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We are trying to take this journey as a family with a distinctive urban worship style which is open to where the Holy Spirit may take us. We try to accept people as they are but see them as what they could become; offering care, generosity and a sense of belonging to people while they work out what they believe. We aim at being distinctive and relevant within our local community, and we look to be creative in everything we do. We may not always get it right but believe that we are on a journey heading in the right direction.
We meet together in small and large groups for fellowship, teaching, breaking bread, eating together, prayer and praise.
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What better way to warm up during a bitter cold winter? Well, going somewhere tropical just might be better, but this is a close second (okay, maybe a not-so-close 86th or so). This was a new stew to me, and it was delicious!
Heat oil in stew pan over moderate heat. Dredge beef in flour, salt and pepper. Add to pan and brown lightly on each side. Remove to plate. Add garlic, onion and sugar to pan, stirring 1 minute. Deglaze pan with ¼ cup stock. Add remaining stock, water, tomatoes and herbs then bring to a boil. Return beef to pan, reduce to simmer, cover and cook 45 minutes. Add vegetables, cover and cook additional hour or until vegetables are tender.
Mary, this sounds very tasty. I've got a pot roast simmering in the slow cooker today but will try your stew soon. Thank you!
Sometimes, simple is just what's called for. Warm and soul satsifying, that's whats needed on a cold night like this (calling for -5F here in Wisconsin tonight).
My DH loves beef stew. You are so right about beef stew being perfect on a cold winter day. Seems no one, including Floridians, are exempt from the cold winter days. Thanks for sharing the wonderful photo!
Mouth-watering and warm – oh so warm. I like warm. I'm ready for summer. Delizioso!
It's a good time of year for a reminder of the essentials like a well-made stew.
I love a good stew. I played around with recipes back in October – but maybe it's time for another batch. Something I might suggest? Next time, try throwing an oxtail or a short rib or two in there – the additional gelatin from those bones adds SO much richness to your stew. It's amazing.
wow beef stew! i love this dish! =) im such a tomato based dish fan!!
This looks so good! I'll have to try it on a "meat-eating" day!
this is what I call a nice bowl of comfort!
Mmm. Looks hearty and my type of comfort food. May just have to have this for dinner tomorrow!
Oh, Katy, this looks wonderful!
It's even cool down here in Roatan. 70 degrees. Can you believe it??????????


Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Jul;62(7):1870-80. doi: 10.1002/art.27500.
The programmed death 1/programmed death ligand 1 inhibitory pathway is up-regulated in rheumatoid synovium and regulates peripheral T cell responses in human and murine arthritis.
Raptopoulou AP1, Bertsias G, Makrygiannakis D, Verginis P, Kritikos I, Tzardi M, Klareskog L, Catrina AI, Sidiropoulos P, Boumpas DT.
University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece.
T cells play a major role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PDL-1) pathway is involved in peripheral tolerance through inhibition of T cells at the level of synovial tissue. The aim of this study was to examine the role of PD-1/PDL-1 in the regulation of human and murine RA.
In synovial tissue and synovial fluid (SF) mononuclear cells from patients with RA, expression of PD-1/PDL-1 was examined by immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry, while PD-1 function was assessed in RA peripheral blood (PB) T cells after stimulation of the cells with anti-CD3 and PDL-1.Fc to crosslink PD-1. Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) was induced in PD-1(-/-) C57BL/6 mice, and recombinant PDL-1.Fc was injected intraperitoneally to activate PD-1 in vivo.
RA synovium and RA SF were enriched with PD-1+ T cells (mean +/- SEM 24 +/- 5% versus 4 +/- 1% in osteoarthritis samples; P = 0.003) and enriched with PDL-1+ monocyte/macrophages. PD-1 crosslinking inhibited both T cell proliferation and production of interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) in RA patients; PB T cells incubated with RA SF, as well as SF T cells from patients with active RA, exhibited reduced PD-1-mediated inhibition of T cell proliferation at suboptimal, but not optimal, concentrations of PDL-1.Fc. PD-1(-/-) mice demonstrated increased incidence of CIA (73% versus 36% in wild-type mice; P < 0.05) and greater severity of CIA (mean maximum arthritis score 5.0 versus 2.3 in wild-type mice; P = 0.040), and this was associated with enhanced T cell proliferation and increased production of cytokines (IFNgamma and interleukin-17) in response to type II collagen. PDL-1.Fc treatment ameliorated the severity of CIA and reduced T cell responses.
The negative costimulatory PD-1/PDL-1 pathway regulates peripheral T cell responses in both human and murine RA. PD-1/PDL-1 in rheumatoid synovium may represent an additional target for immunomodulatory therapy in RA.


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Adv Ujjawal Nikam was speaking at the inaugural event of a three-day summit held by DCF & YIN
Pune: "Expel the inferiority complex from your minds, come out of negativity that you are helpless. The world is looking at us as the country of a young population. So empower yourself for the arduous journey ahead. Don't waste your energy on unnecessary talking, get ready for action," said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. He was speaking at the inaugural event of 'YIN Summon Youth Summit' at Balgandharva Rangmandir on Monday.
The summit has been organised by Delivering Change Foundation (DCF) and Young Inspirators Network (YIN). The three-day summit received a tremendous response on the first day. The conference was inaugurated by senior legal expert Ujjwal Nikam. Chief Executive Officer of Pune Smart City, Rajendra Jagtap, Savitribai Phule Pune University's Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr NS Umraani, Director of Spectrum Academy Sunil Patil, Chief Executive Officer of Delivering Change Foundation Puneet Bali and YIN's Chief Manager (Community Network) Tejas Gujarathi were present on the occasion. Chakor Gandhi, management guru was also present for the sessions on the first day.
Sunil Patil, Director of Spectrum Academy, said, "If the energy of the youth is given the right direction, then India will emerge as a strong country. Curiosity in young minds should be nurtured. More and more young people should participate in the administrative services. If we use our fundamental rights for the common good, then our country will improve phenomenally."
Jitendra Joshi, Director Abhi Group of companies said, "Success and failure are part of life, each and every person has to overcome the challenges. Youths should start their own business. Build up strength to prove yourself and work hard. Teamwork is also an important aspect of the business which will help entrepreneurs to scale new milestones."
Gandhi said, "India is a country of youths and therefore, it is important to promote entrepreneurship here. If we want to grab the world's attention, then our youths should become industrialists. Moreover, youths are quite exposed to media, they should leverage this to create their own place in the global market. If they have the will, they will succeed. The summit is a great platform for today's youths who believe in working for the society and the country to bring about the change that they want to see in the world."
The eminent personalities present at the event through their motivational speech advised the youths to surge ahead on their career path. The speakers shared their life experiences with a free spirit and gave a message to make their careers a golden opportunity to change their own and the lives of others around them.
Thousands of youngsters present for this summit were benefited through the experiences shared by eminent personalities about politics, law, management and administration. The speakers provided deep insights into the questions asked by participants of this summit. The youths showcased their skills through cultural programmes. The summit is conducted for students from classes above Std X.. The main sponsor for this conference is 'Spectrum Academy', powered by Hashtag Clothing, the Pimpri-Chinchwad College of Engineering, Suhana Masala and Abhi Group of Companies are the joint sponsors of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Education Trust.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using LinkIt.ConfigBuilders;
using LinkIt.Conventions.DefaultConventions;
using LinkIt.Conventions.Interfaces;
using LinkIt.PublicApi;
using LinkIt.TestHelpers;
using Xunit;

namespace LinkIt.Conventions.Tests.DefaultConventions
{
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    {
        [Fact]
        public async Task GetLinkedSourceTypes()
        {
            var model = new Model
            {
                Id = "One",
                Media = new Media
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                    Id = 1
                }
            };
            var sut = BuildLoadLinkProtocol();

            var actual = await sut.LoadLink<LinkedSource>().FromModelAsync(model);

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On the cover of the Baen Books's paperback edition of the book, there is a CSA flag which is like the flag nowadays usually considered to be the flag of the South, i.e. the rectangular battle flag - but it has only twelve stars (the one in the middle of the cross is missing).
"How Few Remain" is based on a history in which the CSA won their independence as the result of some changed circumstances at the battle of Sharpsburg in 1862. The CSA resulting from this was a federation composed of 12 States (including Kentucky), plus the Indian Territory, now known as Oklahoma; but in Turtledove's world ("How Few Remain" is the prequel to a series of novels involving the two American federations and World War I), modern Oklahoma becomes the Confederate State of Sequoyah, which eventually adds a 13th star back to the flags of the CSA.
In this timeline, the late 19th and ealy 20th century CSA have a national flag, which is the "Stars and Bars" with its 3 bars of red/white/red and its circle of white stars on a blue canton, and the Saltire battle flag, which is used as a military flag and a navy ensign. Since Confederate independence was secured in 1862, before the "Stas and Bars" was replaced as the CSA national flag, it makes sense that it would have continued as their national flag. It is unclear whether the military flag is the square pattern of the Army of Northern Virginia or the rectangular pattern of the Army of Tennessee. The cover art would seem to suggest the latter.
In addition to the USA's flag having a reduced number of stars, Mexico is still under Maxillian's Empire in the 1880 timeline of "How Few Remain", and continues as the Empire of Mexico in the later World War I volumes. I would assume, therefore, that the Mexican flag continues to have an imperial crown over the eagle.


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Martin Mrázek
How to document your reports
Why are reports in big corporations so difficult to understand? Is there a way to effectively document them and make them more understandable for the business user?
The real importance of reporting
I don't understand how corporations work. Last week, during a pre-sales meeting, I met two middle managers from a corporation. We discussed the reports they use to keep track of their personal targets - reports which clearly have a direct impact on their salaries. After a while it became clear that these guys had problems understanding how the numbers on the reports were calculated. We talked a bit more and I realised that they didn't even have a clear idea what the numbers actually meant. I asked them to give me a contact to the person responsible for the calculations and even this was a problem. At least they knew which department was responsible.
During a different session in a different company, I wanted to see some reports about the performance of a particular department and the fulfillment of that department's targets. The managers told me that they received the numbers by email on a monthly basis and that they couldn't find the reports in the reporting platform being used by the company.
Bottom line: every corporation has a reporting platform. It is always a millions of dollars investment. However, people in the corporation don't use its results very much. This seems rather strange because, in theory, it's the reporting platform which should be showing each part of a company whether it's performing well or not.
I've many more stories like the ones above. However, I can summarise the problems of using a reporting platform in a corporation as follows:
I can't find the report which I need.
I don't understand what the numbers presented in the report mean.
I don't know how the numbers in the report are calculated.
I don't know who is responsible for calculating the numbers.
I can't find a number which has already been calculated in a report, so I'm requesting the creation of a new report (or the extension of an old one).
I'm responsible for a report but I don't know who's really using it (if anybody).
The Consequences
The key consequences of this prevailing sorry state of affairs is that the investment pumped into the reporting platform is barely appreciated and the goal of managing a company and implementing its business goals with the help of a reporting platform remains unfulfilled.
These key consequences can be elaborated in more detail:
The company creates more reports than it really needs and reports contain redundant numbers. Typically a number is reported in more than one report. Very often these numbers are meant to describe the same thing but as they are calculated differently the results are different. Then people can argue endlessly whose number is the correct one.
People don't understand clearly what is being reported. Consequently, they don't know what they should do to improve the reported result. When a number seems odd, they can't tell whether it's because it's been calculated incorrectly or because there has been a change in the actual market.
The management defines what numbers are important for the company's strategy but as people are confused about how these numbers are being reported, the implementation of these strategies is both unclear and hesitant.
The Solution - The Basic Idea
Being able to understand reports is crucial for the successful fulfillment of any company's business strategy. That's why tools to help understanding should be an inherent part of each reporting platform's launch. The tool needs to be a widely-used part of the company's information system.
Semanta delivers such a tool to its customers. It's called Report Catalogue and it's a part of Semanta's broader company knowledge-base platform, Encyclopaedia. Our experience with the introduction of such a tool can be summarised as follows:
"think big, start small". If the company already has many working reports, it should first produce a simple overview of them. The overview should include: the report title, a brief description, who is responsible for the report, and a link to the report. With such a quick overview users can at least guess what numbers can be found where and who they should ask for them.
The application maintaining this overview should have a good search engine which is accessible to everybody. These days "googling" for something has become such a common part of user expectations that without a good search facility users will simply refuse to use it.
Linking the overview to the actual reports being listed is crucial - reporting platforms are notoriously hard to navigate and it's usually quite tricky for users to find what they're looking for in them. After the overview has been produced, most people look for their report in it and then navigate directly to it from there, instead of browsing through the reporting platform.
After the above-listed points have been implemented the company can then continue by picking out a few important reports and documenting them in more detail. Important items on the report should be described, the description should have two parts: what is its business meaning and how is it calculated from the data available in the company.
Solution - Further Steps
There are many other possibilities for the development of a company's report documentation and getting the maximum and most effective use out of the company's reporting platform. These ideas will be the basis of my next blog.
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I live in West Oxfordshire, with my wife Grace and I am a third generation member of the farming family business. Oxfordshire is where my Grandparents started hatching day old broiler chicks nearly 50 years ago. We now rear, breed, hatch and grow broiler chicks across the UK and supply major retailers. In addition we have a farming partnership incorporating a mixed arable, beef and sheep enterprise.
I completed a degree in Business Management at Aberystwyth University in 2008 and I have been directly involved in the business for the last six years and currently sit on the board of directors. My main responsibilities are organising the production and planning broiler chick placements and visiting farms and hatcheries on a weekly basis to ensure they are conforming to required industry, retail and company standards.
Outside of work I am an active member of the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, holding the position of County Chairman of Oxfordshire in 2011. In my spare time I take part in game and clay shooting. I am a keen sportsman and enjoy going to local and international rugby games.


Romanian President Traian Basescu has criticised the European Commission's proposed ten-year economic strategy for lacking commitments to pursuing the EU's goal of bridging regional development gaps and promoting "unattainable" targets, such as allocating 3% of GDP to research and development. EurActiv Romania reports.
The EU's new strategy for sustainable growth and jobs, called 'Europe 2020', comes in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades.
The new strategy replaces the Lisbon Agenda, adopted in 2000, which largely failed to turn the EU into "the world's most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010".
The new agenda puts innovation and green growth at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness and proposes tighter monitoring of national reform programmes, one of the greatest weaknesses of the Lisbon Strategy.
75% of the population aged 20-64 should be employed.
3% of EU GDP should be invested in R&D.
The '20/20/20' climate/energy targets should be met.
The share of early school leavers should be under 10% and at least 40% of the younger generation should have a degree or diploma. 20 million fewer people should be at risk of poverty.
"We are against the re-distribution of the cohesion funds for attaining the Europe 2020 strategy objectives," said Basescu, speaking at a conference in Brussels dedicated to the EU's draft ten-year economic strategy, called 'Europe 2020'.
The Romanian president spoke in critical terms about the strategy's predecessor, the Lisbon Agenda, which largely failed to meet its stated objective of turning the EU into "the world's most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010".
He also criticised the non-compliance of eurozone countries with the Maastricht criteria for economic convergence and questioned whether Europe could be competitive in the future as it is bound by social commitments.
The EU's regional policy, Basescu said, is the "most important Community instrument" for successfully implementing Europe 2020.
"Without internal cohesion, [the EU] is not competitive; it does not count in global competition. Romania appeals for accelerating the process of reducing the gaps between the older and the newer members of the EU," he stated.
East European leaders have expressed disappointment that regional "cohesion" was not listed as a target in the Europe 2020 plan. But they appear to have recognised that there will be "practically no time to discuss that sufficiently" before the June summit, when the new strategy is expected to be adopted (EurActiv 25/03/10).
Basescu also expressed doubt about his country's ability to attain the strategy's objective of investing 3% of GDP in research and development.
"This is an objective that we cannot meet," he said, adding that on 3 May, Romania will consult the Commission on how to identify national objectives under the strategy's broad headline targets. The state, he said, will contribute to 1% of this target, while the private sector will be called upon to meet the remaining 2%.
He also indicated that even if Romania were able to mobilise 3% of its GDP for infrastructure, it would still be extremely difficult to effectively absorb those funds in his country and "obtain results".
Romania's investment in R&D currently amounts to 0.5% of GDP, he said.
3 May: Romania to discuss national targets with Commission officials.
15-16 June: EU summit to agree on Europe 2020 targets.


The 4th Industrial Revolution has arrived.
And this 'Digitalization' will radically change how we live, work and interact.
The biggest impact will be on our cities – now home to over half of humanity.
So how have we got here, and where will it take us?


Though Carl Brien, the Petoskey band director for the high school and middle school retired after 37 years in this position, his favorite catch phrases will stay with his students forever.
"Time will pass, will you?" the 65-year-old asked the clock-watchers.
"If you're early, you're on time, and if you're on time, you're late," he told his students to instill discipline and promptness.
"Heart on fire, mind on ice," he said when he wanted the passion and drive to show in the music, but the heads to stay on the precision and discipline required to do the marching drills.
Brien came to Petoskey High School in 1976 after teaching for five years in Breckenridge and two in Tawas City, Mich. He was recruited by principal Richard Chambers, who had been his principal in Breckenridge, then moved to Petoskey. At first, Brien looked at a map and said that Petoskey was "too far up north." Then he researched it some more and decided to come for an interview.
"I drove over the hill on 131 and saw that view, and went 'whoa,'" he said. After meeting the people, he knew Petoskey would be a special place to work.
Petoskey already had a solid concert band program that had been put in place by director Max Smith, when Brien took over. He added the marching band and the marching competitions. The program he leaves now has two other co-band directors, an award-winning marching band with 252 students. During the spring concert season, at the high school there is a wind symphony and a symphony, plus the steel drum band, and a jazz band. In addition, Brien and the other two directors work with sixth, seventh and eighth grade bands that involve another 250 students. The marching band appears in community parades. The steel drum band and jazz band are highly sought after to play in the community for everything from concerts in the park to wedding receptions.
But, for Brien, being a band director isn't really about the music. He is clear in his philosophy that he is first and foremost a teacher who wants kids to leave his program with the skills that they will need to be successful in life.
"I want to instill the pride of working hard and doing well into the students," Brien said.
Barry Bennett has been a co-director with Brien for the past 26 years, since Bennett graduated from Brien's alma mater Central Michigan University.
"Carl teaches kids about life through music. He shows them what it takes to be successful through the art of music. He is a tremendous educator," Bennett said.
When Bennett and Brien started the steel drum band 16 years ago, they both used to play music with the kids, as there were only 10 kids. Now there are 35 students in two different bands.
When principal Jim Kanine introduced Brien as the Petoskey Rotary Teacher of the Year in 2011, he called Brien "a legend," because all over the state, people know of the excellence of the Petoskey High School Marching Band.
Parent and band supporter Annette Fettig had three daughters who went through the band program, so Fettig was involved as a band parent and volunteer from 1991 until 2010.
Bennett said, "A band director wears lots of hats — band director, fundraiser, organizer and finance person." The director is always working with boosters to raise money for more instruments, or travel to showcase the band.
Brien gives the credit for the program's success to the hard-working students, and the tremendous community support.
"I have been fortunate to have taught here. This is a supportive community with great kids. We've been very, very lucky," he said.
He plans to stay involved running band camp. He and his wife, Jil, a local seamstress, have a new travel trailer they want to try out to visit their children and grandchildren and get away for a while in the winter.


FitzPatrick's debut collection, published by the Vandalia Press imprint of West Virginia University Press, consists of nine powerful stories about the fragility of hope, the devastation of grief, and the precarious balance of family harmony that lies between the two. Four of the nine stories feature the same characters, allowing us to see growth, and sometimes the lack thereof, in the lives of these individuals.
In "Queen City Playhouse," teenage Tess is a Catholic-school dropout who works as a scenery stagehand at the local theater, while caring for the theater's terminally ill owner, Mr. Deusler. When most of the cast comes down with a vicious stomach flu the night before the first show, Tess is called upon to act in the lead female role, opposite Joe, her bad-boy crush, who may not be as kindhearted as she'd once believed. As Tess hovers over Mr. Deusler night after night, she thinks of her own broken family, and of the brokenness of the Deusler family, none of whom sits at Mr. D's bedside, where she has taken roost. "I open my eyes and look up at the photos of what the Deuslers have done in this place—all that comedy and tragedy they've given to the community instead of each other." Tess watches Mr. D's painful suffering increase, until she can take it no more, and she offers him relief in the only way she knows how, finally giving the best and most painful performance of her young life.
"Canis Major" tells the story of twelve-year-old Rosie, whose family breeds Rottweilers as bodyguards. Rosie's job is to feed live rabbits to the stud-dog Apollo and use a stopwatch to time how long it takes him to devour each rabbit. When Rosie's teenage sister Vivvi becomes the third of three teenage girls to go missing, the neighborhood is on high alert, and the local grocer declares in church that, " . . . we can't let the shadows swallow our children." Rosie takes this to heart, and with the aid of her protector Apollo, she is determined to bring her sister Vivvi safely home.
The stories "A New Kukla" and "White Rabbit" reveal the chronological growth of characters Historian Richard, his son Ollie, and Richard's brother Bobby, as these two stories are set ten years apart. In "A New Kukla," Richard's social status causes him to lie to his Catholic wife's family about his daughter by a previous marriage. Richard's daughter isn't allowed visitation, and this secret, along with the secret of Richard's ongoing extramarital affair, reveals as much about society in the 1960s, as it does about Richard himself. Ten years later, in "White Rabbit," Richard's son, Ollie, is the troublemaker of his fourth-grade classroom. When Ollie is suspended from school, Uncle Bobby takes him to work, in order to help Richard keep the suspension secret from his wife. When Ollie vents his frustration by causing turmoil at Uncle Bobby's office, Uncle Bobby takes him to a so-called meeting, which actually is a visit to the local brothel. Ollie learns firsthand that secrets and lies are a necessary part of life.
"Representing the Beast" opens in 1995, with ballerina-in-training Keiko watching the news, when she learns of the Kobe earthquake, in which her cousin Ayaka, a gifted ballerina, is killed. Keiko's mother and aunt push and pressure Keiko to replace the more gifted Ayaka. Keiko's health issues hinder her skill and practice, though she finds inspiration in the diaries of prodigious ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, whose "forte was representing the beast. That's what people understood, a beast that channeled God." Keiko finally pushes herself—physically, psychologically, emotionally—on bloodied feet, to give the best performance of her life, during a practice no one sees.
In "The Music She Will Never Hear," Keiko has given up dancing, and her friend Jace has given up performing music, and both accompany friend Brad cross-country from one Phish concert to another. Richard reappears, again chasing history, this time into a mine, where Jace is his tour guide. Jace entertains the historian with facts and local tales, all the while believing people understand only what they allow themselves to see. "Sometimes you can learn everything you need to know just by checking a window, looking through it past your reflection into what you can't see from any other angle at any other time." Richard collapses while inside the mine, and Jace contacts his son, Ollie, who, now in his thirties, is even more jaded by his family history of secrets and lies.
Though each of the nine stories in this collection addresses the psychological and sometimes physical pain of grief and loss, we find glimmers of hope. This is perhaps no truer than in the final story "The Cliffs of Dover," in which sixteen-year-old Cora is pushed into a pre-arranged marriage that ends with a funeral, leaving us with the hope that, even following death, one might find freedom.
This critical examination of the harm families sometimes do to one another—particularly to our young—also offers the promise of healing, if only we step back and examine how we hold on to one another, and perhaps more importantly, how we let go.


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The 2020 Chevrolet C8 Mid-Engine Corvette Has 495 HP And Better Tech Than Ever
Filed to:2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette
All image credits: Chevrolet
Rumored since approximately the Taft Administration, the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette, the mystical mid-engine Corvette, has finally transcended myth and arrived in reality. It's finally here (well, after a leak from earlier tonight). Time to run down everything we know.
Here Is the 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette Before You're Supposed to See It
As the world patiently waits for the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette to be unveiled this evening, some…
With a 6.2-liter LT2 V8 in the between its axles, the C8 Corvette makes 495 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque and uses a Tremec eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. Power is sent to the rear wheels. The car has a claimed zero to 60 time of under three seconds if you option it with the Z51 pack, which gives you bigger brakes, a performance exhaust, improved cooling and a performance suspension system.
It's geared for being quick off the line and efficient on the highway via the seventh and eighth gears, which makes it sound like it's both a great long-distance cruiser and a red-light drag racer in one.
Also, there's a front trunk and a rear trunk! Does that mean that the front space could be re-purposed to fit an electric motor? It's too early to tell, but I wouldn't put it past General Motors to use this platform to show off some electrified performance later on. I mean, Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche and even Acura have all done it already.
The C8 Corvette will be very light, according to Chevrolet. Its chassis is built from mixed-materials and uses die-cast aluminum components. The entry-level model will weigh 3,366 pounds.
There will also be launch control and an electronic limited-slip differential. Six driving modes will include Weather, Tour, Sport, Track, MyMode (which is individually configurable) and Z Mode (for performance driving and accessible from a button on the steering wheel). The compression ratio is an impressive 11.5:1 and the car uses coil springs instead of leaf springs.
The targa roof panel is also fully removable and you can store it in the trunk when you want some sun on your head. There's also a very neat front nose-lift system that's GPS-based, which means you can basically geo-tag where you want the car to lift its face so it won't scrape.
Chevy will offer the new Corvette in 12 exterior colors and! It will be available as a right-hand drive model. If you're reading this from the UK, then rejoice.
But the greatest piece of news of all? It'll start at less than $60,000. I think I audibly gasped when I heard.
The 2020 C8 Corvette Will Start Under $60,000
General Motors just announced that the new 2020 Corvette will start at under $60,000. "What I can…
The car looks great. I thought I'd hate it after the months of seeing all the mules running around, but I really like it.
I still prefer the more rounded shapes that defined the C5 and C6 generations, but since everything these days has gone pointy and aggro, the new Corvette offers a wonderful take on modern styling. It looks like a sleeker C7 and the rear does manage to maintain Corvette-ish looks, despite being slightly squashed-looking. I'm digging those contrast-colored side vents, though.
LOOK AT THIS SHIT. I DIG THIS.
The interior, as you saw earlier today, is quite button-heavy. The rest of it doesn't look bad, it just looks very... snug. Cozy, actually. Like a cocoon of Corvette wrapped around you. And thank the Lord the infotainment screen wasn't tacked cheaply on top of the dash. I'm still not sold on that steering wheel, though.
The 2020 Corvette Interior: That Is a Lot of Buttons
If you would like to see a borderline hilarious amount of buttons, look no further than this early…
Maybe it's because this car is reportedly pissing off Boomers, a favorite pastime of mine, but I'm so on board with it. It's a few years too late, but it's here at the very least. It's also nice to see GM break free from all the crossovers and give us something we are actually interested in driving.
And the C8 should drive great. The C7 'Vettes were great. So were the C6 ones. Fast, planted, with plenty of feedback and giving the European supercars a run for their money. GM can build a good car when it wants to.
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One of our Tiburon garden installations has been featured in July's Marin Magazine. The project featured a roof top garden, with green roof installed over a new pool house. The pool house was integrated into the project hillside to give seamless views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco.
The owner of the project wanted a garden that would replicate her garden before construction of the pool house. She also wanted a design that would give instant impact.
The project was done in coordination with Caletti Jungsten Construction and was designed by Pedersen Associates Landscape Architecture. O'Connell Landscape did the landscape installation and second phase design and installation.


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Silvón es una aldea perteneciente a la parroquia de Doiras, del concejo asturiano de Boal, en España. Cuenta con una población de 18 habitantes (INE, 2013) y se encuentra a unos 280 m de altura sobre el nivel del mar, en la margen derecha del río Navia. Dista unos 10 km de la capital del concejo, tomando desde ésta primero la carretera AS-12 en dirección a Grandas de Salime, desviándose luego, unos 600 m después de pasar Doiras, por la carretera que discurre sobre la presa del embalse, y finalmente, 700 m tras ésta, a la izquierda para subir hacia Silvón.

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Boy drowns, girl hospitalized after separate pool incidents
A 6-year-old boy drowned and a 7-year-old girl is in critical condition after two separate swimming pool accidents in Fort Worth.
Micah Wheeler was pulled from the water of a community pool in the 6000 block of Grand Champion Boulevard sometime after 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Witnesses said he was under water for more than five minutes.
Someone at the pool performed CPR until paramedics arrived. But he died before he arrived at Cook Children's Medical Center.
Residents in the Remington Point neighborhood who use the pool said there are no lifeguards on duty. Security guards are on premise to ensure only residents and their guests can access the pool.
"I'm heartbroken. I really am. I have four children and a granddaughter myself," said Kathleen Apgar, who lives nearby.
In southeast Fort Worth, a 7-year-old girl nearly drowned in a pool at the Villas by the Park apartments on East Berry Street.
Witnesses told police other children in the pool found her unconscious in about four feet of water. They performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
The unnamed girl was also taken to Cook Children's Medical Center and remains in critical condition.
"This is just one more example, you know, of children being possibly unattended in our pools. You know, it takes a split second for you to take your eye off that pool and for your child to get into the pool and then you lose track of them," said Lt. Gregg Russell with the Fort Worth Police Department.
Police are still trying to figure out who should have been watching the children in each incident.
Last week three children were pulled from a pool at an Irving apartment complex pool. All three have since died.


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Q: Autofit long strings with EPPLus Using EPPLus library, I'm trying to autofit very long strings in xlsx cells this way:
worksheet.Cells.AutoFitColumns();

Rows: 1000
Columns: 10
For 2 columns, I'm expecting around 6000 character in each cell.
In this scenario, AutoFitColumns method generates the following exception:

Message: A generic error occurred in GDI+.
StackTrace:    at
  System.Drawing.Graphics.MeasureString(String text, Font font, SizeF
  layoutArea, StringFormat stringFormat)    at
  System.Drawing.Graphics.MeasureString(String text, Font font, Int32
  width, StringFormat format)    at
  OfficeOpenXml.ExcelRangeBase.AutoFitColumns(Double MinimumWidth,
  Double MaximumWidth)    at
  OfficeOpenXml.ExcelRangeBase.AutoFitColumns()...

EDIT
Here is my full code:
using (ExcelPackage package = new ExcelPackage(newFile))
{
    ExcelWorksheet worksheet = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("Sheet1");
    // Setup the first row with headers
    for (int j = 0; j < fields.Length; j++)
    {
        worksheet.Cells[1, j + 1].Value = fields[j];
    }

    Color colFromHex = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#B4B4B4");
    worksheet.Row(1).Style.Fill.PatternType = ExcelFillStyle.Solid;
    worksheet.Row(1).Style.Fill.BackgroundColor.SetColor(colFromHex);

    // Insert new rows
    for (int i = 0; i < elements.Count; i++)
    {
        // this will return List<object>
        var properties =  elements[i].GetPatentProperties();
        for (int j = 0; j < properties.Count; j++)
        {
            worksheet.Cells[i + 2, j + 1].Value = properties[j];
        }
    }

    // This will throw an exception for big number of elements: ~ 1000 element
    worksheet.Cells.AutoFitColumns();
    worksheet.Cells.Style.WrapText = true;

    //worksheet.Cells[autosize].Style.HorizontalAlignment = ExcelHorizontalAlignment.CenterContinuous;
    package.Save();
}

Note that for the same list of elements, if I remove worksheet.Cells.AutoFitColumns();, I will get my xlsx file without exception.
Is it possible to overcome this issue?

A: Have you tried setting min and max col sizes?
ws.Cells.AutoFitColumns(10, 60);

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Q: How do you pivot data from a list of data frames in R? Let's say I have a list of data frames ldf:
df1 <- data.frame(date = c(1,2), value = c(4,5))
df2 <- data.frame(date = c(1,2), value = c(4,5))
ldf <- list(df1, df2)

What is the best way to get the sum (or any other function) of values by date, i.e. some data frame like:
data.frame(date = c(1,2), value = c(8,10))

A: You could use:
library(data.table)
dt1 <- rbindlist(ldf)
setkey(dt1,'date')
dt1[,list(value=sum(value)), by='date']
 date value
1:    1     8
2:    2    10

A: If these rows were all in the same data frame, you would use aggregate to do the sum.  You can combine them with rbind so they are in the same data frame:
aggregate(value ~ date, data=do.call(rbind, ldf), FUN=sum)
  date value
1    1     8
2    2    10

If the date columns in all the data frames are identical, you can easily use Reduce to do the sum:
Reduce(function(x, y) data.frame(date=x$date, value=x$value+y$value), ldf)
  date value
1    1     8
2    2    10

This should be a lot faster than rbind-ing the data together and aggregating.

A: Another option is to use unnest from "tidyr" in conjunction with the typical grouping and aggregation functions via "dplyr":
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

unnest(ldf) %>%
  group_by(date) %>%
  summarise(value = sum(value))
# Source: local data frame [2 x 2]
#
#   date value
# 1    1     8
# 2    2    10


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In the recent times, the company has come up with a number of different types of services that are aimed at the distinct group of users. There are now different categories such as Film, Television, Sports, Movies, New Releases and Music. All these categories can cater to all the tastes and also meet the demands of users.
Movie lovers love to watch movies as they receive instant feedback and also they love the quality of the movie. Movies also help in providing relaxation in the mind and also brings in a sense of excitement to the participants. It is just a few clicks away for people who love to watch movies online. Now, even a newly graduated person can avail of the benefits of the service that offers high quality and other additional features to enjoy with.
However, when you want to watch the full range of TV shows and other movies that are offered by Netflix, you will require a basic subscription and it will be going to be very costly. However, if you can save a bit of money by buying a few months' worth of a membership and can enjoy the unlimited viewing for free then you would surely be able to make it.
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Professor who was suspended after refusing to grade black students more leniently sues UCLA | The College Fix
"An accounting professor who was suspended from UCLA's Anderson School of Management for refusing to grade black students more leniently in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death has filed a lawsuit against the school for harming his professional reputation.
...Following the death of Floyd at the hands of police in May of last year, Klein received a letter from a non-black student asking that he provide more leniency in grading the work of black students...
"However, giving students grades that they did not earn, or giving some identity groups preferential treatment over others, is divisive and inconsistent with the core principles of the university."
"This online campaign expressly mirrored the University's EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) philosophy, arguing that 'equity' required students to prioritize protesting against the 'oppressor' over 'focusing on finishing up our Spring Quarter' by studying for final exams," the lawsuit reads.
"To escape their own academic responsibilities, these agitators also resorted to intimidating UCLA faculty members into canceling final exams and giving all students generous, unearned grades," the lawsuit reads...Read all.


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To increase public awareness of marine litter, impacts brought by marine litter and encourage members of the public to contribute in the protection of our marine environment by making changes in their daily lives, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is launching the Waves of Change Poster Design Competition as part of Singapore's commitment to develop a maritime industry that is not only competitive but also efficient, responsible and sustainable.
For more information, please contact us via training@sec.org.sg or +65 6337 6062.
MPA supported local efforts in raising awareness on the importance of our marine environment through 'The Fun Odyssea' that took place at Sentosa on 17 and 18 March 2018. Didn't get a chance to join us at the event? Here are some photos to show you what took place!
Mr Andrew Tan, Chief Executive of MPA was invited as the Guest of Honour for the launch of The Fun Odyssea. Mr Tan was presented with the poster illustrated by Loy and designed by Loy, MJ and Jeremy from Wild Drawings.
MPA participated in the meaningful event and engaged the members of the public through a specially designed board game.
Public of all ages were able to learn more about Singapore's maritime industry and MPA's marine protection efforts through the interactive board game.


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Real Estate Roundup
Continental Homes San Diego, a unit of D.R. Horton Inc., reports it closed escrow on 556 homes in San Diego and Riverside counties last year, exceeding the previous record by more than 200 homes.
Carlsbad-based Continental, headed by division president Greg Hastings, is the master developer and builder of eight neighborhoods totaling 825 homes in the 690-acre Rancho Carrillo development in Carlsbad.
The company is also building 309 homes at Moonlight Ridge in Riverside, 113 homes at
Grizzly Ridge in Murrieta, 156 homes in Vistara in Temecula, and 61 homes in Creekside Estates at Eastlake Trails in Chula Vista.
"The year 2000 looks just as promising," Hastings said. "We have already amassed 60 sales so far this year. And we will open eight new single-family residential projects during 2000: four in Rancho Carrillo, plus new communities in Carmel Valley in San Diego, and Temecula, Riverside and Murrieta.
Continental was established in 1991 and last year merged with D.R. Horton to form the nation's third-largest homebuilder. The company has 53 divisions in 23 states and 40 markets. Last year, the national company had homebuilding revenues of $3.11 billion.
Trammell Crow Residential has purchased an eight-acre parcel at Sunbow, the master-planned community in Chula Vista, and has broken ground on a 156-unit luxury apartment. The complex will offer five floor plans from 788 to 1,319 square feet and one to three bedrooms. Rents are expected to range from $1,100 to $1,700 a month.
Shea Homes San Diego has also acquired an additional 24 lots at Sunbow and is building Daybreak. Eight homes are being released Saturday. Daybreak was originally planned for 112 homes priced from $222,900. The one- and two-story floor plans range from 1,587 to 2,373 square feet with three to five bedrooms.
Sunbow is also marketing Fieldstone Horizons, Kaufman & Broad's Estrella and the Villa Serena Apartments for seniors.
Pardee Homes on Saturday will celebrate the preview grand opening of Tampico in the Westview community near Mira Mesa. Three two-story floor plans are offered from 1,826 to 2,309 square feet with three to five bedrooms. Prices start in the high $200,000s.
Shea Homes San Diego on Saturday will open for viewing the four model homes at its 144-home Canterbury in Carlsbad. The first phase has sold out. Canterbury offers four floor plans from 2,222 to 2,810 square feet with four to six bedrooms. Prices start in the mid-$300,000s.
Meadow Creek LLC has opened the third phase of its 94-home Meadow Creek development in Fallbrook. The project is two-thirds sold. Floor plans range from 1,800 to 2,112 square feet with three to four bedrooms. Prices start in the $190,000s.
Shea Homes San Diego is releasing eight homes Sunday as the fourth phase of its Diego neighborhood in McMillin Lomas Verdes in Otay Ranch. Prices start in the low $200,000s. The 86 paired homes offer a trio of two-story floor plans from 1,640 to 1,987 square feet with three to four bedrooms.
Brookfield Homes reports 36 homes have been sold since Jan. 15 at Barrington at Calavera Hills in Carlsbad. Nine homes were sold on one weekend in the recent release of the sixth phase. Prices start in the high $280,000s. The two-story floor plans range from 1,957 to 2,287 square feet with three and four bedrooms.
Ryland Homes has begun sales on the sixth phase of the Monterey Collection at Twin Oaks Valley Ranch in San Marcos. The dozen homes are priced from $272,990 to $316,240. A trio of floor plans ranges from 1,973 to 2,546 square feet with three to six bedrooms. Fifty-six of the planned 134 homes have been sold in less than nine months since the grand opening.
Ninteman Construction Co. has broken ground on a single-adult transitional housing facility in Indio that is to be operated by St. Vincent de Paul The facility, called Martha's Village & Kitchen, will provide emergency sleeping area for up to 120 men and women, a medical-dental clinic, a job-training center, a day care center, and a full kitchen and dining hall in a two-story, 45,000-square-foot, structural steel building. Completion is scheduled for November.
The approximately $7 million design-assist contract is with SVDP Management, the facilities management arm of St. Vincent de Paul. The McKinley Associates designed the center. Engineering services were by Burkett & Wong for civil and structural, TMAD Engineers for mechanical and Michael Wall Engineering as electrical.
Ron Hilsberry is Ninteman's project superintendent, Carmela Graves is the administrator and Todd Sykes is engineer.
Innovative Resort Communities reports sales at its PortaCielo in Lake Las Vegas have reached $23 million. Tom Dobron, president and CEO of Innovative, noted that at the current rate, "I'm anticipating that we will be completely sold out by December."
PortaCielo is currently in its third phase and only 33 homes remain for sale out of 72 planned. Three floor plans range from 2,460 to 3,500 square feet. Prices start at $515,000.
Barratt American on Sunday will open 11 homes at its 142-home Rembrandt in Temecula as the 11th phase. Prices range from $191,990 to $213,990. Forty-four homes have been sold.


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Negative Option Revisited
Legitimate companies use negative option techniques to snare customers. But in the long run, negative option leaves such a bad taste in everyone's mouth that it damages your company's reputation. Is there another way?
Negative option is a means of selling people on services - usually content or other subscription-type services - by offering a come-on price (or free) for the first six months, six weeks, or whatever, and then charging your credit card the "full subscription amount" once the "trial" period elapses. Or they just keep your credit card on file and keep re-charging you for services or subscriptions, until you say "stop" or even thereafter.
What these marketers hope, of course, is that you are just too tired and distracted to bother canceling the service before the trial period has ended. Or they count on the fact that most people don't reconcile their credit card accounts on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis, so they just don't notice they are being charged by AOL ten years after they stopped using the service.
Or they count on people thinking "Oh, $29.99 isn't a lot of money, I'll just pay it" even though the website in question is one they stopped visiting years ago. And yes, people do this, even people of modest middle-class means who cannot afford to squander money like that.
So sadly, negative-option seems like it will be here to stay.
What brought up this issue yet again, was a subscription to Cook's Country, which is a magazine and public television show that also publishes America's Test Kitchen. This is a great magazine and I really liked it. It methodically attacks different recipes and food items from a scientific trial-and-error point of view, without preconceived notions, and then publishes the results.
They are great folks, and even did a movie about Fanny Farmer and re-created one of her signature menus from back in the day. If you have Netflix, it is a good watch. Sadly, their food empire is based on using negative-option, and this sort of is a buzz-kill. I no longer feel warm and fuzzy about them. I feel about them the way I would about a cable company and that says a lot.
Mark decided he didn't want the magazine anymore, so we let the subscription lapse. The first thing we noticed was a credit card charge after the subscription lapsed. What's up with that? And a while later, a cookbook arrives in the mail. Turns out, you get this cookbook as a separate subscription, and when you cancel the magazine subscription, they send you the cookbook, claiming that you didn't cancel that as it was separate.
So more phone calls and waiting on hold and we get the cookbooks cancelled. A year goes by. All is well until....
A charge for $34.95 appears on my credit card. I call the company and they claim we still had an online subscription from January of last year, even though we cancelled the magazine and cookbook before then. This is very odd, as my credit card was replaced with a new one with a different credit card number back in September. How did they get the new credit card number?
When I call them, they promise to cancel the subscription and issue a credit. To be on the safe side, I call Bank of America and ask them to dispute the charge. The credit is never forthcoming, and Bank of America never hears a word from Cook's Country, so they cancel the charge and issue a credit.
In the meantime, I googled "Cook's Country bills my credit card" and get page after page of complaints. This one is typical. The complaints are all about the same. People thought they cancelled the service only to find new charges. Cookbooks arrive without being ordered. It seems no matter what you do, they keep charging your credit card, without your authorization.
Of course, they claim you authorized the charge as a continuing charge for a subscription service. That's their claim, anyway. It is a shame, to me, that a legitimate organization resorts to this sort of thing. But perhaps they farm out the billing to a company that works on commission, and you know how that sort of thing works out - like with Wells Fargo.
Commission sales, when unregulated, can lead to problems. I recounted how a county paper decided to increase circulation by using a subscription company, who in turn offered commissions to sales people for signing people up. The sales people went around to every apartment and just wrote down the names of people from their mailboxes, along with the address - cashed their commission checks and moved on. Meanwhile, hapless "subscribers" find newspapers they didn't want on their doorstep, and ominous "final notices" in their mailboxes for subscriptions they never ordered.
Scale this up 100,000% and you have Wells Fargo, who offered commissions to sales people to sell credit cards and other accounts to customers. When you incentivize people that way, they just resort to fraud to "make their numbers" and set up phony accounts.
Negative option works the same way. When Webshots was sold and decided to revert back to a screen-saver company, many folks who paid for their premium service assumed that since the service was gone, they would no longer be charged. But they found new charges on their credit cards for screen-saver services, and of course were outraged. How does this equate into a sustainable business model?
Well, it can, for a while. An article I read about AOL noted that half their income was from folks who still paid the monthly service fee, even though they didn't use AOL anymore. Some, such as my late Mother-in-Law, thought you "needed" AOL to access the internet, and paid this fee on top of her DSL monthly charges. Oddly enough, she was not alone. I've know people that even today pay an AOL fee on top of their monthly internet access charges, even though the ISP provides a default e-mail address and you can set up free e-mail on gmail, hotmail, and yahoo, among others.
So yes, you get the clueless demographic with this approach. And I guess America's Test Kitchen, being a PBS show, gets a lot of clueless older people who subscribe to Smithsonian and don't check their credit card statements too closely. But long-term, they are alienating subscribers, which does not bode well for their business model.
Reforming negative option is impossible, because the people using it know that reform would mean revenues would be cut in half - at the very least.
For example, if you forced the subscriber to "opt in" to renewals, it would force the subscriber to think about whether they are using the service, how much it costs, and whether it is worthwhile. When all it takes is a click of a mouse to say "no" more people would say "no" and you'd lose business.
If you sent an e-mail or text alerting them to auto-renewal and giving a link to their website to opt-out, the same result occurs. It is more hassle to go to the website, log in, and opt out, but the result is more people would do just that.
If you relied on people actively remembering to renew, you'd have no subscribers at all! Sending renewal notices by mail is expensive and doesn't result in a high response rate, as people don't want to hassle with getting out a checkbook and stamps and mailing stuff in - even if that is the safest way of doing it.
The problem, of course, with even that approach is that marketers have screwed that up. I was getting dozens of "renewal" notices for various magazines which were either not renewal notices at all (but rather offers for a new subscription) or were far in advance of the expiration date - sometimes by years. You send in a check and find out you have renewed your subscription until the year 2035 by sending in responses to all these "renewal" notices. Or you end up getting two or three or even four copies of the magazine in question.
They don't make it easy to know how many issues you are subscribed for, how many remain, how much you are paying, and when the actual renewal date is. And newspapers are no better, using "negative option" subscription services in the same way as well as being opaque (intentionally) about your subscription, when it starts, ends, and renews.
They say print is dead - I wonder why? It is just cheaper and easier to read free stuff online, even if the content isn't as good. Paying for content is problematic because they play games with your payments. Honesty is in short supply in the subscription business, which is why a lot of people are hesitant to subscribe to things.
Angie's list recently switched to a non-subscription model because of the negative publicity surrounding their negative option model. No one wanted to sign up for a hassle, just to read about plumber recommendations. Whether they will succeed with this new model remains to be seen. Some argue they are now making their money from the tradesmen themselves, which creates an interesting conflict-of-interest.
So maybe people are realizing negative option is odious. When you treat your customers like shit, in the long run, they will flee to the next available alternative. The railroads and trollies found this out the hard way - people flocked to more expensive auto transportation, as it was less painful. Cable companies are mystified as to why no one wants their "content" when they can stream on the Internet for far less. There is a lesson here, for marketers, if they chose to learn it.
When you make doing business with your company a toxic relationship, people will flee eventually. It may take a year, five years, or a decade, but eventually, you will be left with nothing.
UPDATE: Cook's Country issues a refund, after Bank of America already canceled the charge. So I guess I have to call the bank again to cancel the cancel.
Also, a reader alerts me to an article in the New York Times which illustrates why they may be using negative option so aggressively - there is a schism in the organization between one of the founders and others who want him to step aside.
It is very sad to read, as it illustrates how greed takes over once something becomes popular. The media types want to turn it into some sort of monster empire, like Martha Stewart's failed "Omnimedia". The founder just wants to do his thing - but a lawsuit may be preventing him from starting a new enterprise.
I guess his only consolation will be the tens of millions of dollars he made from this. Boo-Hoo.
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Dallas, United States - May 17, 2018 /MarketersMedia/ — The Global Automotive Paints and Coatings Market has been estimated at USD 19 billion in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.5% during the forecast period, 2018 - 2023.DuPont, PPG industry, Nippon Paint, and 3M have been estimated to be the market leaders in the automotive paints market in 2017. The market is driven by the paint manufacturers endeavoring to offer cost-efficient and varied effective solutions without compromising on the performance of the paints through their wide portfolio of product offerings. The growth of the market is characterized by increasing vehicle production, growing demand for carbon footprint technologies in the automotive paints market, and changing weather conditions.
Asia-Pacific is expected to be the largest market for automotive coatings by 2023, owing to the large production capacity of automotive industries in that region. It is also projected to be the fastest growing market during the forecast period because of the growing technological advancements. The region also recorded the maximum number of vehicles produced, owing to its demand-driven dynamics. The African automobile industry is said to be in its growing phase and its growth will be directly proportional to the increased automotive paint demand.
There is an increased emphasis on the reduction of carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxide emission, along with the growing focus on increasing fuel economy, as per Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. Therefore, paint manufacturers should develop solutions to reduce the emissions.
The automotive industry and engine manufacturers are expected to become an excellent growth area for thermal spray, especially in the powder coating technology. Engine manufacturers are looking at thermal spray protective surface coatings for cylinders. Also, powder coatings are a non-toxic, dry-finishing process used to provide a protective finish, primarily used in metals and aluminum products in automobile and motorcycle parts. The process creates a hard finish tougher than that of conventional paints and is used to protect from rust and provide a great amount of chemical resistance. Powder coatings are an increasingly popular finish for many automotive components, primarily as a result of being solvent-free. The automotive industry coats springs, bumpers, wheel, louvers, and frames, and some manufacturers are increasingly using powder coatings for primer and final body finish.
In the technology segment, the waterborne and powder coatings segments are expected to show the maximum growth rate, with waterborne solvents leading the market comprehensively by 2022. This is largely because solvent-based coatings are banned in most countries since they have proven to be ecologically harmful.
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