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Interannual variation in global-scale net primary production: Testing model estimates
Malmström, Carolyn M. and Thompson, Matthew V. and Juday, Glenn P. and Los, Sietse O. and Randerson, James T. and Field, Christopher B. (1997) Interannual variation in global-scale net primary production: Testing model estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 11 (3). pp. 367-392. ISSN 0886-6236. doi:10.1029/97gb01419. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181128-140624981
Testing estimates of year‐to‐year variation in global net primary production (NPP) poses some challenges. Large‐scale, multiyear records of production are not readily available for natural systems but are for agricultural systems. We use records of agricultural yields at selected sites to test NPP estimates produced by CASA, a global‐scale production model driven by both meteorological data and the satellite‐derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). We also test estimates produced by the Miami model, which has underlain several analyses of biosphere response to interannual changes in climate. In addition, we test estimates against tree ring data for one boreal site for which data from both coniferous and deciduous species were available. The agricultural tests demonstrate that CASA can reasonably estimate interannual variation in production. The Miami model estimates variation more poorly. However, differences in NDVI‐processing algorithms substantially affect CASA's estimates of interannual variation. Of the four versions tested, the FASIR NDVI most closely reproduced yield data and showed the least correlation with changes in equatorial crossing time of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites. One issue raised is the source of the positive trends evident in CASA's NDVI‐based estimates of global NPP. The existence of these trends is consistent with potential stimulation of terrestrial production by factors such as CO2 enrichment, N fertilization, or temperature warming, but the magnitude of the global trends seen is significantly greater than suggested by constraints imposed by atmospheric fluxes.
https://doi.org/10.1029/97gb01419 DOI Article
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© 1997 American Geophysical Union. (Received November 27, 1996; revised May 5, 1997; accepted May 12, 1997.) Paper number 97GB01419. We thank Anne Ruimy for the CESBIO NDVI version, Dan Baldwin (Colorado State University) for the original equatorial crossing time program, F.-W. Badeck for the global FBM estimates, and Jasmin John for help with the meteorological data. we also thank the Distributed Active Archive Center (Code 902.2) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, for producing the Pathfinder data and distributing them. The original Pathfinder data products were produced under the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder program; by a processing team headed by Mary James of the Goddard Global Change Data Center; and the science algorithms were established by the AVHRR Land Sciences Working Group, chaired by John Townshend of the University of Maryland. Goddard's contributions to these activities were sponsored by NASA's Mission to Planet Earth Program. We also wish to thank the helpful staffs at the Canadian Wheat Board, Statistics Canada, the USDA-NASS and Departments of Agriculture in Kansas and Oklahoma, the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and the Grains Research and Development Corporation in Australia, and N.M. Holbrook. Burt Bartlett at the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Katherine Chambers, reference librarian at the University of California, Davis, Emily Binnian, USGS, and Andrew Weiss, Center for Conservation Biology, were particularly helpful. We appreciate the critical comments of Franz-W. Badeck, Deborah Gordon, Anne Ruimy, Peter Vitousek, and three anonymous reviewers and the support of the WESTGEC component of the DOE NIGEC program and the NASA EOS-IDS program. C. Malmström was supported by a U.S. Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship for Global Change (administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education), G. Juday was supported by NSF grant DEB 9211769 for the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Site and by the USDA Maclntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, J. Randerson was supported by a NASA Global Change Fellowship, and S. Los was supported by a NASA EOS-IDS grant (Sellers-Randall-Mooney), contract NAS5-31732. This is Carnegie Institution of Washington publication number 1330.
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Malmström, C. M., M. V. Thompson, G. P. Juday, S. O. Los, J. T. Randerson, and C. B. Field (1997), Interannual variation in global‐scale net primary production: Testing model estimates, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 11(3), 367–392, doi: 10.1029/97GB01419.


J Han and JP Sun and Y Han and H Zhu and L Fang, METALS, 8, 344 (2018).
This paper addressed the prestress-and twin spacing-dependent deformation as well as the hardening-to-softening transition in nanotwinned copper (nt-Cu) using molecular dynamics simulations. The results demonstrated that the hardening-to-softening transition always occurs at any prestress with decreasing twin spacing in nt-Cu compared with its single crystal counterpart, while it occurs at specific twin spacing with decreasing prestress. The hardening-to-softening transition induced by decreasing twin spacing or prestress is due to the same mechanism, i.e., transition in the initial plasticity mechanism from the activity of partial dislocation to twinning dislocation. Moreover, the indentation hardness increases with decreasing prestress, reaching its maximum, followed by decreases at smaller values for all nt-Cu. However, the critical prestress at the maximum indentation hardness significantly depends on twin spacing. Finally, a model was developed to explain this special deformation behavior. The present results could deepen our understanding of the deformation behavior of nt-Cu and provide a new paradigm for the design of this material under complex stress state.


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JPMorgan nears settlement with SEC over 'London Whale'
Stephen Beard Aug 9, 2013
https://www.marketplace.org/2013/08/09/jpmorgan-nears-settlement-sec-over-london-whale/
JPMorgan Chase is apparently moving towards settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission over huge losses racked up by one of its traders known as the "London Whale." JPMorgan is reportedly ready to admit wrongdoing over the ill-fated trades.
Bruno Iksil, a former derivatives trader, became known as the London Whale because of the scale of the bets he and his team were making, which cost JPMorgan Chase more than $6 billion. Besides the massive sum of money lost, the case is unusual because it has elicited a rare admission of wrongdoing from a bank.
"They usually neither admit nor deny culpability — they pay up and keep schtum," says Marketplace's Stephen Beard. "But that's a bit difficult in this case, since the boss, Jamie Diamon, has already fessed up earlier in the summer. He said this: 'Bad strategy, badly vetted, badly monitored, badly controlled, embarrassing, terrible — sorry.'"
JPMorgan's decision to admit culpability might also have been influenced by Mary Jo White, the new head of the SEC, who has signaled that she will be taking a tougher line and seek public admissions of wrongdoing when the conduct is egregious.
As for the Whale himself, Iksil will not be fined or penalized for the time being. The FBI is continuing to investigate whether any criminal laws were broken.
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Let's talk about the mattress – though probably the most crucial part of any bed design, it is perhaps one of the more important ones; you cannot sleep on the hardboard no matter how beautiful the overall outlook, after all.
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The Latex Mattress is designed from the sap of a rubber tree that is processed into blocks of sprightly and comfortable foam, so it's an natural product. The major defining characteristic of a Latex Mattress includes a cushy impact – soft and sinking – with an eventual supportiveness. This all boils down to an easy comfort that is just the right amount of snug to even alleviate chronic pain.
The Latex Mattress offers a nice body pressure support so the spine is always at ease while lying on your back.
Latex enjoys a 'green' relatively organic reputation, as it does not use chemicals.
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The Latex in these mattresses is composed of pinholes, which make for good air circulation.
The Latex Mattress is durable, resilient and will definitely last a long time.
The Latex mattresses might be just a tad bit more expensive.
The Memory Foam Mattress is composed of mostly polyurethane while various chemicals are added into the mix to increase the density. It is a synthetic product and used to be too expensive for residential comforts such as mattresses, but the inflation has definitely decreased since then. It works in the fashion of a spring mattress, and conforms around the body contours.
Memory Foam is distinctly comfortable to lie on.
It does not impart body movement from one end of the mattress to another.
Memory Foam Mattresses are known to be especially warm, and can become quite uncomfortable in hot regions.
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From these two areas, there are sign postings and you can follow the mining ties throughout the woods.
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– Do not sit up on the bales. Stay behind them at all times!
– Follow the officials and audience security's directions. They are there for your own good!
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Given that in Africa wild lions are in catastrophic decline–the latest International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) figures suggest that fewer than 20,000 remain–it may come as a shock to discover that as many as 10,000 of the continent's iconic big cats were legally hunted and exported as trophies in the ten years ending in 2013.
The vast majority of these lions were bred in captivity for the purpose of hunting. The mostly American and European sports hunters took the lions to their home countries as trophies–mounted heads or skins for their collections.
The tally for hunted lions is likely even higher than 10,000, says Dereck Joubert, wildlife filmmaker and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, because not all hunters take trophies. Some hunt just for the sport.
Six African countries where lions still range freely–South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia and Tanzania–were analysed using the official CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) trade database, which lists animal and plant products exported and imported internationally.
Kenya and Botswana are two lion-range countries notably omitted from this list. Both countries have outlawed trophy hunting in an effort to boost lion populations, although Botswana only recently adopted this measure.
Of the six nations, South Africa ranks highest in terms of most trophies exported. The country has registered a staggering average of 748 lion trophies exported per year.
Tanzania is next with an annual average of almost 150 lion trophies, followed by Zimbabwe and Zambia (each between 60-70 a year), Mozambique (22) and Namibia less than 20 a year). Botswana, before banning trophy hunting in January 2014, tabled an average of 10 trophies each year.
The figures are not 100 percent accurate as there are a number of discrepancies that creep into the database, such as countries reporting the number of permits issued but not the actual permits used. However, the figures give a general idea of just how impactful trophy hunting is on lions.
South Africa tops the list but most of the lions hunted for trophies (two thirds of the country's total lion population) are what the government terms "captive bred" or "ranch" lions. According to a spokesperson for the South African Department of Environment, less than 10 wild lions are hunted in South Africa a year.
Zimbabwe's situation is worse because trophy hunting involves vulnerable wild lion populations. Researchers, co-ordinated by a team at Duke Universty's Nicholas School of the Environment and partially funded by National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative (BCI), revealed in 2012 that wild lion populations in that country "are in trouble".
Almost 700 lion trophies were legally exported during the decade under review, but the current population, according to the 2012 survey, stood at only 850. This suggests that, at the current rate and if lion numbers don't increase, which is unlikely, in another decade trophy hunters alone will have wiped out nearly all remaining lions in Zimbabwe.
In Zambia an average of 65 trophies are exported each year. According to another 2012 research paper, most parks are registering free-falling numbers of lions. A park like the 1,500-square-mile (3,866-square-kilometer) Liuwa Plains National Park has just 3 individuals.
Things look only marginally better in Mozambique and Namibia. Nambia exports less than 20 lion trophies per year. But that country's lion population is considerably smaller at just 600 individuals. It indicates hunting still has a detrimental impact on the population as a third of the current total number during the decade was exported as trophies.
However, farther south lions are disappearing rapidly. A study of lions in the northwest Tete Province of Mozambique in 2013 suggests 185 lions in the region, down from the 2009 survey of 295 lions. The Gorongosa National Park that once had over 200 lions now has less than 30 indivudals. In recognition of the country's fast declining numbers due to trophy hunting, CITES has enforced an export quota on lions since 2012.
Tanzania has the largest wild lion population of all African nations. Still, almost 1,500 lion trophies have been exported in the decade following 2003 with overall numbers declining alarmingly. In the Katavi National Park, for example, 1,118 of the big cats were counted in 1993. By 2014 there was not a single lion remaining.
Lion expert, Professor Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, found the results of their research in 2009 that the trophy hunting rate of big cats throughout Tanzania "had consistently been too high." Packer predicted that the future population of lions in Tanzania would be seriously decimated unless fewer big cats were killed by trophy hunters each year.
sport hunters go almost exclusively for adult lion males. This has caused a decline in numbers of adult males in the total lion population. Loveridge says that "hunting predators on the boundaries of national parks causes significant disturbance and knock-on effects" such as infanticide when new males entered the prides.
According to the 2015 IUCN Red List analysis on lions, which Packer co-authored, there is concern that current management regimes in terms of trophy hunting have contributed to an astonishing decline of 42 percent of the continent's total population.
The CITES listing of lion is currently undergoing a Periodic Review. The IUCN survey for 2015 has recommended a change in categorization for African lions from Vulnerable to Endangered. If that happens CITES may be prompted to list lions under Appendix I but as is the case with the other species on the same listing, it does not guarantee the days of hunting lions for trophies will soon be over.
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Adam Cruise has a philosophy degree in environmental and animal ethics from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He specializes in wildlife conservation and wildlife crime and has traveled throughout the continent documenting and commenting on the key conservation issues and crises that face the continent.


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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Two strategic missile carriers Tu-160 flew over the Barents, Norwegian and North Seas, escorted by aircraft from the Royal Air Force and the Royal Norwegian Air Force, the Russian Defence Ministry reports.
"Two strategic missile carriers Tu-160 performed a planned flight in the airspace over neutral waters of the Barents, Norwegian and North Seas," the statement says.
It is noted that the flight's duration was 12 hours.
"At certain stages of the route, the strategic missile carriers were escorted by the MiG-31 fighters of the Russian Navy, as well as the Eurofighter Typhoon of the Royal Air Force and the F-16 of the Norwegian Air Force," the ministry added.
All flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace, it said. Long-range aviation pilots regularly fly over the neutral waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black and Baltic Seas, as well as the Pacific Ocean.


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ByArlene Huff
KidGlov, a boutique, full-service advertising, branding and content marketing agency based out of Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., recently welcomed Donna Loughlin, founder of LMGPR and podcast host of Before It Happened, to its podcast, Agency for Change. The episode explored Loughlin's philosophies on public relations and how she's worked to launch hundreds of products to markets all over the world.
"It was a delight to speak with Donna," said Kelley Peterson, KidGlov chief creative officer and host of the Agency for Change podcast. "She takes a story-first approach to public relations, a skill she brings to her fascinating podcast that sheds light on the journeys of innovators across industries."
LMGPR is a public relations agency specializing in high-impact results, tenacity, and creativity in leading strategic public relations programs for innovative emerging markets. Their philosophy ensures a high level of professionalism to meet business goals and lead market discussions. They've launched 500+ companies, turning them into brand leaders across an array of industries.
Before It Happened is a podcast that takes listeners on a journey before it happened with innovators who imagined—and are still imagining—the future. Subscribe and listen wherever podcasts are found.
The Agency for Change episode explores Loughlin's journey to forming the LMGPR agency, her approach to public relations, and the ideas behind her podcast, Before It Happened.
"As a former news reporter, I have always been curious about people," said Loughlin. "The PR process is like this, it's one of discovery. I want to know the 'why.' Why was this created? What problem is it solving? Why do we need this?"
The full Agency for Change episode featuring Loughlin can be found on KidGlov's website, or wherever podcasts are available.
To learn more about LMGPR, visit https://www.lmgpr.com, and listen to the Before It Happened podcast at https://www.beforeithappened.com/.
The Agency for Change podcast from KidGlov marketing and advertising agency brings stories of people creating positive change in the world. From large companies and nonprofit organizations to small advocacy groups and solo agents for change, the program explores what inspires these changemakers, the work they're doing, and how they share their message.
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FL Technics focusing on MRO services in Asia
Posted on March 2nd, 2017 by Russian Aviation Insider in Lithuania, MRO
Developing its own IT solutions helps FL Technics to carry out a more precise recording of man hours (Photo by FL Technics)
FL Technics (a part of Avia Solutions Group), a Lithuanian aircraft MRO services provider has focused on its development in Asia. The reason for that move is booming air transportation in the region and large number of aircraft being delivered to the local operators which in turn stimulates the demand for MRO, the company representative told Russian Aviation Insider.
"Unfortunately there is not that many world-class MRO organizations in the region let alone EASA-certified companies. That's why we have been actively expanding in the region for several years already owning a maintenance depot in Indonesia and main sales office in Thailand" — said FL Technics CEO Zilvinas Lapinskas.
FL Technics opened its MRO station at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia in the late 2016. About a dozen Indonesian and Thai carriers has since become its clients including the large low-cost airline Lion Air.
According to the top manager, the company has dramatically diversified its business over the last two years driving down CIS countries share in its portfolio from 80% to 30%. It was achieved largely thanks to growing the number of clients from Asian region although "more dynamic actions in the Middle East, Africa and Western Europe also pitched in".
In the beginning of the year FL Technics opened its third maintenance station in Georgia which is expected to attract clients from the Middle East first. In 2017 the station intends to receive permission to perform heavy checks on SSJ 100 aircraft.
As for the results of the previous year beside MRO opening in Jakarta and launch of Airbus A330 continued airworthiness program (EASA certificate) the company emphasized receiving its first clients for base maintenance from Africa and signing a large contract on spare parts delivery in Asia. Moreover, FL Technics improved its internal processes and is working to implement more efficient production practices (in accordance with lean production philosophy). Developing its own IT solutions helps FL Technics to carry out a more precise man hours recording thus timely reacting to any difficulties. For example, it helped the Lithuanian provider to enhance available man hours by 16% (without recruiting additional employees or adding infrastructure). By 2018 this index is expected to reach 500,000 hours.
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MSNBC and the left must call time on Joy Ann Reid
June 5, 2018 ·	by Kartik Krishnaiyer ·	in Florida Democrats, MSNBC	· 4 Comments
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The fact that Joy Ann Reid hails from Florida and has a program on MSNBC has made it difficult to even have appropriate private conversations about her work. But the reality is that Reid is a classic political propagandist, someone who parks liberal/progressive ideology and the values associated with the left at the door to promote the politics of talking points personality and personal destruction, something so common in Florida's Democratic Party circles. Reid's shtick if you want to call it that has been for the duration of her show to attack Republicans unmercifully and to take the party establishment line while also floating conspiracies and other spin to justify continued Democratic electoral losses.
That's why as Reid's previous commentaries have surfaced she has been defended by party establishment types playing identity politics while attacking true progressives who seek a fairer, more equal and truly color-blind society. Reid's commentaries that are controversial aren't about race or societal problems but were weaponizing of opinions often floated by Democrats in Florida during the times they were written – cynically attacking Charlie Crist (then a Republican) over his sexuality (a common whispered topic among desperate Florida Democrats at the time), Senator John McCain, the Virginia Tech shooting and any number of other subjects. Reid isn't an ideologue or a champion for African-American women (outside the Democratic Party political establishment) – she's a political hack and has proven it time and again.
Reid's partisan approach differs dramatically from the intellectually-potent one presented by Melissa Harris Perry, her predecessor at MSNBC. Harris Perry gave a very direct and consistent read on issues, be they racial or societal. Unlike Reid, she didn't spare members of the Democratic establishment or Clintonian bloc that controls the party criticism and did not float zany conspiracy theories to justify Democratic failures. That Harris Perry was sacked from MSNBC for doing far less wrong than Reid (who as of this writing continues to be employed) is a strong indictment of MSNBC, NBC News and its overtly political bent, making it not dissimilar to FOX News. Harris Perry often tackled the root causes of racism in our society in her programs and often laid the blame at the feet of the economic and political establishment in BOTH parties. The cancellation of her show was bad enough, but her replacement by Reid (a seemingly token gesture since both are African-American females) was even worse, given Reid's perspectives.
MSNBC as an entity has in many ways chosen to mimic FOX News, and Reid has fit the bill of what the network strove to be prior to the 2016 election and in some ways since. This is completely at odds with the the ethos of the left, where we as progressives are free-thinking well-read, worldly people. But for every enlightening Richard Engel special on MSNBC or Andrea Mitchell report, we are subjected to hours of Democratic Party and Clintonian hackery which would be more befitting of the conservative entertainment set that has dominated "information" distribution on the right now for two and a half decades.
Progressives have always valued a give and take on issues and enhancing what is force fed to us by media outlets with other resources, reading analysis and personal experiences. This makes us fundamentally different than conservatives who simply accept the premise of President Trump's conspiracy-laced tweets or what Newsmax writers or FOX News anchors say as gospel. Contrasting points of view are rarely presented in the conservative media, even when publications such as the Weekly Standard and National Review try and intellectualize their arguments and take on Trump, they are wholly rejected by the masses in the GOP. The conservative press does have two tiers though – the hackish talking points win at all costs entertainment press which includes WEst Palm beach-based Newsmax (published by Trump friend Christopher Ruddy, who also has alliances with many local Democratic politicians) , FOX News, Rush Limbaugh and (alleged) serial-sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly and the more intellectual yet narrowly focused publications such as the Weekly Standard, National Review, among others To me all of these publications are dangerous and simply represent various degrees of bias and propaganda of the right, though many Democrats have adopted the talking points of the later group in opposing Trump.
From where I sit, that Harris Perry was so easily sacked over an email that complained about her program being preempted, but Reid continues to be employed for much worse is a clear indicator that intellectualism and independence is valued far less by NBC than adherence to the Democratic Party's talking points, Clintonism and the anti-progressive establishment of the professional left.
Whatever happens to Reid in the future doesn't change the reality that she has been given far more rope than Harris Perry was. The reasons seem painfully obvious – if you tow the Clintonian establishment line, you get protected. If you don't, you're expendable. This makes many of us on the left not that different than those on the right. It's a sad reality of today's polarized political and media culture.
Tags: Joy Ann Reid, MSNBC
Nancy Argenziano a Former lifelong Republican · June 5, 2018 - 3:44 pm · Reply→
Sorry, but she's right on target almost always. Provides facts vs "propaganda" and is tough on liars and that is why the right wing hates her, and let's not forget she's a women telling calling them out, and thinking people know the Rs hate that. Nope, Joy is right on the mark and when she is wrong, she owns it. Cu the crap.
Bruce Borkosky · June 6, 2018 - 8:24 am · Reply→
clicked too soon…. That's my experience as well. Also, it's so obvious that she is reading the teleprompter – so much so that I'm unable to watch her for more than a couple of minutes. It's unfortunate that Maddow likes/supports her, because she gets to host Maddows show all too often…
Sister_Imp · June 13, 2018 - 2:48 pm · Reply→
MSNBC is no friend of the left, or progressives, or even the Democratic Establishment.
They pointed a camera at an empty stage, waiting for Trump to appear, and televised all Trump's rallies from start to finish. Meanwhile, Bernie got 10 seconds, at best. Or they would show him making a speech in a tiny corner of the screen, but they wouldn't let us hear what he was saying.
The media IS the enemy of America. Lots of Democrats now coming out today and telling us how outrageous Trump's recent tweet is. It's one more example of how out-of-touch Democrats sound when they reflexively oppose everything Trump says.
Trump said MAGA, so Obama said America is greater than it's ever been. Which was a hell of a slap in the face to all Americans who had lost their homes, jobs, and pensions under Obama's watch.
Good to see you writing about politics again, Kartik. Just caught up on your posts. I totally agree with your comments about Democrats counting on demographic changes to win elections. I am really offended that liberals and progressives and Democrats want me to die off soon, so they can get on with building a more beautiful, browner America. They want lots of lots of immigrants so they can replace the population of America with 'better' people who will vote with them.
I feel like I've been a dupe, voting for Democrats for 40 years in hopes of getting Universal Health Care. We elected Clinton and got NOTHING on health care, we elected Obama and my working-poor family members got NOTHING from it. Democrats never delivered on health care, but they've created a party that tells me I should shut up, sit in the back of the bus, and contemplate my 'white privilege.'
I now consider myself politically homeless.
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German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial
By John Horne and Alan Kramer
Reviewed by Stanley Hoffmann
Yale University Press, 2002, 608 pp.
This colossal study delves into the facts and myths surrounding the reports of German war atrocities in Belgium and France in 1914. The authors argue that the contradictory reports of Germans and Allies on what happened resulted from divergent views of the Germans' collective reprisals against civilians. These acts were war crimes under international law, but "the German army considered the real atrocity to be mass civilian resistance." The Belgian and French accounts of atrocities tended to be more accurate than the German charges about collective civilian resistance. On the other hand, the occupiers were disoriented and fearful, fed by memories of the Franco-Prussian War, by harsh German policy toward irregular warfare, and by militant nationalism. As a result, "violence could be started by almost anything," and it provoked reprisals that "appeared to be anything but accidental." Tragically, this issue survived in the "war culture" of the belligerent countries in the 1920s and 1930s. Allies were divided over how to handle German war crimes (a skeptical United States resisted the idea of an international court), and Weimar Germany refused to accept responsibility. Meanwhile, growing numbers of pacifists, especially in the United States, believed that the reports of German atrocities were simply an "Allied invention." Few history books can claim to be definitive -- but this one should be accepted as such.
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Source URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2002-03-01/german-atrocities-1914-history-denial


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Upcoming Insight Client to be Carbonized
By Dennis Sellers
Version 3.0 of the client and server sides of the Insight Collaboration products from Bynari will be available in a Carbonized version for Mac OS 9.x and Mac OS X users. Insight Collaboration is the Solaris-based, client-providing connectivity to Microsoft Exchange users. Free downloads of version 2.6 of the Bynari Insight Client are available at the Bynari Web site.
A current 2.6 release comes in preparation for an anticipated January release of version 3.0 of the Insight Server and a later release of version 3.0 of the Insight client, according to David Wolff, head of Bynari's marketing and strategic alliances. Those versions will also sport a new look and feel, server side calendar coordination, client mailing list management and native support on Linux, Solaris, AIX and the Win32 platform.
Messaging and collaboration systems, often referred to as "groupware," provide e-mail and more. Bynari says their Insight GroupWare Suite provides best of class messaging and collaboration services as outlined by the Internet Engineering Task Force.


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Armenia receives biggest arms shipment in years from Russia
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Armenia receives new Tor anti-air defence system from Russia
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Nakhichevan military garrison receives excavators from Turkey
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Bulgaria supplies Armenia with anti-tank weapons
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Azeri Armed Forces receive Belorussian artillery technology
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Turkish firm grants production for smart shooting range in Azerbaijan
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Armenia and Poland to further develop cooperation in defence
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Q: SMS Android Studio tengo este código para enviar mensajes de texto pero no esta funcionando, ¿Alguna idea de dónde puede estar el "error"?
Me refiero a que no me llega el mensaje.
Código:
    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    EditText us, con;
    Button b;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        if(ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(
                MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.SEND_SMS)
                != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED&& ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(
                MainActivity.this,Manifest
                        .permission.SEND_SMS)!= PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this,new String[]
                    { Manifest.permission.SEND_SMS,},1000);
        }else{}
        us=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.username);
        con=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
        b = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_login);
        b.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                enviarMensaje("","prueba");
            }
        });
    }

    private void enviarMensaje (String numero, String mensaje){
        try {
            SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
            sms.sendTextMessage(numero,null,mensaje,null,null);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: Para enviar SMS requieres básicamente 3 cosas,

*

*Definir en tu AndroidManifest.xml y requerir manualmente el permiso SEND_SMS

*Tu dispositivo debe tener soporte telefónico ( GSM o CDMA ).

*El teléfono a enviar el mensaje debe escribirse con el código de área.

Tu ejemplo debe funcionar sin problema, si se cumplen los puntos indicados, recuerda usar el import indicado:
import android.telephony.SmsManager;

private void enviarMensaje (String numero, String mensaje){
    try {
        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
        sms.sendTextMessage(numero,null,mensaje,null,null);
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

revisa este ejemplo:
Permisos para enviar Mensajes de Texto (enviar SMS)

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Emergency service vehicles outside the home in Athlone Avenue, Bolton, on Sunday evening
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An 'heroic' neighbour smashed a window and door before pulling a mum and her son from a burning home.
An elderly woman and an adult male were trapped inside the house in Athlone Avenue, Bolton , when the blaze broke out in the kitchen at 6.50pm on Sunday.
A man living next door heard the smoke alarm sounding from inside the semi-detached house and went outside to investigate.
After finding the house ablaze, he smashed a window and door at the back of the property and managed to rescue the pair.
The home in Athlone Avenue, Bolton
One person was taken to hospital due to suffering from smoke inhalation.
Firefighters arrived shortly after and tackled the fire, which is believed to have been caused by some cooking being left unattended.
Crews from Bolton North, Bolton Central and Farnworth worked at the scene for about 90 minutes and managed to limit the damage to the ground floor.
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Gareth Peters, watch manager at Bolton North fire station, said: "We were called at about 6.50pm.
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"It's under no doubt that the neighbour's heroic actions have saved lives.
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Angela Sarafyan
Television and Film Actress know for HBO's "Westworld"
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Angela Sarafyan Biography
Angela Sarafyan is becoming known as the actress involved in 2 movies about the Armenian Genocide: 1915 and The Promise. Her fans are also looking forward to seeing her in HBO's highly anticipated new series Westworld.
Of course, this is in addition to an ever growing body of work that garners very positive responses.
Angela's career so far:
One of her earliest roles was on the TV series Judging Amy (2000). She then went on to do guest roles on series such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer (2002), The Shield (2004), The Division (2004), 24 (2006), and CSI:NY (2006). She also appeared in Britney Spears' Stronger music video in 2001.
For quite a while she was often remembered for her appearance in a Cingular Cell Phone commercial, often referred to as the "Cingular Umbrella Girl".
From 2007 to 2009, Angela guest starred in episodes of Cold Case and The Mentalist. She was involved in several feature film productions: On The Doll, Kabluey with Lisa Kudrow and Teri Garr, A Beautiful Life with Dana Delany, and The Informers with Billy Bob Thornton and Mickey Rourke.
For 2010, Angela had a recurring role in the Fox TV series The Good Guys (rumor being she was brought in to revitalize it), was widely noticed in a State Farm Insurance commercial, and appeared in several web series such as Sex Ed, followed in 2011 by her appearance in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy and a guest star role as an evil mastermind on the Criminal Minds season finale.
Very busy in 2012, Angela helped to promote the Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn Part 2, her role being Tia, a fan favorite. She also starred in a new web series produced by Taco Bell titled Let's Big Happy, and guest starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also worked with Marion Cotillard in the film Nightingale. Content Mode magazine published a feature article about her as well.
She worked with Marion again in The Immigrant in 2013, the year where she also had a fun role in the Harrison Ford movie Paranoia, followed by a guest appearance on Blue Bloods, an Herbal Essence commercial, and the ARPA International Film Festival Rising Star Award in 2014.
2015 became another busy year for Angela, with 1915 The Movie, Me Him Her (which wasn't actually released until 2016), Me You and Five Bucks, HBO's Westworld, a feature in More Magazine, The Promise, American Horror Story, and more.
Still working on Westworld in 2016, Angela is also helping to promote the finally released film Me Him Her by Max Landis, and there is Oscar buzz about The Promise.
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The cost to join this 7 day ride is $895. This covers your lodging for the 7 nights during the ride and the cost of the support truck and driver. Hotel rooms are double occupancy. This also covers your ride packets which include custom Garmin GPS maps on a micro SD card and printed ride maps and descriptions.
A: The ride is 1,600 miles. The average ride day is 220 miles.
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Tim Cook's Japan visit could result in superior Apple AI
Japanese engineers might play a vital role in Apple's continued improvements to the artificial intelligence powering Siri.
By Oscar Raymundo
Apple is looking to Japan to help improve Siri.
On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Japan could play a vital role in his company's artificial intelligence initiatives. Cook is in the country on a work trip, as Apple prepares to open up a R&D center this December in Yokohama, near Tokyo. According to Cook, the new R&D center will focus on AI and "deep engineering," but did not divulge more details.
"AI is horizontal in nature, running across all products, and is used in ways that most people don't even think about," Cook told Nikkei Asian Review. "We want the AI to increase your battery life, to recommend music to Apple Music subscribers... [to] help you remember where you parked your car."
Artificial intelligence is obviously also a very important component in Siri, Apple's virtual assistant. Recently, Apple has been criticized for how limited Siri's capabilities seem to be, especially compared with Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa, and the Google Assistant that now comes built-in with every Pixel phone.
Japanese engineers are not the only ones Apple has reached to in hopes to improve Siri. In fact, Cupertino has a new director of artificial intelligence. Apple has hired Russ Salakhutdinov, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to conduct further research in AI.
According to Re/code, Salakhutdinov's previous work deals with deciphering the contextual clues behind the questions that people ask. The professor is also hiring researchers to work with him at Apple, and he will retain his job at Carnegie Mellon.
Why this matters: Apple claims to always be improving Siri. For example, in this latest iOS 10, the virtual assistant can finally tap into some third-party services like Lyft and WeChat to complete a request. But by most accounts, Siri is still falling behind other virtual assistants when it comes to "long tail" queries.
Apple admitted to The Verge that Siri was most helpful with quick one-step requests like placing a call or sending a text. Siri is not as reliable when you ask what time the presidential debates start or questions that require similar intelligence. That's hopefully where Japan will come in.
Oscar Raymundo is a staff writer covering iOS and the host of 'The iPhone Show.'


It's day 5 of my stay in the US. I feel like I should be over the jet lag by now, but sadly I'm not.
If there was ever an argument for being fully present where you are right now, I think getting over jet lag quickly really does partly depend on immersing yourself in where you are and not what's happening back at home.
That's the downside of travelling alone, without my family. While it's great to have time to myself, to think, plan, rest, I still keep looking at my time converter to see what time it is in Melbourne, to know what everyone is up to there and plan phone calls.
This unfortunately keeps me anchored in Melbourne where the clock tells me it's 8pm, I'm only partly acknowledging that it's 3am here in Colorado and if I want to get up in time to have breakfast, I really should be asleep. But after I turn everything off, I still toss and turn for another hour because it's not anywhere near my normal bed time at home.
I remember as a child feeling like I was missing out on something when I had to go to bed and my parents stayed up. Now as an adult with my own child (who funnily wants to stay up because he thinks he's missing out), I want to get to bed early. It just never seems to work out that way.
I can't point my finger at one thing that's the cause of this dysfunctional sleep – it's 20+ years of life circumstances that have morphed into bad habits and perhaps a feeling of not deserving to go to sleep early – that it's lazy, that I'm an adult and I have to stay up to do "stuff".
I see too many people on Facebook bragging about their late nights and early mornings, hectic schedules that make them look like they're the most successful people in the world and not enough messages showing the result of this hectic way of life, or how to do it at a slower pace.
The sad thing is, after spending my late teens and early/mid twenties working in hospitality, with it's requisite late nights (when I was working at the InterContinental Hotel, I'd regularly finish at 3am on weekends), then sleepless nights with two babies in my 30's, late nights meeting website delivery deadlines, I'm now in the horrible habit of regularly going to bed after midnight.
Thankfully I don't have a job to go to in the mornings, I run my business from home with flexible hours so I can sleep a little later, but it's never as refreshing as I would like it to be. And I know that the most restorative, refreshing sleep comes before midnight.
All of these years of inadequate, inefficient sleep has behaved as an enormous stressor on my body, and my body is well and truly showing me I need to change, NOW.
How many times do you need to be told something to finally believe it?
Some people only need to hear something once and as long as it's sufficiently compelling and aligns with their beliefs, they take action.
Clearly, I'm not one of these people – you could call me a multi-time convincer. I can hear something over and over and on a conscious level I know I need to change, but there is something deeper that sabotages my efforts.
It all seems pretty obvious and straightforward, so why aren't I just going to bed earlier?
Whatever belief I have about going to bed early, it's unlikely to change from a purely logical level. I mean really, I've desperately wanted to get rid of the excess fat on my body for over 20 years now (20 years ago it there was considerably less to let go of, now it's overwhelmingly more). I want to feel normal again.
I had a personal trainer that I saw religiously twice a week for 3 years (his other clients got results, I got stronger muscles, but the fat stayed).
Through all of this the weight stayed, or increased.
Over the last 12 months I've been religiously reading and listening to the writings of Dr Ray Peat. Through reading his work and listening to his podcast interviews, I've had an eye opening slap in the face that so many of the things I've been doing over the past 20 years, that I thought would help, actually made things worse for my body and specifically worsened my thyroid health which impacts every area of my body.
The exercise that would be ok for someone, my body perceived to be a stressor, so I stopped everything a year ago, but now I think I'm ready to at least start walking 30 minutes a day again.
The way I was eating and the supplements I was taking (ahem, fish oil), was harmful for my thyroid, so again, my body perceived it as a stressor. I stopped the fish oil, got rid of the nuts and seeds in my pantry, reduced the amount of muscle meat I was eating and have added back orange juice, milk, fruit (although after so many years of indoctrination that those things were "bad" for me in a low carb lifestyle, I still have a way to go before my eating is where I'd like it to be).
So now, the final major life change remaining is my mindset around sleep (and the actual sleep itself).
You'd think though, that knowing all of the above would be motivation enough to get me to bed earlier, knowing it would help reduce the stress in my body and allow my body to let go of it's protection.
I've tried bribing myself with all sorts of things, but I know that's not the answer (i.e. it hasn't worked in the past).
And as I sit here writing this, thinking about what going to bed early means to me, the tears well up as the truth bubbles up to the surface. In my mind I'm listing off all the things I can think of that might be the cause of this dysfunctional sleep habit and the one thing that touches a nerve is that it's been a very long time since I've truly shown myself the love I deserve. I need to stop punishing myself and start caring for myself because no-one else can do for me what I need to do for me.
This is so much deeper than just bad sleep habits. When I started writing this journal entry, I honestly didn't know this is where I would end up.
What I really need now is some deep, deep self forgiveness and love.
And more sleep. Maybe I needed to be so tired, to bypass my logical, restrained thought processes to actually see the truth.


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Mahan Air passengers traveling from Qeshm International Airport can now use the airline's online portal to check-in and choose their seat from the comfort of their homes.
The online check-in service opens 24 hours prior to the scheduled flight time and closes 90 minutes before take-off. Passengers can print their boarding pass, foregoing the need to stand in long queues at the airport, travel news website donyayesafar.com reported.
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Kagiso Rabada shines as Delhi Capitals beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 4 wickets
Shoaib Zaheer Match Reviews
Pace bowler Kagiso Rabada produced a scintillating bowling performance to help Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a game played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday. Captain Shreyas Iyer led from the front and scored 67 runs led from the front to help Delhi chase …
Debutant Alzarri Joseph's sensational bowling helps Mumbai Indians upstage Sunrisers Hyderabad
Shoaib Zaheer Match Previews
Alzarri Joseph delivered a scintillating bowling performance to help Mumbai Indians beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in a game played in Hyderabad on Saturday. Bowlers did an excellent job for Sunrisers to restrict star-studded Mumbai batting lineup to just 136 runs. In reply, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow perished early …
Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh shine as Chennai Super Kings beat Kings XI Punjab
Chennai Super Kings put in a clinical performance with bat and ball to beat Kings XI Punjab by 22 runs in a game played at M.Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday. Lokesh Rahul and Sarfaraz Ahmed put in valiant effort with the bat and it wasn't enough as Kings XI …
Andre Russell's whirlwind knock helps Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore
All-rounder Andre Russell produced a blistering performance with the bat to help Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Kolkata were able to chase down a score of 206 set by Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bangalore winless streak continued despite scintillating performances from Virat Kohli and AB De …
Bowlers star as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Delhi Capitals by five wickets.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad produced a clinical performance with bat and ball to beat Delhi Capitals by five wickets in a game played at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Thursday. Bowlers did a spectacular job to restrict Delhi Capitals to a below-par score of 129 runs. In reply, Jonny Bairstow …
Hardik Pandya's all-round heroics help Mumbai beat Chennai by 37 runs
Mumbai Indians produced a splendid performance with bat and ball to beat Chennai Super Kings in a game played at Wankhede Stadium. Rohit-led team posted 170 runs while batting first due to splendid performances from Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya and Hardik Pandya. In reply, Chennai Super Kings failed …
Schedule, Fixtures for 2019 Ireland Tri-Series
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2019 Ireland Tri-series is going to be played from 5th to 17th May in Ireland. The competition will feature West Indies and Bangladesh besides hosts Ireland. The opening game of the competition will see hosts Ireland take on West Indies at Clontarf Cricket Club in Clontarf. The preliminary …
Buttler, Gopal shine as Rajasthan Royals beat Royal Challengers Bangalore
Rajasthan Royals finally registered their first win of the competition by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets in a game played in Jaipur. Rajasthan Royals put in a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Royal Challengers Bangalore to a modest score of 159 runs. In reply, Jos Buttler's …
Sam Curran's bowling heroics help Kings XI Punjab clinch thrilling win over Delhi Capitals
Delhi Capitals will rue the fact they should won the game against Kings XI Punjab. With the visitors needing another 23 runs off 21 balls, Delhi capitulated badly at the end to lose to Kings XI Punjab in a game played at IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali. With this …
Australia complete one-day series whitewash despite Haris Sohail's valiant century
Australia delivered an all-round performance with bat and ball to complete a clean sweep over Pakistan in the five-match one-day series. The visitors were able to win the final game of the one-day series by 20 runs despite valiant century from Haris Sohail. With this result, Australia is …
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Jan. 31 - Researchers at Berkeley University are trying to understand how a little-known species of clam reflects light so efficiently. The scientists say that unlocking the flashy secrets of the so-called 'disco clam' could lead to new reflective technologies. Ben Gruber reports.
For reasons that may be obvious, the mysterious Ctenoides Ales, has become better known as the 'Disco Clam'. Researcher Linsdey Dougherty fondly recalls the first time she saw one. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSEY DOUGHERTY, RESEARCHER, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "I was just blown away. I have dived with great whites, I have dived with humpback whales, I've dived with whale sharks. And with the disco clam, I was just immediately enamoured." It began, like so many love affairs, with the lips. The disco clam has the brightest smile in the ocean, with lips that flash like a strobe light. Dougherty says many people confuse the clam's flashy light show with bioluminescence which produces light through a chemical reaction. She says the clam's shiny lips represent one of Nature's best examples of the ability to reflect light. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSEY DOUGHERTY, RESEARCHER, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "What I found when I looked at their tissue is that their tissue is basically half filled with these small particles that reflect light very well and half of the tissue is empty. It is literally a dividing line down the tissue. And when you look at high speed video of what is happening, you can see the reflective part of the video unrolling and the light reflects and then the non-reflective side rolls back up. And you do high-speed video you can see that this is happening five or six times a second which makes it look like it is literally flashing." This reflective ability is so highly adapted, that the clam can produce its display deep underwater, where very little light penetrates. And while the disco clam puts on a great show, Dougherty says studying it could plays an important role in the field of photonics - understanding how light interacts with matter. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSEY DOUGHERTY, RESEARCHER, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "So by learning about these natural structures and how they function, we can improve technology and have things better interact with light. So everything from paints to flat screen TV's to anti-counterfeiting devices. There is really a plethora of cool ways that these organisms can be applied to technology." Dougherty says she is also trying to figure out why the clam puts on a show. She says it could be to attract prey or frighten off predators. Or, she says, it could be that the disco clam is simply looking for a mate to boogie with.


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The French System for Fashion & Luxury
French fashion has long been reflective of social and economic hierarchy, illuminating the distinction among classes. Beginning with the Royal Court of the Sun King, France became the capitol of rich fashion. After Charles Worth created the business of haute couture in the 1800s, Paris became the creative center for a business model that has evolved greatly, yet still remains centered around the spirit of haute couture.
What is Couture?
Haute couture is identified as unique pieces constructed with precious materials, made-to-measure, and made for special occasions- not daily wear. A dress of this nature today should run you on average between 20,000 and 30,000 euro and up.
According to French law as of 2008, the following points must be met for a fashion company to be considered a house of couture:
the atelier must produce at least 50 garments per season by hand
the atelier must employ at least 20 skilled in-house workers for production
Note: This model is changing under the current economic situation, in order to protect the existing haute couture legacy; too many couturiers were closing their doors under the weight of these expensive restrictions.
Where there were once more than 30,000 clients per year for the highest form of French fashion, today there remain less than 3,000, and most of these are irregular clients. Hence, haute couture is not a big business anymore; it is unaffordable and impractical, as there are fewer and fewer occasions in today's world to wear such items. It has become much less profitable than it once was, having lost the link with modern life.
Most companies that made their name in haute couture today sell primarily accessible products and democratic accessories like lipstick, perfumes, and so on. However, to continue to sell these more "basic" goods at high profit margins, they must continue to produce high fashion. People are now buying the legacy of couture, rather than the couture itself. Therefore, to make the big bucks selling goods at the bottom, you must be positioned at the top.French companies based around haute couture lack a bottom-up business model, and have no second-lines: consider French powerhouses Dior and Chanel, as opposed to Armani, Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana, etc.
The Dream created by the haute couture collection is used to sell cheaper products from the same brand.
Brand images and communications demonstrate a high level of arrogance and provocation, in order to build The Dream. Have you ever wondered how or why that "crazy stuff that nobody is ever going to buy" makes it onto the catwalk? The most elaborate and provocative designs are taken onto the runway because the goal is not to sell as many units as possible, but to demonstrate creativity and uniqueness, and generate buzz around the brand. Consider the wild boys Jean Paul Gaultier for Hermes, or John Galliano for Dior (below).
The buzz-factor has become increasingly important for luxury fashion labels in recent years, especially in France where the namesake designers (Dior, Chanel, Vionnet, Yves Saint Laurent, etc) are no longer with us. In fact, most clients are unaware of the designers behind today's major labels. Instead, it is much more common to know which celebrities are wearing which labels (the Poiret legacy lives on!).
The French Fashion System
To summarize, the French business model is derived from a long tradition of craft and individualism... and marketing. Couture was the original product of the French fashion and luxury system, which was recently integrated with and then overtaken by accessories. The image of sophistication and provocation are used to produce the sense of luxury at the highest levels of the brand (through couture), which is what the companies are selling (through cosmetics and accessories). Viola!
Couture = Image
Accessories/Cosmetics = Sales
Here's my hastily-made visual (with apologies to France):
In Fashion History, French Fashion, Marketing of "Symbols" Tags accessories, Chanel, Charles Worth, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fashion History, Fragrances, French Fashion, Giorgio Armani, haute couture, Hermes, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, luxury, Poiret, ralph lauren


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Formula 1 Hot News
Renault puts Bell in charge
Autoracing1 September 23, 2009
With former boss Flavio Briatore and Director of Engineering Pat Symonds having been ousted for their involvement in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix race-fix scandal, the Renault F1 Team announced that Technical Director Bob Bell has been named as Team Principal, in addition to other changes brought to the chain of command.
"Following the unfortunate recent events, the Renault F1 Team has reacted swiftly by implementing a new temporary management team structure, which will be in place from today until the end of the 2009 season," the statement read.
Bob Bell, currently Technical Director, takes on the duty of Team Principal and Chief Technical Officer.
Jean-François Caubet, currently Director of Marketing and Communications, takes the role of Managing Director.
Both men will report to the Renault team's President, Bernard Rey.
From now on and until further notice, Bell's responsibilities will also include representing the team before the media on sporting and technical questions.
"The Renault F1 Team is now ready to concentrate on the future and wishes to stress that no further comments or statements will be issued relating to the events of Singapore 2008."
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Olanzapine-induced liver injury : direct metabolic effects, exacerbation by high-fat diet, and protection with sulforaphane.
Olanzapine (OLZ) is an effective first-line treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The benefits of OLZ are countermanded by side effects such as weight gain, glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia, and liver injury. These effects impact not only antipsychotic medication compliance, but also increase the health risks to patients. Most studies to date have focused on potential effects of OLZ on the central nervous system (e.g., hypothalamic regulation of satiety); however, peripheral changes in key metabolic organs such as the liver may also play a critical role. The obesity rates in the US are now at epidemic levels and obesity-induced liver disease (i.e., non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD) is on the rise. It is now understood that obesity is a significant risk factor for a myriad of drug-induced liver injuries. Given that the obesity incidence in the psychiatric population is even higher than in the US population as a whole, the effects of OLZ may exacerbate an underlying condition in these patients. The purpose of this work was to determine the mechanisms of OLZ-induced hepatic dysmetabolism, and to test the hypothesis that OLZ enhances obesity-induced hepatic injury. OLZ was administered in a mouse model for four weeks along with a high-fat diet (HFD) or low-fat control diet. OLZ alone increased body weight and caused mild glucose intolerance, without a commensurate increase in food consumption. OLZ alone also caused hepatic steatosis and injury. Interestingly, although OLZ increased hepatic triglyceride synthesis and storage, it did not increase the synthesis or abundance of hepatic free fatty acids. OLZ administration appeared to cause a pseudo-fasted state and dramatically depleted hepatic glycogen reserves. These effects of OLZ occurred in parallel to significant changes in hepatic metabolite profiles. The protein kinases AMPK and mTOR are generally differentially activated, and mediate opposing metabolic functions; however, OLZ administration simultaneously activated both AMPK and mTOR. When OLZ and HFD were combined, there was an even greater increase in weight gain and glucose intolerance. Liver damage from concurrent HFD and OLZ was worse than liver damage resulting from HFD or OLZ alone. Lastly, sulforaphane (SFN) was tested as a possible preventive against HFD- and OLZ-induced toxicity. Some mice receiving HFD and OLZ were also treated with SFN (90 mg/kg/d). SFN, a known inducer of the Nrf2 intrinsic antioxidant pathway, prevented weight gain and liver injury and rescued hepatic glycogen storage. Furthermore, SFN decreased the presence of 4-hydroxynonenal (4HNE) adducts in liver (>20-fold), indicating that SFN treatment substantially limits oxidative stress in this model. In summary, these data show that OLZ dysregulates glucose and lipid metabolism and exacerbates hepatic changes caused by HFD exposure. The outcomes of OLZ administration on hepatic metabolism may reflect, in part, the contradictory inputs of simultaneous AMPK and mTOR activation. These data indicate that the metabolic changes caused by OLZ may sensitize the liver to injury caused by HFD and that underlying obesity/liver disease may aggravate OLZ-induced side effects. The activation of intrinsic antioxidant defenses with SFN can partially prevent these effects of OLZ and may represent a useful strategy to protect against liver injury.
Schmidt, Robin H. 1984-, "Olanzapine-induced liver injury : direct metabolic effects, exacerbation by high-fat diet, and protection with sulforaphane." (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1272.