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It\'s all rather amusing really
The squeals of indignation as the politicians meet reality.
Compounding the trauma, Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister turned IMF chief – and one of the few key players who appeared to be enjoying herself in her new headmistress-like role – issued a grim warning to her former European peers.
The IMF would no longer be willing to pick up a third of the total bill for rescuing Greece, a contribution worth €73 billion, unless European banks were prepared to write off 50 per cent of Greek debt.
\"It was grim. The worst mood I have ever seen, a complete mess,\" said one eurozone finance minister.
There just isn\'t any way out of a Greek default and yes that does mean that banks who hold Greek paper are going to have to take a loss.
And one of the reasons this is all getting so dangerous is that it\'s taken the politicians 18 months to recognise this reality.
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The Pedant-General October 23, 2011 at 10:42 am
"unless European banks were prepared to write off 50 per cent of Greek debt."
If they haven't already, the directors really do need to be jailed. Now.
Roger Thornhill October 23, 2011 at 11:13 am
Why the (or just) the directors?
Remember, the Greek govt was not , how can one say it?, full, frank and transparent over the amount of debt they had?
If anyone is to be at the head of the queue for imprisonment, it should be those who borrowed, not those who lent.
So Much For Subtlety October 23, 2011 at 11:50 am
I think what is interesting there is the dime that Christine Lagarde has turned on. A few short weeks ago, she was one of the piggies squealing so loudly. Now she is the one twisting their curly little tails.
Something has happened. I assume she is briefed by her own Sherpas. But what do they know that her former Sherpas now briefing the French government do not? She has been captured by the interests of her new job so fast? I guess a certain moral and intellectual flexibility was always a priority for politicians. As well as a vacuum as far as actual belief goes. It is rare to see it so brutally displayed.
Ian B October 23, 2011 at 6:44 pm
The interesting thing for me about this whole crisis is that it has become inescapably apparent that all but an error-margin prpoportion of politicians and nearly as many people in the banking industry do not understand the theory of money, or banking, or economics in general. It is like watching public health officials trying to deal with a plague, who do not know the germ theory and believe in astrological causes. Quite fascinating, and very frightening as well.
It seems to me that the problem is that a vast amount has been written on economics, and it is very complicated and mind-boggling, such that most people give up believeing they can ever really understand it, even bankers and public officials and economists, but virtually all of that which has been written is simply wrong and can be ignored, and really it's all rather simple.
As another analogy, it is like the trillions of words of theological theory and debate and discourse. It is all very complicated and you could spend a lifetime trying to grasp it all. But it's all actually wrong; there are no gods. You can throw away all of theology.
These people don't know what they are doing. They don't understand money, and they don't understand the banking system they themselves operate. That is why they cannot begin to find a way out of the current disaster. As I said, both fascinating and frightening.
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Happened @ the Tour de France today, and C. Moreau lost 3 minutes. Ever happen to you in a race or group ride on a windy day on a flat course? Pcad has been on the short end of that stick. And always my own fault for not paying attention to some idiot 3 wheels up from me allowing a 5' gap to open on a windy day. That becomes 10', then 20' and by the time this fool notices it it's 30 yards, the front group has droped the hamer and you're in the second group. Very frustrating. I can't imagine how crazy this must drive them in the Tour, particularly a Frenchman in the top 10 in the G.C. Oooofaaaa.
Pcad has not only read every page of the Book of Getting Shelled, he wrote half of it. And in that pathetic way I feel I have something in common with some Tour riders.
pcad, ' = minutes. " = seconds.
It's happened to me. I went OTB then got pulled.
TT's bd. You can't get pulled in a TT.
But who do you blame then for leaving the gap?
i was able to finish with the lead group, but there was a flat as a pancake race in lynchburg, OH this year that saw massive drops due to crosswinds. it was rainy/sleety with a 20+ mph wind that seemed to come from every direction. of the 41 guys in the race, only 17 finished in the lead bunch (with one guy pulling out a solo last lap ftw). going into the wind on the front stretch also made for an interesting sprint.
side note: it is even more frustrating when the person that causes the little gap is a junior that is 4 feet tall and has as much power as a tadpole. you not only have to try to cover the gap, but you are barely in a draft when you are behind the little guy.
You blame your lack of a Powertap. Then you come home, post 3 hand-wringing BF threads about it, then you go and buy one. It's a process that inevitably leads to more bike schwag. Which of course is the ultimate OCP goal.
When does the second power tap (SRM) thread begin?
Ah, but it has begun my hapless weenie, it has begun.
I've learned this lesson the hard way. Repeatedly.
Yes. Brutal race. I spent some time hammering on the front bringing back a break and in the process toasted two of my teammates. That was not in the plan. There was seriously no place to hide in that race.
BD - ' = feet, then ' = feet again.
Inattention my @$$. Vinokourov and Astana atacked when Moreau was getting his rear end looked at by the doctor. The people in the back eased up when a top rider was getting medical attention. And why was that?
Vino was paying back Moreau. Unfortunately, they made a lot of enemies yesterday. Whether anyone will do anything about it, who knows? But that really does not help Kloden. Not at all.
I'm pretty sure Astana would not attack a rival, while being doctored. Nonetheless, their tactic has been used many times in the past and can work wonders if the crosswind is strong enough and long enough.
Anybody remember when Rabobank hit the front one year in Paris Nice (1997?) and the only one left after a few kilometers was VDB just barely onto 6 Rabo's in TTT fashion. Riders scrambling for wheels. Desperate to form 2nd, 3rd, 4th echelons. That is racing.
Check out Gent Wevelgem every year. That race is famous for it's numerous echelon pictures.
yes yes, let's all pick on the Asian and his quick-to-judge personality.
I had not heard that RW, thanks for the insight. This Tour gets warmer and fuzzier every day.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED! that Vino would attack an opponent under such circumstances.
They reported his doctor visit was over, he was just riding at the back.
And the peleton gassing it when Vino crashed, abeit more serverly, was fair? It wasn't only Astana taking pulls at the front.
Regardless of anything else, Vino & Astana were @ the front of that friggin ride HAMMERING for hours. Whatever gaps they opened up were hard earned through an incredible team effort.
They're all single file when you get gapped and dropped.
But one lap later, when you're watching from the sidewalk, they're all bunched up and freewheelin' and talkin' and drinkin'.
Payback for every time I see them slowly(or often not-so-slowly) pull away from me on hill climbs. Unfortunately, power on the flats is usually pretty boring and doesn't seem to get me very far.
On a fast training ride with around 30 guys, the group slowed a bit so I decided to remove my vest. Just as I got one arm out the attacks began. By the time I got my vest off I was 200m off the back fighting a head wind trying to get back on with the group. It sucked because I could just see them in front of me slowly opening up the gap. It took my 10 miles and one really hard climb to finally get there but I managed to do it.
Something similar happened to me once, but by the time I caught them I was so gassed I couldn't stay with the group.


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The Environmental Scientist-in-Residence Program will leverage NOAA's scientific assets and personnel by combining them with the creativity and educational knowledge of the pioneer hands-on science center. To do this, the program will embed NOAA scientists in a public education laboratory at the Exploratorium. Working closely with youth Explainers, exhibit developers, and Web and interactive media producers at the Exploratorium, NOAA scientists will share instruments, data, and their professional expertise with a variety of public audiences inside the museum and on the Web.
The Environmental Scientist-in-Residence Program will leverage NOAA's scientific assets and personnel by combining them with the creativity and educational knowledge of the pioneer hands-on science center. To do this, the program will embed NOAA scientists in a public education laboratory at the Exploratorium. Working closely with youth Explainers, exhibit developers, and Web and interactive media producers at the Exploratorium, NOAA scientists will share instruments, data, and their professional expertise with a variety of public audiences inside the museum and on the Web. At the same time the scientists will gain valuable skills in informal science communication and education. Through cutting-edge iPad displays, screen-based visualizations, data-enriched maps and sensor displays, and innovative interactions with visitors on the museum floor, this learning laboratory will enable NOAA scientists and Exploratorium staff to investigate new hands-on techniques for engaging the public in NOAA's environmental research and monitoring efforts.
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In 1856, the combined forces of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala beat back U.S.-backed filibuster William Walker's attacks from Nicaragua.
"History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes." This aphorism, attributed to the great U.S. humorist and anti-imperialist Mark Twain, implies that to understand the rhymes of history, one must understand the original stanzas.
This series of articles argues that a winning strategy to definitively defeat imperialism in Central America is to be found in the history of the region's anti-imperialist and revolutionary-democratic movements. Both their successes and defeats provide important lessons for today.
The first article in this series examined the failures of the revolutionary liberal bourgeoisie, represented by Francisco Morazán Quesada, to fulfill their program of creating a Federal Republic of Centroamerica, composed of the five former provinces of the Spanish colonial General Captaincy of Guatemala: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In coming articles, we will look at some revolutionary processes in the 20th century.
Walker, a Nashville lawyer, doctor and journalist, was not poor, but he was a leader of those poor whites who indeed had a thirst for action. A polymath who had graduated as a lawyer and a doctor by the age of 20, Walker's own "thirst for adventure" was not harmless for his adversaries, nor did it tame his unbridled ambition, an ambition forged in the ideology of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and tempered by the raw politics of the United States.
In the spring of 1851, Walker and his followers set out to expand the territory of the slave states by conquering Baja California Sur, which was then, as it is now, part of Mexico. After seizing a few lightly defended towns and declaring the Republic of Sonora, Walker was chased out by the Mexican military. Walker then returned to New Orleans, where he had previously owned a newspaper.
Just as it is today, North American imperialism was the continuation of domestic policy by foreign means. The overarching U.S. political framework of the time was the constant encroachment and expansion of slavery into territories that were originally free states. From the Missouri Compromise to the Dred Scott decision, the slaveholding bourgeoisie of the southern United States steadily guided the domestic policy of successive governments to tip the relationship of forces in its favor. The actions of Walker and his freebooting allies, called filibusters, should be understood in this light.
In 1855, Walker had another opportunity to pursue his quest to fulfill this Manifest Destiny (3) of expanding the slave territories. This time it was in Central America. Through his contacts in New Orleans, the commercial bourgeoisie of the Nicaraguan city of León asked Walker to help defeat their adversaries. Grouped in the Liberal Party, Walker's contacts in León were fighting a continuous civil war with the agrarian interests and clerical reaction headquartered in the old Spanish colonial city of Granada.
Backed by slaveholders and planters, Walker arrived with several hundred followers looking for adventure and fortune. They captured Granada, and within a year, Walker had managed to conduct a military campaign throughout the country that strengthened his position. He eventually ran a bogus election and became president of Nicaragua.
One of his first acts was to rescind the law outlawing slavery and to make English an official language. In this he had the support of U.S. President Franklin Pierce, a Democrat who saw the anti-slavery abolitionists, not the proslavery secessionists, as the greatest threat to national unity.
This project was owned by the railway tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, (4) who had secured the concession to build it. Walker made a fatal mistake by seizing two steamboats owned by Vanderbilt, abrogating his concession rights and turning the project over to Vanderbilt's two local agents who had helped him seize the steamboats.
This increase in Nicaraguan military activities alarmed the country's Central American neighbors, none more so than the president of Costa Rica, Juan Rafael Mora Porras (5), an exemplary representative of the dominant commercial bourgeoisie centered in San José, and his brother José Joaquín, a career officer in the small but skillful Costa Rican army. As Walker's forces encroached on what the Costa Ricans saw as their territory, Porras Mora declared war on Walker's Nicaragua. He summoned the Costa Rican people to arms, and thousands of mostly workers and small landholders answered his call.
Mora Porras assembled a force of 3,000 soldiers and reservists from Costa Rica, aided by a contingent of Salvadorans who had fought with the armies of Francisco Morazán Quesada. He marched from San José to Liberia, where he was joined by a column headed by General José Cañas.
Walker made his move in March 1856, marching 300 troops out of the garrison at Rivas to begin the occupation of northern Costa Rica. He stopped his advance at the hacienda of Santa Rosa to rest. This ranch in the northwest extremity of Costa Rica has a hill that commands a view east to the fumaroles of the Tilaran Mountains, and north across the plains of Guanacaste. This hill has played a strategic role in three major battles in the history of Central America and Costa Rica, but none as important as the battle that took place in the early morning of March 20, 1856.
In a surprise attack at 4 a.m., which caught Walker's invading force totally off guard, 700 Costa Ricans stormed the Carsona, the Big House, where the filibusters were resting, and in less than 20 minutes they overran the post, killing 19 and capturing 27. A mistake by an outpost guard, however, allowed the remaining filibusters to escape and return to their garrison at Rivas.
Nonetheless, it was the first defeat of the filibusters on Central American soil, and the first in a string of military defeats to come. It represented a defeat for the policies of the Pierce government, which had recognized the Walker regime as the legitimate government of Nicaragua. It was also a defeat for the U.S. slavocracy.
Heeding Mora Porras' warning, Honduras and El Salvador dispatched troops who, together with reinforcements from Costa Rica under the command of Cañas, attacked the filibusters in Rivas, inflicting many casualties. After this battle, made famous in the legend of the drummer boy Juan Santamaría, the combined armies of the three countries, later joined by troops from Guatemala, prosecuted the war as the United Army of Central America (UACA).
Walker, seeing his position deteriorating, appealed to the southern slaveholders for help. They responded with supplies and more poor white adventurers from the parishes around Louisiana. Meanwhile, however, the Pierce government had come under pressure from both the government of Costa Rica and Cornelius Vanderbilt (whose steamboats Walker had expropriated). Pierce rescinded his recognition of Walker's government.
The UACA pressed its advantage through the campaign of 1856-57 and ultimately forced Walker to surrender on May 1, 1857. Thanks to the efforts of both the Costa Rican government and Commodore Vanderbilt, he was allowed to surrender to the United States Navy. He was extradited back to New York, where he was treated as a hero in anti-abolitionist and pro-imperialist circles.
Before surrendering, Walker revealed the true face of imperialist savagery. In December 1856 the city of Granada, the oldest and one of the most beautiful Spanish colonial cities in Central America, was surrounded by 4,000 UACA troops. Realizing the hopelessness of his position, Walker's general ordered his troops to raze the city as an example of, as he put it, "the tough nature of American justice." When the UACA entered the city after the filibusters had withdrawn, all that was left was a stone painted with the words "Aqui Fue Granada"—Here Was Granada.
Similarly, after the filibusters definitively lost control of Rivas, they filled all the wells with corpses, which precipitated a cholera epidemic that ultimately killed 10,000 people, nearly 10% of Costa Rica's population.
What lessons can we learn today from this little-known and obscure war? After all, haven't the form and content of imperialism changed in the past 160-odd years?
The basic lessons of Walker's defeat are as relevant today as they were the day Walker met his end against a wall in Trujillo.Both Mora Porras and Walker were executed by firing squads, after attempting comebacks. Walker was captured in Honduras by the British in 1860 and handed over to the Honduran government. Mora Porras was deposed in a coup in 1859 by his arch enemy, and representative of the agrarian bourgeoisie centered in the former capital city of Cartago, José María Montealegre Fernández. Assembling a small force at the city of Puntarenas, he took the city but was defeated a few days later at the Battle of La Angostura. He was summarily tried and shot. His brother-in-law, General José Cañas, was executed the next day. His brother, José Joaquin, escaped.
The working people of Centroamerica are anti-imperialist to their bones, thanks to the long history of U.S. meddling in the region. Today, they face oligarchic governments propped up by imperialism, like the Juan Orlando Hernández regime in Honduras and Jimmy Morales' death squad regime in Guatemala. In El Salvador they face daily violence, and in Nicaragua, crushing poverty.
When Mora Porras called the people of Costa Rica to arms, over 10% of the country's population responded (in Mexico today, such a response would build an army of 13 million).
History suggests that a thoroughgoing anti-imperialist politics can mobilize the regional masses in struggle for a program of national and social liberation. Subsequent events, which will be analyzed in the next article of this series, have borne this out—not the least of which were the massive demonstrations against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in Costa Rica.
The key to the victory over the filibusters was a united armed response by the political forces in the region, nominally both Liberal (Mora Porras) and Conservative (Rafael Carrera from Guatemala).
This lesson is one that the imperialists learned well. As we stated in Part 1 of this series, the ability of North American imperialism to keep the revolutionary struggles divided on a national basis has been their main strategic focus since the regional war waged by Francisco Morazan, and the fight against Walker was to be the last time a united Centroamerican military force went to war against imperialism. We shall return to this thesis in the following articles of this series.
The defeat of the imperialists in Central America requires the same united response. It will not come from the bourgeoisie of this region, for they have long ago sold themselves to an imperialism in which they are deeply entwined. Rather, it will come from the leadership of the working class and its allies in the rural workforce and the urban barrios with insurgent women and youth, as we saw in Guatemala in 2015 and in Honduras in 2017.
Just as the bourgeoisie constructed their international organization, the United Army of Central America, to assemble the forces necessary to conduct their anti-imperialist struggle, so too must the workers, the poor and the oppressed of Our America construct their international organization. With such an organization, they will be able to coordinate and combine their respective national struggles into one regional insurrection, one that will leave the horror of imperialism and its national allies moldering, like the bones of William Walker, in a Central American grave.
2. A long list of primary and secondary sources about Walker is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster).
3. The doctrine of Manifest Destiny, with its quasi-religious overtones, was first enunciated in the United States Democratic Review in 1839. It was, and is, the central ideological construct of U.S. imperialism, encompassing the notion of "American exceptionalism." The term was coined in the same journal in 1845 by John O'Sullivan, who explained that because the system of U.S. government was unlike any other that had come before, the role of the United States was to link its destiny with the future.
It is a thoroughly racist idea, implying that the white, European settler populations had a unique, God-given role to occupy the whole North American continent and build "the shining city on the hill," a phrase derived from the biblical prophecies of St. John the Divine in the Book of Revelation. Its similarities with Zionism allow the evangelical Christian right to see themselves as Christian Zionists.
4. For the battle between Vanderbilt and Walker (representatives of an ascendant industrial bourgeoisie and a declining agrarian slavocracy, respectively), see https://news.vanderbilt.edu/archived-news/register/articles/index-id=6686.html.
5. For more on Mora Porras, see https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rafael_Mora_Porras.
6. Quoted in Juan Rafael Quesada, "La guerra contra los filibusteros y la nacionalidad costarricense," Revista Estudios, no. 20, 2007, Universidad de Costa Rica.


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Federal Funding Notes from Canadian Magazines Town Hall Meeting
Date: 14th July 2021
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Canadian magazines town hall meeting about the $31.5 million in additional funding for the industry on Thursday, 8 July, 2021. An overview of the meeting is below. If you have specific questions about your ATP top-up, or applying for recovery funding, please reach out to CPF program staff or your program officer directly.
Aid to Publishers Stream Top Up – Canada Periodical Fund
Individual titles that receive Aid to Publishers support will receive a 13% top-up on your 2021-22 contribution amount. This is part of the stream entitled, Recovery Fund Stream 2, Investing in the Recovery. You will receive this top-up in the form of a supplementary payment / cheque issued to each title you publish that receives an ATP contribution. The total budget allocated to this is $10 million.
You can expect the money to be deposited in your bank account (if you have direct deposit set up for this) within the first 15 days of August 2021.
Please monitor your email—especially if you are going to be on vacation between now and mid-August—because you will receive an email from the CPF asking you to formally accept the additional funding. You need to respond to this email and accept the funding in order to receive the funding. If you receive ATP for more than one title, you will receive an email for each title and you will need to accept the additional funding for each title. It's not automatic. The email(s) will be sent to the email address the CPF has on file for your ATP application. If this is not you, please alert the person on your team whose email is linked to your ATP application(s) and be sure they check their email regularly, including their spam folder.
Titles that received ATP support for the first time in 2021-22 will receive the 13% top-up.
Special Measures for Journalism Renewal – Canada Periodical Fund
Formally part of the stream entitled, Recovery Fund Stream 1, Reinforcing Recovery Foundations, this is a renewal of the Special Measures for Journalism (SMJ) fund for digital, small-circulation titles and magazines that distribute free. The SMJ was part of the federal government's emergency support measures introduced last year during the early days of the pandemic. Essentially, this is financial support for any and all magazines who are currently not eligible for Aid to Publishers. The total budget allocated to this is $21.5 million.
Even if you didn't apply for the SMJ fund last year, you may still be eligible to apply this year.
The application process SMJ will be similar to the process last year – you will apply via an online portal.
Non-request titles will not be required to have a circulation audit done in order to be eligible.
The magazine needs to have been publishing for 12 months.
The amount of money a title receives will be based on eligible editorial expenditures in your last completed fiscal year.
Magazines need to have at least 80% Canadian content (content written by Canadians, not content about Canada).
Ethnocultural magazines are required to have 50% Canadian content.
Shareholder or owner dividends and non-editorial staff wages are ineligible. But it's otherwise flexible and includes expenses for part- and full-time employees and contractors: editors, writers, translators, proofreaders, photographers, designers, journalists, illustrators and videographers.
Funding is on a per-title basis. If you publish more than one title, you'll need to fill an application for each magazine
The amount of money an individual title receives will be capped at $150,000. There will also be a minimum funded per title amount of $1,500.
The application guidelines currently being finalized.
Key dates to put in your calendar:
Third week of September: Application guidelines will be published.
End of September: Portal will be open to accept applications.
End of October (or four weeks after the portal is open to accept applications): Deadline to apply.
End of November: Successful applicants will receive funds.
Eligible Expenses – Special Measures for Journalism
The SMJ will cover the same eligible editorial expenses as the ATP. Research and audio tech personnel working on the production of podcasts are both eligible expenses.
Below you will find a list curated by Magazines Canada that includes all the eligible editorial expenses, as well as some other key definitions that were discussed at the town hall. You can also find this list online in the Glossary of the ATP application guidelines for print magazines.
It is not feasible to list every category of expense on the form, and it may not be obvious in which category certain expenses should be included. CPF program staff can help you with this. This is the easiest and best way for you to ensure that all of your eligible expenses are correctly captured on the application form.
The application guidelines for the SMJ will include direct email and phone contact information for CPF program staff, rather than a general email and phone number.
If Canada Council designates additional money in this fiscal year for literary magazines, then those titles will be ineligible to apply through this fund, otherwise literary magazines may be eligible to apply through SMJ. More info to come.
We will send an email to AMPA members when the guidelines are released and the portal is open.
Canada Council for the Arts – Additional Funds
The Canada Council is receiving $25 million in 2021-22 under the Reopening Fund stream and $50 million in 2022-23 under the Recovery Fund Stream 2. Magazines Canada has reached out to the Council to ask how much of this money will be allocated to art and literary magazines who receive core funding support from the Council. Magazines Canada will advocate for an appropriate amount of these funds to be allocated to Canada Council-core-supported members, so that magazine publishers receive their fair share. The Council has indicated that more details about the allocation of the funds will be forthcoming this fall.
For those of you who are interested, you can read the Council's new strategic plan, as well as its "What We Heard" report on the stakeholder engagement process they undertook as they developed the plan.
Key Definitions related to CPF ATP and SMJ Funding and Definitions of Eligible Editorial Expenses
Canadian Editorial Content
Editorial content (text and photographs, graphics and illustrations) created or translated by a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident of Canada within the meaning of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or a participant to a federal or provincial program that provides work experiences or internships to individuals. Translated editorial content by a citizen or a permanent resident of Canada within the meaning of this Act will be considered Canadian editorial content if the editorial content is translated into one of the two official languages. Translation does not modify the nature of the editorial content.
The space in a periodical, excluding advertising and non-revenue pages, which consists of original text, images, photographs, graphics and illustrations.
Editorial Expenditures
Salaries/costs related to the generation of editorial pages and the activities leading to the production of Canadian editorial content, (for both print and digital content), these include:
Editor(s) – The person(s) responsible for implementing the editorial policy and is responsible for the editorial content of the publication.
Writer(s) – A person who composes thoughts and presents information in literary forms as their occupation or profession.
Translator(s) – An employee or third party services whose specific job requires changing words in written form for one language into a different language.
Translated editorial content see "Canadian Editorial Content"
Proofreader(s) – The function of reading text after typesetting but before printing. A proofreader compares the compositor's typeset pages to the original manuscript.
Photographer(s) – The function of producing photographs as stand-alone stories or associated with a theme or story for the purpose of publication in a print or digital publication.
Publisher – a person that prepares and issues journals, magazines and community newspapers in traditional and digital formats for sale to the public which can include their own work and from other authors'.
Designer(s) – Costs associated with creative selection of graphic elements and correlating the selected text and graphics into a visually pleasing page format ready for production.
Illustrator(s) – A paid person that creates a conceptualizes drawing from the theme of the copy and designs images consistent with the style or format of the publication.
Videographer(s) – The function of producing videos for publication on an associated digital platform or a digital only magazine or digital only community newspaper.
Research – The systematic approach to studying materials and to ascertain details from sources in order to determine facts and/or reach conclusions.
Journalist(s) – A paid employee who researches and/or investigates events and produces articles which include facts, descriptions or events explanations of interest to the reader.
Canadian content rights purchased – Costs associated with the acquisition of Canadian editorial materials from a Canadian or permanent residents who are not salaried employees.
Freelance editorial work – Costs associated to a Canadian or permanent resident that are not employed by the publishing firm but provide editorial services to the publication.
Third party financial accounting – Accounting services provided by a company or individual who does not have a direct connection with the legal transactions of the business which involves recording, reporting, and analyzing financial transactions of the business.
Considered a valid editorial expenditure only for services specific to the Financial verification requirements detailed in the guidelines
Circulation audit report – See "Circulation report" definition.
Ethnocultural periodical
A periodical that primarily serves or is primarily concerned with a commonly recognized specific cultural or racially distinct community or specific linguistic group using other than Canada's official languages.
An eligible ethnocultural periodical may be published in any language.
Refers to the publishing firm's twelve-month financial year that ends on a date within the period of April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021.
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English Club Members in Rwanda Discuss Women's History Month
Approximately twenty young Rwandans attended the Information Resource Center's English Club session hosted by English Language Fellow Leah Jordano-Kudalis. In honor of Women's History Month, club members learned about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai while developing their English language vocabulary, reading, viewing, and discussion skills through interactive exercises.
The session began with participants responding to a short animated film clip in which Maathai tells an inspirational parable. Later on in the session, they held group discussions about various gender issues, such as the impact education has on women in respect to both their professional and personal lives. The Fellow remarked that "it was inspiring to hear so many young Rwandans, especially young men, think critically about gender balance and what that actually means for their communities."
Fellow Eileen Finn Connects with Indian Culture through Art
Based in New Delhi, India, a bustling capital city where cows often wander shanty-lined streets, English Language Fellow Eileen Finn teaches at Ambedkar University. Discover Finn's life as a Fellow as she attends traditional Indian art classes and develops English language capacity as an English for Academic Purposes instructor and teacher trainer.
Fellow Katrina Schmidt Shares Stories of Training English Teachers in Mexico
Based in Tijuana, Mexico, one of the most visited border cities across the globe, English Language Fellow Katrina Schmidt trains English teachers. More than 50 million people cross the border between California and Mexico every year through Tijuana. Follow Schmidt's fellowship journey as she increases English teaching capacity and mutual understanding in a growing international…
Fellow Integrates Health, Wellness, and Happiness into English Language Teaching Across Togo
Based in Kara, Togo, English Language Fellow Howard Johnson has become a celebrated member of his community by sharing the benefits of health, wellness, and happiness through his interactive English language teaching methods. Read more to learn how Johnson has increased English language capacity and built meaningful relationships by connecting with people through the cultural…


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Fiction Immersion
AHMM, America, Barrons, Carus Publishing, Far East Economic Review, Newsday, WSJ
A pair of illustrations to accompany a story about a flooded farm and the rescue of a trapped calf for Cricket magazine was the big highlight of the latter half of a rather slow November. I had a lot of fun working on this pair of illustrations, as I got a chance to draw what for me has always been a very challenging animal, the horse.
I'm not real familiar with horses, from a structural or familiarity standpoint, and they always require a lot of research and planning on my end whenever an assignment requires their portrayal. (another 'horse' assignment is to the right, that also came through around this time, this one a small rush job for the Wall Street Journal) The illustration above would be the opening splash illustration, and the one below would be a smaller spot further into the text on the 3rd page of the story.
And another fiction illustration for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, this one had to do with a murder investigation that involved a poisoning by rather obscure art materials, so my solution was a rather detailed and elaborate still life of an artists worktable.
Besides the two 'fiction' assignments, I also had the usual 'health care' column gig for the Journal that comes along every two weeks. This one on cholesterol screenings. And over the weekend, during this time, I also had a pair of portraits for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.
My memory isn't real good regarding the subject matter of these two portraits. I think one of them was the female ruler of the Philippines President Arroyo (the sinking boat was something to do with keeping the market afloat perhaps?) (right), and I don't quite remember who the other one portrait was of (pictured further below the 'dove' picture)
The 'dove on a sword' illustration above was for America magazine, that concerned the middle east peace process, if memory serves. I really liked how this one turned out, the white dove made a nice contrast with the dark blood encrusted sword, and some subtle blood splashes across the illustration kept it from becoming too static.
For a while now, I've been getting a series of assignments from time to time from Newsday whenever someone newsworthy passes on. This latest one was a personal essay about someone who considered the late Ed Bradley a good mentor, and rather than the usual straight on head shot portrait, I submitted a sketch of a view from behind of the 'mentor relationship', with only a hint of Mr. Bradley's features as one of my concepts. This ended up being the one that was chosen by the AD. Not really sure I'd categorize it as a 'portrait', however it seemed to suit the article well.
And, finally, I had a pair of illustrations for Barrons. The first one was a rather strangely shaped illo that showed a small figure hauling a house up from the edge of a cliff (not pictured, as it doesn't fit the page well, leaving a lot of white space around it, and not a particularly interesting illustration at that), and the other one regarded the wealthy taking advantage of tax breaks for making donations of personal effects. The AD wanted to make sure we understood how 'wealthy' the main character looked, so I sort of took a Thurston Howell the Third approach with the smoking jacket and ascot.
November 18, 2006 May 2, 2018 Tim
Investment Client
For a period of about 5-6 years, I did a great deal of work for the investment firm AG Edwards, mostly for a quarterly investors newsletter, but also for several in-house advertising projects. When I originally contracted for this work, our agreement was for a 5 year unlimited usage, but since the company is actually no longer in business, I think it might be safe to post some of this work.
Anyhow, these are the illustrations I did for this company in 2006. Most of the work this year tended to feature the 'nest egg' concept, which was their current 'corporate image' in all their media ads. After a while, the 'egg theme' got to be a little constricting.
November 12, 2006 May 19, 2018 Tim
Hornet's Nest
ChronicleHE, Newsday, WSJ
In early November, I received a cover assignment from the Chronicle of Higher Education, with an accompanying inside illustration on a rather controversial topic (which I didn't realize was going to be so controversial at the time). The story was about Jewish Universities, and how certain guest speakers who held public opinions that were deemed anti-Israel were finding their speaking engagements cancelled at these venues. I was surprised to find myself the subject of a number of angry letters to the publication after this pair of illustrations appeared in print. The surprising thing was that the angry letters didn't seem to be so much directed at the writer of the article, but at the art that accompanied it. To be perfectly honest, it rattled me quite a bit. I didn't think that the art was any more inflamatory than the article, but it seemed to touch a rawer nerve for some reason. I guess what they say is true, a picture really is worth a thousand words. I became a little worried about my future prospects from this client, who I had been working for since the early 90s, but they were very nice about it, and I continued to receive steady work from them. This is really the first time in 18 years of working in this business that I've been involved in a situation like this, and it was a bit eye opening about the power of the image in some people's eyes. The cover illustration appears above, and the inside illustration appears below.
Aside from the inflamatory message, and speaking only for the art, I was rather pleased with this pair of images. I liked the color scheme, for once (I often am disappointed with my efforts at large color images), and I was really happy with how the hair on the woman in the foreground turned out. Thanks to my wife, Terri for posing for the women in the picture, and I used myself for the men in the picture (changing features of course, since we needed a nice racial mix). As for the inside illustration. It seemed to not quite fit with the image on the cover (other than the 'gag' theme), I probably should have tried a little harder to tie the two together. But it seems to stand on its own fairly well.
Not much else came across the desk in early November. I had another 'dubious health care' column spot for the Wall Street Journal, this one on 'alcohol's benefits to pregnancy'. One of my more 'goofy' concepts for this regular feature, that I was surprised that the editors chose.
I also had a rather uninteresting same day assignment for Newsday. This one was more heavily art directed than most, where they provided the idea of what they wanted, and I was in the position of just 'putting it to paper' as they say. I found a way to make it interesting for myself, playing around with the curtains and the shading on the map.
November 2, 2006 May 24, 2018 Tim


Freedom and Flourishing: What if people want governments to regulate them?
This post has arisen from a brief exchange with Scott Sumner about paternalism on his blog, The Money Illusion. Scott's post expressed views relating to the current Cato Unbound seminar on libertarian paternalism.
'I've seen polls that show most people think there should be a law requiring the wearing of seat belts. Indeed I find people I meet usually favor all sorts of restrictions on freedom. On the other hand most people do value a certain amount of freedom for non-utilitarian reasons. So this might help prevent excessive regulation from developing'.
When I read that my initial thought was that Scott was certainly right about seat belts. I have used seat belt regulation as an example when I had written previously (here) about people wanting governments to impose paternalistic regulations to help them cope with their self-control problems. My bottom line was that if people have self-control problems they should seek help from family and friends or professionals, rather than seeking government regulation. I still think that if people want a nanny to regulate their behaviour they should consider hiring one rather than expecting taxpayers to provide one for them.
However, I am having second thoughts about whether people support seat belt regulation because they think they need a nanny to help regulate their own behaviour. When I see roadside signs telling motorists that the police are currently targeting compliance with seat belt regulation I feel amazed that police apparently think that prevention of potential self-harm should have priority over offences that involve a threat to the lives and property of other people. How would supporters of the regulation react to those signs? According to the nanny theory they would see the signs as a reminder to wear their seat belts. But I don't think many supporters of seat belt regulation would need reminding. Surveys suggest that these days a very high proportion of people in Australia wear a seat belt whenever they are in a car. I suspect that a lot of supporters of seat belt regulation might feel a warm inner glow as they drive past the signs threatening police enforcement because they hope that these signs will influence the behaviour of loved ones whom they consider to be more foolish than themselves.
Perhaps a significant proportion of supporters of seat belt regulation initially supported it to help them to develop the habit of wearing a seat belt. After they developed the habit, however, they probably joined the ranks of the paternalists who support the regulation to influence the behaviour of others. One way or another the regulation seems to have been widely viewed in Australia as a cost-effective way to help people to develop a good habit that might save their lives if they are involved in an accident.
What implications does this example have for the view (which I supported in a recent post) that individual rights are metanormative principles? One point that should be made is that even when there is widespread support for regulation such as this there are likely to be some people who have reason to see it as an interference with their lives. For example, a relative of mine sees the seat belt regulation as unwarranted interference because she has a strong conviction that God will protect her if she is involved in an accident, provided she demonstrates her faith by not wearing a seat belt. Some might scoff, but I can assure readers that this person is of sound mind and has thought deeply about the matter – she can provide examples of people who would have been more seriously injured or killed if they had put their faith in seat belts rather than in God. In my view her rights and those of others with reasoned objections to wearing seat belts should be respected, even if the vast majority of the population see the regulation as beneficial. If libertarian paternalism enables objectors to obtain exemption from such regulation then it is consistent with giving primacy to individual rights and is therefore consistent with the view that rights are metanormative principles.
This does not make me a strong supporter of libertarian paternalism. I think we should be wary of encouraging people to depend more heavily on choice architects within government to nudge them toward better decisions. I will probably write more about that later.


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Q: Stop Daemon not terminating child java process following setup
Start-Stop-Daemon:
do_start
start-stop-daemon -S -m -p $PIDFILE --name myapp --exec /opt/myapp

do_stop
start-stop-daemon -K -R TERM/30/KILL/5 -p $PIDFILE --name myapp

the script I start looks like that:
 java -jar ./myapp.jar

so when I start my daemon everything is working fine, PIDFILE is generated.
ps aux | grep myapp gives me 2 outputs, one for the daemon and one for the java, as child. If I do want to stop it, only the daemon is stopped the java process keeps running detached from console.
How do I need to change my daemon/script to also term the java application when I stop the daemon?

A: The reason why this does not work is that you are really just stopping /opt/myapp which when being killed does not automatically kill its children (the java process). Either do that in your script manually (which is tricky) or have the start-stop-daemon start java directly. It should then loook like this
start-stop-daemon -S -m -p $PIDFILE --name myapp --exec java -- -jar ./myapp.jar

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We offer Botox treatments from our clinic in Glasgow.
Botox injections are a type of wrinkle reduction treatment which has revolutionised our approach to facial ageing, particularly in the upper face. The treatment works by injecting tiny amounts of botulinum toxin into specific muscles in the face which causes the muscles to relax, and reduces the appearance of the overlying wrinkles.
Contrary to popular belief, Botox does not paralyse muscles but rather it relaxes them.
The art of injecting Botox lies in altering the delicate balance between the muscles of facial expression. These muscles can broadly be divided into two main groups: those which lift the face up and those which pull the face down. The goal of using Botox is to weaken the muscles which pull the face down, enhancing the effect of the muscles which lift the face up.
The frown lines are one of the most commonly treated areas using Botox.
The muscles which we use to frown also depress the brow and so by relaxing them, and preventing that effect, we can simultaneously lift the brow making the eye look more open and awake. Contrary to popular belief, this type of wrinkle reduction treatment does not paralyse muscles but rather relax them.
Frown Line Reduction. Before / After.
Forehead Line Reduction. Before and After Botox Results.
When we get into the 50s however, and when the muscles around the eye become very hyper-expressive, the options are two fold: increasing the dose of Botox used, which can sometimes look unnatural, or combine the toxin with some filler around the eye. Filler around the eye not only helps to make the result look more natural, but it can also help to extend the length of time between Botox treatments.
The depressor anguli ori (or DAO for short) is a muscle which goes from the corner of the mouth down towards the jaw.
When it contracts, it pulls the corners of the mouth downward and so relaxing it with Botox has the opposite effect – to elevate the corner of the mouth. This can be quite a difficult effect to achieve and is best suited to younger patients.
The superficial muscle of the neck, the platysma, usually contracts to pull the neck and lower face downwards.
Treating the neck can help to relax these thick bands, as well as relieve the negative pull on the lower face and neck. Again, this is not a treatment which is suitable for everyone and is best suited to younger patients who have a thin neck.
When the muscle movement begins to increase, there is often a lag period of another month or so before the lines and wrinkles begin to re-appear. It is when the lines and wrinkles begin to re-appear that you should think about having further treatment.
In the first year of a Botox treatment program you will most likely find that you need to have the treatment done approximately 3 times (i.e. not much longer than 4 months per treatment). In the long term however, you should aim to have the treatment no more than twice per year, allowing muscle recovery in between treatments to minimise long term muscle atrophy.
In the very long term, after you have been having treatment for a number of years, you may find you only need to have the treatment carried out once per year.
Treatment of the upper face is, usually, an almost pain free procedure. The needles used are very small and with good technique it is almost always possible to avoid causing bruising.
The most common side effect from filler injections are headaches. These can affect up to 1 in 10 people. For most people it settles down within a day or two, however in some people it can take up to a couple of weeks and I have seen one or two patients who have found the headaches lasted the whole three month duration of the treatment. For most people however the headaches are very mild, self limiting and it is unusual to require any type of pain killer for them.
Complications from this treatment can occur by the toxin spreading to near by muscles that were not intended to be targeted by the treatment. In the upper face this can cause temporary drooping of the eyelid or eyebrow. Because this usually happens as a result of a small amount of toxin spreading to the wrong area, rather than a direct injection into the wrong area, it tends to wear of quite quickly – usually within a couple of weeks. In the lower face and neck, it is possible for the toxin to diffuse into muscles which help to move the mouth resulting in a lop sided smile. Rarely, toxin treatment in the neck can affect speech and ability to swallow.


Global warming will raise temperatures year round, but the biggest changes will come in the dog days of summer, according to a recent report which predicts that the hottest days will get even hotter, and that there will be more of them.
This news is only one part of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, released last month, but it is asserted with some of the strongest rhetoric.
The IPCC authors say it's "virtually certain" that the hottest days and nights of the year will be warmer in the coming century.
Overall, the average surface temperature is predicted to rise almost four degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. But IPCC models from 2001 predict that the overall increase will be punctuated by more frequent extremely hot days.
"It's not just the average temperature that matters to people," said Rob Jackson, director of Duke University's National Institute for Climate Change Research. According to Jackson, these extremely hot days pose an enormous risk, since more people die annually from them than any other natural climate source, including strong storms like tornadoes.
There's already plenty of evidence that summer heat waves can kill thousands. In 2003, Europe experienced a very severe heat wave, and an estimated 30,000 people died due to heat exposure. In August of that year, the United Kingdom topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time since the country began keeping records in the eighteenth century.
"We don't like to attribute particular weather events to global warming," Jackson said. "But the heat wave in Europe had to be related to global warming." A 2004 study published in Nature confirmed that global warming had indeed contributed to this extreme heat wave in Europe.
According to Jackson, these hot days will also lead to more days with air pollution risks, since very warm temperatures spur the chemical reactions that turn pollutants into ozone smog. The most dangerous ozone levels typically occur on the hottest days of the summer.
But humans aren't the only ones to be affected by these extremely hot days. Even though plant species have adaptive mechanisms that allow them to adjust to temperature changes, the newfound intensity might confuse the plants' internal mechanisms and cause damage if the plants aren't able to adapt quickly enough, according to atmospheric scientist Kevin Gurney of Purdue University's Climate Change Research Center.
Certain ecologists, such as Susan Capalbo, of Montana State University's, believe that there are some plant and crop species that will be able to adapt to more high-heat days and that adaptation could be observed within the next ten years.
She said warmer temperatures and moisture in the air will allow crops like wheat and soy to grow faster and bigger in some parts of the world, but that extreme heat may make it more difficult to grow some crops in the tropics, the place where many of the world's poorest people live.
Since a future with more extremely hot days is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC, Duke University's Jackson said he believes that political leaders will increasingly need to think about what steps they can take to reduce the health consequences. Providing air conditioning to the people who are at greatest risk of heat stroke, or at least making sure they have access to cooler temperatures, will soon become a priority, he said. The problem, of course, is that the electricity that powers air conditioners is often provided by burning the fossil fuels that add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and contribute to more warming.
Worlds of Possibility: A look at the emissions scenarios climate scientists use to predict the future.
A New Twist on Tree Rings: Scientists turn to tree rings to learn more about our climate's history.


The debtor's vehicle is an easily identifiable and often easy asset to take control of. Because of this and the large volumes of Penalty Charge Notices issued by the typical local authority the vehicle can often become the sole focus of the Enforcement Agents attention with little or no effort directed towards those cases where the vehicle cannot be found or is not worth seizing due to its age and condition.
Because Confero Enforcement Agents all have regular and extensive experience in recovering other debts such as Council Tax they are skilled at gaining entry to the debtor's premises. Whilst we are fully equipped with wheel clamps and tow trucks we regard the presence of a vehicle that can be taken into control as an added bonus and put as much effort into recovering penalties in those cases where no vehicle can be found as we do into the cases where it can.
An unusual aspect of our service that significantly increases productivity is the use of Enforcement Agents on motor scooters. With minimal delays due to traffic conditions unprecedented call rates are achieved and, with vans and tow trucks operating in close proximity, the full range of options available to the Enforcement Agent, remain open.


Rosin-core solder combines a metal alloy with a pitch-like organic compound; together, the substances melt easily and adhere well to copper and other metals, creating a strong bond that conducts electricity. In particular, rosin-core solder is used extensively in building electronic circuits, connecting wires and components together cleanly and permanently.
Rosin-core solder consists of a metal tube that surrounds a thin core of rosin. Traditionally, the metal is an alloy consisting of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead; in recent years, efforts to eliminate lead from consumer products have resulted in solders that use bismuth and other metals. Solder is available as a "wire" wrapped on a spool; this form makes it is easy to use for both hobbyists and professional technicians. It is also sold in bar form for high-volume soldering operations.
When you apply heat to solder, the metal and rosin melt together. The solder and rosin flow onto an electrical connection -- typically, copper wires twisted together. The rosin helps the solder flow onto the metal and bond with it. The solder cools after a few seconds, forming a solid, conductive joint. Because some of the rosin evaporates, soldering in a well-ventilated room is highly recommended. Always, but especially when you are finished handling traditional tin-lead solder, wash your hands thoroughly to remove traces of lead.
Electronics Club: What is Solder?


BPM is a large regional tax, assurance and advisory CPA firm with six California offices, one in Oregon and offshore offices in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. Wanting bold change to reflect the energy and drive of both its clients and professionals, BPM hired a branding agency, Kaizen Creative Partnership, and Content Pilot to design and launch its brand and new website.
BPM professionals are clear about the origin of their success – it is directly linked to their clients' successes. They provide world-class service and develop not just satisfied, but loyal clients for life. BPM has been serving California's most high profile and important industries for many years – real estate, agribusiness, financial services, technology, wine and craft beverage – and more.


In September and October the Brownies went to Leatherhead to practice for a very special Gang Show to raise money for Faurefold in Westcott, where we go for a stay overnight and have fun activities. We had to practice to make sure we were loud and clear for the big day at Dorking Halls on 2nd November. We had 2 shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. There were lots of Brownies and Guides from the local groups and they all had a song or act to do. We sang 'Brownie Queen!' It is a version of Abba's 'Dancing Queen' and even our leaders dressed up and joined in and looked like they were really enjoying it! Our final song was 'Reach for the stars' which everyone joined in and sang along With. We enjoyed it so much and all had a great day -it was AMAZING!


The Chinese character for Yosh means "fragrant." Yosh Han began her perfuming career in 1994, when she walked into a boutique in Aspen, CO with hundreds of bottles on the wall and knew she was onto something. Over her two-year apprenticeship as a perfumer, Yosh learned to identify and combine the healing essential oils and sensuous perfume essences in each of those bottles. Today Yosh uses these elixirs in her own modern practice of ancient art of perfumery, creating signature scents that entice the senses, fascinate the mind, and enchant the soul.
What made you want to participate in this project? At first, I wasn't sure about the project because I'm such a control freak. The thought that I wouldn't be involved in how the next artist would interpret my fragrance made me a bit nervous. I was also anxious about the art work I was to receive and work from. When I thought about the energy of a chain reaction, I recognized that this exchange of creative force happens all the time – even when we think I am in control. When I surrendered to this idea, I knew that it would be a creative challenge as well as an emotional evolution. I thought this would be a great way for me to expand as an artist and person.
What was your first reaction to the image? (thoughts, emotions, memories, tastes, sounds etc?) Oh god. I really resisted it. I wasn't sure about the meaning. A million questions ran through my mind. Who is the artist? What were they thinking when they created this? What if I don't capture the meaning? It's confusing and not my aesthetic. What does this artwork smell like – is it earthy or is it galactic? Should it be complex or simple? Should I enhance one part of the image or the whole thing? When I just sat with the art work and put all these questions outside of me, I could begin to appreciate the artwork for what it was. When I relaxed into the energy of the artwork, I began to have a series of visions, inspirations and emotions. I found myself then going into the artwork and then going within myself. That's when I realized, I was part of the chain reaction.
What was this image about in your mind? What was the story? When I relaxed into the artwork, I could see the many layers – both in terms of the artwork but more so spiritually and emotionally. I saw the various elements of my own life. Some parts I resisted and some parts I found humor in. I could see duality of the tiny microcosm juxtaposed with the macrocosm of the Universe at large. I could see then that this image and my part in it was just a sliver.
What did you name your scent and why? I decided to call it Gateway. I hope my fragrance gives the viewer space to sink into the artwork with deeper resonance. I created the fragrance based on the energy of the artwork and the experience of going up and down a helix – much like the chakra system. When I completed the fragrance, I found that it enhanced my experience with the artwork on a deep cosmic but primal level – I felt the essence of humanity and the omnipotence of Spirit.
What part of the image informed you're interpretation the most (colors, shapes, spacing etc)? I thought the horizon between the bottom of the artwork and the top of the artwork was the most poignant – hence the name Gateway.
What part of your scent came to you first? I was fortunate to work with materials from a fellow perfumer, Christi Meshell, another perfumer whose work is being exhibited. It's not everyday that one gets invited to sit at another perfumer's organ. Much like a chef visiting and cooking in someone else's kitchen, it certainly stretched me as an artist. I don't usually work with all naturals but for this project, I did. I focused on the bottom of the artwork first – the bass notes. Then I moved up the scale and worked on the middle notes (the horizon in the artwork), then the top notes (the galaxy in the artwork). It seemed to also mesh with the chakras – going from the base of the spine, up the center of the body and then out the top of the head. It was a meditative experience for me.
What was your process? How did you take your original reaction to the image and turn it into this fragrance? Creating this Gateway fragrance was like a spiritual transformation. When I think about working through my original resistance and creating something truly beautiful, I felt it was a true chain reaction – an alchemical metamorphosis. In this way, I hope the person who experiences the fragrance and artwork will have their own awakening. Even if they recognize their aversion – that's something too. So often, we try to hide our distaste but often times, the thing we resist is the thing that has the most healing power.
How do you normally create? How was this experience different? Usually, I create something that is from within. Though when I create for a client, they usually have a specific idea in mind. This was a piece without commercial restrictions and that felt liberating. Though it was a bit difficult to try to imagine how the user will experience it, I felt relieve to be free of that responsibility.
What techniques/tools did you use to help you express you're interpretation? I was really happy to work Christi's materials. It freed me up to create something new because I was working with materials I don't normally work with. I could also speak to her about my emotional journey and that was really fantastic because usually I work in a void by myself. I also thought the visual stimulus was a unique experience. Usually, my artwork and branding for a new fragrance comes after I create the fragrance. In this case, the visual was created first. Are there certain choices you made which mean something specific to you that the observer might not know? The structure of the fragrance has much to do with the chakra system rather than a traditional perfume structure. I also created the fragrance to be an environmental fragrance rather than a personal fragrance. When people experience this fragrance, it will be around them rather than on their skin. It is much more subtle rather than in your face. You kind of have to lean into the fragrance just like releasing into the artwork. It's very much about loosing oneself to find oneself.
Extra credit: Did you enjoy this project? More you want to say about your experience? I did enjoy the project after all. When I have to stretch myself, I grow as a spirit. When that happens, there's a crack in consciousness – a gateway. You can't go back – it's magical.
When I first got the Collage a million questions ran through my mind. Who is the artist? What were they thinking whenthey created this? What if I don't capture the meaning? What does this artwork smell like? – Is it earthy or is it galactic? Should it be complex or simple? Should I enhance one part of the image or the whole thing? When I just sat with the artwork and put all these questions outside of me, I began to have a series of visions, inspirations and emotions. I found myself going into the artwork and then going within myself. I could see duality of the tiny microcosm juxtaposed with the macrocosm of the Universe at large. I could see then, that this image and my part in it was just a sliver.
I hope my fragrance gives the viewer space to sink into the artwork with deeper resonance. I created it based on the energy of the artwork and the experience of going up and down a helix – much like the chakra system. When I completed the fragrance, I found that it enhanced my experience with the artwork on a deep cosmic but primal level – I felt the essence of humanity and the omnipotence of Spirit. I focused on the bottom of the artwork first – the base notes. Then I moved up the scale and worked on the middle notes (the horizon in the artwork), then the top notes (the galaxy in the artwork). It seemed to also mesh with the chakras – going from the base of the spine, up the center of the body and then out the top of the head. It was a meditative experience for me.
I thought the horizon between the bottom of the artwork and the top of the artwork was the most poignant – hence the name Gateway. Creating this Gateway fragrance was a spiritual transformation. I hope the person who experiences the fragrance in tandem with the artwork will have their own awakening. Even if they recognize their aversion – that'ssomething too. So often, we try to hide our distaste but often times, the thing we resist is the thing that has the most healing power. The fragrance is very much about loosing oneself to find oneself.


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Wal-Mart's New Name: It's Not Just a Store Anymore
World's biggest retailer, with 11,700 stores, to shorten its legal name from Wal-Mart Stores to just Walmart Inc.
Customers shop at a Walmart store Skokie, Ill. Stores still account for more than 95% of the company's revenue.
Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Sarah Nassauer
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Updated Dec. 6, 2017 2:53 pm ET
Wal-Mart WMT -0.45% Stores Inc. is taking the stores out of Wal-Mart.
The retail behemoth with more than 11,700 locations around the world announced Wednesday that it will shorten its legal name to Walmart Inc. The move highlights the company's shift away from building traditional stores toward competing online with rival Amazon.com Inc.
"We felt it was best to have a name that was consistent with the idea that you can shop us however you like as a customer," said Wal-Mart Chief Executive Doug McMillon.
The grand opening of the first Wal-Mart store in Rogers, Ark., in 1962.
Photo: Wal-Mart Stores
Other big companies have changed names to signal a shift in strategy to customers or investors. Steve Jobs in 2007 decided to shorten Apple Computer Inc.'s name to Apple Inc. as it moved into phones and other devices. Google Inc. became Alphabet Inc. in 2015 as the company branched out into more businesses beyond search, like self-driving cars and robots.
Companies that are in the midst of change often struggle to "sit down with a group of investors and say, 'Forget everything you heard before, we are different now,'" said branding consultant Allen Adamson. "That is why some companies pursue a change."
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Sam Walton opened the first Walmart store in 1962 in Rogers, Ark., after opening several stores with other names including a Walton's 5 & 10. The name Walmart came from Bob Bogle, one of the first store managers, according to Mr. Walton's autobiography. The company incorporated in 1969 as Wal-Mart Inc., then became Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1970 when it went public.
Stores still account for more than 95% of its revenue, but in recent years the company has shifted away from opening hundreds of new stores to pouring funds into growing online and improving existing stores.
Last year, Wal-Mart purchased online retailer Jet.com for $3.3 billion to expand its e-commerce efforts. In the most recent quarter, sales rose the fastest in nearly a decade, boosted by accelerating online sales and more shoppers visiting stores.
To pay for the online strategy, executives said in October that the retailer would deepen cost-cutting and only open around two dozen U.S. stores next fiscal year, the lowest number in at least 25 years.
The corporate name change "is just a symbol of how customers are shopping us today and how they'll increasingly shop us in the future," Mr. McMillon wrote in a blog post. "Whether it's in our stores, on our sites, with our apps, by using their voice or whatever comes next."
The original Walmart store in Rogers, Ark., in a file photo from the 1970s.
The new legal name will take effect Feb. 1, the company said. It won't require a big investment to change logos. The cost is "not material," a spokesman said, since Wal-Mart has been using an unhyphenated version of its name on store fronts, shopping bags, carts and its advertising since 2008.
Many corporate name changes are spawned by acquisitions or reorganizations. The 2000 merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. gave the world Verizon Communications Inc. Just this year, Coach Inc. changed its name to Tapestry Inc. after buying rival Kate Spade & Co.
Others were the result of necessity. Limited Brands Inc. became L Brands Inc. in 2013 after founder and CEO Leslie Wexner sold off his original retail chain, The Limited. During the 1990s dot-com boom, companies like 1-800-Flowers Inc. appended ".com" to their nameplate. Though many raced to drop it after the 2000 bust.
The retail industry is undergoing another major shift—to e-commerce. How did we get here? Photo: Associated Press
A few name changes have been head scratchers. Kraft Foods Inc. raised eyebrows when it chose to name its global snacks business Mondelēz International Inc. in 2012.
Tribune Publishing Co. , whose newspapers include the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, received a similar critique when it changed its name to Tronc Inc. last year.
Though Wal-Mart's change is comparatively subtle, Mr. McMillon looked to head off one potential conflict. "While our new legal name removes the dash, we're not planning to change the Walmart cheer," he wrote in his blog post.
Wal-Mart employees in stores and corporate offices often begin meetings by shouting the spelling of Wal-Mart, including the "squiggly," the internal name for the hyphen in Wal-Mart.
"It's important to have some fun at work," he wrote, "so for our associates in countries where your cheer calls for the squiggly, keep doing it!"
Write to Sarah Nassauer at sarah.nassauer@wsj.com


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JOINT ECONOMIC FORECAST 2/2020 Recovery Loses Momentum—Economy and Politics Still Shaped by the Pandemic
The corona pandemic leaves substantial marks in the German economy and its impact is more persistent than assumed in spring. In their autumn report, the leading German economic research institutes have revised their economic outlook downwards by roughly one percentage point for both this and next year. They now expect gross domestic product to fall by 5.4 percent in 2020 (previously -4.2%) and to grow by 4.7 percent (5.8%) in 2021 and 2.7 percent in 2022.
The downgrade of the forecast follows a more pessimistic assessment of the recovery process. "Although a substantial part of the drop in output experienced in spring has already been recovered, the remaining catch-up process is the more difficult part of the return to normality," said Stefan Kooths, head of forecasting at the Kiel Institute.
The recovery is being held back by those sectors that are particularly dependent on social contacts, such as restaurants and tourism, the event business, and air traffic. "Activity in this part of the German economy will remain depressed for some time to come and will catch up with the rest of the economy only once measures to control the pandemic have largely been dropped, which we do not expect before next summer," said Kooths.
In addition, investment is slow to recover because many companies have seen their equity positions deteriorate as a result of the crisis. The recovery is being driven primarily by exports, which had contracted particularly sharply in the course of the crisis.
The pre-crisis level of output will not be reached until the end of 2021 with GDP then being still 2.5 percent below the level that would have prevailed without the pandemic. Normal capacity utilization is expected to be reached only by the end of 2022. Kooths: "The consequences of the crisis are by no means over once the slump has been made up for. Production capacities are expected to be about one percent lower than pre-crisis estimates over the medium term, although the longer-term damage of the crisis is particularly hard to assess, as is the impact of policy responses."
The corona crisis has also had a clear impact on the labor market. Despite massively falling back on short-time working schemes, an estimated 820,000 jobs were lost by mid-year. Since then, the number of people in employment has risen again slightly, but the pre-crisis level will not be reached until mid-2022. The unemployment rate is expected to rise to 5.9 percent this year and next year, and to fall slightly to 5.5 percent in 2022.
The economic stimulus packages, in conjunction with the automatic stabilizers, have helped to keep private disposable incomes relatively stable, even in the acute phase of the crisis. In return, the general government will incur a record high budget deficit of EUR 183 billion this year. In 2021 and 2022, deficits will remain substantial at 118 billion euros and 92 billion euros, respectively.
The most important risk to the forecast stems from the still uncertain course of the pandemic. The institutes assume that starting in spring next year, disease control measures can be rolled back to such an extent that they no longer have a significant impact on economic activity by autumn. The unclear extent of corporate insolvencies in Germany and abroad as a result of the crisis also contributes to forecast uncertainty. In addition, various trade conflicts remain a source of concern. A positive risk to the outlook is the sharp rise in private savings which, if released more quickly than assumed in the forecast, could translate itself into a quicker than anticipated recovery, particularly in the consumer-related sectors of the economy.
The Joint Economic Forecast was prepared by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the ifo Institute (Munich), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), and RWI (Essen).
Complete report (in German)
Joint Economic Forecast Project Group: Recovery Loses Momentum—Economy and Politics Still Shaped by the Pandemic, autumn 2020. Kiel 2020: http://gemeinschaftsdiagnose.de/category/gutachten/.
Mathias Rauck
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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About the Joint Economic Forecast
The Joint Economic Forecast is published twice a year on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The following institutes participated in the autumn report 2020:
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V. in cooperation with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
- Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
- RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna
Scientific contacts
Dr. Claus Michelsen
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
T +49 30 89789 458
CMichelsen@diw.de
Professor Dr. Timo Wollmershäuser
ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Wollmershaeuser@ifo.de
Professor Dr. Stefan Kooths
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
T +49 431 8814 579 or +49 30 2067 9664
stefan.kooths@ifw-kiel.de
Professor Dr. Oliver Holtemöller
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
T +49 345 7753 800
Oliver.Holtemoeller@iwh-halle.de
Professor Torsten Schmidt
RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Torsten.Schmidt@rwi-essen.de
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kooths
Head Forecasting Center
T +49 0431 8814 579 or +49 30 2067 9664
Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)
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