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Tales from the Hills & Hollers of West Virginia Spun by a Modern Day Mountain Man - Chris Ellis
"Once we arrived at his garden, I was set free to run and chase grasshoppers or frogs done near the pond while he got his chores done in the tidy little rows of tilled earth. Occasionally, he would look up and whistle and, like a groundhog, I would lift my head high in the field so he could see me and would know I was okay." -- from Pop's Garden
I've known Chris Ellis for nearly a quarter-century, dating back to when he was a rangy young man living not too far from Beckley, West Virginia and the New River Gorge. He was raised on the banks of the Elk River. While his work in outdoor communications and promotions over the years has taken him all over North America, he stays true to his West Virginia home and roots.
Ellis is an accomplished trout angler, a skilled river raft driver, an enthusiastic squirrel, turkey and deer hunter. In fact, he was one of the wonderful West Virginia crew in 2004 who helped when we put together a deer hunt for the first wounded warrior ever to take such an adventure directly out of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He has run his own outdoor destinations and guiding business, working with the West Virginia tourism office on outdoor destination marketing, worked public relations and marketing from some well-known outdoor brands and is now the marketing chief for Timney Triggers. During much of that time he has also written regular articles for the Herald Dispatch in Huntington and the Register-Herald in Beckley.
Last fall, Ellis told me he was compiling a book of some of his favorite stories and memories of growing up and living in the Mountain State. It's out and titled, "Hunting, Fishing and Family – From the Hills of West Virginia." All of the articles were originally published in the two newspapers cited above.
If you read this book, you'll learn a lot about Chris Ellis; his home, his passions, his values. It isn't a single, long-spun narrative but a collection of short stories – vignettes really – that are rarely more than a couple pages long.
Each conveys a memory, emotion or philosophy related to an outdoors experience, often connected to sharing that experience with a loved one. The book is full of testimonials to his parents, kids, dogs and, especially, his grandfather. I loved the story where he explained what separated his grandfather from the typical weekend angler. Similar tales reveal his boyhood wonder at watching the old man operate. Ellis explains how he wants to pass along the oral history and lessons to his own children and grandchildren. Ellis said he hopes people find it a nice collection of what it meant to grow up and live in his special part of America.
The book is a fast 123 pages, in a compact 5.5x8.5-inch size with no photos or illustrations. If you hunt from a turkey or deer blind or treestand, it's an easy one to slip into a pack. Read a story or two, then scan the woods or field. Repeat process...
Among my favorite passages were Pop's Flag, Elk River Mom, Dad's Day and Above All, He Was a Fisherman. If there is one line, I too will lovingly echo until my least breath, it's, "Thank you Granddad for taking me fishing."
The book (ISBN-13: 978-1-942294-15-3) is published in paperback by Quarrier Press in Charleston, West Virginia. It is $12.95 and available through www.wvbookco.com in the Nature/Outdoors category.
Reading Ellis' compilation had me thinking, again, about my own memories. In the end, all we really have are our memories. We don't leave – end – with anything other than that collection of experiences and relationships. Many outdoor writers are contemplative, seeming to intently seek life's lessons as they go about their pursuits. The best part is they not only build their own rich collection of memories, but also get to share them with the most important person to any writer – the reader.
Check out Chris' book...
Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium - Putting the 'WOW' Factor into Conservation!


The Revelstoke Derailers defeated the Armstrong Candy Strykers 310-227 in roller derby action at the Forum on Saturday.
May. 27, 2013 6:00 p.m.
The two teams had played each other in January, when the Candy Strykers won by 13 points.
The forum slowly filled up as the Derailers battled the Candy Strykers on the track. The girls from Armstrong built up a big early lead, as Revelstoke struggled with the big blocking by the Candy Strykers.
Revelstoke slowly chipped away at the lead until a series of strong jams near the end of the first half vaulted the Derailers in front.
For three straight plays, the Derailers jammers Stephanie "Akilla the Honey" Noel, Janice "Tank" Roberge, and Tennille "Kernel Panic" Barber, racked up the points while the blockers managed to hold back the Candy Strykers' jammers.
The team's play brought the score at half-time to a 159-126 lead for Revelstoke. The second half saw the girls slowly build on their advantage for a 310-227 final.
The Derailers next home bout is on Saturday, June 29, against the Calgary Kill Jills. The night will also feature a men's bout between the Calgary Reservoir Dogs and the Vancouver Murder.


Amizing Work Carol. I love it so much!
So glad you like this, Naike.
Thanks for your lovely comment, vote and fav, Donna.
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Tiger Flag Spirit of strength And independence. This artwork of a white tiger draped in an American Flag, with the flag and tiger merging, is from the Patriotic Collection of art by Carol Cavalaris.


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Explained: The changes to F1 Sprint in 2022
Formula One's Sprint race format has returned for 2022 and will feature for the first time this weekend at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola.
After initial outings in Britain, Italy and Brazil last year, the Sprint format proved successful and it will appear in Imola, Austria and Brazil this season.
Similar to the sprint race seen in feeder series Formula 2, sprint qualifying is run at one-third of a Grand Prix distance, with the grid set by a traditional qualifying session taking place on Friday.
The Sprint schedule features two practice sessions, qualifying, sprint qualifying and the race, creating more excitement and value to fans at the track and around the globe without detracting from the traditions of a Grand Prix.
The traditional qualifying format remains, but instead of informing the Grand Prix grid, the Friday session provides the sprint qualifying line-up.
#IAMSTORIES | INSIDER
The role of a No. 1 Mechanic
In the latest episode of #IAMSTORIES | INSIDER, we go behind the scenes to see the incredible efforts behind getting Sebastian and Lance's cars back on the track for the Australian Grand Prix.
Pitstops do not feature due to the race's short length, meaning sprint qualifying will provide 25-30 minutes of pure track action across roughly 100km.
But there have been some changes to the format for 2022, responding to feedback from teams, the fans and media after the 2021 pilot races.
Points will now be given out to the top eight positions, creating more incentive for drivers to go wheel-to-wheel, with eight points given to the winner on a sliding scale to one point for eighth place.
F1 has also confirmed that, from now on, the driver who finishes the traditional qualifying session on Friday will go down in history as the driver who claimed pole position, rather than the winner of the Sprint.
Preview by Cognizant
Emilia Romagna GP

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Leaps of imagination - Leaps of imagination
95 WHAT WILL THE NEXT 100 YEARS BRING? BOEING'S CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER LOOKS AHEAD—WAY AHEAD Leaps of imagination we will certainly have a presence." And it's a good bet that Boeing will help make it happen—and so much more, according to Tracy. Proof is in the photographs on Tracy's office walls and in the models on his desk and shelf, innovative and industry-changing products from Boeing and its heritage companies that have left huge footprints in aerospace during the company's first 100 years: the hypersonic X-15 research vehicle, which set speed and altitude records that still stand today, and which rocketed its pilots to the edge of space to gather data critical for the U.S. manned space program that followed; a night launch of one of the space shuttles, a reusable space plane that was boosted story by james wallace photography by bob ferguson A glimpse of the future can be seen just outside the office of John Tracy at Boeing's corporte headquarters in Chicago. Four paintings by Boeing artists depict human space colonies on the moon and Mars. Next to the paintings is a placard with these words of explanation: "Though many of these far-reaching ideas have yet to materialize, the renderings represent the imaginative scope that has made space exploration possible." Tracy, who retires this month after 10 years as chief technology officer and a Boeing career that spanned more than 35 years, has little doubt such colonies will come to pass, possibly during the company's second century, which begins July 15. After all, it didn't take all that long to go from flying in crude airplanes to walking on the moon during Boeing's first century. That 100-year legacy of Boeing innovation—of daring to dream big, of having the courage and confidence to take risks, of doing what many thought impossible—began just a few years 2011 747-8 Intercontinental commercial transport The 747-8 Intercontinental provides 467 seats in a three-class configuration. 2012 Space Launch System Boeing begins initial design of the core stage propulsion system and production line, as well as avionics, for NASA's massive, new heavy-lift launch vehicle that will carry crew and cargo beyond Earth. after the Wright brothers made history's first powered manned flight in 1903 over the wind-swept sand dunes of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. The length of that flight, 120 feet (36.6 meters), would have fit inside the main cabin of the first 747, with plenty of room to spare. But those 12 seconds changed the world forever. It would take only 66 years until astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were bounding across the Sea of Tranquility in July 1969. And Boeing's next 100 years, what will they bring? What new frontiers will be crossed? When will humans leave footprints across the Martian landscape? What leaps of imagination will give wing to aerospace advances that change the world—and possibly above and far beyond it? "Many people say we will get to Mars by 2030 or 2040. And I absolutely believe that," Tracy said during a discussion about Boeing's past and its future, and the leaps of imagination and march of innovation that will connect the two. "I don't think we will have colonies on Mars by then, but "Many people say we will get to Mars by 2030 or 2040. And I absolutely believe that."
Happy birthday, Boeing
We make Boeing
Lights, camera, Boeing
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Lucian Michael Freud
(1922-12-08)8 December 1922
20 July 2011(2011-07-20) (aged 88)
Dartington Hall School
Bryanston School
Central School of Art
East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing
Goldsmiths' College
Cedric Morris (1940)
Portrait of Kitty (1948–49)
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995)
Kathleen Epstein
Lady Caroline Blackwood
Lucian Michael Freud, OM (/frɔɪd/; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942–43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.
His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.[1] Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.[2]
1 Early life and family
2 Early career
3 Mature style
5 Art market
6 Tribute
8 Selected solo exhibitions
Early life and family[edit]
Born in Berlin, Freud was the son of a German Jewish mother, Lucie (née Brasch), and an Austrian Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect.[3][4] He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud.
Portrait of Kitty, 1948–49, an early portrait of his wife Kitty Garman
The family emigrated to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Lucian became a British subject in 1939,[3][5] having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School,[6][7] for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour.[8]
Early career[edit]
Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London, and from 1939 to 1942 with greater success at Cedric Morris' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, relocated in 1940 to Benton End, a house near Hadleigh, Suffolk. He also attended Goldsmiths' College, part of the University of London, in 1942–43. He served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941 before being invalided out of service in 1942.
In 1943, the poet and editor Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu commissioned the young artist to illustrate a book of poems by Nicholas Moore entitled The Glass Tower. It was published the following year by Editions Poetry London and comprised, among other drawings, a stuffed zebra and a palm tree. Both subjects reappeared in The Painter's Room on display at Freud's first solo exhibition in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery. In the summer of 1946, he travelled to Paris before continuing to Greece for several months to visit John Craxton.[9] In the early fifties he was a frequent visitor to Dublin where he would share Patrick Swift's studio.[10] He remained a Londoner for the rest of his life.
Freud was one of a number of figurative artists who were later characterised by artist R. B. Kitaj as a group named the "School of London".[11][12] This group was a loose collection of individual artists who knew each other, some intimately, and were working in London at the same time in the figurative style — but during the boom years of abstract painting. Major figures in the group included Freud, Kitaj, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, Leon Kossoff, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, and Reginald Gray. Freud was a visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art of University College London from 1949 to 1954.
Mature style[edit]
Girl with a white dog, 1951–1952, Tate Gallery. Portrait of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman
Freud's early paintings, which are mostly very small, are often associated with German Expressionism (an influence he tended to deny) and Surrealism in depicting people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. Some very early works anticipate the varied flesh tones of his mature style, for example Cedric Morris (1940, National Museum of Wales), but after the end of the war he developed a thinly painted very precise linear style with muted colours, best known in his self-portrait Man with Thistle (1946, Tate)[13] and a series of large-eyed portraits of his first wife, Kitty Garman, such as Girl with a Kitten (1947, Tate).[14] These were painted with tiny sable brushes and evoke Early Netherlandish painting.[15]
From the 1950s, he began to focus on portraiture, often nudes (though his first full length nude was not painted until 1966),[16] to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, and by the middle of the decade developed a much more free style using large hogs-hair brushes, concentrating on the texture and colour of flesh, and much thicker paint, including impasto. Girl with a white dog, 1951–1952, (Tate) is an example of a transitional work in this process, sharing many characteristics with paintings before and after it, with relatively tight brushwork and a middling size and viewpoint. He would often clean his brush after each stroke when painting flesh, so that the colour remained constantly variable. He also started to paint standing up, which continued until old age, when he switched to a high chair.[16] The colours of non-flesh areas in these paintings are typically muted, while the flesh becomes increasingly highly and variably coloured. By about 1960, Freud had established the style that he would use, with some changes, for the rest of his career. The later portraits often use an over life-size scale, but are of mostly relatively small heads or in half-lengths. Later portraits are often much larger. In his late career he often followed a portrait by producing an etching of the subject in a different pose, drawing directly onto the plate, with the sitter in his view.[17]
Freud's portraits often depict only the sitter, sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed or alternatively juxtaposed with something else, as in Girl With a White Dog (1951–52) and Naked Man With Rat (1977–78).[18] According to Edward Chaney, "The distinctive, recumbent manner in which Freud poses so many of his sitters suggests the conscious or unconscious influence both of his grandfather's psychoanalytical couch and of the Egyptian mummy, his dreaming figures, clothed or nude, staring into space until (if ever) brought back to health and/or consciousness. The particular application of this supine pose to freaks, friends, wives, mistresses, dogs, daughters and mother alike (the latter regularly depicted after her suicide attempt and eventually, literally mummy-like in death), tends to support this hypothesis."[19]
The use of animals in his compositions is widespread, and often he features a pet and its owner. Other examples of portraits with both animals and people in Freud's work include Guy and Speck (1980–81), Eli and David (2005–06) and Double Portrait (1985–86).[20] He had a special passion for horses, having enjoyed riding at school in Dartington, where he sometimes slept in the stables.[21] His portraits solely of horses include Grey Gelding (2003), Skewbald Mare (2004), and Mare Eating Hay (2006). Wilting houseplants feature prominently in some portraits, especially in the 1960s, and Freud also produced a number of paintings purely of plants.[22] Other regular features included mattresses in earlier works, and huge piles of the linen rags with which he used to clean his brushes in later ones.[23] Some portraits, especially in the 1980s, have very carefully painted views of London roofscapes seen through the studio windows.[24]
Freud's subjects, who needed to make a very large and uncertain commitment of their time, were often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, children. He said, "The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really."[25] However the titles were mostly anonymous, and the identity of the sitter not always disclosed; the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire had a portrait of one of Freud's daughters as a baby for several years before he mentioned who the model was. In the 1970s Freud spent 4,000 hours on a series of paintings of his mother, about which art historian Lawrence Gowing observed "it is more than 300 years since a painter showed as directly and as visually his relationship with his mother. And that was Rembrandt."[26]
Freud painted from life, and usually spent a great deal of time with each subject, demanding the model's presence even while working on the background of the portrait. A nude completed in 2007 required sixteen months of work, with the model posing all but four evenings during that time; with each session averaging five hours, the painting took approximately 2,400 hours to complete.[27] A rapport with his models was necessary, and while at work, Freud was characterised as "an outstanding raconteur and mimic".[27] Regarding the difficulty in deciding when a painting is completed, Freud said that "he feels he's finished when he gets the impression he's working on somebody else's painting".[27] Paintings were divided into day paintings done in natural light and night paintings done under artificial light, and the sessions, and lighting, were never mixed.[28]
It was Freud's practice to begin a painting by first drawing in charcoal on the canvas. He then applied paint to a small area of the canvas, and gradually worked outward from that point. For a new sitter, he often started with the head as a means of "getting to know" the person, then painted the rest of the figure, eventually returning to the head as his comprehension of the model deepened.[27] A section of canvas was intentionally left bare until the painting was finished.[27] The finished painting is an accumulation of richly worked layers of pigment, as well as months of intense observation.[27]
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, a very large portrait of "Big Sue" Tilley, showing his handling of flesh tones, and a typical high viewpoint
Freud painted fellow artists, including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon and produced a large number of portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, and also painted Henrietta Moraes, a muse to many Soho artists. A series of huge nude portraits from the mid-1990s depicted the very large Sue Tilley, or "Big Sue", some using her job title of "Benefits Supervisor" in the title of the painting,[29] as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $33.6 million, setting a world record auction price for a living artist.[30][31]
Freud's most consistent model in his later years was his studio assistant and friend David Dawson, the subject of his final, unfinished work.[32] Towards the end of his life he did a nude portrait of model Kate Moss. Freud was one of the best known British artists working in a representational style, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989.[33][34][34]
After Cézanne, 1999–2000, National Gallery of Australia
His painting After Cézanne, notable because of its unusual shape, was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for $7.4 million. The top left section of this painting has been 'grafted' on to the main section below, and closer inspection reveals a horizontal line where these two sections were joined.
In 1996, the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal mounted a major exhibition of 27 paintings and thirteen etchings, covering Freud's output to date. The following year the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art presented "Lucian Freud: Early Works". The exhibition comprised around 30 drawings and paintings done between 1940 and 1945.[35] This was followed by a large retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002. In 2001, Freud completed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. There was criticism of the portrayal in some sections of the British media. The Sun was particularly condemnatory, describing the portrait as "a travesty".[36] In 2005, a retrospective of Freud's work was held at the Museo Correr in Venice scheduled to coincide with the Biennale. In late 2007, a collection of etchings went on display at the Museum of Modern Art.[37]
Freud died in London on 20 July 2011 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Archbishop Rowan Williams officiated at the private funeral.[38]
Art market[edit]
In 2008 Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), a portrait of civil servant Sue Tilley, sold for $33.6 million – the highest price ever at the time for a work by a living artist. At a Christie's New York auction in 2015, Benefits Supervisor Resting sold for $56.2 million.[39][40] On 13 October 2011, his 1952 Boy's Head, a small portrait of Charlie Lumley, his neighbour, reached $4,998,088 at Sotheby's London contemporary art evening auction, making it one of the highlights of the 2011 auction autumn season.[41]
Tribute[edit]
In 2012, Freud was among the British cultural icons selected by pop artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of the last six decades.[42]
After an affair with Lorna Garman, he went on to marry, in 1948, her niece Kathleen "Kitty" Epstein, daughter of sculptor Jacob Epstein and socialite Kathleen Garman. They had two daughters, Annabel Freud and the poet Annie Freud, before their marriage ended in 1952.[43] Kitty Freud, later known as Kitty Godley (after her marriage in 1955 to economist Wynne Godley), died in 2011.[44]
In late 1952, Freud eloped with Guinness heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood to Paris, where they married in 1953; they divorced in 1959.[43]
Freud is rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children[45] although this number is generally accepted as an exaggeration. Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses.[46] Writer Esther Freud and fashion designer Bella Freud are his daughters by Bernadine Coverley.
Selected solo exhibitions[edit]
1994: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2004: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
2005: Museo Correr, Venice
2006: Acquavella Galleries, New York
2007: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2008: Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
2010: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2012: National Portrait Gallery, London
2012: The Modern, Fort Worth
2013: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
2016–2021: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
^ "Lucian Freud 1922–2011. Tate. Retrieved October 2016
^ Smith, Roberta (14 December 2007). "Lucian Freud Stripped Bare". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
^ a b Spurling, John (13 December 1998). "Portrait of the artist as a happy man". The Independent. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
^ Jeffrey St. Clair (5 April 2003). "Flesh and Its Discontents: the Paintings of Lucian Freud". CounterPunch. Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
^ "No. 34708". The London Gazette. 13 October 1939. p. 6866.
^ "London Exhibition Showcases the Best of Bryanston Art and Design". Bryanston Art: Past and Present. Bryanston School. 12 October 2008. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
^ "Lucian Freud (P '40) "Painted Life"". Bryanston. Bryanston School. 8 February 2012. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^ "Obituary: Lucian Freud, OM". The Daily Telegraph. London. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^ "From late 1946 to early 1947, he and Freud painted on Poros" – John Craxton Guardian Obituary
^ "He had met Freud by 1949...the acquaintance was well-developed by 1950 when we shared the ground-floor of a house in Hatch Street together. Lucian, who was staying in Ireland, used to come around in the mornings to paint, so that sometimes when I would surface around ten or eleven I would find them both at work in the studio next door." — Anthony Cronin, Patrick Swift (1927–83), IMMA Retrospective Catalogue, 1993; "Freud… came to Dublin in 1948… In September 1951 Kitty Garman wrote to her mother… She mentions Freud working on a painting in Paddy Swift's Hatch Street studio, Dead Cock's Head 1951" – Freud: Prophet of Discomfort Archived 19 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Mic Moroney, Irish Arts Review, 2007
^ "Art term: The School of London". tate.org. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ Kitaj's essay in the catalogue for The Human Clay exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London, 1976.
^ Tate, Man with Thistle
^ Tate, Girl with a Kitten
^ NPG, section (= room) I, Tate, Man with Thistle
^ a b NPG, II
^ NPG, "Etchings"
^ "Naked Man With Rat". Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^ Edward Chaney, 'Freudian Egypt', The London Magazine (April/May 2006), pp. 62–69, complete refs in Chaney, Edward (2006). 'Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and Religion', Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines, eds. M. Ascari and A. Corrado. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 39–69.
^ "UBS Art Collection: A-Z". Retrieved 19 November 2016.
^ Gayford, Martin "Freud's Animals" Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Apollo, 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
^ Tate, Two Plants 1977–80
^ NPG, VII; Tate, Standing by the Rags, 1988-9
^ NPG, IV & 25
^ "Lucian Freud" Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, British Council, 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
^ Jones, Jerene (24 April 1978). "Is Lucian Freud's Relationship with Mother Odd, or Is It Art?". People. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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^ NPG, V
^ NPG, 33; Etching, Tate
^ "Freud work sets new world record". BBC News. 14 May 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
^ Lucian Freud: From "Ingres of Existentialism" to Impasto Master BLOUINARTINFO.COM
^ Mark Brown, "Lucian Freud's final work to be shown in 2012 National Portrait Gallery show", The Guardian, 20 September 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
^ Tate. "Turner Prize 1989 – Exhibition at Tate Britain – Tate". Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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^ Richard Calvocoressi, Lucian Freud: Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997. ISBN 0-903598-66-3
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^ "Lucian Freud (1922–2011) , Benefits Supervisor Resting". www.christies.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^ Katya Kazakina (14 May 2015), Freud's Lounging Naked Civil Servant Sells for $56.2 Million Bloomberg Business.
^ Sotheby's October 2011 Evening Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art Total £39.5/$62/€45 Million Sotheby's Press Release.
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Feaver, William (2002). Lucian Freud. Tate. ISBN 0-8109-6267-5
Feaver, William. "Freud, Lucian Michael (1922–2011)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/103935. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Gayford, Martin (2010). Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23875-2
Gowing, Lawrence (1982). Lucian Freud. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-09154-4
Gruen, John (1991). The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists. a cappella books. ISBN 1-55652-103-0
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Market uncertainties shaping investment decisions
Asset managers must focus on improving capabilities to help clients counter inflation and volatility
The Asset 30 Nov 2022
Inflation, interest rates, the war in Ukraine and geopolitical tensions are among the issues that are shaping investment decision-making today.
Amid these political and economic uncertainties, investors around the world will remain cautious for the foreseeable future, Cerulli Associates says in its latest report, Global Markets 2022: Recovery, Growth, and Prosperity.
Nonetheless, the need to generate improved returns and diversify portfolios will remain guiding principles.
"In addition to the uncertain macro environment, asset managers' decisions are also being shaped by long-running issues," says André Schnurrenberger, Cerulli managing director, Europe. "These issues include downward pressure on fees, tightening profit margins, regulation, and competition from passive management strategies."
Private markets to shine
The research and consulting firm expects key trends for the coming months to include thematic investing, greater digitalization, customization/tailored solutions, and the retailization of alternatives.
One area where increased investment is likely is private markets. In the United States, for example, findings suggest that clients with existing allocations to private markets are looking to expand from traditional private equity into growth and venture capital.
Nearly 85% of US-based asset managers expect increased demand for private equity mandates and 75% expect more demand for other private investment mandates.
In Europe, retail investors' growing appetite for private assets is prompting some traditional asset managers and hedge funds to expand into this area. In Germany, inflows into real estate funds have been positive for seven consecutive years. This trend is likely to continue, given the inflationary environment and the potential of the asset class to generate stable income.
Plenty of opportunities
Cerulli believes asset managers should concentrate on improving capabilities and market access, as well as product innovation and diversification.
"Focusing on value-driven products tied to real-world issues such as climate change and digitization may allow managers to charge premium prices," says Schnurrenberger. "In addition, some may consider expanding into wealth management. This option not only increases the opportunity to generate revenue, but also enables better control over the value chain and reduced distribution costs."
Despite the current challenges in markets around the world, plenty of opportunities exist for asset managers – not least in serving investors seeking to counter inflation and volatility.
Retail investors are increasingly looking for customized products and services, thematic investing is becoming ever more popular, and the spread of technology is opening new areas of growth, Cerulli says.
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 Product Service Management: Role, Benefits and Factors. Get Here to Learn More!
In the world, there is an incredibly large number of goods, on which billions of transactions are made every day. Some products appear, others – disappear from the market, others change their functions or some characteristics. This is where the successful product service management has to begin.
What is product service management? This is the process of changing and creating information about the products/services of the company (the catalog of offers). This is the continuous improvement of existing products/services or the development of new ones.
Changes and modifications of products occur almost constantly, but only a few of them bring to the goods some significant changes. Most product improvements are only superficial.
What role does product management play in marketing? Successful management is directly intertwined with marketing. Product management is not an independent activity and is an integral part of marketing. Because it is important to monitor the product market and its changes, make modifications to the product and understand the feedback from the customer in order to remain competitive and to occupy heights in the market.
Product management combines three important skills - strategy, technology, and marketing. Communication and cooperation are clearly key requirements. They act as a coordinator in the work of all those involved in the development of market-leading products.
Product management is vital for every company. Companies carry out various measures of product management. These measures combine marketing functions, operations and sales functions, which as a result must bring the desired delivery of goods and services to their customers.
Today, not every company has a position as a "product manager". Despite this, almost all firms have individuals responsible for managing the goods or a group of closely related products – "brand managers" or "brand managers".
The successful management of goods directly depends on effective feedback and cooperation between all departments of the company. Responsible for managing goods undoubtedly requires strong communication skills.
But who exactly carries out such measures and is responsible for them? In small companies, this can be done by the company owner or manager. In larger and more developed companies, a whole department for managing products and services can be dedicated. Moreover, for the successful management of the goods, an auxiliary team will be required which consists of business analysts, designers, developers, sales department and so on.
What are they doing? They carry out constant monitoring of goods, search for new opportunities and functions of the goods, modify the goods, maintain existing goods or eliminate them, depending on the situation on the market.
Constant control and good management of goods give more chances to increase sales and profits.
Modification of goods and the introduction of new products expand the number of customers.
Increasing sales due to an understanding of demand and the need for goods.
Increased customer orientation, ensures that the product meets the real needs of consumers. This is the effective management of the product.
Product management allows you to make your business more flexible to changing market conditions.
Development of a new product or service. It implies clear monitoring of the market and the conjuncture; identification of the demand for goods from the customers, the satisfaction of the customer's needs through a new and correct product. It can last a long time, or it may take several months: everything depends on what efforts the company is making at this stage, as well as on the investment opportunities of the company in advertising support of the product.
Monitoring of current goods. Continuous control of existing products, control over reaction and consumer feedback; adjustment of the goods to maintain its competitiveness in the market. The company's efforts at this stage should be aimed at its extension, creating input barriers for new players, and achieving maximum market coverage. All this will ensure the most comfortable existence of the company at the next stage of the life cycle.
Elimination of weak products. In order to avoid profits, companies should eliminate goods that do not succeed in the market.
It is often said that only changes are constant in our world. Managers in the product in the process of adapting to changes in the marketing environment are faced with many factors. Here are some of the key influencing factors.
Changing needs and desires of customers.


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Somewhere in the Range 'Twixt Apt and Emblematic
"Well, this about sums it up: when you're blinded so much by partisan tribalism that you like a totalitarian dictator who executes people with flamethrowers for his viewing pleasure more than *gasp* a Democrat."
―Brian Klaas
This is the bouncing ball: Columnist Brian Klaas tweeting Axios coverage of an Ipsos/Daily Beast poll. Regarding that last:
The poll of roughly 1,000 adults aged 18 and over was conducted June 14-15, shortly after President Trump's historic summit with the North Korea dictator. According to the results, 19 percent of Republicans indicated they had a favorable view of Kim with 68 percent saying they had an unfavorable view (12 percent of voters overall had a favorable view of Kim, compared to 75 percent who viewed him unfavorably). That compared slightly better than the perception of Pelosi, who had a 17 percent favorable, 72 percent unfavorable rating among self-identified Republicans.
Pelosi, nevertheless, was only the second-most disliked figure on Capitol Hill. Her overall 29 percent favorable, 47 percent unfavorable rating was slightly better than the numbers for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell had an overall favorability rating of 20 percent with 43 percent viewing him unfavorable. (Self-identified Democrats, for what it's worth, had a significantly more favorable opinion of McConnell than of Kim Jong Un.)
(Resnick)
Image notes: Top — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects the Command of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army, 14 August 2017, in image released by Korean Central News Agency. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images) Right — A coin for a planned US-North Korea summit, later canceled, displayed in Washington, D.C., 21 May 2018. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)
@brianklaas. "Well, this about sums it up: when you're blinded so much by partisan tribalism that you like a totalitarian dictator who executes people with flamethrowers for his viewing pleasure more than *gasp* a Democrat." Twitter. 19 June 2018.
Ipsos. "American Public Does Not See Celebrity Candidates as the Answer". 18 June 2018.
Resnick, Gideon. "Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Exclusive Poll Results". The Daily Beast. 18 June 2018.
Sykes, Michael. "Poll: Republicans favor Kim Jong-un more than Nancy Pelosi". Axios. 18 June 2018.
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Disaster, Dreaming
Steve Benen, on the obvious:
As I understand it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has agreed to a vote on an immigration bill, and unlike before, he won't wait for Donald Trump's guidance on the subject. If a comprehensive proposal isn't ready by Feb. 8, today's agreement says a DACA bill will get a vote on the Senate floor (though we don't know precisely which DACA bill).
If you're thinking, "Won't McConnell just betray Democrats and refuse to bring up the bill?" that's certainly possible, though that would practically guarantee another shutdown, for which the Kentucky Republican would be solely responsible.
Alternatively, if you're thinking, "There's no reason to assume a Senate-passed bill to protect Dreamers will pass the House," you're right to be concerned. But Democrats aren't exactly negotiating from a position of strength right now, and they feel like they have no choice but to pursue incremental steps.
In the meantime, they're taking CHIP off the table for the next six years, securing a key progressive priority. If there's another shutdown on the horizon—a distinct possibility—Republicans won't be able to hold children's health care hostage.
Heads: McConnell backs out entirely, just walking away for his own reasons. Tails: The DACA vote is to table whatever DACA bill comes to hand.
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What Mitch Made
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There is the saying about how we Americans will get around to doing the right thing eventually; it is usually a begrudging concession, that we have no remaining alternatives or excuses. Perhaps a better way of looking at it is that, generally speaking, we do not actually intend the harm we cause. Or maybe not; at some point, pleading stupidity over and over again is the sort of ritual that breeds resentment. Among Americans. Toward everyone else. Because how dare you say you're smarter than we are every time we say how were we supposed to know.
Or, y'know … something like that.
Oh, hey, Steve Benen, ladies and gentlemen:
The Times' article added that McConnell has privately marveled at Trump's unwillingness "to learn the basics of governing." The Senate GOP leader has also "expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump's presidency may be headed."
McConnell's concerns are obviously grounded in fact, and on the surface, it's tempting to feel some sympathy for him. But it's important not to lose sight of the senator's role in making the mess he finds himself in the middle of.
Like Dr. Frankenstein, McConnell created a monster he thought he could control, only to discover he doesn't care for the results.
His quiet, unassuming demeanor notwithstanding, Mitch McConnell has spent many years taking a sledgehammer to American political norms. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank argued persuasively in April that the Kentucky Republican effectively "broke America." The columnist added, "No man has done more in recent years to undermine the functioning of U.S. government. His has been the epitome of unprincipled leadership".
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A Conservative Fallacy: Dualism (Bust It or Bust)
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This is a basic conservative fallacy:
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is selling the Republicans' health care bill the same way he did the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. But on the health front, his pitch is falling flat with conservatives.
"Binary choice" is the phrase the Wisconsin Republican used during the presidential election to describe his reason for supporting Trump over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Ryan acknowledged throughout the campaign that both candidates were flawed but Trump was the better of two options, the only one who would help Republicans advance their legislative agenda.
"It really comes down to a binary choice," the speaker said Thursday during his weekly press conference about moving forward with the GOP's plan or leaving in place the 2010 health care law.
"This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing Obamacare," Ryan said. "The time is here. The time is now. This is the moment. And this is the closest this will ever happen."
(McPherson)
The only subtlety about it is Speaker Ryan's lack of subtlety.
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Even Less Admirable (The Chairman's Daughter's Whatnot)
This is not what we would ordinarily call a profile in courage:
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz again reversed his position on Donald Trump's presidential candidacy on Wednesday night, saying he'd vote for the Republican nominee but wouldn't endorse him.
"I will not defend or endorse @realDonaldTrump, but I am voting for him," Chaffetz tweeted Wednesday. "[Hillary Rodham Clinton] is that bad. HRC is bad for the USA."
The House Oversight Committee chairman had previously backed Trump's candidacy before withdrawing his endorsement on Oct. 8 following the revelation that the Republican nominee had made lewd and sexually aggressive comments while filming for an "Access Hollywood" interview in 2005.
(Lima)
Then again, this is Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT03) we're talking about, so it's not like anyone expects a lot. To that end, we should at least note the accomplishment, the e'er graceless flip-flop-flip.
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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet military withdrawal. The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995 have altered the meaning of this neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the EU Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.


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Numerical Integration Through Concavity Analysis
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We introduce a relationship between the concavity of a C2 func- tion and the area bounded by its graph and secant line. We utilize this relationship to develop a method of numerical integration. We then bound the error of the approximation, and compare to known methods, finding an improvement in error bound over methods of comparable computational complexity.
Daniel Pietz has been an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott Arizona since Fall of 2018. will graduate in Spring 2021 with Bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering with a focus in robotics, and Software Engineering. After graduating, he intends to pursue a PhD in computational mathematics. The submitted work was completed during September 2018 - March 2019 under the supervision of Dr Christopher Briggs, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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Pietz, Daniel J. (2020) "Numerical Integration Through Concavity Analysis," Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal: Vol. 21 : Iss. 2 , Article 7.
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Barberton - eMgindini Towns and Umjindi District are managed by the Umjindi Municipality situated in the eastern part of Mpumalanga.
Sub Tropical Climate. The annual rainfall is approximately 755 mm occurring in the summertime. The average temperature in summer is 28ºC with a pleasant winter average temperature of 12ºC. Only 75 km from the Kruger Park.
Barberton, centre of the Umjindi Municipality, is linked by tarred roads to Nelspruit (R40) (45 km), Badplaas (R38) (78 km) and Kaapmuiden (R38) (54 km). The roads to Nelspruit and Kaapmuiden link up with the Maputo Development Corridor (N4). A 42 km tarred road connects Barberton with Swaziland. This road is tarred, from Highlands, on top of Saddle Back Pass to the Josefsdal/Bulembu border posts. The road from Bulembu border post to Pig's Peak Casino will also be upgraded. The road will ultimately extend eastwards into Mozambique.
A rail link runs from Barberton to Kaapmuiden which can be utilised both for tourism (steam train rides) and transport of goods for the Maputo harbour (Mozambique) (250 km) or Gauteng (Johannesburg) (400 km). The backbone of the economy is Mining and Agriculture. This strategically situated and growing Town has excellent prospects for Business development.
Shopping facilities include a large number of national retailers catering for most of the needs of the community. Banks, insurance companies, attorneys and other professional services such as auditors, consultants and engineering professionals are available. Medical facilities include a private and government hospital, doctors, dentists, optometrists, para-medical services, ambulance and clinics. A tuberculosis hospital (SANTA) and St Johns Mission Hospital for HIV/Aids patients, provide an excellent service to the community.
Barberton has an adequate supply of high quality water, excellent standard of services, a well-developed communication system and has its own Community Radio Station. A variety of moderately priced houses, as well as residential stands, are available. An ideal place to retire to.
Sports facilities are available for most major sporting codes, including an excellent golf course, micro-flying and paragliding opportunities, and a sport stadium.
There are more than 30 church denominations servicing the community, including a mosque.
Government services include the departments of Home Affairs, Labour, Police, a Magistrates Court, serving the whole Magisterial District, and Correctional Services who have a prison farm on the town's border housing some 3 500 maximum/medium security prisoners and a town prison where the juvenile offenders are housed. There are also State Vet/Agricultural services, Barberton Commando, a Provincial Hospital and Education Department Circuit office.
The Umjindi Jewellery Project, in partnership with African Pioneer Mining (Pty) Ltd, will entail manufacturing and marketing of jewellery and collectors coins. The items will be exclusively manufactured from gold and silver mined in the Barberton Mountain Land. For the first time these precious metals will be available in native form, hand crafted into highly collectable pieces, on site at the Umjindi Jewellery Project, situated in the Barberton Iron and Steel Building (BIAS), next to the museum.
Barberton also finds itself engaged in various tourism initiatives, which will impact greatly on not only the economic development of the town, but that of the region as a whole, including its close neighbour Swaziland and even further into Mozambique. The road project between Barberton and Swaziland will also focus on the development, promotion and support of sustainable, collaborative and internationally competitive initiatives between Swaziland and Mpumalanga.
The valley consists mainly of Lowveld savannah with semi and sour bushveld, surrounded by low mountain ranges, the Magudu's, part of the Mpumalanga Drakensberg range, ranging from 900 to 1900m. The valley is traversed by 3 rivers. South, Northkaap and Queens, and in the Magudu's, the Lomati. Except for the latter they spring from the Highveld grassland sponge reservoir and drain into the two main river systems, the Crocodile and the Lomati. Numerous ecosystems and habitats evolve from the varying terrain, resulting in a great bio-diversity of fauna and flora. The Vertebrates, excluding the class Aves (birds) are made up of 20 orders, 5 sub orders and 60 families.
Sub Tropical. Temperate. September & October is spring. November to March is summer. April & May is autumn. June to August is Winter. Spring to Autumn temperatures are warm to hot. Day time: 25-32c. Mostly sunny days. Night time: 15-20c. Rains during the summer months. Average: 755 mm. Autumn to spring temperatures are moderate to warm. Day time: 18-26c. Mostly sunny days. Night time: 7-15c. Limited rain during Winter. Weather: Mostly mild except summer months during thunderstorm activity. Air quality is good. Limited pollution.


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Harvest yields. The larger wheat harvests throughout the world are only the product of the crop's increased yield capacities and not through expansion of growing area. This sort of situation increases harvest risks – but also the chances of higher prices. This applies even more so for barley.
By Christian Bickert
Around 100 million tonnes more wheat, approximately 250 m t more maize and 120 m t more soybeans: the worldwide grain and oilseed harvests have increased sharply over the past 30 years. Where have such increases come from?
The global wheat growing area has remained more or less constant since the end of the 1980s. If one says 220 m ha, this cannot be very far off the mark. On individual years the growing area might have risen or dropped by 10 m ha more or less. But that represents just 5%, making no more change in total yields than a warm rain at the right time during growing, or the effect of a hard frost in the northern hemisphere.
Expansion of the global wheat harvest is based on continuously increasing yields. From a good 2.3 t/ha at the end of the 1980s, the average yield has moved up to 3.4 t/ha now. Main regions behind this development are East European lands as well as those in Canada and China. Above all in East Europe, the combination of improved seed, additional fertiliser, greatly improved machinery and technology and above all intensified crop husbandry know-how have all led to this success. On the other hand, yield increases have been less dramatic in the USA and in Europe. In West Europe, cropping intensity is waning. There, yield stabilisation is the most important aim of breeding progress.
Wheat growing area and yields
Almost just as high as wheat have been growth rates of worldwide barley yields over the years, whereby growth has been less steady. In fact, main momentum in this respect has been in the last 10 years (in other words since the higher grain prices phase). In this period, yield growth for barley has actually been markedly greater than for wheat. But the barley yield increase is due only to a small extent to cultivation intensity or breeding advances. At least just as decisive has been the withdrawal of barley growing from locations with low yield potential. In structural terms, barley will remain weak in the coming years. This is because the growing areas are not getting any larger and yield increases through technical and breeding advances remain modest. Therefore the price gap between wheat and barley based on yearly averages could well narrow. That barley is more expensive than wheat, or at least sells at the same price as at present, will nevertheless be the exception. For high yield regions such as Germany, this represents opportunities.
Barley growing areas have suffered a complete breakdown. Growing areas worldwide have almost halved in the last three decades. The replacement of barley (above all through maize but partly, too, by oilseeds) has taken place mainly in areas where, as in Russia, the Ukraine and East Europe, 2 t/ha represented a good yield. In the high yield growing regions of West Europe or in Canada with averages of 4 to 5 t/ha, shrinkage in growing area is much less marked. In this situation the average yield therefore increases without any further effort.
Clear winner as far as growing area is concerned since the end of the 1980s has been maize. And above all since 2003 this crop's growing area has nothing less than exploded, expanding by a good 60 m ha. This goes back to the substituting of maize for barley in the Ukraine and Russia, to the (in the meantime ended) subsidising of maize growing in China and to the clearing of new growing land in Brazil and Argentina.
Parallel to the expanding areas for maize growing, yield has also been increasing - and this not only, as with wheat, in locations of lower yield potential where a little extra intensity helps the crop catch up, but also where harvests were traditionally heavy. More than with all other types of grain, advances in breeding have been, and still are, substantial. Nowadays, the worldwide average of 5.5 t/ha means that almost double as much maize grain is being carted home compared with 30 years ago, and that represents a mighty expansion.
It doesn't matter whether for oil or for protein pulp – oilseeds have been consistently in short supply in the past years and therefore the prices, apart from a few phases, have remained consistently high. This has naturally led to very considerable expansion of growing areas. Worldwide cultivation of the five most important oilcrops (soybeans, rapeseed, sunflowers, cotton and peanuts) increased by 100 m ha since 1988, i.e. by 70 %. With that, oilseeds have the greatest expansion of all crops, a reflection of the demand.
For all the five major oilseeds yields have risen by 40% in 30 years (from 1.6 t/ha to 2.3 t/ha). The soya yield developed a little differently (+ 35% since 1988), which can also lie in the fact that a very large area of soybeans has been established on new land and, with that, on suboptimum locations or on regions that first of all have to be worked up towards full production potential. Overall, however, harvest yield growth of oilseeds definitely depends on expansion of total growing area.


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Passiflora incarnata es una planta trepadora de rápido crecimiento perteneciente al género Passiflora conocido comúnmente como flores de la pasión. Su principal característica es la peculiar forma de sus flores.

Descripción
Es una liana trepadora pubescente que alcanza los 6-9 metros de largo. Tiene unos zarcillos que le sirven para trepar. Las hojas están divididas en tres lóbulos finamente dentados y pecioladas. Las flores son aromáticas y grandes, de 5 cm de diámetro, se producen solitarias en un largo pedúnculo, son de color blanco, amarillento o carnoso con tonos púrpuras. El cáliz con cinco sépalos unidos por la base formando una copa. La corola está compuesta por pétalos blancos rodeados por una triple corona de filamentos de color púrpura.

Su fruto, conocido como granadilla, es una baya de color amarillo del tamaño de un huevo y se torna naranja cuando está madura. En esta especie, el mucílago amarillo que rodea a las semillas es dulce y comestible; sin embargo, posee muchas semillas, por lo que mayormente es comido por los animales silvestres. En Centroamérica y el norte de Suramérica se consume en zumo y postres.

Ecología
La planta es el alimento de las larvas de la mariposa Acraea acara.

Propiedades
 La parte aérea de la planta es rica en numerosas sustancias: flavonoides, fenoles, aceites esenciales, a las que se le atribuye en conjunto su acción sedante.
 Utilizado en casos de insomnio y de ataques/crisis de ansiedad.
 Disminuye la tensión arterial y el ritmo cardíaco.
 Los indios americanos utilizaban cataplasmas con la planta para tratar heridas y quemaduras.

Nombre común

 En castellano, el nombre común tiene muchas variantes, según la región: maracuyá, flor de pasión, granadilla, pasiflora, pasionaria, parchita, mburucuyá y chinola.

Enlaces externos
 Uso medicinal de la Pasiflora incarnata
 Floridata.com: Passiflora incarnata
 Passiflora incarnata: información
 USDA plant profile for Purple passionflower incluye fotografías.
 Plant and herbal information por Stephen Foster.

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Realistic Group Conflict Theory
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Since the accomplishment of one group in gaining those resources precludes the second group's success, such rivalry results in individuals of separate groups having conflicting aims. Because of these tensions, the ingroup rules that promote negative attitudes toward the out-group and are supported by punishing and rejecting individuals in the identity group who stray from some of those norms tend to solidify and spread. Collaboration in quest of overarching objectives, that is, mutually specific goals that are completely unattainable with no such partnership, has the possibility of reducing conflicts over time, RGCT maintains. Unlike other conflict resolution models, RGCT does not focus on the persons involved.
In contrast, some schools of thought in psychology attribute these tensions to differences in personalities or ideology. If a group of people in RGCT think that the two organizations share a negligible fate—that is, that the other firm's achievement seems like a loss or failure for their group—then they will experience animosity as well as discrimination regardless of the actions or words of those within the group. Each faction's members, seeing their fates intertwined as the fight progresses, will band together in solidarity.
Explaining Realistic Group Conflict Theory
According to the real conflict theory, the intensity of intergroup conflict is proportional to the scarcity and value given goods in a setting where individuals of similar ability are forced to compete for them. The assumptions of realistic conflict theory are expanded upon in real conflicts theory, which includes the idea that different groups are, in fact, in rivalry with one another for scarce resources. At a particular level of group resemblance, i.e., when individuals see equivalent abilities and traits among themselves and another, they will frame the other person as a danger due to their distinctions.
The intergroup views out as a danger to its way of life because these distinctions breed prejudice and hostility. If one wants to do anything monumental, one will need the help of at least two other entities to make it happen. Therefore, conflict and damaging stereotypes, including discriminating cultural beliefs, may all be mitigated by adopting superordinate aims.
Facts about Realistic Group Conflict Theory
Donald Campbell gave the idea its name, although others had discussed it since the beginning of the century. This theory started in the 1950s when Campbell saw that personality researchers had the propensity to limit all human activity to hedonistic aims. He was critical of psychiatrists, including John Kohut, Harold Kelly, and George Simmel. He centered their work on the idea that eating, having sex, and avoiding suffering were the most important aspects of being human. Campbell argues that hedonistic explanations of social dynamics are inadequate.
According to Campbell, the exchange relationships philosophers' tendency to draw parallels between human and animal habits in their explanations of socializing was an oversimplification. It was not only Campbell who saw a gap in the analysis of intergroup interactions; other scholars did as well. These investigators pointed out that previous to Campbell, exchange relationship theorists had overlooked the fundamentals of cognitive science and the significance of interactions between different social groups. Contrary to earlier theories, RCT considers the factors that lead to conflict amongst groups, such as incompatibility of aims and competition for limited resources.
Applications of Realistic Group Conflict Theory
Implications − The RCT model can explain why people negatively view desegregation and diversity programs. The results of the Michigan National Election Studies research provide evidence of this. The study found that most white respondents disapproved of school districts' use of busing to achieve racial integration in the 1960s. These polls showed that whites generally see African Americans as a danger. It is safe to say that, but instead of symbolic prejudice or discrimination, the distaste for ending segregation sprang from a view of black people as a threat to treasured ways of life, aspirations, and wealth. RCT may also provide light on why competing for scarce community resources might have unintended effects on efforts to diversify organizations successfully. This is shown by the idea that more ethnic diversity in the workforce is connected to greater discontent among some of the majority. The ethnic composition of workers' neighborhoods influences their views about workplace diversity since firms are rooted in the localities to which their employees contribute. As the ethnic variety of a white community grows, white workers become less open to having diverse colleagues. Race competition theory (RCT) provides a rationale for this trend, as people of minority groups are frequently seen as rivals to the dominant majority regarding economic success, political influence, and social standing in multiracial societies.
Inequality − Initially, the effects of the rivalry between two equal portions were the main focus of the realistic conflict perspective. John proposes extending the theory to account for competitiveness across socially unequal groups. To illustrate his point, Duckitt developed a classification system that categorizes the several ways in which conflicts among socially unequal groups might arise. As Duckitt saw it, collectivist rivalry with an outsider may lead to at least two kinds of violence. Competing with an equivalent grouping is the first, defined by the principle of real competition. Group-based threats, in which individuals of the within-group feel antagonistic towards the out-group, may spark conflict as the ingroup prioritizes securing the commodity in danger. Ingroup dominance is the second main source of disagreement. This happens when there is a power imbalance between the ingroup and the out-groups. If dominance occurs, the weaker party has two options: accept it or fight back.
Both psychosocial pieces of research have shown RGCT to be effective. RGCT has been utilized to justify racist attitudes and habits, such as White resistance to civil rights legislation aimed at improving the lives of African Americans. This study provides evidence that only some Whites' opposition to racial policy is motivated less by antipathy toward Blacks than by a fear of losing advantages. Conflict among individuals of various religions and cultures has been the subject of a cross-cultural study employing RGCT. This research shows that group aggression increases when communities face limited key resources. Studies have shown that competitive situations may bring out aggressive tendencies in people of all ages.
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