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Intellect at its best - How to enhance personal creativity?
How many times you surprised yourself by creating something which you never thought of, something you never imagined about. It might not be a piece of art but it could be as little or insignificant as organizing your closet or a drawer or some new way of doing your everyday work. Probably, you have done it several times but every time you ignored thinking it something as usual. If you have done such tiny little tasks with a touch of difference, then congratulate yourself for expressing your creativity. You might not take it seriously but it is true. Creativity is generally misunderstood of being something belonging to highly intelligent people or artists. This is not true and in fact it is a very narrow view of word "creativity".
Creativity is something which is so vast and diverse that it will be unjust to bind it to any particular definition. Trying to express it as a creation of something new and unique also doesn't justify the vast expression and substance hidden behind the word "creativity".
The central idea behind enhancing personal creativity is to break established patterns of thinking in your daily activities. Think out of the box to accomplish every activity, problem or challenge.
This is a quality which each one of us possesses with a degree of difference. Some of us develop a vivid expression of it while some are subtle in its expression but for sure it exists in all. Let's break this age old view that only artists, painters or scientists can be the creative people on this planet. Let's register the fact that it is not limited to any particular class of people, geography, and caste or any age, it is a quality present in all human beings.
Then why do we feel that we are lacking creativity? This is for a very simple reason that we are bogged down by our routine and mechanical ways of living life. Our life has become so mechanical that everything is predefined and tied to clock. Look at your personal daily routine; it is replete with emails, calls, meetings or driving to work. Depending upon the nature of work, our life is accordingly filled with predefined routines which makes us feel that it is the only efficient way of living life.
Secondly, we carry a baggage of our previous knowledge and experience about various subjects, situations and people which actually doesn't let us to try and think in different ways. No wonder, kids are so creative, simply for a reason that they don't carry a baggage of knowledge.
Our subconscious mind has a vast expanse of knowledge lying in a dormant form. Exploring this vastness needs all our sensory faculties (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling) completely focused on reaching this zone. On a moment to moment basis majority of our actions and thoughts are controlled by external events which keep sensory faculties constantly occupied to receive inputs further to be processed by brain. This keeps brain completely occupied with processing of information and leaves little chance for it to deep dive into its subconscious zone. Sleeping is the only time when brain takes rest from receiving inputs from sensory organs. This is a reason why people feel that they get best solutions for problems after waking up or after relaxing well.
So, it makes complete sense to conclude that creativity is that quality which cannot be learnt from any school, it is something which is inherent in all and we just need to explore ourselves to give it a full-blown expression. In today's fast life, gadgets, cell phones, and computers have stolen away the opportunities to be with others, to think more, to do different things and most importantly to read. This all culminates to a dumb state of personal intellect because intellect grows with more thinking and connecting existing information. If thinking is limited and there is nothing new in received information, our intellect doesn't grow and hence we experience lack of personal creativity in thoughts and actions.
Being a human being, each one of us carries creativity in abundance it is only how we approach to access this treasure. Creativity needs a special environment to for its nurturing and cannot be expressed through a stressed and anxious mind which is constantly drawn outwards. It needs an environment where mistakes are not considered as sins and individuals are encouraged to make mistakes, to learn, to fail and to think differently. Google Inc. has understood this reality and strives to provide highly creative and intellectually stimulating environment to its employees. Here is a link to Google workplace. Check out some interesting pics.Creative and inspiring work places.
Creative person is a precious gift to society, having least emotional dependence on others, derives high levels of personal satisfaction from work. History is replete with inventions, discoveries, plays and arts etc. which are true expression of creativity of highly creative people. Imagine how our life would have been without their expression of creativity, it is only because of them our life has improved incredibly.
How to enhance personal creativity?
If you feel your expression of creativity is not honed enough and want to give it a try then here are few tips. If you try these for a month you will surely see a high degree of creative expression in your life.
Device at least 3 ways (more the better) of doing a particular task.
Think how your life problems can be solved in more than a single way.
Imagine things by altering their structure or shape.
Correlate your knowledge from different domains.
Read books on different subjects, especially those which are new to you.
Spend time in nature and observe how creativity is expressed in shapes, colors and movements.
Spend time with kids, they are naturally creative and think unusual ways of doing simple tasks.
Spend time in noise free zone, completely disconnected from TV, cell phones or any other personal gadgets.
Create time to pursue your personal hobbies and interests.
Stop pursuing perfection in your tasks.
Create a luxury of freedom to do what you want at a particular time of a day without following any rule or guidelines.
Think of creating something out of waste products at home or office.
Choose a group and participate in intellectual discussions.
Use pen or pencil to scribble your thoughts than using gadgets.
Create your own names of colors and objects.
Imagine same person in different faces and different clothes.
Read biographies of creative people.
There could be several other ways to give boost to your creativity, you may extend this list further and use all of them to become more expressive in your creativity.
The central idea behind enhancing personal creativity is to break established patterns of thinking in your daily activities. Think out of the box to accomplish every activity, problem or challenge. Six Thinking Hats, book by Edward de Bono, is a highly popular and one of the best books to enhance personal creativity.
I am an ardent lover of creativity with good degree of expression. I dislike monotony in life and constantly on my toes to beat it. My area of creativity is not limited to one particular field, I would say, it is my way of life. Each and every activity whether it is writing a blog post, design of my website, change of interiors, thinking patterns, daily routine activities, arrangement of pots in my kitchen garden, reading on new subjects, using waste products at home, tossing a new salad or cooking a new dish etc, I utilize to think differently.
Being a thinker and a freedom lover, mixing n matching of thoughts, ideas, and objects comes naturally to me. I am like this since my childhood. By the way, this is also a very solid reason that I had least interest in doing job because my job didn't allow me to express personal creativity in a larger way. Even if it allowed sometimes, it was in a very narrow and tight range. I used to look for assignments through which I could express my creativity. Not always but on few occasions I was lucky enough to have such assignments and I thoroughly enjoyed them.
Given a choice, I simply love to be surrounded by people who think creatively and do creative things. It is indeed difficult to find such people but whenever I come across such a person I feel really inspired and find myself deeply connected to him/her. On an average, people are nitpickers and are more focused on insignificant details and miss on the creative side of ideas and solutions. Such people are surely not my favorite and sometimes I simply avoid them to focus more on my creativity.
After practicing meditation and Yoga daily, my expression of creativity has become more vivid and I experience a better flow of thoughts and ideas. Whatever floating thoughts or ideas come during meditation I simply apply them, I have observed that it has gradually enhanced my creativity.
My favorite personality who has been my constant inspiration for creativity is Leonardo da Vinci. His expression of creativity is so vast and diverse that it makes difficult to imagine that such a person had ever existed on this planet. Engineering, medical, arts, philosophy are the areas where his works speaks of his incredible highs of creativity. It was my deep love for his creativity which gave strength to my desire to see his spectrum of work at his birth place i.e. Italy. My desire was so strong that universe created an opportunity for me (check out inspirational quote.) to work on an assignment in Italy. When I came to know about my selection for this assignment, it was only I and my God knew the secret behind it. I was located in Milan and during my stay of two years I visited his museums throughout Italy especially in Rome, Florence and Milan. These are the three hubs of arts in Italy. His museum exhibits work in various fields. Saw his real paper drawings about anatomy of humans and animals, designs of tanks for war and many other subjects.
My moment of glory was, when I saw, "The Last Supper" hand painted fresco at Milan (check out official website). Explaining its grandeur in words would be really unfair because it is something to be felt. It is called as "L'Ultima Cena" in Italian language. My experience was just inexpressible, I felt as if he is still present in the vicinity and speaking through his painting. To keep memories alive of this beautiful experience I bought some souvenirs, his biography and post card paintings of "The Last Supper".
He was such a creative personality that the more I say would be less, I find him creative in a real sense because his creativity was not limited to any particular domain. Whatever field he touched he created a history.
Organizations constantly seek creative people because innovation and creativity holds the key for success in competitive world. It is only the capacity of humans to think creatively which creates a difference between humans and machines. Before this difference gets eroded, throw away those mechanical routines of life and take some time out every day to explore your creativity.
Encourage creativity in your environment be it at home or at work. Encourage everybody to express personal creativity, it not only makes people happy and positive but also creates a very healthy and nurturing environment for all, including you.
Becoming a creative person is not difficult and impossible at all, it only needs your constant zeal to explore the vastness of your intellect. Being creative means life is never boring and monotonous and you are always filled with curiosity to see, feel and hear something new. Never rest and never stops because you never know if your zeal can create something which can possibly change the life of millions.
Seema Bhatnagar, Blogger, Writer, Life Coach and Founder of Abundance Thinkers, site for personal growth and development. Empowering people in achieving and living the best of personal potential.
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Dabur promoters in advanced talks to invest in EasyPolicy.com
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New Delhi: The Burman Family Office, the investment arm of the Burman family, promoters of fast-moving consumer group conglomerate
India, is in the final stages of negotiations to invest an undisclosed amount in online insurance policy aggregator EasyPolicy.com.
The investment, if successful, will the first round of institutional funding for Noida-based EasyPolicy, which competes with market leader and Tiger Globalbacked PolicyBazaar.com, which, reportedly, is also in the midst of closing a Rs 300-crore round of funding, led by PremjiInvest, the personal investment arm of Wipro chairman Azim Premji.
An email sent to Gaurav Burman, director at Dabur International, did not receive any response at the time of going to press, while Alok Bhatnagar, founder of EasyPolicy, also declined to speak on the developments.
Founded in 2011 by former Thomson Reuters executive Bhatnagar, Neeraj Aggarwala and Divyanshu Tripathi, a founding member of PolicyBazaar, Easy-Policy compares and sells insurance plans in life and non-life categories across insurers.
The Burman Family Office manages the Burman family's investment across asset classes, including real estate, and both, public and private investments in industries, ranging from financial services and insurance, to healthcare.
Unlike in the West, family offices in India, until recently, have largely tended to have a more conventional and assetheavy investment approach, and have usually parked their money in assets such as real estate, gold and equities. "These investments work very well for family offices, since the multiple kickers tend to be very high in the segments, especially when you compared them to core sectors. There is a lot of upside at the time of exits," said Jeetendra Bhandari, partner, MGB & Co, a tax, audit and regulatory services firm.
Apart from PremjiInvest and Catamaran Ventures, the investment arm of Infosys Technologies co-founder NR Narayana Murthy, the last couple of years have also seen the emergence of the likes of Nirvana Ventures and RAAY Global investments, the early-stage venture capital firm and family office, respectively, of the Patni family that have increasingly focused on technology and consumer internet ventures.
"For the investee companies, getting family offices on board as investors is a very comfortable proposition, because they're long-term investors. There is also the added advantage of bringing a reputed brand name on board," said Bhandari.
According to industry data, India's insurance sector is estimated at Rs 1.60 lakh crore, of which the online insurance aggregation players currently contribute just between 1% and 1.5%. The online insurance space is, however, growing at about 200% year-on-year
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Comfortable Chelsea win boosts top-four hopes
Lloyd Kelly of AFC Bournemouth is challenged by Kai Havertz of Chelsea during the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and AFC Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on December 27, 2022 in London, England.
Chelsea boosted their top-four hopes as they resumed their Premier League season with a comfortable victory over Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge.
Having failed to score in three consecutive matches prior to the break for the World Cup it took Chelsea less than 16 minutes to get up and running with Kai Havertz sliding in an effort at the back post from Raheem Sterling's low cross.
With the hosts dominant, Mason Mount celebrated his 150th appearance for Chelsea in style, curling a superb effort into the bottom right corner of the Bournemouth net from the edge of the penalty area.
It drew a nod of satisfaction from manager Graham Potter who will have been delighted by the slick performance his side produced, particularly during the first half.
Christian Pulisic saw an effort ruled out after Havertz was judged to have fouled Adam Smith, while the German also spurned a second-half opportunity to extend Chelsea's lead.
The only negative in Potter's and Chelsea's evening came with the earlier-than-planned withdrawal of Reece James, seven minutes into the second period, on his return from the knee injury that ruled him out of the England squad for Qatar.
The 23-year-old lay on the turf with his hands on his head before receiving treatment and eventually walking off unaided.
While the Cherries improved after the break, and substitute Ryan Christie forced home goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga into a good save, they rarely looked capable of applying any late pressure to the hosts.
The result sees Chelsea move up to eighth in the table, six points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham with Bournemouth remaining in 14th.
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Another release, or set of releases, which has taken me by surprise! Not because I'd forgotten about them, far from it; no, just that the first inkling I had of their release came late last night in a tweet form Fantom Films.
Herbert George Wells was a novelist, teacher, historian and journalist, who has become known as the "father of science fiction." His works have been adapted countless times, and provided the basis for many literary and theatrical productions.
A Victorian scientist known only as the Time Traveller creates a machine capable of moving through the fourth dimension. Using it, he is transported to the year 802,701 and thrown into a life and death adventure with the fearsome Morlocks.
As a result of an accident with an experiment, two unlikely friends are propelled on a journey to the moon. But a whole new universe of terrors await them there, including the insectoid Selenites. Will they be able to overcome these perils, and find a safe way home?
A collection of twelve short stories and the transcript of a dream. Included in this collection are Filmer, The Magic Shop, The Valley of Spiders, The Truth About Pyecraft, Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland, The Inexperienced Ghost, Jimmy Goggles the God, The New Accelerator, Mr Ledbetter's Vacation, The Stolen Body, Mr Brishner's Treasure, Miss Winchelsea's Heart and A Dream of Armageddon.
A collection of eight short stories exploring science fiction and fantasy themes. Included in this collection are A Door in the Wall, The Star, A Dream of Armageddon, The Cone, A Moonlight Fable, The Diamond Maker, The Lord of the Dynamos and The Country of the Blind.
I was thrilled and flattered to be asked to record these HG Wells stories. The longer novels were already familiar to me, having seen a number of versions made for television or the cinema; not to mention the legendary Mercury Theatre radio adaptation of 'The War of The Worlds', famously devised and directed by Orson Welles, which allegedly caused mass panic in the USA when it was first broadcast by CBS in 1938.
I confess to never having read the original books and I certainly didn't know the short stories. However familiar these stories might at first appear, I hope, should you listen to any of them, that you will discover new and unexpected aspects to each narrative.
In their differing ways, each one of these novels and short stories revealed something new to me and I was regularly surprised as to how Wells articulated his highly original and profoundly influential ideas.


His wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, revealed all on Australian television.
Royal watchers have been learning more and more lately about what monarchs should and shouldn't eat — thanks to revelations coming out surrounding the latest royal, Meghan Markle. For example, it was recently made public that she will have to basically cut one of her most beloved foods from her life — at least for official royal outings, if not altogether.
In a recent interview, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who's married to Meghan's new father-in-law Prince Charles, just confirmed that garlic is forbidden in the family.
"Garlic is a no-no," she said during an appearance on MasterChef Australia.
She also revealed the foods that make Prince Charles super happy.
It might sound a little cheesy (ahem), but it's delightful to know that Prince Charles isn't fussy when it comes to eating. And he loves a food beloved by so many mere commoners among us all.
No word on whether he has a daily cocktail habit, like his Mum.


This set of Biochemistry Question Bank focuses on "Biosynthesis of Cholesterol, Steroids and Isoprenoids".
Explanation: The receptors for steroid hormones reside at nucleoplasm.
Explanation: Steroids have sterol nucleus but lack the alkyl chain attached to the ring D of cholesterol.
Explanation: Prenisolone and prednisone are chemically steroids.
Explanation: Isoprene units are the essential intermediates in the pathway from acetate to cholesterol.
Explanation: The first intermediate in cholesterol synthesis is mevalonate.
6. How many carbons are present in HMG co-A?
Explanation: Two molecules of acetyl co-A condense to form acetoacetyl co-A, which condenses with the third molecule of acetyl co-A to yield six-carbon compound HMG co-A.
7. Which of the following is the major point of regulation on the pathway to cholesterol?
Explanation: HMG co-A reductase is the major point of regulation on the pathway to cholesterol.
8. Which of the following is the integral membrane protein of smooth ER?
Explanation: HMG co-A reductase is the integral membrane protein of smooth ER.
9. How many carbons are present in geranyl pyrophosphate?
Explanation: Geranyl pyrophosphate is a 10-carbon chain.
10. Which of the following regulates female reproductive cycle?
Explanation: Testosterone and estrogens which influence the development of secondary sexual characteristics in males and females, respectively.
Glucocorticoids help regulate gluconeogenesis and reduce the inflammatory response.
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Q: Best practice for writing specific exceptions What is considered best practice for writing custom exception classes? For example, if I'm creating a simple business application, should I create an exception for each domain object (CustomerNotFoundException, EmployeeNotFoundException, ProductNotFoundException, etc.)? If I do, it seems like a lot of clutter. In the examples in books that I'm studying, they always seem to have a 'not found' exception specifically for a domain object. But when I read discussions about exceptions, I get the sense that I shouldn't be creating a lot of custom exceptions.

A: It's really based on the situation. For example in an enterprise system where there's a lot of people working on the same enviroment and/or where it's expected that other might extend your code or build on it, it's is rather useful to have different exceptions, to provide a more detailed interface to your code. On small systems, with static codebase on the otherhand, it's rather cumbersome and just makes the code less transparent. In general as a rule of thumb your code should document itself and/or should have a detailed documentation (with preferably the source included) available, so others can find the source of the problem, regardless if you have custom excetions or not.

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Video: TNT's "The Last Ship" Trailer - Season 3 Premieres June 12
The series was one of last summer's top 5 scripted series on basic cable among total viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
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The Race to Save Humanity Heats Up as TNT's "The Last Ship" Returns for Season 3 with Two-Hour Premiere on June 12
The Last Ship Finished Season 2 as One of the Summer's Top 5 Scripted Series on Basic Cable
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The wait is nearly over. TNT's epic drama The Last Ship - one of last summer's Top 5 scripted series on basic cable among total viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 - is preparing to set sail again in its quest to save humanity after a devastating pandemic with a two-hour premiere this summer. Eric Dane (Grey's Anatomy), Bridget Regan (Agent Carter), Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Chuck), Travis Van Winkle (Heart of Dixie), Marissa Neitling (Leverage) and Jocko Sims (Masters of Sex) star in the high-impact series, which is produced by Platinum Dunes, with its partners - blockbuster filmmaker Michael Bay, Brad Full er and Andrew Form - serving as executive producers. Co-creators and showrunners Hank Steinberg (creator of Without a Trace, The Nine) and Steven Kane (The Closer) are also executive producers, along with executive producers and directors Paul Holahan and Michael Katleman.
Based on William Brinkley's popular novel, The Last Ship chronicles a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world's population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoided falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now, Captain Tom Chandler (series star Eric Dane) and his crew must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors.
Following the epic second-season cliffhanger, the highly anticipated third season finds the crew of the Nathan James shifting their attention to Asia after President Michener hears rumblings that the Chinese leader, President Peng, has been hoarding the "Scott cure" instead of distributing it to the people in the region. Michener sends Chandler to a global summit to investigate this allegation, as well as rumors of a possible mutation of the original virus that has caused a fresh outbreak in Japan. If the mutation has occurred, and Asia has not been protected, the consequences for the world are dire. And with Rachel Scott shot in the season two finale, and her fate as yet unknown, hope is in low supply.
The Last Ship also stars Charles Parnell (Pariah), Christina Elmore (Fruitvale Station), Bren Foster (Days of Our Lives) and Kevin Michael Martin.
Fans can catch up with TNT's The Last Ship: The Complete Second Season, debuting May 3 on Blu-ray and DVD and stacked with hours of bonus content, including exclusive featurettes, behind-the-episode clips, cast interviews and more.
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The other day I was idling at a traffic light beside Walgreens. A sign staked in the berm said, One Hour Photo Processing. Could I really get film processed in a local drugstore? It wasn't true. The store used the back of that old sign to advertise Cokes on sale.
This year we lost Kodak. Not just the cameras and film, but the idea of Kodak. Kodak has been compared to Gillette, a company famous for making cheap razors requiring pricey blades. Yes, Kodak made cameras that needed Kodak film. But those cameras were artfully designed devices that let anyone become a photographer.
The Kodak Brownie, named after the characters of Palmer Cox's illustrations, was a wonderful camera. My sister took the only childhood snapshot of me at home with her Brownie Target. Although cameras were relatively inexpensive, our family couldn't afford one for years, and when we did get a camera, it was a big deal to shoot a whole roll of film and then have it developed.
We didn't take pictures back then like we do now. Nobody took a photo of their plate! We brought the camera out on special occasions–holidays, birthdays. In an episode of Mad Men, when Peggy Olson's mother says, "Go get the Brownie," she didn't mean fetch dessert, but that it was time to record the priest's visit to their home.
We didn't have loads of photographs, either. My mother's album was four flip files that fit into a box. Every time we went home, we would flick through pictures we knew by heart but wanted to see again–awkward poses, poor lighting, barely framed subject, looming photographer's shadows, and all.
When Kodak filed for Chapter 11 in January of this year, the writing was on the wall. It didn't seem to matter that this company had defined a century. Now we have digital cameras (and phones!) that can do everything but our taxes.
I too was eager to jump on the digital camera bandwagon. I take pictures of plates and other insignificant things simply because I can. However, I do unload my photos from the camera. While I share pictures via this blog and email, I also print them out. The computer screen is no substitute for an artifact I can hold in my hand.
I'll miss Kodak for enabling me to freeze special moments in my life, like my high school graduation, our wedding supper. I'll miss the bright yellow film boxes. I'll miss the ads. The commercial I remember most featured a baby girl at a door. As Paul Arnold sings "Turn Around," we see the girl grow up in a series of snapshots.
If you want to view that wonderful commercial, here's the link. Because I (still) can't embed a video, the link will break from this post. So watch it and come back to the blog, or read the rest of my post and play the commercial. You will love this leisurely look back.
Turn around and you're two . . .
Turn around and you're four . . .
Turn around and you're a young girl going out of the door.
Where are you going my little one, little one? Little dirdls and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you're tiny, turn around and you're grown.
Turn around and you're a young wife with babes of your own.
Thanks, Kodak, for the memories. I will tend them like rare orchids.
I could blame it on magazines, but that wouldn't be entirely fair. Nobody made me buy all those "shelter" magazines over the decades, and nobody told me to try to style our house–and our lives–like a magazine spread. Yet I kept files of clippings, whole rooms I craved to recreate, believing my life would be perfect if I painted our powder room Benjamin Moore's Man in the Moon (Mary Engelbreit), or bought Broyhill's Attic Heirlooms furniture (Better Homes and Garden).
The Christmas issues laid on the most pressure–whole layouts of houses (all furnished in Attic Heirlooms, it seemed) dripping with garland and French ribbons. For years, I draped and tinseled until our house looked like Macy's. I dressed fifty bears in Christmas outfits. I climbed on the dining room table to swag gold glitter beads on the chandelier and hang Christopher Radko ornaments from its brass branches with dental floss. I stabbed cloves into oranges for natural centerpieces and even filled pinecones with peanut butter and carved suet stars for a bird's Christmas tree.
The outside of our house was a study in seasonal restraint–a red-ribboned wreath on the front door and individual candle lights in each of our windows. No icicle lights fringing the gutters or plastic reindeer prancing on our lawn.
Then we moved to Fredericksburg to a new house in the country. All around us people who never cracked the pages of House Beautiful slapped up decorations willy-nilly. A blow-up Frosty the Snowman stood next to a hand-painted nativity that was ringed with candy canes, the whole scene lit up like Times Square. In contrast, our constipated candle lights radiated as much cheer as a match flame in Mammoth Cave.
Because I was a big fat snot back then, I thought their decorations were tacky, thrown up with no regard to design, scale, or sense. And yet . . . I always noticed those yards exploding with Santa-hatted penguins and holiday holograms projected on garage doors. I liked their mismatched displays pitch-forked every December with joyful abandon.
Last week I heard "Christmas in Virginia" by county singer (and Virginia native) Clinton Gregory. The words lean toward corny, but they helped ease the tight knot inside me. It was time to get over myself and let go of the notion of striving for perfection. I'd tossed our stingy candle lights long ago, and while I'm not yet ready to buy a giant Hello Kitty snow globe, I appreciate the efforts my neighbors make.
I can see Mama at the door softly callin' , "Come on in." It's Christmas in Virginia, again.
Virginia Christmas . . . I just cain't wait. My heart's runnin' ninety to nothin' down this ol' interstate.
I don't know why but it makes me cry when we all gather in.
It's Christmas in Virginia, again.
As I was composing this post last night, I heard singing outside our house. Our across-the-street neighbors–a pastor and his family who erect a lighted cross on their lawn during the season–along with friends, babies, toddlers in strollers, all gathered to sing "O Come All Ye Faithful" to us.
Their clear, true voices rose in the cold dark. A little boy named Nathan handed me a bag of homemade spice cookies and stood on the porch with me as he sang. My husband lent his fine baritone and the rest of the knot in my chest melted.
Wherever home is, gather in. Sing. And have the best Christmas ever.
The last few years, my husband and I have celebrated the holiday at our favorite tea shop in Fredericksburg. When I called to make reservations this year for the full-out "Queen's Tea," the one with so much food we don't eat for the next two days, I was told that they'd changed locations. What! Not in that darling centuries-old cottage any more?
They'd moved to downtown Fredericksburg proper, on the street with all the cute shops and trendy restaurants and antique stores. They had central heat and a/c, the owner informed me, and it was bigger. And no yard!
The old cottage had two rooms and a higgledy-piggledy look with a crooked roof and odd step-ups and step-downs and a fireplace. The tables were close together but your table always felt private. The old cottage was haunted by two ghosts. It had a picket fence and rose bushes.
When we opened the door to the new place, we were struck by the fact it was too bright. Shiny new crystal chandeliers blared overhead. The floor was tile, not the frumpy old carpets of the old place, and smelled strongly of Lysol. The tables and chairs were the same, spaced in neat rows, with the same pink tablecloths. The decorations–plates and lace and teapots that reminded you of an old lady's china cabinet at the old location–were barely noticeable here.
Everything felt wrong. Before, you made reservations because the cottage filled up quickly, especially during the holiday season. The little rooms would be packed with women dressed in red sweaters and Christmas tree pins, with older women wearing hats, with little girls in white tights and sash-waisted dresses and little boys in suits. The rafters rang with laughter and polite conversation and good cheer.
The new place is so big, it easily accommodates walk-in trade, people off the street in down vests and hoodies, wanting lunch and not full holiday tea. My husband and I talked little, feeling like we'd walked into the wrong party. Our favorite waitress served us and the food was the same, still delicious.
But the chipped cup and saucer at my place setting that was charming in the old location felt like a careless oversight in the new building. Worse, the waitresses trundled stainless steel carts with dirty dishes past the tables. At the old place, the food appeared as if by magic, the dirty cups and saucers were whisked away, and we never saw what went on behind the curtain.
We ate our fill and made awkward conversation, knowing this would be our last holiday tea. We won't be celebrating our Valentine anniversary here, either, nor birthdays. If we happen to be downtown sometime we might stop in for lunch, wearing our regular clothes and our regular expectations for a noonday meal.
Sometimes change is good. You get central heat and a/c and a room in the back for large parties. You don't have to fool with the roses or cut the grass.
This experience made me think long and hard about the settings in my work. If I want intimacy, I'll put my characters in a tea shop. If I want distance, I'll stick them in a restaurant pretending to be a tea shop.
It's been a while since I've had a new book simmering on the stove. For the longest time (since 2010) this project has been on a back burner with the flame cut off. About a month ago I took out two back burner ideas. The spark of this particular idea fanned to life immediately and began making demands. When a book gets bossy, I know it's ready.
This is a big book, complex, with many moving parts. When I work on it, or even think about it, I feel both excited and nauseous. As with all my books, the method that worked for the previous book won't do for the current project. It's like fixing your first husband's favorite recipes for your second husband, a man with entirely different tastes.
I usually cover a composition notebook with a collage that represents what the book is about and carry that notebook with me everywhere. But this book has dropped broad hints that we're going to be together a long time and it will grow tired of looking at the same old tatty composition notebook.
So I bought a 9 x 7 inch 3-ring binder, red, with clear pockets on the covers. I made a Christmas-themed collage to jolly the book into a holiday mood. It's pleased. But after Christmas, it'll want a new collage–maybe something New Year's related, and then one for winter, one to signal the return of spring, and so on as we go through 2013 (and most likely even longer).
When my mother made Christmas divinity, she stirred and waited, checking the candy thermometer until the mixture was at the hardball stage. Some books are like that, written feverishly and then yanked off the stove when they're done. This project will be like risotto or polenta or one of those dishes that takes absolutely forever.
This book will not brook boredom. It will need to be entertained. I'll probably buy it a noisemaker because the book will be up on New Year's Eve having a grand old time while I'll be in bed, exhausted from keeping up with its commands.
I ran away from Christmas one year. It was 1989 and I had lost my mother that June. By December, I couldn't stand the thought of shopping or the glare of malls or even our private little Christmas Eve celebration at home. I couldn't do any of the traditions that had shaped my holidays since I could remember. So that year I announced we were leaving town.
My husband insisted on some kind of a tree so I bought a two-foot artificial tree and a bunch of Hallmark Charlie Brown miniature ornaments and plunked it on our coffee table. We went to the Williamsburg outlets on Christmas Eve day. I staggered from store to store until I found myself in the Royal Doulton store twenty minutes before closing time. I bought a set of platinum-rimmed china, four place settings for $1000, discounted to $250 because it was Christmas Eve.
On our way back home, we stopped in a Holiday Inn for supper. I looked out the window at the mostly empty parking lot and saw my reflection trapped in the dark glass. What were we doing here?
Christmas Day we went to my sister's in Richmond. That evening, we drove to Big Meadows on Skyline Drive to spend the night. While my husband snapped photographs on the balcony, I set up my Dayplanner for 1990. One of his pictures was a double exposure—me sitting at a desk working by lamplight, superimposed on an image of wintry fields. An accidental photograph that spoke volumes.
At home, I packed away the little tree with its Charlie Brown miniature ornaments. And never found it again. The Christmas of 1989 turned out to be the Christmas That Never Was—even the tree disappeared.
Though I vowed we would never run away from the holiday again, it was hard to get involved in Christmas. I began to dread it as early as August. The only way to get past the holidays, I decided, was to crash my way through them like a linebacker.
I started shopping in August. All cards, trimmings, and presents were bought by Halloween. I wrapped presents in November and began addressing cards on Thanksgiving. Cards and out-of-town presents were in the mail by December 8. I began decorating on December 1 and the tree went up December 15. Boom, boom, boom. I crossed each item off my list with savage satisfaction.
As the years went on, my dread of Christmas backed up to July, and then June, when Hallmark debuted their ornament collection. As early as Labor Day, stores overlapped Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. My stress level rose. It wasn't until my doctor noticed my August agitation that I admitted I was losing my annual attack on the holidays. He told me to lower my expectations.
He was right, of course, but that wasn't entirely it. I dashed through the holidays because I didn't want to experience them. I met women who kept their trees up, and Christmas in their hearts, all year. What was wrong with me that I couldn't find even a tiny corner in my heart for this holiday? And then I thought about how my mother managed to get through Christmas after my father left us, when we lost our house and had no money.
She gave my sister and me Christmas, no matter how bad she felt. And when I look back, I realize I got through the holiday because of my husband. I pulled it together for him because without marking our marriage with measured celebrations, the days would slip into years and we wouldn't remember any of it.
And when I unpack my husband's mother's cardboard village, and my mother's reindeer, and the little nativities I bought for a dime when I was ten, and the Christmas cards sent to me by grandparents I only saw three times in my life—ratty, broken, mouse-chewed things that crumble a bit more each year—only then do I notice my reflection in an old gold glass bulb and realize that Christmas makes me slow down and remember and be glad for these few short days, in spite of myself.
I take a deep breath, turn the tree lights on, and let Christmas in.
Sharon Stanley, at the very charming Sharon Stanley Writes, interviewed me about Rebel McKenzie.
What I love most about her questions is that she made me think about the writing of that book. It's been three years since I wrote Rebel–was there anything left to say about it? There was! Sharon's questions, and my answers, help me focus on what I'm working on now.
When you get done reading about Rebel, get your Old McDonald on and peruse Sharon's site. It's filled with cows and chickens and the doin's of a real Virginia farm.


I have an application that draws mechanical objects as wireframes. I want to extend this to making the wireframes into solid objects. I have created the solids using various CAD program APIs but there are too many variations. What I am thinking of doing is to create the solid in my application and then translating that image using a standard translator like IGES, STL, or STEP.
1. Is OpenGL the best choice for a Delphi programmer?
2. What resource is best for learning solid programming?
3. Where can I find the newest standards for translators?
OpenGL is for rendering to the screen. DirectX and OpenGL are both very good ways to do this. OpenGL has the advantage of running on operating systems other than Windows, while DirectX is perhaps a little more capable but Windows only.
You can do OpenGL with Delphi fairly nicely, though I am not up to speed on the latest support. In the past I used glScene for doing some basic 3D stuff, but in XE8 I think there are better options to explore, and glScene seems to be dying. glScene was very good for me to import STL files and render them in 3D, though.
Sorry, I don't have a good answer for this one.
Unfortunately, the best ones are really only for C++, but you can ask around and look for some kind of Delphi interface, or depending on your budget have someone write something for you.
We license stuff from Spatial Technologies. They have a couple of extremely competent CAD kernels (ACIS and CGM) which you can find in about 1/2 of the CAD systems out there. They are not cheap, but if you are serious about doing solid modeling, they are a fantastic resource. They also have a product called "InterOP" which is a boatload of high end CAD file filters that can be used to import just about any CAD file format out there. Finally, they have a product "HOOPS" (which is actually from TechSoft 3D) that can be used for rendering the 3D. Unfortunately, they do not have interfaces into Delphi, though you might ask about that. They do have excellent training, though, as well as great consultants and such.
A competitor to ACIS / CGM to look at is Parasolids. They also have some file filters, if I remember right, but mostly they are a CAD engine.
There is a company IntraSIM that also makes file filters. Keep in mind that all of this stuff is both very complex, and very expensive.
There is also a "free" CAD kernel out there "OpenCascade". It is pretty powerful, but also seems a bit of a mess and they make their money on support so it may require support more than it should. It is worth looking into if you need free.
I guess a big question here is what precisely do you want to accomplish? Can you get away with focusing on just a single file format? Do you really need solid modeling, or do you just need "3D". Can you get away with working with triangles, or do you need the fancy topology of watertight solids?
I have a couple of consultants that I work with that could be of help to you, if you need recommendations.
Unfortunately, in the CAD engine world everyone seems to be C++, so getting this stuff in Delphi is not so easy.


Dec. 8: Sugar Plum Shopping at the Dorcas Hall, from 3-5 p.m. Children are welcome to come and pick out free presents for their parents, grandparents and siblings.
Dec. 8: Santa Claus is visiting Cambridge, from 5-7 p.m. in the Cambridge City Center. Children will receive goody bags and toys. A soup supper will be served for a free-will donation and the tree lighting will be at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by Cambridge Fire Department and the Cambridge American Legion Mathis-Wire Post #233.
Dec. 9: Cambridge Librarian Janet Thorson retirement open house, from 2-4 p.m. at the Cambridge Library in the city center. Thorson has served as librarian for more than 45 years and is retiring in January.


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Does Sprinting Burn More Fat?
By Nick Ng
Nick Ng
Nick Ng has been writing fitness articles since 2003, focusing on injury prevention and exercise strategies. He has covered health for "MiaBella" magazine. Ng received his Bachelor of Arts in communications from San Diego State University in 2001 and has been a certified fitness coach with the National Academy of Sports Medicine since 2002.
Sprinting is running as fast as you can over a short period of time or distance. Although sprinting burns a lot of calories, there is not enough time for your body to use fat as a fuel source during a sprint. Many people who wish to lose weight often get confused about what type of exercise is the best to increase fat reduction. According to Robert dos Remedios, director of speed, strength and conditioning at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, the best way to burn fat is to perform high-intensity exercises.
Female sprinter in starting position
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Long-Term Energy
Aerobic exercise is any type of exercise that you can sustain over a long period time at a steady pace, such as jogging and walking. Your body uses oxygen, glucose and fat in aerobic metabolism to produce energy. Sprinting does not use the aerobic metabolic pathway to function, but the after-effect of sprinting does.
Intense Energy
Anaerobic exercise does not require you to use oxygen to perform. Your body's primary source of fuel comes from high-energy compounds called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, that is stored and recycled in your muscles. Since your body has a finite amount of ATP storage, you will not be able to do high-intensity exercise for longer than 10 seconds. According to Vern Gambetta, director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems in Sarasota, Florida, your body uses the stored ATP and some glucose for energy during sprinting. For longer sprints or any high-intensity exercise, you body uses glucose as an energy source to make more ATP.
EPOC: The After-Burner
After a bout of sprinting, your body's metabolism increases to recover the lack of oxygen and to recover to its resting state. This process is called excessive post-exercise consumption, or EPOC, where your body burns a higher number of calories after strenuous exercise. While your body repairs muscle tissues and replenish cell nutrients, it uses fat as the main fuel source for energy in EPOC. In 1994, Dr. Angelo Trembblay, an exercise physiologist at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, conducted a study on EPOC with two groups of people. One group did high-intensity exercise at several intervals, while the second group did steady-pace aerobics. The first group burned three times more body fat than the second group. Therefore, sprinting causes your body to undergo EPOC, which uses fat for energy to recover.
Be a Better Burner
Many people believe that doing low-intensity exercise for a long period of time burns of the most amount of fat. Although your body uses about 50 percent of your calories from fat during low-intensity exercise, the number of calories you burn is much lower than that of high-intensity exercise, which uses about 90 percent of its energy from glucose. According to Gambetta, the effects of EPOC from doing sprinting and other high-intensity exercise will help you burn fat after exercising.
The frequency and duration of your exercise sessions has a profound effect on how much fat you burn over time. Long-duration endurance exercise can be just as effective as sprinting if it is performed on a consistent basis. While sprinting burns more calories in a single bout, the duration of a single sprint is mere seconds compared to minutes or hours of endurance exercise. Interspersing sprints between longer bouts of endurance exercise, a technique called high-intensity interval training, or HIIT will result in both aerobic and anaerobic benefits for fat metabolism.
"Cardio Strength Training"; Robert dos Remedios; 2009
"Athletic Development"; Vern Gambetta; 2006
ExRx.net: Impact of Exercise Intensity on Body Fatness and Skeletal Muscle Metabolism
IDEA Health and Fitness Association: HIIT Vs. Continuous Endurance Training: Battle Of The Aerobic Titans
How Many Calories Are Burned in Sprinting?
Difference Between Running & Sprinting
Is Running Long Distance or Interval Running Better for Losing Weight?
How Long Will it Take to Get Ripped Doing Sprints?
How Fast Can You Lose Weight by Sprinting?
Do You Get in Better Shape Running or Sprinting?


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Results of the first ever global marine life census were unveiled this week, revealing a startling overview after a decade-long trawl through the murky depths.
The Census of Marine Life estimated there are more than one million species in the oceans, with at least three-quarters of them yet to be discovered.
The US$650-million international study discovered more than 6,000 potentially new species, and found some species considered rare were actually common.
The census establishes a baseline against which 21st-century changes can be monitored.
New species were discovered, marine highways and rest stops mapped and changes in species abundance were documented.
The research involved more than 2,700 scientists, 670 institutions, more than 540 expeditions and around 9,000 days at sea. Nearly 30 million observations of 120,000 species were made.
The census was formally launched in London, with more than 300 figures involved gathering to share the results and consider their implications.
"The census has far exceeded any dream that I had. We felt like the people who created the first dictionary and encyclopaedia 250 years ago," said Jesse Ausubel, a scientist who co-founded the study.
The survey set out to find out what used to live in the oceans, what lives there now and what might live there in the future.
The census said 16,764 species of fish had so far been described, but an estimated 5,000 more were yet to be discovered.
Scientists found some species thought extinct 50 million years ago, while other finds were less encouraging.
Around 40 percent of plankton, at the bottom of the ocean food chain, has disappeared in the last 30 years, which was put down to a rise in ocean temperatures.
Sharks have disappeared from 99 percent of some areas.
"All surface life depends on life inside and beneath the oceans. Sea life provides half of our oxygen and a lot of our food and regulates climate. We are all citizens of the sea," he said.
The census documented a changing marine world, richer in diversity, more connected through distribution and movements, more impacted by humans and less explored than was expected.
The researchers used sound, satellites and electronics to track migratory routes.
They got down to 10 kilometres below the sea in the western Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
They affirmed that by weight up to 90 percent of marine life is microbial – with the equivalent of 35 elephants for every living person.
Scientific steering committee vice-chair Myriam Sibuet of France, said: "The census enlarged the known world. Life astonished us everywhere we looked.
Much of the marine world remains to be explored, so vast are the seas.
The census shows where explorers have not yet looked. For more than 20 percent of the oceans' volume, the database has no records at all, and for large areas very few.
The findings are partially available at www.iobis.org.


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General manager Jason Licht declined to give an update on Beckwith's recovery from a fractured ankle Tuesday, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Beckwith is managing his recovery from a fractured ankle sustained in a car accident last April. The third-year pro spent all of 2018 on the NFI list, but did briefly surface in team practices before ultimately being shut down for the season. It remains to be seen whether Beckwith, who racked up 73 tackles and a sack during his rookie season, will recover in time to participate in OTAs.
Coach Dirk Koetter said Monday that Beckwith (ankle) won't play during the 2018 season, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
The Buccaneers have been stashing Beckwith on the Non-Football Injury list all season after he fractured his ankle during a car accident in the spring. Koetter's announcement means that the linebacker will now revert to injured reserve and turn his focus towars recovering in time to participate in OTAs.
Coach Dirk Koetter said Friday that Beckwith (ankle) will not play Week 11, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Beckwith continues to manage his recovery from a fractured ankle sustained during a car accident this offseason, and will not make his 2018 debut Week 11. With fellow linebacker Lavonte David (knee) also ruled out for Sunday's tilt against the Giants, second-year pro Riley Bullough could be in line for a significant uptick in defensive snaps.
Beckwith (ankle) won't be activated off the Non-Football Injury list prior to Sunday's game against the Redskins, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Beckwith continues his recovery from the ankle fracture sustained in a car accident this spring, but will have to wait until next week for his potential return at least. Coach Dirk Koetter indicated the 23-year-old has a more positive outlook than just a few days ago, and is about halfway through the 21-day window in which he can return since he started practicing at the end of October.


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0bama, Clapper and most of Congress are full of s**t: Where's the Bullshit Repellent When We Need It?
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Many years ago, back in 1975 when Gerald Ford was the nation's default president, I spent a summer living in the home of two friends, both important anti-war academics, who had two young children. One of their kids, Jacob, who was about seven at the time and smart as a whip, had been given the gift of a can of compressed air which carried a label claiming it contained a miracle product called "Bullshit Repellent." Whenever someone in the house -- family member, me, or some other guest -- would say something ridiculous, stupid or false, someone would inevitably yell out, "Jacob, get the Bullshit Repellent!" Jacob would come running in enthusiastically with the can and would spray it proudly at whoever was uttering the BS.
I sure wish I had Jacob and his spray can right now. I simply cannot believe the BS being spouted by President Obama, National Security Agency Director James Clapper, or the members of Congress who should be demanding their heads for the unprecedented surveillance and spying on all Americans that has just been exposed.
Let's start at the top. Our president (who once boasted of having taught Constitutional law), decried way back in 2007 when he was contemplating a run for the White House, what he correctly labeled the Bush-Cheney administration's "false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide." Fast forward to the president today, after his all-encompassing monitoring of all the phone and internet communications of all Americans, and here's what he's saying now (speaking last Friday in San Jose after the humongous pervasiveness and intrusiveness of the spying was exposed in the U.K Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post:
"I think it's important for everybody to understand ... that there are some trade-off's involved. You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. You know, we're going to have to make some choices as a society."
Jacob, quick! The bullshit repellent!
Where to start. A security-for-liberty trade-off? Where's the security? We just had a bombing in Boston that would have been spotted in a minute if the FBI were monitoring the Tsarnaev brothers" websites (assuming they are the guilty parties). But the FBI said it "stopped" monitoring Tamerlan Tsarnaev after interviewing him several times, and "closed" his case, despite his having travelled to Dagestan, and despite warnings from Russian intelligence. This is the kind of "100 percent security" we get in return for handing over 100% of our privacy on the phone and online? What BS!...
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Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong reaches deal to buy San Diego Union-Tribune, L.A. Times
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital will pay nearly $500 million in cash for the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune; along with U-T Community Press, which includes this newspaper.
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By Meg James, Roger Showley and Lori Weisberg
Feb. 8, 2018 2:55 PM PT
Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has agreed to purchase The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times from its parent company. (The purchase of The San Diego Union-Tribune includes this newspaper, which is part of U-T Community Press.)
Chicago-based Tronc on Wednesday, Feb. 7, announced the sale of the Union-Tribune, The Times and the Spanish-language Hoy to Soon-Shiong's investment firm, Nant Capital, for nearly $500 million in cash.
"It is often said that Southern California is the place where the world comes to see its future. It has welcomed generations of immigrants who worked hard, started new businesses and helped others do the same," Soon-Shiong said in a note Wednesday to the papers' staffs. "My own family immigrated from southern China to South Africa generations ago. We chose to settle in Los Angeles because this is the place that most felt like home.
"Ultimately, this decision is deeply personal for me. As someone who grew up in apartheid South Africa, I understand the role that journalism needs to play in a free society," Soon-Shiong said.
Soon-Shiong, 65, invested in Tronc in spring 2016 to help the company fight a takeover bid from USA Today owner Gannett. That positioned him as the company's second-largest shareholder, but soon led to friction with Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro as the two men became rivals for control of the company.
The sale to Soon-Shiong came together quickly, over the last few days, and startled many observers. Tronc had fended off previous efforts to buy the company outright or peel off the California newspapers. It had insisted that The Times was key to its strategy of building a global entertainment brand — given its proximity to Hollywood, technology hubs and the Pacific Rim.
But, amid a barrage of negative publicity in Los Angeles, Ferro began to reassess his company's strategy.
He came up with a number — $500 million — and decided that if he could fetch that price for The Times and the Union-Tribune, then it was the right time to sell.
It's unclear whether he or Soon-Shiong made the first overture this time around, but talks began less than a week ago and reached a fever pitch over the weekend. That's when the contours of a deal came together.
"This was a fairly efficient process," said Dennis Culloton, spokesman for Ferro. He noted that Ferro's change of heart came after the Chicago investor stepped back and assessed "the big picture."
"Michael's career leading public companies has been marked by one thing — increasing value for shareholders," Culloton said. "And when there was an opportunity to get this kind of a price, he determined that it was a great opportunity to bring enormous value to shareholders and the company."
Tronc's stock price leaped after the deal was announced, closing up 19 percent at $21.55.
By agreeing to the $500 million price tag, Soon-Shiong is paying a significant premium. The purchase price plus the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities nearly equal the market capitalization of the entire Tronc chain, which stood at $608 million Tuesday.
With plummeting print advertising revenue, traditional publications have fallen out of favor on Wall Street. For example, Tronc's print revenue plummeted 17 percent in the first nine months of 2017.
But major newspapers have found several billionaire benefactors willing to throw them a lifeline. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013. That same year, Red Sox owner John Henry scooped up The Boston Globe and, in 2014, Minnesota billionaire and Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
As a local who already owns a minority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, Soon-Shiong probably will face high expectations — both from the Times' newsroom and the Southern California community.
Now Tronc will have a pile of cash as it retools its strategy — without its biggest source of content.
"We will have a versatile balance sheet that will enable us to be even more aggressive in executing on our growth strategy as a leading player in news and digital media," Justin Dearborn, chief executive of Tronc, said in a statement.
The company said it will form a new division called Tribune Interactive, which will be led by former Los Angeles Times Publisher Ross Levinsohn. Levinsohn, who had been placed on unpaid leave Jan. 19 amid revelations that he was a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits, resigned from his position at The Times on Wednesday.
It is also expected to use the $500 million in proceeds to pay down debt, make acquisitions and further its digital strategy across the remaining papers, which include the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News.
Dearborn said Chris Argentieri will resume his role as general manager of the California News Group and work with Soon-Shiong during the transition. Other key executives also will continue in their current roles: Jeff Light as publisher and editor of the Union-Tribune and Jim Kirk as editor in chief of The Times.
Though the purchase would mean a change of ownership for The Times and Union-Tribune, the papers will continue to collaborate with Tronc under a 12-month agreement to share corporate services such as payroll and human resources.
Media analyst Ken Doctor speculated that Tronc, as it seeks to build its own national online news network, may want to syndicate Times content, including its entertainment coverage.
"Ferro wanted to commercialize Los Angeles Times content, and I'd be surprised if he didn't keep the ability to do that in the contract," Doctor said. "They can get a steady stream of content without owning the asset."
Doctor acknowledges that while there are still a lot of unknowns surrounding the deal, it made sense to package the two properties together.
"The U-T is valuable, San Diego is a very good market and it's a lot less competitive than L.A.," said Doctor. "The operations have already been somewhat integrated so there are operational savings. I believe that Tronc would not have wanted to own the Union-Tribune alone if it was selling The Times, so it was essentially selling the California News Group."
Soon-Shiong does not have a background in publishing or journalism, so it remains an open question as to how he will manage the two Southern California properties, noted Doctor. With a fortune estimated by Forbes at close to $7.8 billion, Soon-Shiong has the financial wherewithal to reinvest in both The Times and the U-T but it's unclear whether he will, he added.
"It doesn't seem like cutting would be likely but the truth is nobody knows," Doctor said. "Given his financial capacity, there should be no short-term stress on these businesses. Understanding that reader revenues are the most important revenue, it would make sense to reinvest both in the content and in the digital product because it is that combination of unique content that is well delivered that encourages people to buy digital subscriptions."
While increased investments may seem more obvious for the Los Angeles Times, Doctor says it is "equally true for a good-sized metro paper like the U-T."
Soon-Shiong would be the U-T's fifth owner in the past decade.
The Union-Tribune, which is marking its 150th anniversary this year, was owned by the Copley family until it was sold to Platinum Equity in 2009, then to Douglas F. Manchester in 2012 and to Tribune Publishing, which later became Tronc, in 2015.
Light, the publisher and editor of the U-T, called the Soon-Shiong deal "a terrific outcome."
"I see opportunity for us on the business side and, more importantly, in our journalism," he said.
— Meg James writes for the Los Angeles Times, and Roger Showley and Lori Weisberg write for The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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