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Everywhere these past few years, female haute horology aficionados have demanded more sophisticated ladies' watches in terms of complications, artisanal elements and aesthetic detail. The luxury watch industry listened, and responded.
Little Lange 1 Moon Phase
Taking the lead is A. Lange & Söhne, with its Little Lange 1 Moon Phase. The ideal option for women looking for a touch of femininity in a well-toned watch. This timepiece features an 18 kt rose gold case with a guilloché dial in silvery-white. In keeping with tradition, the watch follows A. Lange & Söhne's signature layout, with the hour and minute dial on the left, and the oversized Semper date and power reserve on the right. This model also boasts a stunning moon-phase indicator, with accuracy of up to 122.6 years, and which is paired with the seconds sub-register on the bottom right of the watch face. Sized at 36.8mm and driven by the Calibre L121.2, this is an exquisite piece for any female watch cognoscenti.
Lady-Datejust 28
The Rolex Lady-Datejust 28 in 904L stainless steel, meanwhile, with its alluring pink dial is the crowning companion for elegant daily wear. Just 28mm in diameter and fitted with Rolex's three-piece Oyster link bracelet, the watch sits gracefully on the wrist. However, once noticed, one cannot help but admire it's polished and satin-brushed all-steel design. Powered by the new generation self-winding Manufacture Calibre 2236, the watch offers superlative precision in its hour, minute, and seconds display, owing to its patented Syloxi hairspring. In addition, its instantaneous date, with rapid setting, can be viewed via Rolex's signature Cyclops lens at 3 o'clock. Regardless of the outfit you choose to pair this timepiece with, it's guaranteed to elevate your style.
Absent from the Cartier range for more than a decade, the Panthère de Cartier collection makes its triumphant return in 2017. Born in the 1980's, the Panthère de Cartier timepiece is one of the most distinctive Cartier designs and remains a contemporary favourite of the fashion set. Presented in a distinctive square-shaped steel case – measuring 27 mm x 37 mm and with a thickness of just 6mm – the elegant silvered dial is framed by a screw-down bezel in 18 kt yellow gold and boasts Cartier's iconic Roman numerals and railway track index. The crown, also in 18 kt yellow gold, is set with a synthetic blue spinel, complementing the blued-steel, sword-shaped hands. Flowing seamlessly from the case, the classic linked brick-lay bracelet in steel and 18 kt yellow gold is inset with a concealed folding clasp. Inside is a highly reliable, and accurate, quartz movement. The perfect wrist companion for the fashion savvy.
Claire de Rose
Tudor, like its newest ambassador, Lady Gaga, demonstrates its versatility with the reinvention of its Clair de Rose Collection, offering a polished, all-steel rounded case design and a winding crown adorned with a blue spinel cabochon. The opaline sunray dial, with or without diamonds, complements the crown's spinel with blued hands and blued Roman numerals. Imbued with a certain understated elegance, this watch offers a bold but graceful style which combines contemporary and classical as deftly as any of the world's haute horology favourites. Featuring a self-winding mechanical movement, it is available in three different sizes — 26mm, 30mm, or 34mm – and on steel bracelet with folding clasp or leather or fabric strap with buckle. In addition, at 100 m waterproof, this new collection is Born to Dare.
Reverso One Duetto
For both social and sophisticated occasions, Jaeger-LeCoultre offers the Reverso One Duetto Moon. Inspired by the Art Deco-style Reversos that made waves in the 1930s, the Reverso One Duetto Moon in 18 kt pink gold remains timeless thanks to its delicate design symmetry. The perfect combination of jewellery piece and timepiece, this instrument — sized at just 40.1mm high x 20mm in width — offers two faces: one, featuring a guilloché white dial with a sunray-brushed finish and Arabic numerals, framed in a simple rectangular case for social occasions; and the second, showcasing a maroon face with gilt hour markers and a mother-of-pearl moon phase indicator framed in a rectangular case with two rows of ~28 diamonds (~0.32 ct) for more stately occasions. This overall design is elevated by the addition of the bold red leather strap that complements the gold case's rose hue, making this watch a spectacular addition for any dignified circumstance.
Traditionelle Moon Phase
The attraction of the Vacheron Constantin Traditionelle Moon Phase Power Reserve, may be attributed to the asymmetrical moon phase at 8.30, or the opalescent white mother-of-pearl dial, or the 81 diamonds (~1.2 ct) set in the 36mm diameter round case, bezel, lugs and crown, or the solid 18 kt gold "Dauphine" hands and facetted hour markers. Perhaps it is the hand-wound calibre 1410, with its Hallmark of Geneva, seen rhythmically beating behind the sapphire crystal case back. Or the reassuring 40-hour power reserve at 10.30, letting you know that the moment of winding is not yet due. Whether it is the laws of physics or poetry drawing you to this elegant model, matched with its grey alligator strap, it is truly a timepiece that will appeal to feminine connoisseurs of fine craftsmanship.
Blancpain Villeret
Date Moonphase
Perfectly petite, the intricate Blancpain Villeret Date Moonphase is encapsulated in a 29.2mm diameter case — a remarkable feat considering its moon phase complication houses a disc with two complete 29.5-day lunar cycles. One of the oldest watchmakers in the world, Blancpain has been committed to creating supreme movements for ladies' watches for decades, and, with the Calibre 913QL, this instrument houses just that. Available in 18 kt red gold or stainless steel with a simple metal bezel or one set with a row of diamonds, plus a range of bracelets and straps, this model is an exemplary choice for those who take the heritage of haute horology seriously.
Reine De Naple
The Breguet Reine De Naples is, and always will be, a true icon of style. The 18 kt rose gold iteration featured here is bestowed with an attractive Tahitian mother-of-pearl dial and a diamond-set bezel for that added touch of elegance. A signature of the Reine De Naples collection, this oval-shaped timepiece features Breguet numerals that change in size as they wind around the chapter ring, which — rather than centrally located — is placed lower down on the watch face. In keeping with the off-centre style, the winding crown on this Breguet is found at 4 o'clock. Powered by the self-winding calibre 537/3, visible via a sapphire crystal caseback, this is a luxuriant objet d'art that tastefully marries the lines between horological instrument and haute joaillerie.
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Artist Tamara Reynolds asks "what does it mean to be Southern?" in her new photography exhibit, A Common Ground, currently on display in the Baldwin Photographic Gallery located inside the Bragg Media and Entertainment building.
The collection is a part of her Southern Route series, which has been featured on such media outlets as Review Santa Fe, Light, NYTimes Lens Blog and PBS News Hour. The series earned her an artist-in-residency through SlowExposures, a juried exhibition celebrating the photography of the rural south.
The College of Media and Entertainment will host a lecture by Reynolds on Feb. 22 beginning at 7 p.m. in Bragg 103. A reception will follow in the gallery.
Reynolds graduated with a BFA degree from MTSU and has been enjoying a successful career in commercial photography for the past 25 years. She is presently pursuing her MFA from Hartford University Photographic Low Residency Program. For more information on Tamara Reynold's photography, please click here.
The Baldwin Photographic Gallery is located on the second floor of the Bragg building. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


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Bentley Turbo R United Kingdom model of the F class. This car is presented with gasoline engine.
The most powerful version of the car has an engine 6.8 (404 hp) gasoline with a 4 gears. With this engine, the gasoline consumption is 21.4 liters per hundred kilometers in the city, on the highway – 14.7 liters. The capacity of the fuel tank is 108 liters.	Bentley Turbo R has a weight of 2800 kg. The car accelerates at 100 km / h for 5.9 seconds. The maximum speed for Bentley Turbo R is 250 km/h.	The gasoline engine, 8 cylinders, is located in front of the car.	The front suspension are independent suspensions. The rear suspension are independent suspensions.	The car has ventilated disc brakes on the front wheels and disc brakes at the rear.


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Category: American Rapture Government
Born-Again America and the White House
Church and State in America, a Toxic Cocktail
Some American Evangelical Christians see through President Donald Trump's pandering to the Christian right as an effort to win their votes. Others no. According to Wikipedia.com, the United States has the largest concentration of evangelicals in the world. The results of a recent PEW Research poll indicate that American evangelicals are a quarter of the nation's population and its single largest religious group. The results of the 2016 presidential election, according to a PEW poll, saw Trump winning 81% of the evangelical vote while just 16% voted for Clinton. Trump's margin of victory among voters in this group was 65-percentage-points.
These numbers also help to explain the importance of President Trump's iron-clad pro-Israeli agenda, perceived by Evangelical Christians as coinciding with the their own vision of the Biblical end-of-days story. They need a war in the Holy Land to jump-start the Apocalypse, which will in turn precipitate the Rapture. According to supposedly inerrant biblical prophesy, the Rapture will propel the born-again believers directly into Heaven. The President knows, despite his notoriously dissolute lifestyle, that he can count on their votes as long as he maintains his policy of harassing and provoking Iran, and supporting Israel's right-wing government's belicose policies. The militarist Likud party, personified in Israeli President Benjamin (aka Bibi) Netanyahu, is perceived by the uber-Christians the one most likely to take the world to Armageddon. This narrative isn't difficult for President Trump to accept, for two cogent reasons:
He doesn't believe in the Apocalypse any more than you and I do.
There are many millions of votes in it for him.
Besides, Trump and Netanyahu are cut from the same cloth. Both are ruthless and unscrupulous in pursuit of their own ends, no matter how illegitimate, immoral or illegal they may be, or what macabre consequences they may bring. Both of them see the rule of law–both domestic and international–as something that can be hammered into any shape they desire.
The latest news on President Trump's provocation of Iran, according to today's Wall Street Journal, is his "considering" a significant expansion of the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East to counter Iran, including dozens more ships, other military hardware and as many as 14,000 additional troops, thus doubling the number of U.S. military personnel since the troop buildup began last May. One wonders, have any of the Pentagon geniuses considered the possible repercussions in Saudi Arabia itself of a growing presence of American troops on sacred Arabian ground. This was the issue that propelled Osama bin Laden to worldwide fame.
Where Will Presidential Pandering Take the US?
President Trump's pandering to religious institutions dramatically lowers the level of political discourse in the United States. The constant rise of magical religious sects as one of the most powerful electoral blocs in the country. only enhances their appeal to cynical, opportunistic, dubiously-Christian candidates. This fact is not lost on Donald Trump and he bends over backwards–and forwards–to cater to the most radical Christian fundamentalist elements in American society. He actually tailors his Middle East foreign policy to their perceived needs. Concidentally, these "needs" for moving the Israeli capital to Jerusalem, condoning the ongoing establishment of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, and, ultimately, war in the region, have become President Trump's standard Middle East policy. In all it amounts to an exceedingly complicated–and dangerous–kettle of fish.
If the Evangelical strategy were to work, while they are being wafted into heaven, everybody in the non-born-again world, including President Trump himself, all the Jews and, incidently, you and I, will go straight to hell. I sincerely think I'm rendering this story line correctly. Though it sounds like the script of a B-rated sci-fi movie, they believe it, and President Trump believes that their votes will get him re-elected in 2020. Seen with a cold eye, it's a classic symbiotic relationship, like that of the shark and the remora, the little fish who cleans the parasites off the shark's teeth. The Evangelicals are using Trump and he's using them, despite the fact that they have nothing else in common. It's just not quite clear which of the two is the shark.
Beside their curious end-times beliefs, most of these born-again Christians subscribe to the standard right-wing cant: racism, nationalism, predatory capitalism, deregulation, rapture culture, anti-science stances, along with retrograde views of women and attitudes towards LGBGT people. They're essentially the classic American right with a theological twist.
Televangelism to the Front
A recent addition to President Trump's White House juju team as the new head of his Faith and Opportunity Initiative is his "longtime prayer partner," televangelist Paula White, also known as a successful practitioner of the Pentacostal "prosperity gospel." This shrewd "ministry" has netted her a private jet and a $3.5 million crib in Trump Tower in New York, among other goodies. According to thegospelcoalition.org, White, who delivered the invocation at Trump's presidential inauguration, claims to be the "convener and de facto head" of the president's evangelical advisory board. The group of about 35 evangelical pastors includes the four men who endorsed her latest book: Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham, Jack Graham, and Robert Jeffress. This is how christianitytoday.com describes the prosperity scam.
It is an aberrant theology that teaches God rewards faith—and hefty tithing—with financial blessings, the prosperity gospel was closely associated with prominent 1980s televangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Bakker, and is part and parcel of many of today's charismatic movements in the Global South. Orthodox Christians wary of prosperity doctrine found a friend in Senator Chuck Grassley, who in 2008 began a thorough vetting of the tax-exempt status of six prominent "health and wealth" leaders, including Kenneth Copeland, Bishop Eddie Long, and Paula White.
With her unabashedly sexy stage presence and mock-pious pitch, Paula comes across as an uniquely kinky con-woman. Her church -– which once boasted a membership of 20,000 people — declared bankruptcy in 2012. (Source: ministrywatch.com).
Perhaps You Would Like to Meet Her
The Constitution Speaks; Is Anyone Listening?
The first amendment to the US Constitution clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That should settle the question of separation of church and state but, as in everything else, particular interests can find a little wiggle room in any text.
That's how religion crept into the government during the second Bush administration. It was he who established by executive order on January 29, 2001, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) which, ostensibly sought to strengthen faith-based and community organizations and expand their capacity to provide federally funded social services. For fiscal year 2005, more than $2.2 billion in competitive social service grants were awarded to faith-based organizations. This pouring of federal funds into religious initiatives was promptly challenged by critics including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union. When President Obama assumed the office he changed the name of the OFBCI to President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, though he did not substantially change its functions. (Source: Wikipedia)
The phrase "separation of church and state" can be traced to a January 1, 1802, letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
It was the second President Bush's cozying up to the country's right-wing Christians, that eventually led up to–or down to–the appointment of Paula White as President Trump's spiritual advisor. Her otherwise routine presidential appointment had, according to thegospelcoalition.org, an immediate cruel and unusual sequel:
A day after the announcement was made, White's ministry emailed supporters under her name asking them to donate $3,600 to achieve "opportunity and favor" from God. As Nicola A. Menzie reports, the email states: "During this season something so supernatural will take place and it will literally shift your life in a very positive way, IF you have ears to hear and connect to the prophetic moment. Friend, YOU MUST STAY CONNECTED TO ME DURING THIS PROPHETIC SEASON!"
If this doesn't smack of conflict of interest, the Pope ain't a Catholic.
Pandering to the Religious Right Is Good Electoral Business
There is a campaign being promoted by Evangelicals to support President Trump on issues such as religious liberty exemptions for wedding vendors, who object to offering services for same-sex wedding ceremonies. The CS Monitor cites Attorney General Jeff Sessions as saying "We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore." This certainly sounds like a stalwart defense of government support for right-wing Christianity in America and adherence to their ideology. Coming from one of Trump's most accomplished sycophants, it also smacks of vote-stroking electoral opportunism.
The incursion of right-wing religion in the heart of American politics, whether motivated by over-zealous Christians in the government or by sheer electoral opportunism, represents just another crack in the edifice of normal democratic government. Normal government in today's world depends upon rational, reasonable criteria to permit it to function properly for all of its citizens, not magical thinking nor "biblical correctness." A right-wing Christian/Trump coalition would certainly lead to a loss of credibility with American allies, most of whom are guided by humane, rational criteria, with some notable exceptions, including President Trump's favorites: Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
With the Trump administration headed up by bible-thumping, Rapture-smitten politicians, aided by televangelist "religious advisors" like Paula White, the threat to separation between church and state–and democratic government as we know it–is evident. Included in the basic tenets of the Evangelical religión are a belief that the Bible contains the literal truth about everything, and the necessity of being "born again." The Pentacostal Evangelicals add to this the essential importance of the "gift of tongues." The obvious question that arises is: What happens when these strict theological principles clash with the Constitution of the United States, a clash that is inevitable? Are the citizens of the United States facing a critical turning point at which they must choose between their traditional a-religious government and a Taliban-style theocracy? The clock is running.
Author Michael BoothPosted on December 9, 2019 December 10, 2019 Categories America Gone Wrong, American End Game, American Evangelical Government, American Rapture Government, American Religious Sects, American Theocracy Threat, Americans' for Apocalypse, Government by Tele-Evangelists, Tele-Evangelist Powered America, UncategorizedTags America Follows Tele-Evangelists, Born-Again Government, Evangelical American Government, Evangelical Presidential Advisor, Tent Meeting Government, Trump/White Government2 Comments on Born-Again America and the White House

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The 2018 Corporate Governance Code - A New Era for Corporate Governance
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published the final 2018 edition of the Corporate Governance Code (the 2018 Code) and the associated Guidance on Board Effectiveness (the Guidance), along with a feedback statement which includes a detailed comparison between the previous 2016 Code, and the 2018 Code1 and a redline showing all of the changes between the consultation version of the Code, and the 2018 Code.
The 2018 Code will apply to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2019, with the first compliant Annual Reports due to be published in 2020. That said, the FRC has indicated that, during 2019, companies should comply with the new Provision 4 (i.e. the transparency requirements that will apply following a 20% or more vote against a board recommended shareholder resolution) and consider the impact of the 2018 Code and the Guidance on future remuneration policies.
Although much has remained the same as in the drafts published in December 2017 (for a copy of our client alert discussing these drafts, click here), the final versions of the 2018 Code and the Guidance do include some significant adjustments inspired by the 275 responses the FRC received to the consultation. The key changes are summarised below ( see, "The Final 2018 Code - The Key Changes").
Action for companies to take now
Although the draft Code and Guidance published in December will have given companies significant food for thought, the real activity will start now in preparing companies to comply with the 2018 Code.
Action to take now:
The Company Secretary and their team to familiarise themselves with the 2018 Code and the Guidance.2 Despite the FRC's claims that it has "shortened and sharpened the Code", companies will now need to refer to both the 2018 Code and the Guidance as a matter of course when looking at compliance so, overall, there is a lot more to be reading and thinking about. That said, the documents contain some thought provoking and useful information and questions for the board to be asking themselves, particularly in the Guidance.
Consider current succession plans and whether they need updating, particularly in light of the new provisions on length of tenure of the chair, and the greater focus on an expanded definition of diversity
Make a final decision on which of the three methods of workforce engagement, or a combination, to employ, how that is going to operate in practice, and the roadmap to getting it in place. In particular, consider how the individual and/or advisory panel appointed will be supported with appropriate infrastructure and processes to enable effective engagement. Compile a central list of all of the workforce engagement activities the company already undertakes and what the outcome of that engagement is. Consider whether, and how, this might be adapted and supplemented in light of the new requirements. Also, consider what the internal and external communications about this will look like, and strategies to engage if this has unexpected outcomes, for example, certain members of the workforce taking this as an opportunity to publicise personal grievances not relevant to the wider workforce.
Consider what the company's definition of "workforce" will be, and how that is justifiable.
Identify the company's key stakeholders (other than the workforce) and develop or consider supplementing the company's engagement strategy with those stakeholders.
Ensure the nomination committee and remuneration committee are familiar with their expanded roles, and provide any additional training or support they request, or may reasonably require. Consider what role HR, or other teams may play in assisting them with their expanded roles.
Consider what explanation the remuneration committee will be in a position to give in the 2019 Annual Report about how they have addressed the following factors in the company's executive director remuneration policy and practices: (i) clarity; (ii) simplicity; (iii) risk; (iv) predictability; (v) proportionality; and (vi) alignment to culture. This new disclosure requirement is likely to require some considered drafting and may influence the decision about whether the remuneration policy needs amending.
Think about the company culture. For those companies who have not yet articulated clearly, and embedded throughout the business, their set of values and culture, think about the steps the company needs to take to do this.
Consider whether the company should disclose early against any of the 2018 Code provisions, or at least set out thoughts on how the company intends to come into compliance. What is the investor / stakeholder expectation?
For smaller companies, prepare for annual re-election of directors and consider how to comply (or explain non-compliance) with requirement for at least half the board (excluding the chair) to be independent.
The FRC intends to publish consequential amendments to the Guidance on Audit Committees and the Guidance on Risk Management, Internal Controls and Related Financial Business Reporting (including possible amendments to the guidance on internal controls and viability statements in light of the collapse of Carillion). The FRC will also publish a consultation on revising the Stewardship Code before the end of the year.
Other things in the corporate governance pipeline which are yet to be published include: (i) new advice and guidance on the practical interpretation of the directors' duties in S172 of CA 2006 to be published by the GC100; (ii) a revised version of the 2014 FRC Guidance on the Strategic Report, including amendments to reflect the new requirement to include a separately identifiable statement in the Strategic Report describing how directors have had regard to the matters set out in S172(1) when performing their duties under S172, CA 2006. (for further on these developments and the new requirement to disclose the CEO pay ratio, click here); and (iii) the outcome of the consultation on strengthening corporate governance in pre-insolvency situations (for our client alert on this, click here).
The Final 2018 Code - The Key Changes
Section 1 - Leadership and Purpose
Wider stakeholders
Is there a real choice beyond one of the three listed methods for workforce engagement?
There was a mixed response from respondents to the new Provision 3 (now Provision 5), which set out the new requirements for companies to engage with the workforce, "normally" using one of the following three methods: (i) appointing a director from the workforce; (ii) establishing a formal workforce advisory panel; or (iii) designating a NED to do this. Although, in the feedback statement, the FRC acknowledges that many respondents were concerned that the proposed Code drafting (stating that engagement would "normally" be done by one of the listed methods) could have been interpreted as a requirement to use one of the listed methods, and states it recognises that "there may be other effective methods …which achieve such engagement", in the 2018 Code the amended wording seems more restrictive, not less. It now states that "one of a combination of the following methods should be used…", and that "if the board has not chosen one or more of those methods, it should explain what alternative arrangements are in place and why they are effective". Paragraph 55 of the Guidance does confirm that, provided the board's approach delivers meaningful, regular dialogue with the workforce and is explained effectively, the 2018 Code provision will be met. However, the initial reaction of respondents to the consultation draft, coupled with the tightened language in the Code, means that few companies, if any, companies are likely to be willing to propose an engagement mechanism that does not involve one or more of the listed methods.
The meaning of "workforce"?
Respondents were also concerned about the use of the broader term "workforce" in this context, and that it could lead to misinterpretation as it is not a defined term. The FRC has responded by including some commentary in the Guidance which confirms that the term "workforce" is used for Code purposes only and is not meant to align with legal definitions of workforce, employee, worker or similar. Paragraph 50 clarifies that it is for the company to decide who is included in the definition, and that they must explain who they have included, and why. Companies should include those with formal contracts of employment (permanent, fixed-term and zero-hours). Companies should also consider including other members of the workforce who are affected by the decisions of the board, for example those engaged under contracts of service, agency workers, and remote workers, regardless of their geographical location.
A reinterpretation of S172?
Principle A received robust criticism from respondents to the consultation on the basis that it reinterprets S172, CA 2006, because it, among other things, stated that the "function" of the company's board is to" promote the long term success of the company" and to "contribute to wider society", whereas S172 makes no reference to contributing to wider society and is broad enough to allow a director legitimately to take action based on short-term considerations if this is for the benefit of the company's members. Despite this criticism, Principle A remains in similar form, though the term "function" has been replaced with "role" and the FRC confirms in the feedback statement that "Nothing in this new Code overrides or is intended as an interpretation of the statutory statement of directors' duties in the Act."
Clarity on the meaning of significant votes against shareholder resolutions
In a welcome move, the FRC has clarified that the new reporting requirements associated with a significant vote against a shareholder resolution will apply when there is a vote of 20% or more (not "more than 20%" as per the previous draft) against a resolution that has been recommended by the board (the previous draft did not make a reference to a board recommendation).
The FRC has separated Principle D into two Principles (D and E), so that a new Principle E (in conjunction with Provision 6) deals with whistleblowing. It now states that, "the workforce should be able to raise any matters of concern", rather than the previous, narrower language which referred to "concerns relating to management and colleagues."
Section 2 - Division of Responsibilities
Board composition, independence and the nine year tenure rule
There was very little support among respondents for the proposed changes to the independence provisions, namely to: (i) remove the current discretion of the board to determine whether a board member is in fact independent, despite meeting one of the non-independence criteria; (ii) replace the current requirement for the chair to be independent on appointment only, to a requirement that the chair meet the independence criteria throughout his or her tenure; and (iii) by proposing that the chair would no longer be "independent on appointment" only, subject the chair to the "independence criteria" on a continuing basis, which would restrict tenure to nine years, on a "comply or explain" basis. These changes had a knock on impact, being an amended requirement for the majority of the board including the chair to be independent NEDs (rather than half the board excluding the chair).
The FRC has responded by making some concessions. It has reverted to a position that: (i) the board has a discretion to determine whether a director is in fact independent despite meeting one of the non-independence criteria, though it will expect to see greater detail when companies report on the exercise of that discretion; (ii) the chair must meet the independence criteria on appointment only; and (iii) at least half the board (excluding the chair) should be independent NEDs.
However, in a classic case of giving with one hand while taking away with the other, the FRC has clearly not given up its position on maximum tenure of the chair. It has now included a new Provision 193, which provides that the chair should not remain in post beyond nine years from the date of their first appointment to the board, though that period can be extended for a limited time to facilitate effective succession planning and the development of a diverse board, particularly where the chair was an existing NED on appointment. In such cases, a clear explanation must be given. This is a really significant additional Provision. Companies would usually prefer to comply with the Code rather than explain why they are not doing so, and media reports published after the December consultation speculated that this nine year tenure rule could impact over 60 FTSE 350 chairs, 19 of whom are chairs of FTSE 100 companies. It will be interesting to see whether market practice develops so that this becomes one of the least complied with provisions in the 2018 Code, or whether companies have to scramble to amend their succession plans for the chair.
Overboarding
The FRC has included new language in Provision 15 to deal with concerns regarding overboarding. The new language provides that the board should take account of other demands on the director's time when making board appointments and "significant commitments" should be disclosed, with an indication of the time involved, prior to appointment. The board should explain in the Annual Report why permission has been given for a director to take on a significant appointment (this term is left undefined and the FRC states that it will vary depending on the companies and roles involved).
Section 3 - Composition, succession and evaluation
Diversity in the boardroom and beyond
The FRC states that respondents were positive about the approach taken to diversity in Section 3 and therefore few changes have been made (other than one significant amendment already discussed, namely the inclusion of a new Provision 19 on the maximum tenure of a chair). The defined term "senior management"4 has been retained in its original form, despite some respondents calling for it to be expanded to match the Hampton Alexander report equivalent definition, which includes the first layer of management below the board and their direct reports. Notably, the 2018 Code does not refer to the recent gender pay gap reporting requirements (unlike the newly published consultation draft of the Wates Principles for Large Private Companies, which requires director and senior management remuneration to be set having regard to a considered assessment of the company's response to matters such as gender pay gap reporting). Instead, the FRC has dealt with this by including, in the Guidance, a recommended question for the board ("What are we doing to address gender pay gaps?") and recommended questions for the remuneration committee ("How do the company's pay policies address pay gaps and pay ratios between the different quartiles of the workforce?" and "What interaction have we had with the nomination committee regarding the structure of the workforce and the company's plans for reducing its gender pay gap?").
With respect to the two issues on which the FRC was specifically seeking respondents' views, the FRC has come to the view that: (i) the requirement for reporting on the gender balance of those in senior management and their direct reports should be extended beyond the FTSE 350; and (ii) a requirement to report on ethnicity levels in executive pipelines should not be included in the 2018 Code, but companies should be encouraged to think about providing more information about different aspects of diversity in their workforce, in addition to gender. This "encouragement" language has been included in paragraph 89 of the Guidance, which suggests that greater transparency might cover a range of aspects of diversity, including age, disability, ethnicity, education and social backgrounds, as well as gender.
Board evaluations
For all companies that conduct external board evaluations, there is a new requirement (in Provision 23) to report on "the nature and extent of an external evaluator's contact with the board and individual directors". This is because external evaluations can be limited to questionnaires only, and do not necessarily involve interviews with individual directors or attendance at board meetings. In the Guidance, there is a clear steer away from" questionnaire only" external evaluations. In paragraph 112, the FRC states, "Questionnaire-based external evaluations are unlikely to get underneath the dynamics in the boardroom".
Section 4 - Audit, risk and internal control
There was very little change to section 4 in the December version of the 2018 Code so, unsurprisingly, there has been little in the way of further amendment now. The FRC has decided to retain the duplication that exists with requirements of the Listing Rules and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. It has also decided to stick with the decision to move the requirement for a company to disclose its audit committee's terms of reference from the 2018 Code to the Guidance.
On the viability statement, no changes have been made now, but there are warning signs of possible changes on the horizon. Should the investigations into the collapse of Carillion warrant further amendments, the FRC has confirmed a further consultation will be undertaken.
Section 5 - Remuneration
Some concessions on the expanded role of the remuneration committee
Respondents to the consultation were particularly concerned about the significant expansion of the role of the remuneration committee, as provided for in the December version of the Code. That version stated that the remuneration committee should, "oversee remuneration and workforce policies and practices…" (Provision 33) and many respondents sought clarification as to what the expanded role would entail. The 2018 Code clarifies the position by amending Provision 33 so that the remuneration committee only has responsibility for reviewing the "workforce remuneration and related policies", and the Guidance then discusses this further. Two responsibilities that were assigned to the remuneration committee in the previous draft have been moved to the remit of the full board, namely the overarching responsibility for the "oversight of workforce policies and practices" (which now appears in Principle E), and monitoring the implementation of workforce policies and practices (which is now provided for in Provision 2, which includes requirement for the board to assess and monitor culture).
Despite criticism, the 2018 Code retains the requirement for the remuneration committee to set senior management pay, as well as board pay, on the basis that many remuneration committees are already doing this and the FRC considers it an appropriate part of the role.
Supporting executive remuneration that drives long-term sustainable performance
Having taken account of responses received on this topic, the FRC has:
removed the language in section 5 that could be perceived as encouraging LTIPs as it does not want to encourage one form of remuneration scheme over others;
included a requirement for the remuneration committee to develop a formal policy for post employment shareholding requirements, encompassing both unvested and vested shares (Provision 36);
clarified the expectation that executive pension schemes should be in line with those available to the rest of the workforce on the basis that there is no obvious rationale for executives to have more generous arrangements (Provision 38);
included requirements for the remuneration committee to: (i) ensure that a director's terms of appointment do not reward poor performance; and (ii) be robust in reducing compensation to reflect a departing director's obligation to mitigate loss;
included a new Annual Report requirement for remuneration committees to explain how they have addressed the following factors in their executive director remuneration policy and practices: (i) clarity; (ii) simplicity; (iii) risk; (iv) predictability; (v) proportionality; and (vi) alignment to culture (Provision 41).
The FRC has chosen not to amend Provision 37, which provides that remuneration schemes and policies should enable the use of discretion to override formulaic outcomes. This is despite respondents highlighting that employment contracts and scheme rules may prevent the exercise of discretion in practice, even where the remuneration policy provides for it. The FRC states in the feedback statement that remuneration committees have a responsibility to ensure that different elements of the framework interact in such a way that the intent of the remuneration policy is not undermined and remuneration committees should pay attention to this. A modified disclosure requirement in Provision 41 requires remuneration committees to disclose in the Annual Report the extent to which discretion has been applied to remuneration outcomes and the reasons why. The FRC states that it would expect this disclosure to include a description of anything which prevents the use of discretion where remuneration outcomes would otherwise have been adjusted.
Reinstatement of some of the current exemptions for smaller companies
In the consultation version of the 2018 Code, the FRC had removed all of the exemptions which applied to companies that fell below the FTSE 350, which included the following 2016 Code provisions: B.1.2 (board independence provisions); B.6.2 (board evaluation); B.7.1 (annual re-election of directors); and C.3.1 and D.2.1 (composition of the audit and remuneration committees).
In response to concern expressed by respondents that removal of all of the exemptions would mean that smaller companies may feel increasingly obliged to meet criteria which could prove unduly onerous for them, the FRC has:
reinstated the exemption for FTSE 350 companies in respect of the requirement to have an externally facilitated board evaluation at least every three years, but included language which encourages all chairs to consider the use of externally facilitated board evaluations (Provision 21 and paragraph 111 of the Guidance);
reverted to the current position which allows FTSE 350 companies' audit and remuneration committees to each have a minimum membership of at least two independent NEDs (Provisions 24 and 32, respectively). However, the FRC has maintained the position (set out in the December consultation) that, even for smaller firms, the chair of the board should not also be a member of the audit committee; and
removed the requirement for a nomination committee to have a minimum membership of three (Provision 17).
Smaller firms exemptions in respect of the requirements for: (i) the annual re-election of directors (Provision 18); and (ii) at least half the board, excluding the chair, to be independent NEDs (Provision 11), have not been retained in the 2018 Code so these rules will apply to all companies, including smaller firms.
[1] See page 29 onwards.
[2] Page 29 onwards of the feedback statement, which compares the 2016 and 2018 Code, should be helpful with this.
[3] This is included in Section 3 - Composition, Succession and Evaluation.
[4] This means the executive committee, or the first layer of management below board level, including the company secretary.
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Academy Nicholl Fellowships - 2014 - Questions & Answers
JoeBanks
Re: Academy Nicholl Fellowships - 2014 - Questions & Answers
Originally posted by Howie428 View Post
As an entrant into this year's contest, I find this news a bit disturbing. You're saying that from 7,511 entries you could only find four "promising new screenwriters-?
So 7,507 of the entries are no-hopers. That's bleak.
well, maybe only 7,500ish
but i think it speaks more to the challenge of writing a script that highly engages three QF judges, three more SF judges, and then the 14 finalist judges. finding one reader who loves any given script that much is hard enough as it is
Howie428
Originally posted by acquaformosa View Post
I guess my question to Howie428 would be . . . what has changed today on October 7th that you didn't already know when you submitted your script back in Mar/Apr/May? It's fairly common knowledge that QF totals are in the 200s . . . the Semis are in the low 100s . . . and then there's something like 10 Finalists before picking the Fellows.
The main change is that I would have expected them to be having a hard time deciding on the five winners. I would have expected that far more than five of the 7,511 would be valid and worthy winners, and that the judges would be pained by the need to pick just five.
It turns out however that they couldn't even find five.
That's either a comment on the entries, or it's a question mark on the process that selected the finalists, or I guess you could throw in the possibility that the committee had a big row and couldn't agree on a fifth choice.
Whatever the explanation, I think it's fair to point out that this is not an outcome I'd have expected.
Originally posted by JoeBanks View Post
By saying we need to impress all these people you're getting into a questionable feature of all popularity contests. If you have a best ice cream contest, plain vanilla always wins once the number of judges gets high enough.
A contest like Nicholl begins with the specificity of the first round judges, but the further you go the more judges are added. They make some allowance for this by dropping low scores, but ultimately it'll be tough to get through with a love it/hate it script.
anxt
Not sure about the vanilla ice cream analogy, but I would say that a universally-loved script deserves to win more than a "love it or hate it" script. Adding judges and scores lends credibility to the process, because it lessens the impact of a flukey score, and confirms the merit of scripts that receive consistently high scores.
LateNightWriter
I have to say, I agree with Howie on this. I would assume that the judges would find all 10 finalist scripts worthy of a fellowship and have to struggle to narrow it down to five.
I find it disheartening that out of the top 10 from 7,511 scripts they only felt four deserved the fellowship.
Late Night Writer
LighterD
I think one of the finalist scripts sold "Road to Oz" before the fellowship selection. So that may have been the fifth choice, maybe not.
"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.-- The Late Great Bill Hicks...
Originally posted by anxt View Post
Something "universally-loved" would be at the top, although I'd venture that to be loved a script probably needs an edge or an original aspect that wouldn't work for some people. The nature of popularity contests is that you're more likely to see things that are universally not-hated rise to the top.
tinlizzie
Originally posted by LighterD View Post
This - especially since most of the people who have read it seemed sure it would be one of the five. Maybe the sale took it out of the running and the judges simply decided not to substitute a second choice.
This happens all the time, though.
I believe the Nicholl's rules are that, if you sell a script during the competition, the deal can't close and you can't get paid until after the fellowships are awarded.
But there's only a tiny chance that a script which sold in September or October would have signed contracts before the early-November awards ceremony, and it would be a non issue for the legal departments in question to just stall for a couple of weeks if it was an issue.
I believe more than one of the fellows scripts were optioned or sold before the awards ceremony last year, but "sold" in Hollywood parlance generally means that the handshake has been struck, and that's it.
Very true. The year I was a Finalist (seems like light years now), a Finalist script was sold (by whatever definition that might mean), though we'll never know if that particular script might have gone to win a Fellowship.


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Q: How to prevent from "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" while linq selecting columns lists of latest records by grouping? Couldn't getting any records.Throwing an error :

An exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in
  DAL.dll but was not handled in user code Additional information:
  Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Considering the following records:
Id          No            createdDate    Extension
 --------------------------------------------------
   1           9000          1990           10
   2           9000          1990           11
   3           9000          2000           12
   4           9849          2001           1
   5           9849          2002           2
   6           9700          2010           4

var res = from cust in Customers
                      group cust by cust.No
                        into groups
                       select groups.OrderByDescending(p => p.Id).FirstOrDefault();

where as this same concept applying in Controller action methode like below.Then not getting any null error, getting records as per my requirement.
var result = from refC in _objRefCustomerBS.GetAllRefCustomer()
                         group refC by refC.MobileNo into grp
                         select grp.OrderByDescending(g => g.cuRefID).FirstOrDefault();

I want to group by based on the No field and sort by Id and get all fields from the last record of group similar to these records:
Id          No            createdDate    Extension
 -------------------------------------------------
   3           9000          2000           12
   5           9849          2002           2
   6           9700          2010           4

A: The only problem I see in your query is that you assign cust as the variable name for items in Customers but then you group element which I'm not even sure what is as it's not declared within the code snippet you provided.
So, fix the naming and you should be good to go:
var res = from cust in Customers
        group cust by cust.No
        into groups
        select groups.OrderByDescending(p => p.Id).FirstOrDefault();

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Q: Programmatically synchronize(camera-link) multiple intersection windows Ocean2013.1 provides a sample(WheelerViewer) for using cameras(OpenInventor features) for 3D Windows, but is it possible to synchronize(equivalent of clicking the camera link toolbar option) multiple intersection windows in Ocean/Petrel programmatically?

A: Camera linking is available as a Petrel feature but not as a Ocean API for developer to access programmatically

A: You need to be mode specific on what you are trying to synchronize and why.
The Window3D exposes enough camera API that one can write his own camera view synchronization.
If all you want is to be able to click the "Synchronize camera" button via API, it's a different issue. Why do you need this? Often users ask to be able to link all windows with one mouse button click. This, I believe, might be coming in 2015 as a user feature.


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Luxgen Car Models List
Luxgen Motor Co., Ltd. or more popularly known as Luxgen, is an automobile manufacturer from Taiwan. They are currently headquarted in Sanvi, Miaoli in Taiwan. They are actually a subsidiary of Yulon Motor, a bigger automaker. They were founded in the first quarter of 2009.
Their vehicles are designed in Taiwan but are manufactured in Hangzhou, China starting in 2010. Luxgen is popular for their slogan which is "Think Ahead".
The name was Luxgen is actually a compound name formed by "Luxury" and Genius".
Their first vehicle is the Luxgen7 MPV minivan. It was released to the public in August 19, 2009 and went on sale a month after. Their second vehicle is the Luxgen7 SUV which was released on June 4, 2010. These two vehicles are equipped with a 2.2 L I-4 MEFI turbocharged engine which was design and produced by China Motor Corporation and was tuned by Delphi.
The vehicles' turbocharger, on the other hand, was supplied by Garrett. It boosts the engine in up to 175 PS and 28kg-m of torque from a whopping 2500 to 4000 rpm. Their 5-speed AT came from Aisin. In 2014, the SUV and the MPV was given a slight change on their exterior and names. The MPV's name was changed to M7 while the SUV was changed to U7.
During the Taipei Auto Show in 2015, Luxgen released their V7 Turbo Eco Hyper. However, this car model is just an experimental concept. The V7 was actually an inspiration that came from the M7. Luxgen did a little change on the M7 exterior by lowering the tailgate and extending the roof.
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On the following Taipei Auto Show, Luxgen revealed a production version of the V7.
Luxgen released the 5 Sedan in 2011. This is the first ever self-developed car in Taiwan. It was released to the market in 2012. Before the launch of the Luxgen 5 Sedan, they released an electric concept car, the Luxgen Neora.
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Luxgen M7
The Luxgen M7 is a minivan produced by Luxgen, a Taiwanese automobile maker. It was first released in 2009 and still available today. It can carry seven passengers and is powered by a 2.2L Turbocharged I-4 engine.
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Straight out of Taiwan, the Luxgen S5 Turbo Eco Hyper sedan is the stuff of sedan dreams!
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Considered to be the first car produced in Taiwan, the Luxgen S5 takes pride of the country's engineering ingenuity by delivering only the finest and innovative features that a sedan should have. With an impressive engine under its hood and several nifty infotainment features integrated within, this is one ride that the country should definitely be proud of manufacturing.
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Also, the Luxgen S5 Turbo Eco Hyper sedan variant features both exterior and interior designs that are well-thought of and engineered with expert craftsmanship. The luxurious design, which should serve as a benchmark for cars produced from Taiwan, just means that we can all expect more from the country in the near future.
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Taiwan holds a plethora of motoring surprises. And with what may be one of the most exciting releases (especially when it comes to multi-purpose vehicles), the Luxgen V7 Turbo Eco Hyper fits the bill of a car that both looks good and performs exceptionally well.
A Convenient Ride
With space-saving solutions apparent in the Luxgen V7 Turbo Eco Hyper, this car offers a myriad of surprises that will address all sorts of riding and loading problems. Dynamic as it is, a built-in ramp allows easier access for the hood.
The Luxgen V7 Turbo Eco Hyper also offers a large line of safety features. With features such as a tire pressure detection system and electronic brake distribution, safety is assured for motorists, passengers, and even cargo!
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When the pandemic hit, many people retreated to their homes and started baking bread. Dick Schulze started hunting around for a business opportunity.
The billionaire founder of Best Buy, who is now 80 years old, homed in on the travel industry, which he saw "turned upside down," and figured there must be some good deals to be had.
"Cruise ships are being dry-docked all over, airplanes are being parked all over, hotels are being either shut down or closed all over," Schulze said on a recent sunny day in his office in Naples, Fla., where he now lives. "I said, 'There's got to be some value.'"
He found what he was looking for on the hard-to-reach island of Anguilla in the Caribbean — a 180-room luxury resort that needed some sprucing up after being damaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Last week, the rebranded Aurora Anguilla Resort & Golf Club had its grand reopening after Schulze had a hydroponic farm, a solar array and a desalination plant rebuilt. The golf course, which is also being reconstructed and expanded, will open in phases in the first half of next year.
Rooms start around $750 a night, suites around $1,000, villas around $3,000 and private residences around $4,600.
"I don't need the money," Schulze said. "It's the satisfaction you get from succeeding — taking something that's underperforming and turning it into something that performs."
Schulze remains chairman emeritus and the largest individual shareholder in Richfield-based Best Buy, which he started in 1966 and led until 2002. His nearly 10% stake is worth more than $2 billion.
Schulze admits he had never heard of Anguilla, which is a British overseas territory, and initially confused it with Antigua, a bigger and better-known destination that's also in the Lesser Antilles.
American Airlines this month began twice-weekly flights to Anguilla from Miami. But with no other direct flights from the U.S., and with many visitors often taking a ferry across from St. Martin, Schulze created a fleet of four 50-passenger planes to fly resort guests in from New York, Miami and Ft. Myers, Fla.
The flights are being operated through Best Jets International, a St. Paul-based private air charter and aircraft management company that Schulze has owned for many years.
Schulze began dabbling in the hotel space a couple years ago, when he bought the Westin Edina Galleria hotel after an old friend called him up and asked if he would be interested in it. Weeks later, the pandemic hit and sent occupancy at the hotel from 80% to 6%.
But with his deep pockets, the hotel came through the downturn and, according to Schulze, kept all of the staff on the payroll. He said that's what got the wheels turning in his head looking for other opportunities in the space.
In Anguilla, the resort's staff has nearly doubled to 580 under Schulze, he said. He's taken care to make sure that each part of the experience is top-notch down to the front-desk staff learning guests' names and groundskeepers greeting them.
"It's kind of my quest to see how different hospitality is from retail," Schulze said. "And I'm finding out that it's different. But it's still guest comes first. Just like it is in retail, where the customer comes first."
At age 26, Schulze opened a stereo shop in St. Paul called the Sound of Music, which he financed with his personal savings and by taking out a second mortgage on his family's home. From that humble beginning, he built Best Buy into one of the nation's largest sellers of consumer electronics.
As chairman emeritus, he has no official duties but stays in fairly regular contact with company executives. He has nothing but praise for Best Buy CEO Corie Barry and the rest of the management team.
"I think she's doing a great job," he said.
Schulze comes back to Minnesota several weeks out of the year. Many staff members of his foundation and family office work out of a building in Edina.
With a net worth of $4.5 billion, according to Forbes, Schulze has committed to giving a decent chunk of his wealth to charitable purposes. He has pledged to give $1 billion to his namesake foundation, and is about halfway to reaching that mark.
Every year, the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation gives tens of millions of dollars to groups in Minnesota and Florida in areas such as education, health and medicine, and social services.
When he visits, Schulze also usually meets with students and administrators at the University of St. Thomas, a school he initially enrolled in as a young man but ended up leaving to serve in the Air National Guard instead.
He donated $50 million to the school more than a decade ago to help set up the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship. That was important to him because he has often said that if he had gotten a college degree, he might have avoided many of the mistakes he made in his career.
Entrepreneurship is now the university's eighth-largest major. One-fourth of the undergraduates at St. Thomas take at least one entrepreneurship course.
"He always says to students that entrepreneurship is for people who want to take their destinies in their own hands," said Laura Dunham, associate dean of the Schulze School. "He's definitely somebody who has lived that."
The resort in Anguilla was built two decades ago by Leandro Rizzuto, founder of Conair Corp. and the Cuisinart brand. When he first visited, Schulze was smitten by the location and the beauty of the place. But he found its food to be "awful."
Food is a crucial part of the experience for him, so the resort has brought in a renowned chef and changed up the menus. The new restaurant at the golf course — a steakhouse — was named "D Richards" after Schulze.
Schulze is planning to get started on a waterpark next year, which will include a lazy river and giant water slides. He also wants to add courts for sand volleyball, pickleball, tennis, basketball and bocce ball.
His project list is much longer: a 500-seat stadium for live entertainment, an archery range, miniature golf course, rock-climbing walls, horse-riding and food trucks.
"Is it a little bit of Disney?" Schulze asked, unprompted. "Yeah, maybe a little bit of Disney. Only from the perspective of high-quality service and entertainment. If people just have fun when they get there, that's what makes me feel good. That's what I'm trying to do."
He hopes the resort will be so popular that it will need more rooms. With more than 300 acres, there is plenty of space to expand.
Taking risks since he opened that stereo shop in St. Paul, Schulze said he doesn't see the resort as one of his big bets.
"It's a slam dunk," he said.
Kavita Kumar writes about the economy, technology, and financial services for the Star Tribune. She previously covered retail, including Target, Best Buy, and Mall of America. She was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University from 2018-2019 and has also worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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There are rules time wanderers must follow: protect your name, never cross your own timeline, never mess with life. Kate forsakes them all for true love and sentences him to a fate worse than death.
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Kate's not surprised to run into another time traveler in Vagan's bar. There are dozens of planets with the technology. She's not surprised, either, that he doesn't recognize a fellow traveler at first. Her people were the first to move through the Stream, so she's more sensitive to the traces of the Time Stream that linger on its travelers. Vagan used to travel for her planet's Ministry of Timelines and his place is a popular place for those who know enough to know it exists.
What is surprising, though, is the familiarity that shoots through her when she watches him. She feels like she should know him, but she's never met him before. She would remember him if she had. She always remembers the handsome ones.
"Praxelli Delta," she says, straddling the stool next to the square-jawed, dark-haired man. If she squints she can see the tiny gills on the sides of his neck. His people crawled out of the water four centuries earlier and the gills are mostly for show. She'd stood on the beach with her father the day the Praxellis first walked on land. It had been her first driving lesson and she'd nearly crashed their ship. She has a soft spot for Praxellis. Perhaps that's why she feels drawn to him.
He chokes a little on his drink, a neon green concoction that smells like gasoline and papaya. She thumps his back twice. He coughs and the choking stops. Blue eyes, the same stormy blue of the oceans of Praxelli Delta, narrow in suspicion.
"How do you know that?"
She could point out his gills, but they're a sore subject with most Praxellis and she doesn't want to offend the only interesting person in the bar. "Your shirt. Praxelli cotton dyed with Frega berries. Early Amand period." She chews on her bottom lips and resists the urge to sniff his shirt to smell his detergent. She's been told that the sniffing is rude. "Upper Hagga Peninsula."
"Yes." His laughter is nervous, tinged with awe and worry. Something odd lingers, though. She can't put her finger on it. He doesn't give her a chance. "You're very good."
She blushes, an odd sensation fluttering in her stomach. "Thank you." She signals the bartender, a young, green-skinned woman whose name she can never remember, and orders two of the neon green drinks.
"Are you from here?" he asks, swallowing the last of his cocktail.
She grins. No one is actually from Croax. Not that anyone admits, at least. She can't blame him for getting it wrong, though. Her people don't travel like they used to and they don't associate with other travelers. They travel out of necessity and duty. Never out of pleasure.
She's always been a rebel.
"Guess again." She holds out her hand so that the pale gold of her skin, a hue reminiscent of raw Stream energy, shimmers in the overhead light. She's glad her ponytail's come loose so that it hides the slight point on the tops of her ears. The ears are a dead giveaway.
"Belfinni?"
"Nope."
"Ship, planet, or colony?"
"Planet. Prime planet."
He nods, sips his new drink and considers. "Olla Prime."
It's close. Only a galaxy away. She takes pity on him. Not enough to tell him where she's from, that would inevitably change the tone of their conversation, but enough so they can move on. "Near there. Good guess. Heading out or heading home?"
Asking the question gives nothing away. He is nearly a millennia out of time and a light year from Praxelli Delta. Either he's heading on a trip or has just finished one. She doesn't have to tell him that she can see, taste, the Stream on him.
"Heading home. I was on Jacarda Beta. 443rd Century."
It's a good time. Nothing especially momentous happens that century, but it's a beautiful planet. "Not the 444th?" There are assassinations and the start of a two century civil war in the 444th Century. That's when most people choose to visit Jacarda Beta.
"I'm not a ghoul."
They talk about where they've been. His name is Braxil and he's not one of those travelers she hates: the ones who only go to the big events and skip the rest of history. He doesn't take the canned tours or try to insert himself in events. He's an observer of cultures. A historian-slash-anthropologist. She can appreciate that.
She tells him her traveling name. There is no power to it. The threads of time won't unravel if he tells it to the wrong person at the wrong moment. He calls her Kate, rolls it around on his tongue, and smiles as if she's given him a gift. Wisdom lurks in his warm gaze, but he blinks and its gone before she can mention it.
Hours later, Vagan kicks them out of the bar. She lets Braxil walk her to her ship, surreptitiously activates the filter that will keep him from seeing the Ministry seal on the side of the gray hulk. She can't help but stare at his lips, wondering what he'd taste like, when he says goodbye.
She makes a split-second decision. Either she can let him walk away and pray they bump into each other along the way, or she can make certain it happens again. She's never been one to leave things to chance. She reaches for the timepiece on his wrist and fiddles with the dials. It's a fancy unit. It can lock on to a specific date no matter how often a person slips in and out of the Stream. Her great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather patented the design.
"Thirty cycles from today. Meet me here."
Stunned, he nods. She darts forward and kisses his cheek before disappearing inside her ship. Through the camera, she watches him cup his cheek and grin. Butterflies swell in her stomach as she sets her own wrist unit.
It's tempting to slip inside the Stream and simply pop back in the bar thirty cycles later without a second passing. That's rather boring, though. Besides, there's the sunset on Urali she's been meaning to see.
Thirty cycles later, he's waiting for her in the parking lot of Vagan's bar. His hair is a bit longer and there's a fine layer of scruff on his strong jaw. He's still wearing Praxelli clothes, though. She makes a mental note to teach him about blending in.
"How long?" she asks after they place their drink orders.
"Fifteen cycles."
She grins. That's the beauty of time travel. "Same," she lies. It was more like five but there's no need to seem overeager.
She takes him to the sunset on Urali. Not in her ship, but with her words. She tells him how it felt with her legs dangling off the great cliffs and the breeze in her hair and no one around for two planets. Urali was best experienced before the first colonization attempt. The twinkle in his eyes is a clear indication that Urali is on his list of future destinations.
He tells her about his trip to Loka during the period after the Great Sickness. Trained as a medic, he'd helped in one of the hospitals. She wants to chide him for intervening, but caring for survivors isn't a major crime. Besides, she's bound wounds once or twice during a war, and she is many things but she's not a hypocrite.
"Are you from Hfran?" he asks when they've caught each other up on their travels.
She laughs and shakes her head. It becomes a routine. Every thirty cycles they meet at Vagan's, talk about their trips, and he asks where she's from. He never guesses correctly, and she never gives him a straight answer. If he's frustrated by it, it doesn't show. He seems to make more of a game out of it than anything else.
"Did you know," he starts, nudging her arm with his shoulder. It is their seventh meeting and they've migrated from the bar to a private booth in a corner of the bar. "Did you know there is a fairytale on Llona that reminds me of you?"
She freezes with her drink halfway to her mouth. She hasn't been to Llona since she was young and stupid and interfering. She covers her surprise quickly and gulps her drink. "They sure love their fairytales, don't they? Have you heard the one about the people with two hearts – one made of crystal and one made of granite? It's supposed to be a metaphor about hearts breaking and growing cold."
"No, this one was about a girl who swallowed a sun."
That's just ridiculous. No one can actually swallow a sun. Besides, what she'd done hadn't been all that impressive. She'd simply fired a blast from her… not the point. "What about the story about the giant with four legs and three arms who carved out the Valley of Stars? That's my favorite, though it's never told the same. Some people say that he had five eyes and some say he was blind."
"I thought he was supposed to have had five legs and two arms."
"No, no it was definitely four legs. See, each of the valleys between the Remi Mountains is supposed to be a footprint."
They debate the myth for the rest of the evening. He doesn't bring up the other fairytale again. She feels a pang of guilt over manipulating him. She likes him, likes him more than anyone she's ever met before, but she can't forget who she is. Can't forget decades of lessons and responsibility.
"You should go to Fleur," she says as they walk hand-in-hand to her ship. "Time it for the Killa blossom harvest. You won't regret it."
It isn't until she's navigating her ship through the Stream that she realizes her mistake. The harvest is one of her favorite events. She hadn't given him a specific year, so there's a very good chance he will run into a future or past version of herself. She crosses her fingers and prays it's a future version. There are past versions she doesn't want anyone to meet.
Braxil misses their next meeting. She sits in their booth and drinks her weight in Venusian rum. Vagan's pitying looks do little for the anger and worry swirling in her stomach like a hurricane. After closing time, she sleeps in her ship in the parking lot just in case. He doesn't show.
She checks her memory for an altered timeline but there's nothing. She doesn't recall running into Braxil in the past. That doesn't mean he didn't see her – she had been fairly unobservant for a number of years – but nothing stands out.
Worry trumps common sense. He's touched her ship so his signature is already in her database. It only takes a few keystrokes to lock on to the location of the signature that most closely matches the one in her database. It is a misuse of resources, but she dares one of the elders to come after her. They wouldn't risk her father's wrath. Or, given how her reputation has grown, hers.
He is on Edda Prime. It's a planet known for its bars, whorehouses, and boxing clubs. Not the sort of place she ever expected Braxil the healer to frequent. There is a moment of worry at how easy it was to locate his signature, but she brushes it off. Her ship is one of the best, after all.
She finds him in one of the seedier boxing clubs getting his face pounded in by a two-headed behemoth in a loincloth. She watches for only a second. He is a bloody mess, but he's still standing. The rules of the fight were that if you're standing you're fair game. She ignores the hands grasping for her and lightly leaps over the barrier separating spectators from participants.
"Hello, there," she says to the behemoth, voice mild but eyes flat. "I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ask you to stop beating my friend into a pulp."
"He signed the waiver," the behemoth grinds out, blood-spattered fists rising.
"Yeah, well he's from Praxelli. They're thick like that." She grins, an ugly grin that is all teeth and menace, and balls her fists. "If you're keen on finishing this brawl, I'll be happy to oblige."
"You? Little girls don't fight."
Booming laughter makes the ground shake. The crowd boos and hisses. She rolls her shoulders. It must look odd, a slim, blonde woman in a short skirt and delicate blouse squaring off against a man the size of a boulder. She's not worried about losing. She's not brawny but she's smart.
"Excuse me, I couldn't help but notice that your eyes are a striking shade of vermilion. Are you from Yvalta?"
Befuddled, the behemoth drops his fists and nods. She laughs. "Perfect." Two sharp jabs later the behemoth is curled in a tight ball in the center of the boxing ring crying like a hungry newborn. She'd learned ages earlier that she didn't have to be the biggest thing on the battlefield as long as she knew her opponent's weakness.
She slings one of Braxil's arms across her shoulders and staggers out of the boxing club. Anyone who tries to stop them takes one look at the fierce expression on her face and backs away. There is a med bay on her ship but it's not set up to care for anyone but her people. Nothing there would help Braxil.
She tries to ask him where his ship is, but he's too far gone to answer. She finds it behind a whorehouse. The keys are in the pocket of his blood-stained, ripped pants. Her cheeks are bright red by the time she retrieves them.
His ship is smaller but neat. The bottle of liquor near the console is cause for concern, but she'll bring it up once he's not bleeding all over her favorite blouse. Her feet take her to a door with a red cross painted on the dark metal. The med bay is as orderly as she expects from a medic. She helps him onto a cot with a thin mattress and stuffs a pillow under his head.
"I'm not much of a healer. You're going to have to help me."
His words are slurred, but he gives easy-to-understand directions. She cleans and bandages his scrapes and rubs salve into his bruises. He doesn't mention pain medication, but she knows he has to be hurting. She finds a bottle she recognizes as a sedative, fills a syringe, and shoots the pale liquid into his veins. His eyes flash with betrayal before they slip shut. She sits with him for an hour, his cold, limp hand clutched between hers.
While he sleeps, she cleans up the med bay and leaves. She takes every drop of liquor in the ship. Something tells her that she doesn't want to be in the ship when he wakes. She doesn't want to know what drove a man like Braxil to booze and brawling.
She skips ahead to their next meeting at Vagan's bar. He is already in their booth. There are no traces of his wounds. His expression is carefully neutral, though, and she knows the storm hasn't passed.
"You weren't there when I woke."
"No." She crosses her legs, wished she'd worn pants rather than the fluttery, feminine skirt. She'd started dressing up for their dates, but now she regrets it. She should have dressed for a fight.
"I thought I had imagined it all, but I could smell your perfume. What happened?"
"You won. I helped you to your ship, cleaned you up. Friend stuff."
"Friend stuff," he repeats.
He inhales sharply. She fears he's going to make a big deal about it – demand to know what really happened at the club and why she left. To her surprise, he exhales and his shoulders slump. "Why were you there?"
"You missed our meeting." She shrugs with an indifference she doesn't feel. "I was worried."
This is new ground for them. They've carefully avoided talk about feelings and their relationship. She's admitting concern, opening herself up for ridicule and heartbreak.
His eyes soften. "I'm sorry. There were some things I needed to work through."
Her heart trips. She reaches out across the table and wriggles her fingers. The slide of his skin against hers sends a shiver down her spine. "Is there anything I can help with?"
"No. I just need time."
Her lips curve in a wry smile. "I'm good with time."
He doesn't let go of her hand until they're at her ship. The metal of her ship is cold against her back, but his lips are firm against hers. She sinks into his arms and buries her fingers in that impossibly thick, dark hair. Fire zips through her veins. It's like diving into the Stream without a ship or shields.
"Don't make me worry again," she murmurs against the salty skin of his neck. "I don't like it."
His chuckle rumbles under her ear. Long fingers stroke up and down her spine. Her knees wobble and for a moment the timelines scatter.
"I promise."
She doesn't invite him into her ship. It's tempting, and she thinks she loves him when he doesn't ask. There are secrets inside her vessel that cannot be seen by outsiders. Even outsiders she's utterly smitten with. She's a rebel, but she's not reckless. Her people have always been guardians. That sense of duty runs deep in the marrow.
The next visit, they sit side-by-side in the booth. His arm is around her waist and lips gravitate towards hers every few seconds. His kisses are heady like a drug.
"Have you been to the Erk fields on Iola?" she asks, head fogged from too many kisses and the scent of Braxil's skin.
"The flowers are a mild opiate. They're gorgeous, too. You can lay in the field and after the suns set the stars come out. You feel like they're so close you can touch them."
"Let's go."
She can't. She's banned from Iola. Topple one ruthless dictator and then insult the new government and suddenly you're persona non grata. The denizens of Iola aren't known for their gratitude.
"Nah. I'd rather be here with you."
Once her head has cleared and she's back in the Stream, she realizes that he didn't ask where she was from. He hadn't asked the last visit, either. Vertigo slams into her like a train and bile burns the back of her throat. Oh.
She skips ahead to the next visit. She has to see what he knows. She trusts him not to run his mouth, but there are elders who would see him as a threat. She could take him home, but he'd be a prisoner. It would be a gilded cage and they'd be together for the rest of his life, but it would still be a prison.
"You know where I'm from," she says before they've ordered their drinks.
He nods once. He doesn't offer an explanation. She doesn't want one. She doesn't want to know how she gave it away or how he figured it out. It won't change the end result.
"You can't tell anyone. Ever. You can't say a word about knowing me."
"Kate," he says, amusement lingering in his tone, "all I know is that you are a traveler who likes sunsets and fried traligin strips."
She's grateful that he isn't running for the hills. Not everyone views her people as benevolent guardians. Some see them as monsters, as manipulators. The truth is somewhere in between.
She slips a bracelet from her wrist onto his wrist. The dark metal is flat but sturdy and disguises a wealth of technology. It will hide his signature with the press of a button, set up a filter so that he blends in wherever or whenever he happens to be, and protect his memories from alteration, even in the rare event of a time loop. It's the closest thing her people have to an engagement ring. He must understand the significance, though she's not sure how he could, because he carries her off to his ship. They spend the night in the parking lot.
Five visits later, she considers asking him to go with her to Gregan Minor for their Summer Festival. She's ready to screw the rules and abandon her duty. They could spend the rest of time hopping from one planet and time to the next. There is so much beauty she longs to show him. So much of the universe she wants to share.
He is waiting for her next to her usual parking spot. His eyes are dark and his expression is grim. His kisses are a shade too needy. "Brax?" she asks, worry settling in her stomach like a stone, "what's wrong?"
The communicator on her wrist unit beeps. "You should read that," he advises, voice rough with emotion.
Horror blossoms in her chest as she reads the message from her father. Her mouth is dry and her heart aches. It is her worst nightmare. Her planet's worst nightmare. Responsibility settles on her shoulders like a death shroud.
"Someone on Cronus IV set off a Travilian Time Loop. If it goes off, everyone for four systems will be stuck in a loop. There's no way of knowing how far back and forward in time it could reach." She licks her lips, lifts tear-glazed eyes to his. "I'm the closest. I have to try and diffuse it."
Braxil nods. He presses his lips to her forehead. She wants to tell him that there's a ninety-five percent chance she'll fail. She's crap at time loops. Failed the class twice before she convinced Maggie Revana to let her cheat off her tests. If the shockwave doesn't kill her, she and everyone in the blast radius will be stuck reliving the past until someone comes along to stop the loop. It's more likely, though, they'll be stuck reliving it for eternity. She can't speak through the lump in her throat.
Her legs are like lead as she turns back to her ship. She can't ask him to go with her. It's too dangerous, though she'd love to have his hand to hold while the world fell apart. She loves him so much it hurts.
"Ekatyalina," she says. It is the name her parents gave her. The one she's supposed to guard along with a thousand other secrets. Her name has the power to shatter worlds, to make the Stream bend. She gives it to him freely. It's the greatest gift she can ever give.
"I love you, Ekatyalina."
Tears streaming down her face, she blows a kiss and darts inside the ship before she can change her mind. Trying to stop the Travilian Time Loop is futile, but she has to try. She's not one to let a bomb explode without at least attempting to stop it.
She is too late, of course. The timer is counting down and she has a handful of wires and no idea what she's supposed to do. She cuts one. Nothing happens. Cutting another makes the timer speed up. Her palms are wet with sweat and her cheeks are stained with tears. She murmurs a quiet goodbye to Braxil as the world around her goes white.
In a parking lot on Croax, a tall, dark-haired man glances down at the bracelet on his wrist. He pulls out three more from his pocket and sighs. There are twelve other bracelets in his ship. He's tried to stop it. After the second loop, he'd told her about what was going to happen and clamped the bracelet around her wrist before she'd left. She'd explained, when he'd asked during the fourth loop, that being too close to the blast radius would short out the technology. He's tried finding a past version of her and having her send a warning to her people, but that person on the planet hadn't been his Kate. He's taken off his bracelet and hidden the others on a planet, but, as she'd explained later, some technology can be absorbed into the skin and he has too many bracelets.
No matter what he tries, everything loops back around to him in the bar with the woman he adores introducing herself. He thinks that this time he won't wait so long to kiss her and maybe he'll kidnap her and force her to go to those fields on Iola. With a sigh, he walks back to the bar. The world around him goes white.
Braxil sips his cocktail. It's vile but it's high octane, which is precisely why he drinks it. He glances up, heart heavy, when a gorgeous, golden-skin woman straddles the stool beside him. He knows what she's going to say before she says it.
"Praxelli Delta."
He chokes on his drink to give himself time to recover from her nearness. There is so much he wants to say. He wants to pull her into his arms and kiss her until she can't breathe. Her hand slams against his back. Damn, she's strong. He forgets about those two hard thumps every time. His back and ribs ache.
"Your shirt. Praxelli cotton dyed with Frega berries. Early Amand period."
He flirts. Plays a guessing game about where she's from. Tells her his name. He has to hide a knowing smile when she gives her name as Kate. He lets her set his unit and promises to meet her in thirty cycles. She kisses his cheek, but it's not enough. He stands and watches her ship leave. He fingers the bracelets in his pocket.
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