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Men's Watch Gift Guide 2022: 45 Watches for the Holidays
Mark Bernardo December 2022
The holiday season is upon us once again, leaving us all with our three usual questions: Where exactly did 2022 go? Where will I be to ring in the New Year? And what is the perfect watch gift for each of my family members and friends who share my passion for timepieces? We can't help you with the first two questions, but we're definitely here for you on the third. Here we've put together a list of watches in several categories, with various types of recipients in mind, at a variety of price points. Best of all, the vast majority of these watches are available right here in our online shop.
For the sophisticated gent:
Seiko Presage SRPB43
Price: $319, Case Size: 40.5mm, Thickness: 11.8mm, Lug to Lug: 47.5mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Crystal: Hardlex, Water Resistance: 50m, Movement: Automatic Seiko 4R35
The "Cocktail Time" series within Seiko's automatic-only Presage family of attainable, attractive dress watches are designed to evoke the types of high-end cocktails served at Japan's famously atmospheric rooftop bars. This model with a stainless steel case and a sunray ice-blue dial takes its nickname and inspiration from a classic Martini. The glossy-finish dial's ridged, rippling edges help give it the look of a birds-eye view inside the cocktail glass; the tone-on-tone date window is a subtle but impressive bonus at this price point, as is the in-house, automatic movement inside. The 40.5-mm case is topped by a box-shaped crystal made of a proprietary Seiko material called Hardlex. A specially sculpted crown helps ensure the case's 50-meter water resistance, and the movement is magnetic-resistant to 4,800 A/m.
Tissot Le Locle Powermatic 80 Blue
Case: 39.3mm, Thickness 9.8mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic Powermatic 80.111 Water-Resistance: 30m, Material: Steel, Price: $575
Named for the Swiss watchmaking town in which Tissot was founded (and where many other watchmakers still reside), the Tissot Le Locle is a classically elegant gentleman's dress watch that comes in at a very wearable size, just under 40mm. Its round case has a polished finish and its dial hosts applied Roman hour numerals, swept over by leaf-shaped hands, along with a practical and unobtrusive date window at 3 o'clock. The "pyramid"-style textured finish in the center lends the watch an added layer of refinement, and the self-winding Powermatic 80 movement inside ensures that it runs reliably for 80 hours.
Raymond Weil Maestro Moon Phase
Price: $1,495, Case Size: 39.5mm, Thickness: 9.8mm, Lug-to-Lug: 44.5mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Water Resistance: 50m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Raymond Weil Cal. RW4280, Crystal: Sapphire
Raymond Weil's collections take their names from the eponymous founder's love of music and musicians, and the Maestro Moon Phase Automatic is a Moonlight Serenade for the wrist. The watch has a galvanic dial with a radiating textured motif inspired by waves of musical notes pulsing through a concert hall. Additionally, the outer minute track has an engraved pattern that subtly evokes the grooves of an old vinyl record. The moon-phase display is at 6 o'clock, below the central baton-shaped hands.
Cartier Tank Must Solarbeat
Price: $2,790, Case Size: 33mm x 25.5mm and 29.5mm x 22mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30m, Movement: Cartier SolarBeat
Louis Cartier created the Tank watch in 1917, deriving its rectangular, curvilinear case shape as well as its name from a French military vehicle used during the First World War. Perhaps fittingly, the recipient of the first Cartier Tank watch was U.S. General John "Black Jack" Pershing, a commander of the Allied forces.The Tank has been a coveted style object ever since, designed to appeal to men and ladies alike, and the recently released model equipped with Cartier's exclusive SolarBeat movement brings the iconic timepiece firmly into the 21st Century as well as into an entry-level price segment. The solar-powered quartz movement inside the famous curvilinear rectangular case, behind the famed dial with blue sword hands and radiating Roman numerals, boasts a 16-year battery life and is the first such caliber ever used by the watch-and-jewelry giant.
Baume & Mercier Clifton
Price: $3,250 - $7,750, Case size: 39mm/40mm, Thickness: 10.74mm/11.3mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Automatic BM13-1975A (COSC certified)
Baume & Mercier launched the Clifton collection in 2013, drawing many of its design elements from a 1950s model in the brand's archives. Clifton watches all have classically round cases with a double-beveled architecture, dials with high-end finishing, thin "Alpha" hands, and simple, thin applied hour indexes (though the earliest models also featured applied Arabic numerals). The standard, three-handed Clifton models were the first Baume & Mercier watches to be equipped with the in-house, chronometer-quality Baumatic movement, which can still be found in them today; the crosshairs motif in the center of their dials represents the movement's COSC chronometer certification.
Price: $6,500, Case Size: 41mm, Lug Width: 24.2mm, Water Resistance: 50m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic Master Chronometer Caliber 8900
Omega's Constellation series — which has been around since 1952, predating both the Speedmaster and the modern Seamaster — got a major revamp in 2020, with a slew of Gents models equipped with Master Chronometer movements. Sized at a modest-yet-contemporary 39 mm, the cases feature polished and beveled edges; a slimmer bezel with redesigned Roman numerals; a more elegant finishing for the hallmark "claws" on the bezel's sides; and a conical crown. The dial's hands and hour markers take visual cues from the triangular facets of New York City's Freedom Tower. Inside the case — made of "everyday" stainless steel (as shown), or special-occasion yellow gold or Sedna gold — beats the Omega Master Chronometer-certified Caliber 8900, with a co-axial escapement and s 60-hour power reserve.
For the weekend warrior:
G-Shock DW5600BB
Price: $99, Case: 42.8mm, Thickness 13.9mm, Lug-To-Lug: 48.9mm, Crystal: Mineral, Movement: Quartz, Water-Resistance: 200m
The DW5600ABB model of Casio's iconic and megapopular G-Shock sports the original rectangular-cased, digital-display design that has been a mainstay since 1983. The classic gray field of the LCD dial frames the watch's compact readout of time, date, and running seconds. Like most all watches in G-Shock's extensive DW5600 family, its durable resin case boasts a 200-meter water resistance and its digital functions include a 1/100-second stopwatch, countdown timer, multi-function alarm, a full calendar accurate to 2099, and an electro-luminescent backlight with afterglow.
Marathon General Purpose Mechanical
Price: $450, Case Size: 34mm, Case Height: 9.2mm, Lug Width: 16mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30 meters, Movement: Automatic Caliber NH35
Manufactured by the sole official supplier of watches to today's U.S. Armed Forces, the Marathon General Purpose Mechanical offers some distinctive elements seldom found in this price range. Housed within a 34mm stainless steel case, the Marathon GPM is tactically small, designed to be a lightweight companion to the large loads of military gear utilized by its wearers in combat operations. The dial has indexes and hands with tritium-filled tubes, which offer brighter and longer-lasting luminescence than most other dials, whose luminescent elements need to be recharged by light. Completing the utilitarian package is a reliable third-party caliber from Seiko and the tough, "Ballistic Nylon" NATO strap that makes it ideal for wearing in challenging environments.
Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical
Price: $545, Reference: H69449961, Case Size: 38mm Case Height: 9.5mm, Lug width: 20mm, Lug to Lug: 47mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Mechanical Hamilton Caliber H-50
American-founded Hamilton, now based in Switzerland, basically invented the "field watch" category, supplying tough timepieces to U.S. troops as early as World War I. The civilian offshoot of those watches is the modern Khaki Field, which traces its most direct inspiration to the 1960s model worn during the Vietnam War and is available with a quartz, manually wound mechanical, or automatic caliber. The Khaki Field Mechanical model showcased here combines the classically retro 12/24-hour "military time" dial, an appropriately modest 38mm case, and a rugged, nylon NATO strap. The manually winding Caliber H-50 beats inside, storing a lengthy 80-hour power reserve.
Mühle S.A.R. Rescue Timer
Price: $2,800, Case Size: 42mm, Case Height: 13.5mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic Sellita SW 200-1, Mühle version
Mühle Glashütte, founded in 1869, is the oldest family-owned watch company in Germany while also being, in practice, one of the youngest, having not produced a wristwatch until 1996. The company's history of making speedometers, dashboard clocks, and other equipment for military vehicles provided the impetus for the S.A.R. Rescue Timer (the initials referring to Germany's Maritime Search and Rescue Service, which requested it and still uses it today). The watch's tough rubber bezel acts as a shock absorber for the Mühle-customized automatic Swiss movement inside the steel case. Under a dense 4mm sapphire crystal with a cyclops lens to magnify the date, the white dial of the Lumen model — with the emblematic large triangular markers in black at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock — is fully coated with luminous paint for nighttime visibility.
For the recreational diver:
Scurfa Diver One
Price: $250, Case Size: 40mm, Thickness: 14.4mm, Lug-to-Lug: 47.7mm, Lug Width: 20mm Water Resistance: 500m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Quartz Ronda 715SM
In 2014, commercial saturation diver Paul Scurfield, frustrated by the inability of existing, so-called "professional" dive watches to hold up to the hard usage they faced in his profession, founded his own watch brand. A longtime watch enthusiast in addition to being a seasoned diver, Scurfield focused on creating a range of watches for divers that were not only tougher and more reliable than those produced by well-known luxury brands but also priced within reason for diving professionals. The Diver One Titanium (pictured) will fit the bill for many, boasting a rare 500-meter water resistance, a helium release valve for use in a diving bell, a sapphire crystal and a high degree of luminous material on the dial for legibility in the depths. The Swiss-made quartz Ronda caliber beats inside the 40mm case (which is also available in steel for $30 less).
Seiko Prospex SRPE93
Price: $495, Case Size: 45mm, Thickness: 13.3mm, Lug-to-Lug: 46.9mm, Water Resistance: 200m, Movement: Auto Seiko 4R36, Crystal: Mineral
Following in the footsteps of the SKX007 and 009, the modern Prospex "Turtle" collection from Seiko revives the cushion case shape from the iconic 6309 in production from 1976 to 1988 with a few updates. First, the watch is larger than both the SKX and the 6309, coming in with a 45mm case diameter that luckily wears smaller than that dimensions might suggest, a factor aided by the restrained under-47mm lug-to-lug length. Second, whereas neither the SKX nor the 6309 offered hacking or hand-winding functionality, the SRPE93 and its relatives are equipped with the modern 4R36 caliber that provides both attributes as well as a strong reputation for ruggedness.
Citizen Promaster Diver FUGU
Price: $595, Case Size: 44mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Lug-to-Lug: 50mm, Water Resistance: 200m, Movement: Automatic Miyota 8204, Power Reserve: 40 Hours, Crystal: Sapphire
Deriving its nickname from the Japanese word for a puffer fish — a reference to the distinctively grooved shape of the rotating divers' bezel — the "Fugu" model from Citizen's Promaster Diver family originally debuted in 1989 and was revived for modern audiences in 2018. The hefty steel case (44mm) features a textured screw-down at the unusual position of 8 o'clock, which prevents it from poking into the small of a diver's wrist. The hands and hour indexes are thick and brightly lumed for underwater legibility; at 3 o'clock, the hour marker gives way to a day-date window with an eye-catching bicolor design (red print for the day, black for the date). Behind a caseback engraved with a puffer fish is the automatic movement, the Japanese Miyota 8204.
Price: $1,700, Case Size: 41mm, Thickness: 11.9mm, Lug Width: 21mm, Water Resistance: 300m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic Longines Caliber L888
The HydroConquest builds upon Longines' sport-luxury Conquest design for a more sport-oriented aesthetic, one aimed squarely at divers and those looking to emulate their look. The watch's unidirectional ratcheting bezel has a 60-minute dive-scale insert, with the first 15-minute sector delineated by minute markers and Arabic numerals at each subsequent 10-minute interval. The sword handset of the Conquest is here replaced by a short, faceted hour hand with a luminous diamond-shaped bulge, a baton minute hand, and a lollipop-style sweep seconds hand. On this model, a military green dial and bezel harmonizes with a rubber strap in the same color. The 300-meter water resistant case contains the Longines-exclusive Caliber L888, built upon the ETA L31.L11 base movement and souped up with a 72-hour power reserve.
Doxa Sub 300
Price: $2,490, Case Size: 42.5mm x 45mm, Case Height: 13.4mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 300 meters, Movement: Automatic ETA 2824-2
The Doxa SUB 300 first hit the shelves, and the waves, in 1967, establishing itself as an "everyman" alternative to luxury dive-watch icons like the Rolex Submariner and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. It was the first commercial dive watch with two functional scales on its unidirectional rotating bezel, for dive time and depth decompression time, and the first to use orange (the most visible color undewater) for its dial. That classical, trend-setting design lives on in the modern version of the SUB 300, whose barrel-shaped "turtle" case resists water pressures down to 300 meters. Like its ancestor, the bezel is inscribed with both an inner 60-minute scale and an outer "air dive table" to assist in timing no-decompression dives. Behind the solid caseback ticks the chronometer-certified ETA 2824-2, with a 42-hour power reserve.
For the amateur pilot:
Laco Pilot Watch Basic Augsburg
Price: $410, Case Size: 39-42mm, Thickness: 11.55-11.75mm, Lug Width: 18-20mm, Lug to Lug: 46-50mm, Water Resistance: 50m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic Laco 21 (Miyota 821 base)
Founded in Pforzheim, Germany, in 1920, Laco (originally named "Lacher & Co." after co-founder Frieda Lacher) was one of five watch manufacturers that made watches for the German air force during World War II. Today's Laco collection pays tribute to those minimalist vintage aviation watches (aka "fliegers") in their design, dimensions, and period-appropriate details. The Augsburg model featured here is a quintessential 1940s pilot's watch, with big Arabic numerals, sword-shaped hour and minute hands and a long, thin, central seconds hand, all doused with C3 SuperLumiNova; a classical inverted orientation triangle with two dots at the top of the dial; a matte steel case with a large fluted onion crown; and a sturdy brown calf-leather strap with contrast stitching and old-school rivets. The self-winding movement inside the case comes from Japan.
Hamilton Khaki Aviation Pioneer Mechanical Chrono
Price: $2,045, Case Size: 40mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Water Resistance: 100m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Manually wound H-51-Si
While Hamilton is known best in military circles for providing field watches for American troops during the World Wars, the brand also manufactured timepieces for British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots in the 1970s. Those watches serve as the template for the recently launched Khaki Aviation Pioneer Mechanical Chrono, which sports a black dial with two parallel subdial counters for elapsed minutes and running seconds as well as period-accurate central hands with a white lacquer finish reminiscent of that on the original RAF models. The beige tone of the hour numerals and other markings echoes the look of aged radium luminous substance that would have been used on the watch's vintage predecessors. Hamilton has equipped the watch with a manually winding movement, the H-51-Si, which is noteworthy for its antimagnetic silicon balance spring.
Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Nightlum
Price: $3,990, Case Size: 42mm, Thickness: 9.8mm, Water Resistance: 100m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic BR-CAL.302 (Sellita SW300-1 base)
Bell & Ross added to its fleet of BR03-92 "professional aviation" watches in 2018 with the Nightlum edition, a watch designed for nighttime navigation in a dark cockpit. The matte black ceramic case features the airplane cockpit-clock "circle in a square" styling of the Bell & Ross Instrument collection. The name "Nightlum" evokes the watch's extreme luminosity in the dark of night, thanks to the application of green-tinted SuperLumiNova C3 to the Arabic numerals, indexes, and hour and minute hands (along with the tip of the sweeping seconds hand). The brand describes the Super-LumiNova C3 on the dial as "ultra-phosphorescent," meaning the green glow it emits is not only brighter than usual, but also longer-lasting. The reliable, Sellita-based automatic BR-CAL.302 ticks inside.
IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XX
Price: $6,150, Case Size: 40mm, Thickness: 10.8mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100m, Movement: Automatic IWC 32111
IWC has been making its Mark (pun intended) in pilots' watches for decades, starting with the trend-setting Big Pilot's Watch in 1940 and continuing after the war with 1948's Mark 11, which was worn by RAF pilots and spawned several generations of successors, each designated by a higher Roman numeral. The latest, released in 2022, is the Mark XX, which evokes the mid-20th-century models that preceded it but features a thinner case thanks to its updated, modern movement, IWC's in-house Caliber 32111. The automatic caliber is not only slimmer than previous ones in the series; it also boasts a lengthy 120-hour power reserve. The matte-finished steel 40mm case, mounted on a stitched leather strap, is also more water-resistant than its immediate predecessor, to 100 meters rather than 60 meters.
For the frequent traveler:
Seiko 5 GMT
Price: $475, Case Size: 42.5mm, Thickness: 13.4mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Crystal: Hardlex, Water Resistance: 100 m, Movement: Automatic Seiko 4R34
Seiko introduced the first GMT complication to its Seiko 5 sports line of entry-level automatics in 2022, equipping the watches with the automatic Caliber 4R34. Available in three colorways for the dial and bezel — black, blue, and the orange version pictured here — the watches have a central GMT hand in a contrasting color, used in coordination with the bicolor day/night bezels, with rings made of the Japanese brand's proprietary Hardlex glass like the crystal, to indicate a second time zone. The GMT hand is coated in LumiBrite (another Seiko-exclusive material) for nighttime legibility. Based on the design of the much-beloved SKX series of Seiko sports watches, the model has a five-link bracelet with polished middle rows.
Bulova Wilton GMT
Price: $595, Case Size: 43mm, Thickness: 12.7mm, Lug to Lug: 49.5mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30m, Movement: Automatic Miyota 9075
Bulova has become well-known for offering mechanical complications at very accessible prices, and the latest timepiece in its Classic collection is no exception. At just under $600 in our shop, the Wilton GMT is the rare example of a "true" GMT — i.e., one with an independently adjustable local hour hand — that just about any enthusiast can afford. The watch has a brushed steel case at 43mm; a dial in either white or blue, with applied Roman numerals matching the case tone, a date window at 3 o'clock, and a world-map textured pattern on its surface that adds to its value proposition. The central arrow-pointed GMT hand indicates a second time zone on the bicolor 24-hour scale on the dial's flange. The Japanese Miyota movement inside is self-winding and stores a 42-hour power reserve.
Mido Ocean Star GMT
Price: $1,250, Reference: M0266291105101, Case Size: 44mm Case Height: 13.28mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200 meters, Movement: Automatic Mido 80 (ETA C07.661 base)
Wildly popular in Latin America but only vaguely familiar to many watch aficionados in the U.S., Mido has been making watches since 1918 and its nautically inspired Ocean Star line has been around since the 1940s, even before the era of the modern diver's watch. The Ocean Star GMT, launched in 2020, is the collection's first dual-time-zone watch, with a sturdy steel case and ceramic divers' bezel. The 24-hour scale that you might expect to find on the bezel is instead printed on the dial's flange. A long, arrow-tipped hand points to the scale, enabling the wearer to read the time in additional time zones while the two main hands display the local time. The Powermatic 80 caliber inside the 44mm steel case (the "80" denotes how many hours of power reserve it stores) has been equipped with a specially made module for the GMT functionality.
Longines Spirit Zulu Time
Price: $2,950, Reference: L3.812.4.93.2, Case Size: 42mm, Case Height: 13.9mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic Caliber L844
Longines, a watch brand that throughout its long history has supplied aviation pioneers like Hugh Herndon, Clyde Pangborn, and Amy Johnson with watches and onboard clocks, stylishly revisited its history of developing dual-time instruments with the 2022 addition of the Zulu Time model to its aviation-inspired Spirit series. ("Zulu Time" is the military radio jargon for the "zero" time at the Greenwich Meridian, aka GMT.) The watch's 42-mm steel case houses a proprietary movement that allows independent adjustment of both the traditional hour hand and the GMT hand that indicates an additional time zone on the 24-hour bezel, with lacquered engraved numerals on its colorful ceramic bezel insert. For lots more on the history of the Longines Zulu Time and details on the modern watch, read our review here.
Tudor Black Bay Pro
Price: $3,675 - $4,000, Case Size: 39mm, Case Thickness: 14.6mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200 meters, Movement: Automatic Tudor Caliber MT5652
Launched at Watches & Wonders 2022, alongside new bimetal versions of the megapopular Black Bay GMT, was the Black Bay Pro, another sporty take on a travel watch within the Black Bay family. The model differs from the more colorful GMT models in its use of a stationary, satin-finished steel bezel with engraved numerals for its 24-hour GMT scale. The movement is the same automatic MT5662 that beats inside the Black Bay GMT, but the case is a more understated 39mm and the central hand that points to a second time zone is in yellow rather than red, offering an even greater contrast with the matte black dial. Teddy reviews the Black Bay Pro here.
Nomos Zurich World Time
Price: $6,100, Reference: T0786411603700, Case Size: 39.9mm, Case Height: 10.9mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30 meters, Movement: Automatic DUW 5201
Germany's Nomos has attracted an avid following for its minimalist, Bauhaus-styled watches, most of which are fairly understated in their level of complication. The Zurich Weltzeit "(German for "world time"), however, shoots for a higher level of horological complexity without sacrificing the streamlined aesthetic. The case is in stainless steel and measures 39.9mm in diameter (large for Nomos but relatively modest for a world-timer), with a galvanized white dial. On that dial, two faceted hands indicate the local time while a disk at 3 o'clock shows the time in 24-hour format with a red pointer. A pusher above the crown advances the city ring between the outer track and the dial's center to reveal the times in the 23 other time zones outside the wearer's home time. Nomos' in-house DUW 5201, with its proprietary "swing system" escapement, does its duty inside.
For the understated artiste:
Sternglas Asthet
Price: $489, Case Size: 40mm, Case Height: 8.5mm, Lug to Lug: 48mm, Lug Width: 20mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Automatic Miyota 9015
Like its older contemporaries, German microbrand Sternglas, founded by web designer Dustin Fontaine in 2016, adheres to a Bauhaus aesthetic and prices its timepieces at an even more accessible level, aimed at new and even first-time buyers. The Asthet slides in under $500 even though it contains a mechanical movement, namely the manual-winding Miyota 9015 from Japan. At 40mm in diameter and 8.5mm thick, ts stainless steel case is what most would consider mid-sized in wrist presence yet understated in profile. The curved white opaline dial is simplicity itself, with thin baton hands and hour markers and a very subtle but useful date window at 6 o'clock, creating elegant symmetry with the brand logo at 12 o'clock.
Junghans Max Bill Bauhaus Edition
Price: $1,400, Case Size: 38mm, Case Thickness: 9.7mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Automatic Caliber J800-1 (ETA 2824-2 base)
The Max Bill collection from Germany's Junghans, named for the Swiss artist that designed it, offers an elegantly minimalist aesthetic (we explore the collection in depth here). The Max Bill Automatic Bauhaus Edition was released in 2019 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the famed German school that had such a profound impact on Max Bill and other pioneers of 20th century design. The anthracite PVD coating of the 1,000-piece limited edition evokes the facade of the school building in Dessau while the red hands and red date window pay tribute to its famed red doors. The gray strap, Junghans says, is inspired by the concrete used in the construction of the building, which is also represented in an illustration on the sapphire caseback.
Nomos Orion 35
Price: $2,360, Case Size: 35mm, Case Thickness: 8.7mm, Lug to Lug: 45mm, Lug Width: 18mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30 meters, Movement: Manual Caliber Alpha
Founded in 1990, just two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nomos has, in the short span of thirty years, risen to become one of the most popular makers of German luxury watches that combine sensible pricing, classic Bauhaus design, and recently, a side helping of technical innovation. The Orion 35 (the number refers to its case diameter) is a throwback to the days when gents and ladies both wore smaller, more understated timepieces. The dial is accordingly clean and sedate, with simple bar indices and tempered blue baton hands on a stark white background, the only additional element being a small seconds sundial with its own blued hand at 6 o'clock. The watch fastens to a Horween leather strap and contains Nomos's proprietary manual-winding Alpha caliber, whose high-end decorations are visible behind a sapphire caseback.
MeisterSinger Bell Hora
Price: $4,249, Case Size: 43mm, Case Thickness: 13mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Automatic Caliber MS Bell (Sellita SW200 base)
MeisterSinger, based in Germany's northern Westphalia region near the border of Denmark, has carved out a successful niche for itself with its embrace of ultra-minimalist one-handed timekeeping. The dials' single gauge-like hand, which traverses a subdivided 12-hour dial, hearkens back to early clocks in towers. The Bell Hora ("hour bell") adds another dimension with its dual 12- and 24-hour scales and its integrated chiming function, based on the principle of a retrograde hour hand, which rings once every hour to alert the wearer of the passing time. The movement inside the polished 43mm case is a Sellita-based automatic caliber that MeisterSinger has adapted to its distinctive timekeeping style and renamed "MS Bell." At under $5K, this is almost assuredly the least expensive chiming watch you can get.
Louis Erard Excellence Émail Grand Feu II
Price: $4,290, Case Size: 39mm, Thickness: 12.25mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Automatic Sellita Caliber SW261-1
Independent watchmaker Louis Erard plunges into the realm of artistic metiers d'art with its Excellence Émail Grand Feu II. Émail, for the non French-speakers out there, refers to enamel, not electronic communications, while grand feu (literally "big fire") refers to the specific type of enamel used for the elegant dial, in which fine powders, one for each of the colors used in the dial's ensemble, are fired in a kiln at 800 degrees Celsius to achieve a long-lasting brilliance. Also distinguishing the dial of this 99-piece limited edition are Louis Erard's signature "tree" hands and the delicate Roman hour numerals. The steel case measures 39mm and houses an automatic Caliber from Sellita.
For the retro iconoclast:
Timex Q Diver
Price: $179, Case Size: 38 mm, Case Height: 11.5 mm, Lug Width: 18 mm, Crystal: Acrylic, Water Resistance: 50 meters, Movement: Quartz Analog
Timex has upped its game in recent years in making a slew of attractive, vintage-inspired watches that entice serious enthusiasts while still maintaining the American watchmaker's legendary mass-market price points. A standout of the current collection is the very colorful and sporty Q Diver, which faithfully reproduces one of Timex's most popular models from the 1970s, which also happens to be one of its first models with a quartz caliber. Among the elements that echo the original '70s models are the bicolor GMT bezel, diver-style geometrical indexes on the dial, the integrated SST bracelet and even the battery case cover in the back, which enables the wearer to change his own battery with the simple turn of a coin edge.
Rado Captain Cook
Price: $2,000, Case Size: 42mm, Thickness: 12mm, Lug to Lug: 48.2mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200m, Movement: Automatic ETA C07.611
Rado's Captain Cook is based on a heretofore obscure 1960s diving watch and eschews the modernist aesthetic that chiefly defines Rado's collection in favor of a sporty, vintage look. The 42mm case diameter of the watch featured here elegantly splits the difference between the more modest, historically accurate 37mm and the stately 44mm models that preceded it. The unidirectional bezel has a dive-scale insert made of high-tech ceramic, an emblematic material for the Swiss brand. The case has a solid caseback stamped with three seahorses, an aquatic motif that references historical Rado dive watches. The green dial, in contrast, is defiantly modern, albeit still with a vintage touch, namely the Rado rotating anchor symbol at 12 o'clock with its '60s-inspired ruby-colored background (which echoes the eye-catching ruby-red date numeral in the 3 o'clock date window.)
Accutron Spaceview 2020
Price: $3,450, Case Size: 43.5mm, Thickness: 15.9mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water-Resistance: 50m, Movement: Electrostatic
Introduced in 2020 as the next generation of a groundbreaking electronic model introduced in the 1960s, the Accutron Spaceview debuted with an ultra-modern, electrostatic movement technology paired with high-tech design language and top-notch finishing. The watch features an innovative, proprietary movement powered by electrostatic energy generated from the motion of the wearer's wrist. The movement's fast-rotating twin turbines are affixed to two electrodes that power two tiny motors — one an electrostatic motor driving the smooth motion of the seconds hand, the other a step motor for the hour and minute hands — both synchronized through integrated circuits for an accuracy of +/- 5 seconds per month. The circuit-board green elements of the movement are on display in the front of the watch, framed by the 43.5mm yellow gold case that attaches to a black grained leather strap.
Vintage Rolex Datejust
Price: $15,830, Case Size: 41mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water-Resistance: 100m, Movement: Automatic
A classic timepiece that speaks to both men and women, the Datejust debuted in 1945 as the first wristwatch with the now-ubiquitous 3 o'clock date window under a magnifying "Cyclops" lens. Just as suitable for a dressy ensemble as for a more casual look, the Datejust's versatility remains a key factor in its enduring popularity — and hence, as with many modern Rolex models, the scarcity of its newest models. You can find pre-owned Datejusts at several online sources, however, including this two-tone model on Watchfinder, with a 41mm Oyster case in steel with the crown and hallmark fluted bezel made of rose-gold. Mounted on a steel-and-rose-gold Jubilee bracelet, the model contains a self-winding mechanical movement inside its 100-meter water resistant case.
For the environmentalist:
Maurice Lacroix Aikon Tide
Price: $750, Case Size: 40mm, Thickness: 11mm, Water Resistance: 100m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Quartz
Introduced in 2022, Maurice Lacroix's beach-ready Aikon Tide has a case constructed from a revolutionary composite material that combines ocean-recovered plastic with glass fiber. The resulting substance is twice as hard as standard plastic and five times more resistant, with the added bonus of also having a smaller carbon footprint than regular PET. The Green edition's dial bears the familiar aesthetic hallmarks of the Aikon collection, including the distinctive "clawed" case, somewhat Royal-Oak-evocative dial, and the smooth integration between the case and the Easy-Change rubber strap. Replacing the Clous de Paris pattern on the dials of the Aikon Automatic models, an ocean-inspired motif called "Vague du Jura" decorates the dials of the Tide models.
Oris Aquis Date Upcycle
Price: $2,300, Case Size: 41.5mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 300m, Movement: Automatic Oris 733 (Sellita base)
In 2021, Oris wowed the growing community of green-leaning watch aficionados with the Aquis Upcycle, whose colorful dials are made of PET plastic waste recovered from oceans, in a process that produces random patterns of color that make each dial unique. While most Aquis models are fairly masculine in their case dimensions, the Upcycle models speak to both men and women, offered in either a 41.5mm or 36.5mm size. Like the standard Aquis Date models, the Upcycle versions feature a unidirectional dive-scale bezel, here with a gray ceramic insert, luminous-coated hands, and a 3 o'clock date window. The automatic Sellita-based Oris 733 Caliber powers the watch and gathers a 38-hour power reserve.
Alpina Seastrong Diver Gyre
Price: $1,377, Case Size: 44mm, Lug Width: 22mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 300m, Movement: Automatic Alpina AL-525
Alpina's Seastrong collection of stylish, sporty dive watches welcomed its most sustainable member in 2022. The Seastrong Diver Gyre, which takes its name from circular ocean currents, is the first watch with a case made entirely from recycled materials. The cushion-shaped, black, 44mm case is composed of 70 percent plastic (mostly from discarded fishing nets) and 30 percent glass fibers, while the unidirectional divers' bezel is made from black PVD-coated steel to match the case's color scheme. The dial is in either blue or turquoise, both referencing the oceans where the watch will be most at home, with its professional-grade 300 meters (1,000 feet) of water resistance. The Seastrong Diver Gyre is mounted on a color-coordinated NATO strap and contains the Sellita-based Alpina Al-525 automatic caliber.
IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Edition "Galapagos Islands"
Price: $11,100, Case Size: 45mm, Case Thickness: 16.9mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 300 meters, Movement: Automatic IWC Caliber 89365
IWC regularly partners with ocean-focused charitable organizations for special editions of its Aquatimer luxury dive watch. The "Galapagos Islands" chronograph model is inspired by the work of Charles Darwin and the Cousteau Society and features a black vulcanized rubber-coated case measuring a stately 45mm in diameter. The dial continues the black-on-black look, with subdials at 12 and 6 o'clock for elapsed minutes and running seconds. Inside the 300-meter water-resistant case is an IWC manufacture movement, Caliber 89365, which is equipped with a flyback function for the built-in stopwatch. Named after the archipelago in which Darwin collected the evidence that formed the basis of his theories on evolution and the origin of the species, the watch features a solid caseback with an engraving representing the exotic wildlife of the Galapagos. The matching black rubber strap includes IWC's quick-change system.
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Orient Bambino 38mm
Price: $249, Case Size: 42 mm, Case Height: 11.8 mm, Lug To Lug: 48.2 mm, Lug Width: 22 mm, Crystal: Domed Mineral, Water Resistance: 30 meters, Movement: Automatic Orient F6724
Often under the radar of American watch consumers and overshadowed by its much larger Japanese brethren, Citizen and Seiko (which with it shares a corporate connection through Epson), Orient has been making value-oriented watches in Japan since 1950. The Bambino is Orient's dressy gents' model, fairly large in diameter at 42 mm with a domed crystal. The dial's gradation sweeps from a bright blue center to black at the edges. Inside is an in-house movement, the automatic Orient F6724, with a hacking seconds function and a 40-hour power reserve. All together, it spells quite a bargain for the sticker price.
Tissot PRX Powermatic 80
Price: $650, Case Size: 40mm, Thickness: 11mm, Lug to Lug: 44.6mm, Water Resistance: 100m, Crystal: Sapphire, Movement: Automatic Powermatic 80.111
Tissot added to the growing roster of sport-luxury watches on integrated steel bracelets in 2021 with the re-release of the PRX, a watch that first hit the market in 1978. The "P" and "R" in the name stand for "precise" and "robust," and the "X" is actually a Roman numeral "10" depicting the model's 10 atmospheres (aka 100 meters) of water resistance. Like its predecessor from the disco era, the first modern PRX model had a quartz movement, but that one was swiftly followed by an automatic version containing the brand's Powermatic 80 caliber. The stainless steel, barrel-shaped case of this green-dialed model from 2022 measures 40 mm in diameter, a relatively svelte 11 mm in thickness, and integrates smoothly into a supple steel bracelet. The dial features a distinctive waffle-pattern motif and a sunray finish.
Seiko SPB121 Alpinist
Price: $725, Case Size: 39.5mm, Case Height: 13.2mm, Lug to Lug: 46.4mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200 meters, Movement: Automatic Seiko Caliber 6R35
The Alpinist, the first dedicated Seiko sports watch, traces its history back to 1959, with an original model that was targeted, as its name implies, to outdoorsmen such as mountain climbers. This modern version, added recently to the Japanese watchmaker's Prospex series and taking its aesthetic cues from the now-classic SARB017 reference, reimagines that vintage piece with a contemporary spin. Faithful to the historical model are the cathedral hands, gold accents on the markers and numerals, and magnifying lens over the date window. New in this model are the dark green dial, the modern Prospex "X" logo above 6 o'clock, and the 6R35 automatic caliber. A bonus for actual mountaineers and other adventurous explorer types: the inner rotating compass bezel, operated by the additional crown at 4 o'clock.
Longines Spirit 37mm
Price: $2,400, Case Size: 37mm, Case Height: 11.7mm, Lug Width: 19mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic Longines L888.4
Longines references its heritage as a provider of watches to adventurers and aviators of the early 20th century with the Spirit collection, which launched in 2020 with a design DNA derived from historical pilots' watches. Originally issued in 40mm and 42mm sizes, the three-handed Spirit model is now available in a more understated 37mm size, with an elegant Champagne dial. Like its big brothers, it has an oversized fluted crown, a stepped bezel and minute-scale flange, large Arabic hour numerals and diamond-shaped indexes, and large, luminous baton hands — all elements drawn from early 20th-century Longines pilots watches. A date window occupies the 6 o'clock position; above it is the row of five stars that the brand has historically used to denote its highest-quality movements, along with the "Chronometer" text that speaks to its COSC-certified accuracy.
Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight
Price: $3,475 - $4,400 - $16,825, Case Size: 39mm, Case Thickness: 11.9mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200 meters, Movement: Automatic Tudor Caliber MT5402/MT5400
Offering the crowd-pleasing design of Tudor's 41mm original but at a more modest case diameter of 39mm, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight hits the sweet spot for many contemporary connoisseurs. Named for the year 1958, in which Tudor released the Oyster Prince Submariner Ref. 7924, the most clear forerunner to the Black Bay, the Fifty-Eight sub-family contains the automatic, COSC-certified Caliber MT5402 and has played host to a number of bold experiments in the areas of color and case materials. The Black Bay Fifty-Eight 925, released in 2021 as one of the first all-precious-metal iterations of the Black Bay, has a case made of 925 silver, a rarity in the watch world, pairing it with a matte, taupe-colored dial and matching dive-scale bezel insert.
Omega Seamaster 300M
Price: $5,100 - $26,000, Case Size: 42mm/43.5mm, Lug width: 20mm/21mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 300 meters, Movement: Automatic Omega Caliber 8800
The Omega Seamaster Diver 300M made its debut in 1993 and shortly thereafter achieved cinematic glory as the go-to watch of superspy James Bond. Now available in dozens of colorways and executions, this stylish tool watch can be had for just over $5,000 in a stainless steel case on a sporty rubber strap. The case's unidirectional bezel has a scalloped edge for easy gripping and a ceramic insert with a white enamel scale to set dive times; its 300-meter water resistance is ensured by a screw-down crown and enhanced with a helium release valve. The dial, also made of ceramic and boasting an array of colorways, hosts a laser-engraved wave pattern and skeletonized hands. Despite the model's extreme water resistance, Omega has installed a sapphire crystal caseback, offering a view of the automatic, co-axial Master Chronometer Caliber 8800.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer
Price: $7,200, Reference: 124270, Case Size: 36mm, Case Height: 11.5 mm, Lug Width: 19mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic Rolex 3230
Launched in 1953 and targeted at mountaineers, the Rolex Explorer has changed little from its original incarnation: as of the most recent version in 2021, the Explorer is even available once again in its original 36mm case size. Inside the case, Behind the three-handed dial with hallmark "Mercedes" hour hand, inside the corrosion-resistant "Oystersteel," case, is a recently upgraded automatic movement, Rolex's in-house Caliber 3230, packed with the expected array of up-to-the-minute Rolex-patented technologies. These include the Chronergy escapement with its blue Parachrom hairspring, and a "Superlative Chronometer" certification for accuracy. The dial's hands and hour markers glow a bright blue in the dark thanks to generous coatings of Rolex's proprietary Chromalight lume.
For the guy with two many watches:
Rapport Heritage Five-Watch Box ($725)
Family-owned Rapport of London began operations In 1898, when 20-year-old Maurice A. Rapport built his first timepiece, establishing the company as a world-renowned leader in clockmaking. Today, four generations later, its accumulated knowledge and expertise in the fields of cabinetmaking, horology, and electrical engineering continues to produce quality watch winders as well as collector boxes and carrying cases for watches and jewelry. The Heritage model comes with a lustrous Burr Walnut or Macassar veneer finish, achieved with five layers of lacquer. The box closes with a gold-plated lock and key and features a sumptuous suede inner lining with adjustable cushions to fit any size of watch. (https://www.rapportlondon.com/)
Wolf Roadster 4PC Watch Winder ($2,095)
Wolf watch winders, known for their fusion of leather, wood, glass, and steel, work on a 24-hour cycle, with six-hour periods of intermittent activity followed by "sleep" periods that allow the tension in the watches' mainsprings to ease, avoiding over-winding. Fifty different cycles are possible, allowing the owner to specify factors such as direction of rotation and number of turns per day (from 300 to 1,200). The large drums, with secure lock-in cuffs, can accommodate just about any watch size, and the winding is controlled by a Japanese Mabuchi motor. The Roadster model shown here takes its inspiration from classic British motorcars from the likes of Jaguar and Aston Martin, with ebony macassar polished wood details that evoke aged wood dashboards. (www.wolf1834.com)
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How Madrid reclaimed its river
Choked by a major highway for decades, the Spanish capital's biggest river is now home to endangered species.
The Madríd Rio complex has become one of the most popular spots in Madrid | Victor Lerena/EPA-EFE
By Aitor Hernández-Morales
January 3, 2023 4:30 am CET
This article is part of POLITICO's Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Chapter 3 of the project is presented by Holcim.
MADRID — Carmen Muñoz lives in a building just a stone's throw from Madrid's largest river, but for most of her life, her view of the water was blocked by a major eyesore — the Spanish capital's main ring road, the M-30.
For nearly 40 years, the six-lane thoroughfare — the busiest in the country — acted like a concrete corset around the Manzanares river, cutting off locals' access to the waterway.
"The river was invisible to me: In its place, there was only the M-30," said Muñoz. "The rumble of cars was constant, and if you made the mistake of opening the windows car fumes and soot would fill every corner of the flat."
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By Aitor Hernández-Morales and Giovanna Coi
That has since changed thanks to a major project that saw the highway buried, a sprawling park built above it, and the heavily polluted Manzanares restored to health.
The three-pronged infrastructure scheme, which started in 2004 and took nearly a decade to complete, has been hailed as both a "miracle of engineering" and a model for restoring damaged ecosystems and improving access to nature in urban spaces.
Although it was initially met with skepticism, the transformation is now hugely popular, especially among neighborhood residents like Muñoz, who said she "no longer [wakes] up to the noise of honking cars, but rather to the sound of birds singing in the trees that now line the river."
As local leaders across Europe try to offset the need to green their cities against worries about popular pushback, Madrid's success story is a lesson on how to strike the right balance — and push through major changes.
"The main thing you need is political conviction," José María Ortega, the city's general coordinator for urban development, said during a recent stroll along the river. Although the area's transformation has earned Madrid a bevy of international awards, "there was immense pressure on the mayor" during the construction process, he said.
The project cost some €4 billion, more or less equivalent to Madrid's annual revenue. "Not every city can afford to take on that debt, so it's important to be creative and find financing wherever possible," said Ortega.
But the success of the scheme shows that the short-term pain — whether financial or political — is worthwhile, he stressed.
"Madrileños tend to be very conservative and oppose any changes to the status quo," he said. "For a city to evolve you have to be ready to question the things everyone thinks are unchangeable and be prepared to do the things no one ever thought possible."
The Madrid Río complex — a lush riverside park that extends over 7.5 kilometers — has become one of the most popular spots in the Spanish capital, with pedestrians, joggers and cyclists sharing its verdant paths.
The contrast couldn't be greater to the early 2000s, when the area was dominated by the M-30 and the 250,000 vehicles that rumbled through on a daily basis.
When conservative politician Alberto Ruíz Gallardón pledged to bury the ring road as part of his bid to become Madrid mayor in 2003, many dismissed the scheme as an expensive folly and assumed it would be abandoned once he was elected.
But Gallardón pushed ahead, tasking a team of urbanists led by Ortega with carrying out the ambitious plans. Over the next eight years, engineers burrowed massive tunnels to reroute the M-30's traffic deep underground, a disruptive construction project that opposition politicians used to attack Gallardón.
Likening the mayor to a "pharaoh" obsessed with a self-aggrandizing project that would "ruin the city," Gallardón's political opponents organized public protests against the scheme.
In Brussels, left-wing Spanish MEPs reported the city to the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions for purportedly violating environmental standards on the building site. A related suit filed by environmental NGOs at the Court of Justice of the EU did not find Madrid to have committed any wrongdoing, but the ruling established that all future projects of that size had to be subject to more rigorous environmental impact studies.
Following the Manzanares' restoration, wild animals have returned to the river | Emilio Naranjo/EPA-EFE
The construction process also wasn't easy on local residents. "At certain points we had people working 24 hours a day, with jackhammering going on at all hours of the night," said Ortega, who recalled that one infuriated neighbor even went so far as to shoot at a construction worker with a BB gun. "There were a lot of upset people."
But despite the pressure, the team kept going.
Eliminating the M-30 entirely "was out of the question," said Ortega. So he had to "figure out a way to make it disappear, and to simultaneously recover the river as well."
The Manzanares river had become heavily polluted as a result of automotive runoff that would drip off the ring road and into the water. Biodiversity in the area took a hit as a result of a series of dams built along the river in the 1950s that made it impossible for native fauna to build their habitats.
Ortega and his team decided to lift those barriers and let the water flow freely.
"Leaving the dams open has meant going back to having a river that exists in winter and nearly vanishes in summer, but it's also meant allowing nature to come back to its waters," said José Luis Infanzón, Madrid's general director for public spaces who worked closely with Ortega.
"Almost as soon as we did that small islands began to develop in the riverbank, providing spaces where birds could nest," said Infanzón.
Soon, mallards, herons and egrets had built nests in the area; migrating wagtails, kingfishers and cormorants stopped off en route to Africa. The river is now also home to foxes and even endangered otters not seen in the Spanish capital since the 1950s.
The riverside park — which spreads over 120 hectares and creates a green belt around the city — has also attracted wildlife. Wild boar have been sighted using the park to make their way from the Monte del Pardo to the north (one of the best-preserved forests in the Mediterranean region) to the Lineal Park in the south.
Besides being a boon for urban biodiversity, the Manzanares' renewal has arguably made Madrid more prepared to deal with the effects of climate change.
In preparation for the extreme weather that is set to become more frequent in the decades ahead, the reengineered riverbank now has containers that can collect the excess water produced by 500 year flood events. "If a catastrophic event were to occur, we're now in a much more resilient position to handle it," Ortega said.
The sprawling Madrid Río park will also help the city adapt to higher temperatures.
Drawing inspiration from the hardscrabble trees that flourish on the granite mountains north of the city, Ortega's team designed the riverside park to allow for native species like pines to flourish, creating plenty of shade.
The team of urbanists installed a biodegradable grid making it possible to plant trees along the artificial riverbank | Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images
Transforming the space presented a major challenge, but proved that even the trickiest built-up areas can be greened. The artificial riverbank is not deep enough to support vertical tree roots because of the road beneath. So the team installed a biodegradable grid to force them to expand horizontally. "The roots are locked together to support the entire system," said Ortega.
But the dense tree cover will help cool the city and provides shade for residents during periods of extreme heat, said Infanzón.
"We have thermographic images that show how the tree-lined park acts as a corridor for cool air coming from the north," he said. "The up to 700,000 people that live in the immediate surroundings of the river can get relief here when temperatures rise."
Ortega added that turning the river into a place where Madrileños can once again congregate was helping heal a social division too. For decades, the M-30 separated the city's working-class districts in the west from central, more prosperous neighborhoods.
"This project is, in a lot of ways, one of unification," he said. "It's allowed the city to reconcile with nature, stitching communities back together."
This article is part of POLITICO's Global Policy Lab: Living Cities. Chapter 3 of the project is presented by Holcim. The article is produced with full editorial independence by POLITICO reporters and editors. Learn more about editorial content presented by outside advertisers. You can sign up for Living Cities here.
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In what is considered by some to be one of the greatest moments in sports, the underdog United States Olympic Hockey team beat the heavily favored USSR team 31 years ago today. The US went on to beat the Finns for the 1980 Olympic gold medal in hockey.
As every Olymp-o-phile, hockey fan, and resident of Lake Placid knows, it was here in Lake Placid that commentator Al Michaels asked viewers the question, "Do you believe in miracles?" branding the moment when the 1980 US hockey team beat the Soviet Union on their way to win one of the most famous Olympic gold medals ever collected.
The under-dog United States team's defeat of the Russians, the "Miracle on Ice," also spawned two movies. The re-creation of coach Herb Brooks locker room speech is now legendary in the realm of sports films.
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Kogi State's commissioner for water resources charged with rape and six other counts
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KOGI State's commissioner for water resources Abdulmumuni Danga is to appear before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a seven-count charge of rape following his alleged assault of one Elizabeth Oyeniyi earlier this year.
On March 29, Mr Danga was reported to have abducted Ms Oyeniyi, after she posted a comment about the commissioner's stepsister, who has been her friend for years, on Facebook. She was then raped several times and after the assault, Ms Oyeniyi, 23, showed her severely blistered arms and thighs,
In an interview she granted shortly after the incident, Ms Oyeniyi said that Mr Danga personally flogged her and could have killed her but for her young son who was with her. She said the commissioner then stripped her while at least 15 men, who worked for him, watched.
During the assault, the thugs filmed her nude as she was being whipped and humiliated. After the attack, Mr Danga drove her to a hotel close to the Kogi State House in Lokoja, the state capital, where he allegedly forcefully raped her three times overnight.
While Mr Danga denied the allegations, activists and human rights groups, including Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, mounted pressure on the police for an investigation. The group also called on the Kogi State government to sanction Mr Danga, forcing the state to promise to launch an investigation into the matter.
Now, five months afterwards, the police have instituted a criminal case against the commissioner after inviting all parties involved. Mr Danga appeared at the police headquarters in Abuja on June 2 and July 5 for interrogation, making statements during the two visits.
He has now been charged on seven counts, including rape, brutality, coercion and torture at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Judicial Division. Mr Danga is to be arraigned alongside one Success Omadivi, 35, who was also indicted in the course of investigation.
Other offences levelled against Mr Danga include falsification of documents and threatening a medical officer to forge a test result, having carnal knowledge of Ms Onyeniyi without her consent, inflicting physical injury and torture by flogging. All are contrary to multiple sections of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
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Today Marks the 10th Anniversary of Steve Jobs Unveiling the iPad
Monday January 27, 2020 12:00 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was one of the last major products that he unveiled before his death in 2011.
Jobs argued that there was room for a new device category between the smartphone and the laptop, but only if that device was superior at some tasks. He then introduced the iPad as exactly that, referring to it as a "magical and revolutionary device" for browsing the web, reading and sending email, viewing photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks, and more.
"iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price," said Jobs. "iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."
The original iPad featured a 9.7-inch display, a single-core Apple A4 processor, up to 64GB of storage, 256MB of RAM, an advertised 10 hours of battery life, Bluetooth 2.1, a 30-pin dock connector, and a headphone jack. Wi-Fi-only models started at $499 in the United States, while models with both Wi-Fi and 3G cellular connectivity started at $629. Notably, the original iPad lacked cameras.
At only 0.5 inches thick and weighing just 1.5 pounds, Apple said the iPad was thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook at the time.
Apple released the iPad on April 3, 2010 and, one day later, the company announced that it had already sold over 300,000 iPads. When unveiling the iPad 2 in March 2011, Jobs gave an update on this figure, revealing that Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads during its first nine months of availability.
Over the last decade, a new generation of the iPad has been released every year, with several new features and design changes along the way. We've recapped some of the bigger milestones in the device's history below:
March 2011 — iPad 2: 33% thinner, up to 15% lighter, dual-core Apple A5 processor, front and rear cameras, and new white color option
March 2012 — Third-generation iPad: Retina display, 4G LTE, Apple A5X processor, and 1080p video recording
October 2012 — Fourth-generation iPad: Lightning connector and Apple A6X processor
October 2012 — iPad mini: 7.9-inch display
October 2013 — iPad Air: 64-bit Apple A7 processor, 20% thinner and 28% lighter than the fourth-generation iPad, and slimmer bezels
October 2014 — iPad Air 2: Touch ID, fully-laminated Retina display, and Apple A8X processor
September 2015 — iPad Pro: 12.9-inch Retina display, Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard support, Apple A9X processor, and four speakers
March 2017 — Fifth-generation iPad: $329 starting price with 9.7-inch Retina display and Apple A9 processor
June 2017 — Second-generation iPad Pro: ProMotion refresh rate of up to 120Hz, Apple A10X Fusion chip, and slimmer bezels
March 2018 — Sixth-generation iPad: $329 starting price with Apple Pencil support and Apple A10 processor
October 2018 — Third-generation iPad Pro: Major redesign with slimmer bezels, Face ID, USB-C connector, Apple A12X Bionic processor, up to 1TB of storage, and second-generation Apple Pencil support
September 2019 — Seventh-generation iPad: 10.2-inch Retina display and full-sized Smart Keyboard support
Looking ahead, rumors suggest that Apple will refresh its iPad Pro lineup as early as March. A key new feature is expected to be a triple-lens rear camera system with advanced 3D sensing for augmented reality.
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I remember that everybody made fun of the name, saw memes of attachable magnifying glasses for your iPhone to turn it into an iPad and the general feeling of "why would you buy this, this is just a large iPhone you can't even call with".
And as always, Apple proved us all wrong and i love my iPad for exactly the reasons Steve Jobs had told us we would love it for.
That's vision!
calstanford
Still my favourite Apple device so far. Thank you Steve!!
I remember watching this keynote and feeling so sad at how frail Steve Jobs looked. But when he sat on that couch and demonstrated his latest brainchild, he seemed so content, calm, and full of life.
No doubt about it: Steve changed the world. ?
jcswim312
Can't believe it's already been 10 years!
I waited in line at the Apple Store in Boston to get that iPad
Even back then the apps were incredible! They have improved immensely since..
Wiesenlooser
Maybe it is just me but the development for the iPad is not as fast as I would have liked it to be. They really dropped the ball on software progress somewhere around the iPad Air / iPad Air 2 time.
Glad to see that it is getting better since the iPad Pro era, but so far they have fallen short on the future of computing promise.


For the first edition of DAMA Neumeister Bar-Am are happy to present a solo presentation with new works by painter Priscilla Tea (Italy, 1983).
Priscilla Tea has always worked from the same formal constraint, that of the landscape painting. Inspired in the mid noughties by the work of her peer, the artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis, especially that in the online virtual world 'Second Life', Tea set out to explore what a contemporary vista was. Since then her paintings have drawn on the ideology of the expansive, endless online space.
Huge paintings, up to 10 meters long, explore subtle gestures familiar to the screen, combining fragments of architecture and horizon lines. Painted with the best oil colours in fine brush strokes these works challenge the uninhabitable landscape of the online, bringing the essence into effect in a physical space.


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Q: javascript form selected name versus number I read Javascript selecting form elements using name attribute and from that have gotten the following form select working:
field_I_am_after: $(':input[name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]"]').val(),

BUT it delivers the "selected" class NUMBER - in this case "12" from a group of State id's in an Ubercart form as follows:
<select id="edit-panes-delivery-address-delivery-zone" name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]" class="form-select required">
 . . .  MORE . . .
    <option value="11">Armed Forces Pacific</option>
    <option value="12" selected="selected">California</option>
    <option value="13">Colorado</option>
     . . .  MORE . . .
</select>

I am trying to get the NAME for "selected" to go into / be the "field_I_am_after", that is i.e. => $(' . . . option:selected').val(),   or .text(),
I also reviewed Get selected text from a drop-down list (select box) using jQuery and tried most of what was suggested.  I am using JQuery 1.8 due to issues with ckeditor complaining about newer versions and not working with them
All the variants I tried to append this to my working statement have not worked
Can anyone see what have I done wrong - or incomplete ??

A: Try this:
field_i_am_after: $(':input[name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]"] option:selected').text()

The first part of the selector finds the <select> element, then drills down to option:selected to find the option that the user has chosen, and then uses .text() to get its text content rather than the value.

$(':input[name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]"]').change(function() {
  $("#output").text(
    $(':input[name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]"] option:selected ').text());
});

<select id="edit-panes-delivery-address-delivery-zone" name="panes[delivery][address][delivery_zone]" class="form-select required">
  <option value="11">Armed Forces Pacific</option>
  <option value="12" selected="selected">California</option>
  <option value="13">Colorado</option>
</select>

Chosen:

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Marz Community Brewing's new nonalcoholic beverages: bottled pink guava shrub soda, from left, canned Jungle Boogie coffee collaboration with Dark Matter, and draft violet lime seltzer, at the taproom in Bridgeport.
What started out as one Asian mom's neighborhood liquor store and bar has taken yet another evolutionary step.
Marz Brewing, the beer-making offshoot of the Bridgeport family of businesses that includes Maria's Packaged Goods and Community Bar and Polish-Korean restaurant Kimski, released its first nonalcoholic canned beverage Wednesday, a coffee in collaboration with Dark Matter Coffee. The Jungle Boogie coffee ($5 per can, $16 per four-pack) infuses rooibos herbal tea and fruity mosaic hops with a blend of coffee beans. It will inevitably be confused with the Marz pale wheat ale beer by the same name.
The canned coffee joins the first Marz bottled shrub soda ($4), the debut flavor a delicately effervescent pink guava, sage and peppercorn drink. The nonalcoholic beverage line will also include flavored seltzer and barrel-aged kombucha.
Kombucha is a fermented tea drink, which begins with a scoby, an acronym for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, sometimes called a mother, as a sourdough starter is also known.
"The mother's gigantic," said Marszewski about the Marz kombucha starter. "It's this giant disc, disgusting and beautiful.
"We're a destination brewery, so it's really important that we have other cool products for our customers who may be designated drivers or just aren't drinking," he added.
Marz bottles with Filbert's, the soda pop maker since 1926, famous for its root beer. Together they've made Maria's ginger beer for years.
A Bridgeport Coffee bagged beans collaboration is planned for release in three to four weeks. Four Letter Word coffee, which roasts at The Plant in Back of the Yards and just opened a cafe in Logan Square, is next.
The canned coffee and bottled shrub soda are available in a limited supply at the taproom, as well as the mother ship Maria's and Kimski next door.


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We roll out SPEAK's June 23rd release via our label and RED and attached is Hype Machine's tweet about SPEAK's Gates going #1 at hypem.
Listen and/download the song:
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Our Alternative radio campaign will begin next week. Early supporters are spinning in San Diego, Denver, Detroit and Des Moines.
BEST NEW TRACKS: SPEAK "GATES" by Calvin Paradise | 06/02/14
Austin quartet Speak have been getting rave reviews for their earliest of efforts and the best new track, "Gates," is sure to continue that.
Speak occupies the space between synth power pop and indie rock. While there's certainly an alt slant to their work, Speak uses the synth as just one part of a complicated song structure, whereas most of their peers use it as a sort of white noise to drench the whole song with. There's nothing wrong with either approach, but whatever Speak is doing, they need to keep on doing it, because "Gates" is another dynamite track. The wonderfully fluctuating vocals take center stage on this cut. Lead singer Troupe Gammage (yes, that's actually his name) displays a falsetto that sounds like a crisper, purer version of Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit. The hook here is beyond infectious and much to your pleasure will likely be stuck in your head till the end of the week.
Check the video
Here is SPEAK's new lyric video for their song,Gates
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Come join us for a grand celebration of SPEAK's debut EP, "Hear Here." The album will be available digitally,...
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Article explains the rationale for the digitization of social work heritage material and the virtualization of an archived nondigital museum exhibit constructed by a Scottish Museum of Social Work.
The project involved the "virtualization" of an existing social work museum exhibition on the migration of "Home Children" from Scotland to Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century and the digital preservation of historical assets (both text and images) held by the contemporary social care organization involved in the migration of the children.
Section of the DWP's website containing details of Sir David Henshaw's report on redesigning child maintenance, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill 2007 and the Government's 2006 White Paper, "A new system of child maintenance".
The report uses data collected on the separated adults to examine the circumstances of people who have a child maintenance interest, including parents with care (PWCs), non resident parents (NRPs) and those who do and do not use the Child Support Agency. This work was commissioned by DWP to inform the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill and the future planning and organisation of C-MEC.
Document reviewing the structure and past performance of the CSA and describing the' legacy' the CSA is leaving to its successor agency, the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.
Report on the child maintenance white paper, " A new system of child maintenance"
Document containing the UK Government's response to the fourth report of the Work and Pensions Select Committee : child support reform.
Read more about Report on the child maintenance white paper, " A new system of child maintenance"
Report on a new body to replace the existing Child Support Agency and make a clean break with the past.


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    change_table :spree_stock_movements do |t|
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Vaccination is an important strategy for preventing infections in patients with hematologic malignancies. Hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients have diminished immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases after transplantation. Optimal timing for initiating immunization in the context of hematologic malignancies and after HCT, however, is not well defined, and data on the magnitude and duration of immune response to vaccines in this population are lacking. Factors such as degree of immunosuppression, administration of monoclonal antibodies, time after HCT, and presence or absence of chronic graft-versus-host disease may influence the immune response to vaccines and may pose safety concerns for certain vaccines, such as live-attenuated immunogens. Patients who received certain monoclonal antibodies (eg, rituximab, alemtuzumab) less than 6 months before vaccination have poorer immune responses to vaccines. New advancements in vaccine development are warranted to improve safety and immunogenicity of vaccination in immunocompromised patients.


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import { CustomError } from '../errors/custom.error';

/**
 * Constant strings for the host types
 */
export const HostType = {
    WEB: 'WEB',
    ACCESS: 'ACCESS',
    EXCEL: 'EXCEL',
    ONENOTE: 'ONENOTE',
    OUTLOOK: 'OUTLOOK',
    POWERPOINT: 'POWERPOINT',
    PROJECT: 'PROJECT',
    WORD: 'WORD'
};

/**
 * Constant strings for the host platforms
 */
export const PlatformType = {
    IOS: 'IOS',
    MAC: 'MAC',
    OFFICE_ONLINE: 'OFFICE_ONLINE',
    PC: 'PC'
};

/*
* Retrieves host info using a workaround that utilizes the internals of the
* Office.js library. Such workarounds should be avoided, as they can lead to
* a break in behavior, if the internals are ever changed. In this case, however,
* Office.js will soon be delivering a new API to provide the host and platform
* information.
*/
function getHostInfo(): {
    host: 'WEB' | 'ACCESS' | 'EXCEL' | 'ONENOTE' | 'OUTLOOK' | 'POWERPOINT' | 'PROJECT' | 'WORD',
    platform: 'IOS' | 'MAC' | 'OFFICE_ONLINE' | 'PC'
} {
    // A forthcoming API (partially rolled-out) will expose the host and platform info natively
    // when queried from within an add-in.
    // If the platform already exposes that info, then just return it
    // (but only after massaging it to fit the return types expected by this function)

    const hasContext = window['Office'] && window['Office'].context;
    const context = hasContext ? window['Office'].context : {};

    if (context.host && context.platform) {
        return {
            host: convertHostValue(context.host),
            platform: convertPlatformValue(context.platform)
        };
    }

    return useHostInfoFallbackLogic() as any;
};

function useHostInfoFallbackLogic() {
    try {
        if (window.sessionStorage == null) {
            throw new Error(`Session Storage isn't supported`);
        }

        let hostInfoValue = window.sessionStorage['hostInfoValue'] as string;
        let [hostRaw, platformRaw, extras] = hostInfoValue.split('$');

        // Older hosts used "|", so check for that as well:
        if (extras == null) {
            [hostRaw, platformRaw] = hostInfoValue.split('|');
        }

        let host = hostRaw.toUpperCase() || 'WEB';
        let platform: string = null;

        if (Utilities.host !== HostType.WEB) {
            let platforms = {
                'IOS': PlatformType.IOS,
                'MAC': PlatformType.MAC,
                'WEB': PlatformType.OFFICE_ONLINE,
                'WIN32': PlatformType.PC
            };

            platform = platforms[platformRaw.toUpperCase()] || null;
        }

        return { host, platform };
    }
    catch (error) {
        return { host: 'WEB', platform: null };
    }
}

/** Convert the Office.context.host value to one of the Office JS Helpers constants. */
function convertHostValue(host: string) {
    const officeJsToHelperEnumMapping = {
        'Word': HostType.WORD,
        'Excel': HostType.EXCEL,
        'PowerPoint': HostType.POWERPOINT,
        'Outlook': HostType.OUTLOOK,
        'OneNote': HostType.ONENOTE,
        'Project': HostType.PROJECT,
        'Access': HostType.ACCESS
    };

    return officeJsToHelperEnumMapping[host] || null;
}

/** Convert the Office.context.platform value to one of the Office JS Helpers constants. */
function convertPlatformValue(platform: string) {
    const officeJsToHelperEnumMapping = {
        'PC': PlatformType.PC,
        'OfficeOnline': PlatformType.OFFICE_ONLINE,
        'Mac': PlatformType.MAC,
        'iOS': PlatformType.IOS
    };

    return officeJsToHelperEnumMapping[platform] || null;
}

/**
 * Helper exposing useful Utilities for Office-Add-ins.
 */
export class Utilities {
    /*
     * Returns the current host which is either the name of the application where the
     * Office Add-in is running ("EXCEL", "WORD", etc.) or simply "WEB" for all other platforms.
     * The property is always returned in ALL_CAPS.
     * Note that this property is guaranteed to return the correct value ONLY after Office has
     * initialized (i.e., inside, or sequentially after, an Office.initialize = function() { ... }; statement).
     *
     * This code currently uses a workaround that relies on the internals of Office.js.
     * A more robust approach is forthcoming within the official  Office.js library.
     * Once the new approach is released, this implementation will switch to using it
     * instead of the current workaround.
     */
    static get host(): string {
        return getHostInfo().host;
    }

    /*
    * Returns the host application's platform ("IOS", "MAC", "OFFICE_ONLINE", or "PC").
    * This is only valid for Office Add-ins, and hence returns null if the HostType is WEB.
    * The platform is in ALL-CAPS.
    * Note that this property is guaranteed to return the correct value ONLY after Office has
    * initialized (i.e., inside, or sequentially after, an Office.initialize = function() { ... }; statement).
    *
    * This code currently uses a workaround that relies on the internals of Office.js.
    * A more robust approach is forthcoming within the official  Office.js library.
    * Once the new approach is released, this implementation will switch to using it
    * instead of the current workaround.
    */
    static get platform(): string {
        return getHostInfo().platform;
    }

    /**
     * Utility to check if the code is running inside of an add-in.
     */
    static get isAddin() {
        return Utilities.host !== HostType.WEB;
    }

    /**
     * Utility to print prettified errors.
     * If multiple parameters are sent then it just logs them instead.
     */
    static log(exception: Error | CustomError | string, extras?: any, ...args) {
        if (!(extras == null)) {
            return console.log(exception, extras, ...args);
        }
        if (exception == null) {
            console.error(exception);
        }
        else if (typeof exception === 'string') {
            console.error(exception);
        }
        else {
            console.group(`${exception.name}: ${exception.message}`);
            {
                let innerException = exception;
                if (exception instanceof CustomError) {
                    innerException = exception.innerError;
                }
                if ((window as any).OfficeExtension && innerException instanceof OfficeExtension.Error) {
                    console.groupCollapsed('Debug Info');
                    console.error(innerException.debugInfo);
                    console.groupEnd();
                }
                {
                    console.groupCollapsed('Stack Trace');
                    console.error(exception.stack);
                    console.groupEnd();
                }
                {
                    console.groupCollapsed('Inner Error');
                    console.error(innerException);
                    console.groupEnd();
                }
            }
            console.groupEnd();
        }
    }
}


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All Y'Alls Foods Supports Texas's First Cattle Ranch Turned Vegan Sanctuary
By PR Newswire On Apr 8, 2022
The alternative proteins company promotes animal welfare through donations from plant-based product sales.
DALLAS, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — All Y'alls Foods, a plant-based foods company of jerky, snack, salad toppings and soon-to-be heat and eat options, donates a portion of every sale of their plant-based products to Rowdy Girl Sanctuary. The farm animal sanctuary, located in Waedler, Texas, cares for approximately 120 animals that would have gone to slaughter. All Y'all Foods donations go directly to the care and feeding of the cattle, goats, pigs, sheep and chickens that will live the rest of their natural lives at the sanctuary.
Caring for Animals through Plant-Based Proteins
Native Texan Brett Cristoffel founded All Y'All Foods when he learned that his home state was the nation's largest supplier of beef and he wanted to provide a kinder alternative. He started with three Texas-inspired flavors of the company's flagship product, It's Jerky Y'all: Black Pepper & Sea Salt, Prickly Pear Teriyaki, and Prickly Pear Chipotle. Later, he added It's Big Crunchy Bacony Bits Y'all which has scored #1 in Amazon's meatless bacon category.
For Brett, it wasn't enough to offer delicious plant-based snacks and foods that are better for people and the planet. He knew he wanted his company to help animals and landed on Rowdy Girl Sanctuary when he discovered that they had the largest herd of sanctuary cows in Texas. "I'm grateful for the opportunity to support the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in their mission to provide love and care to animals" said Brett, "They also assist other ranchers transition from animal agriculture to plant-based products through their rancher advocacy program. It's a win for everyone involved. It's the future."
Kinder Alternatives for All Y'all!
Increasingly consumers are choosing plant-based products due to concern for their health, the environment and animal welfare. Plant-based food retail sales grew in 2021, 6.2% over record growth in 2020, reaching a new high of $7.4 billion reports Plant Based Foods Association.
Furthermore, consumers choose brands that align with their values. According to a global study released by the Zeno group, consumers are four to six times more likely to purchase and protect a company that has a strong purpose. All Y'all Foods shows ongoing commitment to animal welfare by donating a portion of their proceeds to help rescued farm animals.
The founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, Renee King-Sonnen expressed her gratitude, "I'm just happy as I know how to be that Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is on the receiving end of such a passionate organization as All Y'alls Foods. Partnering with "It's Jerky Y'all" is the perfect fit because we used to raise livestock and sell them at auction. Now we can enjoy the jerky without the cow!"
All Y'alls Foods
All Y'alls Foods is based in Texas and founded in 2018 by Brett Christoffel to offer plant-based proteins to nourish customers, support animal welfare, and be kinder to the planet. All snacks are protein and fiber-packed, gluten and cholesterol-free, and made from whole non-GMO soybeans. Every bag is marked with the promise that a portion of all sales goes to helping rescued animals at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary.
For more information, please watch this video or visit www.AllYallsFoods.com. Connect with All Y'alls Foods on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
You can purchase All Y'alls Foods directly from the website, through Amazon.com, H-E-B grocery stores, and in natural, specialty, and vegan stores across the nation.
For more food and founder pictures, click here.
Contact: Ann Conrad, Media Relations
View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/all-yalls-foods-supports-texass-first-cattle-ranch-turned-vegan-sanctuary-301520949.html
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I can understand that Washington Post and other liberal media have now the golden opportunity to show the world who MBS truly is -as if reasonable people with a minimum sense of justice and fairness didn't already know. They can also get back at Trump with this; all understandable. All the details here about MBS's modus operandi as a rash mobster are helpful but let's not forget that Saudi was an illegitimate and evil medieval kingdom long before him, and it will remain so even if they can succeed in ousting him, as Erdogan-Qatar axis is playing this game very cleverly. The deceit they are working on these days is as if the source of evil in Saudi is only MBS -a line Khashoggi maintained after his split from MBS due to his Ikhwani leanings.
Let's also not make a "hero for democracy and freedom" out of Khashoggi either. He's a victim of the brutal, vicious MBS, in a long line of evil Saudis, including much celebrated Faisal, who was a dear to many Islamists because they were born out of his Muslim World League. He's a victim, he was oppressed; he was doing a great service to humanity by exposing the true face of a vicious man who was sold to the world as a reformer in a quite fake PR campaign. But it doesn't make anybody who criticizes MBS a hero for democracy or freedom.
We now know all the more about Khashoggi's dealings over decades as a regime insider, about his friendship with bin Ladin then, until he and Saudi dynasty split in the 90s, and about his recent affiliations with Turkish officials until his death, who are themselves perpetrators of many crimes against Turkish citizens. Besides, he was working for a regime that killed millions over decades in many Saudi funded or directed conflicts up until his split. I don't know if he made or expressed any self criticism about his involvement in those evil deeds. I wish and hope he did.
To be honest, we all know that if it weren't for this clever and elaborate strategy of Turkish regime with the intelligence leak and news management, as well as Khashoggi's affiliation with the Washington Post, and their common agenda to oust MBS -not that I don't support it-, the world would speak a lot less about him. After all, nobody is talking about the Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova as if her life matters less than that of Khashoggi.
The world and those media that pursue this matter in the US or in Turkey never spoke about any Saudi atrocities against Yemeni people in such concerned and concerted manner for many years while Saudis were perpetrating them. Saudi atrocities against Yemen didn't start with MBS for sure. Also, many of these ME pundits who are in this campaign today against him were complicit in Saudi atrocities because they were Saudi allies in "the jihad in Syria." They knowingly kept silent, or worse they joined the cover-up. I was closely observing how Turkish official channels, TRT and agency, AA, as well as all those proxy media literally reported NOTHING during the Saudi massacres in hospitals, kindergartens, etc. I can give you many examples from those "Sunni alliance" days.
It's only because a split occurred in this Sunni coalition between Saudi-UAE and Turkey-Qatar that they started reporting on Yemenis' plight, including Qatari regime's AlJazeera. Let's not talk about Khashoggi Affair as if we didn't know any of these, or the hypocrisy of those who try to make this the world's biggest issue while millions in Yemen never made it to their timeline or Twitter feeds until MBS kicked off his anti-Ikhwani campaign.
May Khashoggi rest in peace, receive justice for the brutal atrocity he was subjected to. And while we could see on this occasion how worse these evil regimes of the Middle East and Asia could get in their transnational banditry, mob-style governance, whether it is China, Russia, or Turkey, Egypt, let's take this moment to condemn all the transnational banditry categorically without pretending this started only with MBS or it takes place only in Saudi Arabia. This incident could have been a regular transnational abduction -a normal state of affairs for Turkey-, or execution -as Russia skillfully does in many places, including Turkey against Chechen dissidents-, if it weren't for MBS's stupidity and rashness that kept him from playing by the rules of this game.


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First thoughts, about time too………then BUT we've been here before. The Club's been up for sale and taken off the market several times before and in truth has always been for sale at the right price. This time feels like it might be for real though and fans should be excited at the thought of an owner who will be prepared to take the Club forward as a football project rather than using it as a billboard for their main business interest.
Whoever the new owners are, make no mistake it's still OUR club. Owners, Directors, Managers and players are all transient, the support remains as the constant.
What the Trust wants is an owner who will position the Club in the local community in a way that recognises that the fans, the City Council and the local MPs are not the enemy. That working together with our world class manager we can take the Club to the next level, and beyond. We don't want to accept mid table mediocrity as our goal, we want our team to win trophies, to compete at the highest level and to set standards of excellence that our support deserves.
We want owners who will engage with the fans in a meaningful way and will allow the fans voice to be heard at the highest level in a way that helps to influence Club policy. With a change of Government fans may get representation at Board level, new owners at Newcastle could take the opportunity to get ahead of the game and offer that without waiting for legislation to force the issue. We will want to make representation to any new owners about the benefits of committing to the principles of being a Community Club.
In the meantime we are watching with interest what happens. Mr Ashley has said previously that the Club was for sale, and then hasn't sold it. He's said he's here for the long haul and won't leave until we've won things, and now we're up for sale again. During his time the Club have been taken to Tribunals twice, lost both and been criticised for the quality of their evidence and they are currently under investigation by HMRC.
We understand that Mr Ashley's people are suggesting that a sale could happen by Christmas. Let's hope we are all looking forward to a fantastic new year in 2018.
NUST Board