider that we need a headquarters for civil and military missions in Brussels and deployable troops,"[17] The External Action Service of HRUFASP Catherine Ashton had prepared a proposal, which was supported by France, Spain, Italy, Poland and Germany who together have QMV majority, to create a European Air Force composed of surveillance drones, heavy transport airplanes, and air-to-air refuelling planes.[17] The debate was joined with a view presented by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who maintained that "Nato will remain the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security."[17] Rasmussen's view prevailed on the Council at this time because QMV does not take effect in decisions of the European Council until 1 November 2014.
Relations with Russia[edit]
In 2015, amid the Ukrainian crisis, Schulz suspended a committee made up of Russian and EU lawmakers that meets several times a year to improve ties.[18] When Russia barred entry to two European Union politicians who had planned to attend the funeral in 2015 of murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, Schulz criticized the barring as "a high affront to EU-Russia relations and the work of democratic institutions."[19]
Relations with Israel[edit]
On a visit in February 2014, Schulz gave a "generally pro-Israel"[20] speech to the Knesset, but he implied at one point, basing himself on what he himself described as unverified data, that Israel was denying Palestinians a fair share of water resources in the occupied West Bank.[21] This part of the speech sparked a walk-out by several lawmakers from the right-wing Jewish Home party, and drew a public rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[22] Schulz subsequently said in an interview with a German newspaper that his personal sentiments regarding Israel are more sympathetic than the speech implied, and that the more critical official EU position meant that, in his role as EU president, he had to give an address that reflected this stance.[23] Concerning water usage in the West Bank, he said also: "I merely asked in my speech if this was correct. I was not stating a fact."[24]
Elsewhere, Schulz has voiced strong support for Israel, going as far as saying that "Germany exists only in order to ensure the existence of the State of Israel and the Jewish people";[25] scotched talk of an EU boycott of the country;[26] and criticized the bloc's 2015 decision[27] to label Israeli goods that are produced in the West Bank,[28] a stand that drew Palestinian criticism.[29]
Other activities[edit]
Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), Member of the Board of Trustees
Institute for European Politics, Member of the Board of Trustees
Stiftung "Achtung!Kinderseele", Member of the Board of Trustees
Controversy[edit]
Berlusconi incident[edit]
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)
On 2 July 2003, one day after Italy taking over the rotating presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, Schulz criticized Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy of his domestic policy. Berlusconi replied:
Signor Schulz, so che in Italia c'è un produttore che sta montando un film sui campi di concentramento nazisti: la suggerirò per il ruolo di kapò. Lei è perfetto!
In English: Mister Schulz, I know of a movie-producer in Italy who is making a film about Nazi concentration-camps. I will recommend you for the part of a Kapo [concentration-camp inmate appointed as supervisor]. You are perfect!
Berlusconi later claimed he was referring to the comedy-series Hogan's Heroes, where a slow-witted character named Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz, played by John Banner, starred. Even though Berlusconi insisted that he was just being ironic,[30] his comparisons with the Nazis caused a brief diplomatic rift between the two.
Incident with Godfrey Bloom[edit]
On 24 November 2010 the British MEP Godfrey Bloom caused a row in the European Parliament when he interrupted a speech by Martin Schulz, heckling him with the Nazi propaganda slogan 'Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer' ('one people, one empire, one leader') and accusing him of being an 'undemocratic fascist'. Bloom later stated that he was referring to the fact that the indoctrination of the German people under the Nazi regime has long-lasting effects; "some Germans still find it difficult to accept diversity in Europe and differences of opinion". In the debate on the future of the Euro Stability Pact Schulz had criticised the role played by the United Kingdom, which was involved in the discussions despite not being a member of the eurozone, and said that some eurosceptics would take pleasure in the collapse of the European Union. Following the incident, the President of Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, excluded Bloom from the Chamber.[31] The Dutch MEP Barry Madlener, from the right-wing populist Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV - Freedom Party), then protested against that decision, on the grounds that Schulz himself had recently described the PVV MEP Daniël van der Stoep as a fascist, but had not been excluded from the Chamber.[32]
Campaign-related issues[edit]
Schulz received criticism after having transformed the Twitter account, that his staff had built up for his European Parliament presidency, into his own personal account in order to use it as part of his candidature to the EU Commission.[33]
During his time as President of the European Parliament, Schulz removed a paragraph critical of his stewardship in a key committee report set for debate on 2 April 2014, thereby attracting a lot of negative attention.[33] As a consequence, a large majority of the European Parliament voted on 4 April 2015 to invite Schulz to resign so that he is able to campaign for the European elections.[34]
Lastly, Schulz was criticized that the president of the parliament received until 18 April 2014 a daily allowance of €304, also while he was campaigning to become president of the commission. This was paid for 365 days a year, additionally to his salary of €200,000 a year. A member of parliament receives this daily allowance only for attending.[35][36]
Schulz is married and has two children. Among his favourite books are The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and all the books of Eric Hobsbawm. In addition to reading, he enjoys football, being a passionate supporter of the football club 1. FC Köln.[citation needed] He also enjoys music and movies, having also written movie reviews on historical films.[citation needed]
Schulz suffered a period of alcoholism as a young man after a knee injury put an end to his hopes of playing football.[37][38]
Besides German, Martin Schulz speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.[39][40]
Honours and decorations[edit]
Europe[edit]
Germany : Federal Cross of Merit (First Class) in 2006
Austria : Grosses goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Republik in 2008
Russian Federation : Honorary Doctorate by the Kaliningrad State Technical University on 18 May 2009
France : Officer of the French Légion d'honneur in 2010
Romania : Collar of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania on 31 October 2012;[41] Doctor Honoris Causa title by the National School of Political Science and Public Administration of Bucharest on 31 October 2012.[42]
Italy Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 8 November 2012[43]
Portugal : Key of Honor to the City of Lisbon on 20 June 2013[44]
Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe, in 2014.
Germany : International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen on 14 May 2015[45]
Asia[edit]
Israel : Honorary PhD by Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2014[46]
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From scientism to PC
Wed, 06/01/2011 - 7:11pm — James Kalb
Conservatively-minded people who favor the scientific outlook to the exclusion of other sources of knowledge point out that PC, the insistence that human differences don't exist or don't matter or shouldn't be allowed to matter, is anti-scientific.
That's true, of course. It's also true though that scientism—the view that knowledge is not knowledge unless it's scientific—leads to PC, basically by causing impossible difficulties on the mind/body front.
Scientific knowledge is knowledge of mechanism that enables prediction and control. If you treat that kind of knowledge as adequate to all reality, which scientism has to do to be workable, then human agency disappears.
Human agency is nonetheless with us. We know ourselves as agents, we recognize others as such (if we are not psychopaths), and intelligent activities like science seem to require it.
The solution people adopt is to accept human agency as a reality but a very strange sort of reality about which nothing can be said. To say something about it would be to assert knowledge regarding it and therefore to attempt to subject it to a regime of mechanism, prediction, and control. That's why it's horribly wrong (in the current view) to classify people or to attribute significant qualities to them. Any attempt to do so is an attempt to enslave them.
Instead, each of us becomes equally an unknowable being transcending all reality about whom nothing can be said and whose will has a validity to which no limits can be assigned. But then science stops being the supreme standard. PC becomes the supreme standard. Each of us becomes a god, absolute and unknowable. If that conflicts with science, so much the worse for science, and that is where we are today.
The moral: science is a wonderful thing, but it's a specialized part of more general human practices of knowledge, and when it tries to be the whole you get big problems.
Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:54pm — Gabe Ruth (not verified)
The science fundamentalists
The science fundamentalists are trying to kill human agency, so maybe there is something to the scientism -> PC assertion.
However, I can't see an internal problem with a SF remaining agnostic about the claims of PC, given the current state of knowledge. Basically, not saying anything because we don't know anything (yet, they say, if they're honest). But an honest SF must be an empiricist, so he rejects limitation on classification because there is a fact here which must be explained, horrible or not. If he values his career he'll toe the line or bury his research in unparsed analysis, but that isn't scientism leading to PC, it's PC triumphing over scientism as you say yourself.
Perhaps you mean that PC becomes a necessity once scientism is ascendant? This would be accurate, as otherwise you get eugenics, Logan's Run, and Peter Singer running the show.
Just finished your essay on Emerson, who I have struggled with. Thank you for that. Illuminating and comprehensive, it was very helpful in wrapping my head around a slippery thinker.
Fri, 07/22/2011 - 5:03pm — James Kalb
The basic thought is that
The basic thought is that scientific fundamentalism is an account of reason, knowledge, and knowable reality that for its adherents is equivalent to reason itself.
Science doesn't tell us enough to live by though. That especially applies in the case of morals. That's a problem for scientific fundamentalists, because people can't view their actions as simply random or arbitrary. They can't help but think that on the whole they make sense and are rational.
For that reason a scientific fundamentalist is going to have moral principles that he claims are rational but obviously aren't. He'll adopt them on grossly insufficient grounds (e.g. "equality" looks like a minimal assumption so he'll base them on equality), and he'll refuse to discuss them and get angry if they're questioned.
The entry is an attempt to explore how all that works out in one notorious instance.
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Robert & Michelle King Team With 'LBJ' Writer For Cable Biopic Of Pornographer Al Goldstein
Michelle and Robert King continue the expansion of their King Size Productions with the first project that will not be written by the duo, creators of CBS series The Good Wife and upcoming Braindead. In a competitive situation, the CBS TV Studios-based King Size Prods. has landed Screwed For Life, a cable movie pitch from LBJ writer Joey Hartstone. It tells the story Al Goldstein, the controversial, acerbic, over-the-top founder of Screw magazine and host of his own long-running cable access show Midnight Blue.
Goldstein was the face of porn in 1970s New York with his Screw weekly tabloid, which featured in-depth reviews of porn movies, shows and books, news and features on all things sex as well as scathing editorials, often taking on politicians. A man with huge appetites for all of life's indulgences, Goldstein — who was married five times and claimed to have had thousands of sexual partners — was also committed to telling the truth and wasn't afraid to take on anyone who wronged him, from the barista who got his coffee order wrong to J. Edgar Hoover. (Screw ran an article titled "Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?")
The brash Goldstein was arrested 19 times on obscenity charges and was involved in a number of First Amendment lawsuits. Like most publishers in the genre, Goldstein was hit hard by the proliferation of online porn, with his company going bankrupt in 2004. He spent the final years of his life broke and in a nursing home, dying in 2013 at age 77.
"Al Goldstein was an outrageous, larger-than-life character who changed history while changing porn, and no one writes that kind of dynamic, bombastic character better than Joey Hartstone," said Robert and Michelle King.
The Kings moved on to build their King Size Prods. banner into a full-fledged production company under a new overall deal with CBS Studios they inked last September. The duo made the first major step in April with the hire of Castle Rock Entertainment president Liz Glotzer, who will executive produce Screwed For Life, now in internal development, with the Kings. The first King Size project from an outside writer dovetails with Glotzer's feature background as it a TV movie from a feature writer.
Hartstone's first feature, LBJ, whose script landed on the 2014 Black List, just wrapped production with Rob Reiner directing, Woody Harrelson playing Lyndon Johnson and a supporting cast that includes Richard Jenkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bill Pullman. Hartstone, who also has been teaching screenwriting at UCLA, is repped by CAA and Grandview.
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Pokemon Sword and Shield Ice Stone Guide
Wanting to make sure that you're primed to evolve your team? Our Pokemon Sword and Shield Ice Stone guide should be helpful.
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by Ginny Woo
So, you're trying to evolve an ice prince or princess in Pokemon Sword and Shield? We don't blame you. Honestly, we're trying to pick up some extra Types to flesh out our teams in advance of the Isle of Armor DLC dropping in June 2020. While we're busy prepping here, and picking up Ice Pokemon for ourselves, check out our Pokemon Sword and Shield Ice Stone guide to do that for yourself. Be independent!
So, you're looking for an Ice Stone in Pokemon Sword, huh? Easy enough to find. You might need one because you're wanting to follow along with your Pokedex and to evolve one of the following critters that are in your party:
Galarian Darumaka
Obviously, your Eevee is going to turn into a Glaceon, but your Galarian Darumaka is going to turn into a Galarian Darmanitan if you use the Ice Stone. For both Pokemon, this is the only way that they can be evolved, so if you want to finish your Pokedex then you're going to absolutely have to get one. If you don't already have a Darumaka you can found one on Route 10 and Route 8, and if you don't have an Eevee yet then you can probably get one on Route 4. There are a couple of ways to get your hands on an Ice Stone, and we're going to go through them below.
The easiest way to get your mitts on an Ice Stone is probably to actually pick up the one on Route 9. However, to do so, you're going to need to have your Rotom bike upgraded to cross bodies of water. Once your bike is upgraded, you're going to want to head due north from where the bike NPC is, before popping right into the body of water and following the path carved in the ice. You'll hit a Pokeball which will contain the Ice Stone, and voila! Otherwise, you can obtain it the way you obtain other evolutionary stones - by lottery when you pay the Digging Duo in the Wild Area off to dig something up (which can randomly be an Ice Stone), or by heading to the Stonehenge in the Wild Area which houses a whole bunch of stones that respawn once you've cleared them out. Again both of those methods are just chances.
Now that you've hopefully found a Pokemon Sword and Shield Ice Stone with our help, and you've been able to use it to evolve the Ice Pokemon of your choice, you should be able to flesh your team out a little more. We definitely recommend that you pick this up as early as you can so that you can benefit from a well-rounded team as soon as possible. Need help with anything else in Pokemon Sword and Shield? Check out these tips and tricks that we've compiled for Trainers just like you in our dedicated guides hub for the game:
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Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (CSOD) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
CSOD earnings call for the period ending June 30, 2019.
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSOD)
Aug. 05, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to Cornerstone OnDemand's Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
And now I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Jason Gold, Cornerstone's Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development. Please go ahead, sir.
Jason Gold -- Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Cornerstone OnDemand's Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Call. The format of today's call will be similar to last quarter. Since we published a shareholder letter with a lot of information about our Q2 results and our updated outlook, Adam's and Brian's prepared remarks today will be relatively short, which should give us plenty of time for Q&A.
In the letter, we've also outlined our Investor Relations calendar for the quarter, including when we plan to enter our quiet period, so if you'd like to participate in any of our scheduled events please feel free to reach out. Our press release and shareholder letter were both furnished with the SEC in a Form 8-K. You can access the shareholder letter, press release and related investor materials, including detailed financials, on our Investor Relations website.
As a reminder, today's call is being recorded, and a replay will be made available following the conclusion of the call. Our discussion will include forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to statements regarding the expected performance of our business, our future financial and operating performance including our GAAP and non-GAAP guidance, strategy, long-term growth and overall future prospects.
Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions as well as other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our forward-looking statements are included in our most recent 10-Q and 10-K as well as subsequent periodic filings with the SEC.
During the call, we will be referring to both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. All financial figures discussed today are non-GAAP unless we state that the measure is a GAAP number. Reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP information is provided in our shareholder letter and in the press release.
With that as a backdrop, I'd like to turn the call over to Adam.
Adam Miller -- Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Jason, and thanks to everyone who joined us today. Q2 marked the best second quarter we've had in the Company's history. And when looking at the first half of the year overall, we feel good about our position, and we are raising our financial outlook accordingly. I remain incredibly proud of our team for what they've accomplished and how they have thrived through this transition, which they've done while simultaneously increasing the size of our competitive moat.
To that point on competitive positioning, we talked about this a little on the last quarter's call, and again on the Analyst Day we had a Convergence in June, but it's so core to the fundamental story of Cornerstone that I think it's worth repeating. The combination of our Learning Suite and our emerging content offering is starting to create a flywheel effect which we believe will distance us from our traditional competitors.
One of our greatest assets is a scale we've developed over the years. Over the past 12 months, we've had over 550 million online course registrations on our platform. Think about that amount of data and what it provides, particularly since the related user data and content metadata flows through our system. We know which of those courses are the most popular, not only overall, but also by geography, by industry and by job function. It provides us with an extremely valuable repository of anonymized data, and when matched up with the data we have from our Performance Suite, we have the ability to serve this relevant content that drives employee engagement, reduces turnover and improves productivity. These are the things that all our clients want.
With the skills divide making news almost every week, the need for companies to rescale and upscale their workforces has never been greater. Think about how prevalent things like AI, machine learning and cloud computing have become in today's world, and then compare that to the number of workers that possess the requisite skills in these areas and you'll soon realize how the skills divide is becoming a burning issue for companies all around the globe. Our solutions actively address this issue. And now when we walk into a sales meeting and we are asked to present our vision, these clients see that we not only have the right products and strategy, but we're the only company that's properly positioned to execute on that strategy by leveraging our scale, our distribution and our data while simultaneously providing content subscriptions globally.
As we pointed out last quarter, we think that having a compelling content offering will act as a propellant for our overall business. It's the injection of this content into our massive install base and the scale that brings that is enabling us to tell a story to our clients that is truly differentiating and helping us win. This strategy drove strong performances around the globe and across our product suites.
During the second quarter, we had some notable wins at organizations like the US Postal Service, CB Richard Ellis and Lockton. Our US commercial sales team had a particularly strong Q2, and our strategic accounts team closed the first multimillion-dollar deal of our proprietary content subscription, Cornerstone Content Anytime. The feedback we received at Convergence, our annual client conference in June, made me feel even better about our strategic positioning and the opportunity that sits before us as a leader in both learning and talent management. Because of that and our performance in the first half of this year, I am even more enthusiastic about our business today than I've been. The onus is really on us to deliver, while the road may not always be linear, and we'll surely encounter some minor bumps along the way, our strategy is clear, and I'm really excited about it.
Before I turn things over to Brian, I want to comment about our philosophy and our plan to achieve the Rule of 40 in 2020. We believe our ability to continue driving operational efficiency while simultaneously capitalizing on our growth opportunities is the foundation for creating long-term shareholder value. Over the last several months, we have discussed our aspiration to achieve the Rule of 40 next year in 2020. We no longer consider this goal an aspiration, it is now our expectation. Although things may change along the way, today, we see a clear path and are feeling increasingly confident about our ability to achieve the Rule of 40, which in 2020 will have an unlevered free cash flow margin be a somewhat stronger contributor to this metric than constant currency subscription revenue growth.
In the shareholder letter we published earlier today, we detailed some of the operational efficiency initiatives that are driving our margin expansion over the next 18 months. Our team has really stepped up and found ways to become more efficient in almost every corner of our business. There's always more that we can do, but I believe we have an excellent plan in place, and I'm confident in our ability to deliver on that plan.
I'll now turn the call over to Brian to provide a few comments on our financials.
Brian Swartz -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Adam, and good afternoon, everyone. Since we've provided a very thorough overview of the quarter and our updated guidance in the shareholder letter, I am going to keep my comments brief. As you can see, we had a strong second quarter, and we feel good about our performance. Accordingly, we chose to raise our full year financial guidance on all metrics; ARR, revenue, profit and cash flow.
A few key financial highlights. In Q2, subscription revenue was $133 million, representing 16% year-over-year growth or 17% on a constant-currency basis. This constant-currency year-over-year growth rate was better than the midpoint of our Q2 guidance by about 130 basis points. Operating income was nearly $17 million, representing an approximate 12% operating margin or an improvement of 175 basis points over the prior year. There were a few timing-related expense items that fell into Q2 that we budgeted to come in, in the second half of the year. Since they are timing-related, they won't occur in the second half. Additionally, we have raised our full year constant currency or currency-neutral operating income guidance at the midpoint by $1.2 million. This amount is adversely impacted by $700,000 in currency headwind for a net increase of $500,000.
Regarding our cash flow guidance for the second half, we expect a more back-end-loaded year than we had in 2018, so 2019 will be more in line with our historical trends. Please note that we expect higher capex in Q3 of this year, which will further exacerbate the comparison to 2018's linearity. While these quarterly variations create the optics of a back-end-loaded year, we are confident in our ability to meet these forecasts.
Regarding currency impacts on our guidance, you'll notice in our shareholder letter that in keeping with our practice over the last few quarters, we have disaggregated our updated financial guidance into changes that result from movements in currency from changes which are operational in nature. As you can see, changes in the spot rate, most notably the British pound, have moved considerably from where they were when we initially gave guidance about six months ago. It's also worth pointing out that we have provided new FX sensitivity disclosures so you have a better understanding of the magnitude of currency changes depending on whether the transactions are tied to the British pound or the euro.
Finally, in the spirit of full transparency, I'd also like to point out that R&D expenses declined by a few million dollars sequentially, which is atypical for our business. While there were some operational items that drove this, namely costs associated with transitioning our tech stack into the public cloud, which could result in some quarter-to-quarter variability on a prospective basis. We also chose to more appropriately classify an immaterial dollar amount into cost of revenue that was previously classified in R&D. Obviously, this has no impact on our operating income or cash flow.
Like Adam, I am very proud of the team for what we've accomplished in Q2, and I am excited about what lies ahead. Although we still have a lot of the year left in front of us, the first half has been our strongest on record, and I feel good about the strength of our team and the opportunity ahead.
With that, we will now take your questions.
Certainly [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Chris Merwin from Goldman Sachs. Your question, please.
Kevin Kumar -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Hi. This is Kevin Kumar on for Chris. Thanks for taking my questions. For federal, you mentioned US Postal Service was one of the deals. It sounds like it was a relatively large deal. Can you talk about the federal pipeline more broadly and how's that looking for Q3?
Yes. We're feeling good about our federal business. We've had very good momentum over the last couple of years in federal, and that continues through today. So we're feeling good about our relationships with our existing clients and the growth opportunities there as well as the new business opportunities we're seeing as well. We already have seen good opportunities in Q3, and we'll continue to see that going into the future.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Raimo Lenschow from Barclays. Your question, please.
Mike -- Barclays -- Analyst
Hey, this is Mike [Phonetic] on for Raimo. Just had a quick question on the partner relationships that you guys are working through. It seems like you -- I saw on the shareholder letter you were talking about the best practices evaluation of the partner operating model. Could you go into a little bit more detail on that and what's going on in that end?
Sure. So what we did is we brought in some help from the outside and analyzed our entire structure in operating with our partner ecosystem. So everything from how we organize our alliances team to how we interact with our partners, to how we deal with things like service delivery, advisory work, delivery assurance, quality control, partner audit, certification, partner enablement, all of which we have been doing, but we had to make guesses back 18 months ago when we first moved to this new services model, where our partners did the vast majority of the service work.
And so 18 months later, we feel good about the partners that we have in place. We feel good about the work they have done. We feel good about the relationships we've established, and we really want to drive efficiency in our model, particularly the back-office components there, and that's exactly what we did. So we did the study over a close to six-month period and reviewed the results of that study and made some changes which result in real efficiency in the business.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Murphy from JP Morgan. Your question, please.
Mark Murphy -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
Yeah. Thank you. You mentioned that you had the best second quarter for new sales in the Company's history. And I just wanted to clarify, Brian, is that a reference to the new subscription bookings? And if so, did you consider listing the constant currency ARR or subscription revenue guidance by 1 bp more than you are for the year? Or was it -- is it a case where that -- kind of that strength was apparent in the pipeline and you had sort of seen this developing coming into Q2?
Well, so, Mark, I hope I understand your question. I mean, first of all, the reference to the best quarter is measured basically on new ARR, new ACV basis, right? It's bookings -- new bookings in the quarter, and it was the best first half in the Company's history. So that's what we mean by that from a pure metric perspective. In terms of how that flows through to our guidance, be it last quarter or this quarter. We obviously take that into account and flow it through in subscriptions. There's other things that impact that as well, whether it's currency rates, it's renewal rates and otherwise, but all of that has reflected in whatever guidance we give at any point in time. Obviously, the guidance we have today reflects all of that performance.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Nandan Amladi from Guggenheim. Your question, please.
Nandan Amladi -- Guggenheim -- Analyst
Yeah. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. So with the big push on the content side now in your sales efforts, how much emphasis are you continuing to place on recruiting and your expanding talent management suite?
So these are both very important parts of our business, whether we're talking about sales of our performance suite, which still remain extremely strong; the Recruiting Suite, which we're seeing very good opportunity for and continue to see pipeline growth for; or Cornerstone HR, they are all important components of how we go-to-market. Content, obviously, is the big incremental upside to all of that, and so that's why we've been calling out content specifically. But today, if you look at our software business, about half of our business is the Learning Suite and about half are the other talent management components. And that's remained true and will be true into the future. Content is incremental to all of the software.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Scott Berg from Needham. Your question, please.
Scott Berg -- Needham -- Analyst
Hi, Adam and Brian, thanks for taking my questions and congrats on a good quarter. I guess my question, Adam, is around that first multimillion-dollar Content Anywhere [Phonetic] transaction that you discussed. Is there anything that's unique about that deal outside of maybe just the sheer number of seats that were a part of that to drive this level of spend?
Yeah. It was actually a combination both of the size of the account and the fact that they bought multiple subscriptions. So as you know, Content Anytime now is five separate subscription offerings, everything from professional skills and digital fluency, to sales and customer relationships in modern compliance. And we have, in that particular case, seen the purchase of multiple Content Anytime subscriptions, which increases the size of the deal, obviously. So we're feeling good about the Content Anytime business specifically and the content business generally, and it's just another proof point of our progress.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Corey Greendale from First Analysis. Your question, please.
Corey Greendale -- First Analysis -- Analyst
Hi. Good afternoon and thanks for taking my question. Actually, I'm going to try to sneak in a two-part. First, on the enhanced -- or the continued guidance on the Rule of 40, I just want to make sure that when you say you expect more of the contribution to come from free cash flow margin than subscription revenue growth that, that is intended to be consistent with what you communicated at the Investor Day.
And the second part of my question is just on the content as you are sort of getting traction there. If you could just elaborate a bit.? Talking to some content partners or potential content partners, one of the questions I hear is about data you're sharing back with the content partners. And as you're getting data, are you now or is there a potential to share data or the metadata with your partners in a way that can help them improve their content? Or is it really -- is that not the idea and idea is just to pick -- find the best combinations?
Yeah. Corey, it's Brian. I'll take part one and then I'll hand over part two to Adam. So to answer your question on the Rule of 40, it is consistent. We have consistently said that we expect to achieve the Rule of 40 in a balanced way. We are feeling more confident now. As you can see in the shareholder letter we published today, we laid out a variety of kind of operational levers for us to get there. We spent a lot of time over the course of the last quarter really fine-tuning the operational plans and the cost based plan to enable us to achieve the Rule of 40 given our current ARR guide for this year. So that's roughly mid-teens, as you can see, give or take maybe a little bit higher. We are basically planning on being able to achieve the targets that we talked about next year through bottom-line free cash flow or unlevered free cash flow performance.
Obviously, we're continuing to strive for higher revenue and subscription revenue growth, and we believe the market opportunity is very strong, as we talked about on the call, particularly with content next year and in the coming years. But we are feeling even more confident now than we did at our Analyst Day.
And with regard to the data around content, we are going to be sharing that with our content partners. Part of the benefit of working with Cornerstone is going to be a suite of tools that we're providing for the content providers to help them optimize their individual businesses as well as obviously support Cornerstone's overall content business. So the data has been put into a system that allows us to visualize the data both for internal consumption as well as to provide the content partners with their own provider portal to manage that data and leverage that data for improving their own business.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Brad Sills from Bank of America. Your question, please.
Brad Sills -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Oh! Great. Hey, guys, thanks for taking my question. Just wanted to ask about content again, just on any use cases or domains that you've seen some success in. Any themes here that are emerging as to use cases or domains?
Actually, it is very broad, or horizontal is probably the best way to talk about it. Virtually every business, every organization -- it's not limited to companies or corporations, but any organization needs to train its people. And those people typically need to be trained in a variety of areas, depending on what particular job they have. So some content is functionally specific, other content is based on the level of the employee. Obviously, entry-level employees don't need management or leadership development. By the same token, senior employees don't need some of the basic time management or professional skills that entry-level employees need, because hopefully they already have it. And our content offerings allow for all of that disparate subject matter.
And that's one of the things that's compelling about Content Anytime is that you're able to handle the breadth of content required by an organization irrespective of your size and irrespective of your geography. So downmarket, Content Anytime is compelling because you don't have the people internally that are able to do that kind of work for you to do the curation, build the content, to enter into these agreements or even optimize how the employee learning paths are operating.
By the same token, upmarket, you have a different level of complexity, being a multinational, having lots of employees at different levels of skill, different functional requirements, different potentially industry requirements, combined with just breadth of subject matter which makes curation more difficult.
So our Content Anytime offering works both downward and upmarket. We've seen that clearly now, the price points vary depending on if you're upmarket or downmarket. Obviously, large enterprises have lower prices per seat than small companies do. And the ASPs vary for each sale predominantly because big clients have big volumes. And even if the price per seat is lower, the total volume is going to be a lot higher, so those deals tend to be bigger or like this multimillion-dollar deal we just had.
By contrast, you'll have deals downmarket that are much smaller, low volume but high price points per seat. And there are also very nice opportunities for us, albeit not multimillion-dollar deals. So we think we have a very interesting offering that's quite compelling to many, many different kinds of clients and is quite accretive for us overall.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Rishi Jaluria from D.A. Davidson. Your question, please.
Hannah Rudoff -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Hi, guys. This is Hannah on for Rishi. Thank you for taking my question today. On the last call, Adam, I believe you mentioned that there's still room for improvement with regards to returns on marketing spend and positioning in the market. With Heidi, you've recently hired as the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, what would you say are her three top priorities in the near term?
Great question. I would say number one is branding, so establishing our positioning in the market, assuring that we have consistent messaging and that we're positioning things properly vis-a-vis both the competition, but also based on market demand, product market fit and where we see the most opportunity. So that's number one.
Number two, I would say is blocking and tackling, ensuring that our marketing team globally is operating as a single global organization. We see a lot of room for efficiency by operating some functions more centrally, others more decentrally or locally, and that makes us more efficient in our spend overall.
And the third is related to our analyst relationships. So not the financial analyst community but the industry analysts and influencer community which has a major impact on demand-generation and our ability to compete effectively. And that's something where Heidi has an enormous advantage, having been in the space for over two decades and having personal relationships with many of these analysts and influencers. So I would say that's Top 3. The list is longer than three, but those are the Top 3.
And then I'll answer more broadly. While we have had tremendous success in improving sales productivity over the last 18 months, we are by no means finished, and we think there's opportunity to continue to drive sales productivity and cost efficiencies throughout sales and marketing, making us more efficient as a business overall in driving incremental margin improvement.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Pat Walravens from JMP Securities. Your question, please.
Pat Walravens -- JMP Securities -- Analyst
Oh! Great. Thank you and congratulations. So Adam, it's interesting to me that last week, Pluralsight, which has sort of a technology skills focus for learning, had pretty disappointing results, and yet your Content Anywhere is so strong. I hope you can help us figure out why that might be?
So I am not going to comment on Pluralsight. Obviously, very good company, good business. They've done many things extremely well. What I will say is that their offering is very specific. So they are very focused on development and engineering, whereas Content Anytime, as I mentioned earlier, is a very broad offering. So it's applicable to any group of people, any business, any organization, any size and any geography. And so that gives us a very horizontal opportunity that allows us to sell into different markets at different times and different geographies at different times and gives us much better portfolio diversification for that business, which I think is one of the keys to our success. It also allows us to leverage our scale. The fact that we are large and have global distribution, allows us to have that kind of offering.
But we're not seeing anything concerning in content at all, and I think again part of that has to do with the breadth of our offering and the fact that we're able to sell through the global distribution we've already established into any market segment anywhere in the world. Like we're still bullish on content, generally.
Thank you. Our next question is a follow up from the line of Chris Merwin from Goldman Sachs. Your question, please.
Chris Merwin -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Okay. Great. Thanks very much for having us back on. Just wanted to ask about, I think in the shareholder letter, you called it out as having its best first half ever. We've heard other companies so far this running cycle talking about pressure there. So just curious if it is really strong execution, if you did see any lull in demand at all. That is obviously a great first half, so just curious if you could speak to the climate there?
Yeah. So obviously, Brexit is top of mind for everybody in Europe and all throughout EMEA. We were severely impacted by Brexit last time around, and so we wanted to make sure we didn't repeat that mistake. We are much better diversified throughout Europe and throughout EMEA generally. We have much lower concentration risk in any single market. We are better set up from an accounting and currency perspective, all of which makes us more confident about the opportunity in Europe.
We're also not seeing any slowdown in any particular market or geography, and we're not seeing any headwinds at this time. That's not to say if there's a hard Brexit that there won't be any impact. I imagine there could be collateral damage, but we are not seeing anything at this time. We feel very good about that business. We have a strong pipeline in EMEA, and obviously an excellent first half of the year.
Thank you. And this does conclude the question and answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to Adam Miller, CEO, for any further remarks.
Thank you all for your questions and for your participation on today's call. As always, I want to especially thank our global team for the great work they have done as Cornerstone continues its drive to rescale the global workforce for the future. Thank you for attending.
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Deputy Sheriff Frank Mullen
Coahoma County Sheriff's Office, Mississippi
End of Watch Wednesday, March 18, 1914
Reflections for Deputy Sheriff Frank Mullen
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