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Robert Lantos, CM (born 3 April 1949) is a Hungarian-Canadian film producer.

Life and career
Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 in Budapest, the son of Ágnes (Bodor) and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He immigrated to Canada in 1963.

Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and graduated with a BA (1970) and an MA (1972). Following graduation from McGill, he founded Vivafilm which imported and distributed foreign films across Canada. He later started a production company, RSL Entertainment, which produced fifteen films, most notably George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women and Ted Kotcheff's Joshua Then and Now.

Lantos co-founded the Canadian film and television company Alliance Communications Corporation with partners Victory Loewy, John Kemeny, Stephen J. Roth, and Denis Héroux. He was chairman and CEO until 1998 when he sold his controlling interest in Alliance. He now produces films through his production company Serendipity Point Films.

Lantos has produced 40 feature films. His credits include the Golden Globe Winner and Academy Award nominated Barney's Version, Golden Globe nominated and Academy Award nominated Eastern Promises, Fugitive Pieces, winner, Best Actor at the Rome Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival, Golden Globe-nominated and Academy Award-nominated Being Julia, Golden Globe nominated Sunshine, the Cannes Grand Prix winner and Academy Award nominated The Sweet Hereafter, Berlin Silver Bear winner Existenz, Cannes Ecumenical Prize winner Adoration, Cannes Special Jury Prize winner Crash, Cannes International Critics Prize winner Exotica, Genie Award winners, Where the Truth Lies, Black Robe, In Praise of Older Women, and Canadian domestic box office phenomenon Men with Brooms. Another five of his films have been a part of the Cannes Official Selection: Night Magic (1985), Joshua Then and Now (1985, in competition), Felicia's Journey (1999, in competition), Stardom (2000, Closing Night), Ararat (2002), Where the Truth Lies (2005, in competition).

His television credits include the drama series: Due South, Power Play, North of 60, Counterstrike,  E.N.G, Night Heat, Bordertown, and 25 made-for-television movies.

Lantos is a member of the Order of Canada and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University. He has served on the board of directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Toronto International Film Festival, Indigo Books and Music, the Canadian Film Centre, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, of which he is a past chairman. He received the Academy of Canadian Film and Television's Air Canada Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Business of Filmmaking in Canada in 1991, the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Chetwynd Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, and the Ontario Region's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995. He is also a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts Award, and The Toronto Arts Award.  He is an inductee to the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame.  He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the European Film Academy.

At the 2015 Toronto International film Festival, the Canadian Media Production Association announced that Lantos had won 10th annual Feature Film Producer's Award.

Filmography as producer

For a complete list of credits see:

Motion picture credits
 The Angel and the Woman (L'Ange et la femme) (1977)
 In Praise of Older Women (1978)
 Agency (1980)
 Suzanne (1980)
 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
 Paradise (1982)
 Scandale (1982)
 Bedroom Eyes (1984)
 Heavenly Bodies (1984)
 Night Magic (1985)
 Joshua Then and Now (1985)
 Sword of Gideon - executive producer (1986)
 Separate Vacations (1986)
 Black Robe (1991)
 On My Own – executive producer (1992)
 Léolo – executive producer (1992)
 Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
 Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
 Crash (1996)
 The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
 Existenz (1999)
 Felicia's Journey (1999)
 Sunshine (1999)
 Stardom (2000)
 Men with Brooms (2002)
 Ararat (2002)
 The Statement (2003)
 Being Julia (2004)
 Where the Truth Lies (2005)
 Fugitive Pieces (2007)
 Adoration (2008)
 Eastern Promises (2007)
 Barney's Version (2010)
 The Right Kind of Wrong (2012)
 Remember (2015)
 The Song of Names (2019)
 Crimes of the Future (2022)

Television credits
 Bordertown (78 episodes, Family Channel, 1988–1994)
 Night Heat (96 episodes, CBS, 1985–1989)
 E.N.G. (96 episodes, 1988–1994)
 Counterstrike (66 episodes, USA Network, 1990–1993)
 North of 60 (90 episodes, 1994–1998)
 Power Play (26 episodes, 1998–2000)
 Due South (68 episodes, CBS, 1994–1998)

References

External links

 Canadian Film Encyclopedia

1949 births
Hungarian emigrants to Canada
Living people
McGill University alumni
Members of the Order of Canada
Canadian film executives
Canadian corporate directors
People from Budapest
People from Montevideo
Indigo Books and Music people
Canadian film production company founders
Alliance Atlantis


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I work on an enterprise project with a large constantly-changing project team. People come in and out of the team regularly, which means that we are very reliant on our ability to adapt and work together to get things done quickly. Some times it can feel like meeting hell though, as people resort to what they know best (put people around a conference table to discuss a topic) instead of what we need (workshops, working sessions, more collaboration and fun!). Last week, I ran a lunch and learn session for my colleagues on Hacking Meetings. I took the foundation for our web work (user-centered design) and applied it to collaborative work to answer the question: how can we design meetings to make them more productive? Below are my notes for the session and links to some resources including a GIANT facilitator toolkit, containing instructions for dozens of collaborative techniques. Enjoy!
Do you think your last 1-hour meeting generated a full day's worth of value?
What does working collaboratively mean?
It doesn't just mean working together. Also means respect for your teammates as demonstrated through the amount of focus and effort you put into preparing for meetings or working sessions, respect for their time and expertise, your facilitation of a session to ensure appropriate use of everyone's time.
Focus on desired outcomes, not vague goals. What do you need to accomplish by the end of the session? This becomes a stick for parking offside discussions and keeping the meeting on track.
Purpose - Why are you meeting?
Desired outcomes - What do you need to accomplish?
Attendees - Who is essential to the discussion? How best to engage with them?
Session type - How should you structure the session? What kinds of activities will best elicit the information or results you are seeking?
Problem: Lengthy agenda that could be covered in much shorter amount of time with focus.
Solution: Don't just run your meetings, facilitate the discussion.
Add Structure! Move shorter discussions to beginning of the agenda to get through everything and leave time for longer conversation.
Time box! Make one person the time keeper; not the person running the meeting.
Dealing with grandstanders, bullies and naysayers: capture it, action it or park it.
Capture it: write it down clearly, succinctly, boil it down to the core issue and move on (make sure they confirm the wording so they agree you captured their concern). You can even turn them into the note-taker so they have to focus on what other people are saying.
Park it: write it on the visible parking lot and agree not to discuss it any further in the session.
Set goals and define the desired outcomes: What do you need to accomplish by the end of the session? Can it be all done in a single session or should there be multiple?
Invite the right people: Think RACI: Who is responsible? Who is accountable? Who needs to be consulted or informed? Do they all need to attend the session? Do you want to mix the detailed technical folks with the high level comms folks or would it be better to get their input separately?
Problem: you're not the organizer but this meeting is totally offtrack. Is it your place to step in and steer it?
Solution: Absolutely! You deserve to get something out of this session, because it's your time that is being wasted. But tread with caution.


Kim has the most Facebook followers of all of the candidates in this district. Siddiqui holds a slight advantage with total followers on the Dem side.
Siddiqui has lead the way in adding new followers (+4.5% over the past week) followed by Jung (+2.9% over the past week).
Lisa Kim has been the most active on Facebook over the past week with 4 posts. Other candidates should step it up a bit (2 posts from Jung, 1 post from Moller-Knudsen and no activity from Siddiqui).
Candidates might find this helpful: "Buffer says you can post to Facebook twice a day before likes and comments drop off. Constant Contact says to post on Facebook a minimum of three times per week while keeping your maximum posting frequency to 10 times per week. DowSocial says two Facebook posts per day as a minimum works well for increasing your reach." – obviously many sources have slightly different suggestions…but they are all similar and worth considering while managing your accounts.
Jung has had the most engagement (likes, shares and comments) of all candidates with a count of 39 over the past week …followed closely by Kim (32).
No one candidate stands out to me in this evaluation….they all could be posting more often and doing a better job with outreach to voters on this platform…If I had to pick a leader in this evaluation it would be a tie between Kim and Jung.
Yungmann holds a nice advantage in followers on Facebook over Walsh and Williams.
No candidate made significant growth in new followers over the past week.
Williams was the most active with 7 posts…Yungmann and Walsh each posted twice over the past week (see my note about about how often candidates should be posting on Facebook).
Williams lead all candidates in engagement (likes, shares and comments) with an engagement count of 111 over the past week. Yungmann had an impressive number with a count of 68 considering he only posted twice (the prom pics of the kids with the campaign sign was genius).
I would have to give the nod to Williams with recent Facebook activity…but followed closely by Yungmann and then Walsh.
Social media outreach itself will not win you an election…but it can be a value if used correctly for outreach to potential voters…don't let an opportunity slip by…or your opponent will take advantage and increase their name recognition…which will matter come June 26th.
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers five graduate degrees, one dual degree, and one certificate program. The Civil Engineering graduate program offers seven concentrations for applicants to choose from, when applying.
The minimum requirements for admission to a master's or doctoral program in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering are an undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 (out of a possible 4.0) for master's applicants or 3.5 (out of a possible 4.0) for Ph.D. applicants; GRE scores (verbal and quantitative combined) of at least 300; and a TOEFL score (for international students) of at least 550 -or- TOEFL IBT: Minimum score 79. The minimum IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score is a 6.5 overall with no individual subscore below 6.0. Current UD students applying to the 4+1 dual degree program are not required to submit GRE scores.
Although it is possible for students to study toward a Ph.D. directly upon entering graduate school, most students choose to obtain the MCE or MAS first. Students considering doctoral study typically must have completed any previous graduate study with at least a 3.5 grade point average and have clearly demonstrated a capacity for independent work. If an M.S. thesis or other comprehensive work was written at another institution, a copy must be provided to the advisor soon after the student enrolls at the University of Delaware.
The minimum requirements for admission to a master's or doctoral program for a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Ocean Engineering are as follows: a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, an undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 (out of a possible 4.0) for Masters applicants or 3.5 (out of a possible 4.0) for Ph.D. applicants, GRE scores (verbal and quantitative combined) of at least 308, and a TOEFL score (for international students) of at least 600. The POSE Graduate committee may increase these minimum requirements. The minimum IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score is a 6.5 overall with no individual subscore below 6.0.
The online application is found at Graduate Application.
Note the following important deadlines.
February 1 : Deadline for fall admissions and consideration for graduate assistantship/fellowship..
October 1 : Deadline for spring admission only.
The Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) degree is awarded only to individuals who, upon admission, have an undergraduate degree in engineering, preferably in civil or environmental engineering. The student pursuing the MCE degree may choose a traditional thesis program or a non-thesis option. The courses for the non-thesis option correspond to the course requirements for the traditional thesis master's degree program. The core requirements for both master's degrees are the same. Look at our concentrations page here.
The master's program with thesis requires 30 credit hours including 24 graduate course credits and 6 credits for the master's thesis. The Department Graduate Committee must approve each student's program.
At least one course each in mathematics and in engineering sciences.
At least 9 credits of courses in the chosen concentration (see the concentration list for details on core courses and suggested electives)).
The student should consult his/her advisor in selecting courses to fit fulfill these requirements. Petitions for required course substitutions may be made via the advisor to the Department Graduate Committee.
All thesis graduate students are required to attend departmental or college seminars (CIEG 865, 0 credits) each semester in their fields of study. Students are expected to make presentations at these seminars.
The objective of the non-thesis master's program is to provide an opportunity for students, who do not have the need to develop research skills, to obtain a master's degree with a quality and depth of study comparable to the master's degree with thesis. Through coursework (30 credits), students develop their engineering skills and obtain a state-of-the-art background within the chosen area of study. Students electing the non-thesis option are not eligible for financial support from the University.
Students who, upon admission, have a non-engineering degree are awarded the Master of Applied Science (MAS) degree. The MAS degree is also an option for students who choose to utilize the elective graduate courses in the degree program to study other engineering or physical science disciplines (even if they were admitted with an undergraduate degree in engineering). The student pursuing the MAS degree may choose a traditional thesis program or a non-thesis option. The courses for the non-thesis option correspond to the course requirements for the traditional master's degree program. Look at our concentrations page here.
The dual MCE/MBA program (63 credits) will provide students with the necessary skills to broaden their engineering knowledge while gaining a detailed understanding of the business environment. Although it does not preclude the possibility of engineering research (when the student chooses to pursue the engineering master's degree with thesis), the dual degree can be achieved with a non-thesis master's degree in engineering. The MCE/MBA program is a joint degree program. As such, both programs must be completed and the dual degree is conferred, simultaneously recognizing completion of both graduate programs. Look at our concentrations page here.
This degree is offered in the major areas of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Coastal Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Water Resources Engineering. Look at our concentrations page here.
The student must meet a campus residency requirement of at least one continuous academic year devoted exclusively to full-time study in the major field at the University of Delaware. The residency requirement may be fulfilled in the fall and spring semesters but not in the summer or winter sessions. If a student has earned a master's degree at the University of Delaware, this can be used to fulfill the residency requirement.
A student's doctoral program, comprising 72 credits beyond the bachelor's degree (including doctoral dissertation), is planned around a central objective in applied science and mathematics. If a student who already holds a master's degree in the specific field of study is accepted directly into the Ph.D. program, the coursework from the master's degree will be taken into account in the design of the doctoral program. All courses in the program are selected with the approval of the student's dissertation advisor. The Ph.D. coursework typically include at least 3 credits at the 800 level. The program requirements are shown in the following table.
Mathematics and Engineering Sciences: The purpose is to provide an adequate basis for original work in the field of study and, within the limits of available time, to extend the student's knowledge outside that field. Typically one course must be taken from each of the Mathematics and Engineering Sciences course lists.
All doctoral students are required to attend departmental or college seminars in their fields of study. Students are expected to register for CIEG865 (0 credits) each semester. Students will also make presentations at these seminars.
A student who has completed about 30 credits of coursework should consult his/her advisor for assistance in the preparation of a written resume that is to include the dissertation proposal. The resume should provide information about the student's background: publications authored; the concentration contemplated; and a proposal describing the doctoral research to be undertaken. The resume can enable the advisor and the committee to assess progress and plans for the future. It is also useful to advisor and student in determining the composition of the student's Doctoral Committee and the most appropriate character for the Qualifying Exam. The student will provide a copy of the resume to each committee member and the Department Chairperson for approval.
The Ph.D. committee must consist of at least four individuals. The committee is chaired by the student's research advisor and must include at least one additional faculty member from the Department that represents the major field of interest. Moreover, the committee must have an external examiner from a different academic unit or from outside the University. The selection of prospective members of the Doctoral Committee is discussed by the student and their advisor, who then forwards a recommendation for the composition of the committee via the Department Chairperson to the Office of Graduate and Professional Education. Changes in the composition of the committee to reflect the student's interests may be made following the same procedure.
Passed; candidacy form signed by all committee members.
Passed, but additional work required (self study or formal course); form signed by all committee members. If the Qualifying Exam Committee recommends passing but with additional study or course work, the Committee Chairperson will ensure that the student meets these recommendations promptly.
Failed, no re-examination; form signed by all committee members and matriculation in the program will be ended.
The candidate gives a presentation of approximately 30 minutes on the dissertation research and findings.
An intensive questioning by the Doctoral Committee and all others present takes place after the presentation. The examination is not merely a defense by the student of the dissertation but may also include a review of the student's competence and comprehension in related fields. After the questioning is completed, the meeting is closed to everyone except the committee members, who render their vote.
Upon successful completion of this examination and compliance with any necessary revisions of the dissertation, the candidate will be certified by the Doctoral Committee for conferral of the degree by completion of the Certification of Doctoral Dissertation Defense form.
In the case where the Final Oral Examination is not passed by the student, the applicant will be allowed to appear for a second trial after the lapse of at least six months. If unsuccessful in a second trial, the student will not be permitted to take a further examination and will be terminated from the program.
The minimum requirements for admission to a master's or doctoral program for a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Ocean Engineering are as follows: a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, an undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 (out of a possible 4.0) for Masters applicants or 3.5 (out of a possible 4.0) for Ph.D. applicants, GRE scores (verbal and quantitative combined) of at least 308, and a TOEFL IBT score (for international students) of at least 79 600. The POSE Graduate committee in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment may increase these minimum requirements. The minimum IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score is a 6.5 overall with no individual sub-score below 6.0.
February 1 : Deadline for fall admissions and consideration for graduate assistantship/fellowship.
The Master of Science in Ocean Engineering is offered jointly with the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program (POSE) in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and Earth Studies. Students may matriculate through either the College of Engineering or the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and Earth Studies and may choose a thesis advisor from either program.
The Master of Science in Ocean Engineering degree program is aimed at providing graduate students with advanced technical training in ocean science and engineering for positions in the public and private sectors and for matriculating into PhD programs. The program requires a minimum of 30 credit hours, which includes 6 thesis credits and dependent research. Students shall defend their thesis in an open oral examination chaired by the advisor.
The Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering is offered jointly with the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program (POSE) in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and Earth Studies. Students may matriculate through either the College of Engineering or the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and Earth Studies and may choose a thesis advisor from either program.
The Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering program is aimed at training graduate students to achieve the highest level of proficiency in research. Mathematics, fundamental sciences, ocean sciences and engineering sciences are combined to provide a personalized program of study and research. All graduate students work in close cooperation with the faculty on their dissertation area.
A student's doctoral program, comprising 72 credits beyond the bachelor's degree (including doctoral dissertation), is planned around a central objective in applied science and mathematics. If a student who already holds a master's degree in the specific field of study is accepted directly into the Ph.D. program, the coursework from the master's degree will be taken into account in the design of the doctoral program. All courses in the program are selected with the approval of the student's dissertation advisor. The program requirements are shown in the following table.
The purpose of the course work is to provide a solid foundation for original research in the field of study and, within the limits of available time, to extend the student's knowledge outside that field. At least 6 of the required credits should be taken outside of the Program of Ocean Science and Engineering and may include significant components from other departments.
Required courses include courses in mathematics and engineering sciences designed to insure that Ph.D. candidates have the basic skills in Physical Ocean Science and Engineering needed to conduct dissertation research.
Students matriculating from other universities may petition to have these courses waived if their course of study included equivalent courses.
Each Doctoral Committee shall consist of no fewer than four or more than six members. The selection of members of the Doctoral Committee is made by the student and advisor. This is forwarded via the Department Chairperson or a program director and respective college deans to the University Coordinator of Graduate Studies. A Doctoral Committee in the Ocean Engineering program is required to have at least four members. This is composed of the student's advisor, who is also the chair of the committee, at least one member each from CEOE and CIEG faculties, and one member from an outside academic unit. At least two committee members, one of whom is the committee chairperson, represent the major field of interest.
Doctoral students must demonstrate to their advisory committee that they have acquired a comprehensive grasp of their field of study through a Qualifying Examination (written and oral) before they are admitted to formal candidacy.
The examination process begins when the student submits a dissertation proposal to his/her committee at least six weeks before the written and oral examination. Then the student consults each member of the Doctoral Committee for advice on any specific preparation that the committee members suggest. Any committee member who is not fully satisfied with a student's preparation for the formal exam will advise the Doctoral Committee chairperson promptly.
The Qualifying Exam is a comprehensive written and oral exam. It is administered in two sections approximately a week apart. This examination is designed to test the student's preparation and the aptness of the proposed research. It measures the student's preparation, including knowledge about the area of Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, the student's capability to apply knowledge gained in courses, and the student's qualifications in written and oral communication. Qualifying exams are not open to the public. The advisor, as Exam Committee Chairperson, administers the written exam and chairs the oral. The written exam usually consists of one independent exam of at least two hours duration set by each of the committee members and administered over two or more consecutive days. At the oral exam, the student gives a brief review of the research plan and then answers questions from each committee member related to the dissertation proposal or to the student's coursework. In general, the Doctoral Committee should strive to achieve consensus concerning the student's performance and quality of work. In the case of dissenting votes, the majority opinion rules and a majority vote in favor is needed for a successful defense. Upon successful completion of the Qualifying Exam, the committee members signify agreement by signing the appropriate graduate office form.
Upon completion of the dissertation, a final oral examination must be passed, consisting of a defense of the dissertation and a test of the candidate's mastery of the fields covered in the program. The final oral examination is open. It is conducted by the student's Doctoral Committee and chaired by the student's advisor. To permit adequate time for the committee to review the dissertation, all copies of the tentatively completed dissertation (subject to revisions required by the examining committee) must be deposited with the program director and the respective college offices at least two weeks before the date of the final oral examination. The advisor shall submit certification of a successful defense to the Office of Graduate Studies through the respective college deans.
All full-time graduate students are required to attend departmental or college seminars in their fields of study (CIEG865 or MAST882), registering as a "Listener" in subsequent semesters. Students will also make presentations at these seminars. Students are also encouraged to attend other University seminars that may be of interest to them.
Railway engineering is a discipline within Civil Engineering that looks at the design, maintenance, and behavior of the railroad track infrastructure. The railway infrastructure includes track, bridges, and other infrastructure elements for passenger and freight railway and transit systems (both heavy and light rail). Railway engineering includes the short and long term behavior of the track structure and its major components under traffic and environmental loading, both static and dynamic. It also includes the dynamic interaction between the vehicles and the track structure, the localized interaction between the wheel and the rail, the interaction between each of the elements of the track structure and the long term behavior of the infrastructure under railroad and/or transit operations.
To be successful, students should have broad exposure to Civil Engineering to include knowledge of structures and structural mechanics, dynamics, geotechnical engineering, and transportation engineering.
Railroads and transit systems are an important element in our overall transportation infrastructure with an ongoing need for engineers in all aspects of railway engineering. Opportunities exist for engineers in the public and private sectors to include freight railroads, passenger rail (commuter, interurban and new generation high speed rail), transit systems, and consulting firms.


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Doing this blogging challenge has taught me that I can be a blogger. I love having my own little corner of the internet and although I would love people to read it, I don't really care if they do or not. I post my blogs to Twitter but have not yet been brave enough to post them on Facebook. Feel free to help me out :). ALSO I would like to officially announce that I am now a part of Blogging For Books and will be doing book review blog posts for them. So that's fun.
Revlon Grow Luscious Mascara – If I could only use one makeup item (besides chapstick, of course) for the rest of my life, it would be this stuff. It works miracles. I've used it on and off for about 4 years and it really does help your lashes grow.
OPI Lincoln Park After Dark – This is always my favorite nail color in the fall and winter. I can't wait to break it out. I like it because it looks almost black, but it's really a deep, dark purple. Don't forget the gold sparkles, yo.
Cover Girl Powder – I first started wearing makeup in 9th grade because someone (who shall not be named) told me my face looked shiny. This is what I used to counteract that and I still repurchase and use it to this day.
Vera Wang Princess Perfume – Feel free to punch me after I say this, but I like to consider myself the hipster of this perfume. I got it for Christmas in 9th grade and am still obsessed with it after going through 4 bottles (in 8 years, dang). It became pretty popular after that. I definitely don't take baths in it (aka spray it 806 times on myself) anymore (teen angst), but I like wearing it every couple days.
Revlon Color Burst Balm Stain – These are nice and minty. I hate actual lipstick so these are good for a safe splash of color. My favorite colors are Honey and Crush.
EOS Lip Balm in Sweet Mint – Some people call them eggs, some people call them orbs, I just like to call it EOS. I have a thing for mint –chapsticks, gum, mint oreos– and this is by far my favorite mint flavored lip balm. Good story.
Chi 44 Iron Guard – College taught me how to be lazy when it comes to my hair. However, when I used to straighten the crap out of it in high school, I discovered this savior. You brush it through you hair before using heat tools and it protects your strands from the heat damage.
Well, now you know all my secrets. I still love Taylor Swift.


Attract customers to your sports bar with cold, frothy beer.
You may already have visions of a high-energy sports bar filled with flickering big-screen television sets and happy customers cheering for their favorite teams at tables laden with the nachos, potato skins and frosty pitchers of beer. Details can become very important to score the loyalty of sports enthusiasts when opening a sports bar, but the right tips can get the ball in your court.
Chances are that your town already has a handful of sports bars where fans gather for the pleasure of shouting at television screens with their favorite beverage in hand. Visit other sports bars during busy games and during normal business hours to check out the menu, see what's stocked behind the bar and observe how employees interact with customers. If most local sports bars are dive joints with peanut shells scattered on the floor, consider opening something more upscale. If your town is brimming with snooty sports bars, opt for a lively, lowbrow theme with simple foods and classic beer specials.
Look for well-lit streets, low crime rates and accessible parking. It might be harder to get a liquor license in an area already crowded with establishments serving alcohol, but if you choose a spot too far from town, guests might have trouble hailing a cab to get home.
When contract with vendors, ask for price breaks on items you'll be ordering frequently. Check with alcohol suppliers, food suppliers and vendors supplying you with cocktail napkins, drink garnishes, straws and other necessary sports bar inventory. Also ask for price breaks on routine checks on television sets, sounds systems and satellite or cable installations but prepare to pay full price for emergency repair visits should technical problems surface during big games.
If your sports bar has a kitchen, hire cooks, dishwashers and food prep employees. In addition, you'll want to hire bartenders, bar backs, restaurant servers, cocktail servers and employees to bus tables and welcome guests when opening a sports bar. During busy games, it's smart to hire security guards to check IDs at the front door and discourage fights.
Hire more sports bar staff than you think you'll need. Bar and restaurant staff are notorious for juggling other responsibilities, including college classes and other jobs, so most won't be available to work full-time. You may also find that some of your new hires aren't right for the job, and full employee rosters give you some staffing security in letting them go.
Consider "I Hate Football Mondays," renaming chicken wings "barbells" during fight nights, employing social networking promotions to attract fans and starting sports fan clubs to attract new business, according to Nightclub & Bar.
Sports bars typically deal with high volumes of cash, so develop a plan for handling money at the end of the night to make sure that your business and employees are safe. Purchase a quality safe, keep doors locked after hours while employees finish cleaning, and offer meal and non-alcoholic drink discount incentives for local police officers to encourage them to drop by.
Rush, Morgan. "Tips on Opening a Sports Bar." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/tips-opening-sports-bar-4733.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.


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Target CEO weighs in on trouble in grocery aisles
By Kavita Kumar
September 14, 2016 — 1:21pm
While sales and traffic in Target's grocery aisles have suffered recently, Chief Executive Brian Cornell remains upbeat about the changes underway.
He added that they have owned the fact that they are disappointed with their performance so far this year.
"One tough quarter — we've got to rebound from that," he said.
"It's just going to take time for us to get credit for those changes," he told a group of reporters at Target headquarters Wednesday morning before the retailer's big fall national meeting Thursday afternoon. "It's not going to happen overnight."
Customers who might have been turned off by shopping at Target for groceries a few years ago might not realize all of the changes that are taking place, he added. So the company is also starting to highlight food more in its Wednesday circulars.
In recent months, Target has been adding hundreds of new items to its shelves including a number of organic, natural and gluten-free products and bolstering key categories for its fill-in grocery trips such as snacks, yogurt, and craft beer. It has also been going commodity by commodity to enhance its fresh produce in terms of supply chain and sourcing.
But the disruption in the stores and not enough emphasis on promotions and low prices in its messaging was one of the reasons Target cited last month for disappointing sales results last quarter. Store traffic dropped more than expected.
The challenges, along with softer electronics sales and other hiccups with the transition of its pharmacies to CVS, are expected to continue in the second half of this year with the company forecasting sales to be flat to down 2 percent.
But while there has been a lot of consternation among analysts about whether Target can fix its food issues, especially with Wal-Mart vowing to lower prices and overall food deflation affecting all grocers, Cornell emphasized that it's not one of the most critical categories for Target. Those categories are baby, kids, style and wellness.
"It's not one of our signature categories nor will it be," he said. "We're not a grocer. We provide a convenient assortment of food."
He added that Target isn't looking to create a full grocery with butchers, rotisserie ovens and sushi chefs. It's not a Kroger or a Safeway or Wegmans. It's a place where you can pick up a few items for the weekend while also grabbing some paper towels and an outfit for a weekend event.
"We offer a self-service grocery experience," he said.
In the coming months, Target will be rolling out enhanced grocery presentations with cosmetic changes to the flooring, lighting and store displays that it has been testing in Los Angeles and the Dallas market. The upgrades are aimed in part at signaling to customers that the department has had a makeover in substance, too.
In seven markets, Target has also created dedicated grocery teams in its stores to focus on just that department instead of working the whole store. Those markets also now have grocery directors to help oversee issues such as replenishment and trends.
Every fall, Target flies in thousands of store leaders from the around U.S. to attend the companywide meeting in advance of the all-important holiday shopping season. While it used to be just a one-day event, in recent years, the company has expanded it into a week of speakers and events for headquarters employees that it dubs "Redtalks."
This week, some of those speakers have included Alan Mulally, the former chief executive of Ford Motor Co. whose success turning around the carmaker is often held up as a road map for other companies; and Gopi Kallayil, chief evangelist of brand marketing for Google, who spoke about the formula for inspiring innovation within his company. Actress Jessica Alba stopped in to speak about her Honest Company baby brand and Beth Comstock, General Electric's first female vice chair, also gave a talk.
But the pinnacle of the week will be on Thursday when about 14,000 employees will pile into the Target Center decked out in red and khaki for a pep rally of sorts to get them fired up for the holidays. In addition to executives who will lay out the company's strategic plans, the employees will be treated to performances from A-list stars that in previous years have included the likes of Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Justin Timberlake. The list of performers is always kept secret until the event itself.
"It's probably the best week of the year," Cornell said.
This time last year, Target was riding a wave of momentum with sales on an upward trend. But this year, the retailer is still reeling from a setback with a 1.1 percent drop in comparable sales last quarter, its first decline in that metric in two years, and a lowered forecast instead of the to 2 to 3 percent growth the company had been hoping for.
Still, Cornell said the purpose of the meeting is to get the team revved up about rising above its conservative guidance and of hopefully finding a way to yet find positive growth this year.
"We're not going to be sitting there saying we've thrown in the towel," he said. "This is about improving our performance."
Kavita Kumar • 612-673-4113
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Constant change is the new norm and nimbleness is the new benchmark of business excellence. Consumers are the fundamental driver of these changes and their purchase path now has multiple touch points which both transcend and entwine the physical and digital world. Successful companies are continuously reinventing themselves using unique and disruptive business models, backed by new age capabilities to attract today's consumers
Manoj Kumar has 32 years of rich experience in General Management, Marketing and Sales with leading global companies like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Procter & Gamble, Gillette, and Unilever in India and International markets. His experience ranges across multiple categories viz. Personal Care (Shaving, Hair, Beauty, Oral), Health & Wellness, Nutrition, Home Care, Fabric Care, Baby Care, Writing Instruments, Batteries, Flashlights, Beverages. In his last corporate role, he was the Managing Director of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health in India. Prior to this, he worked as Managing Director of Procter and Gamble in Australia and West Africa.
An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
#Strategy #GeneralManagement #BrandBuilding #Sales #CapabilityBuilding
#Execution #Funding #ConsumerBehaviour #BehavioralEconomics #FMCG
#India&GlobalMarkets
Beauty Meets Wellness In The New Era By Manoj Kumar
Successful companies are built on a robust value proposition architecture. Sitting at the heart of this architecture is its complex raison d'etre that brings pleasure to a few early adopters who understand it the most. Extending this to other, larger sets of customers in a way that they connect with the same ensures brand longevity. Successful companies also know that this task is best accomplished when every link in the whole value chain embodies this core value proposition
Anchal Jain
Anchal has 32 years of entrepreneurial, advisory and academic experience in lifestyle industries. During his career, he has built brands in India and Europe, participating very closely in complete value chain management in the fashion and lifestyle businesses, including trend forecasting and data analytics. He was invited in 2013 by IIM Ahmedabad to serve as the Co-Chair at Creative & Cultural Businesses Programme (CCBP), now a benchmark in lifestyle entrepreneurial learning in India. Anchal has been applying his work on value proposition architecture to help build strategy foundation for top business groups in India and Europe.
An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad.
#Strategy #ValuePropositionArchitecture #India&GlobalMarkets #CustomerExperienceJourney #LifestyleIndustries #StrategyAndAesthetics #GoldenThreadAlignment #Indianness #Entrepreneurship
Excellence in Execution is at the heart of any successful business transformation. A brilliant strategy, block buster product, a sharp team is all fundamental but mission critical is when all of them come together to deliver Solid Execution.
Shilpa Sharma
Ratanjit has 30 years of rich FMCG experience in senior management and leadership roles in India & Indonesia. Successfully delivered business transformations through strong strategic interventions, brand building, robust GTMs and grooming teams for success. During his tenure as GM RB Indonesia, the business saw significant transformation through successful portfolio and margin expansion, brand building and GTM transformation. As a Sales Director in RB India he successfully lead a GTM transformation to deliver exceptional growths.
He has a PGDM from XLRI, Jamshedpur and BSC (Maths) from St Stephen's College, Delhi University.
#Strategy #GoToMarket #Branding #Sales #Leadership
Content and commerce are becoming more and more tightly intertwined and the world is moving to shopping wrapped around story telling and experiences
Shilpa has spent over two decades in the fashion and lifestyle retail space and one in FMCG. In 2010, Shilpa quit a full time job to live out her entrepreneurial dreams and set up Breakaway- an outcome of her passion for travel.
Close on its heels she co-founded Jaypore, an online retail portal for exquisite Indian handmade, high on design products, and has now handed over the baton to a strategic partner and an able team, while she looks to paint a new canvas of growth.
She ventured into F&B with Mustard, a concept restaurant in Goa and Mumbai, she co-founded with Punam Singh, in 2015. A delectable blend of a shared love for fine food and exceptional experiences, it offers Bengali and French cuisine.
Shilpa continues to engage with creative and lifestyle businesses as a consultant, mentor, and advisor. On her time, she is generally found traveling on leisure and pursuing her creative interests while keeping a keen eye out for the next best idea.
#LifestyleIndustries #RetailStrategy #Entrepreneurship #Creative #Artisanal #F&B #Travel&Leisure #Distribution #E-commerce #Craft #Design #Fashion
Developing markets offer interesting opportunities for growth to those willing to pioneer entry in new categories or segments and leverage new and growing distribution channels to access a young and dynamic consumer base.
Rajeev Tandon
Rajeev is a global CPG leader and has spent 30 years selling flagship brands to millions of consumers in developing markets around the world including India, Russia and Indonesia. His expertise spans across Sales, Marketing and General Management in diverse sectors such as Durable, Liquor, Beauty and Grooming. His experience in FMCG brands include Gillette, Braun small appliances and lifestyle products, Smirnoff, Gilbey, Baygon, All out, Mr Muscle and Glade.
An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies Mumbai.
#GeneralManagement #Sales #Transformation #Category&Brand #Acquisitions #Integration #Operations #FMCG #India&DevelopingMarkets
Gandhi once said, 'A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider of our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.' This holds true in every sphere of Luxury and Retail.
Nalini Gupta
Nalini Gupta is a dynamic result driven business leader with almost 30 years of professional experience in retail, distribution, sourcing, exports in fashion and luxury sector in India . She has proven expertise in luxury brand positioning, profit center operations, expansion strategy, strategic business planning, B2B, Distribution and buying & merchandising, to drive incremental business growth. Her experience is a unique blend of the art & science of retail and distribution, bringing together skills of an entrepreneur and a classically trained Merchant with full P&L control.
In her most recent role, Nalini was the managing director at Safilo India; prior to this was the country manager of Burberry India leading the path in luxury retail. She spearheaded the Satya Paul Brand as the CEO of Genesis Colors Pvt Ltd.
#Luxury #BrandPositioning #RetailStrategy #Merchandising #Distribution #VisualIdentity #Fashion #Operations #B2B #LifestyleIndustries
As rapid and unprecedented change drives business and life, it is increasingly true that size alone is no guarantee of continued success. Indeed, it is clear now that the big do not always eat the small but the fast that eat the slow.
Vinod Menon
Vinod Menon has over 30 years of experience across various functions and roles in top-notch corporates such as Brooke Bond Ltd ( now a part of HUL), Tata Tea Ltd/ Tetley Group, UK ( now Tata Consumer Products), Reliance Industries Ltd, Tata Teleservices Limited and MRF Ltd. He has the ability to work well in an unstructured / multi-cultural environment, with diverse exposure spanning industries and functions.
Over the years he has handled assignments in International Trade and Export Marketing, Sales and Distribution, Brand Management and Marcomm, Corporate Strategy, Retail Marketing, Transformation Management, Telecom and Automotive Marketing in both B2B and B2C areas. He also has useful insight into Loyalty Management and CRM strategies, processes and technologies.
An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad
#Marketing #Distribution #BrandStrategy #Transformation #Telecom #Automotive #CRM #Technology
The world is moving towards a new normal and it is crucial for organizations to be agile and adaptable to changes. Successful organizations don't adapt to cope, they adapt to win. Constant innovation, nimbleness and digitization is the way forward as we adapt to a new world
Sandeep Bhargava
Sandeep is a global leader in the media & entertainment industry. His vast experience makes him one of the few executives to have a comprehensive knowledge of cinema, television & OTT. As a business strategist he has over 30 years of experience in both founding & transforming existing companies into successful high-profile organizations within the advertising, media & entertainment industries. He raised USD 110 million on the AIM exchange for Network18 to list 'The Indian Film Company' in London. Additionally, he set up three of the largest film studios - UTV, Sahara One & Viacom18 Motion Pictures (Studio18). He led the formation of Viacom18, a 50:50 Joint Venture with Viacom & Network18.
He has also produced & distributed 175+ films globally. His involvement in each of these films has led to several of his films winning national & international awards like Golden Globe and have been official selections at Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Tokyo, TriBeCa & other film festivals.
#Mentor #Advisor #Founder #Leadership #Strategy #Branding #Advertising #Communication #MediaAndEntertainment
In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world that we inhabit, the speed with which new ideas are generated and speed of implementation of each one of those gain prominence. How we keep the cost of failure fractional and affordable becomes a key factor for relevance and longevity of businesses.
Punam Singh
Punam has 34 years experience in the Retail and Hospitality industries across functions such as Merchandising, Supply chain & Logistics, Vendor management, People skills, Balance Sheet/P&L management, Execution skills, In-store Operations, Consumer insights & experience and Social media management.
19 years of hospitality experience, including 11 years at Taj, has given her deep insights about consumer behavior, team building, importance of service and product consistency, while delivering profitability.
15 years of experience with marquee retail brands like Fabindia, Freedom Tree, Tarun Tahiliani etc gave Punam understanding behind backend operations, production, warehousing & supply chain which aided in better cost & inventory management.
#Hospitality #Lifestyle #Entrepreneur #F&B #Fashion #RetailStrategy #Operations #SupplyChain #Experience
The future will need more than what got us to the present. Time for the Goodness Generation, knowing what else is there, and doing something about it.
Ravindran Ganapathy
Author, Re-Enterprise. Founder, Goodness-Project; Chair Professor, Leadership development, LN-TISS; MD, Parrot solutions Pte Ltd; Advisor to Focus-band (neurofeedback & training devises), and Evolution Sport (mental skills for golf & athletics).
Over 40 years across industry, locations, and domains. Global leadership of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) winning acclaim from ET for enabling 'Golden Companies' of the future. Grounded in teaching & psychology followed by advanced studies in behavioural sciences and working with companies like Covansys, Pepsi, Blue Dart, Grindlays, Lipton and ICI.
Immersed in concepts like 'Industrialize agriculture', 'Export labour', "The 'I' of innovation", 'Tomorrow's enterprise' and 'Golf & I', each with rare insights on industry, society and the future. Revived the use of the outdoors, music and sports for development of people and businesses. The future will need more than what got us to the present. Its time for the Goodness Generation, knowing what else is there, and doing something about it.
#HumanResources #BehaviouralSciences #Entrepreneur #FMCG
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.This is one of those times when history has sped up.. To stay relevant companies need a purpose, the core reason for being and where they can have a unique ,positive impact on society. It also demands of them a moment of existential introspection. Enlightened executives have to find the sweet spot between their responsibility to maximize profits on behalf of shareholders and their desire to find a purpose across environment, social, and governance (ESG) themes on behalf of a broad range of stakeholders, including customers, employees, and communities.
Harmeet Bajaj
Harmeet Bajaj an iconic figure, has over 25 years experience in the lifestyle business. A management graduate from FMS Delhi, she was part of the team that set up India's premier fashion school NIFT. Subsequently, she created the country's first Fashion Communication program in the year 2000. And is presently creating a bachelors program on Sustainable Fashion at Anant University Ahmedabad.
Fablestreet and Ayla - clothing brands mark her debut as a design curator and mentor - only the latest, if logical, step in her ongoing journey as a fashion anthropologist and design interventionist whose forays in fashion and design have previously seen her take on varied roles from choreographer, academician, fashion exponent, communication expert, stylist, and experience design curator.
She has also worked closely with International brands like Anthropologie, Jigsaw, Max Mara, Nanette Lepore, etc on product development and strategy.
She is a founding partner at Impresario the handmade restaurant company that owns the famous chain of Smokehouse Delis and Social. She truly understands the business of Lifestyle and Fashion. A well-known commentator on fashion she was also Marie Claire's first Fashion Director and columnist for Economic Times and TOI. And today she consults with lifestyle brands on Strategy and Brand Development.
#Fashion #Lifestyle #BrandConsultant #Curator #Entrepreneur
Today's disruptive economic environment has thrown open a new opportunity for the consulting industry, with a need to reflect and balance the views of its clients, advising them with a practical, transparent and judicious approach driven by a frugal, sagacious and a "Responsible Consulting" culture sans extravagance.
Srinivas Yelandur
Srinivas Yelandur, is a senior management consulting industry leader with 23 years of experience in leading consulting businesses in strategy, operations and technology. He has been advising clients on interesting, eclectic and exciting assignments while he was working at Ernst & Young, Accenture, Gartner, IBM and Capgemini. He brings deep and rich experience in customer and business centric digital transformation for the Retail, Banking, Telecom, Technology, Healthcare, Travel, Government and Airline industries.
As a consultant he navigates through the consulting world by advising clients on interesting, eclectic and exciting mandates through a mix of intervention and outcome based models. His approach is to continuously look at cutting the clutter and the hype around business problems by using technology for scale. His vast collective experience in the consulting world gives him an edge in the advisory, startups and ecosystems space that nurtures the mindset of growth, scale, innovation and sustainability.
Srinivas is the founder of Elephant Ear Advisors LLP (EEA), a young new-age boutique advisory and consulting firm based out of Bangalore, which he set up two years ago. He is an alumna of the graduate management program of the INSEAD Business School.
#Transformation #Digital #Technology #Scale #Growth #Platforms
#Consulting #Disruption
Building a successful and an enduring family business revolves around the transformation of effort into something that transcends the pursuit of profit and unlocks value through the alignment of purpose, values and vision of the family, owners, business, and the enterprise
Srinivasan Sethuraman
Srini specializes in Family Office Advisory and Strategy Consulting with 24 years of diverse global experience. The last two decades, he has worked closely with families who own operating companies, family trusts, family foundations, and family offices. He helps aligning the purpose, values, and vision of the family, owners, business, and the enterprise and put in place the systems, processes, governance structures, strategies, and the human capital needed to accomplish the objectives of the family.
He has helped clients globally with leadership, mentoring the next generation, team building, succession planning and transition challenges, conflict resolution and business strategy. He has vast experience of working closely with family businesses towards strategising and optimising their capital structure and fund raising.
He co-founded and is the Chairman at KASG Finnaissance Consulting "KASG", a strategy and management consulting firm. Prior to KASG, he was part of a well-established multi-generational large Private family office, based out of Europe.
Srini is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.
#Familyofficeconsulting #Strategy #GeneralManagement #Leadership #Teambuilding #Execution #Funding
Marketing works best to lead business growth when we empower customers to make the best decision for themselves. Great customer experience - not features-benefits - is the paramount mantra.
LK Gupta
Lakshmikant Gupta is a highly experienced marketer with a demonstrated track record of achieving results across blue chip consumer companies and tech start ups. He has 28 years of experience in Business and Brand Strategy, Corporate Marketing, Brand Management, Advertising, e-Commerce, Digital Marketing and Retail & Consumer Research in India and International markets. He has worked with global companies like Girnar Software, Pilani Soft Labs, LG Electronics India, Proctor & Gamble and Gillette India, Middle East and Africa. LK Gupta is now the founder of CMOnow Marketing Consulting.
An alumnus of Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and Delhi University.
#Marketing #BrandStrategy #CustomerExperience #BrandManagement #DigitalMarketing #ConsumerResearch #VisualIdentity #Insight&Strategy #India&GlobalMarkets
The only area an enterprise has complete control in today's world is
its Operations (Supply Chain). You either get it right or risk becoming obsolete.
Mohit Bafna
Mohit is the co-founder at Gemba Concepts - an operations consulting firm working with organizations on consistently achieving operational excellence. Key focus areas are manufacturing velocity, green & brown field projects, supply chain management, cost management & optimization, costing modules. In the last 6 years Gemba Concepts has catered to more than 100 clients in sectors such as Automotive, FMCG, Steel, Apparel & has a team of 40+ members across India. An ex-Toyota employee, he draws inspiration from the Japanese way of working.
#Operations #SupplyChain #Optimization #Automotive #FMCG #Apparel
The current pause is a great opportunity for the Hospitality Industry to reflect and acquire a deeper understanding of the new world customers' desires, of product and service levels. With fewer customers in the foreseeable future, this will be the game changer...
Tipish Mahajan
Tipish has spent over a decade in the Hospitality & Food Service Business industry and has worked in various roles in Operations, Training & HR, Marketing support, Franchise Services and Projects, across reputed companies. His last corporate role was leading Operations & Franchising Support, and HR, of Quality Inns India (later Choice Hotels International), then the world's largest hotels' franchise company, with multiple brands catering to different segments of the market. It was the 1st international joint-venture in the Hotel Sector in India, and went on to become the largest international franchisor of hotels in India.
Tipish has successfully completed many consulting assignments in the Hospitality & Food Business domain, including setting up the Kwality Wall's Ice Cream parlours. He is the founder publisher of Cuisine Digest, India's first premium B2B magazine on Cuisines & Chefs, which was launched in partnership with leading Indian & International Chefs. Over the years, Tipish has developed an extensive network and deep understanding of the Hospitality & Food Service Businesses. Tipish also runs a marketing support services company, offering bespoke luxury gifts and promotional materials to corporates.
Tipish is an alumni of IHM Pusa, a premier Institute for Hotel Management in India.
#Hospitality #Operations #FoodService #B2B #Entrepreneur #CorporateGifting
In this fast changing global environment, companies that view Finance as a Business Partner or in an Enabler Role (proactively partnering with business teams in monitoring progress, course correction and instilling the habit of profitability early on without comprising on core values) are better equipped to manage challenging times and capitalise on growth opportunities.
Ganesh Sankar
Ganesh Sankar (Fellow Cost and Management Accountant) has about 20 years of leadership experience in international settings with multiple success stories of leading growth focused companies within the scope of a CFO. In addition to playing the role of a business partner to the CEOs in shaping and driving company's strategy, he is skilled at instilling the discipline of profitability early on, making it a habit and having it translate into higher than average valuations at the time of exit. Since talking his last company to a strategic exit in late 2019, he is currently an independent consultant, coach and mentor for early staged and mid-sized companies.
#Finance #Accounting #Growth #Strategy #Valuation
E-commerce opens up a unique opportunity to do distribution, new market expansion and product experimentation at warp speed
Akshay Shah
Akshay Shah is Business Development head of Rockett Kommerce which is a leading e-commerce distribution company in India with an annual GMV of $600 million. Rockkett Kommerce provides services of vendor aggregation, reselling, working capital investment, warehousing, returns good liquidation and reconciliation of accounts. The company has strategic partnership with Amazon and Flipkart and ability to provide end-to-end solutions for e-commerce business. Akshay has also worked in McKinsey and is fluent in Chinese.
#Ecommerce #Distribution #Operations #Digital
I believe the consumer is central to any successful strategy, understanding the choice drivers behind the various dimensions of consumers is where the magic begins
Tanvi Jain Kapoor
Tanvi is the Senior Brand Manager of Val-More Action Advisory. Her experience ranges across Branding, Marketing, Creative, Consumer Insight and Strategy. Tanvi's expertise lies in the impact of the alliance between consumer insight and behavior on brand strategy and creative direction. In her last role, she has worked as the lead on creative and social strategy at Creative & Cultural Businesses Programme, at IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to this, she was part of the founding team of Trenspott, a consumer intelligence consultancy, where she lead branding and creative direction, she was also part of the analytics team that developed a mapping of the Indian consumers of today.
An alumna of Lasalle College of The Arts, Singapore.
#BrandManagement #ConsumerBehaviour #Insight&Strategy #ArtDirection #Creative #Research #VisualIdentity


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GUT biota indices: a new tool for WILD animal conservation
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (H2020-MSCA-GF) WILDGUT grant information:
Grant Agreement: n. 752399
Coordinator: Claudia Barelli
Funding: EU under project number H2020-MSCA-GF-2016 – 752399
Timeframe: 01.07.2017 - 30.08.2019
University/Department: Fondazione Edmund Mach, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology
Partners: Fondazione Edmund Mach (Beneficiary), Italy; Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA;
Additional collaborators: MUSE - Science Museum of Trento, Italy; University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
Disclaimer: The content of this website reflects only the author's view.
wildgut | Objectives
WILDGUT will identify gut micro-biodiversity indices useful for improving conservation strategies, using wild non-human primates as models.
The necessary dataset will be generated using metataxonomics as well as traditional and molecular parasitology to measure gut microbial and helminth diversity of two non-human primate species living in both intact and degraded forested areas of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Using faecal samples collected from free-ranging groups of Udzungwa red colobus monkeys and yellow baboons, the specific objectives are:
- to assess the composition and functional diversity of gut microbiota and helminth communities from both species living in;
- to identify interactions between the four-way interplays (hosts, gut microbiota, helminths and habitats) and develop useful indices for assessing species conservation status;
- to evaluate how best to apply this new approach in practice, and make recommendations that could be adopted by local and global animal conservation management plans.
The project is co-ordinated by Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), Italy, and includes partners from the United States of America (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois (IL) and Italy (MUSE-Museo delle Scienze, MUSE), as well as the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno (VFU), in the Czech Republic as a collaborator.


No matter the season, more and more of us are cooking outdoors. During the warm summer months outdoor cooking and dining are even more popular. Here are some steps you can take to stay healthy and reduce your risk of illness during the summer months.
When meat and other protein foods are cooked at high temperatures, chemical compounds can form that are believed to increase risk of some types of cancer. To decrease formation of these compounds use a lower flame on your grill, trim away fat on meats to avoid flare-ups and marinate meat prior to cooking.
Immediately refrigerate all perishable items when you get home from the grocery store.
Keep meats and other perishable foods refrigerated until ready to use, and pack coolers just before leaving.
If using coolers, keep out of sunlight and avoid opening too often (a good rule is to keep beverages in a different cooler to avoid opening frequently).
Return foods to the refrigerator or cooler immediately after serving.
Completely defrost foods prior to cooking so they cook evenly.
Cook completely; use Dream Dinners cooking instructions which include safe minimum internal temperatures, so there is no guess-work.
Use clean utensils and platters for cooked foods to avoid contamination of prepared foods.
Source: Cindy Farricker, MS, RD, CDE, Registered Dietitian, Dream Dinners, Inc.


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Hello, To zoom in or out, you need to use the scrollwheel of your mouse or the 2 fingers on multitouch trackpads. Hope it helps.
Can I save my model as an .stl or other 3D file type. I heed it on Autodesk Inventor.
Can I save my model as an .stl or other 3D file type. I heed it on Autodesk Inventor. Edit: Nevermind.
Yes, once logged in you have the choice between 3 export formats in the workshop: collada, obj ans stl.
It currently records the last 100 actions. Let me know if you think it is sufficient otherwise, I can increase this limit.
I added the undo/redo function with the following shortcuts: Ctrl or ⌘+ Z - Undo Ctrl or ⌘+ Y - Redo It currently records the last 100 actions. Let me know if you think it is sufficient otherwise, I can increase this limit.
I zoomed out of my model to far and can't get it back.
Did you try to zoom in again a lot?
The other solution is to import your old model in a new scene. This way, the camera settings are reinitialised which shall solve your problem.
Hello, Did you try to zoom in again a lot? The other solution is to import your old model in a new scene. This way, the camera settings are reinitialised which shall solve your problem.
I added another item in the camera menu list. You can toggle between Turntable and Trackball orbit style for camera controls.
Hello, I added another item in the camera menu list. You can toggle between Turntable and Trackball orbit style for camera controls. Shortcut is numpad 9.
Is there any way to load a saved model? I started building something and at the moment I have no way of editing it.
Yes, you have 3 ways of loading your saved models once you are logged in.
1 - In your account double click on the model to open > Links > Click on the eye on the workshop line (you can also choose which revision of your model you want to open in the workshop).
Hello, Yes, you have 3 ways of loading your saved models once you are logged in. 1 - In your [url=http://www.mecabricks.com/en/account/library]account[/url] double click on the model to open > Links > Click on the eye on the workshop line (you can also choose which revision of your model you want to open in the workshop). 2 - In the [url=http://www.mecabricks.com/en/workshop]workshop[/url]: File > Open > OK > Click on the model you want to open 3 - In the [url=http://www.mecabricks.com/en/workshop]workshop[/url]: File > Import > Click on the model you want to open (it will import it in the current scene) Hope it helps.
Is there a possibility to pan the view? It would be a great help - may be more important than zoom on selection.
Forgot to try this. Working with a MacBook pro's touch panel. Thanks!
NARF Forgot to try this. Working with a MacBook pro's touch panel. Thanks!


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I would describe Alexina as 'the red-haired angel of the catwalk'. Not only because she has walked for Victoria's Secret, but also for her sweet but at the same time sensual beauty, for her wonderful way of being and for how she expresses herself on the runway and in front of the cameras. Despite the fact that at the beginning and at such a young age, she did not know what she wanted to pursue professionally. One day she found by chance an opportunity to work as a model and by starting on the modelling path she has been able to attain heights that few models can dream of, all whilst keeping her feet firmly planted on the ground.
Photography by Edwin S Freyer. Styled by Sayuri Bloom.
Makeup by Naomi Nakamura using MAC Cosmetics. Hair by Keiichiro Hirano.
Alexina appears courtesy of Models1. Words by Andy Durán.
Above image credits: Pleated silk crepe dress and monogram silk scarf by Louis Vuitton.
This is an interview extract. Find out the full version in the Fall Winter 2020 Issue 5.
To start with, tell us about your childhood.
My parents split up when I was three and I lived between two houses. For the first three years of my life, my parents owned a restaurant together and we lived above it. After that, I was at my mum's Monday-to-Friday in Worksop and then with my Dad Friday-to-Sunday in Wakefield. It was like that right up until I left home at eighteen. I went to a state school in Worksop, starting off at Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery school, then going to Valley comprehensive school before deciding at sixteen to go to Valley post-16 centre in Worksop to do my A-levels. For my A-levels I honestly had no idea what I wanted to be, it's so hard at a young age to decide what you want to be for the rest of your life. I decided to study A-level subjects that would help me get into midwifery school but then I left halfway through my course to pursue modelling, after which I moved to Paris for six years.
I always say I'm lucky in the sense that I grew up between two families who had totally different incomes. My dad was well-off, he didn't really need to think about money and could go out to restaurants and have expensive holidays and all the rest. Whereas, when I was living with Mum, we had to watch our money, write down the bills we had to pay and work out how to split her income between bills and groceries. In the eighteen years of living with my mum and step-dad, we went on three holidays, and each one had to be saved up for over the year to afford. As an adult it has shown me that yes, it is nice to have money but it's not everything. Love, family, friends and a roof over your head means that you're all good and already so lucky.
How was your first experience as a New Face?
I have amazing memories and bad memories. The first time I travelled my mum had to come with me as I was seventeen, we both went to NYC because I was in the Ford Supermodel of the World competition. I ended up being one of the winners and had to stay in NYC. They sent my mum home and I didn't get to say goodbye to her and I just sobbed for three days. It was my first time being on my own. This was in 2009 and I didn't have a phone or a computer – we could never afford one – so I remember my mum always calling the model apartment house phone. The experience made me grow up fast as I had to learn to cook for myself, ask for things myself, get around a city and I became an adult very quickly.
People always say 'omg did you have to share with like twelve girls in a model apartment' and yes, I did, but at that moment I needed it. I had just left my family and I had eleven girls around me who were in the same situation, so we all rallied together and supported one another. I also met one of my best friends in that apartment and she's still my best mate twelve years later.
No one tells you as a new face that it takes a while to get started, you think you are going to earn tons of money straight away. For some girls this happens and they are very lucky to earn money almost immediately but for me it took years. There were a few times where I was going to give up but my mum had a feeling it was going to work out for me in fashion and told me to keep going. I'm really glad I listened to her.
Silk chiffon lace dress by Lanvin. Onyx with diamond drop earrings by Ara Vartanian
Balmain, Burberry, Jean Paul Gaultier, Brandon Maxwell, those are just some of the names of the many renowned houses that you have been a part of. Which jobs do you think have been the ones that have most contributed to you as a model, and above of all, have helped in your professional and personal growth?
Ellen von Unwerth and Jean Paul Gaultier first put me on the high fashion radar and from there people seemed to follow. I then signed a contract with L'Oréal and through them I worked with Olivier Rousteing at Balmain. We got on really well, bonded and the next season I walked his show. The Balmain show gave me further exposure and I then got started walking for Max Mara and Emporio Armani. I remember thinking when I booked the Max Mara show and saw all the amazing top models that were also in it – Lara stone, Doutzen Kroes etc – 'wow I have made it into a show with these girls', it was a dream.
You have been considered by models.com as one of the sexiest models of the industry, do you think that could be seen as a negative when it comes to your work in high fashion?
I was honoured to be classed as one of the sexiest models. I don't think it can be negative if clients who want to work with you do their research before – then they can see that I can be very versatile and also do high fashion as well. It's only ever been negative when clients haven't looked into a girl's work. I am also very lucky to be in the social-media era. Most clients, before they book, go on a model's Instagram to see who they are. So I try to keep my Instagram true to me: sexy, high fashion and filled with what I love (family, friends, hobbies etc). I want my Instagram to reflect who I am as a person.
Embellished cutout back mini dress and strappy sandals by Versace.
What are the most positive experiences you have had in your career? Has there been anything that has marked or changed you? What would you have changed?
I think, for me, it was more about my own personal growth that's helped to build positive experiences in my career. I came out of a ten-year relationship three years ago and it had a big, positive impact on me as a person. I learnt how to grow, to love myself, to work out who I, Alexina Graham, am as a person and what I did and didn't want in my life. I had the freedom to do what I wanted, for me, and I travelled for both work and pleasure and had the time and freedom to put my whole being into my job. I got to really focus on my career and put everything I had into it and pushed myself to figure out what I wanted to do in fashion and what goals I wanted to aim for.
Velvet with contrast applique puff shoulder dress by Zimmermann.
We are currently experiencing one of the worst crises that the world has gone through in many years. How have you been affected? How was it for you to go through these months of quarantine?
I actually had all the symptoms of Covid at the end of March – I had it pretty badly and went into hospital for the day. I was so scared, I remember getting into the ambulance, saying goodbye to my sister at the door and just being petrified. I had a fever of 107 °F, I was weak and could hardly walk, I had vomiting and diarrhoea, hot and cold flashes and my chest was so tight that I found it really hard to breath. I was bedbound for six days. Then on the tenth day I was 90 per cent better.
I have been quarantining with my family since March 20th, so I am now heading into the sixth month of being with them. Honestly, it has been fab, I've got to spend an amazing time with my family and I've been able to watch my three-year-old niece and nephew grow, develop and learn new things every day, moments that I would never usually get to see in person. Family, love and friendship is so important and it has made me realize how much we need human contact as a species.
Post-lockdown, what have you been doing? And how do you foresee the future of fashion after this pandemic?
I have been working a lot in London but I have just booked my flight to go back to NYC as work is starting back up there again. I am looking forward to going back to my home in the city and seeing my friends again. Two of my friends who live in upstate New York are pregnant, so I can't wait to catch up with them and see all their adorable baby buys.
I honestly don't know about how the pandemic will affect the future of fashion, I think a lot of things will change but honestly I think the industry needed a change too – it needed a good shake up.
Sequin polka dot coat and floral print heeled jumpsuit by Richard Quinn
Finally, from your experience, what message would you share with everyone out there who loves fashion and wants to break into the industry?
Keep the faith, determination and willingness. Never give up on your dreams and work hard for what you want in life.
Read Alexina's interview in the Fall Winter 2020 Issue 5. Get your copy here.
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Home Racing News Ka Ying Star can still rise higher
Ka Ying Star can still rise higher
Ka Ying Star scored on debut in Hong Kong.
By Declan Schuster – HKJC
Ka Ying Star finished 10th in the BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) last start but Vincent Ho believes the gelding will return to form in Wednesday's (17 April) Class 2 King's Park Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley.
Ho has ridden the gelding in all four of his Hong Kong appearances including a debut win at Sha Tin (1600m). The rider is confident that the Tony Cruz-trained galloper has not yet reached his potential.
"No definitely not, he needs time to mature, he's still very green and physically he isn't strong enough yet, so he has a lot of improvement to come. He can take a bit to get going, he is still green," the jockey said.
Ka Ying Star scored on debut in Hong Kong at Class 2 level over 1600m. He then placed third in the first two legs of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) and the Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m).
"He just needs time to mature up, both physically and mentally, he is definitely a good horse," Ho observed.
The Cityscape gelding has shown some of his sire's qualities – the stallion was a pace-setting miler who capped his career with a make-all four and a quarter-length romp in the 2012 Dubai Duty Free (1800m). Ka Ying Star has led in three of his four outings in Hong Kong – just once he was forced take a sit behind Mission Tycoon who crossed him to lead.
Ho believes the bay will prove his merits over farther, given time.
"I think he can definitely handle 2000m, but back to one mile at Happy Valley suits and he trialled well the other day," he said.
Ka Ying Star was a three-time winner in Britain pre-import and his upcoming mid-week assignment will be his first race at Happy Valley. But he did lead them home in a recent trial at the city track over 1700m with Ho in the saddle.
Ka Ying Star is one of two BMW Hong Kong Derby also-rans in the Class 2 contest: the well-beaten Mr So And So is also looking for redemption.
"He seems ok, he ran last in the race but the distance obviously tested him," trainer John Size said.
Mr So And So placed in two consecutive G2 races at Caulfield in Australia pre-import and since moving to Hong Kong he has added a further two wins to his tally from nine races.
"The distance will certainly suit him better, he's only won over 1400m in Hong Kong, and I think the 1400m at Sha Tin is the best course and distance for him.
"Class 2 is a bit strong at the moment, so we're going to Happy Valley to see if we can get a nice run round the inside and get some prizemoney," Size said.
Author: iRace
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LAS VEGAS — In the co-main event, Leo "El Terremoto" Santa Cruz (37-1-1, 19 KOs) became a four-division world champion by capturing the WBA Super Featherweight with a unanimous decision over Miguel Flores (24-3, 12 KOs).
"Winning this title means the world to me," said Santa Cruz. "This is all for the fans who support me. I didn't feel myself today and didn't perform the way I wanted to. I'm going to get back in the gym and get a big fight in 2020."
The action began to heat up in round three, as Santa Cruz began to find a home for his straight right hand that would help him control much of the remainder of the fight. Flores adjusted and used more movement to try to counteract Santa Cruz's aggression and also focused on countering those right hands with body shots.
"I'm glad I got the victory," said Santa Cruz. "Miguel is a good fighter, he gave me a tough fight and he proved he's not a pushover. We put on a great battle."
"It was a good fight and I showed I belong at this level," said Flores. "I just went 12 rounds with Leo Santa Cruz. It's not an accomplishment in itself but I slowed down his pace. Like I said before, it's not only about throwing punches, but it's about ring IQ and I showed I have it."
Despite Flores' tactics, Santa Cruz was able to stay in control and frustrate his opponent. Flores was deducted a point by referee Tony Weeks in round eight due to excessive holding during the many exchanges.
Santa Cruz held the edge in punches landed at 253 to 222, while Flores threw more punches than Santa Cruz by a tally of 1024 to 907.
"It was a close fight and I didn't think he was landing too much," said Flores. "He was busy but he wasn't landing too many shots. I landed cleaner harder shots but he was just busier."
Flores continued to try to rough up Santa Cruz and accidentally hit him with a headbutt in the ninth round that opened up a cut over Santa Cruz's left eye. The four-division champion was able to weather that cut and finished strong on his way to a unanimous decision by scores of 115-112 and 117-110 twice.
"I want to stay at 130," said Santa Cruz. "We want the big fights in 2020. I want Gervonta Davis or Gary Russell Jr. I want to show the world I'm not scared of anybody."
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It'll be nearly a year before Star Trek aficionados can catch Zoe Saldana back in action as Uhura in the Star Trek sequel, but fans of the actress will be able to see her this fall in the Earth-bound feature The Words. CBS Films has just released the trailer for the drama, which casts Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who must contend with the fallout of finally achieving success after stealing the prose of another writer. Saldana plays Cooper's supportive wife, while the cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes, J.K. Simmons, John Hannah, Ron Rifkin and Voyager guest star Michael McKean. The Words will open on September 21.
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