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Why Microsoft's Massive Job Cuts Could Usher in a Golden Age for Seattle
Recently, Microsoft cut the jobs of 18,000 employees, plus "shadow workers", or the vendors and contractors who indirectly work for Microsoft. All told, the cuts equaled about 70,000 lost jobs, which sounds pretty terrible, on the surface. But for Seattle, a sleeper city in terms of the tech industry, it can actually work out to be a bit of a Klondike Gold Rush for it.
What the Job Cuts Entail
For the first time in Microsoft's history, the Redwood, Washington-based will be entering uncharted territory as it makes its most severe round of cuts: 18,000 jobs. It's the most by far in the company's storied history (the last biggest round was 5,800 in 2009), and CEO Satya Nadella's move means roughly 15% of Microsoft's workforce will be gone. They have 127,104 employees worldwide, but the majority of the cuts (12,500) will come from the newly acquired Nokia; to make things worse, about half the employees that joined Microsoft from Nokia will be let go.
Cutting 18,000 jobs will save Microsoft money, but in the long-term. For now, they'll have to deal with severance pay and benefits packages that will total $1.1 to $1.6 billion.
But jobs and money aren't the only thing Microsoft will be distancing itself from, as the company won't be making Android phones through Nokia anymore. Instead, they'll be turning their attention to Lumia products that run Windows, which is understandable for a company whose bread and butter has been Windows. In a purely business sense, though, discontinuing manufacturing of Android phones — a hugely successful line — to replace it with one of the poorest-selling smartphones doesn't seem to make no sense at all. If Windows-based smartphones didn't work before, why would they now — and with a radically thinner workforce to pay attention to all the finer points?
Enter Seattle, and How It'll Swoop in to Save the Day
This is a prime opportunity for Seattle, which is just 16 miles away from Redmond, to capitalize on Microsoft's losses. Once the job cuts are complete, there'll be tens of thousands of tech-savvy employees looking for work, and Seattle companies will have more than their pick of the cream of the crop. Companies like Amazon and Zillow, businesses that are on the up-and-up, will be using the mass layoffs as a chance to strengthen their own companies and possibly pull ahead of Microsoft.
Further sweetening the deal, Seattle companies will lure away employees by offering job perks like free lunches, paid dry cleaning, or a half-share of a sustainably raised hog (a bit odd, but it definitely grabs your attention). The main goal is to attract the tech industry's best and brightest minds, regardless of what it takes to grab them, and a sudden pool of at least 18,000 fresh new faces doesn't come along very often.
In turn, the new companies that hire these employees — like software developers and engineers — will use their talents to increase the size and quality of their companies, which means even more job openings will open up. And as the cycle continues, it may not be long before employees who weren't laid off from Microsoft may choose to jump ship, anyway.
Another factor that'll cause employees to rush away from Microsoft and into the waiting arms of Seattle rivals is the disparity in stock value. Microsoft's stock values haven't become totally worthless, but they're not as much of a blue chip stock as they once were. In turn, shares in companies like Amazon and Zillow are better performing, giving workers a more attractive reason to commit there.
After all, if you're working for a company like Microsoft that not only seems to make poor business decisions but can't seem to right the ship enough to hold onto its employees, wouldn't you be swayed by the option of working elsewhere? And wouldn't that siren song grow even louder if prospective employers were bidding for your services by promising perks left and right, as well as being able to own shares in a stock that's continually and strongly rising?
Only time will tell if this will be Seattle's new golden age in technology, but the pieces definitely seem to be in place.
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Super Mario Odyssey & Breath of the Wild Nominated for Best Game at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards.
Posted by Justin | Jun 24, 2018 | News, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda | 0 |
Adding to the several accolades for the popular games for the Nintendo Switch, the 2018 Teen Choice Awards have announced both Super Mario Odyssey & The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have been nominated for the ceremonies "Choice Video Game" award.
The popular award ceremony, which has been around for nearly two decades, allows fans to vote for different categories including Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games.
The full lineup of nominees are as follows:
– Fire Emblem Heroes
– Fortnite
– PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
– Super Mario Odyssey
– Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Q: capitalize() method inside an if statement, inside a for loop in a dictionary I have created a for loop that loops through each key and value in the data dictionary items. Inside the for loop, I have created an if statement that checks if the value is not equal to "student". Inside the if statement, I am using the capitalize() method to update the string values for all strings that are not "student" so that their first letter is capitalized:
data = {
    "first_name": "brian",
    "last_name": "johnson",
    "occupation": "student"
}

for key, value in data.items():
    if value != "student":
        value = data[value].capitalize()
print(data)

When I print outside the loop I get KeyError: 'brian'
Could anyone kindly tell me where I am going wrong??
Thank you so much!

A: Its not data[value] its data[key]
data = {
    "first_name": "brian",
    "last_name": "johnson",
    "occupation": "student"
}

for key, value in data.items():
    if value != "student":
        value = data[key].capitalize()

print(data)

And to update the dictionary
data[key] = value

Output:
{'first_name': 'Brian', 'last_name': 'Johnson', 'occupation': 'student'}

A: Using data[x] calls the value from key x, so what you currently have is attempting to use the values as keys. It will work if you change the code to
data = {
    "first_name": "brian",
    "last_name": "johnson",
    "occupation": "student"
}

for key, value in data.items():
    #use **data[key]** to call the **value**
    if data[key] != "student":
        data[key] = data[key].capitalize()
print(data)

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Lawn n. 3 | In this Poem
Andrea Inglese
Issue 8 (Fall 2018)
Photo credit: Alessandra Capodacqua
Lawn n° 3 (puntasecca) from Prati / Pelouses, Camera Verde, 2009.
Sooner or later you'll come to the lawn. Not directly, like a person walking on it (or in it). But through some sort of mediation, which someone is responsible for. An individual met by chance, older than you, who winds up inviting you home and doesn't talk about it right away, but in the end you understand, while he's pouring some wine in your glass, that he paints lawns. And everywhere around the flat, lying on tables, bookcases, bureaus, leaning against walls and wardrobes, small canvases, at time only sheets of paper, not even in color but mere strokes of Indian ink. They're black lawns, agitated, like a storm of needles, without anything else that appears, or brightens, or interrupts the swarm of strokes. The lawn, therefore, is conceivable in its isolation, like an evident, solitary, apparently simple thing, but one that can start to elude the person who paints or draws it more than once, as if in distress, and then goes back to it, to finish the work, or at least that's what he thinks at first, but then the work doesn't get finished, it turns into a nervous mess, the lawn is always there, still unfinished, some of the lines aren't simple and elementary, they're artificial, stubborn artifices once again, signals of lawn, not good parts of lawn.
from Autoantologia, Poesie e Prose (1998-2016), Dot.Com Press, 2017
At night, it's the time of peace, when you go to bed, quit wandering round and making up excuses to turn the light back on, put your shoes on again, the long diurnal agitation really is about to end, night has crept into every room, things have been swallowed up, finally motionless, silent, there's still a little light because you have to get something in the bathroom, out of a drawer, some medicine perhaps, or a book, and just before turning off the light again, making it completely night even in your head, their images return, silhouettes fleet by, women's contours, their hair blowing in the wind, even faceless, their voices when they're upset, and call, almost crying, or only sighing, leaving long pauses between words, sadly, or don't stop laughing, as if they were just upstairs, or else had let themselves down on swings, or their breasts come back, close-up, or their knees, and in the room's artificial light, while a few lines of a novel slide by, you remember those changes of position between the sheets, often as not during the day, when legs open up, a body lying belly-down, until true peace comes and you close your eyes, even the inner images are turned off, those quick comet-faces, then you really do slip off into sleep, your head against the pillow, your body lying supine, like a cross or crossways, the light turned off, the night prevailing, with only a few suffused gleams coming from outside the French window, street lights around the sports field, lit rooms on the top floors of surrounding buildings, it's good darkness, hushed darkness, soon unconsciousness will arrive, sleep that restores, dreams slender and slight like a stream of images, and nothing else, you sink into a nothingness roomy and comfortable, it seemed there was this great silence, the calm you expected, a prolonged absence of stimuli, but little by little they drift up from the street, from other apartments, from surrounding buildings, from closed parks, from the few coffee shops still open, from the whole neighborhood come noises, scattered pricks of annoyance, sneaky and violent, suddenly from the south and from the north, the screech of tires on asphalt, they burn because of the attrition of spasmodic braking or sudden parting, dogs, who'd seemed exhausted, in their doghouses, stretched out under armchairs, go on balconies to bark, and there are already a lot of them in the street, brawling, their owners let them off the leash, the animals throw themselves on one another, from my bed I can't see anything, I haven't turned on the light, the furious dogfights I can hear from the barking, the whimpers of a wounded dog, the rasping of paws against asphalt, maybe some lynches have entered the brawl, or wolves, or animals with stubby horns and hooves, like wild boars, and they're chasing and charging like mad, but now the people who were braking and making their tyres screech are blowing their horns, they've even installed absurd sirens, not like police sirens, but that makes the police cars speed onto the scene, turn on their sirens, the real ones, and the false and the true sirens blend together wailing into the night, even if the police cars are hurled into different streets, but when they put on their brakes again either they rear-end a parked van or they crash hard into a fence or a streetlamp, after the din of the crash you hear the noise of doors banging, of trunks and car doors opening and closing, but in the end they're not completely closed, and then there are the screams of people being pulled out of twisted metal, but this time it's the screaming of prostitutes, new screams, or the shouts of a drunken father who's pounding his two daughters in an apartment in the building across the street, it's only the American girls shouting, excited, it's the final euphoric moment of the party, then they'll pick up a guy for sex, otherwise they'll have to run into the bathroom to throw up, and they're already retching, because one or two of them have been thrown out onto the landing, and on the seventh floor hallway they're bent over, it looks like they're coughing, closer up it's clear that someone is suffocating, but now the ones who were standing in the streets nearby, are approaching, wearing hooded sweatshirts that shade their faces, from the noise of broken glass you can tell they're holding something in their hand, long, sharp metal objects, probably spears, and they hit the advertisements on the city hall, the neon-lit ones, the kind with images that disappear and reappear at regular intervals, they're trashing everything thoroughly, and also very happily, they let out joyful shouts, laugh at the top of their lungs, jump on the pieces of broken glass on the ground, on the plastic trash, but further away in the park something strange is happening, it's a crazy man being attacked by a gang of kids, or it's the crazy who's attacking a tramp, or maybe it's the police manhandling one of the hooded guys, they're working him over on the spot, but first they handcuffed him tight, they jump on his back, they're having a good time working him over, the prostitute lost a shoe while she was running away, scared, she didn't feel the slap or maybe the punch on her chest, but the customer is back in his car, he may not follow her, he bites his lip till it almost bleeds, because the sniff he took half an hour ago is still throbbing in his head, even if it's not possible to most of this, but the drunken father has destroyed the dresser, he banged someone's head into it, his wife or one of the daughters', and now there's the great silence of blood dripping onto the floor, everyone is silent, because the flow of blood produces great calm, now that blood is coming out of heads, out of the palms of hands, you can finally imagine a brief sleep, before daybreak when the green sanitation truck passes and the ambulance leaves the neighbourhood, now that everyone has been taken care of, treated and reported, now that the trash has been collected and thrown into the good jaws that chew everything up noisily, the last noise of when the first light dawns and you pretend to open your eyes, with the rested air of someone who has slept like a log and gets out of bed refreshed and relaxed.
from La grande anitra, Oèdipus, 2013
In this poem
destruction arrives very slowly
but it is certain destruction
that will end all at once
destruction proceeds thoughtfully
with caution but its
action will be effective and extreme
that is why it is very strange
that they don't expect it
with all the time that destruction takes
around them
they just sit there idly
there must be at least four of them
they can hardly talk they're so quiet
around the table with their glasses
the photo albums to leaf through
not that they are sad or worn out
they're enjoying the afternoon with total
loyalty they have a lot of letters
to write and trips to organize
yet not for a second does the slightest
misgiving touch them or the idea
that though slow, destruction is falling
inexorably over a vast reach
I'd like to tell them somehow
give an unequivocal signal
of danger inside the poem
but the four of them are so absorbed
they know each other well they're related
they're closely tied they feel no urgency
to look around suspiciously
or start speaking out of breath
the way it comes
moving languidly, destruction
won't spare them for sure
on the contrary, the point of collision
if we look down from on high
is located right in the middle
of their dining room
the person who is sitting here to write
fidgeting in a filament of space
on a small bare surface
is someone who wants to get into the poem
wants to accelerate inside that agitation
get out of the space gain altitude
or just dig a hole
an interval
he wants to become a poet
who when it rains or the wind blows
or a dog jumps on him
or someone scratches him with his nails
remains aloof along the words
hovering above it all
a large part remains below
in the trap of water and rain
under the nails under the teeth
but along the trail of words
some part of him now
is no longer touched or humiliated
the goods in dreams look like the goods you can buy like shelf goods
so the goods in dreams look point for point color for color like the real
thing like the daytime goods of a waking conscious but the goods in dreams
are slightly more malleable first of all they don't lie down don't come to sit
like a docile animal under the hand the goods in dreams
point elsewhere they tend towards sunset take on a diffusely tenuous color
everything manages to start up again even the worst sorrows a great urge to laugh or fly
but the goods of dreams are mingled and hidden inside the real goods:
this game of appearances and disappearances that makes us tremble unfulfilled
Translation by Brenda Porster
Andrea Inglese (1967), born in Milan, is now living near Paris. He is a writer and translator. After teaching philosophy in an academic high school, he taught Italian language and literature at the University of Paris III. He has published a study on the theory of the novel, L'eroe segreto. Il personaggio nella modernità dalla confessione al solipsismo (2003) and a collection of essays, La confusione è ancella della menzogna for the on-line publisher Quintadicopertina (2012). He has written essays on literary theory and criticism, two works of prose for La Camera Verde (Prati / Pelouses, 2007 and Quando Kubrick inventò la fantascienza, 2011) and seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which, Lettere alla Reinserzione Culturale del Disoccupato, appeared in Italian (Italic Pequod, 2013), French (NOUS, 2013) and English (Patrician Press, 2017). In 2016, he published his first novel, Parigi è un desiderio (Premio Bridge 2017) for Ponte alle Grazie. Un'autoantologia Poesie e prose 1998-2016 was published in the series "Autoriale", edited by Biagio Cepollaro (Dot.Com Press, 2017). Inglese has edited an anthology of the French poet Jean-Jacques Viton, Il commento definitivo. Poesie 1984-2008 (Metauro, 2009). He is a founding member of the literary blog Nazione Indiana and is on the editorial committee of alfabeta2. He is curator of the project Descrizione del mondo, for a collective installation of texts, sounds & images.
DEJAN ALEKSIĆ | Hat | Button | Candle | Comb | Shoes
CATHERINE BARNETT | O Esperanza! | En Route
KATHY ENGEL | Il corpo per cui scrivo | Cavalli, ancora | Chiedo scusa alle parti del corpo | Caffè | Ora prego
ELENA FABRIS | Calìbrio
VINCENZO FRUNGILLO | Heavy Mechanics | Foreign Lands | The Curve of the Coast
LYALL HARRIS & PATRICIA SILVA | Paper Boats
ANDREA INGLESE | Lawn n. 3 | In this Poem
MIHAELA MOSCALIUC | Come chiedermi la mano alla tomba di mia nonna | Luna | A Ovidiu | Canto di Natale
MATTEO SANSONE | A composer between two worlds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Florence, 1895 – Beverly Hills, 1968)
ROBERT SQUILLACE | Nativism, Normalization, and the Humanities (and Vampires)
ALEŠ ŠTEGER | Were you there? | At the circus | Look how the mountains | Son | Love is
RITA TOGNINI | Bella Ciao
IDA TRAVI | Poems
Stay updated on future issues of Voyages.
Voyages welcomes contributions on the following topic for the next issue. Deadline: January 15.
Ecology is an ineluctable dimension of contemporary humanism, but the variety of problems and approaches related to it speak to the tensions between nature and culture, the doctrine of progress and the human-induced imbalance that resulted in global climate change. Ecological activism and politics, global and local economics, corporate social responsibility and profit all contribute to (or aggravate) what seems to be an increasingly intractable problem.
Scientists, scholars, writers and artists, activists and politicians have expressed concerns and have suggested many, often contradictory, solutions. Countries meet and sign agreements, but notwithstanding these efforts, the problem of climate change remains. Admittedly, coordinating global solutions is an arduous task, but there is still scepticism about mankind's role in this process and a mental inertia visible in official and unofficial social media statements. Has humanity exhausted its creative and conceptual capacity to solve this problem? What role, if any, could humanistic disciplines play in a more ecologically sustainable present and future?
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South Korean manufacturer, LG, is gearing up to unveil its new flagship, LG G7 ThinQ. This smartphone is scheduled to come with a Snapdragon 845 SoC, 2K resolution, NFC, Bluetooth, HiFi, IP68 waterproof, full screen, etc. We have seen a couple of SD845 smartphones this year but the least of them is probably the MIX 2S which is why it is also the cheapest so far. LG G7 ThinQ is expected to be "truly" high-end like Samsung S9 and Sony XZ2/XZ2P. This morning, popular leakster, Evan Blass released a new render of the G7 ThinQ which shows that this smartphone will come with a notched display.
Looking at the renders, the display has a notch but the concept is different from Huawei P20 notch. The G7 ThinQ's top groove component layout has a notification light sensor, distance/light sensor, and earpiece. The frame is made of metal and the long-lost power button finally returns (these years the power button is integrated with the pressable rear fingerprint scanner). LG has announced that it will launch a new LG G7 ThinQ in New York on May 2nd, and will simultaneously enter the Korean market.
From previous speculations, the LG G7 ThinQ has a 6.1-inch resolution QHD+ MLCD notched display. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 845 chip coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of Internal storage or 6GB of RAM and 128GB of native storage. In the camera department, this phone uses a dual 16MP rear camera with F/1.5 and it comes pre-installed with Android 8.1 system. The light of this smartphone will be kept on by a 3200mAh battery.
LG G7 ThinQ will be available in five colour options which include blue, black, dark blue, rose, and gray colour.


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Mr Ardara – Conal Haughey
December 26, 2021 April 28, 2016 by Susan O'Donnell
Conal opening the Ballroom in the Nesbitt Arms
Mr Ardara has left the building............
For those of us who knew him, he made an everlasting mark in our lives.
In his day he truly was larger than life. His contribution to our society was truly immense and we will never forget him.
Will we ever hear them sayings: "you better believe it", "No lie for me", "everyday is a school day", "the road to no town", "show me your friends, and il tell you who you are", "the apple never falls from the tree", "no show without punch".
Conal was without question Ardara's greatest ambassador, whether mingling with the elite in the Hilton in London, Dublin or New York.
Conal spoke with such pride and passion about Ardara.
He brought many visitors to Ardara more than any marketing company and Conal could mix with the best.
When he came back from Garrison to take on the role of head chef in the Nesbitt Arms Hotel in the 1960's, it was a big task.There was no history of food at the Hotel then.
Conal quickly changed that and the Nesbitt Arms Hotel became a mecca for food in the North West. If you had not booked, you simply missed out.
Conal Haughey well and truly brought the buzz to Ardara that remains as a mark of respect to him to this day.
When we called them Connie & Nessa, he called them Mr & Mrs Molloy, when we called her Fionnula, Conal called her Dr. Fleming.
He well and truly respected the art of chivalry. He was from that lovely era.
His many special friends are so many, but I must mention a few: there was the Bibi period, there was always Bridie Gallagher.
He had that special devotion to blessed Charles later St. Charles.
There was the fun days with Fr Clarke and the banter in the Nesbitt Arms Hotel with Rev. Scott Harte and the yanks Ann & Al all those lovely families like:
The McHughs from Dublin, Mr Baird, George & Myrtle, the McKennas from Monaghan and the Hartes and the McKeowns from Mullingar.
Conal travelled extensively throughout the world and was a man before his time.
Conal passed away at 2.00 am Thursday 28th April in Killybegs Community Hospital.
God bless him.
Please follow this link to a profile of the great man himself
www.ardara.ie/mr-ardara/
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Back by popular demand, I decided to expand on my baby travel checklist and share some lessons learnt from my first ever trip with Seth when he was just three months old. I have been talking to some friends who have recently become new moms and they too had a string of questions, similar to when I was about to embark on my first trip.
In the article in Zafigo also has a step-by-step guide on how to set out on your first trip with you bubs. Truth to be told, a lot of it is common sense, but sometimes we just need a bit of reassurance. Now that Seth is two years old and have travelled more than five countries, I can honestly say that it gets easier by the trip and a few things are as rewarding as seeing the world with you child.
Endless screaming in a confined airplane seat, uncontrollable crying while waiting in line for some cheap burgers because you simply did not have the time to eat, terrible tantrums in the middle of a shopping mall and food stained clothes, the mark of a true parent. All these horror stories are enough to cripple your grand idea of walking out the door with a suitcase packed for a holiday.


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Start of term: University challenge
By Christian Fuller2019-08-20T08:00:00+01:00
Retailers reveal what students stocking up at the start of term have on their shopping lists, and how they keep them coming back for more.
Whether it's starting out as a fresher, or returning for their final dissertation hand-in, students will be looking for quick, cheap and easy-to-cook solutions when they arrive back at university, and c-stores need to be ready.
"It's well-known that students can often be on a budget and shop with convenience and price in mind," says Global Brands brand controller Christian Sarginson. "Ensuring that retailers stock a range of student-focused products means that they can make the most of the student consumers that choose to shop with them."
For Richard Inglis, who owns three Welcome Co-op franchise stores in Southampton, that starts with advanced planning.
"When the students return it is a very busy time of year for us," he says. "We have a plan that comes into action each year when the students arrive back from their summer break, and it hasn't failed us yet.
"If you are in a student-based area, especially in a big city or on a campus, you must make sure you are ready for their arrival."
Stephen McClune, owner of Spar 27 University Avenue in Belfast, agrees. "Planning is important in the run-up to the back-to-term time period, to be prepared for the sudden increase in footfall. Knowing the previous year's numbers helps when planning the stock volumes needed for key lines," he says.
"With our store being situated within a popular area for student accommodation, footfall increases by 55% as Fresher's Week arrives. The largest uplift in sales still remains around categories such as soft drinks, confectionery and ready meals, however students during this time are also stocking up on store cupboard, frozen food, household, toiletry and stationery items while they have money in their pockets."
Premier Foods convenience channel director Steve Kelly says the start of the new term now has a much bigger presence on everyone's calendar – with Fresher's Week included. "Retailers can make the most of this time of year by siting secondary displays in store and stocking up on the right products to appeal to those heading back to college," he points out.
Stephen advises c-store retailers to stock up on the essentials students will need to start the new term. "Stocking up on essential lines usually takes place the week following Freshers' Week once the loans are in the hands of the students. Our store offers a wide range of everyday value, core range products," he says.
Offering good value on those essentials is key, he believes, to avoid losing out to the multiples. "Competing with the discounters can be difficult for independent stores, so being able to offer value on everyday essentials has become more important than ever.
"By ensuring everyday items are seen to be price competitive the student can be confident they are not paying inflated prices and are more likely to stay loyal to your store rather than making the extra journey to the bigger discounters.
"Our store offers a two-litre milk deal alongside highly competitive bread promotions and so on. Value products are also highlighted throughout the store with pricemarked packs (PMPs) and bus stops to draw attention."
Richard also ensures he has extra stock of all the essentials at the start of term. "The main thing that we do when the students return for term time is make sure we have all the basics," he says. "We increase our orders and stockholdings in key areas. Our view is that it is so important you never run out of basic lines, as then students might associate you with that and go elsewhere.
"It sends the wrong message if you cannot sell a new customer milk or bread on day one. When the new students arrive, that is our opportunity to impress and gain new customers for a whole year and beyond. We step up our orders of milk, bread, fresh meats and cereals, as all of these are student favourites."
Despite food and drink seemingly taking the lead upon students' arrival, the non-food category is just as important, according to Elena Margiotta, merchandiser and operations manager assistant at Margiotta Food & Wine stores in Edinburgh.
"Stationery in our student-based stores sells rather well. Products such as notebooks and pens and so on sell well everywhere, but tenfold in student areas, especially at the start of term time."
Mike Bamford, retail manager of three Spar stores at the University of Essex, says retailers shouldn't forget areas such as stationery, but doing your homework on exactly what students need might be prudent, he warns. "Stationery and greetings cards are very important, but be careful as there are rules on what students can use in exams. For example, here at the University of Essex there is only one type of Casio calculator allowed in an exam, all other types of calculator are banned, so check first before ordering."
At Stephen's stores, stationery isn't the only non-food product that students are after. "While a range of stationery is important, there are other product groups across the store that the student shopper will depend on us for, such as toiletry and household items," he adds.
"We stock up on cleaning products, bedding and kitchenware such as cutlery and saucepans, and, most importantly of all, lots of toilet roll. With the store being so close to student accommodation these products become a vital part of our core range."
Toys and tech can also be winners. "Don't be scared to stock summer items like footballs and frisbees, too," advises Mike. "And with no student managing to survive without the latest smartphone they will expect stores close to universities and colleges to be able to offer products such as phone chargers and headphones."
Alongside getting the essentials sorted, Mike will pushing the food-to-go and impulse categories more so than ever before.
He highlights the "quick and easy" student mentality. "Make sure you concentrate on food to go," he asserts. "Students are always in a rush, and time is key. They often want something quick and easy, therefore your meal deal is probably your most important product."
One product that certainly fits the bill for quick and easy is instant noodles. The cheap, easy and 'just add water' aspects make them appealing to any cash-conscious and time-poor student, according to Matthew Trembath, channel category manager at Unilever.
"The instant hot snacks market is growing. With 82% of pot snacks being bought on impulse, the category presents a great opportunity for retailers to increase overall basket spend among students," he says. "The pot snacks category offers a quick, value for money, hot meal solution, which customers often choose as a convenient low-cost option.
"With the typical customer pushed for time, retailers can capitalise on impulse purchases by making sure that pot snacks are highly visible and located in high traffic areas. Visibility is a key driver of sales. To maximise pick up and impulse purchases, maintain presence in highly visible locations."
He says that retailers can avoid out-of-stocks by ensuring that the top-selling flavours have the most space. "Chicken & mushroom, curry and beef & tomato flavours are the most popular with students," he reveals.
Stephen caters for the student impulse market with an extensive range of soft drinks, including the self-serve Tango Ice Blast slush. "It proved extremely popular with students last year, increasing its category sales by almost 20% on the previous year," says Stephen.
Coffee is another key area that grows in popularity each year. "The store is fortunate to be able to offer the very popular Barista Bar coffee exclusive to Spar [in Northern Ireland], alongside daily fresh-baked treats," he notes.
Ready-to-eat products are also in demand. "Food to go is the driving force within the store, boasting a vast range of pre-packaged options alongside a full hot food deli serve-over at the rear of the store under our own Kitchen Quarter branding," he says.
"Our store offers a large range of hot food, sandwiches and salads including a burrito bar, self-serve chicken bar with vegan and free-from options available."
While there are numerous opportunities for cross-promotion deals such as sandwiches, drinks and snack promotions, Stephen says product placement can prove just as important as the deals themselves. "As an example, the store offers a range of impulse drinks and fresh snacking products such as small fruit pots and cheese/cracker snacks placed directly beside the sandwich and salad ranges," he explains.
Pricemarked packs (PMPs) also have a role to play in attracting the cash-strapped student. "PMPs have a value appeal and attract attention on shelf for students, many of whom are in charge of their own finances for the first time," he says.
"They create a clear price point without confusion for the student who is just learning to manage their finances and may be wary of overspending.
"While we always ensure pricing and promotions are clear across all of our store, students still perceive that the PMP is better value," he adds.
Amy Fisher, shopper marketing controller at Saputo Dairy UK, says that with students both time poor and typically working to a tight grocery budget, PMPs can be a great way "to instil value reassurance and prompt quick product choice at shelf".
She adds: "Value for money appeals to just about everyone, and especially appeals to students, and there's no doubt that the appearance of a good deal does a lot to turn a browse into a purchase. Though not all categories benefit equally, pricemarking can prove particularly effective as a means of driving impulse purchase in categories such as confectionery and soft drinks, and on the whole PMPs are a proven way of bringing in sales."
This year Stephen is not only concentrating on his in-store offer, but his marketing, too. "We plan to build on the success of last year with a bigger focus on advertising special promotions surrounding our 'feed me now' offering, coupled with an interactive approach using Adshels [bus shelter ads] and social media," he explains.
The publicity could help to draw in students not necessarily living on campus. "While we are fortunate to be situated within a student accommodation area with high footfall outside, it is also important for us to reach out to the wider university community who do not necessarily reside within the immediate area," says Stephen.
"With the use of Adshels, alongside social media, we hope to promote all that the store has to offer in a fun and interactive way to entice the student shopper into engaging with the store team."
Richard has come up with his own way to target the students new to his area. "This year we have introduced a sampling table," he says.
"So, for us, it is all about the shopping experience and getting students, and other customers, to sample our food products. If it is the start of term, it is an opportunity to keep them as a customer for that whole year onwards.
"We have also just added two new Ben & Jerry's freezer units, which have been customised with lighting and display screens. With these, alongside our Cook fridges and new F'real machine, I believe we stand out as a very different store compared with our competition, which is what students and young people look for. Every year our student customers tell us how nobody else they've seen stocks the range of different products that we do, so they keep coming back."
Quick and easy dinners from Bestway
There's no faster solution for dinner than a microwave meal and Bestway Wholesale introduced a line-up of 10 chilled ready meals under its Best-one own label earlier this year.
The range spans traditional, Italian, Indian and Chinese, with meals such as sausage & mash, beef lasagne, chicken tikka and sweet and sour chicken.
All 450g meals, which have an rrp of £2.99 and are pricemarked with an offer of '2 for £5', can be cooked in the oven or microwave and are suitable for freezing.
The range has been designed with the need to combat wastage in mind and all products boast "a longer shelf life compared to the average ready meal," according to Bestway. The move reduces waste from approximately 5-15% on average to 1-2% for the meals in the Best-one range, it says.
Bestway director of trading for the chilled category Steve Carter says: "We've prepared these dishes using 'steam fresh cooking' – this means the products are cooked under high pressure in a steam cooker.
"Prior to cooking, all chicken is marinated for at least 24 hours, the beef is slow cooked, dumplings are made by hand and oven baked, the mash is prepared fresh for each batch, and all spices are blended in-house."
While pizza and Pot Noodles may be on the shopping list, the move towards healthier eating hasn't been lost totally on students.
Continental Wine and Food marketing assistant Jessica Smith says: "Millennials are fuelling rapid growth in sales of healthier and innovative snacks. With Fresher's Week looming, we recommend retailers start considering alternatives to traditional snacks and confectionery in order to embrace snacking trends among student consumers. People are increasingly health-conscious and constantly seek guilt-free snacks."
Richard has seen first-hand an increase in the number of students caring about their health.
"Students nowadays are into healthy eating and a healthier lifestyle than ever before, so having large stocks of fresh fruit and vegetables is still vital," he says. "Students love to cook in larger groups compared with an average customer, so they often buy vegetables in bulk. Make sure you don't just stock the stereotypes."
Amy at Saputo Dairy UK agrees. "Demand for products that satisfy consumers' increasingly varied health needs continues to grow, with 63% of adults trying to eat healthily all or most of the time, up four percentage points in the past two years (Mintel).
"Healthier alternatives are driving significant growth across many grocery categories and space on shelf to support these lines continues to grow in convenience. C-stores have an imperative to track and respond to these evolving consumer needs around health if they are to remain competitive in today's marketplace.
"According to figures from Mintel, about four in 10 adults now regularly buy free-from food and drink, with younger demographics driving the trend. Mintel cites 30% of under-25s claim to have purchased products within the sector in the past six months."
Eat Real director of commercial sales and marketing Debbie King adds: "The rapid rise in demand for free-from snacks is making its presence felt both on and off campus where more and more convenience operators are realising that healthier snacking can deliver healthy sales.
"Students are definitely seeking out free-from and vegan products in a much bigger way than ever before, and they're looking for tasty snacks which really deliver on health benefits and flavour. Many students now have health at the top of their agendas and are actively seeking out great-tasting healthier snacks in preference to more traditional products."
Matthew suggests giving alternative lines a try. "Make the most of the growing trend for healthier options by including different carb types such as quinoa, rice and so on, and free-from and vegan offerings by keeping on top of npd in the category."
While it may not be considered healthy, there is no denying students' love of alcohol.
"With alcohol, spirits are big sellers," says Richard. "The vast majority of students nowadays seem to swing more in the direction of vodka. We make sure that we always have a few extra cases in the back, as if we were to run low or even run out, you don't want them looking elsewhere.
"That is not to say beers and wines are not important, too. Fully stocked levels of beer and wines are key. The real winner for us when students arrive back is boxes of beer. It is so important that we have good levels of boxed beer as they often bulk buy at the start of term."
Mike adds: "Fresher's Week isn't only about alcohol, but it's worth stocking up on the fruity ciders, Strongbow dark fruit, rosé wine, and keep the vodka well stocked up."
Also worth considering are some unusual non-food, but still alcohol-related, items that only students may demand, as Elena explains: "My older sister, who also now works for the Margiotta brand, went to university in this area of Edinburgh and said students are always looking for red cups to use for drinking games with ping pong balls. She said every university student is looking for them and we have to get them in.
"Now two or three of our stores are in major student-based areas of the city and they sell a lot of red plastic cups."
Kepak offers a big breakfast with Rustlers campaign
Kepak Consumer Foods is rolling out a nationwide campaign to encourage trial of Rustlers All Day Breakfast Sausage Muffin and help retailers boost their breakfast sales.
The Breakfast Taste Challenge, which runs from September 23 for a month, offers consumers a second free All Day Breakfast Sausage Muffin when they buy the product.
The offer will also be promoted on packs of Rustlers Quarter Pounder.
The promotion is estimated to reach 2.8 million shoppers and will be supported by an in-store activation and a national sampling campaign in partnership with student sampling company, Dig In.
Some 16,000 Rustlers All Day Breakfast Sausage Muffins will be placed directly into the fridges of students at eight universities across four cities.
Kepak Consumer Foods shopper marketing manager Monisha Singh says: "Widely viewed as the most important meal of the day, breakfast – whether at home or on the go – is eaten by 95% of the UK. This figure has risen 6.9% in the past four years, highlighting the opportunity for Rustlers to meet the growth in demand with hot, quick and tasty breakfast options.
"Since the product launched last year, the All Day Breakfast Sausage Muffin has quickly risen to become one of the most popular skus in the Rustlers range."
Masala Waala launches curry mixes and kits to help busy shoppers
Masala Waala is targeting consumers in a hurry with its range of premium Indian spice-based meal solutions, designed to balance the authentic flavours of Indian cuisine with the speed and convenience of ready-to-cook kits and mixes.
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Torry Holt sees similarities between 2017 Rams, GSOT team
A member from the Greatest Show on Turf says this year's squad is trending back to the greatest era in the franchise.
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Former Rams' wide receiver Torry Holt said while the 2017 Los Angeles Rams are not at the same level as the Greatest Show on Turf-era, they are certainly headed in that direction.
According to Los Angeles Times reporter Gary Klein, Holt said he sees many similarities between the two eras of Rams' football.
Music to a choir that may as well have been deaf for nearly the last two decades. That's how long it's been since the Greatest Show on Turf ended, and the crap fest began. The Scott Linehan's, Steve Spagnuolo's, and Jeff Fishers. The Keith Null's and the Donnie Avery's. The mind-numbing circle down the toilet that was the Rams' between the GSOT and 2017.
That's the first similarity: both teams rebounded from awful seasons the year before.
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The 1998 St. Louis Rams went 4-12, as did the 2016 Los Angeles Rams. The following year, both teams had rejuvenation at the quarterback position and went on a tear. But the rejuvenation came from different angles.
The '99 Rams lost their would-be starter Trent Green to a preseason injury during an exhibition game. In came unknown camp body Kurt Warner.
The '17 Rams got the same quarterback as the previous season, but his play was wildly different from the year before courtesy of the new head coach Sean McVay.
"He's a shot in the arm for that organization, a shot in the arm for that offense and shot in the arm for Jared Goff's development," Holt said.
Another interesting tidbit that NFL.com writer Kevin Patra points out? The pace of the scoring is identical between the two teams.
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Sartre's recollection, in Les Mots, of his first visit to the cinema is a multi-layered and ambivalent text through which Sartre proposes a number of interlocking arguments: concerning the contrast between the 'sacred' space of the theatre and the non-ceremonial space of the cinema, between the theatre as associated with paternal authority, and the cinema as associated with a clandestine bond with the mother. But the text also sets up a quasi-sociological account of the public Sartre encounters in the cinema itself as revealing to him the truth of the social bond, a truth he expresses with the term 'adherence', and which he says he only rediscovered in his experience of being a prisoner in the Stalag in 1940. Rather than the basis of a sociological account of the social bond, which would seem at odds with Sartre's social philosophy, I read this as the expression of a desire for physical proximity. The space of the cinema thus develops a fantasy, and this is in continuity with the role of the cinema in the evolution traced in Les Mots, in which it is described as instigating a withdrawal into imaginary life and an indulgence in daydreaming. Through reference to Christian Metz and to Roland Barthes, whose essay 'En sortant du cinéma' is proposed as a parallel and a response to Sartre, I suggest that the 'true bond' of adherence which Sartre encounters is an unconscious rather than an epistemological truth.


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Common sense says a parent's divorce has a huge impact on a child, but the extent and severity of that impact on a child's anxiety may surprise you. Divorce tears a family apart on the literal level, introducing a new way of life, a new family dynamic and maybe even a new place to live.
All this, as you may have guessed, increases a child's anxiety. Children with existing anxiety issues or disorders may suffer from even higher levels of anxiety. For other children, anxiety issues and disorders can erupt where none previously existed. In either case, the results are not pretty.
Anxiety can especially hit an all-time high for children who react to divorce with increased dependence, according to Psychology Today writer and psychologist Carl Pickhardt. Fear fuels anxiety, and children may begin to fear the worst when it comes to future developments that may never even happen.
"So much is different, new, unpredictable, and unknown that life becomes filled with scary questions," Pickhardt explains.
Will I ever see my dad (or mom) again?
What if something happens to the parent I'm living with?
If my parents no longer love each other, will they also stop loving me?
As their minds play out the worst-case scenarios, anxiety levels soar and children may begin to sink lower into a pit of terror as they regress into more dependent behaviors. Bed-wetting, tantrums, separation anxiety, inability to do basic tasks they used to do independently, refusing to go to bed or whining and weeping at bedtime are just a few examples Pickhardt offers.
The regression into earlier childhood behaviors can be a tactic that gets parents to pay more attention to the child. Or it can be an attempt for the child to bring the parents back together over a common concern: the welfare of their child.
I'll have to take care of myself, since my parents obviously can't do it.
Why should I follow their rules when they can't even keep up the rules of marriage?
They didn't care about my feelings about their divorce, so I'll just have to take care of my own feelings and do what makes me happy.
You get the idea, here, too.
Welcome to the post-divorce aftermath.
Kids aren't in the clear once the divorce is final, either. They can be plagued with emotional and academic difficulties for months, or even years, following a divorce. A study published in American Sociological Review found that children of divorce suffered from anxiety, depression, poor social skills and poor math skills for a minimum of two years following the split.
Study results showed the detrimental affects hit children hard the moment the divorce proceedings began. Those effects kept children of divorce behind the class average in math and social skills. The children also began to exhibit behavior problems, but not always in the form of acting out rebelliously or defiantly. They instead internalized the behavior problems, resulting in emotional turmoil that included loneliness, depression, sadness and, as you may have guessed, yet more anxiety.
Another notable finding that came out of the study was the timing of the detrimental effects. Although children began to suffer on multiple levels as soon as official divorce proceedings kicked off, their social and academic performance was not impacted prior to the official filing.
This would have exempted those children from the study, which exclusively looked at divorced, single-parent households. Just because those particular children didn't make it into the study, however, does not mean they are not suffering.
Divorce can contribute to child anxiety by forcing children to live in two different worlds, often with two distinct personas they may not ever realize they are creating. Perhaps mom is privy to the studious, serious persona while dad, who gets weekend visits, ends up with the happy-go-lucky, adventurous one.
"(Children) report that they feel like different people with each of their parents, that their parents are polar opposites (even when they're not), that they need to keep more secrets from their parents than other kids do, and that they don't want to resemble one of their parents too much, because it might alienate them from the other parent," according to the book Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.
Children may subconsciously be working on fitting the persona they believe each parent wants or needs. Even at the subconscious level, such action takes a lot of energy and creates a lot of stress. The child may end up with dramatic mood shifts, walking on air one minute and darker than a raincloud the next. Psychology Today writer Ilana Simons additionally points out children may start blaming themselves for these mood shifts, as if they are doing something wrong to create them.
One more layer of stress from this set-up can come from the code of ethics or rules to live by that children may feel they have to establish for themselves. Adapting a moral code from one household may go against the other household, the child may think, so they are left to create their own moral code at a very early age. And that moral code may be quite lacking.
Routines: Usual routines provide predictability, establish order and contribute to security. Whether it's going to bed every night at 8 p.m. or visiting dad every Wednesday, routines help children know what to expect.
Rituals: Family rituals can keep familiar activities close to the heart and offer a sense of safety. Help children create their own rituals so they enjoy a sense of control in their personal lives.
Reassurance: Tell your child you love him or her and will always love him or her, no matter what. You will also do your best to find a way for this new way of life to work out.
Another important aspect is that you be there for your child, even if it's just to listen. Anxious children will have a laundry list of worries and woes, and simply letting them share them can be a huge relief for your child. Don't think you have to have all the answers, or even any immediate answers, sometimes just listening is enough.


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Turn Fear Into Opportunity With These Stocks
Fear's back. Here's how to handle it.
Dan Caplinger
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Updated: Nov 9, 2016 at 8:13PM
Published: Jul 9, 2010 at 12:00AM
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After a year of blissful recovery from 2009's nightmarish lows, fear is back in full force. As much as you may be tempted to cut and run with any profits you've earned during the rally, times like this have generally been tailor-made buying opportunities in the past.
The most recent weekly survey from the American Association of Individual Investors paints a bleak picture of investor sentiment. The latest survey showed that barely one in five investors was bullish about the market, while the number of bearish investors jumped by 15 percentage points to 57.1%. Both figures are not only much more bearish than average but are actually at their worst levels since March 2009, the absolute low of the market meltdown.
Ordinary investors aren't the only ones feeling anxious. In a separate survey of active money managers, the reading also fell to its most bearish level since the market's March 2009 lows. With professionals and amateur investors in agreement, is it time to take your money off the table?
Buck the trend
My view is pretty simple: if you have a reasonable allocation to stocks right now, don't mess with it. In general, when everyone is feeling fearful, that's a great time to throw away your fear and start trying to make money.
Certainly in the past, low readings for these surveys have been good times to buy. Take a look at some past readings:
Last July, the quick rally in the stock market gave back some ground for the first time. Sentiment went negative, but the rally continued.
In early November of last year, the rally took another pause. Shortly thereafter, stocks resumed their uptrend.
At the February lows earlier this year, the survey was quite bearish. Stocks proceeded to advance more than 10%.
And of course, the extremely low readings in March 2009 presaged one of the biggest rallies in stock market history.
Strong stocks that have been left behind
Some might respond that the market is at much higher levels now, and stocks are more expensive than they were at those March 2009 lows. But the reality is that many stocks have almost entirely missed the rally.
For instance, in the energy sector, oil prices have recovered strongly from their late 2008 lows. Yet despite huge jumps in net revenue and profits from the same quarter last year, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) has seen its stock fall in the past 15 months. Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Total (NYSE: TOT), which have also seen gains in their financial results, have picked up less than 10% from last year's lows.
Amid all the gloom, you'd think that defensive stocks would be extremely expensive. But Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB) trade at less than 15 times earnings, even though both pay fairly healthy dividends and have modest growth prospects as well. And even though few see Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as a traditional defensive play, at around 11 times earnings, the stock seems to be fully discounting prospects for slower growth while still giving investors a margin of safety.
Finally, even high-growth stocks can be had for reasonable valuations. At 22 times trailing earnings, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) seems like a steal to many growth investors who are used to paying much more for the 50% annual earnings growth the iMaster has produced over the past five years.
Profit from fear
If you've stuck with your investing plan throughout the past several years, you already know how important it is to stay confident even when things look dire. Those who held on during the depths of the financial crisis have managed to get back a good portion of their losses since 2007, while those who panic-sold at the lows may never recover what they lost.
As hard as it is, times like these aren't best for joining the crowd. By standing out and following your own path, you can turn scary times into unprecedented investment opportunities. While others cower on the sidelines, your portfolio will be poised to reap the rewards.
Don't just buy any stock. Brian Richards gathers several experts to find the one stock they like right now.
Fool contributor Dan Caplinger handles his emotions better than his 5-year-old daughter, usually. He doesn't own shares of the companies mentioned in this article. Microsoft and Wal-Mart are Motley Fool Inside Value recommendations. Apple is a Motley Fool Stock Advisor choice. Kimberly Clark and Total are Motley Fool Income Investor picks. Motley Fool Options has recommended a diagonal call position on Microsoft. Try any of our Foolish newsletters today, free for 30 days. The Fool's disclosure policy stares Fear in the face and says "Back off, dude."
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Thomas Jackson – 2022-11-03 – Memphis TN – West TN
by bkwatson | November 7, 2022 | 110722, B, Lost Kids, M, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, WT | 0 Comments
URGENT | 14YO MISSING MEMPHIS, TN BOY | Thomas Jackson, a 14-year-old boy, was last seen on November 3, 2022, in Memphis, Tennessee. He is missing from the 800 block of N. Manassas where he left the facility on foot without permission. Thomas is a ward of...
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Caterina Alicia – 2023-01-22 – Nashville TN – Middle TN 4
by bkwatson | January 29, 2023 | 012923, F, H, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | 16YO MISSING NASHVILLE, TN GIRL | CATERINA ALICIA a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on January 22, in Nashville, Tennessee. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 4'9" tall and weighs 135 pounds. If you have information about Caterina or her...
Acacia Crawford – 2023-01-13 – Murfreesboro TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | January 29, 2023 | 012923, B, F, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
Acacia Crawford NCNC 1470620 Missing Since Jan 13, 2023 Missing From Murfreesboro, TN DOB Dec 9, 2009 Age Now 13 Sex Female Race Black Hair Color Brown Eye Color Brown Height 5'5" Weight 115 lbs Both photos shown are of Acacia. She may still be...
Nevada Swift – 2023-01-02 – Spring Hill TN – Middle TN – 4 Watson
by bkwatson | January 22, 2023 | 012223, Lost Kids, M, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, W | 0 Comments
URGENT | 17YO MISSING SPRING HILL, TN BOY | Nevada Swift, a 17-year-old boy, was last seen on January 2, 2023, in Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5'11" tall and weighs 145 pounds. Nevada has a tattoo on his right arm. If anyone...
Brison Grant – 2022-12-13 – Nashville TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | January 22, 2023 | 012223, B, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | 15YO MISSING NASHVILLE, TN BOY | Brison Grant, a 15-year-old boy, was last seen on December 13, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. He has black hair and brown eyes. He is 5'9" tall and weighs 150 pounds. If anyone has information about Brison or his...
Maximus Wallace – 2022-05-18 – Juliet TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | January 2, 2023 | 01223, M, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, W | 0 Comments
URGENT | 17YO MISSING JULIET, TN BOY | Maximus Wallace, a 17-year-old boy, was last seen on May 18, 2022, in Juliet, Tennessee. His information just appeared on the NCMEC database today, 12/29/2022. Maximus has blonde hair and hazel eyes. He is 5'9" tall and weighs...
Olegario Morales Morales – 2021-12-30 – Columbia TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | December 24, 2022 | 122422, H, Lost Kids, M, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | 18YO MISSING COLUMBIA, TN MALE | Olegario Morales Morales , an 18-year-old male, was last seen on December 30, 2021, in Columbia, Tennessee. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5'5" tall and weighs 130 pounds. Olegario was 17 when he went missing in 2021....
Andry Chavez-Rodriguez – 2022-12-17 – Columbia TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | December 24, 2022 | 122422, F, H, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | 16YO MISSING COLUMBIA, TN GIRL | Andry Chavez-Rodriguez, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on December 17, 2022, in Columbia, Tennessee. Both photos shown are of Andry. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5'0" tall and weighs 158 pounds. .
Marta Quib-Sel – 2022-04-04 – Bedford Co TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | December 20, 2022 | 122022, F, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, W | 0 Comments
URGENT | 16YO MISSING BEDFORD COUNTY, TN GIRL | Marta Quib-Sel, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on April 4, 2022, in Bedford County, Tennessee. She has black hair and brown eyes. She is 4'5" tall and weighs 100 pounds. If anyone has information about...
Amanda Erwin – 2022-07-2022 – Nashville TN – Middle TN
URGENT| 16YO MISSING NASHVILLE, TN GIRL | Amanda Erwin, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on July 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5'6" tall and weighs 150 pounds. If anyone has information about Amanda or her...
Kiarah Brown – 2022-11-30 – Thompsons Station TN – Middle TN
by bkwatson | December 9, 2022 | 120922, B, F, Lost Kids, MT, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
| 16YO MISSING THOMPSONS STATION, TN GIRL | Kiarah Brown, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on November 30, 2022, in Thompson's Station, Tennessee. Both photos shown are of Kiarah. She may travel to Bristol, Tennessee, or she may travel to Tallahassee or Pensacola,...
Keelie Oakes – 2023-01-11 – Chattanooga TN – East TN
by bkwatson | January 29, 2023 | 012923, ET, F, Lost Kids, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, W | 0 Comments
#Missing #HelpFindHer #MissingChildAlert #TNMissingKid #USISB #SavingLostKids #MissingKids #PleaseShare #Tennessee #Chattanooga #NCMC1470157 #findKeelieOakes Keelie Oakes NCMC 1470157 Missing Since Jan 11, 2023 Missing From Chattanooga, TN DOB Jan...
Franciso Tomas Juan – 2023-01-11 – Chattanooga TN – East TN 4
by bkwatson | January 29, 2023 | 012923, ET, H, Lost Kids, M, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | 17YO MISSING CHATTANOOGA, TN BOY | Franciso Tomas Juan , a 17-year-old boy, was last seen on January 11, 2023, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Both photos shown are of Franciso. He has black hair and black eyes. He is 5'1" tall and weighs 120 pounds. If...
Sidney Queen – 2022-12-04 – Knoxville TN – East TN
URGENT | 16YO MISSING KNOXVILLE, TN GIRL | Sidney Queen, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on December 4, 2022, in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has blonde hair and green eyes. She is 5'2" tall and weighs 200 pounds. When she was last seen her hair was dyed red. If...
Matthew Boatman 2023-01-01- Kingsport TN – East TN
by bkwatson | January 13, 2023 | 011323, ET, Lost Kids, M, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids, W | 0 Comments
🏃🏻| 17YO MISSING KINGSPORT, TN BOY |🏃🏻 Matthew Boatman, a 17-year-old boy, was last seen on January 1, 2023, in Kingsport, Tennessee. He has brown eyes and brown hair. He is 5'11" tall and weighs 176 pounds. If anyone has...
Kayli Kahn – 2023-01-06 – Maryville TN – East TN
URGENT 🏃🏻♀| 17YO MISSING MARYVILLE, TN GIRL |🏃🏻♀ Kayli Kahn, a 17-year-old girl, was last seen on January 6, 2023, in Maryville, Tennessee. Both photos shown are of Kayli. She has brown hair...
Kaleb Ward – 2022-12-29 – Bluff City TN – East TN
🏃🏻♂| 17YO MISSING BLUFF CITY, TN BOY |🏃🏻♂ Kaleb Ward, a 17-year-old boy, was last seen on December 29, 2022, in Bluff City, Tennessee. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He is 5'11" tall and...
John Doe 2020 2020-03-24 – Oak Ridge TN – East TN
by bkwatson | January 13, 2023 | 011323, ET, Lost Kids, New Lost Kids, TN Lost Kids | 0 Comments
URGENT | UNIDENTIFIED BABY BOY – OAK RIDGE, TN | On March 26, 2020, a fishermen found the body of a newborn baby floating along the banks of Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The area is located near the intersection of Melton Lake Drive & Edgemoor Road....
Emily Ramsey – 2022-10-22 – Kingsport TN – East TN
| 17YO MISSING KINGSPORT, TN GIRL |🏃🏻♀ a 17-year-old girl, was last seen on October 22, 2022, in Kingsport, Tennessee. Both photos shown are of Emily. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5'10" tall and weighs 200 pounds....
Danielle Owens 2022-11-16 – Greeneville TN – East TN
URGENT 🏃🏻♀| 16YO MISSING GREENEVILLE, TN GIRL |🏃🏻♀ Danielle Owens, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on November 16, 2022, in Greeneville, Tennessee. She has brown hair and blue eyes. She is...


The Syria-Hezbollah relationship has long been defined by resilience amid shifting power dynamics, and this looks set to continue with the latest developments in Syria's civil war.
Jihadi violence in Mauritania has peaked and appears to have been contained through a mix of coercion and co-option. Yet the government's triumphalism should be treated with care; Mauritania remains mired in corruption and poverty.
Egyptian exiles have faced stark difficulties in living abroad and trying to return home. Amid the government's consistent repression, they face painful choices about their future.
Shia and Sunni endowments have gone different ways since Saddam Hussein's fall, and the Iraqi state is poised to take advantage where it can.
The Syrian civil war has reshaped Sunni Islamic identity in the country. As a result, the regime will struggle to use religion to enhance its own power and legitimacy.
During both Obama's and Trump's time in office, the Kremlin has demonstrated a remarkable knack for filling the vacuums created by U.S. policymakers in the Middle East and beyond, usually on the cheap.
International aid from other donors, despite recent U.S. policy changes, can help bolster Palestinian resiliency, even if the short-term prospects for a lasting political solution are dim.
Although stabilization programs were not part of the Syrian political transformation initially envisioned, they did cultivate more inclusive, capable local governance. But with larger military and political factors shaping outcomes on the ground in Syria, what will endure of this?
Tunisia's decentralization process has tremendous potential. Yet the central government, local government, civil society, and international donors must each invest in the process.
Algeria's regime has repeatedly adapted the political system in limited ways. But what has worked for the regime up until now may not work indefinitely into the future.
The rise in Salafi militancy in Lebanon is not only due to the spillover of the Syrian war, but also to the Sunni elite's failure at tackling the grievances of their co-religionists.
The Islamic State's defeat in Syria will not automatically bring displaced people home. A broader political settlement that reflects regional and national realities will be required.
Morocco's Party of Justice and Development sought to show that it is possible to carve out a larger role for government while remaining loyal to the palace.
Iran has entered a growth-friendly demographic window of opportunity, during which prime-age workers outnumber children and elderly dependents. This period will profoundly shape Iran's future.
Revamping its Customs Union with Turkey is the only viable way for the EU to encourage rules-based economic and political reforms in the country and maintain engagement with Ankara.
Corruption is a destabilizing force in Tunisia, infecting all levels of its economy, security, and political system.
More than six years after the revolution that ousted former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's border regions remain hotbeds of social discontent and agitation.
The ethnic and sectarian power-sharing systems in Lebanon and Iraq are in crisis.
The official Muslim religious establishments in Arab countries give governments a major role in religious life, but these institutions are rarely mere regime mouthpieces and can be difficult to steer in a particular direction.
Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) remains divisive, poorly understood, and plagued by internal divisions, as it is both recognized by the state and at the behest of nonstate leadership figures. Key challenges involving the PMF will shape Iraq's political and security future.


Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's ambassador to the UN, said that he has been fired from his diplomatic position.
Dabbashi claims that Prime Minister Fayaz Al-Sarraj of the Libyan unity government took the decision to fire Dabbashi without the approval of the parliament.
However, Dabbashi said he will not oppose the Prime Minister's decision as he does not want to be a reason for the tension between the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Libya's parliament based in Tobruk to grow deeper. He said he will take a "vacation leave" and will wait on the parliament to make a decision on the matter.
When asked if he would call on the parliament to back Prime Minister's Al-Sarraj's decision, Dabbashi said "Yes".
Prior to this incident, Akilah Saleh, speaker of the parliament in Tobruk, said he was prepared to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice against the UN for "deepening the gap in Libya and hurdling efforts to solve the crisis".
Saleh said the UN should not support Al-Sarraj's government especially after the parliament in Tobruk passed a vote of no-confidence earlier this week.