Zun L. Zun L Zun, Leslie.Mental Health Disorders: ED Evaluation and Disposition. In: Tintinalli JE, Stapczynski J, Ma O, Yealy DM, Meckler GD, Cline DM. Tintinalli J.E., Stapczynski J, Ma O, Yealy D.M., Meckler G.D., Cline D.M. Eds. Judith E. Tintinalli, et al.eds. Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2016. http://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1658&sectionid=109447969. Accessed April 19, 2019.
Zun L. Zun L Zun, Leslie.. "Mental Health Disorders: ED Evaluation and Disposition." Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e Tintinalli JE, Stapczynski J, Ma O, Yealy DM, Meckler GD, Cline DM. Tintinalli J.E., Stapczynski J, Ma O, Yealy D.M., Meckler G.D., Cline D.M. Eds. Judith E. Tintinalli, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2016, http://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1658&sectionid=109447969.
Because there are about 4000 general hospital EDs in the United States but <200 psychiatric EDs, the vast majority of acute behavioral problems are assessed and treated in general hospital EDs.4,5 Patients with behavioral health problems often provide vague and nonspecific symptoms, and obtaining collateral information as part of the assessment is difficult and time-consuming.
ED disposition decisions can be especially challenging for homeless patients and for those with repeated ED visits. Given the complexities of assessment, diagnosis, and disposition, it is important to maintain a positive and nonjudgmental attitude toward patients with mental health disorders.
A decision strategy for emergency assessment of patients with mental health disorders should follow the sequence of actions in Table 286-1.
Safety and stabilization Contain violent and dangerously psychotic persons to provide a safe environment for staff, patients, family, and visitors while simultaneously attending to airway, breathing, and circulation.
Identification of homicidal, suicidal, or other dangerous behavior Determine whether the patient needs to be forcibly detained for emergency evaluation.
Medical evaluation Determine the presence of any serious organic medical conditions that might cause or contribute to abnormal behavior or thought processes (e.g., hypoglycemia, meningitis, drug withdrawal, or other causes of delirium).
Psychiatric diagnosis and severity assessment If the behavior change is not due to an underlying medical condition, it is primarily psychiatric or functional, requiring a psychiatric diagnosis and assessment of the severity of the primary psychiatric problems.
Psychiatric consultation Determine the need for immediate psychiatric consultation.
This chapter presents an overview of the care of adult patients with mental health disorders from ED entry to departure—triage, patient and staff safety, medical and psychiatric evaluation, admission and disposition decisions, and the care of patients with prolonged ED stays. Diagnostic criteria of the psychiatric disorders are summarized. Behavioral and psychiatric disorders in children are discussed in chapter 147, "Behavioral Disorders in Children."


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Pioneer: UMass has a spending problem
University calls report 'highly misleading," says bottom line positive
Bruce Mohl	Higher Education and Adult Learning, UMass	0 Comments Jun 4, 2018
THE PIONEER INSTITUTE continued its war of words with the University of Massachusetts on Monday, asserting that the five-campus system's complaints about inadequate state funding are just not true.
UMass in the past has pointed to declining state funding as the explanation for its steadily increasing student fees. A week ago, in response to a Pioneer report, UMass also blamed inadequate state aid for its decision to ease admission standards for out-of-state students, who make higher tuition payments. "The university's enrollment of out-of-state students has increased as state support for UMass has stagnated," UMass said in a statement at the time.
Yet Pioneer said on Monday that state appropriations for the UMass campuses have actually risen 39 percent over the last five years, jumping from $519 million in 2013 to nearly $721 million in 2017. Pioneer said UMass operating losses have also mounted over that time period, rising from $511 million in 2013 to $720 million in 2017.
"The University of Massachusetts system has a spending problem, not a funding problem," the Pioneer Institute said. The right-leaning think tank suggested UMass's "unilateral expansion decisions" – including the recent purchase of Mount Ida College in Newton – are fueling the system's budget problems.
"The Legislature did not vote to establish a new UMass campus [in Newton], but taxpayers will surely be called upon to cover increased operating losses the move will create," Pioneer said.
The think tank even portrayed UMass's steady enrollment growth, up 22 percent between the 2006-07 school year and the 2015-2016 school year, as a negative. Pioneer said the rapid expansion of enrollment is accompanied by larger and larger operating losses, and runs counter to national trends of declining enrollment and declining college-age students.
"Looking ahead, Massachusetts is projected to produce 12.4 percent fewer high-school graduates in 2031 than it did in 2012, yet its state university continues to grow unabated," the Pioneer report said.
Andrew Mangels, the vice chancellor for administration and finance at UMass Amherst, issued a statement calling the Pioneer analysis "highly misleading." He said Pioneer's claims that the purchase of Mount Ida College will lead to operating losses and that UMass spends as it wants and then presents the Legislature with the bill "have no basis in fact and are unsupported by any analysis."
Mangels did not dispute Pioneer's claim of rising state support for UMass, but instead focused on the suggestion that the five-campus system is incurring operating losses. "The fundamental flaw in their summary is that non-operating revenues such as the state appropriation, federal appropriations (such as Pell grants), private gifts, and endowment spending are not included. When those non-operating sources are included, UMass' bottom line is positive," he said.
Bruce Mohl
Editor, CommonWealth
E-mail @BruceMohl
About Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe's State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe's Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state's pension system. He served as the Globe's political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine's website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.
"UMass's operating margin has been positive over the period for which they cite losses," Mangel continued. "They also inflate UMass's state 'subsidy' by including increases in the fringe benefit rate for state employees, which is set by the state and not appropriated to UMass."
Mangels said the state's investment in UMass has paid big dividends, including $6.2 billion in economic activity (according to an analysis of 2015 by the UMass Donahue Institute) and the employment of 16,777 direct employees and 26,870 others whose employment flows from university operations. He said the five campuses also help the state meet the growing demand for talented employees. "UMass Amherst alone educates more Massachusetts residents than the state's top eight private universities combined and awards more undergraduate STEM degrees than any other college or university in the state," he said.
"The Pioneer Institute rightly points out that there has been a surge in applications across the UMass system. With a 35 percent increase in applications over the past eight years at the flagship campus and similar growth at the other UMass campuses, it is clear that a world-class UMass education is in high demand by the most academically prepared Massachusetts students," Mangel said. "At the Amherst campus, for example, over this same period average SAT scores of incoming students have increased from 1167 to 1268, average GPA has gone from 3.61 to 3.89; and graduation rates have risen to 80 percent. In addition, since 2010, the flagship campus has risen more than 20 spots in the US News and World Report rankings, making it one of the most improved public universities in the country. Contrary to Pioneer's assertions, these are the hallmarks of an institution experiencing unprecedented success. "
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package org.talend.components.azurestorage.queue.runtime;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.talend.components.api.component.runtime.SourceOrSink;
import org.talend.components.api.container.RuntimeContainer;
import org.talend.components.api.exception.ComponentException;
import org.talend.components.api.properties.ComponentProperties;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.AzureStorageProvideConnectionProperties;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.blob.runtime.AzureStorageSourceOrSink;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.queue.AzureStorageQueueProperties;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.queue.tazurestoragequeueinput.TAzureStorageQueueInputProperties;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.queue.tazurestoragequeuelist.TAzureStorageQueueListProperties;
import org.talend.components.azurestorage.tazurestorageconnection.TAzureStorageConnectionProperties;
import org.talend.daikon.NamedThing;
import org.talend.daikon.SimpleNamedThing;
import org.talend.daikon.i18n.GlobalI18N;
import org.talend.daikon.i18n.I18nMessages;
import org.talend.daikon.properties.ValidationResult;

import com.microsoft.azure.storage.StorageException;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.queue.CloudQueue;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.queue.CloudQueueClient;

public class AzureStorageQueueSourceOrSink extends AzureStorageSourceOrSink implements SourceOrSink {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1124608762722267338L;

    protected RuntimeContainer runtime;

    private final Pattern queueCheckNamePattern = Pattern.compile("[a-z0-9]{2,63}");

    private static final I18nMessages i18nMessages = GlobalI18N.getI18nMessageProvider()
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    @Override
    public ValidationResult initialize(RuntimeContainer container, ComponentProperties properties) {
        ValidationResult validationResult = super.initialize(container, properties);
        if (validationResult.getStatus() == ValidationResult.Result.ERROR) {
            return validationResult;
        }

        this.runtime = container;
        this.properties = (AzureStorageProvideConnectionProperties) properties;
        return ValidationResult.OK;
    }

    @Override
    public ValidationResult validate(RuntimeContainer container) {
        ValidationResult vr = super.validate(container);
        if (vr != ValidationResult.OK)
            return vr;
        if (properties instanceof TAzureStorageQueueListProperties) {
            // no validation needed...
            return ValidationResult.OK;
        }
        if (properties instanceof AzureStorageQueueProperties) {
            String q = ((AzureStorageQueueProperties) properties).queueName.getValue();
            if (q.isEmpty()) {
                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.NameEmpty"));

            }
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                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.LengthError"));
            }
            if (q.indexOf("--") > -1) {
                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.TwoDashError"));
            }

            if (!queueCheckNamePattern.matcher(q.replaceAll("-", "")).matches()) {
                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.QueueNameError"));
            }
        }
        if (properties instanceof TAzureStorageQueueInputProperties) {
            int nom = ((TAzureStorageQueueInputProperties) properties).numberOfMessages.getValue();
            if (nom < 1 || nom > 32) {
                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.ParameterLengthError"));
            }
            int vtimeout = ((TAzureStorageQueueInputProperties) properties).visibilityTimeoutInSeconds.getValue();
            if (vtimeout < 0) {
                return new ValidationResult(ValidationResult.Result.ERROR, i18nMessages.getMessage("error.ParameterValueError"));
            }

        }
        return ValidationResult.OK;
    }

    public CloudQueueClient getStorageQueueClient(RuntimeContainer runtime) throws InvalidKeyException, URISyntaxException {
        return getStorageAccount(runtime).createCloudQueueClient();
    }

    public CloudQueue getCloudQueue(RuntimeContainer runtime, String queue)
            throws InvalidKeyException, URISyntaxException, StorageException {
        return getStorageQueueClient(runtime).getQueueReference(queue);
    }

    public static List<NamedThing> getSchemaNames(RuntimeContainer container, TAzureStorageConnectionProperties properties)
            throws IOException {
        AzureStorageQueueSourceOrSink sos = new AzureStorageQueueSourceOrSink();
        sos.initialize(container, properties);
        return sos.getSchemaNames(container);
    }

    @Override
    public List<NamedThing> getSchemaNames(RuntimeContainer container) throws IOException {
        List<NamedThing> result = new ArrayList<>();
        try {
            CloudQueueClient client = getStorageQueueClient(container);
            for (CloudQueue q : client.listQueues()) {
                result.add(new SimpleNamedThing(q.getName(), q.getName()));
            }
        } catch (InvalidKeyException | URISyntaxException e) {
            throw new ComponentException(e);
        }
        return result;
    }

}

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Tag Archives: southern Philippines
Lahad Datu Shooting: 2 Malaysian Police Killed, 3 Injured
Shootings which started on Friday morning occurred in the lands of Sabah.
(Please click here for the photos)
To be precised, the shootings were in Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu in Sabah.
It started when a group of Filipino who claimed to be the followers of the sultan of Sulu came for their homes in the southern Philippines to Sabah in East Malaysia on February 14, 2013.
With weapons in their hands, they landed their boat in Lahad Datu, claiming that it is part of their territories.
But before they could move further, the Malaysian police surrounded them and they were confined to an area in Kampung Tanduo.
The Malaysian government tried to talk to them and gave them time to leave Sabah in peace but they did not do as they were told.
Then, today the Sulu soldiers shot a mortar toward the Malaysian police and killed two police officers while three others were injured.
National News Agency of Malaysia (BERNAMA) reported that Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Friday said that the group of armed intruders in Lahad Datu, Sabah had fired shots first at Malaysian security forces after they advanced 1.5 kilometres from where they camped earlier.
I'm very sad and sorry for their families especially the inspector's children who were still very young.
And I am also sad when there were people who tried to blame the Malaysian security forces as the ones who started the shootings and blamed the Malaysian government for the incident.
This entry was posted in Disaster, News and tagged BERNAMA, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu, Malaysian police, Malaysian Prime Minister, Malaysian security forces, National News Agency of Malaysia, Sabah, southern Philippines, sultan of Sulu on 01/03/2013 by Ahmad Ali Karim.


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Deming High School
Staff/Student Email
Campus Student/Parent
Campus Parent Request form
SAT School Day
Administered March 2022
By Sandra Almanza
Learn more about the SAT School Day!
Fact sheet provided by NM PED
FREE SAT REsources
Learn more about resources available to help you prepare for the SAT!
College Board - Visit the College Board website to find out more about what the test looks like and tips to help prepare!
Kahn Academy - Kahn Academy provides you with personalized help when preparing for the SAT!
PSAT/NMSQT
PSAT - NMSQT
Administered to sophomores and also to juniors who are interested in qualifying for the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Go to collegeboard.org to find out more about the PSAT/NMSQT. This link will take you directly to the PSAT/NMSQT section.
What is the PSAT - NMSQT?
PSAT - Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
NMSQT - National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
The following video will answer all of your questions about the PSAT/NMSQT and includes many helpful test taking strategies to use! If you are serious about doing well on this test and maybe even being considered for the National Merit Scholarship take some time to watch this video! Take notes. There is a section in the end where they answer questions from students. This a very helpful video!
More information about the PSAT/NMSQT
For more information about the PSAT/NMSQT including, two official full length practice exams, and a Daily Practice for the SAT app, click here.
National Merit Scholarship program
Click here to view the National Merit Scholarship Program Student Guide.
To go to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation web site, click here.
ACT.org
ACT Fee Waivers!
Because we are a free & reduced lunch school, all students at Deming High School are eligible for two ACT Fee Waivers!
Please see your guidance counselor for more information!
If you recieve accommodations for testing, you may qualify for some of these accommodations when taking the ACT. Please see your counselor for assistance. Keep in mind that this application takes up to seven weeks to process. Apply early!
Deadline Approaching!
The deadline for the April 17, 2021 test date is March 12th!
Don't forget to register!
Your guidance counselors are available to help with the registration process.
High School: 320-190
High School Test Center Code: 180900
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Dona Ana............................................... 2651
UNM....................................................... 2651
WNMU.................................................... 2646
Highlands............................................... 2640
Eastern................................................... 2636
Out of State School Codes:
ASU......................................................... 0088
EAC......................................................... 0090
U of A...................................................... 0096
UTEP....................................................... 4223
NCAA Clearinghouse............................ 9999
ACCESS Testing
access for ELLs 2.0
Why do students have to take the ACCESS test?
QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE ACCESS TEST:
• The ACCESS test is an English Assessment (not Spanish) and there is no opt-out option.
• It is a Federal requirement that we administer this assessment to all students identified as an English Language Learner (ELL).
• A student is identified as an ELL based on the Home Language Survey (Language Usage Survey) that is completed when they enroll in school and the W-APT that is administered within 20 days of enrollment.
• The only way to exit from being an ELL is to score a 5 or higher on the ACCESS test. Until that time, they will be tested annually.
Preparing for the ACCESS Test
The following resources are available to help students become familiar with the ACCESS testing online application, Insight.
Test Demo
View a demonstration of the ACCESS testing environment.
Test Practice
Take the practice test!
Click here to read the notification letter from the Principal. - English Version
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Parent Handout
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NAEP Testing
NAEP tESTING FOR SENIORS
NAEP is also referred to as The Nation's Report Card. It is a test that is administered to high school seniors randomly selected from across the country.
The Nation's Repord Card opens the door for parents to understand how well children like theirs are doing compared to other students in:
Participating large urban districts
The rest of the world!
- For more information, go to the Parent's Page on The Nation's Report Card (NAEP).
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La contea di Centre (in inglese Centre County) è una contea dello Stato della Pennsylvania, negli Stati Uniti. Secondo il censimento del 2010 la sua popolazione era di 153.990 abitanti. Il capoluogo di contea è Bellefonte.

Come suggerito dal nome, la contea è situata nella parte centrale dello Stato; il territorio, spesso boscoso, è percorso da diversi crinali e da ampie vallate che fanno parte della catena dei monti Appalachi. Il principale corso d'acqua è il ramo occidentale del Susquehanna.

Il centro principale della contea è la cittadina universitaria di State College (circa 40.000 residenti), dove la Pennsylvania State University ha il suo campus principale.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Centre

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Charles Lindbergh and the Other Kidnapping
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh's sister-in-law who faced a kidnapping threat.
Constance Morrow was the younger sister of Anne Morrow, who would marry Lindbergh in May of 1929. In April of that year, Lindbergh had to come to the rescue of his future sister-in-law.
Constance Morrow, then 15, was a student at Massachusetts' Milton Academy. She received a chilling letter in the mail: "You read this and keep your mouth closed. Don't open your trap to a living soul or it will be your last talk. Your father has plenty of money. Do as you're instructed and no harm will come to you…"
The letter writer instructed Constance to gather $50,000 and place it in a stone wall in Westwood, Mass. If she did not, she would be kidnapped and killed.
An Unsolved Disappearance
The letter also made an allusion to another girl, Frances St. John Smith, who had disappeared from Smith College just one year earlier. Smith's body was later found in the Connecticut River. Smith had been a classmate of another Morrow sister, Elisabeth. Smith, the writer alleged, had received a similar extortion threat but had gone to the police. She had been killed for it, the letter implied.
The Morrows were the daughters of Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow. He was a partner at banking firm J.P. Morgan and one of the richest men in New Jersey. He would later become a U.S. Senator and was, at the time of the threat, ambassador to Mexico.
Constance Morrow reported the threat to her father, and he arranged for security. The police also staged a carefully orchestrated ransom drop. A girl was recruited who looked almost exactly like Constance Morrow. She drove from the Morrow home to Westwood, Mass. and left a bag in the stone wall as instructed.
Next, the police watched and waited. Though several people passed by the stone wall, no one stopped to pick up the money.
Charles Lindbergh Flees to Maine
The Morrows waited in New Jersey for any word. They began to grow concerned. If the extortionists had figured out they had gone to police, they feared Constance might be targeted for retaliation as the letter had promised.
Compounding their troubles, Anne Morrow had just become a household name as she was engaged to Charles Lindbergh, a worldwide celebrity for being the first pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The press was waiting for any hint of the couple's wedding date.
Lindbergh crafted a plan to get the Morrows to safety. He arranged to borrow a plane so that no one would notice his aircraft was missing, and he piloted the Morrow girls and their mother to the family's summer home on the small island of North Haven, Maine. There they hoped to hide out unnoticed until the kidnappers were caught.
But even on North Haven Charles Lindbergh was well known. There was no hiding for the world famous aviator and word leaked out that the Morrows were there with the world-famous pilot. Constance's father Dwight stirred more interest in what was going on when he left his post in Mexico and traveled to Maine.
Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A Wedding Takes Center Stage
The Morrows managed to keep the blackmail/kidnap plot a secret, but Lindbergh and the Morrows were catnip to the press, which assumed the abrupt departure for Maine was tied in with Anne and Charles' wedding. The family put an end to the media circus by returning to New Jersey. They announced on May 29 that Charles and Anne had married and were on a honeymoon.
As for the would-be kidnapper, he was never caught. Detectives thought they had the man when they apprehended a stranger on North Haven and incarcerated him in the town hall for several hours. But he turned out to be an inventor who wanted to talk to Lindbergh about investing in a product he was developing.
The private detectives later found several other victims of the blackmailer/kidnapper around Boston who received similar letters, but they never traced them to the culprit.
Thanks to The Snatch Racket, Edward Dean Sullivan.
Image of Charles and Anne Lindbergh PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5120858. This story updated in 2022.
James Swan, The Man Who Financed Two Revolutions
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of Spain and the Netherlands, blockaded French ports. Amid the chaos, Massachusetts' James Swan saw the opportunity to make a fortune.
Swan played an important role during the American Revolution. Originally from Scotland, he had come to America as a merchant and financier. He also sided with the patriots. Swan had participated in the Boston Tea Party, survived wounds at the Battle of Bunker Hill and helped fund the Massachusetts militias in the early days of the war.
After hostilities ceased in America, Swan became an investor, buying land in Maine (Swans Island, for example). He also bought real estate in Boston and speculated in properties previously owned by loyalists. But the recession that followed the war hit his investments hard, so much so he feared bankruptcy.
Swan therefore turned his attention to France. Armed with introductions from a few French acquaintances, he journeyed to Paris. There he began studying the French language, its industries and its raucous politics.
James Swan Sees His Opportunity
France at the time headed into a 10-year period of great turmoil caused by the French Revolution. The Reign of Terror had quickly followed the overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of a new republic. Church leaders and members of the aristocracy were beheaded by the thousands. But Britain and her allies turned against the new republic and started a blockade.
James Swan by Gilbert Stuart, 1795
The radical new leaders of France needed supplies for the military and food for the people. And by 1793, Swan had positioned himself perfectly. Swan had a cardinal rule in business. He always dealt with the leader of any organization he approached. If a company or political organization didn't show him into the offices of its chief leader, he politely moved on. In this way he collected an impressive range of contacts.
Swan had learned a thing or two about acquiring goods during wartime. He assured the French they could find food and supplies, even from their British and Dutch "enemies," for the right terms. Pay a decent price and assume the risks that cargoes would be seized and they would have all the supplies they needed. Accept delivery at the port and ask no questions about where a shipment came from, he advised. Also, allow delivering ships to slip away quickly because Dutch and British merchants would not want to be identified trading with an enemy.
Swan assured his French contacts that if they could do so secretly, British and Dutch merchants would appreciate a good return on their sales.
He advised the French could also obtain cargo by having a British- or Dutch-flagged ship stray close to French waters. Then the ship could allow a French vessel to "seize" its cargo, with payment made through back channels.
Food for the People
Swan found himself in the enviable position of having extensive connections with suppliers in America and elsewhere. He also had a newfound knowledge of French markets and import procedures.
The French government then created a commission to procure food supplies. It appointed Swan as an emissary to America. He had instructions to buy food (the country needed tons of flour), lumber, leather and other goods.
In return, Swan was offered French goods to dispose of in America. The belongings of the now-missing French aristocracy could be disposed of in America, where luxury goods were highly sought after. French fabrics, furniture and wines could be exported. Precious metals and gems seized from churches and wealthy aristocrats could be converted into hard currency. And all Swan asked for his services was a two percent commission on the transactions.
The crafty Swan managed to shift the form of his operations as the French government went through another jolting transition. In 1794 and 1795 he transitioned away from the food supply commission to a more market-based approach to importing foods.
Swan was not the only American supplying the French, but probably was its biggest supplier. He used his vast array of connections with American ship captains to keep France fed and functioning.
The Debts of a Nation
Yet Swan faced challenges. When the French entered a market as buyers, prices rose dramatically. Swan developed his own methods for trying to counter this. He would make a purchase and then hold off to give prices a chance to drop before placing more orders. But then his customers complained that supplies weren't steady enough.
Further, he had to contend with the British Navy. The British were well aware of American involvement in supplying the French. Swan would "neutralize" his ships by making sure they were flagged in America, or another neutral country. But the British still seized American cargoes. They impounded one in seven of Swan's vessels. His agents operating in Britain had a good track record of winning the ships back and receiving compensation for the cargoes, but the process took time.
A New Deal
In addition, he faced a limited market in trying to dispose of luxury goods in America. Further, the French had very limited credit. In late 1794, the French came up with a new idea to fund their need for imports. The French government had extended loans to America during the Revolution. During the recession after the war, the Americans had stopped making payments. So the loans were considered virtually worthless. But with Alexander Hamilton's guidance, the American Treasury had stabilized, and these loans were once again viable.
The French authorized Swan to negotiate with America to sell back these loans to generate needed cash in 1795. Swan put together a deal with U.S. Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott. The American government issued new shares to raise money to repay the French. Some in America resisted buying the new shares, which had a value of more than $2 million to be repaid at 4.5 to 5.5 percent interest. Swan, however, found a ready market in Britain. British investors either did not know (or did not care) that in buying the American shares they were actually funding the French government.
A Return to America
During his years in Paris, Swan managed to put his affairs back on solid footing — and then some. But French and American relations soured as America made an alliance with Great Britain. Swan's opportunities lessened. He planned to restore his wealth and return to America. There he would turn his attention to building his Dorchester, Mass. mansion and his American investments.
But Swan's life took one more bizarre turn. On a return visit to France in 1808, Swan was accused of failing to pay a reasonably insignificant debt. He insisted he didn't owe the money. The French courts disagreed, however, and had him imprisoned. Swan instructed his wife not to repay the debt. Instead she funneled him a small fortune so that he had a luxurious lifestyle throwing large parties at his prison apartment. If his enemies thought Swan would yield they were wrong. He remained in his "prison" for 22 years.
There are different theories about how James Swan died. He most likely left prison in 1830 as the result of a debt-forgiveness act by the government. Then he died the following year, a free and wealthy man.
Thank to: James Swan: Agent of the French Republic 1794-1796, Howard C. Rice, The New England Quarterly. This story was updated in 2022.
The 1755 Earthquake Shakes Up John Adams and All of New England
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It destroyed major parts of Lisbon in Portugal when a fissure as wide as 16 feet opened up in the city's center, followed by a tsunami and fires.
In America a series of aftershocks jolted New Englanders, with one prompting a debate that would last for weeks over the causes of earthquakes.
Allegory of the 1755 Earthquake, by João Glama Strobërle
The jolt that shook up New England on November 18 was particularly jarring. Twenty-year-old John Adams in Quincy, future president and patriot, noted the earthquake in the very first entry in his legendary diaries:
"We had a severe Shock of an Earthquake. It continued near four minutes. I was then at my Fathers in Braintree, and awoke out of my sleep in the midst of it. The house seemed to rock and reel and crack as if it would fall in ruins about us. Chimnies were shatter'd by it within one mile of my Fathers house."
The 1755 Earthquake
Known as the Cape Ann earthquake because it was centered off the coast of Cape Ann, the 1755 earthquake was felt from Nova Scotia to Maryland. The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Massachusetts, it toppled thousands of chimneys and did extensive damage to homes and property.
Elsewhere, it prompted a debate about the theological implications of an earthquake. A similar debate broke out in 1727 when ministers had explained a large earthquake as God showing his wrath. The Massachusetts Bay Colony followed up with orders for fasting.
By 1755, however, a new technology would be swept up into the debate. In the 1740s Benjamin Franklin and others had advanced the study of lightning and electricity. As a result of their discoveries many buildings were fitted with lightning rods to safely direct lightning that might strike a building into the ground, avoiding damage to people and property.
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky c. 1816 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, by Benjamin West
But following the 1755 earthquake, Boston Congregational minister Thomas Prince put forward a new theory of earthquakes. Prince had strongly argued in 1727 that God punished wicked mankind with the earthquake. In 1755 he updated his thinking. Surely, he conjectured, the use of lightning rods could cause earthquakes.
"The more Points of Iron are erected round the Earth, to draw the Electrical Substance out of the Air; the more the Earth must needs be charged with it," he wrote in a pamphlet he published. "It seems very likely that this Electrical Substance . . . is a principal Instrument in producing Earthquakes."
Prince suggested that Boston had experienced a more violent shaking from the earthquake because it had more lightning rods than other areas. (Damage was actually felt worst in buildings constructed on filled land.) All in all, the earthquake showed the folly of trying to outsmart God.
Thomas Prince by Joseph Badger
"O! there is no getting out of the mighty Hand of GOD! If we think to avoid it in the Air, we cannot in the Earth: Yea it may grow more fatal; and there is no Safety anywhere, but in his Almighty Friendship through CHRIST the Mediator, and by heartily Repenting of every Sin and hearty embracing the Saviour in all his Offices, and uprightly Living to HIM."
The charge would not go unanswered. Just as the 1727 earthquake had inspired a debate over science vs. God in the matter of earthquakes, the 1755 quake did too.
John Winthrop Disagrees
John Winthrop, a Harvard College professor of mathematics and science, published a rebuttal to Prince's proposition:
"The reigning mode of late has been, to explain everything by ELECTRICITY. . . Now, it seems, it is to be the cause of earthquakes," he wrote. Winthrop argued that scientific inquiry was needed to better explain the causes of earthquakes, not reliance on fear.
Harvard's second Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, John Winthrop. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums.
But Winthrop wrote and lectured on the topic because of his concern that Rev. Prince's tract would discourage the use of lightning rods to protect buildings. The inspiration for lightning rods, he argued, might have come as a gift from God to spare people the effects of lightning strikes.
I cannot believe, that in the whole town of Boston, where so many iron points are erected, there is so much as one person who is so weak, so ignorant, so foolish, or, to say all in one word, so atheistical, as ever to have entertained a single thought that it is possible, by the help of a few yards of wire, to "get out of the mighty hand of GOD."
The argument continued in newspaper letters and personal exchanges for four months before both men made peace with each other and agreed to disagree.
Thanks to: Lightning-Rods and the Earthquake of 1755, Eleanor M. Tilton. This story last updated in 2022.
Six Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one.
Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace of the most presidents: the two Adamses, John F. Kennedy and George H.W. Bush. You could almost count Calvin Coolidge, as he lived in Northampton for years, and even George Washington spent nearly a year in Cambridge as commander in chief of the colonial military.
Coolidge, though, was born in Vermont, and New Hampshire gave us Franklin Pierce. No president came from Rhode Island, though Dwight Eisenhower spent considerable time in Newport. And if it weren't for the Bushes, Connecticut and Maine would have little claim to presidential roots.
So in celebration of President's Day, we bring you six presidential houses. If you know of another, please mention it in the comments section.
37 Hillhouse Ave.
37 Hillhouse Ave., where President George W. Bush lived for two years.
The housing shortage after World War II forced Yale University to convert an Italianate mansion into housing for married student veterans. George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara lived there while he studied at Yale and they started their family. George W. Bush lived there until he was two, and then the family moved to Texas.
The elder president had left Yale as a sophomore to serve in the Navy. Of his living conditions, he wrote, "Not to make too much of the postwar housing shortage, but there were a dozen other veterans' families sharing the house with us — each with one child, except for Bill and Sally Reeder, who had twins. That made 40 in all."
It couldn't have been that much of a hardship. Both Mark Twain and Charles Dickens described Hillhouse Avenue as 'the most beautiful street in America.'
Today, Yale uses the building for its Economics Department.
Walker Point
The main house of the Bush compound at Walker Point.
Americans grew familiar with the Bush compound during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, who held news conferences while staying there. His son, George W. Bush, also stayed at the home during his presidency. So did a half dozen world leaders — and George H.W. Bush's political opponent, former president Bill Clinton.
The Bush family has used the Walker Point estate since the days of George H.W. Bush's great-grandparents.
Walker Point juts out into the Atlantic Ocean in Kennebunkport, Maine, and includes a large Shingle Style house, eight other residences, tennis courts, a dock and a sports field. Though the Bushes still own it, tourists enjoy the scenic drive along Ocean Avenue, where they can glimpse the property.
Peacefield
One of many presidential houses in Massachusetts, both Adams lived at Peacefield in Quincy.
Massachusetts has produced more presidents than any other New England state and can claim the most presidential houses: John and John Quincy Adams, who lived at Peacedale in Quincy. John F. Kennedy, of course, was born in Brookline, summered in Hyannis Port and lived in Boston. George H.W. Bush was born in Milton, but his family soon moved to Greenwich, Conn.
Massachusetts also has quite a presidential houses known as summer White Houses. Calvin Coolidge, who lived the greater part of his life in Northampton, spent a summer in Swampscott. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama summered on Martha's Vineyard. Less well-known summer visitors include Franklin Pierce, who spent time in Andover, Mass., and Grover Cleveland, who vacationed in Marion and Bourne on the South Shore. Cleveland's summer home in Bourne, Gray Gables, was torn down but rebuilt to resemble the original.
William Howard Taft summered twice in Beverly until his hostess floated her house to Marblehead to discourage him. (She didn't like the crowds he attracted.)
We won't even count the presidents who lived in Massachusetts while attending Harvard. Okay, we will: the Adamses, Kennedy, Obama, both Roosevelts and Rutherford B. Hayes.
But since two presidents lived most of their lives in Quincy, we chose Peacefield, the Adams Family homestead. Built by a Loyalist in 1731 and abandoned during the American Revolution, John and Abigail bought the house in 1787. They lived in London at the time, and found the house disappointing when they returned. Abigail said it looked like 'a wren's nest.' But she spent years renovating and expanding it while John attended to his political duties.
John Quincy Adams also lived at Peacefield, as did his son, the statesman Charles Francis Adams and his grandson, historian Henry Adams.
Peacefield today belongs to the U.S. government as the Adams National Historical Park. It comprises 11 buildings, including the birthplaces of John and John Quincy Adams.
Franklin Pierce Homestead
The Pierce Homestead, one of two presidential houses in New Hampshire where Franklin Pierce lived.
Franklin Pierce grew up in the gracious home his father built after serving in the American Revolution. He may even have been born there in 1804, the year his father built the house.
Benjamin Pierce had bought 200 acres in Hillsborough, N.H., after the new state turnpike opened nearby. Benjamin Pierce ran a tavern, and on Christmas Eve in 1824 hosted a dinner for 21 Revolutionary War veterans. Franklin probably attended — or helped serve — the dinner. Benjamin Pierce later served two terms as New Hampshire's governor.
Franklin lived in the family home until for 23 years until 1834, when he married. He had spent seven years away at school, college and law study in Portsmouth.
His wife, Jane Appleton, didn't like Hillsborough, and they moved to Concord. Benjamin Pierce died in 1839 and left the house to his son-in-law. Franklin's sister, Elizabeth, married John McNeil, Jr., a general in the War of 1812.
After his disappointing single term as president, Franklin Pierce briefly returned to his childhood home in Hillsborough.
New Hampshire actually has two Franklin Pierce presidential houses: the one in Hillsborough, and the Pierce Manse in Concord, also a house museum. For more information, click here.
Eisenhower House
Eisenhower House, one of Rhode Island's presidential houses.
In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife Mamie summered in Newport, R.I., during his presidency in 1958 and 1960. At first in 1958 he stayed at the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, but he wanted to be closer to the golf course at the Newport Country Club. He moved to a mansion at Fort Adams.
Now called Eisenhower House, it was built in 1873 for Gen. Henry Jackson Hunt, a Civil War artillery officer. The house has stunning views of Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor.
Another of Rhode Island's presidential houses, Hammersmith Farm, was the site of John F. Kennedy's marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier. As president, Kennedy occasionally visited the farm, still in private hands.
Eisenhower House is now part of Fort Adams State Park and available for weddings and social events. For more information click here.
Plymouth Notch, Vt.
Birthplace of Calvin Coolidge, one of several presidential houses in Plymouth Notch.
Calvin Coolidge's birthplace is such a throwback to the way Vermont used to be that some people call it "Vermont's Brigadoon." Coolidge cannily used it as a backdrop to hone his image as a thrifty Yankee.
Coolidge was actually sworn in as president of the United States while vacationing at his boyhood home in Plymouth Notch, Vt.
His father, a notary, swore him in at 2:47 a.m. on Aug. 3, 1923, hours after President Warren G. Harding died.
Coolidge often visited his family home, a modest white frame farmhouse in the classic New England style of big house, little house, back house, barn.
The Secret Service detail assigned to him slept in tents on the property and a dance hall nearby served as his office in the summer of 1924.
Today Coolidge's birthplace and surrounding buildings comprise the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District, which includes the Cilley General Store, the Post Office, the Wilder Restaurant (serving lunch), the church, several barns, the dance hall and the Plymouth Cheese factory. For more information click here.
Images: Graves-Gilman House By Eumenes12 – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5447836. Walker Point, By Zollernalb – own work, eigene Arbeit, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2730841. Franklin Pierce Homestead By User:Magicpiano – Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20697770. Plymouth Notch By Magicpiano – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34788716. Peacefield by By Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3162095.
This story about presidential houses was updated in 2022.
Don Pedro, The Last True Pirate To Raid the Atlantic
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn't get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean.
He made a reckless move on the high seas against a brig from Salem, Mass., and he paid for it with his life.
Don Pedro Gibert
Don Pedro was born around 1800 in Catalonia, Spain, as Pedro Gibert. He started out in an honest job — as a privateer working for the Colombian government. He soon turned to piracy, attacking American merchant vessels, raiding the east coast of Florida and smuggling liquor and tobacco.
According to legend, Don Pedro once told his crew what to do with their captives. "Dead cats don't mew. You know what to do."
He commanded the Panda, a black Baltimore clipper with a white streak. The pirate captain had a favorite technique of terrorizing its targets. Panda would hide in protected coves and lure unsuspecting vessels into shallow water with a fake distress call. The merchant vessel would come to help and the pirates would ambush the crew.
Boxes of Silver
On Sept. 20, 1832, the pirate schooner Panda captured the American brig Mexican, sailing from Salem to Rio de Janeiro carrying $20,000 in silver. That amounts to about $555,667 in today's dollars.
Don Pedro, departing from his usual technique, ordered the Panda crew to chase the Mexican into open water off the Florida coast sometime between 2 am and 3 am.
The Mexican captain, John Groves Butman, first spotted the Panda at 4 am, just as dawn broke. He thought the schooner looked suspicious and tried to evade her.
The pirates fired a gun at the brig, and the captain saw the Panda had several large guns and 60 men crowding her deck. Butman hove to. By 9 a.m. the pirates boarded the Mexican. They then brandished long Spanish knives and beat the captain until he told them where the silver was. The pirates took away the silver in 10 boxes, each containing $2,000 worth of silver.
Likeness of Don Pedro taken at the trial.
The pirates then locked the crew of the Mexican into the forecastle, slashed the rigging and the sails and set the ship on fire. They didn't do a good enough job. Because the pirates didn't fasten the skylight, the captain escaped when they sailed away in midafternoon.
Return of the Mexican
The Mexican crew put out the fire, but made sure the ship still smoked. Hence the pirates sailed over the horizon expecting no mewing.
The Mexican crew repaired the ship and made it back to Salem six weeks later.
In Massachusetts, the Mexican crew reported the crime. The British Royal Navy then hunted Don Pedro. The pirates knew they were wanted, so they buried $11,000 – what was left of the treasure – on the beach of Cape Lopez in what is now Gabon. They dug it up again, took out $6,000 and left the rest for Don Pedro. Then they divided up the loot.
The Panda explodes
HMS Curlew caught the Panda off the coast of West Africa, and the two vessels fought. During the engagement, the Panda exploded. The British captured Don Pedro and his crew, identifying several of them as participants in the Mexican attack.
The British dumped the men off in Salem for a preliminary hearing. They were then shipped to Boston for trial. A jury found seven men guilty, including Don Pedro, and acquitted five. To read a transcript of the trial, click here.
On June 11, 1835, Don Pedro and four of his men were hanged until dead behind the Leverett Street Jail. More than 20,000 spectators watched.
How John Marin, America's Greatest Artist, Vanished from Sight
In 1948, Look magazine took a poll of art critics and museum directors to determine America's greatest artist. John Marin won. But from that pinnacle he soon fell, and now he's only dimly remembered.
For starters, he looked like an aging Beatle.
An admirer described him as having bangs that reached to his eyebrows, pixieish eyes and carefully styled hair that covered his ears. He dressed the dandy for special occasions in tailored suits, high collars and elegant cravats.
His dress fitted his role as a Modernist painter who brought European-style painting to America. For 25 years John Marin dominated the American art scene with his startling watercolors. His work bordered on abstraction, but remained rooted in nature. He never abandoned his subjects: New England landscapes, the Manhattan skyline and especially the Maine seacoast.
Stonington, Maine. 1923.
Marin loved nature, country people and artists. He hated intellectuals, sophisticates, critics and scholars – the people who voted him America's greatest artist and then quickly forgot him.
His mother died nine days after he was born on Dec. 23, 1870 in Rutherford, N.J. His father took him to live with his grandparents and their two unmarried daughters in Weehawken, N.J. He stayed with them for 30 years.
His father wanted him to study business, so he attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year. Then he apprenticed as an architect. His aunts knew he hated it and pressured his father to let him go to art school.
His father relented. At 29, John Marin entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and later studied at the Art Students League in New York.
Mount Chocorua by John Marin, courtesy Harvard Art Museum.
Then in 1905, like many American artists, John Marin went to Paris. He supported himself selling etchings of French landmarks to tourists. He also started playing with watercolors after he fell in love with the work of James McNeill Whistler, Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.
Painting, he wrote, was 'a sort of mad wonder dancing.'
In Paris, John Marin encountered Edward Steichen, a photographer working as an art scout for Arthur Stieglitz. Stieglitz, married to Georgia O'Keefe, owned a New York art gallery that showcased avant-garde art. Steichen sent Stieglitz some examples of Marin's work, and Stieglitz became his champion. From then on, Marin's paintings sold well until his death.
Stieglitz told John Marin to handle his subjects more abstractly, to use his brush more freely. Marin said he already did. The retort was typical Marin. He was mefiant – defensive.
He once took a train to Princeton to talk to some students. As he got off the train he commented on the conversations he'd overheard: "I disapproved of everything they said."
At 40, John Marin returned to the United States. He married Marie Hughes in 1912, had a son and bought a house in Cliffside, N.J. He loved his little family, won enormous prestige for his work and led a calm, happy, unadventurous life.
John Marin hated what he called 'city critters.' So in 1914 he spent his first summer on the Maine coast, where he found inspiration in the rocks, the water and the trees. Until his death in 1953, he spent every summer but one on the Maine coast in Phippsburg, Stonington and Addison. He bought a lobster boat and a house on Cape Split, and he painted the White Mountains, the Berkshires and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Sea.
"Seems to me the true artist must perforce go from time to time to the elemental big forms — Sky Sea Mountain Plain," he wrote. "To sort of retrue himself up to recharge the battery. For these big forms have everything. But to express these you have to love these to be a part of these in sympathy. One doesn't get very far without this love."
When John Marin died in the fall of 1953, large, abstract expressionist oil paintings held center stage in the art world. Marin had all but disappeared.
In hindsight, art critics offer several explanations. One, he worked in watercolor, an evanescent medium so fragile that curators rarely put them up for permanent exhibit.
Two, the delicacy of watercolor yielded to the fashion of large, so-called action paintings. "By 1950, ferocity was in, delicacy was out," wrote art critic Paul Robert.
Thirdly, Marin insisted on rooting his art in nature, and abstraction completely took over the art market.
In 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported John Marin, 'has in recent years fallen into something not far removed from obscurity.' But that year the tide began to turn. Art museums in Atlanta, Chicago and Portland, Maine, held retrospectives of the work of John Marin.
Exhibit guide for 1956 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Today you can see his paintings at the Colby College Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art and the Arkansas Arts Center.
This story was updated in 2022. Images: Mt. Chocorua, Fair use. Stonington, Maine, Public Domain. The Sea, Public Domain. Sunset, Public Domain.


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Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW) foi uma joint-venture entre a The Coca-Cola Company e a Nestlé com sede em Zurique, na Suíça. A empresa produz chás prontos para beber na indústria de bebidas.

A empresa administra os negócios do Nestea em 52 países, em colaboração com os parceiros engarrafadores da Coca-Cola, que fazem a produção e a distribuição em seus mercados.

História
A BPW começou em 1991 como Coca-Cola Nestlé Refreshments Company SA, que foi criada para desenvolver os negócios de café, chocolate e chá prontos para beber em todo o mundo. A The Coca-Cola Company e a Nestlé SA possuem partes iguais na joint-venture. Em 30 de janeiro de 2001, uma unidade do empreendimento mudou seu nome para Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW) e em 2007 foi reestruturada para se dedicar ao desenvolvimento e comercialização de chá pronto para beber, especialmente o Nestea. Em 2012, decidiu concentrar suas operações na Europa Ocidental e Oriental, Canadá, Austrália, Taiwan, Hong Kong e Macau. Notícias revelam que ambas as partes estão insatisfeitas com o desempenho da joint venture.

Em 3 de março de 2017, a Nestlé e a Coca-Cola concordaram em dissolver a BPW a partir de 1º de janeiro de 2018. Nesse acordo, a Nestlé ofereceu à Coca-Cola uma licença para a fabricação e distribuição do Nestea no Canadá, Espanha, Portugal, Andorra, Romênia, Hungria e Bulgária. Nos demais países membros do empreendimento, a Coca-Cola deixou de produzir ou distribuir o Nestea.

Mercados da BPW
Os negócios da BPW cobrem 52 mercados que abrangem a Europa (incluindo Rússia), Canadá, Austrália, Hong Kong, Taiwan e Macau.

Na Europa, a BPW cuida dos negócios do Nestea na Albânia, Andorra, Armênia, Áustria, Bielorrússia, Bélgica, Bósnia e Herzegovina, Bulgária, Croácia, Chipre, República Tcheca, Dinamarca, Estônia, Finlândia, França, Alemanha, Grécia, Hungria, Islândia, Irlanda, Itália, Kosovo, Letônia, Liechtenstein, Lituânia, Luxemburgo, Macedônia, Malta, Moldávia, Mônaco, Montenegro, Holanda, Noruega, Polônia, Portugal, Romênia, Rússia, San Marino, Sérvia, Eslováquia, Eslovênia, Espanha, Suécia, Suíça, Ucrânia, Reino Unido e Cidade do Vaticano.

No resto do mundo, a Nestlé supervisiona diretamente os negócios da Nestea.

BPW e seus parceiros de engarrafamento
A BPW trabalha em colaboração com os parceiros engarrafadores da Coca-Cola, responsáveis pela produção, embalo, distribuição e comercialização do Nestea em seus mercados. Seus principais parceiros de engarrafamento são Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC), Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada (CCRC), Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust) Pty Ltd, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan e Swire Beverages Limited (Hong Kong).

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"I was pretty hot in TV and my boss Michael Eisner and Barry Diller thought 'F*ck you. We're firing you!' … I was kinda getting kicked out of the TV business, but was writing this mermaid movie called Splash," said Brian Grazer to a packed house last night in Culver City at Entrepreneur Night hosted by "social university" IVY, which has been holding a series of talks with the nation's CEOs to inspire the next generation. Grazer said he was fired after he produced projects like The Ten Commandments, a 20–hour mini-series on TV at the age of 25 years old (not mentioned on his IMDB credits).
But after getting fired, he turned his attention on getting his mermaid movie made. Grazer's perseverance, he said, was because of the lessons he learned from his maternal grandmother, Sonia Schwartz. A dyslexic Grazer received only D's and F's on his report cards in school, but still she kept boosting his self worth by telling him that he was special and his curiosity was going to get him places. He used all the 'isms' that his grandmother told him, like 'Think Big, Be Big' and put them into the movie Splash, which not only became a huge box office hit but also was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay for its four writers. He has plans to remake Splash now with Channing Tatum.
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Grazer also told a poignant story about losing the Best Picture Academy Award for Apollo 13 (after being nominated for nine Oscars) to Braveheart in 1996 and how he was so embarrassed because he got up to actually accept the award after presenter Sidney Poitier opened the envelope and started with the sound "Br" (as in Brian and Braveheart) and then called out 'Braveheart.' He had to turn around and go back to his chair, totally humiliated.
As he was walking back, he looked over to see a studio chairman put a big "L" on his forehead and mouth 'Loser' to him. When he settled back into his seat, Astronaut/hero Jim Lovell reached across to him and grabbed his wrist and said, "You know I never made it to the moon either." The story and the emotional meaning of what Lovell was saying was completely lost on the very young (mostly 20-something) audience who laughed uproariously as Grazer tried to compose himself from the memory of that moment.
Grazer spoke to a very attentive, standing-room-only audience about his first job out of college, landing as a law clerk at Warner Bros. Not long after, he got the assignment to get some legal papers to Warren Beatty. So he went to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (Beatty lived for many years in the penthouse there) and verbally pushed his way past the assistants and met with him for about an hour. "I thought, this is amazing, I could do this job," said Grazer.
He said he used similar tactics to get to talk with William Morris power agent Sue Mengers and also The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty. He did this for two months. After executives around him in the studio's legal department were fired, he said a big office opened up right outside the office of the vice-chairman of Warner Bros. He began lobbying for the space and got it. After which, he started calling other studio chairmen and bigwigs at TV networks on his telephone speaker box, "inventing my own little scam." He told people he worked in Warner Bros.' business affairs and asked to meet them. One by one, he started meeting the heavyweights.
He finally got into meet the legendary Universal head Lew Wasserman on the 15th floor of the Black Tower by talking up his assistant in the parking lot. When he got up to the 15th floor, Wasserman came out to see him, put his hands up as if to say, 'stay back.' "He could see right through me that I was totally fully of shit," recalled Grazer. "He said, 'Look, I'm going to say hello to you but that's about it. He goes into his office and comes back with a No. 2 pencil and a legal tablet. He put the pencil and paper in each of my hands and said put the pencil to paper and it is worth more … it has greater value than in separate parts … I realized what he was saying is that … I have to manufacture leverage … the invention … manufacturing of ideas."
The producer, who is partnered with filmmaker Ron Howard in Imagine Entertainment, is now highly successful in both TV and film. "If you have some humility … you have to create a community every time you make a movie or television (project). And since, I've produced over 100 movies and like 500 to 600 hours of television … each one of those is an entrepreneurial effort to start up from scratch," he explained to the young group of social university followers at Platform where the talk was held.
"I've used my curiosity to learn about morals." He researched and learned about hip-hop before he produced 8 Mile, which starred Marshall Mathers (Eminem). "(The movie) was really about self-worth. A lot of my movies and television shows operate on a thematic — a reason for being," said Grazer, who said he likes themes about self-worth and love. "I have a very short period of time to make a movie because it will cost $500K to $700K a day to make a big movie so that time is extremely perishable." So, he said, you have to get every element right (he also likes happy endings).
When producing the Denzel Washington-starring American Gangster in 2004, he was abruptly sidetracked when the studio fired everyone off the movie (reportedly because of the rising budget). "I had Denzel Washington and Benicio Del Toro and a different director (he didn't say it, but it was the helmer Terry George) and the studio fired everyone two months before the movie was going to shoot. It was a $30M write down which would have been the biggest write-down of any movie even before the movie had gotten released or made. Having been turned down by every studio on the mermaid movie, I thought, I'm not going to let them turn me down. But then I was told that GE who owned Universal doesn't want to hear the word 'American' and 'Gangster' in the same phrase ever again," said Grazer, who was really depressed because he had worked on the film for about five years.
"American Gangster was about respect and about Corporate America," he said. Twenty-four hours after the movie was nixed, he began repackaging the film. He re-signed Denzel, signed Russell Crowe (who he had already worked with on other films) and eventually got Ridley Scott (after pitching him repeatedly) and then went back to the studio with a package they couldn't say no to.
He said curiosity has been his capital and has helped him throughout his time in Hollywood. On the sequel for the comedy The Nutty Professor, he said he shifted the entire marketing effort after talking to five guys in a skateboard store who said they didn't care about the movie because TV spots contained a bunch of old people.
"There was a $50M buy and the tracking numbers were not doing well, but the spots were really funny. I asked these kids what movies they wanted to watch and they never said The Nutty Professor. I literally changed the entire machine of Universal and said we have to show young people in our ads. It opened twice as big as the first one because we shifted to a young demographic." The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps opened to $42.5M domestically in 2000 while The Nutty Professor opened to $25.4M in 1996.
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Cambridge United Community Trust supported by national disability sport campaign
Last week, the English Football League Trust relaunched its programme to get more disabled people involved in football and we are delighted that Cambridge United Community Trust are one of the new beneficiaries of the 'Every Player Counts' campaign for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons.
Wembley National Stadium Trust - the stadium's charitable foundation - has provided the funding for the 'Every Player Counts' campaign, which it helps run as a joint venture with the EFL Trust.
Every Player Counts, which has been running for three years, has so far helped attract more than 11,000 disabled people into football.
Mike Evans, director of operations at the EFL Trust, said he was proud of the scheme's achievements so far and that the aim now was to extend its reach and the range of opportunities available: "We look forward to hearing the many moving stories that we have become used to as the programme literally changes and improves the lives of its many participants."
Cambridge United Community Trust were delighted to be one of the new beneficiaries of this campaign which kicked off in September.
Since September, the Community Trust have had 123 participants come to one of our 18 weekly 'Every Player Counts' disability sport sessions, engaging more special schools than ever before. Last season, cumulatively, our participants took part in over 2,500 hours of sport and much credit should go to Phil Mullen, the Community Trust's Disability Sport Officer, for developing the programme over the last few years.
Sam Gomarsall, the Community Trust Manager, said: "We're delighted to receive this funding for this season and the next and would like to thank the English Football League Trust for their belief in our programme. It will allow us to build our SEN schools offering alongside continuing to develop our community disability sport sessions.
"We want to continue to offering people with disabilities opportunities to get active, make friends and take part in competitions."
Know someone for whom any of our sessions might be appropriate, please find more information about how to get involved here: https://www.cuctrust.co.uk/disability-sport/.


Canvax is a leading manufacturer and supplier of the most innovative solutions, kits and R&D Reagents inside Molecular Biology fields. Since its foundation in 2001, Canvax offers reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use innovative tools for research.
Based in Córdoba (Spain), since its beginning it has focused on R&D of multiplex high throughput platforms (HTS) for Drug discovery and Diagnostic applied biosensors. Over a decade later, Canvax is a worldwide leading expert in GPCR expression in heterologous cells, with important patents and exclusive know-how. Canvax prides itself to be the first company to get an unprecedented milestone that could revolutionize the Diagnostics sector: Canvax established stable high-level expression of odour GPCRs into heterologous cell lines in 2014.
This key milestone, that could be applied in diagnostic, perfume and cosmetic industry, are being employed to obtain a molecular nose, a sensitive and non-invasive diagnostic molecular device for early detection of cancer, as the nose of trained dogs do. Thanks to this project, Canvax was awarded, in 2013, with the largest Public & Private Contract for Pre competitive Technology Development in Spanish history.
» 10 Patents (in 32 countries).
»Largest Public & Private Contract for Pre competitive Technology Development of Spanish History, 2013.
» Most Innovative Company Award, 2014 (by Andalucía Económica).
» Santo Tomás de Aquino Prize , 2008 (by University of Córdoba).
» First Prize of 50K Business plan competition, 2001 (Fundación San Telmo in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT).
Thanks to our sustained commitment to R&D, exclusive patents and unmatched know-how, Canvax has prominent outcomes within the following business areas: Drug Discovery, Nutraceuticals, R&D Reagents, Biosensors and Molecular Nose.
Accelerating your Molecular Biology Discoveries: Canvax markets all its unmatched know-how, exclusive expertise and worldwide leading R&D knowledge through its area specialized in design, and manufacture and market the most innovative solutions, kits and R&D Reagents within the various Molecular Biology fields. Thanks to our reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use products, we enable our worldwide customers to improve its laboratory productivity and achieve their goals for a better understanding of Science. Today, we are proud to be one leading Spanish manufacturers of R&D reagents by revenues and loyal customers, thanks to our customer focus, best-in-class Customer Service and talented young team of researchers.
All our original know-how obtained in GPCRs Expression during the development of the HTS FRIDA platform has allowed us a prestigious entry in a great scientific and technical innovative field as is Odorant Receptors. First described in 1991, this large family of molecules (approx. 300 in humans and 1,000 in dogs and rats) has been difficult to express in heterologous cells, until Canvax achieved stable high-level expression of odour GPCRs into heterologous cell lines in 2014, aiming to develop a Molecular Nose with important applications in the Pharmaceutical industry as a Biosensor for the detection of cancer and other diseases, in the fragance industry to establish a molecular brand of a perfume; and even in the identification of individuals by their smell. We are highly committed with this relevant and exciting challenge and totally sure that our expertise and exclusive know-how favours this line of development. Obtaining a Molecular Nose for diagnostic purposes is an addition to Canvax 's innovative biosensors area.
Elier is a top Management specialist, with an extensive experience in the Biotech and Drug Discovery sector over the last 20 years. Elier founded Canvax, in 2001, with the goal to link scientific approaches with industrial applications. Previously, he had been working in the Mediterranean Diet Research Group at Hospital Reina Sofía, Córdoba (1997-2001), and he holded an Academic position in Biochemistry Department at Universidad de La Habana (1995-1997). For over a decade, he has been leading Canvax as a profitable company, raising public and private fundings, showing spectacular skills to maximize the company's resources and to get important partnerships.
Fé, co-founded Canvax after holding an Academic position at La Universidad de La Habana (1993-1996) and completing a PhD degree in Genetics at Universidad de Córdoba (1996-2000). Currently, she is responsible for the company's entire R&D management, and a recognized expert, with more than 20 years of experience in Molecular Biology, collaborating in the establishment of efficient GPCR expression cassettes, highly efficient viral vectors, cloning and recombination approaches.
Xabier is a relevant expert, with more than 25 years in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Personalized Medicine, with an extensive research and business experience, in both private and public institutions. With several international publications, he has been member of founder team and advisor for different biotech companies.
Verónica, who joined Canvax in 2001, is a high-level specialist in the development of Molecular Biology technologies for gene cloning, protein expression, ORF selection and directed molecular evolution. She, and her team, are the developers of the pSpark® Blunt-end DNA cloning vectors, non-odour and odour GPCR expression vectors and more innovative reagents.
Gracia joined Canvax in 2002, after finishing its Bachelor Degree in Food and Biochemical Technology. She leads a team of proficient technicians specialized in growing and managing Canvax´s original 150 cell lines and in transfected or transduced cell lines, with over 1.000 transfections per year. She is deeply involved in the development of cell lines expressing constructs designed and provided by the Molecular Biology department. She is one of the developers of FRIDA, a GPCR High Throughput Screening platform. Since 2008, she is involved in the obtention of the odour GPCR biosensor.
Tania joined Canvax in 2007, and since 2012, she manages the Immunoassays Department team, working to develop highly sensitive biosensors covering the widest range of proteins. She has a solid expertise in Click Chemistry modifications of proteins and immunoassay surfaces, immunochemistry, production and purification of recombinant proteins and Molecular Biology techniques.
Luis joined Canvax in 2012 after completing a Postdoctoral fellowship at Institute Maimónides of Biomedicine (IMIBIC). He is an experienced researcher with close to 20 years experience in relevant Pharmaceutical and Research labs. As R&D Reagents Scientific Leader, he oversees a team who are responsible for manufacturing, validation, packaging, shipping and Customer service of the whole Canvax´s innovative portfolio.
Jesús joined Canvax in 2013 leading the growth of many of the business aspects including, sales, marketing or finances. Master in Business Administration by Umeå Universitet (Sweden), he is a high-level Life Science expert with more than five years of experience in management positions. Currently, he is responsible to develop and manage R&D Reagents business area, national and international distributor sales network, marketing and business strategies, financial plans and logistics.
Emilio is an experienced researcher, with more than 15 years of work in prestigious Research Centers, like CIB and Stanford University, who has focused his career in Scientific Entrepreneurship through IE Business School. He is author of more of 20 scientific publications related with skin diseases, cancer therapeutics and diagnostic and was Founder/CSO of a Stanford spin-off, Skin Deep Diagnostics.


You know what they say about real estate: location, location, location. Now that applies to real estate stocks as well.
Real estate investment trusts, typically lumped in with financial stocks, are poised to migrate into their own sector group. And that means big changes are afoot for financial-stock exchange-traded funds.
REITs are publicly traded companies that own residential and commercial real estate or other income-producing property, such as health-care facilities or timberland. REITs have grown quickly in recent years to represent 3% of the market capitalization of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, compared with a paltry 0.1% in 2003, according to Goldman Sachs.
The growth spurt prompted two major index providers—S&P Dow Jones and MSCI—to carve the group out of its current home within the financial sector. The change means there will be 11, rather than 10, S&P 500 segments after Aug. 31. FTSE Russell indexes will keep real estate as part of its financial group.
This is a big change, affecting an estimated $20 billion in ETF assets, according to Credit Suisse. Adding new sectors is rare: The new REIT sector will mark the first top-level change to the so-called Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS, since its creation in 1999. GICS guideposts are used by MSCI and S&P to determine whether Wal-Mart Stores, for instance, are grouped with consumer-staple companies or consumer-discretionary ones. In the case of REITs, the likes of Vornado Realty Trust (ticker: VNO) will no longer coexist with banks, insurance companies, and asset managers in financial-sector ETFs.
THIS MEANS FINANCIAL ETFS are about to lose their star players. REITs account for nearly one-fifth of the S&P 500's financial sector's market capitalization, second only to banks. The MSCI U.S. REIT Index has returned an annualized 7.6% for the past 10 years, juiced by a 3.3% yield, according to Morningstar. Strong REIT performance has helped pick up the slack for banks; the S&P Banks Select Industry Index has lost investors nearly 3% each year for the past 10.
Soon, financial-stock ETFs won't enjoy REITs' buffer. Financial ETFs without REITs will have a lower yield, notes Victor Lin, a trading strategist at Credit Suisse. And the financial-services index, which excludes REITs, has been more volatile than the all-inclusive financial stock index in recent months. The newly configured financial ETFs will be more volatile from here on out.
Fund companies will handle the transition in different ways. State Street Global Advisors this month announced that its $17 billion Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF), the market's largest, won't include REITs after the reclassification. Owners of that ETF as of Sept. 16 will receive a special dividend in the form of a new ETF—the $13 million Real Estate Select Sector SPDR (XLRE).
Since real estate accounts for 19% of the S&P 500's financial sector, a $10,000 investment in the Financial Select Sector SPDR would convert into a new position worth roughly $1,900 in the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR, leaving investors with some $8,100 in the original ETF. Investors will see an "additional line item in the form of a new ETF," but their portfolios will retain the same exposure as before, says Dave Mazza, head of ETF and mutual fund research at SSGA.
The ETF structure should minimize the tax issues that would typically come from ditching $3.2 billion in REITs, Mazza says. Real-estate stocks in the financial ETF can be swapped for shares of the new REIT ETF using "in kind" transactions, a process that ought to prove more efficient than selling the whole lot on the open market. Mazza expects that a portion of the transaction will be treated as a tax-exempt return of capital, though some portion could be treated as income and would thus be taxable.
Other financial-sector ETFs will simply exclude REITs, and if investors want to stay invested in real estate, they'll need to buy a REIT ETF separately. The $3.5 billion Vanguard Financials (VFH), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index (FNCL), and Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Financials (RYF) will drop REITs after Aug. 31. Lin estimates the rebalancing could amount to $4 billion of selling pressure on REITs on Aug. 31 and Sept. 16, depending on whether new real estate ETF owners opt to sell their positions or hold on.
LONGER TERM, an entirely new REIT sector could pressure active stockpickers to add to their REIT holdings.
Research by David Kostin, the chief U.S. equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, indicates REITs are generally unpopular among active mutual fund managers. In fact, two out of every five large-company fund managers had zero exposure to REITs as of the end of April, he found. That 40% of fund managers with no exposure to real estate will probably feel compelled to add some, lest it appear they are straying too far from sector benchmarks. Kostin recently estimated REIT demand from active managers who currently don't own any of the sector could spur $19 billion in demand. Talk about a sellers' market.


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Why do Chinese, when writing in English, include Chinese parentheticals in their text?
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English Language - hello! Hi! How are you? Goodbye!
I suspect this is a form of code switching. When people are talking in their second language, and hit upon a concept that leaves them lost for words, they drop back on their first language to vocabulary to fill in the gap.
For example, I was having a conversation with a Bulgarian yesterday about his diet and he said, "I like to eat this thing with grilled meat on a stick, kebob, its a long stick with meat on it. I would eat kebob very often."
This Bulgarian didn't know the English word for this food was kebab, so he drops into his native language and accent for that word.
Of course, for this Bulgarian , he was speaking not writing. Had he been writing, he would have used the Latin script to write kebob. Bulgarian has its own script but transliterating from Bulgarian script to Latin script is relatively simple.
Also note that once the first language word has been introduced into the conversation, the speaker will continue to use it liberally, without further definition, assuming the audience has learned that word.
Now imagine the same conversation but with a Chinese speaker: "I like to eat this thing with grilled meat on a stick, yang rou chan, its a long stick with meat on it. I would eat yang rou chan very often."
In this case, I've used pinyin to transliterate the Chinese words, however, pinyin isn't intuitive to many Chinese writers. They can write in Latin script for writing English, but when thinking in Chinese, their native Chinese script dominates for writing. They might give you the pinyin as an afterthought, or they might not.
To their mind, the pinyin isn't the word, they have to use their native script to convey their native language. So you might get something like: "I like to eat this thing with grilled meat on a stick, yang rou chan (羊肉串), its a long stick with meat on it. I would eat 羊肉串 very often."
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Offering bright, air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi, Hostal La Placeta is set in a 19th century town house in the peaceful village of Arbeca, 30 km from Lleida.
Decorated in white and cream tones, the rooms are all outward-facing and have large windows. Each one has as private, modern bathroom and a TV.
Hostal La Placeta has an on-site restaurant and café-bar, as well as meeting rooms. There are also a few other restaurants in Arbeca.
Secans de Belianes-Preixana Nature Reserve is just 5 minutes' drive from the guest house. Barcelona can be reached in a 1.5-hour drive via the A-2 Motorway.
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