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The Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum www.endbullying.org.uk defines bullying; "as the repeated use of power, by one or more persons, intentionally to harm, hurt or adversely affect the rights or needs of another or others".
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The damage inflicted by bullying can frequently be underestimated. It can cause considerable distress to children to the extent that it affects their health and development or, at the extreme, causes them significant harm (including self-harm or death through suicide).
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Nic Rowan - July 1, 2019 9:15 PM
Left-wing think tank Center for American Progress is putting its news source ThinkProgress up for sale, citing financial strains.
"Unfortunately, like so many other news outlets that have relied on advertising to fund its work, ThinkProgress has seen a significant drop in revenue in recent years, along with other financial strains. In addition, events over the last few years have underscored the divergent missions of American Progress and ThinkProgress," Navin Nayak, executive director of the CAP Action Fund, told the Daily Beast.
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"For all of these reasons, we announced to the ThinkProgress staff today that we are searching for a new publisher for the news site," Nayak continued. "This is a tough decision since ThinkProgress has been a part of CAP Action almost since its founding. While ThinkProgress' financial challenges are unsustainable for an organization like CAP Action, we are hopeful that there are publishers who would be better able to support ThinkProgress' mission and better positioned to maximize the significant value ThinkProgress has built up."
ThinkProgress was launched in 2005 to provide a left-wing voice during President George W. Bush's administration. It describes itself as "editorially independent" from CAP. It has never been profitable, and according to the Daily Beast, revenue have dropped in recent years and fewer advertisers have been attracted to the site.
To cover costs, the site has been cutting payroll and staff, with under 35 of the site's high of 40 employees remaining. It is still unclear if CAP will shutter the site if it finds no buyer. Nayak told the Daily Beast CAP will only consider buyers who are ideologically aligned with ThinkProgress.
"We will only entertain serious proposals from publishers and organizations who are genuinely interested in investing in ThinkProgress and supporting its mission," Nayak said. "Our ideal outcome is for ThinkProgress to continue the important work done by its journalists under the auspices of a new entity."
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The president angrily reacted to New York City's decision to paint the slogan in front of Trump Tower.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday called New York City's decision to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on Fifth Avenue a "symbol of hate," rebuking his home town's embrace of a rallying cry that has stirred nationwide protests against racism.
The president's latest comments attacking the Black Lives Matter movement drew swift condemnation from New York City police reform groups.
Trump also criticized cuts to the city's police department and wrote on Twitter that Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to paint Black Lives Matter on the street outside Trump Tower is "denigrating this luxury Avenue".
"This will further antagonize New York's Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the horrible BLM chant, 'Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon,'" Trump wrote. "Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won't let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York's greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!"
De Blasio told MSNBC earlier Wednesday morning that the street painting would be completed outside Trump Tower in a matter of days. The mayor's office ordered the letters painted on Fifth Avenue last week.
"Obviously we want the president to hear it because he's never shown respect for those three words," de Blasio said. "When he hears Black Lives Matter, he presents a horrible negative reality of something that doesn't exist, and he misses the underlying meaning that we're saying we have to honor the role of African Americans in our history and our society."
Activists said Trump's tweet distracted from efforts to combat police brutality.
"The only symbol of hate is President Trump. This is just his latest attempt to brazenly push hate and try to divert our attention from the urgent civil rights issues facing our communities, from violent policing to the pandemic," Carolyn Martinez-Class, a spokesperson for the New York City organization Communities United for Police Reform, said in a statement to POLITICO.
The painting of Black Lives Matter on Fifth Avenue follows the passing of the city's budget in the early hours of Wednesday morning. While the $88.19 billion budget cuts funding to the police department, reform activists were unhappy and said the reductions did not go far enough in reducing the NYPD's role in the city.
Martinez-Class called on the mayor to "go beyond performative gestures of support and actually make changes to abusive, racist policing in New York City to show that Black lives really matter to him."
In the weeks since the police killing of George Floyd ignited mass demonstrations opposing police violence, Trump has not adopted the message of Black Lives Matter protesters.
In mid-June, he told Fox News that he thought many demonstrators who took to the streets were unaware what they were protesting for. Trump has not said the words "black lives matter," and has instead focused on defending law enforcement from accusations of systemic racism.
Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered Black Lives Matter to be painted near the White House in June, as well as ordering a nearby street to be renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza" in a rebuke to the president. That move was panned by some activists who characterized it as an empty gesture without tangible steps to reduce police funding.
Trump's tweet claimed Black Lives Matter protesters chanted the slogan "Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon" — an accusation he has leveled against the movement in past tweets.
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter march chanted the phrase in 2015 in a Minnesota demonstration. There have not been reports of protesters using the chant during the demonstrations following Floyd's death.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also cited the "pigs in a blanket" chant as Trump's rationale for standing against the Black Lives Matter painting.
"What the president was noting is that that symbol, when you look at some of the things that have been chanted by Black Lives Matter, like 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon,' that's not an acceptable phrase to paint on our streets," McEnany said at a Wednesday press briefing.
She added that Trump believes "all Black lives matter."
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer and a former mayor of New York, echoed Trump's opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement when speaking with reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
"Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization," Giuliani said, adding that he was against the painting of Fifth Avenue. "Black Lives Matter has been planning to destroy the police for three years."
Erin Durkin contributed to this report.
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FORTUNE — In the town of Basauri, amid the rolling hills of Spain's Basque Country, some 140 workers at the Edesa appliance factory are taking four-hour shifts as they stage a lock-in.
Their parent company, the household appliance maker Fagor Electrodomésticos, has recently entered bankruptcy, but the Edesa workers are not ready to give up their jobs.
"We're not business people, but we think that there are areas in the business that can open again and be viable," says 36-year old Ernesto Pérez, a 15-year veteran of Edesa who is taking part in the lock-in.
Almost 28,000 companies have declared bankruptcy during Spain's five-year economic crisis, hitting a peak of 2,854 during the first three months of 2013. But Fagor Electrodomésticos is not just any business. Launched in 1956 by a Catholic priest named José María Arizmendiarrieta and five students from a technical college he started in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Fagor is the foundational unit of Mondragón, the world's biggest conglomerate of worker-owned cooperatives.
With 80,000 employees and operations in 18 countries outside Spain, Mondragón became a symbol of what a worker-owned cooperative model could achieve. In the late 1980s, Pedro Nueno, a professor of entrepreneurship at the IESE Business School, consulted with Fagor on ways to innovate for the "kitchen of the future." He says he was struck by the leaders' long-term vision and by how committed they were considering their low salaries (top executives at Mondragón make less than 10 times the lowest paid worker's salary).
"A person with the same responsibilities would be getting five times that in another company," he says.
Similarly, when Richard Wolff, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, visited Fagor two years ago, he was impressed by the seriousness with which management handled buying assembly line equipment, which came from outside the Mondragón family of industrial companies. "They gave me a lecture on policy: You buy within Mondragón if quality or price was competitive. If not, you go outside," he says.
But such commitment and seriousness has done little to help Fagor recently. Revenues fell from €1.75 billion in 2007 (about $2.58 billion at the time) to €1.28 billion in 2011, and the company has lost money for the last five years, racking up debts of €859 million. During that time, Mondragón lent it some €300 million.
So why did Fagor fail? It's easy to say that Mondragon's cooperative model wasn't up to dealing with economic crisis — that it was too touchy-feely for tough times — but the reality has less to do with ideology than with simple economics.
In the case of Fagor, which was the biggest appliance maker in Spain and France, the Spanish housing bubble allowed it to ignore longstanding business problems, says Adrián Zelaia, who spent 25 years at Mondragón, including 10 as secretary general, before leaving in a management dispute in 2010.
As a European maker of mid-range appliances, Fagor did not have the low costs of emerging market brands, nor did it have the superior technology of the top German factories, Zelaia says. To deal with this, the company took advantage of easy credit to expand, most notably by buying the French appliance company Brandt in 2005.
"It was a temptation for medium and large businesses to flee from their problems via acquisitions," says Zelaia, now president of the Ekai Center, a think tank.
Fagor was thus saddled with debt when the housing bubble burst in 2008. It marked the beginning of the end for the company, which had 5,700 employees, 2,000 of whom were in Spain.
To help the firm weather Spain's economic crisis, Fagor employees used the co-operative's worker management structure to vote for several pay cuts, eventually reaching some 20%. But that was not enough. When Fagor recently asked Mondaragón for another €50 million to stay afloat, the cooperative conglomerate decided the company wasn't viable and cut it loose two weeks ago.
Today, Mondragón is moving Fagor workers to other co-operatives in the group. Of the 1,000 to 1,200 that it hopes to relocate or give early retirement, 215 have new jobs in the group, according to Mondragón communications director Javier Marcos.
In Basauri, the workers have settled in. On Sunday, they held a community lunch to thank the cultural groups, businesses, and government offices that have supported the lock-in in part because of the domino effect that a closure could have on the town, which has 42,000 residents.


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Actress Sonam Kapoor, who will turn a year older on Saturday, says that box-office numbers of her current film "VEERE DI WEDDING" has gone beyond expectation.
"I couldn't have asked for more," she says as the praise pours in.
"I mean, the numbers have gone beyond all expectations. Right? And it's very reassuring," added Sonam.
Not that she is a stranger to scoring as a Female Hero.
"NEERJA was a turning point in my career. The numbers it did at the box office gave me a lot of confidence and also made a difference to the way female-centric films are perceived by the film trade," she said.
Comparisons with Alia Bhatt starrer RAAZI, the other successful heroine-oriented film of the season, are inevitable but Sonam says her VEERE DI WEDDING has a long way to go.
"I haven't seen RAAZI. But I am only hearing good things about it. It has already done a business of Rs. 100 crores. Our VEERE DI WEDDING isn't there yet. But I hope it would be," she said.
She also hopes to keep up her friendship with her 'Veeres' Swara Bhaskar, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Shikha Talsania, who played leading roles in the film.
"Swara and I have been friends for five years. Working together in this film has only made us closer. Bebo(Kareena)'s family and my family have known each other for decades. I've grown up idolizing Bebo. Now after 'VEERE DI WEDDING', she is a dear friend...Shikha Talsania is someone I came to know while doing this film. I've grown fond of her too...So yeah, I do hope to keep connecting with them," says Sonam.


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It is hard, won't lie to you. You will finally have enough, sounds like you have now, do you let what happened determine the rest of your life. Take all of your control back, take one day at a time and be the woman that you were meant to be. Don't be what you past was, learn to move past it. I only had a bit of counceling, I healed with writing, reading online, reading every book that I could get my hands on in the self help section of the library when I was broke, and books from the bookstore. Find motivational shows, tapes and so forth. Fill yourself with peace and goals. The pain can go away if you let it. You fill yourlife with what makes you whole. For me the pain left when I was able to forgive him, and mostly when I forgave myself. I was so angry that I had lived that way.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, it is just that the damn tunnel can be so frigin long some days.
Stay strong Mary, ask for help.
I read this and find hope, its been at least 12 years since I have been out of my situation but I still suffer. I do not trust men I was told by a friend I suffer from post traumatic stress. I just want to be normal again what ever that is. I sit here online looking for help since I can't afford therapy I feel energy is just gone and I want it back I want to feel pretty again loose the weight that has followed me around for years but when I do start to loose I have guys looking at me and it scares the hell out of me so I gain it back. I just don't understand why the hurt doesn't go away. But thanks for reading this and I need to buy the book!
You made my heart break to read your post. I am so grateful you wrote today. Funny, I just picked up the book today, anytime I feel a bit out of sorts it help me remember what is important and obtain a new focus. Love that lady in the mirror, she deserves all that you can offer her.
I fail to look myself in the eye. I haven't grasped the ability to forgive myself. I feel so ashamed of living with him, for letting him take everything from me. For the fact that I could only escape when I had lost everything, my home, my health, my money, my friends, my sense of security and dignity and self. I found that book for four dollars on thriftbooks.com. I'll look in the mirror tonight.
Thanks for writing. Your email was very supportive, you are a truly remarkable woman. Your outlook is amazing, I am so happy that you have found the strength to go on with all that you have been through. We are big fans of Dale too. Keep going.
within 4 weeks I was up walking, and with in 6 weeks I was out of the hospital that is why I have devoted myself to this man for what he has done for me without even being there in person he helped me. Now I want to help him. if I ever get the opportunity to thank him personally I will feel my life is complete but as far as helping him that will never end, up to the day he hangs his keys up for good I am his #1 fan I will be there standing strong and true threw the good and bad No matter what.
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Thanks for posting. This book is really good and I am reading it again, it always inspires me to do better. I encourage you to search the blog here to see how others in your situation are surviving. I hope that you find the strength to leave soon. You are worth so much more than what is in your life today. Let us know how we can support you. You know that you deserve better. I often say, you will leave when the fear of staying is great than the fear of leaving. I pray you leave soon.
Im currently trying to get out of a similar relationship..it really sux..4yrs of all types of abuse & everytime the light bulb turned on saying LEAVE wat are you doin to yourself..i would leave & someway manipulated back to a worse situation..i am goin to order this book..im 26 yrscold and have never suffered sooo much in my life..i am not myself & i know this for sure!!
I was so happy to hear that you enjoyed this exercise. I find myself talking about it often lately as it really touched many. Sad that we have difficulty looking ourselves straight in the eye. Sorry I haven't been in touch, hope to talk soon.
Hi Rebecca, I am encouraged to buy and read this book as well and pass on to clients. What a beautiful empowering exercise! Just having the strength to look in the mirror and face ourselves, our souls, our need to forgive(ourselves), our need to accept and learn to like ourselves again. I remember how long it took me to do all this. As I grew stronger I would sometimes stare in the mirror as a test and gradually get re-acquainted with the new me until I came to like that person. Thanks for sharing this exercise.
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I recently returned from a large banking company in the Midwest. I was in awe to hear the number one frustration for their IT personnel was simply establishing a RDP (remote desktop protocol) session. The reason was this: a typical user had around a dozen or so administrator accounts, each with its own unique, complex password with a bare minimum of 24 characters. What a headache! Not only was their team required to memorize a dozen usernames, but they also had to know each account's password. It was no wonder why establishing an RDP session was such a sore subject for their entire team.
If you are an IT administrator, you might be reading this and thinking to yourself "I face this issue almost every day!" Truth be told, nearly every organization I have spoken to is wrestling with this problem today. After all, these are the accounts which hold they keys to the kingdom and must be protected at all cost. It just is absolutely, under no circumstance, acceptable for any company to have passwords across these privileged accounts.
Thus, whenever I demonstrate to corporations that there is a solution to not only eliminate the need to memorize several administrator passwords, but also to significantly increase security to the servers that need the most protection, it is no surprise corporations tend to jump at the opportunity.
The solution itself is quite simple. The DigitalPersona® platform has the ability to train an application to require multifactor authentication when beginning an RDP session. Since examples always help, let's use my Midwest customer as an example. The workflow for them worked like this: the administrator, who for naming sake I'll call Bob, opens an RDP client and starts the usual process of connecting to a backend server. Bob types in the server name in the computer field and is prompted for his authentication factors specified in the DigitalPersona platform. In his case, he had to input a username, password and a provide a fingerprint biometric. After Bob successfully authenticated, he was presented with a list of those dozen or so privileged accounts. After selecting the account he wanted to log into his session with, the terminal server itself prompts Bob once more for a One-Time Password (OTP) for added security. After he enters his 6-digit code provided through a secure app on his mobile phone, he is logged into the Terminal Server.
If you are a visual person, I put together a video highlighting the process. The video shows that you don't have to struggle with managing these UN/PW combinations for RDP sessions and adding multifactor authentication can actually make the lives of your users a bit easier while at the same time providing greater protection for your organization.


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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced that it commenced an underwritten public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about January 8, 2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. In connection with the offering, the Company expects to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares of common stock.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to reduce amounts outstanding under its revolving credit facility, to fund property acquisitions and development activity, for working capital and for general corporate purposes. Citigroup is acting as the sole underwriter for the offering.
Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to this offering, when available, may be obtained by contacting: Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 800-831-9146).
The shares of common stock are being offered by the Company pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-238729) and related prospectus which was filed by the Company on May 27, 2020 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and was automatically effective upon filing, and was amended by post-effective amendment no. 1 filed with the SEC on August 12, 2020. The offering of the securities will be made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the securities being offered will be filed with the SEC. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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Agree Realty Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the acquisition and development of properties net leased to industry leading retail tenants. As of December 31, 2020, the Company owned and operated a portfolio of 1,129 properties, located in 46 states and containing approximately 22.7 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ADC". For additional information, please visit www.agreerealty.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements about the terms and size of the offering, the intended use of proceeds from the offering, if any, that represent the Company's expectations and projections for the future. No assurance can be given that the offering discussed above will be completed on the terms described or at all, or that the net proceeds of the offering will be used as indicated. Although these forward-looking statements are based on good faith beliefs, reasonable assumptions and the Company's best judgment reflecting current information, you should not rely on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could materially affect the Company's results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, performance or future achievements or events. Currently, one of the most significant factors, however, is the potential adverse effect of the current pandemic of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, on the financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and performance of the Company and its tenants, the real estate market and the global economy and financial markets. The extent to which COVID-19 impacts the Company and its tenants will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the scope, severity and duration of the pandemic, the actions taken to contain the pandemic or mitigate its impact, and the direct and indirect economic effects of the pandemic and containment measures, among others. Moreover, investors are cautioned to interpret many of the risks identified in the risk factors discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and other SEC filings, as well as the risks set forth below, as being heightened as a result of the ongoing and numerous adverse impacts of COVID-19. Additional important factors, among others, that may cause the Company's actual results to vary include the general deterioration in national economic conditions, weakening of real estate markets, decreases in the availability of credit, increases in interest rates, adverse changes in the retail industry, the Company's continuing ability to qualify as a REIT and other factors discussed in the Company's reports filed with the SEC. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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Plug Power Learns French, and This Analyst Plays La Marseillaise
For the second time in a week, hydrogen fuel cell company Plug Power (PLUG) had big news to report. Last week, as you may recall, it was a $1.5 billion alliance with Korea's SK Group to build a "hydrogen economy" for South Korea. This week, it's a deal to build fuel cell vans in France alongside local partner Renault -- and although Plug didn't attach a price tag to this one, investors still cheered like mad, sending Plug stock up more than 22% in a day. As Plug revealed Tuesday, it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French automaker. Through it, the parties expressed interest in forming a 50-50 joint venture within the next six months to supply "turn-key fuel cell vehicle solutions with hydrogen fuel, refueling infrastructures and services" to customers in France -- and capture 30% of the market for fuel cell-powered light commercial vehicles in the country. Renault will provide the automobile manufacturing capability, and Plug will supply the fuel cell systems to make them go "zoom!" Plug will also manufacture hydrogen refueling systems to fuel up the vans on the road. Shareholders weren't the only ones pleased by Plug Power's announcement, and analyst Christopher Souther at B. Riley quickly rushed out a note doubling down on its "buy" rating on Plug stock, and raising his price target more than 50%, to $79 a share. (To watch Souther's track record, click here) Calling Renault a "strong partner" for Plug on the Continent, where the local market for fuel cell-powered light commercial vehicles is expected to grow from essentially zero today, to 500,000 units by 2030. Souther increased his long-range forecast for Plug's commercial vehicles revenues accordingly. In fact, long before 2030, he is valuing Plug stock at 20 times his fiscal 2024 sales forecast. What is that forecast, precisely? Souther didn't say straight out. But a $79 share price would imply an enterprise value of a little over $37 billion for Plug stock, implying that the analyst sees the new relationship with Renault pushing Plug's 2024 revenues up past $1.8 billion -- roughly a six-fold increase over Plug's trailing revenues of $308 million. Curiously, this estimate is nearly twice the $1 billion in fiscal 2024 revenue that Plug itself most recently promised. And here's another curious thing about Souther's predictions: While not expressly putting a number to his 2024 forecast, Souther did give detailed guesses at what Plug will produce nearer term, predicting full-year 2020 sales and full-year 2021 sales as well. In contrast to the average consensus on Wall Street, where most analysts agree Plug did perhaps $329 million in sales last year, Souther thinks the company's revenues were only $291 million. Similarly, consensus estimates for fiscal 2021 put Plug's sales at $444 million -- but Souther sees only $419 million. Now, how the analyst goes from predicting disappointing results for two straight years, to predicting sales twice what Plug itself promises just three years from now is not quite clear. And why he is recommending that investors buy Plug ahead of what, by his own admission, look likely to be sales disappointments is similarly opaque. Then again, as Souther himself laments: No matter how expensive Plug stock gets, "it is tough to fight the secular tailwinds." So, that's B. Riley's view, what does the Street of the Street have in mind? The current outlook offers a conundrum. On the one hand, based on 10 Buys and 1 Hold, the stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating. However, after soaring so high recently, the analysts expect shares to cool down and anticipate downside of 18% from current levels. (See PLUG stock analysis on TipRanks) To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks' Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks' equity insights. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analyst. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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Insects from A to Z
Full list of the insects
Classification and families
Nomenclature and classification of insects
Dermestidae family
Ptinidae family
Lyctidae Family
Psocoptera family
Infested materials
Worked wook
Crafted wood
Textiles materials
Spices, plant materials, herbaria
Keratine
Any type of damp material
Molecular identification
Synonym(s) :
Anobium striatum Olivier, 1790
Birrhus domesticus Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785
Petite Vrillette; Vrillette commune; Vrillette domestique; Cosson; Ver du bois; Ver des meubles.
Common furniture beetle
Carcoma comun de los muebles
Gemeine nagekäfer
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ptinidae
Genus: Anobium
Species: punctatum
Frequency index:
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Recognition criteria
Development cycle
Infected materials
The common furniture beetle is the best-known and the most common beetle among the 3 French species of the Anobium genus.
Its food diet is almost exclusively xylophagous, but it has already been reported in liquorice sticks and in grain debris, for example; however these facts remain anecdotal.
It can be mistaken for another species that belongs to the same family, Oligomerus ptilinoides (cf. fact-sheet), which causes the same kind of damage, but which is nevertheless less frequently found
Anobium punctatum is gradually becoming anthropophile for it preferentially develops in worked woods (timber wood, furniture…), but it is also found in natural environments
It can only fly when temperatures are higher than 17°C.
As adults only have a reproductive function, they do not feed and they do not live more than 3 or 4 weeks on an average.
Daylight particularly attracts that species, that is why it is frequently found on window sills.
It is also attracted by artificial lights and can easily be caught using ultra-violet light light-traps.
2 to 5 mm long
Elongate, more or less cylindrical.
Head and base of antennae entirely covered by the pronotum (prothorax) and therefore not visible from above.
The pronotum has a fine grain-like aspect, it is not quite as wide as the elytra at their base (identification criterion), it has a sharp triangular median protuberance on top.
The slightly grainy elytra are striated and punctuated by big, deep dots in regular lines. They are covered by a fine yellowish pubescence that is curved backward.
Clubbed antennae, clubs formed of three rather elongate articles.
Reddish brown to chocolate brown
4 to 5mm long and 2mm wide at the last stage.
Look like small, arched, white grubs, body composed of 10 segments
A fine hairiness composed of golden, erect bristles is visible on the whole body.
The head already possesses powerful mandibles.
Yellowish white to pearl-white, except mouthpieces which are brown
The common furniture beetle is a good flier. Adults take to the air from spring through September, with an emergence peak in July and August.
That is when the insect is active, and small heaps of bore-dust can then be seen on wooden objects, on building timber and panelling, which are obvious signs of its presence.
An average 12 to 40 eggs (many more in optimal conditions) are laid at a time, in separate batches, in wood crevices, tunnels and former galleries of infested woods.
Eggs are about 0.5 mm in size and are hard to spot due to their small size; they are a milky-white colour and lemon-shaped.
Incubation lasts about 2 weeks and as soon as they come out, newborn larvae immediately bore and tunnel deep into the wood.
Larval development up to the nymphal stage very much depends on wood nutrient quality, on the temperature and hygrometry of infested sites, and also on prior wood degradation by lignin-degrading fungi.
It can last between 8 and 36 months, and even up to 10 years in unfavourable conditions.
It is optimal when temperatures are around 22°C, and relative humidity outside the substrate is 50 to 60%.
Nymphosis lasts about 15 days and then adults leave the wood by boring a circular, 1- to 3-mm flight hole to reach the outer environment.
The full development cycle (from egg-laying to adult emergence) lasts between 1 and 4 years depending on thermo-hygrometric conditions.
It is much shortened (down to a few months) in the case of a lignin-degrading fungus infestation.
Under hot climates, there are 2 generations per year.
Adults live 4 weeks on an average.
The common furniture beetle is particularly harmful to the soft part of manufactured and crafted woods, whether from resiniferous or deciduous trees (old furniture, sculptures, paintings, works of art, roof timbers, beams, floors, ...) Old furniture is particularly infested by that species. It only infests the sapwood part of resiniferous and deciduous species when the wood has formed duramen, and it infests all parts, duramen included, if the wood is contaminated by lignin-degrading fungi. Alder, beech, walnut, pine, poplar, chestnut and fir are particularly affected, but oak and ash-wood are rarely affected. Dense tropical woods are little affected by the common furniture beetle's larval development. Conversely, white woods are severely infested. The common furniture beetle can also develop in old books and archives, which causes important damage in libraries The circular flight holes, together with the galleries bored in all directions of the wood grain, severely compromise wood resistance but also make it possible to spot the insect's presence. However, the emergence holes and bore-dust that can often be seen do not automatically indicate active infestation: infestation can sometimes have occurred long before. The fine, grain-like, peanut-shaped dust pellets are characteristic of a few species of the Anobiidae family, including Nicobium castaneum (cf. fact-sheet) and Oligomerus ptilinoides (cf. fact-sheet). Due to their size and circular shape, adults' emergence holes can be mistaken for those bored by Lyctidae (Lyctus and Trogoxylon genera), but Anobium punctatum's dust pellets make it possible to tell between them (Lyctidae's bore-dust is powdery and looks like extra-fine flour).
A. punctatum has a worldwide distribution. It is present especially in temperate climate zones (Europe, South-East Africa, Australia, the United States, French overseas territories…).
In France it is particularly well established in the West and the South-West, where climatic conditions (especially humidity) are more favourable to its development.
Nicobium castaneum
Oligomerus ptilinoides